Posts by seek2find

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Who Are Some Posters That You Really Would Like To Know Personally?

by minimus in

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i have a number.

blondie is one of my favs.

dave (seven) is another.

seek2find

I'd really like to sit down and have a cup of coffee with Grace (Mouthy) I watched the clip of her testimony on exjwvideos on you tube done several years back and she seemed like the type of person I'd like to get to know and learn from. seek2find

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Any Christians please tell us about what it was like when you were saved

by theliteissobrite in

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isn't it the most amazing feeling in the world?

it some times hurts me to see when others wont let him into they're heart.

but there is hope !

seek2find

It's kinda like how when you have been driving all night and are extremely tired and someone else volunteers to take over and drive for you. Then you can relax and have confidence in your friend to get you there safely. A great feeling. Good topic thanks for starting it. seek2find

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Anybody remember when southern congregations were integrated?

by Texman55 in

as i think i recall, this happened in the fall of 1972. i was living in atlanta at the time, where it was a nonissue, there was a very pretty black girl who was very popular in the congo there.

but back in my much smaller hometown, there were still black congregations when i started studying in 1970....totally separate khs, totally separate circuit assemblies.

not sure if they had a separate co...probably not.. in fact my great uncle, the eccentric old guy nobody in my family had much to do with....been a jw for ages but not very popular in the kh either....had a little house directly across the street.....moody, cranky old cuss, but very independent thinker too in a weird kind of russelite way....he got df'd around that time and i think it had something to do with the integration issue.

seek2find

I grew up in a white only congregation, and remember when the announcement was made that the congregations were to integrate. Most everyone welcomed the change, although there were a few that grumbled. It seems like the ban on smoking cause more problems than integration. I think most of the witnesses knew that segregation wasn't right. The Black folks put a lot of life into the congregation, and was overall a positive thing. seek2find

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Obie Fernandez blogs about 'Becoming Worldly'

by obiefernandez in

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friends

thought you might get a kick out of reading a blog post that i recently wrote about leaving the jws.

http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2008/07/becoming-a-worl.html

it got a large number of comments and provoked a lot of people to email me, all positive.

seek2find

Hi I was just wondering the other day what happened to you. Just a small thing, but if you are able to edit your blog you might want to change the scripture to Matt. 24:45 instead of Matt 24:14. seek2find

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How Many Are From The South (USA)?

by snowbird in

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thank you, professor.. you are most kind.. sylvia.

seek2find

I'm white, from Alabama originally but haven't lived there in the last 30 years. I moved west when I was 16. Been here ever since. I don't think I have a southern accent. I probably won't be visiting Alabama much any more. All my family are witnesses there, and since I was disfellowshipped a few months back they want nothing to do with me. I'll miss them, but I'm not going back to the un-truth. seek2find

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Will the Organization fall apart?

by BonaFide in

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major changes in meetings, the weird drama this year, and just people reading on the internet, are causing a lot to leave the organization, or just fade.

is it possible that, just like a house of cards, the whole thing will fall apart soon?

i mean, this may be wishful thinking, but is it possible that people will start to dissassociate themselves in bigger numbers, then groups and families will do so, then bigger and bigger groups of friends will do it, and then people who hear about this will check on the internet and then do the same thing, then congregations have to be dissolved and merged, then the talks start getting meaner, and that makes even more people quit, then thousands start to leave.. possible?.

seek2find

I think there is a partial if not total collapse coming. To many things are happening that don't seem fixable. Its like a rotten fence that is continually being repainted to keep it looking nice, but the paint does nothing to stave off the eventual collapse. The corruption is there and it doesn't seem to be going away. I think more events like the one that happened this last weekend in Bates city Mo. will happen. The more they happen, the more difficult it will be to keep them quite, a snowball effect will take place and who knows what will happen. People need to get out while there is still time. You lurkers, now is the time to educate yourselves and if you still believe in God, ask his guidance, he will help if you ask. seek2find

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* Your thoughts on Apostate Literature *

by FlyingHighNow in

when they'd warn us at every circuit assembly not to read apostate literature, remember how they'd tell us if we received it in the mail, to throw it away immediately?

what thoughts went through your mind?.

mine were: "i don't think i can throw it away.

seek2find

As far back as I can remember, the words "Don't look at apostate literature" didn't set well with me. I kinda always in the back of my head was thinking "If this is the truth, what difference does it make?" In fact wouldn't it strengthen a persons faith to read opposing literature to find out what things they were wrong about? I found out in 1995-1996 what the Society was afraid of when I secretly read Crisis of Conscience. It then all made sense why they were so desperate to keep witnesses away from apostate Literature. Although apostate literature varies widely in quality, almost all of it exposes things the society would rather keep hidden. So I have a challenge to you lurkers. If you have the truth, what are you afraid of? Isn't the truth stronger than lies? What contains the truth? The Society's literature, or apostate literature? Why was the work of Jehovah's witnesses restricted in Mexico for so many years? The real truth on this mater will reveal that they Voluntarily registered with the Government there as a "Cultural Organization" rather than a Christian religion. They did so because doing so allowed them to own property there. A religion with property had to put the property in trust with the government. Registering the way they did, they brought the restrictions on themselves. seek2find

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What were you "done" for?

by Amha·aret in

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friends

just wondering what the most unusual or flippant reasons are for people being booted from the cong.

i know the org makes out that almost everyone who is ousted is guilty of fornication but they're hardly going to say that people are leaving coz of all the lies, deceit and propoganda they spin!

if your "crime" was apostacy, what exactly happened?

seek2find

I was given the boot in March of this year (2008) at 50 years of age (all those as a witness). My crime was looking to Jesus as the ultimate authority, not the Watchtower society. I was told "You want to live in the spiritual Paradise but you don't want to pay the rent" And also that "a little disloyalty to the organization is like a little disloyalty to your marriage mate". "None is acceptable". To me it all came down to this issue. Who do I want to follow? Christ or the Organization? I choose the former, and I'm proud to have stood for something and someone who doesn't change and isn't harsh and cruel. I miss family and friends, but I'm confident I'll never be alone. (Heb. 13:5) seek2find

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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think

by insearchoftruth in

good afternoon,.

my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.

it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .

seek2find

Insearchof ask: What day? Sunday would be best, the drama and the last talk will make it possible for you to ask some serious questions. Like: "With all the good accounts we have in the Bible, why is there a need to add to it a fictional account? And in regard to the last talk you might ask: Do you really believe the Organization deserves our Loyalty? Where do we find that concept in the Bible? seek2find

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Questions on Assembly to help wife critically think

by insearchoftruth in

good afternoon,.

my wife is going to be attending the assembly in hampton, va this weekend and was wondering if there are any questions that i could ask her in advance to help her critically think about what is being said?.

it has been a while since she has attended either a meeting or a dc, so will be sort of like being hit anew with this stuff, but i think she has done a few bs with the pesky sister in the meanwhile, though she is being quite silent about it.. .

seek2find

Hi, Ask her to count the number of times she hears the term "God's organization" or "Jehovahs organization" in the last talk on Sunday. Witnesses like to point out that the word Trinity doesn't appear in the Bible, but neither does the terms for the organization. It's a glaring in-consistancy that drives me crazy. But on a positive note about the assembly, the Symposium on Sunday morning about the fruits of the spirit was good, at least at the convention I went to. seek2find