Posts by Mattieu

or perhaps...a watchtower and a hard place, more accurately.. i was raised a jw--mom got baptized same day i turned 4 (in 1986), alleged that 'satan got to' me because i wanted to do fun stuff on my birthday rather than go to the convention to see her get baptized.

Mattieu

PS - Ever since Dr Evil used the word "inconsequential", I can never read that word without saying it in his voice. So your opening line was quite humorous...

Mattieu.

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The story of SD-7

by sd-7 in

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who i am is inconsequential.

it's safe to say, however, that i am between a rock and a hard place.

or perhaps...a watchtower and a hard place, more accurately.. i was raised a jw--mom got baptized same day i turned 4 (in 1986), alleged that 'satan got to' me because i wanted to do fun stuff on my birthday rather than go to the convention to see her get baptized.

Mattieu

G'day SD-7, nice to have you on board. All the best with your journey ahead... Mattieu.

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Only JW "adults" getting baptized in France?

by Gayle in

tens of thousands of jehovah's witnesses meet in france(afp) 43 minutes ago.

paris tens of thousands of jehovah's witnesses gathered on saturday in cities across france for an annual international gathering, the religious movement said.. about 150,000 flocked to meetings with the main gathering in villepinte, in the paris region, attracting 50,000 followers.. several hundred jehovah's witnesses were baptised by being immersed in water during the event, which lasts the whole weekend.. those baptised were adults, following the example of christ.. jehovah's witnesses consider themselves the heirs of a primitive form of christianity.. their beliefs are strongly based on the text of the bible and they consider modern christian churches to have deviated from the book's true teachings.. followers reject the ideas of modern evolutionary theory and refuse blood transfusions.. they are perhaps best known for preaching on doorsteps, where they offer religious literature and attempt to convert people.. the movement emerged towards the end of the 19th century in the united states and arrived in france in 1906.. there are more than seven million jehovah's witnesses worldwide and around 150,000 in france.. the group's status varies from country to country.

they are given the same recognition as mainstream religions in austria and germany but are classed as a "recognised cult" in denmark.. in france, some of their branches have the status of "religious association" but the movement was also mentioned in a 1995 parliamentary report on sects.. google_ad_section_end(name=article) copyright 2009 afp.

Mattieu

I was baptised at the grand old age of 15....... Man, all those years wasted between 12-15 when I could have been reaching out more in the org.....

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Max Hatton's 1960s study into the WTS chronology

by Doug Mason in

in the early 1960s, a jehovah's witness named max hatton was living and working in albany, a town on the southern coast of western australia.

when he was challenged by sda geoff rogerson, who lived in the nearby township of denmark, about the watchtower society's neo-babylonian chronology, max investigated geoff's claims.. after four years of intensive research, max resigned his position as a "servant in the organisation".. max documented the result of his research, and his 77-page study is remarkable and deserves to be widely known.

it is quite likely that the copies max and i have are two of very few copies that now exist.

Mattieu

Hi Doug, you have a pm

Mattieu

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"the Truth". So many changes prove they never had it.

by lurk3r in

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i often wondered about this when i first started questioning things.. .

any jw that has died in decades past, how are they even eligible for ressurection?

during the time in which they died, they were never taught "the truth", as everything changed.. any jw today, looking forward to armageddon coming tomorrow, isn't being taught "the truth" either, as will be made manifest by more doctrinal change.

Mattieu

I had someone say to me the other day “it’s sad that you left the truth”, no doubt hoping to get the guilt feelings stirred up inside me. I nearly laughed out loud as I have been reasoning that the “truth” changes so much, that old truths become lies. So what was I leaving, “the truth” or a publishing company that keeps changing its mind to suit the dollar?

Mattieu.

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Reaching Out

by lancelink in

did any of you guys ever try to "spiritually advance" by really making an effort in reaching out,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.

only to be overlooked while some other brother who was honestly just a brown-noser or genuine hypocrite gets appointed.

without hardly any effort on his part?.

Mattieu

Same story as you Lancelink, did everything asked of me and more, yet after each c/o’s visit there was always something else that I needed to work on. It didn’t help that I wasn’t related to any of the elders or in a particular boys group. Later on I learnt various elders were holing grudges against me for “dobbing” them in to the society over some unscriptural practices. By the time I was appointed an ms in another congo, all of the previous body of elders bar 1 had been deleted. Corrupt sons of %$#%^’s!

Mattieu

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Dinner help

by beksbks in

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could you kids just come up with some suggestions??

i love to cook, but i have such a hard time coming up with new dinner ideas.

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Mattieu

Chicken breast fillet, slice open the thickest part. Mix together sliced pecan nuts with fruit chutney, insert mixture into fillet.

Curl fillet up into a ball, wrap in a slice of bacon, using tooth picks to hold it together. Cook on BBQ or frying pan, 5 minutes each side.

Mix together 2 tablespoons of olive oil, lime juice, salt & pepper, sprinkle mixture over chicken during cooking.

Enjoy with salad and a nice sliced baked potato/onion/cream sauce dish!

Mattieu.