Posts by Ucantnome

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How Long Have You Been Viewing Thiis Site? Does It Serve Its Purpose For You?

by minimus in

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i've been here forever.... this site still gives us some of the most up to date info about jws .

it keeps evolving.

sometimes it is the place to be and i think that's especially true for newbies.

Ucantnome

it fulfills some sort of need i have. I just read some of my old posts wish i could delete them but at the time i posted them they seemed ok. I learnt some things by posting probably.

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Do you have a favourite scripture?

by Ucantnome in

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i have two.. luke 4.

16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.

he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.

Ucantnome

interesting verses cantleave and Shador particularly the Ezekiel 23

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

Ucantnome

i read somewhere that lightning strikes the earth so many times a second. some times this causes forest fires and loss of life. animals die.

i also saw a programme about elephants and how the young miss their mothers when she is killed. so maybe God as a loving creator needs to adjust a few things.

A new heavens and a new earth maybe.

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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

by cofty in

yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

Ucantnome

Cofty to make yourself more moral than God would u stop all natural disasters before they happen to save lives and would this include all life or just humans?

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Do you have a favourite scripture?

by Ucantnome in

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friends

i have two.. luke 4.

16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.

he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.

What Drew You To The Witnesses?

by minimus in

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i did believe for the first 30 years of my life that they had been picked by jehovah god to dispense the truth as best as imperfect humans could.

then, everything became questionable.

i had read anti jw books in the past but franz's books really got to me but not immediately.

although i was raised as a witness and always felt i would never have joined if my parents hadn't. ( i felt lucky they had) when i was baptised it was because i wanted too and not because of my parents. i was about 13. i like God

joining the theocratic ministry school was different that was my father.i would have been quite happy to be nothing at the hall no answering no carrying the microphone no demostrations no reading the watchtower no prayers no leading the field service arrangement no opening the service meeting. absolutely nothing. just come in sit there and leave.

i pioneered and some still remember it. lol.

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What Drew You To The Witnesses?

by minimus in

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friends

i did believe for the first 30 years of my life that they had been picked by jehovah god to dispense the truth as best as imperfect humans could.

then, everything became questionable.

i had read anti jw books in the past but franz's books really got to me but not immediately.

Ucantnome

The firm hand of my father

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The END did NOT come in their lifetime!!

by DATA-DOG in

i don't know about the rest of you, but i have seen my fair share of death.

both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, older jws that were pillars in the community.

i even knew the first missionary in missouri, a brother named gerald golf.

Ucantnome

i know someone who left the witnesses years ago they are now old and they still believe the end is imminent. we once had a discussion about how important it was to keep on the watch and what it means. i didn't agree with their views.

for me leaving the witnesses was about serving God and not telling people something i wasn't convinced of. i think everyone who has beer a witness had the same spiritual food as i did.

one witness i spoke with a few months back asked me a question regarding if i was concerned about the nearness of the tribulation and when i answered they turned away and wouldn't talk. i've had one who wouldn't read the publication i show them. another one who told me apostates wrote some of it. another one i grew up with had no interest in what has been taught in the past. the list is long of the indifference to what i have said caused me to leave and that is fine.

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