Posts by bluebell

a few of years ago at a circuit assembly the district overseer said that in another area that there was a 3 year old that wanted to be an unbaptized publisher.

the boe said that he needed to know how to read, so his parents helped him fine tune his reading skills and he qualified as a publisher at the age of 4.

4 years old!!

bluebell

i know i gave my first tms talk at around 5 and i think i was a publisher at about that time too.

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Baptized at 12 years of age

by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

i recently had a very interesting conversation with an online friend.

she was baptized at 12 years old because her 15-year-old boyfriend was baptized, and she wanted to spend time with him.

pioneering was the only option, so she got baptized.

your bro was one bright boy tatiana, do you have much contact now? or did the fact that you both lost your childhood together mean you dont really know him? my bro was baptized at 12, he was df at 15 and da at 17 when he left home to sleep rough. i was 15 and missed him terribly.

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So I was out jogging a little while ago and.....

by R.F. in

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...an elder and his wife passed by in their car.

they were obviously on their way home from the congregation meeting that i missed.

and the interesting thing is........i didn't care that they saw me!!!

bluebell

most in the area i am in now dont know im a witness, think i would still maybe get a bit freaked if ones in old congregation saw me, hope to be like you one day.

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Mormon lady shocked at JW disfellowshipping policy

by yaddayadda in

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was talking to a mormon friend about the jw policy of shunning disfellowshipped persons.

she was pretty shocked to hear that jw totally ignore disfellowshipped ones, not even saying hello, even family members.

told her that you have to spend months attending their meetings to grovel your way back and the whole time no one talks to you, not a word.

bluebell

So are there any "religions" out there who do act the same as the dubs or are the dubs the worst for this kind of excommunicating behaviour?

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Goodbye, my sweet sister

by sweetface2233 in

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i was raised as a witness and have been miserable for my entire existence.

i have hated every moment of it.

after about 10 years of struggling, i decided 2 years ago that i was done w/ the charade and wasn't going to return to the meetings.

bluebell

welcome to JWD sweetface

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A lurker says hello

by Madame in

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r. f. wondered how many lurkers there are on the board.

i don't know the answer, but i will admit that i since a few years am one of them.

i read here almost every day.. like many others here i am an ex-jw, left the organisation about 25 years ago and never regretted it.. .

bluebell

welcome, glad you finally made the step from lurker to poster.

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Was Jesus a Buddist?

by Illyrian in

i started investigating this issue a few months back after seeing a documentary that intrigued me.

some of you may disagree with my findings and that is ok, but hopefully we can have a constructive discussion and hear both sides of the arguments.

i personally was deeply impressed, to say the least, by the apparent cogency and deep correlations of evidentiary materials that survived to this day, which supports this thesis.. there is so much more that can be or should be said here but i will try to keep this text as short as possible so as to keep people interested enough to read it.. buddhism appeared some 500 years before jesus arrival.

bluebell

Does this thread posit that the man actually existed?

Yeah that was going to be my argument initially but then i decided to go the bible argument route accepting he was in eygpt when v young but querying how much influence could the beliefs have had taking into account all his family were jewish?

if he did exist and if he did he end up in india ages 14-29 i dont know, i spose it cant be proved one way or another. maybe ideas could be picked up via trade but surely if he had done travel ages to 14-29 would something have been mentioned? in the bible people from nazareth know him and his family so i dont think he could have been gone for a huge period and still be well known? but then how hugely has the bible been edited to suit those in power?

i think you could argue that many founders of religions have the same kind of basic beliefs of "be nice to each other" that most humans act on anyhow, it being part of how to get on with each other in groups.

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So I used this illustration..about the Dateline show...got "cautioned"

by UnConfused in

a few years ago when i was still going to meetings, but no longer an elder, i was talking to two brothers in my driveway (our house was a 'hangout') and brought up the dateline program and how the society had tried to df some of the jw's that went on the show, before the show aired to discredit them.

one of the brothers 'cautioned' me.... .

the other brother had just gotten married...so i turned and said to him: .

bluebell

wow that is a really good illustration, i never thought about the fact that a rape victim would be treated that way too, would that really happen? couldn't you go to the police, they rape test you and then there is evidence so the dubs dont have a leg to stand on if they do the 2 witness rule?