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  DID YOU DEDICATE YOURSELF BEFORE BAPTISM OR DID YOU LIE?

  by free2think in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just wondering when you where going through the questions for baptism did you know you had to dedicate yourself to jehovah before hand or did you lie?.

  i didn't know i had to so when i went through the questions i had to lie and say i had.

  i always felt bad about it afterwards and quickly did a little prayer that night.

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  I did, but I was 23 when I got baptised, having not been brought up as a jw. It meant a lot to me at the time.
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  Did you use to believe that all the annoited ones contributed information

  by troubled mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was little there were several elderly ones in our hall that were of the annointed class .

  i was lead to believe that they sent in surveys of a sort to the society regularly.

  about their opinoins on theocratic matters .i was told that they ,all the annointed, contributed material to the magazines .

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  fullofdoubtnow

  No, I asked who wrote the material while I was studying, and was told that the writing committee did it
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  UK paedophiles face castration

  by fullofdoubtnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  this is on yahoo news this morning.

  i see it's going to be voluntary rather than compulsory which, for the prptection of children from such people, maybe it should be.

  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070613/tuk-paedophiles-face-chemical-castration-dba1618.html.

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  fullofdoubtnow

  This is on Yahoo news this morning. I see it's going to be voluntary rather than compulsory which, for the prptection of children from such people, maybe it should be

  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070613/tuk-paedophiles-face-chemical-castration-dba1618.html

  Paedophiles face 'chemical castration'

  

  ITN - 1 hour 27 minutes ago

  Some sex offenders are to be chemically castrated as part of an overhaul of how paedophiles are handled.

  (Advertisement)
  

  Volunteers will be given drugs to suppress their libido under the pilot scheme which will also see compulsory lie detector tests introduced for sex offenders.

  Home Secretary John Reid is due to announce proposals to allow parents and guardians limited access to information about convicted paedophiles.

  For the first time they will be given the right to ask whether a person who has contact with their child is a sex offender.

  The plans, first announced in April, will mainly apply if the individual is able to spend time alone with a youngster.

  There will also be other limited circumstances when disclosures can be made. The system would build on laws which already allow police to approach and warn a woman who has begun a relationship with a known paedophile.

  The NSPCC welcomed the development, saying "open access" could force convicted paedophiles underground and place youngsters at greater risk of assault.

  But the children's charity warned that the new disclosure plans could over-stretch limited resources.

  Director and chief executive Dame Mary Marsh said: "We fear the police and other agencies may not have enough officers and funding to make fully considered decisions on information sharing while keeping a grip on known offenders."

  The package of measures is expected to put an end to calls for a British version of Megan's Law.

  The US legislation commemorates seven-year-old Megan Kanka who was raped, strangled and her body stuffed in a plastic toy chest by neighbour Jesse Timmendequas in the New Jersey suburb of Hamilton Township in 1994.

  The murder of eight-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Payne by paedophile Roy Whiting in July 2000 sparked a nationwide campaign for similar legislation to be introduced in Britain, dubbed "Sarah's Law".

  The system now being proposed would have arguably had no effect on the Sarah Payne case, as she was grabbed by a stranger, and is a far cry from the "Sarah's Law" originally envisaged by campaigners.
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  Memorial Partaker totals for 72 years by request!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  question from researcher: the other day you posted the australian peak publishers and i was wondering if it would be possible to post the numbers of the "memorial partakers" from 1935 to 2006. that would be about 72 years of totals.. my answer: yes, we can do that for you but it will take a few hours to get everything together and scanned.

  i will have to use different forms of wt literature to accomplish this.. unless indicated otherwise, numbers listed show partakers for previous year and some could show: "still incomplete" but they are still listed as a total nevertheless.

  cheers!

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  1948-Informant-(10,553)--See Field Service Report in right column. http://www.badongo.com/pic/727980 1949-Yearbook-(25,395)

  Kind of a sharp rise over the course of a year there, especially as they then believed that the heavenly calling had ended in 1935.
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  Name Some RIDICULOUS JW Beliefs

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll start with a couple.....jws believe that everything in revelation is symbolic except the number 144,000.. jws believe that donating blood is wrong.

  yet jws can accept "blood fractions" which can only be recieved if one donates blood!.

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  One of the most ridiculous things about their beliefs IMO is how they change them to suit a certain set of circumstances, and they become even more ridiculous than they were before

  Up to 1995: "The generation that saw the events of 1914 would be alive at the end"

  1995 onwards: "Ooops, most of the 1914 generation are dead, it must be any generation that reject the "truth" according to the watchtower that will be alive at the end"

  Up to 2007:The anointed were all gathered by 1935, except for replacements : "Ermmm well, they should be decreasing in numbers, but they are increasing. What to do? Ah, the gathering isn't complete after all, they are still being gathered. That's why the number of partakers keeps rising"

  I imagine there will be more "new light" shining as time goes on.
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  Ever gotten back at someone who shunned you?

  by ButtLight in

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  2. friends

  i have a few friends that just wont allow it.

  i think its so funny!

  they go into a store, see a jw that runs the other direction with their cart.......and they follow trying to strike up a conversation lol.

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  I haven't personally, but Trev has when I've been with him.

  We were walking our dog one day and a group of 6 jws were on the corner, just getting ready to start their fs. I knew them all, and Trev knew 5 of them, and as we approached them on the same side of the road, they turned their backs on us almost in unison. Trev commented, loudly enough for them to hear, and for a couple we know who were walking towards us to hear as well, that the jws had invented a new sport, "synchronised shunning", and wondering if it might become an Olympic event in years to come.

  The couple, who know from talking to us how jws treat leavers, laughed out loud. The jws didn't seem to be amused.
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  Was there a moment right before.......

  by lavendar in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  .......you were dunked (baptised), that you thought to yourself, "am i doing the right thing??

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  fullofdoubtnow

  Yes there was.

  I've wished a few times that I'd listened to my inner voice at the time, the one that whispered "don't do it".
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  Are ex-JW still gullible or serpent-like?

  by BEROEAN in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just wondering if ex-jws find it hard to trust others since their bad experience or are they still gullble souls?

  just wondering because some of the stories i read about past experiences are off the charts!

  some of you, your childhoods, your parents are seriously jacked up!

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  Are ex-JW still gullible

  NO. You and others like you, still trapped in the lie, are the gullible ones.

  Ex jws left their gullibility behind them when they saw through the watchtower bulls**t and got out.
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  You could get disfellowshipped if you come out of a convenience store with.

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you could get disfellowshipped if you come out of a convenience store with nothing in your hands !!!.

  i just thought about that.

  i just went to buy a lottery ticket at the convenience store, and put it in my back pocket right away, incase some jw would see me come out of the convenience store with that in my hands....but then i was thinking, probably if an elder saw me come out of a convenience store with nothing in my hands, no bag, nothing, they would probably figure out that i bought something that i stashed in my pocket, like a lottery ticket.... so, it's very dangerous to exit a convenience store with nothing in your hands !!

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  fullofdoubtnow

  I could imagine some of the elders where I attended being suspicious of someone coming out of a store seemingly empty-handed.

  They were all so trusting of the bro's and sis's......not
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  ABOUT NAME CALLING.....................

  by juni in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the congregation you attended/or attend, for new ones that come, did/do the members address them as "brother so and so" / "sister so and so" ??.

  or do new ones have to wait for a period of time to prove their "worthiness" of being addressed in that way?.

  juni ~~~~.

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  fullofdoubtnow

  I was called "sister" by some and Linda by others when I became an unbaptised publisher. Once I was baptised, everyone called me sister