Posts by obiwan

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Did You Really Understand What You Were Getting Into When You Got Baptized?

by minimus in

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friends

the majority of people who become jehovah's witnesses, really have no idea what they've gotten themselves into.

did you truly understand those baptismal vows that you made?

obiwan

I was 15 at the time I was baptized...If you can tell me one 15 year old male or female who can say they truley understand I would be amazed. I feel being baptized is a more adult way of life and an adult way of thinking. Most adults have been through many experiences that a 15 has not. So to be able to stumble, impact your life in most negative way is more apt to happen.

Needless to say I am very bitter!

Baptisim should be held out for mature adults...Think about it Jesus was not baptized till he was 30!

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See your FBI Files!

by ThiChi in

jw
friends

hey, i just found out that the cia & fbi have a website with personal.

records of virtually everyone in .

the world (some of us even have pictures on file!

obiwan

And I thought I would age gracefully....sheesh!

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I was two people at once, were you?

by christopherceo in

jw
friends

oh yeah, i did it.

i lived the double life and nobody ever found out.

i did all the things a pioneer/servant was supposed to do.

obiwan

Oh man did I ever! If my mom new what I was up to...a stroke would have followed.

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For those of you raise in the "truth" a Question

by obiwan in

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friends

i myself was raised in the "truth" til i was df'd at the age of 21. i have often wondered that if i were allowed to grow up just as every other child did in the u.s. would i have been interested in looking at the organization and taking interest?

do any of you think and wonder the same thing?

obiwan

I myself was raised in the "truth" til I was df'd at the age of 21. I have often wondered that if I were allowed to grow up just as every other child did in the U.S. would I have been interested in looking at the organization and taking interest? Do any of you think and wonder the same thing?

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Look for internet bashing at district assemblies.

by spectromize in

i have no doubt in my mind that the society will bash the internet with a part at the district assemblies.

the reason i say this is because if you look at the worldwide reports there has been a decline in publishers in the more industrialized countries who have access to the internet.. some of the brothers and sisters are finding out the contradictions that we hold in regards to some of our teachings and the constant change of views on issues of voting, blood, donations, new light ect.... for example do any of you know that in bulgaria you will not be disfellowshipped if you take a blood transfusion.

yes that's right, you will not be disfellowshipped because the society signed a document with the european commission promising not to take sanctions against any of it's members if they choose to take blood, in exchange for legal status in that country.