Posts by Thomas Poole

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

by Wounded Heart in

used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

Thomas Poole

Revised by Thomas

It is not my intent to actually spam here; however here are
some books which one can purchase at a local book store--some are in your local library--that cover demonic oppression, some including the DID / MPD subject.

- by Mark Bubeck--The Adversary, Raising Lambs Among Wolves, and so forth.

- by Neil Anderson--Victory Over the Darkness, The Bondage Breaker, Helping Others Find Freedom In Christ, and so forth.

- By Bob Larson--In the Name Of Satan, and so forth

- Also, cassettes tapes dealing with demons by Earnest Rockstad prove the actual occurances.

All of these men are CHRISTIANS--qualified ministers, medical doctors, and psychologists with decades of experience that can be reached by the information in their books. Again, I stress that what I say is for those favorable to the Word of God, and who are teachable.

By the way, a point to understand is that Oppression is not Possession. Because of the Holy Spirit within them, A CHRISTIAN CANNOT BE POSSESSED.

How one can have the Holy Spirit within them and also have demonic oppression can be explained by knowing about our body, soul, and spirit. The two do not dwell together. Think of the demons being limited to the body portion.

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

by Wounded Heart in

used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

Thomas Poole

Revised by Thomas

The following is a prayer that some use to work against demonic oppression and strengthen themselves.

PRAYER OF TOTAL SUBMISSION

Father, I thank you for the facts of your forgiveness, that you took me out of the life of Adam, and placed me into the life of Christ. Also, thank you for clearly showing me that I am now in Christ and He is in me for the duration of my life on earth. I was crucified with Him, buried with Him, raised with Him and I am presently seated in Him in the heavenlies beside you.

I thank you Lord Jesus that you came into my life to be my total means for living the Christian life. I agree that I am absolutely powerless to do this in and of myself. Beginning now, I gladly choose for you to live your life in me and through me.

I reckon (count) myself to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus (Romans 6:11). It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life I now live in this body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me (Galatians 2:20).

Lord Jesus, I joyfully receive your strong, overcoming life (in me) in exchange for my life of weakness and failure. Depending upon your ability working in me, I humbly submit each of my problems, anxieties, worries and fears to you (speak them as they come to mind). Read: I Peter 5:7; Matthew 11:28-30; Ephesians 3: 20-21; Phil. 2:13.

I am counting on the Holy Spirit to cause me to know when I attempt to depend upon my own human resources to live the Christian life.

I choose to yield unconditionally my total being to you as an instrument for you to use any way you want - to me, in me, with me, or through me. I choose to deny myself, and take up my cross daily (death to all that is not of God), and follow you (Luke 9:23).

Lord, I praise and thank you for making "Christ as my life" real to me in experience.

In the Name of Jesus, Amen

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

by Wounded Heart in

used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

Thomas Poole

Revised by Thomas

What I wrote was from an informed, experienced Christian perspective, not an idea of whimsical mouthings.

In love,

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

by Wounded Heart in

used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

Thomas Poole

Revised by Thomas

The previous statements I presented were to those knowing of demonic oppression, mostly by direct or indirect experiences and following up with educating themselves

I am not saying that a DID or MPD is at fault because of any demonic tampering with them. The demons don't play fair; they involve themselves with anyone if they can claim legal grounds to be in their lives. Also, the abuser causing the DID / MPD might well have had demonic strongholds within themselves. Demons possessing parents, ancestors, and so forth can transfer over to the ones that are abused, especially if done sexually. They are called familial spirits.

So if the one abused becomes DID / MPD, the demons can join in.
I am not suggesting the percentages of this happening. Again, I am not criticizing those with DID / MPD for this possibility, for they are the abused. I am just saying consider the possibility of demonic influence along with your condition. Call it no-fault oppression. Not to leave you hanging--books by Neil T. Anderson and Mark Bubeck explain and deal with these things.

I introduced here a very important, seldom recognized subject matter for those who might be suffering from both demonic oppression and DID at the same time. The awareness and distinction of the two together is very important; it is knowable.

The medical community is restricted in their helping if they do not understand a possible combination of demons with PID, expecially if think that a Christian cannot have demonic oppression. There are many Christians that can tell you otherwise.

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

by Wounded Heart in

used to be called multiple personality disorder (mpd).. i have it.

i was physically, emotionally, sexually abused.

the tramas in my life were so great that i split into many.

Thomas Poole

Revised by Thomas

Francois,

Are you familiar with demonic oppression [ not possession ]where demons within a person [ including a Christian ]can play with this MPD condition.

For example, a demon oppressing a person with MPD may take on the name of the alternate personality, such that the the one helping would have to discern whether they were dealing with a demon or the alternate person. The demon(s) are removed first, and then the multi-personalities are dealt with without demonic influence getting in the way.

Also, I learned that when both the original person and the alternate(s) become "saved" in Jesus Christ, then the personalities become one person, healthy and normal. This has been the experience of some Christian therapists.

