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  Painfully Long Prayers on the last day of the 3-day Conventions.

  by blkblk13 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  anyone else hate this practice?

  uve been sitting all day 4 three days @ this place and u just wanna hurry up and finish ur cleaning assignment so u can go out to eat w/ ur friends, but bro.

  special speaker from bethel/or do has to give a one man symposium during his prayer recapping every single moment of the past 3 days.. its like they have this formula that they use to determine how long a prayer should be.

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  Couldn't Make it through the Convention today.

  by blkblk13 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  arrived late and left early.

  breaking point was the baptismal talk.

  about 40 were getting baptized.

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  Have u found friendships w/ worldy people be hard?

  by blkblk13 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so, i'm embarking on slow fade and i think it's time for me to start making friends w/ some non-jdubs so that i'll have a support network once i decide to be completely out and everyone ive ever known abandons me.

  ive always gotten along much better w/ wordly people than jdubs so i'll haveno problem securing friends but im concerned about being to keep them.. i want out of the org for various reasons but i must admit i still believe many of the teachings.

  i just think the leadership and organization itself is corrupt.

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  Is Jdubs practice of Teenage baptism really any better than Infant Baptism?

  by blkblk13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was thinking the other day about how the jdubs always mock the catholics for baptizing infants who can't make a true commitment to god so the sybol of dedication is empty.

  well, as anyone who's been in the org knows there is a culture of pressuring teenagers to get baptized.

  if u r over 12yo it is a question that is constantly asked.

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  Was everyone really vegeterian pre-flood?

  by blkblk13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok it's late and im bored and this might ramble a bit but i got to thinking, the wbts always proposes that everyone, b/f god gave noah permission to eat meat, was vegeterian.

  witnesses always talk about how in the new system we will all go back to being vegeterian since i think in isaiah it says the the lion or wolf will graze and eat grass like the lamb or something and it was never gods plan for us to eat meat.. this doesn't sound right to me.

  why would god make animals begin to eat each other if it was not according to his plan?

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  4 the Faders. How did u get out leading the cong in prayer while fading?

  by blkblk13 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've always had serious doubts but now that i am @ a point in my life were my parents have helped me to purchase my first place and now that i am no longer under their wing i feel like i am in a position to start doing something about it.

  nothing drastic but just the beginnings of a gradual fade b/c i don't want to humiliate them in the circuit b/c they r very well-known and admired in the circuit, plus i owe them alot and am still a little financially dependent on them.

  so my dad is an elder and conducts the bookstudy.

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  leolaia said Isaiah 3:16-17

  by blkblk13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  mentions michael helping jesus out of his tomb.

  i looked up that scripture didn't find anything that talked about that.

  does anyone know the actuall scripture she was talking about?

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