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  What age for baptism?

  by wozadummy in

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  2. beliefs

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  when i was a mormon i was baptised at age 8.. as witnesses some get baptised pretty close to this age.. when they face all those years ahead with so much of life to learn and understand how can it be right to come down so hard on young people who, when going thru puberty and beyond have to come to grips with all the feelings and mixed up thinking of youth and then fall short of the ideal and ,say ,fall in love with someone and have sex and then face a judicial commitee.. everyone is different and it's naturally easier for some young ones than for others due to alot of factors and keep on the straight and narrow.. but here is my opinion on things, simply put , jesus as a perfect man was not called upon to dedicate himself for baptism and full dedication to god till he was 30!.

  is it not reasonable to expect the same from imperfect people led by sinful inclinations to make a mature decision when older at 30 instead of a teen or even a preteen and expect full control and even repentence?

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  My Observation...How Come?

  by wozadummy in

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  2. friends

  i've nearly finished reading the 2 ray franz books and i've been on this forum for a few months and i've wondered about this:.

  on both the books and the forum much is said about the watchtower lying ,misleading ,being a false prophet ,having no conscience toward the after effects of decisions they have made that have effected peoples lives ,even sometimes tragically.. well ,ok ,but my observation is this :very rarely ,if at all, does anyone say directly that the watchtower is lead and influenced by satan.does this mean that :.

  ones have lost faith in god /religion because of the watchtower org and now don't really believe in satan now.

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  Forgiveness the JW way -is'nt right!

  by wozadummy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for many years it troubled me the way the watchtower handled the matter of forgiveness.. from the bible we gain the insight that jehovah forgives ,and is always ready to forgive, people who approach him repentently .. but it always seemed to me that when articles were commenting on how we should always be ready to forgive others ,we had to extend it beyond even what jehovah does and try to make ourselves forgive even those that expressed no remorse over what they did to us :.

  to keep peace.

  to move ahead .

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  Where was Daniel?

  by wozadummy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  when i was going to meetings i raised a question at the book study when the daniel book was being covered.

  when nebuchadnezzar had the image built all the people including all the rulers including the hebrew ones were commanded to bow to the image.

  it was brought to the attention of neb that three hebrews had not bowed down and it resulted in them being saved from the feiry furnace by an angel.. my question was then, where was daniel?

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  Strange experiences on the field

  by wozadummy in

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  2. friends

  has anyone had feelings or experiences on the field where what happened seemed only to be from one source - divine?

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  Elders appointed by Holy Spirit???

  by wozadummy in

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  2. friends

  do you remember years ago this was mentioned among the brothers in conversations about elders?

  yet i cannot ever recall being directed to a scripture which proved all elders were appointed by holy spirit.

  it seems that everyone just accepted that they were, including myself , and yet how is this possible considering how many i've seen were corrupt when appointed.. any others think about this when in the org

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  Voting at meetings

  by wozadummy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  years ago when i went to meetings there were announcements made about use of money ,whether to redecorate halls, send money to the society etc.

  and i used to vote like everyone else looking around to see if there were any detractors.

  well one day i had thought about the procedure and came up with this:.

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  Just emailed Silent Lambs of Pedophiles in South Oz

  by wozadummy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks for the boot up the bum misspeaches.

  come on australia email silent lambs with alleged pedophiles you know of and their congregation.

  if they get a decent response it will be a great aid to protecting children .

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  A Pedophile in our local congo--WHAT SHALL I DO PUBLICALLY? mmmmm...

  by wozadummy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  for some months we have known of a pedophile in our congo who molested his daughters years ago and we were told this by the pioneer sister who used to get a lift from him and his wife but won't now go with them .

  we hav'nt been for some time but are having our own seperate issue over this type of problem and spoke to elders who we reqested to see for ages ,and they finally came around and i questioned them about this pedophile and the societies stance on this sought of thing, whether anything has changed in policy and of course it has'nt and i threw it at them that they have not warned the congo of his past conduct and he has been seen at the hall trying to hug kids and of course the brothers and sisters think he is just a jolly grandfather type !!!!!!!

  of course most are ignorant of the real him and i pointed out also that we can't go to the hall to worship along a filthy scum like this.

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  Beginning the road out.

  by wozadummy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yes i'm new to this forum and i have been searching the net and reading with interest peoples comments here and on other sites.

  as most know reaching out as a faithfull jw to others outside of the congregation is difficult at first ,as i guess we think anyone outside the congregation is wordly etc.

  and we can't open up easily to "strangers" as jehovah would not approve.

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