if you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a jw, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go.
my sister told me recently that she is getting baptized.
i'm undecided about what to do... if anything.
"Sis, if I knew what I know now, there's no way I would have been baptized.
If I tell you what I know now, and you tell others that I told you, they will shun me for the rest of my life.
If you get baptized, you may be in the same predicament I am in."
That's about perfect.
if you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a jw, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go.
my sister told me recently that she is getting baptized.
i'm undecided about what to do... if anything.
unduly: Undeservedly, not warranted
unduly: to an undue degree; "she was unduly pessimistic about her future"
undue: Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient
if you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a jw, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go.
my sister told me recently that she is getting baptized.
i'm undecided about what to do... if anything.
50? Wow. Do you know what caused her, at this point in her life, to become infatuated enough to want to be baptized?
Her new husband had been baptized about 20 years ago. He's only been to a handful of meetings in the last 15 of those years but just recently decided he wanted to go back. She's just going along.
if you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a jw, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go.
my sister told me recently that she is getting baptized.
i'm undecided about what to do... if anything.
She's 50
if you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a jw, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go.
my sister told me recently that she is getting baptized.
i'm undecided about what to do... if anything.
Let me ask this question another way:
If you had a friend getting baptized, what are the first 3 (simple) points you'd share with them? (or questions to ask them a la Reasoning Book style)
if you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a jw, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go.
my sister told me recently that she is getting baptized.
i'm undecided about what to do... if anything.
Yes, she did ask me what I think about it. I told her I would support her decision whatever that is. But that doesn't mean I can't still share a few other thoughts. She's not much of a student, so she's not going to read books with an opposing view.
if you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a jw, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go.
my sister told me recently that she is getting baptized.
i'm undecided about what to do... if anything.
If you had a close relative or friend that told you they were getting baptized as a JW, would you try to influence their decision or just let it go. My sister told me recently that she is getting baptized. I'm undecided about what to do... if anything. She said she'll "still talk to me" even if she gets baptized but I'm sure that won't happen since my brother is a very 'by the book' elder and will reign her in. I think that I should speak now or forever hold my peace. I don't want to unduly influence her, but perhaps just share a few points to present a little more balanced view of what she's really getting in to. What would you do?
i just read a quote from our poster "albert einstein".
he wrote the wt from 1989 stated that armageddon will occur within the 20th centurie.. ist that information correct????.
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Thanks Black Sheep. Unbelievable. Do you have more recent examples as well?
i just read a quote from our poster "albert einstein".
he wrote the wt from 1989 stated that armageddon will occur within the 20th centurie.. ist that information correct????.
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That's unbelievable! Are there other examples of blatant editing like that?
see the tables on pages 124 and 125 of this book:.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mtw90ykkb3gc&oi=fnd&pg=pa117&dq=scientology+jehovah%27s+stark&ots=0-yvd6jk_o&sig=vualoe-l3bxezaqktnbfhpsdj8u#v=onepage&q=scientology%20jehovah's%20stark&f=false.
admittedly these statistics don't measure the same thing official watchtower statistics do (i.e.
Who cares if they're shrinking or growing. The only thing that matters is if they're teaching the truth or not. At certain times in history, there were only a few or even one person pleasing God.