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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Demonized Wall Paper!

by D wiltshire in

jw
friends

years ago i studied with a couple, that told me of an elder that studied with them years before.. they were having marital discord at the time and this elder was famous for finding demon posessed objects.. so this elder while conducting his study and talking about their marital problems asked them if perhaps they may have inadvertently brought home a demon posessed object, and that this was the cause of their domestic problems.. well they went through their whole apartment with this elder to see if they could find anything, but were unsucessfull.

finally when in the kitchen the elder said he felt strange and that something in the kitchen must be causing it, they looked and looked but nothing.. but when the elder touched the walls of the kitchen, he felt the presents of something there on the walls that could be the causing of their problems.

so they dung into the wall of the kitchen and found that it was painted over a couple layers of old wall paper.. guess what was one of the pictures they found on one of the layers of wall paper?.

Thomas Poole

This elder must have had some experience in dealing with demons
to give him this idea of approaching a problem marriage this way.
Even though his methods and suggestions seemed outrageous, to the
uniformed, he was not necessarily wrong in considering demonic influence in the couple's marriage. However, his method of interpreting any demonic influence upon the couple bordered on a spiritualist approach, especially with his use of hands upon the wall. One could do the same just feeling flat-handed the air about them within the room.

A similar case might be when a couple rents a motel room where the previous occupants were adulterers or fornicators, or whatever. By this, a demonic presence could be present and manifest itself in some way upon the current occupants, such as weird, violent, or frightening dreams, or whatever.

When one is dealing with or being affected by the demonic supernatural, they must then use fervent prayer to the Father through Jesus. You don't go tearing into a wall. The Holy Spirit is what enables any of your resistance against the demons. This is one reason to know intelligently about the person of the Holy Spirit and his relationship to the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

This brings to the fore a Christian knowing his position in relationship to unclean spirits, most of whom are totally ignorant of who they are in Christ. Without further awareness, it is not possible to know how foolish or knowledgeable this elder was. By the response of most of you, I suggest you do some good reading about the influence of Satan in all of our lives. Christian are alien residents in this demonic world. We are in enemy territory constantly. Ignorance of the influences of the enemy, where he
is, and how he works, makes a Christian a sitting duck. Have you ever wondered why and how Christians can be so dysfunctional, so distorted, and abusive to others they love. Can any of you discern between your thoughts and those thoughts demons can actuate within your mind; I doubt it.

This elder was at a very probable disadvantage, since he was tied into a false lying prophesying organization [same as divination]. The WT keeps JW's extremely ignorant of how to handle demonic influences, and their Christian's position over them. There was probably no one to help this elder learn in his dealing with the demons. There are plenty of books at Christian book stores that cover the topic of demonic oppression [not possession] upon Christians. For those that don't understand, I suggest you don't remain igorant about who you are in Christ.

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Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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what it feels like to be reinstated

by airwlk149 in

i just got reinstated about 3 months ago and i am still trying to adjust.

i got baptized right before i turned 16, got disfellowshipped not even a year later.

then another year later i get reinstated.

Thomas Poole

Greetings dear young person,

I must have been disfellowship six times. I lost count.
The reasons were mostly because I was unhappy and
outspoken about it.

Finally, I disfellowshipped the WatchTower. I stood
up before them all and read my note that I was longer
a Jehovah's Witness, and I they could take that to the
bank.

So, get away as soon as you can from insidious killer.

Try going to college a couple of years to start, in
pretense of getting a job skill at their level of
allowance. Then thereafter, you can support yourself
and finish college. Loans and grants are very easy to
get. Work it out. It can happen.

Because of your life in religious bondage, you are probably
socially immature at this time in dealing with the real world,
and have trouble with self-decision making. However, try to
make a list to help you get focused with small goals. College
will help you get your mind right--as it did me--and teach
you many things to assist you as a Christian, such as how to
think critically, better awareness, delight in the world about
you.

I found that
if you are an alcoholic, get rid of the alcohol.
if you are a drug addict, get rid of the drugs.
if you are religiously persecuted, get rid of the religion.

In other words, to get well, GET RID OF THE SOURCE of the
probably, or YOU WON'T GET WELL. The source can devestate
or kill.

Oh, yes, I know you need friends but forget the boy friends.
Your WT caused lonelyness could take away many years of a
happy life if you get sad and reckless. Plan correctly now.
Get free for few years, get focused, get free in Christ,
discover the body of Christ, discover true Christianity,
let the Holy Spirit guide you. Get a University education.
Get busy.

Love you,

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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Watchtower Study Sept 10-16

by dungbeetle in

make your advancement manifest.

ponder over these things; be absorbed in them, that your advancement may be manifest to all persons.

1 timothy 4:15. picture in your mind your favorite fruitxa peach, a pear, a mango, or something else.

Thomas Poole

Regarding the WatchTower September 10-16, as a professional writer and my reaction to the WT textual syrup, please permit me this much.

