Posts by fulano

this has not happened to me, but i am curious as to what the elders would do if they came to you and asked about something you had done and you said you did not want to discuss it...and left it at that......they couldnt do anything about it could they?

fulano

They have to come with prove. Two witnesses.

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I Would Like To Learn Series #2

by IslandWoman in

this is the second in a limited series of questions i have for those who know the bible and may have an answer for me.

i will not make further comment on any posts to this thread.

my only intent is to understand what those who study the bible believe and to encourage discussion between them.

fulano

Give me your address, I'll send you de library

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name your addiction

by Vivamus in

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i'm making it official.

i'm addicted!

someone once said to me that admitting it is solving half of the problem, and i can live with the other half... lol.

fulano

Cicatrix:

LMAO ARoarer
Porn and strip clubs. Problem is, I'm a woman and it's not politically correct.
So go ahead, yeah yeah, I know, I'm a slut, blah blah blah
Damn, I can't believe I'm actually admitting this!

I am addicted to sluts too

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name your addiction

by Vivamus in

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i'm making it official.

i'm addicted!

someone once said to me that admitting it is solving half of the problem, and i can live with the other half... lol.

fulano

I drink a bottle and a half Chablis a day, is that wrong?? At least I am not increasing anymore...And oh yeah the Cohiba's..one a day.

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Number of 'Anointed' down to about 4000

by nicolaou in

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so i was at the 'memorial' last night (that's a whole other story) and i got into a converstaion with an elder afterwards.

i asked him why no figure had been printed in our kingdom ministry for the number of uk partakers last year.

(in 2000, the figure of 300 was given, down from 319 in 1999).

fulano

Robdar:

I'm going to partake next memorial. Can't wait to blow their little minds.
What does "Given Ones (Nethinim)" mean? This must be a new doctrine and I have been out of the org for years. Anybody want to explain it to me?
Robyn

Forget it, they won't count you, those are the instructions, do not count: visitors, df's, or known apostates.

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Number of 'Anointed' down to about 4000

by nicolaou in

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so i was at the 'memorial' last night (that's a whole other story) and i got into a converstaion with an elder afterwards.

i asked him why no figure had been printed in our kingdom ministry for the number of uk partakers last year.

(in 2000, the figure of 300 was given, down from 319 in 1999).

fulano

Pubsinger:

If the door was shut in 1935 (a point confirmed in a 1999 WT), then by being generous to the WT and saying that the lowest age of anointed ones was 20 in 1935 ( it must have actually been much higher than that on average, as 20yrs old would mean that they were born 1yr after 1914!!!) then the lowest age today is 87.
The official statistics for partakers have show a steady shallow decline for 50yrs, with the occasional, convienient, sharp blip upwards(!).
The official death rate statistics for an age group of average age 87 shows a sudden steep down turn to almost vertical. for every 5yrs added (bearing in mind that these are the youngest partakers from 1935)the survivors are almost nil.

I think you forget the "replacers" here, they don't have to be 87, so even now any adult even young or very young could be a replacer for an apostate anointed and live fifty more years.

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I always disagreed with ....

by fulano in

disfellowshipping on smoking.. especially smoking a cigar from time to time does not have to be harmfull.

but i personally have disfellowshipped persons for smoking sigarettes, although i never saw a good biblical base.i mean ..how many filthy fat friends did we have, addicted to sugar, carbs, and you just knew they were going to have health-problems sooner or later.

now i smoke cigars, maybe one good cuban a day, and i am slim, active and can run 10 miles without any problems.. who had the same doubts about this dogma?

fulano

fulano
what would it take for YOU to get ME a cuban? and are they REALLY the best cigars ever? so far the best i have had so far is cohiba's
yes, i live in the USA

That's right, you are living in the USA, so you can't get Cubans??

Than try Dominican Sigars, some Cubans who had to leave Cuba went to the DR and Honduras and started to make cigars overthere, some are as good as the Cubans, which I still prefer. Try a DON SEBASTIAN, or DON PEPE, you will love them. greetzzz.

And sorry to all the sensitive souls

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How many times in front of a committee??

by refiners fire in

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geesh.

lets see.

when i got baptized the first time.

fulano

When I got baptized the first time. When I confessed and got reproved. When I requested rebaptism. When I confessed to masturbation. When I confessed to fornication. When I got DF.

Masturbation is not a committee-case.