Smoldering Wick

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  Sorry

  by YoYoMama in

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  i'm sorry.

  mil disculpas.

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  Watchtower Society visits Apostate Website!

  by Rado Vleugel in

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  hello friends,.

  i thought this might interst you:.

  the wts is a regular visitor of watchtower information service, in the definition of the watchtower, an apostate website (screenshots of site statistics that proof the visits of the wts are shown in the article)!.

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  Smoldering Wick

  Come on folk, i need only someone who could correct my english's error... ;-)-chasson

  Charles,

  Maybe this will help a little.
  http://www.freetranslation.com/

  Wick
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  I suck at goodbye's

  by Mindchild in

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  looks like time for withdrawal symptoms to immediately show up as i gotta pack the computer away along with all my other artifacts of 21st century life and move on outta of this state.. im heading where it is warm, down in sunny florida.

  i should be back up and running by the weekend.. so, hasta la vista gang.. skipper

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  You are one of about 3 people around here who is SANE.-refiners fire

  
  only three?

  wha? now four?...brb gotta look 4 another stooge.

  byeeeeee skip, happy trails...cya soon

  wick

  "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." Emo Philips
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  Jehovah Won't Hear Your Prayers!

  by Smoldering Wick in

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  i decided to make a new thread instead of posting my response on the old one .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?d=22330&site=3&page=2 .

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  Some people do not realize the power of words. Especially words that come from people we respect, love and who hold authority over us. Those hurtful words sf heard 25 years ago, she can still quote verbatim.

  The interesting thing is that most of these people never intend to hurt us. They really think they are being helpful in some way or another, but we are wounded nonetheless.

  This is from a young girl who was a victim of emotional abuse...
  

  '...but words will never hurt me...'
  by Jessica Dan
  Age last edited: 12
  New York, USA

  "Sticks and stones may hurt your bones, "but words will never hurt me."

  This is a saying that has been around for ages and adults are always telling us this. But it is one of the biggest lies I have ever heard.

  These sticks and stones hurt and injure your bones but this only lasts for a couple of minutes; your bones will eventually heal. But words hurt in two places that never heal: your heart and mind.

  Words leave an open void in you, aching in pain forever. Words can make a confident person the most insecure person. A fun loving person can automatically be turned into a shy unhappy miserable person. They will never go away.

  Harsh words affect people greatly more than any injuring punch or act of violence could do. They change a person's attitude towards life, they change the person.

  So why insult someone?

  You will soon forget it, but this person may never.

  It will always be somewhere inside them, in a dark empty void.

  Words can do more than damage us emotionally:
  Hurtful words can have physical effect, says UConn researcher (Released: 8/16/99)
  by Karen Grava, Office of University Communications
  

  In fact, hurtful words can haunt you all your life and may lead to heart disease, depression, suicide or stress, or even the aggression witnessed in the Littleton, Colo., shootings, says a University of Connecticut professor of anthropology. The words that come from people with power over your life, such as teachers and parents or peers you admire, have the most impact, says W. Penn Handwerker.Handwerker, a medical anthropologist, found that accusatory statements - especially those that start with "you" - are a factor that contribute to increasing rates of depression in the United States and often lead to serious health problems, especially for women.

  Jst2laws,
  I cried after reading your words.
  

  You and smoldering wick broke my heart to read your stories. I am one of those ex elders who was part of the ugly system. I am so sorry for what you both have been through. And so many years later it still hurts. I just want you injured ones to know I'm sorry. I wish I was never part of it and that I could have been there for you. Keep talking about it and working through your feelings Its good for all of us. Jst2laws

  I realized that words of healing can be even more powerful. The words "I love you" and "I'm sorry"...can bring a person back to life.
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  Post your poems, or others' poems

  by ashitaka in

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  this is my view of the witnesses, keeping to the jw theme here.

  i'll post a nice love poem too to make up for it.. comon people, show me your work, or stuff that you like!.

  ashi.

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  Smoldering Wick

  My hand to yours

  Your words caress my heart and mind
  lucid shadows forming rhyme
  Tapping lightly on my soul
  wrapping me in their control
  Tempting me to take a chance
  joining in this sacred dance
  Shall I grasp your hand alas
  watching all the moments pass
  as gentle flickers in space and time
  Swirling patterns etched divine
  A voice that shines so eloquently
  above the sea of mediocrity
  And if but once I heed the sign
  of a poet's hand touching mine
  I will steal a glimpse and come into
  the spark of life inside of you

  Copyright ©2001 Smoldering Wick
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  Widowed DO takes 30 yr old Wife!!!

  by ISP in

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  widowed d.o.

  bro derek carter has caused something of a stir by marrying a 30yr old pioneer sister that is at least half his age.

  if you ever saw bro carter you would notice a strong resemblance to 'uncle fester' of the adams family.

