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  ONE !!!!!!! 1 ONESIE! Baptism this weekend!

  by MinisterAmos in

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  a child about eight y/o got dunked this circuit convention and that was it!.

  about 850 in attendance.. .

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  jeanV

  I wonder what they would do if there was NO one getting baptized at an assembly??

  Other posters have commented that they proceed with the baptism talk, but it's more along the lines of "remember back when you got baptized? Here's what you agreed to" kind of thing. Not quite sure what happens when they get to the part where the speaker is supposed to ask the 2 questions to teh baptismal candidates though.

  I have already seen it a couple of times. talk and no questions. I also witnessed a hilarious one, when the speaker did not know there was a candidate
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  Getting Old, Didn't think it would happen to me.

  by Undecided in

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  untill the last year i stayed 50 years old.

  now it has finally hit me, i'm getting old.

  i never felt my age and could do about any thing without pain or feeling like my body couldn't take it.

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  jeanV

  Either way, Im not gonna live forever on paradise on Earth

  that is the difficult part to swallow...

  what is old?
  To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am (Bernard Baruch) :)

  a few other good quotes:

  Soren Kierkegaard
  Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards.

  At twenty we worry about what others think of us; at forty we don't care about what others think of us; at sixty we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all. (Bob Hope)

  Maurice Chevalier
  Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
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  Will the WTBTS come to an end?

  by pierogi in

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  cults come and go so do you think the wtbts will eventually come to an end?

  i think about this sometimes and i wonder if i will live to see it.

  the reason why i want it to end is because i don't like the administration.

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  jeanV

  It will, but I do not expect it in the near future.

  the end delayed won't be a major issue for hardcore jw . There are about 1.x billion of Chinese atheists to preach to. It takes an average of 4-5 years to convert one of them, so there is still plenty to do in the work of the Lord to justify that the end has not come yet.

  Publishers will be kept busy and away from thinking with more global campaigns, starting with memorial of 2007.

  money is and will be the main issue.

  It will be interesting to see 2014 come and go.
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  Active JW's on this forum

  by winnie in

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  having read posts over the last few months, i have come to the conclusion that there must be alot of 'active' jw's who still regularly attend meetings/field service etc.. don't you feel that by posting your many and varied topics, usually complaining/disagreeing with the wbts, that you are being hypocritical?

  when you post your information, obtained sometimes in an questionable manner, doesn't it make you question your own underhanded actions?.

  you converse with many on this forum who are disfellowshipped/dissasociated, yet if you knew who these ones were, face to face, you would not give them the time of day!

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  jeanV

  DO you realize that your black and white view of things is very similar to the WT? Maybe you have not been out long enough to overcome these harsh feelings.

  I could have not expressed it better.

  btw winnie, had you been in nazi germany, realising hitler was wrong, how would you have handled the situation? how would you have tried to help the victims of nazism?
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  Active JW's on this forum

  by winnie in

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  having read posts over the last few months, i have come to the conclusion that there must be alot of 'active' jw's who still regularly attend meetings/field service etc.. don't you feel that by posting your many and varied topics, usually complaining/disagreeing with the wbts, that you are being hypocritical?

  when you post your information, obtained sometimes in an questionable manner, doesn't it make you question your own underhanded actions?.

  you converse with many on this forum who are disfellowshipped/dissasociated, yet if you knew who these ones were, face to face, you would not give them the time of day!

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  jeanV

  if there is one important thing that I have learnt after many years as a JW is not to judge others and not to judge their motives and not to judge their ideas (which as JW we did/do all too frequently).

  not long ago I read a very interesting post on another board http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.cgi?frames=yes&board=Main&mode=Current&message=23017

  all of us had different experiences as JW or simply as bible students or relatives of JW. even facing the same situation we may come to different conclusions. Some may be happy remaining JW (for whatever reason) or just want the WTBTS to change, others prefer to remain because of family situations, others remain because they feel that is the best way to help their friends see the wrong within the organisation.

  It is not up to me to judge. whatever the situation, I am glad I can freely exchange ideas and experiences with people that are still in and others that have left.
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  "It was Jehovah leading me..."

  by Fleshybirdfodder in

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  my best friend and his wife had hired an elder to do some refinishing work in their basement.

  they kept their tv and vhs tapes (pre dvd era) down there.

  it seems dear brother was a bit of a nosy fella, so he just happened to pop in one of their home movies of a trip they had taken to cuba and found some footage of my friend smoking a cigar.

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  so what about all the times that they do not find anything and it is there (like in my house )? it means holy spirit is not at work?

  it is similar situation to the box on page 21 of the revelation book, when jw did not get caught having "spiritual food" under ban it is angelic direction. so when this didn't happen and they were caught? ah then it was Satan test.... JW like to have it both ways, all the time.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear At the 2-18-07 WT Study (1st Resurrection)

  by blondie in

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  "the first resurrection" now under way!.

  "-1 thessalonians 4:16.. .

  over 90,434 at the memorial in 1925 at a time when all were anointed, ten years before the "great crowd" doctrine was presented in 1935. there are 120, plus 3,000 then 5,000 alone reported in the first few years of the christian congregation.. *** w67 11/15 p. 694 par.

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  jeanV

  thanks blondie, excellent as usual. i just have a small favour to ask, as some of us in europe are having our meeting on saturday, maybe you could post your reviews a few hours earlier so that we have them before the study. if it is not too much hassle, otherwise do not worry.
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  New Jerusalem 607 B.C.E. web Site

  by jdough in

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  there is a new web site devoted to the false claim by jehovah's witnesses that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 b.c.e.

  please feel free to link to the site.

  http://www.geocities.com/jerusalem607/

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  jeanV

  one day or the other GB will have to introduce this "new light" (i feel a bit sorry for all those zealous JW that have worked hard on defending it on the internet and from evening to morning they will have to claim, with the same determination and conviction, that they were wrong )

  it will be hard to swallow, but many will remain loyal. I am sure that it will be presented in a very appealing way...
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  writing the wts

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  i know someone who just wrote the wts to tell them exactly what they thought of what's been going on.

  this is a person in good standing and is active.

  they know what's going on, they believe some of the doctrines, but are very unhappy about the scandals and the bs that has been going on.. they didn't sign their name or say which kh they go to.. so it got me thinking.... how many lurkers do we have here?

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  jeanV

  I am working on my letter, it is going to be on 607. I will sign it with my name.

  I recall reading on the board that someone else had written about it and got no answer.
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  Judicial Committee on tape ... one of my favorites

  by ithinkisee in

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  this is a judicial meeting recording from the mid-80's, where rick and laverne townsend were brought up on charges of apostasy.

  listen to the calm manner in which they refute the elders (especially 607 and 1914) and how the elders get evasive and dodge questions and pretty much bring up nothing biblical.

  http://www.worldisbroken.com/.

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  jeanV

  perfect, thank you very much.