Posts by QuestioningEverything

None. I just don't think I could sit in a church/mosque/temple, etc any time soon. That may change one day. IF I did go to any church ceremony, it would be the Unitarians'. They seem to be the closest to how I am feeling about religion at this time.

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Watchtower Funeral Talk Outline.

by ThomasCovenant in

does anyone know if the funeral talk outline has been changed from the one shown on doc bob's site (s-3 11/90).

http://www.docbob.org/modules.php?name=content&pa=showpage&pid=20.

thomas covenant.

QuestioningEverything

I never realized there was a talk specifically for funerals. It's shameful to have only a few minutes spoken word about a person who has passed.

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How many lives have been RUINED by the Organization? Experiences?

by BonaFide in

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i think that some people deserve to be excommunicated, such as pedophiles.

but what about the tens of thousands of others that have their life wrenched out from under them by being disfellowshipped?.

and what about those that have a family member that died because of not receiving a blood transfusion?

QuestioningEverything

I have a 16 y old son. There is NO way in the world that I would allow him to make a lifelong decision at such a young age. He's not old enough to vote, buy property or sign a legal document. Yet, when I was "13", I was baptised. Jesus was baptised at age 30. Now tat I am out, I don't miss the guilt, the doom and gloom attitude or any of the judgmental people associated with the religion.

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most rude behaviour experienced from elders...

by Albert Einstein in

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what was the weirdest and most rude thing you experienced / witnessed from elders?.

my favourite one is called george.

he was a po in the cong, where i became an elder (i was young and absolutely unexperienced).

QuestioningEverything

Two days after I was reinstated, we attended a circuit assembly. One elder who seen me(he attended a different cong.) said,"yeah, I heard you were reinstated, hope you stay that way." WTF!!! He was an arrogant, pompous a**hole.

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What are your favorite rap albums of all time?

by JimmyPage in

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okay, most of these are going to show my age.

notorious b.i.g.

"life after death".

QuestioningEverything

I like everything by Tupac. But especially "Brendas got a baby" and "Dear Momma".

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what is the one thing that made you want to NEVER go back???

by NINfan05 in

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for me it was when my elder dad put brusies on my arm, drug me down the hallway making me hit my head and broke my finger which resulted in surgery...and then he blamed it all on me!!!!

made me go to the meeting with my cast all druged up on pain killers and tell everyone that asked me what happened that it was an accident.

f***ing loser!!!!!

QuestioningEverything

The fact that they change their major doctrines every few years or so-blood transfusions, college, D/F policies, and claim it is divinely inspired! I, too was heartbroken when I realized they were not the "truth". I am so thankful that I am not in that ridiculous mess anymore!!!!!

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Did the elders in your congregation give counsel to those that were DATING? Good or bad counsel?

by BonaFide in

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i have heard some doozies.

some elders forbid the couple from sitting together at the meetings unless they are engaged.

i have heard that said from the platform.

QuestioningEverything

Our congregation had an elder that mentioned during his talk that french kissing was considered porneia and that one could be DF'd for it-whether married or not. A few weeks later, it was brought up in the local needs talk(by a different elder) that french kissing was NOT porneia.

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Were you JW squealer?

by asilentone in

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my answer is yes!

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QuestioningEverything

Yes,(turning red from great embarrassment) I was. I'm so ashamed now that I was.