When the flood is spoken of and man describes it as covering the earth, well back then when man looked out over his surrounds to him the earth ended at the horizon. so someone back that long ago would write it down as the flood covered the whole earth ,becuase in his ancient mind , it did. So a large flood may have occured but not over the entire earth .
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How to stump someone that believes the noah's flood happened.
by 5go inone of the key peices of evidence that people sight to try to prove the flood happen is the fact the most cultures have a flood myth or story as they put it.. i was just watching a program that also points out the most, if not all cultures believe in dragons.
even cultures that evolve in isolation have beliefs in dragons and they are all simular though not the same.
just like the flood myth.. so if they believe the flood happened because so many cultures have flood stories.
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Pics from my recent trip to Lake Placid
by memario inall i can say is wow!!!!.
looking south from whiteface mountain.
looking east.
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annalice
Nice pictures! Isn't Lake Placid beautiful? When I was younger we always had our JW assemblies up there at the Olympic Iceskating arena. We live a few hours south of L.P. Have not been up there in years . Now I want to go, forgot how great it is.
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WTBTS Now hinting at having LARGE families?????
by annalice inok so i don't know if this means anything but, i was just over on the watchtower official web site.
( i like to keep up on the crap they write).
anyhow there is a article titled "large families united in god's service".
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annalice
Ok if you want to read the article go to the Watchtower official site ,scroll down to the picture of the old couple and click on "How to Succeed In Marriage" On that aticles first page on the lefthand side is the article you want " Large Families United in Gods Service".
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WTBTS Now hinting at having LARGE families?????
by annalice inok so i don't know if this means anything but, i was just over on the watchtower official web site.
( i like to keep up on the crap they write).
anyhow there is a article titled "large families united in god's service".
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annalice
OK so I don't know if this means anything but, I was just over on the Watchtower official web site. ( I like to keep up on the crap they write). Anyhow there is a article titled "Large Families United In God's Service". it talks about all these different families who have 7, 9, up to 11 children and how blessed they have been having all these schildren and wonderful its been to raise them all and see them all get baptized ( very young of course). Now last time I was at a KH maybe eight ,nine years ago if you had one child it was one to many according to some . It was thought by many that waiting till after armagedon was a better thing to do and that it was crazy to want to bring a child into this system of things. Many of the couples that we knew from then have never had children . Sad, Sad, Sad. So now articles are being put out there about how wonderful it can be to raise a large family??? Is the society finally figuring out that all those years of frowning upon young couples having children in this "system of things" is now backfiring on them? They're making themselves go extinct. LOL! So now what they're going to start breeding like rabbits? YIKES!
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Do You Recognize Your Baptism?
by sweetstuff ini was promised that this generation would no means pass away.
(live forever book, pg.
154) i brought this up, although it has probably been discussed before, because i am sure some people right now are worrying how to handle an elder's visit or call.
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annalice
NO ,I do not recognize my baptism, I was only 15! I was still living under my parents roof and should have still been under their protection. Would they have let me get married at 15? Hell No. How about move out on my own? Hell NO, Yet I was allowed to dedicate my life to god and open up the possability of being disfellowshiped if I stumbled in my faith and did something wrong. There is a pattern here and I have always found it very disturbing . Does ANYBODY get baptized later in life who was raised as a witness? All the ages are 10, 12, 14 ,15 ,etc. ,etc.It seems the society only baptizes children 95% of the time. Why don't we follow Jesus' example and get baptized in our 30's? If everything is written in the bible for a reason the fact that his age is mentioned seems significant to me. But then again I am blind now and stupid and don't have gods Holy Spirit telling me whats right, AND I'm a woman so strike two for me. I know , i know ,I'm just "twisting things" You know how us EX-witnesses like to do that .LOL.
Does the bible ever mention children getting baptized??? Can anyone find a scripture to back it up??
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Pedophile Elder Case in Warrensburg, NY 1982 - Nicholson
by Seeker4 ini just came across a thread from 2002, (i'll link it here in the next post), about congregations in upstate ny, many that were with a vt circuit i was in for many years.
in there i wrote the following about a infamous pedophile case involving an elder, don nicholson.
here was part of one of my posts on that thread.
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annalice
yes I am still on this site, and still living in the same area of upstate NY
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Would You Wear Religious Jewelry Comfortably Now???
by minimus inwould you honestly be comfortable to wear a cross, a crucifix or a religious medal of some sort?.
i'm curious as to how many would feel "weird" about it now..
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oh yes ,i have no prblem wearing the cross , when and if someone asks me about it I say" oh yes I love to wear the lower case T. THATS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE SO THATS WHAT I CALL IT.
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WE just had our baby boy!!!!!!!!!
by annalice inwell we now have a wonderful happy healthy baby boy ,as of march 30th.
not getting much sleep ,but oh well , he is a joy to have.so wish us luck, we have a 18 month old also, so this should be interesting.
so far my in-laws have not even come to visit or see him at the hospital or to our home , even though they have been told they are always welcome.
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Well we now have a wonderful happy healthy baby boy ,as of March 30th. Not getting much sleep ,but oh well , he is a joy to have.So wish us luck, we have a 18 month old also, so this should be interesting. So far my in-laws have not even come to visit or see him at the hospital or to our home , even though they have been told they are always welcome. So I guess it is their loss. They are missing out on so much ,seeing their grandsons grow and become wonderful people. I guess they think they are showing us their disapointment in us for not going to meetings anymore. So yeah, this really makes me want to go back , seeing people who should be loving, being so cold and heartless as to not even want to see their brand new beautiful inocent grandson. Not even a phone call fron one family member on that side to see if he and I are doing well after the c-section .How loving.
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When JW parents shun their df'd children...and grandchildren
by Paisley inthis seems the epitome of "lacking natural affection".
can you imagine being a parent and not being interested in how your own children are doing?
and what about carrying it even further, having nothing to do with your grandchildren, just because the parents are disfellowshipped?
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My husband and I are not df'd (yet) We have just faded out over time and no longer go or believe the witnesses beliefs.We have a 17 month old who has never had his grandparents, my husbands parents, visit him ,even though they only live about 30 minutes away from us. We did at first drive to their house every month so they could see the baby but have stoped doing that as of this past August,and since then we have not recieved one phone call asking how he is doing or a visit ,even though every time we went there we always made sure to tell them to stop over whenever they wanted , that they were always welcome. I am due March 30 to have our second baby and since we told them that I was pregnant when I was only 5 weeks along they have not once called to see how I am doing and how the pregnancy is going. So now our problem is do we even bother to tell them when we are having the baby? will they even bother to come to the hospital? or will we be rejected by them once again. I am not so concerned for my son and soon to be second son, my family who are not witnesess showers our son with love and attention. But I feel very bad for my husband who has to see his parents acting this way. Because they are dissapointed with our decisions they are shunning out inocent children ? that just makes me sick that people can just be so cold like that. What kind of witness is that giving us? is that suppossed to make us go back? They call that LOVE!? I have seen more love and understanding from who we were trained to call "worldly people",than I have seen from witnesses.
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AHHHHH! I'm PREGNANT!!!
by Jez injust thought i would pop in here to tell you all that i am 3 months pregnant!
it was quite a shock.
my husband and i have been married for 5 years.
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Congrats!!!! I am also pregnant , due April 8. But am having to go in for a schedualled C-section. Enjoy your pregnancy, GOOD LUCK!!! Keep us posted on how its going.