Posts by Mulan

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franz alive or dead?

by searching4truth in

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anyone know if ray franz is still around?.

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"In lieu of flowers, please donate to the World Wide Work of JW's"

by Wild_Thing in

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in lieu of flowers, donations made to the world wide work of jehovah's witnesses would be appreciated by the family.. anybody ever seen a witness family do this before?

i saw it in an obit in a newspaper online and it made me sick!

most people ask for donations to non-profit organizations that help fight disease like cancer, etc.

Mulan

................so they can pay off the people molested by elders, when they were children. Yes, yes, they need the money. Lawyers are expensive.

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even if my religion is wrong (and i know it is not), it has saved me from a life of drugs and hopelessness, i was going no-where, i had no life, i lived with depression, i had no goals, just drifted through life and hated life and myself, since finding jesus my life has changed and i am a good, honest, caring person, i am now the best father i have ever been, i was never there for my kids before.

i have a great job and provide for my family, how can you say to me, that religion is wrong ?.

this is a person i met and had a discussion with, he is not a jw, but i wonder is a religious belief even if it is wrong, better for someone who cannot face the world.

Mulan

Religon is not for me, but I would not try to dissuade someone who obviously needs theirs.

I believe that for some people, their religion saves them from a life of many mistakes.

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Merry Christmas Good News for ME!!!!

by outnfree in

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dear loving jwd family,.

as many of you know, i have benefited immensely from the tuesday night vigils and the positive energy expended on my behalf via prayer, reiki, visualization, etc.. i had my last herceptin treatment on november 30, and then got bogged down with finals, so didn't check in here.

i had a muga scan and a ct scan of my lungs, abdomen and pelvis this past tuesday as the sort of end of treatment check ups.. i am grateful, elated, pleased, thankful and more to report the results:.

Mulan

Great news Brenda. And..........we have MISSED YOU!!

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Any New Year Resolutions yet? (only those you really plan to keep)

by thecarpenter in

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well, the new year is approaching soon, was wondering if you folks have set any goals?

i have several goals which i put off for a long time but will finally pursue this year.

one is to get my scuba diver license.

Mulan

same one every year................lose weight

I have another too, but not going to tell.

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Organizing The Former Jehovah's Witnesses Movement

by The wanderer in

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organizing the movement

an individual posted an interesting thread regarding organizing .

the "apostate" movement and it seemed to get some positive .

Mulan

If, as I discovered when I bailed, the witnesses are so small in number that the world at large views them as irrelevant... just how much smaller and insignificant are we ex-eubs?
Pretty small, I suspect.
My opinion is: Go and explore your own path and be at peace. The organization's problems are systemic and it will collapse from its own weight in time. Meanwhile, a watched pot never boils.

Very, very good points!! They are extremely insignificant, and only a danger to fellow members. Their evangelizing is not very successful anymore, so I doubt anyone needs any ammunition against them. People don't talk to them at their doors, not because they are afraid to take them on, but because they are NOT INTERESTED.

Neither am I.

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Organizing The Former Jehovah's Witnesses Movement

by The wanderer in

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organizing the movement

an individual posted an interesting thread regarding organizing .

the "apostate" movement and it seemed to get some positive .

Mulan

The more time that goes by, the more I just don't care.

Organizing anything like this makes me cringe. I will organize a dinner, a camping trip, a few days with my grandchildren, but never again an organized group trying to get someone to listen.

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I'm sure many JW's get together and celebrate this time of year

by JH in

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i remember when i became a jw.

on december 25th a ms brother invited many brothers to his house for dinner.

i was very confused.... the way he talked, it was because we didn't celebrate christmas and that we were all alone on that day, and that's why he made it look like a christmas dinner .... .

Mulan

After our entire family became JW's in 1950, we would still all go to grandma's house (grandpa's house too :) for Christmas Day. There wasn't tree and no presents but we had everything else. Grandma made the best fruitcake, soaked in Apricot Brandy, Divinity and Fudge, big turkey dinner, with all the trimmings. My one aunt and her kids, who hadn't become JW's would come for dinner after having Christmas at their house.

We did the same for Thanksgiving. New Years Eve was my grandparent's wedding anniversary and we always had a big party at their house that night too.

I didn't miss a thing. We got presents other times, so it was all good in our family.

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Muscle cramps

by Emma in

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anyone experience leg cramps?

that's why i'm up at this hour.

not just a charlie-horse in the lower leg, but ones in the thigh that have me bolting upright out of bed and immobile for several minutes.

Mulan

I think I know just what you are talking about. I've had those for the past month. Calcium supplements didn't help..........I take those reguarly. Aleve helps very well though. Getting in and out of bed really hurts. The pain is pretty bad and sometimes it stops me in my tracks and each step is excruciating. Mine are in my upper thighs and extend into my groin area.

One of my daughters in law is a medical lab tech, so has a bit of medical training, and she said that kind of pain is from a pulled muscle, either in the thigh or abdomen. We had our two year old grandson for a weekend recently, and I tried not to lift him, but I ended up doing it a few times anyway. That must have caused it.

Just had all my blood work done, and thyroid is normal. Damn! I keep wanting to hear I have low thyroid.

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Disfellowshipped father in law died need ammo for JW,s

by moomanchu in

i won't go into details.. family is split down the middle by jw,s.. whats irritating is now that he's dead jw side of family is saying we'll see him in paradise said prayer for him and acting like he was jw but at the same time treating da'ed and faded side of family as evil.. maybe they'll treat us nice after we're dead to yeaaah!!!!.

anyway can anyone post or direct me to info.

or link and old post about this subject ------.

Mulan

Years ago the son of one of an older sister in our congregation, died of AIDS. He was a former Bethelite, who left to follow his own path, and was df'd of course.

We all felt so badly for her, because of his situation. She and her non JW husband, had gone to be with him when he died. Her reply to anyone who asked about it, was "it's in Jehovah's hands". At the time, I thought she was probably right.

Now, I have a different view of it all, but I thought she was pretty balanced.