They wrote

....Picture in your mind your favorite fruit¡Xa peach, a pear, a mango, or something else. Can you tell when it¡¦s ripe or ready to eat? Most certainly. Its aroma, color, and feel all tell you that a mouth-watering experience awaits you. The moment you get a piece of it into your mouth, you may let out a sigh. What succulence! What sweetness! It gives you a great deal of enjoyment and pleasure....

My Comment

Personally I just eat the thing. I don't gloat over it. I don't gleam at it with supreme delight looking for scintillating reflections of celestial ethereal light. I don't inspect its curvature and coloration and feel fuzzy all over. I don't break out with prayer and thank God for bananas, peaches, and tomatoes. I don't have dreams of peach trees and little peach people. I don't have salivary flooding to the point where I choke or feel a need to spit. I don't anticipate a religious experience when I feel it in my hand. I don't rub it accept to clean it. I don't have an orgasmic experience of any sort when I taste it. In fact, I don't even try to imagine the Garden of Eden with all the flora and fauna, and that little snake thing.

In fact I'm about ready to throw-up.

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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don`t be fooled JW`s

by steveykys in

dont be fooled jw`s you say that jesus is the way to god (yeh).

but you dont believe jesus is god you also obey the ten commandments?

then if this is the case, you are breaking them god say don` have no other gods before me fo i am a jelous god if you are putting jesus as a way to god the dont you think god will be angry?

Thomas Poole

Jesus is called Mighty God. Yahweh is called Almighty God.

The Father bestowed upon Jesus the title of God--this
not meaning that Jesus was God himself, but rather a
position to which Jesus became entitled--over every thing in
Heaven and Earth. The Father gave all authority into
Jesus' hands. Jesus is heir to all things

Jesus is divine; however, he is not God himself.
Jesus is the preeminent representation of God.
Jesus reflects the Glory of God and bears the very
stamp of his Father's nature.

All the divine fullness of God was given to Jesus
by his Father. The Father glorified Jesus; Jesus
did not glorify himself.

The difficulty in understanding Son, Father, and
Holy Spirit comes about when people do not honestly
and objectively study the nature of each person and in
their combination. I suggest to forget the man-made
words: Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the
Holy Spirit, 3 = 1, and so forth--developed and worded
by tradition. This formula is not divine and we get
bogged down with rambling about it. Believe me the
reality or truth about them comes to the fore of our
mind when it is opened by the Holy Spirit. Become
free of this formula mentality.

The problems Jehovah's Witness have is they also do not
do this--though they think they do. They do not
understand their relationship with Christ or how the
counselor helps the individual.

It all comes clean when we exercise our freedom in Christ
to pray and learn in our individual relationships with Christ.

The Bible does not say that the Counseler would come to
explain the man-made Trinity to us. Sounds silly doesn't it.
In Christ

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.

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Biblical PROOF that Jesus Christ IS GOD

by Bibleboy in

before i get started, my name is mark whitmore, 20, i live in vancouver, canada, and i am a follower of the way, a true christian, not a jw.

if you reply, please post who you are, how old and what you believe so that i know where you are coming from.

thanks.. now down to business.. strongs' hebrew and greek online:.

Thomas Poole

After I disfellowshipped the WatchTower, I studied the Trinity doctrine in earnest with the help of the counselor, as I do believe. I recognized that we were all in bondage to this doctrine, this 1700 year old statement of belief. The doctrine is not divine and not able to be interpreted as they were reasoning back then. So, I suggest to Christians that they simply ignore this formula: 3=1, and all the common words used to express it; but rather just rely on the scriptures.

Noteworthy is that expressions like "God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and the God Head" are NOT IN THE BIBLE. So why use them. To use them and try to compare Holy Scripture to this formula becomes a disconnected venture. Eventually, it takes us off into worthless conjecture. Then people say "Duhhh, well really, nobody reallllllly knows. This is because it's man's garbage in the first place.

We use this Trinity "tradition" as though it were thinking that should exist in our mind and worship. And then we argue; is it true or not true. Know this, that it is an interpretation of men, not divine, and certainly not from God or it the words would be in the Bible. So about this, let us be wise in our use of our intelligence.

With the TRINITY TRADITION OUT-OF-MIND, take the freedom you have in Christ, use your brain, and honestly study the scritures about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, separately. Study these titles/names individually using all the scriptures you can find about each. Simultaneously, as convenient, note as the scriptures show, the relationship among the three. You will be amazed with what comes to the fore in your understanding of these three.

The scriptures about which you will reason require a bit of time. So, be honest and patient, and enjoy your research; asking the Father to help you, from whom the Holy Spirit comes; through his son, who sent to us the Counselor (Holy Spirit) which is here to lead us in all things.

You should find that neither the WatchTower nor Christendom have it correct. They are too bound up with talking about this Trinity formula, trying to explain their views, and arguing for or against.

Praise to the Almighty God, the Mighty Son, and the enabling of the Holy Spirit.

Free In Christ Jesus our Lord & Savior, as the Father would have it.