Posts by lancelink

my wife told me that at the last meeting, the elders announced that youngsters going to the skateboarding park were no longer to have any privileges in the congregation.

this is to prevent jw youngs to be rounded up if a drug raid was made at the skateboarding park.. also because of individuals requesting that they be friends on facebook that contain bad pictures, that anyone with a facebook account will automatically have their privileges removed.. sounds like the pharasees protecting the people by adding additional traditions upon them.. .

lancelink

hey, how can people on this site be facebook friends ?

I'm kinda new at it, educate, or pm me.

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insignificance and arrogance

by Aussie Oz in

this evening the wife and i went for a walk on the beach, something that never fails to make me feel small and insignificant.

i stand on the edge of this huge island called australia looking out to the curve of the horizon.

this is a small planet, floating in its own blue atmosphere, floating in our tiny galaxie, in its own little solar system, in its slightly larger section of the unmeasurable universe.. we are as tiny, even tinier than a fine grain of sand in the universe, we are, essentialy, nothing.

lancelink

very neat video, thanks for posting !

Since the late 1980's I have been looking for a video like this except instead of going all the way out into space only,,,,

the camera went back to earth and went into the hand of a man sitting on a beach.

Then the video went down to the molecular level

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OMG! Ghost caught on camera!!!!

by Elsewhere in

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omg!

watch this amazing video of a real ghost caught on camera!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l2ldhnmrfw.

lancelink

It is just an example of satan working today.

(insert picture of the church lady here) !!!

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Nobody from her church visited her - Jan 2010 WT study experience

by truthseeker in

i find paragraph 20 quite interesting in the jan 2010 study article.

http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/w_f-st_e_20100115.pdf.

"prove to be a real follower of christ".

lancelink

My Mom died a year ago, and she was a jwl for 25 years, then my parents moved out of Illinois.

When she died NOT ONE person from the Illinois hall (which my parents and current family attended since 1977) stopped off to visit me, no phone calls,only 4-5 cards from some of her older friends.

The really scary thing was when I was visiting my Dad out of state, we returned home one afternoon after getting something to eat and there was a paradise earth tract stuck in his door. He pulled it out, laughed, and said "oh, the friends must have been here"

I found out that weekend that nobody stopped and visited my Mom for over one year from their local hall.

They had been attending for ten years before she got sick, her illness prevented her from going to any meetings.

My Dad hired a nurse to come over pt to help,

friends from the hall,,, completely non-existent. Even tho they knew my parents, and they attended the meetings quite regularly before the illness.

They even had a book study in their home for two years !

One of the major headblows all within one year that made me ditch this religion like a hot potato

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Horseshoes - baaaad

by iMARX in

hey did anyone ever not buy items or clothes with horseshoes on because they're a symbol of luck and jws don't believe in luck?.

hahaha i totally remember my mum seeing lovely greetings cards but as soon as she saw a horse shoe on it she would put it straight back on the shelf.

the same with necklaces and bracelets.

lancelink

when I got married, my Mom made a photograph of us in a sort of heart - shaped frame.

One elder saw this and came right out and said in front of everyone.

"did you know that the heart shape such as in this frame has a pagan origin"?

I felt like slapping him across the head right then !

My Mom, wife to be, and sisters were all in the same room.

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My own example of how kind 'worldly ' people are ....

by troubled mind in

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last thursday i posted about a woman in my town that was being held hostage at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend.

(she is the mother of my son's girlfriend ) the first news story is here :.

http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=470723 .

lancelink

wow, what an amazing story, and the bit about the jw's was icing on the cake.

I felt the jw way for years, but there was always something deep inside that rebelled when they had their sarcastic, or caustic remarks about worldly

people having trouble.

Thanks for helping me see that everyone outside the org. is not inherintly evil !!

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Getting Your "Time" in On Time

by OnTheWayOut in

i spoke with a fellow ex-jw whose wife is still a jw.

she was missing some meetings, but had to get to her first meeting of the month.

she needed to turn her "time" in.

lancelink

I just told them that I didn't go out,

end of story.