The last circuit assembly I attended(October 2001) there were about 900 in attendance and only 8 baptisms.I think most of them were JW children.
Posts by dsgal
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23None baptized at circuit assembly in Greeley,CO.
by spanky infirst time i have ever seen or heard of this but no one was baptized with 800+ in attendance at our circuit assembly two weeks back!
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WHAT'S THE BEST POST EVER ??
by BATHORY ing'day cobbers.. i realise that there is no 1 bestest post, it is relative and subjective, but i ask for your personal all time favourite.. one that made you exited about being involved with this forum, look forward to getting back online and furthering it etc.. i remember the ol' days of h2o where all the heavyweights were, that ros came out with the gb post, remember that.
wow was that exciting.
personally my all time fav post,undisputedly, was hillary's "ferryman".. that was as close to perfection as i have read or could imagine.
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dsgal
jjrizo's family pics.
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I saw my medical records the other day....
by meat pie in.
.....and inside was the letter i sent to my doctor a few months ago, asking for my health care advance directive to be removed, as i no longer shared the beliefs of jws.
attached was a note stating that my letter had been acted upon.. what really caught my attention though was what was on the front cover, above my name were the words'jehovah's witness' crossed out.. a funny feeling, then release.
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dsgal
I'm so glad I don't have to pull my wallet out in the grocery store line and think the person behind me sees the blood card.Even when I was in and my son had a tonsillectomy I signed a consent form for him to have blood in case he needed it.That's something they never found out about.I mean,who's gonna let their child die if it can be avoided?
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Question about the Annointed.
by patricia inwhen you were still a jw, what was your concept of what happened to those of the "annointed" who had died.
i remember the scoffing and tittering when we were out in field service when a householder mentioned their belief that their loved ones were in "heaven".
we were told to ask them "what was heaven like?, were there pearly gates, did people eat up there, did they have emotions?
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dsgal
I was always glad I wasn't one of them.Can you imagine trying to scratch your nose and it's not there?Oooh!!
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dsgal
All I see is a red x.
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Newbie with question
by outbackaussie inbeen browsing around...and i have to say it is alittle difficult to tell if this is a pro or anti jw site.
any takers on filling me in on what the attitudes are around here?
it seems there are quite afew inactive and df or da people but then there seems to be alot of chat about meetings etc.. for the record, i was raised jw from age 5, baptised at 15 and df at 17 and reinstated at 18. i would call myself inactive...most of my family are still active but talk and associate with me.
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dsgal
outbackaussie,
Didn't it already end in 1975?
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How did you come into the Truth Brothers and Siste
by refiners fire inits an oldie i know.. i remember, years ago, my parents had some people around for dinner that we never talked to.
after a while we remembered why we never talked to them.
the conversation was so stilted that my father, in a long silence, resorted to this question.
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dsgal
My great-grandparents on my Dad's side were Bible Students from Russell's day.My Dad was raised to believe it was the truth but never was an active witness.I mean,we always had Christmas and Easter and two elderly ladies use to pick us kids up and take us to Sunday School at the Nazarene church.Then one day in 1964 when I was 9 years old witnesses came calling...................
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TURKEY PHILOSOPHY !! don't miss this one!
by ugg inyou could be sitting in a roaster with dressing.
shoved up your ass!!!!!!.
count your blessings
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dsgal
Sounds like the Thursday night service meeting.
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Spirituality ??
by Blueblades inwhy do the elders always equate meeting attendance and field service with the level of ones spirituality?i keep hearing them repeating,"we hate to see you lose your spirituality",by not attending the meetings and going out into the field service.the 1973 comprehensive concordance points to jude 19 as the only reference to the word spirituality.however in the 1985 ed.of the kingdom interlinear of the greek scriptures the actual word at jude19 is spirit not spirituality.jude19 remarks that one can lose god's spirit if one became " ungodly".the society deliberately transposes the word spirit to spirituality from the greek into the english new world translation.the reason i bring this subject up is because that's all i ever hear when you miss meetings and field service.not once has an elder used the scriptures to support that viewpoint or interpertation with me.since circumstances differ with all of us, how in the world can they make a such a blanket statement and a wrong one at that!?
your thoughts please,blueblades.
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dsgal
Even if I was sick and had to miss a meeting the lady who studied with me told me rather sternly that satan could attack me easier and my spirituality could suffer.I hate that mind-control crap.
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Jobs you couldn't have
by JH in.
having a tight control over us, the watchtower teachings told us what jobs we could or couldn't have.
did you lose a great job opportunity because of their control over you?
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dsgal
My brother had to turn down a huge paint job once because it was for a church.He is no longer a jw.