Good one Norm. Explains why my JW family still hate us, even though they haven't discussed or asked anything of us for 20 years. Their love is like the Mafia love, OK if you belong.
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your a Jehovahs Witness ..............
by outsider_looking_in in17. if you are a male and sitting in a kingdom hall when a very good .
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26. if you believe that god ignored everyone for nearly 2,000 years, .
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AMOS
Hey Fred, when associating the terrorists to apostates, are you referring to the Muslims? ....although they have been around a lot longer than the JWs, very similar in belief systems when you study it.
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Austinmer/Bulli KH Burns! Arson?
by Stephanus inthe kingdom hall occupied by the bulli and austinmer congregations burned last week, and there are rumours that it was arson.
can anyone shed any light on this?
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AMOS
I've been thinking. Considering the number of home handymen who were involved in the original building and the extension, probably the electrical (done by another home handyman) shorted out. Or, the rats ate the electrical. It beats me how JWs could even consider that ex-JWs would do something like that. Probably classic projection. Considering the numbers of ex JWs around the world, hundreds of thousands of KH would have been burned down by now. They have no more interest for me than a Roman Catholic church or Muslim mosque!
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Austinmer/Bulli KH Burns! Arson?
by Stephanus inthe kingdom hall occupied by the bulli and austinmer congregations burned last week, and there are rumours that it was arson.
can anyone shed any light on this?
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Stephanus, don't go near the place. You know how paranoid JWs are about anything like that. After the last one they were wildly throwing accusations around - looking for any scapegoat. Be in touch soon, you too JW83.
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Austinmer/Bulli KH Burns! Arson?
by Stephanus inthe kingdom hall occupied by the bulli and austinmer congregations burned last week, and there are rumours that it was arson.
can anyone shed any light on this?
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Just had a thought. Is there any link at all to that horrendous bombing at Casula? They never got the guy but the police knew who it was but not enough evidence. That guy's wife and kids were hidden by congregation after congregation and he just went (or was anyway) psycho.
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Austinmer/Bulli KH Burns! Arson?
by Stephanus inthe kingdom hall occupied by the bulli and austinmer congregations burned last week, and there are rumours that it was arson.
can anyone shed any light on this?
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AMOS
Stephanus, will email soon. flat out at the moment. Zaqen is also from the Wollongong area. Cheers Amos
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Austinmer/Bulli KH Burns! Arson?
by Stephanus inthe kingdom hall occupied by the bulli and austinmer congregations burned last week, and there are rumours that it was arson.
can anyone shed any light on this?
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AMOS
Thanks Ozziepost. That was my old congregation from which I did thousands of hours of faithful, zombie like service. I've shed no tears.
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Austinmer/Bulli KH Burns! Arson?
by Stephanus inthe kingdom hall occupied by the bulli and austinmer congregations burned last week, and there are rumours that it was arson.
can anyone shed any light on this?
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AMOS
It wasn't me either.
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Do you have to be part of organized religion?
by trumind inok. this is my first thread and i am very interested to see the kinds of responses i get.
my question to you all is do you beleive you have to be a member of some type of organized religion in order to have god's approval?
i was raised in jw household, never baptized.
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AMOS
Joelbear,
I feel your comment re organisations is quite a broad generalisation. Organisations, any organisation, political, medical, religious,unions etc. initially start off with the aim or concept of gathering support for a particular issue. As the organisation develops and the infrastructure gets more complex and larger, more and more energy is put into the maintenance of the organisation and it can lose it purpose or promotion of its cause or the support of the people it was supposed to serve.an organisation, any organisation does not necessarily have to interfere with your relationship with God provided that one keeps God and the organisation distinct. It is when you merge the two that one gets into trouble. It is my experience of 20 years of leaving the JWs that I have been very wary of falling into the trap of another organisation taking over where the JWs left off. Yes, I attend church but am fully alert and aware of the distinction between God and the church where I happen to fellowship at. If the church or denomination would disappear tomorrow, it would not phase me or any of the Christians who attend in the least, as our faith is NOT in the church/organisation/group but in Jesus. It is the Christians within the local church that have provided the critical support, debriefing, learning to trust again, providing a "family" since our disfellowshipping from the JWs.
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The mindset of another Religion. The SDA Church
by barry inwhen a minister skied to church, his board of elders accused him of desecrating the sabbath.
''why mom,ye skied on the lord's holy day,'' said one of the elders.
the minister protested; but that was the only way i could have come to services.
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Stealth,
The original Jewish sabbath was from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. After Jesus died Christians got together on Sunday which was the resurrection day. Sunday, should never have been called the Sabbath, it was never introduced to replace the Sabbath. But.....over time it became a substitute sabbath for the general church population over the centuries. When the SDA's started in the 1840's, from which the JW's split from later, they took a view of the Law of Moses that was literalistic, and legalistic and kept their religious day on Saturday.