I could have been more descriptive. These aren't my beliefs in the sense I believe they are necessary. But with my fade I have to maintain that I am a "believer" still as doing so has kept me from being shunned so far. My questions were really, is my saying that the apostles weren't anointed but still partook a valid argument for me to make as why I don't attend the memorial? Or are the holes in that argument that a JW could point out.
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Partaking of emblems
by sloppyjoe2 inthis year will be my first for by going to the memorial.
i will get asked by my parents how i can deny jesus even if i don't believe the end is close.
my thoughts on this are as follows, bear in mind saying it's all make believe is not an option.. i think that jesus intended for everyone to eat the bread and drink the wine.
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Partaking of emblems
by sloppyjoe2 inthis year will be my first for by going to the memorial.
i will get asked by my parents how i can deny jesus even if i don't believe the end is close.
my thoughts on this are as follows, bear in mind saying it's all make believe is not an option.. i think that jesus intended for everyone to eat the bread and drink the wine.
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This year will be my first for by going to the memorial. I will get asked by my parents how I can deny Jesus even if I don't believe the end is close. My thoughts on this are as follows, bear in mind saying it's all make believe is not an option.
I think that Jesus intended for everyone to eat the bread and drink the wine. Under no instructions by Jesus was there any requirement to be anointed. At the time of the last supper, none of the apostles were of the anointed since that did not take place until Pentecost 33, months later.
Since I don't go to meetings and am inactive it would be disrespectful to their ceremony and beliefs for someone like me to partake. Someone they believe will be destroyed soon.
Does any of this seem valid and have merit?
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Memorial Invitation
by sloppyjoe2 inhow do you faders/inactive handle being asked to the memorial by family?
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by sloppyjoe2 inhow do you faders/inactive handle being asked to the memorial by family?
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How did you feel when you found out "the truth about the truth"?
by stuckinarut2 inso when you first found out specific facts about the organisation, how did you feel??.
the un membership.
the way 1914 was calculated from pyramid measurements.
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I was a born in and even before the Generations teaching change in 1995 I questioned why God would allow all of this build up for mankind to destroy it. When they changed it in 1995 I was a young teenager and new then and there something was wrong. It gave me the green light in my own mind to look into it. Freeminds.org was the first apostate web site I ever visited. From then on I knew it was all just another religion. No real shock or anger, I just knew it was nothing to be excited over. -
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Update on everything going on in JW Land - Insider Information
by thedepressedsoul ini'd like to start off by saying that i will be very vague in everything i say.
i am fairly "high up" in jw land and have to be somewhat careful how i word and say stuff.
sorry in advance if any specific details are left out.
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I read this thread and laughed. Not to make fun but I could have made this same post with the title, I don't go to any meetings but still give this info. The one thing I disagree with is that the gb ever had control of young ones. I was raised a witness and all my friends got in trouble and left and partied and did what they want. The generation of kids before me who were teenagers and early 20s when I was only 5 and 6 years old were leaving and doing whatever they want. There is nothing new with young people there.
I would like to add one more bit of inside info for everyone else. The gb are going to try and save money and print as little as possible. They want to encourage everyone to download the publications instead.
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Another mass shooting, three or four hours ago.
by James Mixon insan bernardino california.
up to 12 people have been killed.. the center a private non-profit agency that assists people with developmental.
disabilities.
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I have said what I think is necessary on the topic. Fact of the matter is no matter how many deaths occur in the future due to gun violence, those who are pro guns will only care if their is a threat of losing their guns. I don't get it and never will. When the next mass shooting occurs, I won't debate you all on what should happen. I will congratulate you on keeping your guns, since that is all that matters. -
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Another mass shooting, three or four hours ago.
by James Mixon insan bernardino california.
up to 12 people have been killed.. the center a private non-profit agency that assists people with developmental.
disabilities.
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So if you're against gun control we are now back to doing nothing....terrorism isn't going away and will always be around, why do we try to stop it then? Why have no fly lists? Why try to thwart plots, break up cells? Why do anything? -
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Another mass shooting, three or four hours ago.
by James Mixon insan bernardino california.
up to 12 people have been killed.. the center a private non-profit agency that assists people with developmental.
disabilities.
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He isn't right at all, of course they can't get them all, but that's just saying well it's too big of a task, so let's do nothing. Millions of guns could be taken off the streets. Ammunition could not be bought to use the guns anymore. Over time there would be less and less bullets to use. This is a major problem that requires major changes. It requires a massive undertaking. But to say it's too big to do anything about is saying, sorry about your luck to all the future massive killings.
We will never stop all murders, or rape, but does that mean we don't have laws against them? Does that mean we don't try to stop or prevent them?
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Another mass shooting, three or four hours ago.
by James Mixon insan bernardino california.
up to 12 people have been killed.. the center a private non-profit agency that assists people with developmental.
disabilities.
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cappytan, that's the same thing that is said every time something like this happens. Ban forks, ban cars. Why not bring something constructive to the discussion? If it were up to you, nothing would ever be done about it?