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  She just elevated her status as a JW 1,000 fold by marrying a DO...what a snag. The only way to move up the JW corporate ladder as a woman is to marry a young hopeful and work like hell on him until he makes something of himself. She was able to sidestep years and years of misery as a pioneering elder's wife. WoooHooo!

  btw...I wonder if they watch Woody Allen movies together.
  
  I Now Pronounce You Father and Wife...
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  Jehovah Won't Hear Your Prayers!

  by Smoldering Wick in

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  i decided to make a new thread instead of posting my response on the old one .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?d=22330&site=3&page=2 .

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  I've thought a lot about writing a book entitled "Disposable People." Over the last four years I have heard so many stories how people were discarded like cheap plastic razors when they left the Watchtower Organization.
  sf writes:
  

  This summer marks 25 years of "disfellowshippment" for me. At that horrid time and day that I was thrust out into the world by myself, I wasin alot of pain yet felt free at last. I had left it all (of what i could recall) behind me. So I had thought. I was driven, by my mom, miles away from my hometown, which I loved passionately and dropped off. (there is so much detail to my experience that i will leave out on purpose)

  I am truly sorry for all the pain that you felt then and over the past 25 years. Being thrown away like unwanted trash by someone you loved and trusted implicitly is unforgivable. What was more unforgivable was that your mother was taught she had to throw you away.

  Unfortunately, my mother was guilty of the same crime. My sister and I were baptized together in 1974. I was 9 she was 14. My sister, a beautiful girl, was embarrassed to wear dresses to the kingdom hall as she was no longer a girl, but developing into a woman with a woman's figure. We lived in "gang territory" on the Mexican border...being blonde & blue eyed...it was hard to keep a low profile. To compound this, my sister was raped and left for dead on a Mexican beach when she was 17. During this time, my mother (a widow) married a brother in the hall (also a widower). My sister, almost 18 at this time, did not take to his authority too well. We had pretty much raised ourselves already. When she turned 18, my stepfather (with my mom's nod) gave her $100 and told her to have a good life. Because she did not attend the meetings regularly, she was no longer welcomed in their home. Being raised a witness...not being allowed to go to college, or even work (too much independence), she was taught no survival skills. She was thrown away.
  

  My mother DID love me. That I knew as a young girl. What her actions spoke to me that day can never be expressed in words of how that love turned to rejection simply due to her loyalty to a book publishing corp. And her fears for her own "salvation". You'd have to be inside my soul to get any idea of what it feels like.

  I can understand what it feels like, I watched it happen in my own family. Although, I myself am not totally rejected at present...I am not accepted either. I am also a victim of conditional love. I too am disposable.

  Wick
  (of the bic razor class)
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  Jehovah Won't Hear Your Prayers!

  by Smoldering Wick in

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  i decided to make a new thread instead of posting my response on the old one .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?d=22330&site=3&page=2 .

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  While I was getting reaquainted with the friends, an elder came up to me and in front of everyone there started asking me questions about why I had not been to the meetings. He then told me that if I did not get reactivated that I would die soon at Armaggeddon.-jschwehm

  Isn't it funny how JWs lose all sense of reason when it comes to judging people? They are taught over and over that the proper way to judge someone is to take them aside and do it privately. lol

  I really think when they see someone they admire or view as spiritual or intelligent leave the Organization it scares the Armageddon outta them. They are fearful, and their own faith is challenged. (Wow, if "so-&-so" left the "truth" I could be next!) In order for our leaving to be justified in their minds...they have to think of us as wicked or that we just went wacko. (no other explanation will do)

  Wick
  (of the wickedly wacko class)
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  Jehovah Won't Hear Your Prayers!

  by Smoldering Wick in

  1. jw
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  i decided to make a new thread instead of posting my response on the old one .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?d=22330&site=3&page=2 .

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  Smoldering Wick

  As I had mentioned on a previous post regarding my sister who came for a visit. She told me that my leaving classified me as wicked and I would not survive Armageddon. Her reason for talking to me was that she did not want to be 'blood guilty.' She said she wished that she could pray for me, but she knew it wasn't right. All she could do was hope that I would have a change of heart.

  So, not only will Jehovah NOT hear MY prayers...He doesn't hear ANY prayers that are said FOR ME by active Witnesses!! LOL

  Man, I'm doomed...guess I'll be crab food @ Armageddon.. oh well, *sigh*

  Wick
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  Jehovah Won't Hear Your Prayers!

  by Smoldering Wick in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i decided to make a new thread instead of posting my response on the old one .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?d=22330&site=3&page=2 .

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  Enjoyed your post anyway Wick....do you really live on Christmas Island...isn't that where the crabs crawl across the island every year?-Rummy1

  
  Rummy, no, I live in the states...but, I've already picked out my after Armageddon house on the island. It's crab safe.
  

  "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." Emo Philips