eight year old getting baptized!
(from a jw site.
this 8 year old sister was the youngest of the 31 who were baptized at a regional convention in bogo city, cebu, philippines on the weekend.
She looks so young and small, not much older than my son. My son talks constantly about the meaning of life, where life began, religion, yet I couldn't imagine thinking he was ready to commit himself to a particular belief for the rest of his life.
My wife is a Filipina and her family are JW's, Catholic, Inglesi de Christo, and Mormon; and my wife I think believes in God but not religion. One JW changed to Mormon. They really love their high control religious groups.
apologies if this has been asked before, but i couldn't find a thread where the focus was specifically this yes-or-no question.
reach back in your memories to when you were at the peak of your faith in the religion, and tell me honestly:.
"did you, personally, believe that non-witnesses would die at armageddon, even if they hadn't gotten to hear the message at all?".
I believed it, since that is what the Watchtower taught, but was greatly troubled by it. My mother believed it and felt Worldly people deserved it. My CO father though did not, but felt God will judge hearts. That came as a shock.
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after all the jokes and satire on this website about jw's only being able to amount to window washers and house cleaners, the cover page of "how to enjoy your work" showing a window washer and cleaner in the back ground.
i almost wonder if some awakened, still-in, from this site is part of the writing department or illustrations and put that in there as an inside joke for us?.
When I was in Bethel I spent the first year cleaning the factory. Window washing was the best part, except for the ladder that was 3 floors high, which I am sure must have been illegal. One of the branch committee wives would have a heart attack whenever I'd clean her window and plead with me not to.
The bad part was cleaning toilets. 20 every morning, and the same 20 again in the afternoon after lunch.
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And JWs wonder why people do not respect their views on blood.
brief history:.
i was a born in.
my parents were uber-dubs, but never worshipped the organization.
I believe in his old age he is realizing that family is more important that a publishing company in New York.
I have known of other parents that have shunned for many years start to become reasonable in their later years. I think they start to realise that just as the end has not come, not every unreasonable request of the org is necessarily true, and want to rekindle the family relationship.
interesting article from the bbc.. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141029-are-oceans-hiding-inside-earth.
(genesis 7:11) "....on that day all the springs of the vast watery deep burst open....".
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The Bible writers drew water from wells, so there is nothing remarkable about them knowing of the water table. This does not make a global flood possible, it that is where you are going.
so ive recently: joined the forum, read cofc, began reading combating cult mind control.....and today i gotta letter from my mother.
i thought i'd share it with others so that i can gain some hidden insight, and perhaps just to encourage someone else here who has relatives who are still mentally locked in.
dear blackfalcon98.
Interesting that they took offense to a short term beard for charity. Says a lot to their petty mindedness and lack of care for society in general.
i did Movember. Wish we had No Shave November in Australia instead as the Moustache looked very creepy on me.
Be careful with your mother. Mine said the same, but still shunned me when I got disfellowshipped.
so recently, several over-righteous ones in the cong were discussing "how amazing it felt when they got baptised".
statements like "how awesome did it feel as you got raised back out of the water?!".
or the classic "i felt so close to jehovah as i came out of the pool"!.
Disappointed. I thought I would feel an outpouring of Holy Spirit since I was now officially a JW. But nothing, no feeling at all, other than the shockingly cold water.
lol they keep saying that this is truly satans system and all that crap.how people in the world are so judgemental and crazy.. anyone else getting sick of this?.
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One of the most iritating aspects of JWs is their negative ignorance. They need to be that way to maintain the illusion that the world is so evil it will soon end. As tragic as the Ferguson situation is, violence is at historical lows. JWs need to read Pinkers, The Better Angels of our Nature.
i'm sure this has been brought up before but.... i was talking a lil bit with the wife today about things as she brought it up.
she's baptized and all that, i'm not.
after the zone meeting i said enough.. anyway, she mentioned there's about 6000 anointed left and that armageddon would come before they all croaked.
If you check out jwfacts.com/watchtower/144000.php and memorial partakers you will see that the number is increasing and now over 13,000. Your wife must not be aware that the doctrine of the 1935 closing changed in 2007, and there are now an increasing number of partakers. It looks like the GB is preparing the change the doctrine to 144,000 being a figurative number. If you guide your wife to the publisher report in the Yearbook she will be quite surprised.
