I still want to know if anyone here knows anything about St. Louis, Mo exjw-meetup meetings. Anyone here willing to meet, let me know and pm me. Thanks. I have at least 5 people who are willing to meet and like to have more. More is better. These guys are serious about their Bible understaning and they have been meeting to discuss and it is not only on jw matters but Bibles and history of it.
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Reposting: St. Louis exjw-meetup meeting
by Jeepthing ini still want to know if anyone here knows anything about st. louis, mo exjw-meetup meetings.
anyone here willing to meet, let me know and pm me.
i have at least 5 people who are willing to meet and like to have more.
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Jw scholar Rolf Furuli of Oslo University
by Jeepthing inanyone here heard of jw scholar rolf furuli of oslo university?
found him in www.jehovah'sjudgment.co.uk.
interesting site on 607 bce.
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Thanks guys for infor. We(my hubby and me) just heard about him last night and wanted to search more on his view. Not that I think he is right but wondering if it is worth doing research for future reference incase someone present his views to us. Think it is interesting how he discredited the secular information as coming from pagan when he is using secular calendars and infor to present his points. Wondering if he is still going to publish the second volume. Anyway, thanks for infor and nice to know I could rely on someone here.
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Jw scholar Rolf Furuli of Oslo University
by Jeepthing inanyone here heard of jw scholar rolf furuli of oslo university?
found him in www.jehovah'sjudgment.co.uk.
interesting site on 607 bce.
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Anyone here heard of Jw scholar Rolf Furuli of Oslo University? Found him in www.jehovah'sjudgment.co.uk. Interesting site on 607 BCE. Think it is from society.
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St. Louis exjw-meetup
by Jeepthing inanybody here been to exjw-meetup meetings in st. louis, mo?
are they still meeting?
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Yes, there is still Planks live there in Jerseyville. Does he have a son and daughter? Think son was engaged to a young pioneer girl but she had an accident and died. Many say he changed after that, became worldly. Nice people from I remember. Daughter lives in St. Louis and married to jw. My kids knew them. I liked the kids, they were not like typical jw kids.
Hi, mimimi. Take time on emailing me. I have been busy too. Kids keep me pretty busy. Like a full time job.
Someone here I know went to the St. Louis ex-jw meeting and no one showed up. He was wondering if they are still meeting. I get somekind of email from that group but never met anyone from there. Our friend wants to meet them. He is looking for group to get together.
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St. Louis exjw-meetup
by Jeepthing inanybody here been to exjw-meetup meetings in st. louis, mo?
are they still meeting?
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Anybody here been to exjw-meetup meetings in St. Louis, Mo? Are they still meeting?
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Marrying An Unbeliever
by choosing life inare there new rules about attending the weddings of jws who marry a non-jw?
there was a recent incident where a jw and non jw had a wedding reception and invited jws.
the jws were secretly warned that if they dared to attend the reception, they would lose any priveleges in the congregation.. before, when the reception was being discussed at the hall, even elder's wives stated to the couple not to forget to invite them.
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I know where one elder contducted a wedding for his nonjw nephew and invited other jws from his congregation. Some people went and some people made some comments about it as not acceptable. Funny thing was that this nephew's parents were inactive jws. One time they were ms and very zealous pioneers in this kh. They were known as bad assoications because they stopped attending. Nothing was done offically but no one made any big deal enough to make it as official. Actually, some jws attended this wedding and had a good time. I was only studying at that time but invited to wedding. I didn't go because our ms at that time told me they weren't good witnesses. Well, nothing happened and I only saw these people once a year for memorial. Later on they opened a store and sold lottos and alcohol but nothing happened to them. They even helped with building our new kh. They were in charge of some of the equipments for qb. Some people complained but told to mind your own business by po in kh. So it is who you know and who you are related to not how bad of jw you are.
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Why I must be Agnostic and not Atheist.
by OnTheWayOut inthe wts has this nice little explanation for everything.
how can man be .
only six thousand years old, how could a global flood have actually taken.
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There are two kinds of people: open people and closed people. This is not a distinction of temperament or emotional character, but of spiritual stance.
