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Anyone else notice the milestone? Thanks Simon...
by individuals wife inanyone notice the milestone tonight - we've just passed the amazing total of 100,000 posts on this board!!!!
thought we all needed a pat on the back and three cheers for all our effort!!!.
what a lot we've got to say!!
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The Strange Things They Say........
by individuals wife inglancing through an old bound volume doing a bit of research, my eyes happened to alight on an article about evil spirits and what they are up to on the earth today, made for interesting reading..... february 1st 1994 watchtower.
reports from around the world show that satan and the demons are as malicious as ever.
some people they strike with illness.
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More New Light?
by individuals wife ininteresting comment made in the chat room yesterday.... it was noted that during a talk by a bethelite at a recent dc he made the following point - the reason we are not on the other side of armageddon is that we (jws) do not and have not listened to authority.. now it has to wait like the disobedient israelites had to.. until the next generation.
now, i would presume this is some more of this 'new light' because i'd never heard this thought before... has anyone else heard it?.
can anyone elaborate further.... i wasn't there myself.... interesting implications though, the disobedient israelite generation did not get into the promised land did they?
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Cooking the Books
by individuals wife inmulan and seeker4 got me thinking in the previous thread called 'what did you do first?...'..
they both made the point that they were turning in reports when not going out on field service (tsk, tsk!
) and i remembered the times i 'cooked the books' a little and rounded up the figures, fiddled my time a little, counting time when it was not proper ministry.
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Whats in the Box?
by individuals wife injust been reading this article over my lunch - made me go mmmmmmmm.... apparently they are looking for new recruits... any takers... looks like their might be a bob or two in it..... http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=86523.
couple of points i found interesting - first the scrutiny of the charities commission, why can't they do something about the build up of funds that the jws have.
and second - how on earth did they work out that bedford is the site of the garden of eden???.
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Suitable Companions?
by individuals wife injust a bit confused over the situation with my kids........ to explain briefly...... i da'd last november, my husband no longer attends.
i am shunned completely, my husband is not completely, many still talk to him.. my previous jw friends allow their children to play with ours, we all live in close proximity to each other.
their children still talk to me, i still talk to them (when unobserved!).
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Precious Things
by individuals wife ini was feeling very low today as i realised it is now nearly six years since my wonderful father passed away.
he was only 42 and meant so much to me, i still think about him every day, and it still hurts so much that i cant just pick up the phone and talk to him, pop over to his house with cream cakes or just sit down by the sea and talk over my problems with him.. the jws are responsible for making my grief just that little bit worse, when i was studying with them they told me to get rid of anything in the house that would be displeasing to god, in my desire to do what was required of me i searched through the house, got rid of some bible literature and some other little odds and ends.... also my cruxifix.
i now regret that so much, it was one of the only things that my father ever gave to me just from him, not from my mother also.. how i regret that now, if only i could turn the clock back and stop myself, i was so eager to do what i was told, to make sure i was in a good standing with god.
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Looking to the future
by individuals wife init was a wonderful hope to be given - to live forever in a paradise earth, never to grow old, never to suffer the aches and pains of an ageing body, to see your family grow generation after generation.
it was a relief not having to worry about how we would survive on an old age pension, who would look after us in our twilight years or how we could manage if we were bereaved and left alone to look after ourselves with failing health.. now that the illusion has been destroyed and reality has set in it has put boundaries on our lifespan on this earth.
we have to look at practicalities, a pension, long term health care, securing a happy and comfortable retirement.
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Strange ..... but true!
by individuals wife injust thought i'd share these items with you... they made me laugh anyway!
wearing the trousers.
anne jonsson of stockholm attacked her husband lars - leaving him with a fractured skull, broken nose, a damaged cornea and various cuts and bruises - when he refused to take her to a rally against domestic violence.
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Jesus's Second Coming - 25 Dec 2001?
by individuals wife inhas anyone else come across this bit of extraordinary reporting?
just think of the implications of it all!!
second coming group wants to clone jesus .