Good question. No, no I don't. Never thought about it either. Just another boring talk I guess. I remember being pleased that my inlaws would get off of my back about not being baptized ... after all I was the ripe ol' age of 20! That didn't last... there was always something for them to dig at me about. But the talk... not a word in my memory, haha.
HarryMac
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Do you remember your Baptism Talk?
by bildad indo you remember anything from your baptism talk or the brother who gave it?.
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'Apostates want to draw people after themselves'--what are they really implying?
by sd-7 inwhen jws say this, what are they really saying?
i was pondering this recently, and i was thinking...what they're really trying to imply is simple:.
apostates are thus accused of attempting to be cult leaders.. because the idea is that since they're not getting people to follow christ, but follow themselves, then they want their 'victims'' belief system to be centered around an individual, following that person's directions.
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HarryMac
It always nagged at me that we were spending so much time pouring over every minute detail about other religions and why they were wrong, but, if somebody criticizes 'The Society' in the slightest we were programmed to be all like "Talk to the hand!".
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Do you still use Jehovah's name?
by naazira inwhen you pray do you still use the name jehovah.
i still do.
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HarryMac
Nope.
If there were something bigger than ourselves out there it would be much, much, much bigger than petty Jehovah.
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Bitter apostates
by Laika inwitnesses often go on about apostates being spiteful and bitter.
when you get cut off, shunned, or threatened with shunning just for the audacity of thinking differently, it's not surprising that getting angry at the witnesses is the reaction - it's like a self fulfilling prophecy.. but also, i recently posted an email from a 'friend' on this board who told me that everyone he'd spoken to about me said i had changed, become like another person.
it didn't occur to him that the day before i told my parents i'd quit the religion just 3 weeks ago, i met him for lunch, we had a good time and he didn't know anything was up.
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HarryMac
lol, nice photo.
Did you just decide to give one of them a hug for the heck of it as well?
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I'm just tired
by joe134cd inyou know i'm just tired about all the bull shit that goes on.
i'm sick of trying to please others.
i loath pissing people off on a saturday morning.
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HarryMac
Yup, sounds like it's starting to get more painful to stay where you are than do something else. Once it has... it's easier to change.
All people do this to some point... we like our status quo... ask/observe any addict.
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How long do you believe Born Agains and JWs will wait for Rapture/Armaggeddon?
by booker-t ini feel so sorry for devout bacs (born again christians) and devout jws because they are spending their whole lives waiting for something that may or may not come.
i sometimes want to cry when i speak with my 80 yr old jw mom and hear her say armaggeddon is around the corner.
or hear my born again aunt say "the rapture is near and jesus will take her to heaven soon" i just want to shake both of them.
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HarryMac
Many will wait until they die.
Furthermore, they will believe right up to their death that 'life sucks!', and, this beautiful planet is 'Satan's playground', and, will never realize that most people are 'good'.
What a waste of their one life.
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Were U Surprised To Learn Anything About The Witnesses That U Didn't Know??
by minimus inwhen i was a kid, i researched the origins of the religion and realized that the witnesses were an offshoot of adventism.....we're you surprised to learn something about the witnesses that you didn't realize?.
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HarryMac
Cedars - Even more crazy than the ban against playing chess?!
Yes! The cartoons and drawings about how evil aluminum cooking ware, etc was. Crazy!
I knew TTATT for a while and then clued into the 'aluminum crusades'... Yup, I was shocked!
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Were U Surprised To Learn Anything About The Witnesses That U Didn't Know??
by minimus inwhen i was a kid, i researched the origins of the religion and realized that the witnesses were an offshoot of adventism.....we're you surprised to learn something about the witnesses that you didn't realize?.
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HarryMac
The most crazy thing has to be their crusade against aluminum!
Google it!!!!!
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Casual sexism in Watchtower literature
by slimboyfat ini notice the sexist language of the watchtower a lot more these days.
is it on the increase or am i simply more tuned into to noticing it now?
for example this statement in the june kingdom ministry:.
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HarryMac
"It's possible that we may all become brothers together"?
Wow... that is woman hate at it's finest.
I know 'homophobia is gay' but this new system they envisioned is really, really one big unappealing hot dog party!
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"People often wonder if deaf people can drive, get married, or raise a family."
by cedars ini've personally never wondered that, but apparently some people do.... (see 00:40 in the video below).
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/americas/united-states/video-clip-asl-bible-helps-deaf-family/.
cedars.
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HarryMac
"People often wonder if deaf people can drive, get married, or raise a family."
Do they?
No.
The marketing department of this organization should be fired for allowing this sentence to stay in their material. One more indication that people in this sheltered organization would really struggle in the real world.