That 10-year-old just signed a contract that will affect him for the rest of his life. If he breaks the rules, even as a child, he will be held to the same accountability as an adult. How can that be right? Should he change his mind later, he will be cut off from family and friends forever. I consider baptizing children criminal. If we are supposed to follow in Christ's footsteps, how about starting with his age at baptism: 30.
crazycate
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10-yr old boy baptized
by Gayle in.
a 10-year boy is baptised at the jehovah's witness assembly hall.
http://www.salisburypost.com/lifestyle/070310-jehovah_s-witnesses-qcd
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Convention Starts Today for My Little JW Daughter
by snowbird inshe's going to leave before the session ends in order to get to work.. that's a first for her!.
one step at a time .... syl.
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crazycate
That's wonderful about your daughter Snowbird. Best wishes.
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Things in the past that show you that your doubts started earlier than you thought
by sabastious ini was just talking to my wife this morning about underlining or highlighting the wt paragraphs.. when i was 13 years old i would fight with my dad because i refused to highlight the answers.. the reason was because i wanted my comment to be genuine.
i felt that highlighting the "answer" made me lean on just using that as a crutch and not truly putting it in my own words.. i still hold that argument now, and i am 26. the only reason you would ever have to highlight something in a study book would be if you needed to remember it, maybe it is fairly complicated or subtle information that could be easily forgotten.. so many times in the wt the "question" has the same phrase that's in the paragraph!
it's literally like playing connect the dots.. so what i would do is not highlight during the family study.
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crazycate
Coffee Black: I'm so sorry about your father. When I found out that the organ transplant rule had changed, and I saw the blood policy changing, I also began having doubts. But I just shoved it to the back of my mind for awhile, until too many things began piling up there.
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Things in the past that show you that your doubts started earlier than you thought
by sabastious ini was just talking to my wife this morning about underlining or highlighting the wt paragraphs.. when i was 13 years old i would fight with my dad because i refused to highlight the answers.. the reason was because i wanted my comment to be genuine.
i felt that highlighting the "answer" made me lean on just using that as a crutch and not truly putting it in my own words.. i still hold that argument now, and i am 26. the only reason you would ever have to highlight something in a study book would be if you needed to remember it, maybe it is fairly complicated or subtle information that could be easily forgotten.. so many times in the wt the "question" has the same phrase that's in the paragraph!
it's literally like playing connect the dots.. so what i would do is not highlight during the family study.
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crazycate
Back in grade school I hated the kind of teacher that would punish the group for the actions of one person. I guess he or she figured that peer pressure would keep that kid from misbehaving in the future. I never saw it work.
So I was always bothered by all the stories in the Hebrew Scriptures where God dictated the death of thousands of innocent people because one or two people broke his law. Surely a loving, merciful God is above that sort of thing.
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JW Urban Legands
by ShellyDee inin my congregation we have many urban legands, like the one about the smurf doll jumping out of a girls lap and running out of the kh because it couldn't stand to hear the good news.
we also had one where a sister was out in fs and a dog talked, it told a sister not to knock on this one door, the sister went to the house and knocked anyway, and the doors and windows of the house flew open and dishes flew out, the sister was scared and ran away and the dog yelled at her retreating back "i told you not to got here!
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crazycate
I don't usually "LOL" but I did at cantleave's "10 hours a month annoying their neighbors."
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I'm glad my children don't have to grow up being afraid of cupcakes
by Ilovebirthdays inyesterday, i brought a batch of cupcakes to my son's school.
in passing them out, i started to give one to one of the children, who was a jw.
he immediately started freaking out and screaming "no thank you" over and over.
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crazycate
Oh the pain! And for what? Talk about straining out the gnat! I went through hell and I feel for all the others who did too. Peace to all of you.
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Exposing the Sickness: they printed letter to editor on the WT's treatment of Ray Franz in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Sat.6/12/10
by not a captive inclosure isn't needed.
in georgia recently, a religious "criminal" died.
this one had been brought to account.
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crazycate
Excellent!
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crazycate
"The box is right next to the two paragraphs with the generation change in them. Yet the box makes NO MENTION of it.
It's a subtle mind game to make you accept the change .....heres 5 things we've changed that you've previously accepted, can you spot another in the paragraphs on this same page? IF NOT THEN YOU ARE NOT KEEPING UP!!!!"
WMF: Good point. Very devious.
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JWs: Dress Like a Nerd. You'll arouse "curiosity" per Oct, 2009 KM
by Open mind inon this week's service meeting there's a q&a for an article about informal witnessing (tm).
the second paragraph recommends dressing modestly at all times so you're ready to witness at a moment's notice.
it even says that your neat & clean appearance may arouse "curiosity".. .
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crazycate
A householder once asked me, "Do JWs have to dress the same, and all in black?" So then I noticed, all the women were wearing long black skirts and long black coats. Being a witness was great training for a life of frumpdom.
Cate
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Cola at the District Convention
by lepermessiah inremember some of the garbage served at the district conventions?.
i was at the dollar store today and noticed they started carrying "shasta" cola.. i started laughing because they used to serve that skunk water at the district conventions when i was a kid.. they always brought in the cheapest, nastiest soda they could buy.. one year we had something called vess cola - that was actually worse than the shasta!
then, they ran out on sunday and had to buy pepsi from the local distributor - we were all rejoicing!!.
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crazycate
At either the International Assembly in Oakland or the one in San Francisco, we all stood at long plywood tables and ate tofu instead of real meat. Tofu shaped liked a chicken leg...tofu shaped like a hamburger patty. Gross.
Cate