Posts by MidwichCuckoo

In the above example, where the 'brother' is taken out for a coffee and when he (and his wife) returned later to find a small branch of Tesco in their kitchen, not knowing who had left it...did they not think who had a key/broken into their house? I'm assuming it wasn't left open with no one at home. I'm also assuming it never happened...call me cynical. The 'Gary' story sounds familiar too...

Did you know that regular pioneers

can count some of their time in relief work as ministry time on their time slips?

Things like this make me feel angry. So they don't help out of Christian Love, but just to notch up Brownie points?

Jehovah's Witnesses are known for putting Christlike love into action

Yeah right..known by whom? They are told from the platform this is the case, and they are disillusioned enough to believe the whole World regards them as 'charitable' too.

Thanks for posting Blondie...even if articles like this really wind me up, lol.

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Sex Attacker "The Night Stalker" a JW?

by JWFreak in

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228061/police-arrest-britains-wanted-rapist-father-accused-200-sex-attacks-burglaries.html.

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if so did he select his victims when he was preaching?.

MidwichCuckoo

nelly makes a good point...however I'm thinking of the security aspect of keeping these records, eg if there's a record held at KH of the same address being 'not at home' consistently during certain hours.

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JW Discussion Board Lifts Another Story from Another Religion

by blondie in

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http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/3956/html/rss/.

several years ago a rabbi from out-of-state accepted a call to a community in houston, texas.

some weeks after he arrived he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area.

MidwichCuckoo

Will we be hearing this at a local Kingdom Hall soon?

Carpediem - I heard that one as a young dub... the big blokes (angels) either side of the sister out on ministry.

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Invalid Baptism

by dssynergy in

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new to the board, first post.

just curious if anyone has ever tried to leave because of an invalid baptism.

if a person felt their baptism was invalid because they did it under pressure, and did not really devote themselves to jehovah, and would not now be baptized if given the chance ~ would they still be disfellowshipped or disassociated??

MidwichCuckoo

White Dove - My baptism was for status and nothing more.

Yes White Dove - that and shifting responsibility.

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Invalid Baptism

by dssynergy in

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new to the board, first post.

just curious if anyone has ever tried to leave because of an invalid baptism.

if a person felt their baptism was invalid because they did it under pressure, and did not really devote themselves to jehovah, and would not now be baptized if given the chance ~ would they still be disfellowshipped or disassociated??

MidwichCuckoo

ooops, duplicate posting:)

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Invalid Baptism

by dssynergy in

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new to the board, first post.

just curious if anyone has ever tried to leave because of an invalid baptism.

if a person felt their baptism was invalid because they did it under pressure, and did not really devote themselves to jehovah, and would not now be baptized if given the chance ~ would they still be disfellowshipped or disassociated??

MidwichCuckoo

Welcome dssynergy I think you'll find TOO MANY Baptisms were under pressure (emotional blackmail even)! Were you a teen? I was a young teen...and Jesus was 30.

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The homeless sister and the $60,000 RV

by HappyGuy in

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i was in a congregation once which had a large number of desperately poor people in it.

there was an elderly sister, she lived near me, a sweet woman, who became homeless because her ramshackled old house caught fire.

around that same time one of the overseers (imagine that using a slavery term), i forget if it was district or circuit overseer, came to town wanting a new rv/truck combo.

MidwichCuckoo

If you're a widow or orphan you stand no chance in the WT Cult...not viable. I see it NOW - elderly (JW) widows relying on 'Worldly' people while the Congregation turns a blind eye. Good for you HappyGuy.

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Water on the moon? Gee, I wonder why God created that...

by hotchocolate in

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-moon-water-1113-1114nov14,0,1039358.story.

how do you think the witnesses will explain this one..... x.

MidwichCuckoo

Water on the moon? Gee, I wonder why God created that...

It's obvious to me, lol...and WHY now? Has it always been there (probably not, as surely we'd have spotted it earlier)? Water being necessay to sustain life, then surely this is a sign that the end is close and God is preparing an overflow for all the soon to be resurrected. Far fetched..? Yep. Would dubs buy it? I think so.

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Why do they just clutch at straws?

by creativhoney in

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my ex husband has been spending a lot of time in my company, and i always use the opportunity to throw another quandary his way.

- when i start, he usually puts his hands to his face and says ohhhh not this again.

- i say why are you so afraid, im only asking you a question or offering a fact.. when he does listen to an argument i offer, most of the responses are just clutching at straws.

MidwichCuckoo

JWs are strangers to logic - or they wouldn't be JWs. They repeat the same crap that has been bombarded into their collective mind over the years...the examples you give, I (and no doubt everyone else) have already heard. I was once told by a JW that tobacco is mentioned in the Bible as WORMWOOD (yep, I think some do make up stuff to try and justify the bOrg's teachings)