Posts by Doubtfully Yours

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Nine year old baptized

by EmptyInside in

this weekend at the circuit assembly, (i stayed home, thank goodness), i heard a nine year -old girl was baptized.

and she seems a bit mature for her age, but hardly mature enough,in my opinion, to make such a choice on her own.

it seems to be a trend in our circuit right now.

Doubtfully Yours

I'm with you on this one topic. Jesus Christ, our model and savior, waited 'til full maturity to be babtized.

Anyone that hasn't made it through puberty, who's in the view of many states and countries hasn't reached a level of maturity to drink alcohol, or even to hold a driver's license, such person is not fit to make such a strong decision as baptism in any faith!

In this regard, anyone baptized prior to a full mature age, is equivalent to the practice of baptizing infants.

Kids don't know what the heck they're doing! They're just doing it to please their parents, or to make the brothers at the KH proud, etc.

DY

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Bloodless Surgery on Infant Sucessful

by purplesofa in

http://www.pharmabiz.com/article/detnews.asp?articleid=53437&sectionid=.

hospitals group, rectifies complex heart deformity of infant.

friday, january 08, 2010 08:00 ist .

Doubtfully Yours

Hurrrrrraaaaaayyyyy!!!!!!!!!!

No comments on this. But post one one death and every member of this board will jump at it!

I tell you, for every death due to lack of blood acceptance, which more than likely the person would have died anyway whether they took the blood or not (like it happened to this person in our cong., that got weak and accepted the blood, then died a few days later anyway), there are thousands of successful bloodless interventions!!!

Yeap, yeap, hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DY

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Song Book changes - the 'real' reason behind them - EYE OPENING

by EndofMysteries in

it's very interesting comparing things that are removed.

for one, new world order and new world, new order, all being eliminated from everything.

just research nwo, "new world order", etc, to see.

Doubtfully Yours

"To everything there's a reason and a season"... Isn't that how a really nice song goes?

Big deal! Can you just not agonize over this?! The new songs and rhythms are very nice thus far.

Try and highlight the positive in things. All things.

DY

32

TONS of changes in the organization

by EndofMysteries in

new songbook - removing all the old teachings and anything saying new world or new order.

no more bookstudies - (so no small indepedent comments, only brief congregationwide so not much discussion).

bible reading talk can 'read' only, no introduction or conclusion - again not allowing any input or thought.

Doubtfully Yours

I've really enjoyed all these changes! The Organization is also leaving a whole bunch of decisions up to the individual's conscience. It's great!

I see it as evolving into a more democratic religious system more and more. Wonderful! I feel much more comfortable in it these days, than ever before.

DY

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i don't like to dig deep into the bible... am i bad?

by ?me? in

jw
friends

i totally appreciate the posters who have a ton of bible knowledge and love research, but me being a witness for a few decades find myself not really interested in many of the discussions here and at the meeting.

the current "grace/undeserved kindness" post by sir82 is a prime example.. first off i do know that my personality is to be sceptical about most things, and i usually focus on things that i can see or are more simple, especially if it is a topic i am less interested in.. but am i bad because i don't really care if jesus died on a cross of stake?

or i am not interested in trying to figure out when (and if ) jehovah is going to take care of wicked people or resurrect dead people........ i kind of figure we will find out when it happens.. sometimes if feel stupid about bible things, but i take pride in trying to live by the basic bible principles and laws (about stealing, adultery, bad language, etc), although i do have a good deal of general knowledge about the bible, i could care less about breaking down the different "loves" in the hebrew language or greek language, or whatever..... i guess i have a similar knowledge of the scriptures as the "christians" before the wts "helped us figure it out" starting around 1900. .

Doubtfully Yours

No, you're not bad. I also like to just stick to the basic Bible principles of 'being good and doing good'; all the other 'deep' stuff, I couldn't care less about it.

DY

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i'm now a return visit! how do i stop this?

by highdose in

at my place of business which i own, i have discovered that the local jw's have taken to dropping in magazines, brocheres etc.

the staff accept them just to be polite but arn't interested.

but you know the deluded jw's... my business has quickly turned into someones magazine route!.

Doubtfully Yours

Just say the word and it'll go away. I used to drop off literature at some places of business where the public would frequent, and once was asked by the attendant not to do it any longer, and that was it. No more.

Just say the word. These days the Organization is not so much into shoving down the throat if people present an objection. Very relaxed these last days. I really enjoy it that way.

DY

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Jw`s and Charities

by zzaphod in

hi all, i left the wts in the late `80s, i`ve not really given them a thought, until one sleepless night recently i was trawling the `tinterweb, and came across various videos on youtube.

anyway`s, the reasons i left were many and varied, and one day i`ll sit down and relate them, but two things have always stuck in my mind, once i was asked "if someone could convince you that without a doubt "the truth" was wrong, would you believe them?

", to which i answered "of course i would", - that was me marked.

Doubtfully Yours

As an Organization, yes, they discourage any donations other than to themselves. However, at a personal level, there are many JWs that do donate to different charities. So, it's not fair at all to generalize. I contribute whenever asked to cancer-related charities.

DY

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Why am I Renouncing My JW Faith...Part 2

by tjlibre in

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friends

i left off on my first posts on this topic with this sentence: one of the big discoveries and the genesis of my semi-apostate ways came one day when i decided to look up some of the books cited in the reasoning from the scriptures book (almost 99% of the works cited by the society were available at the universitys library).

the research that was meant to solidify my faith in the jw religion, actually made the first crack on the foundation of my faith.. .

cont..... .

Doubtfully Yours

I sincerely hope you'll do well in your post-JW life. May you find spiritual fulfillment elsewhere. Sincerely.

DY

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Michael Jackson - Teenage Superstar Jehovah's Witness!!?...that's what killed him!

by Witness 007 in

imagine being a teenage superstar....and a jehovah's witness???

poor guy must have suffered a worst mind f#ck then any of us.

teenage girls worshiped him, but i doubt he ever had one.

Doubtfully Yours

That's one of the most ridiculous statements ever posted. In fact, if he would've followed the JW lifestyle, he would've been very much alive and well. Wouldn't have had to endure the horrible drug-infested lifestyle he carved for himself. For somebody with so much fame and money, he lived absolutely horribly!!!

MJ sure fulfilled the Biblical quote that reads: "The love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains." (1 Timothy 6:10)"

What a sad life he lead that poor fellow .

DY

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The "move away" Fade

by jacquicortez in

looking back there were quite a few families that did the "oh we're moving" fade.

they would move to a rural area.

or a state or two away.

Doubtfully Yours

That's the way I'd do it. Just move away. I can only dream of it for now.

DY