Open people are those who are open to all reality. They are parepared to go beyond themselves. They are open to all questions, including ultimate questions. They reject the obscruantism that would turn away from the beckoning of transcendent truth. They are, therefore, open to the Word of God , to the call to go beyond the comfortable limits of knowledge proportionate to man's own understanding embrace the disconcerting demand to accept mysteries and enter into the darkness of a new, transcendent relation with God.
Closed people are those who refuse to go beyond themselves. They call a halt and stop at somestage in the process that draws them on beyond the familiar. They remain perhaps within the comfortable, tangible world of sense. Or they refuse to step outside what they can prove for themselves. They find even belief in other men difficult and jib at mutual trust and readiness to commit oneself to others it involves. They prefer cynicism and remain distrustful and sceptical wherever they are not the masters. The call to go understand or prove from a God who remains hidden and demands commitment in the darkness of faith strikes them as intellectual suicide. If God wants them to believe, let him come within their world so that they can number, measure and weigh his words by the light of their own mind. "The Rationalist," said Newman, "makes himself his own centre, not his Maker: he does not go to God, but he implies that God must come to him."Thus they remain enclosed within themselves, within the narrow sphere of their own intellects.
Here it is important to notice that a genuine openess to truth cannot be limited to an openess to the transcendent in itself and a readiness to believe in God. On the contrary, we reach out towards the unlimited transcendent and do not rest in and idolatrise our own limited concepts and formulations only if we recognise truth as an absolute and universal value to be sought unconditionally wherever it may be found, even in secondary and everyday matters. Concern for truth is necessarily as universal as truth; otherwise, a supposed reality a concern for something else, such as security or authority. And true belief can exist only in the context of an unconditional belief in the true God from belief in false gods, and faith is corrupted into idolatary and superstition. True believers must be concerned with the truth of their beliefs. Consequently, they must be prepared to disbelieve if ever their belief should be shown to conflict with the truth. As Leslie Dewart puts it: "A genuine and lived concern with truth means a hypothetical willingness to disbelieve should the truth require one to do so."
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Anyone in here(parents) homeschool the kids? What curriculms do you use?
by Jeepthing ini just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
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Becca1, I thank you for your honest comment. I do understand how you feel. I have seen what some of jws did to their kids and it is sad thing but you seemed to recovered from that, continuing with your education. I know ex-jw who have continued with education even at age 30 and loving every minute of it. He is pursuing his goals and moving forward with it. I think it is great that we could move on and progress for better. I think past experience could teach us a lot even if that were bad because we have an intelligence to use that for better. We are winning only if we could learn from past and move forward. I am firm beliver of that. My experiences as jw were not all bad and not all good but whole a lost better than some of the people in the Iraq, Africa, and I could go on and on. We still got freedom and able to make choice. You are right this country got a lot more thing to offer and one of them is education opportunity that other minority countries lack. Anyway, thanks for your humble opinion.
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Anyone in here(parents) homeschool the kids? What curriculms do you use?
by Jeepthing ini just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
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Thanks for a tip on ebay, Hemp lover. I will keep that in mind. I have several stuff to sell, all homeschool stuff. Left over from older girls.
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Anyone in here(parents) homeschool the kids? What curriculms do you use?
by Jeepthing ini just want to know what most of jw(ex or inactive or active) parents use or used for curriculms.
and results of using certain ones.
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Hi, Hemp lover, so did you give up on joining groups and just tried the lessons? I got her in piano and Kindermusik class. I also got her in homeschool PE class in YMCA which is full of those fanatic hs christian parents. When I am with this group, I feel like I am with jws again. Frightening!!!!! I think my main concern is that some of these hs groups because I can't stand to be around another cult like mind people. So my kid is suffering in someways. I just want to know what other options there. Not that I cant' fit in this group. Just want to avoid fanatic minded people because they think they got the right religion. And they seem to be using same curriculms(Beka) and go to same church. And I just want to know what others are using especially ones who left jw ways and how this worked out for them. So far Oak Meadow and Calvert here. I do like Oak Meadow. I used that for older girls. I haven't used that on my youngest one. I am still doing research. I do like Math U See. Has any one mixed with other curriculms??