do you know of any "jw" teenagers that were very bad in morals, but later in life they become elders, elderettes, etc...?
what were they like?
what are they like today?.
I was the other way around, an exemlary JW teenager (as far as they knew) to an open "apostate".
I do know several individuals who were wild teens, got into some sort of truble, and somehow the religion became appealing to them.
I also know several teens (JW and nonJW) that were wild and when they matured calmed down. Sometimes the religion has nothing to do with it.
does jehovah know what is going on, and does he help?.
(as told by bro.
spangenberg, c.o.
As for the second one, one time at a secular job site there was a tree that was very much in the way, but ordinances forbade its removal. It was actually holding up the project while the planners were modifying the layout. Severe weather was forecast for that evening, and I suggested to the site manager that the tree might be downed by the predicted high winds. The next day the tree had fallen over. Divine intervention? No, more like Catapilar D5 intervention.
I would not doubt that a tree fell harlessly and freed up the parking lot, I just doubt it fell unaided.
what was your emotional reaction when you were x-communicated?
where you devastaed?
where you joyful?
It wasn't possible for me to fade, so I readily admited to a fraction of the double life I had been living for years. I told an elder who called to check on me he better get a JC together, he wanted to talk to me first, so I did and told him I was in a relationship with a "worldly" girl. At the JC, I admitted a bit more but on my terms. They pressed for details about the relationship, I told them I we had sex 2 time......most every day.....at least......for a couple months. They pressed for details and I told them they didn't need to know any more. I told them I drink to excess, associate with worldly people, engage in "thrill sports", accept evolution, don't accept the bible as god's word (when they asked why I didn't bring a bible, they really didn't like that), etc. Didn't take them long to decide to DF, and I have never been back. It was a huge relief.
If it weren't for the laws of physics, I would be unstoppable.
ive been going thru a lot of the different posts on here and seeing that most here believe that higher education is very important.
i agree that it is important and i plan on going back to school in the fall but im just wondering who all here has a degree and in what?
just curious .
I have a BS in Civil Engineering, BS in Geology, and a MS in Geology. I got all degrees while in the borg, using the excuse that it would help the regional building committee. Aparently the higher up JWs bought it, as I was a ministerial servant through all degrees, but many others looked down on me for pursuing an education.
which is what a dub said to me today.
i would like to come back to him with evidence that they are not.
does anyone have any helpful links they could post to refute this?.
In additon to publishing facts and statistics, the world's largest science agency, USGS, has also directly tackled the question "Are Earthquakes Really on the Increase?"
Thier answer is found here:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/increase_in_earthquakes.php
" We continue to be asked by many people throughout the world if earthquakes are on the increase. Although it may seem that we are having more earthquakes, earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater have remained fairly constant.
A partial explanation may lie in the fact that in the last twenty years, we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more than 8,000 stations and the data now comes in rapidly from these stations by electronic mail, internet and satellite. This increase in the number of stations and the more timely receipt of data has allowed us and other seismological centers to locate earthquakes more rapidly and to locate many small earthquakes which were undetected in earlier years. The NEIC now locates about 20,000 earthquakes each year or approximately 50 per day. Also, because of the improvements in communications and the increased interest in the environment and natural disasters, the public now learns about more earthquakes.
According to long-term records (since about 1900), we expect about 17 major earthquakes (7.0 - 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) in any given year."
i have heard from some credible sources that any alcohol consumption is technically not good for you as our digestive system is not designed for fermentation intake.
i have read studies that say the same thing.. how much credence do you give the concept that any alchohol is technically not good for you?.
-sab.
"All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." - Paracelsus
Tuna.
when still in the watchtower, i used to be an assistant ministerial servant.
true, there is no such title but its there unofficially for those one step to being a ministerial servant.
been with it for about three years.
I was a ministerial servant for 8 years, talk of being an elder just before I lett. Gave public talks regularly and a few assembly/convention parts.
what are our origins?
what has this life all been for?
is there anything after this life?
Indeed. That is why I am a scientist (geologist).
Thanks to advances in science, the average 1st grader knows more than any of the bible writers. A basic education and willing observation will teach you a lot.
I only look into scripture when I have to for discussion purposes. Like I said, a first grader could tell you more truths than the bible can.
