i have a technical/bureaucratical question for anyone in germany who has experience with this.. the background is, i got baptised as a jw as a teenager in germany, then moved to the us, where i daed.. from my research on the internet, i seem to understand, that when you get baptised in germany, they inform the appropriate authority depending on the state you live in, in bavaria this would be the "standesamt".
is that correct?
or does one have to do this by oneself?
No, as a JW one doesn't pay taxes, only the Lutherans and Catholics. But since JW became a "Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts" a couple of years ago, which they were very proud of, they would be allowed to take taxes.
As I understand, any organisation which is a "Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts" could theoretically register their members. I am trying to find out, if they actually do.
i have a technical/bureaucratical question for anyone in germany who has experience with this.. the background is, i got baptised as a jw as a teenager in germany, then moved to the us, where i daed.. from my research on the internet, i seem to understand, that when you get baptised in germany, they inform the appropriate authority depending on the state you live in, in bavaria this would be the "standesamt".
is that correct?
or does one have to do this by oneself?
I have a technical/bureaucratical question for anyone in Germany who has experience with this.
The background is, I got baptised as a JW as a teenager in Germany, then moved to the US, where I DAed.
From my research on the internet, I seem to understand, that when you get baptised in Germany, they inform the appropriate authority depending on the state you live in, in Bavaria this would be the "Standesamt". Is that correct? Or does one have to do this by oneself? In that case I certainly didn't but it could be that my mother did.
So if one wants to leave the religion officially, so that it doesn't appear in your official documentation, it is not enough to write a DA letter, but one has to go through this authority.
Does anyone have information on this? How is the process? Do I need to make an appointment? Do I have to go there in person, or would it be sufficient to send the paperwork? It seems that there is a fee to pay. I will be in Germany end of January for just a few days, so I hope to be able to do this then.
Any experience and information is appreciated! Thanks in advance
mr. flipper here again gang!
so who do ya like all time?mr.
flippers list is as follows, almost in this way.
Mumford and Sons: Broken Crown, For those below, Thistle and Weeds
Apocalyptica: Kaamos, Quutamo, Cohkka
Anything from Matsumoto Zoku
i was always told it was satan and his demons making people think they exist.
not sure.
i always thought the guy that excavated king tutenkahmun had a curse on him though.. .
Hey snare&racket,
there is a German children book by Otfried Preußler "The little ghost/ Das kleine Gespenst", with a black ghost.
peace!.
you have stated (and others have agreed and stated the same) that faith is not based on evidence, or it is not faith to begin with.
may i ask you, then, if you think the apostles and early disciples, who walked with christ, had faith?
If you believe the bible account then although the disciples had evidence of miracles and saw Jesus in the flesh they had to have faith that the things he had promised would come to pass. This would have been relevent especially when disciples were executed and christians persecuted.
Nutshell.
Though they had evidence for their faith (Christ, and all He taught and did, as well as the resurrection)... they still had faith in Him by having faith that all He promised would come to pass.
This is not how I understood nugets comment. I understood it in the following way, though I might be wrong:
Assume you believe in the bible account. Then the disciple had evidence for past facts (because they saw and heard them). But they had to have faith that the things in the future would happen. For these things there was no evidence, because it was the future.
I personally would say (always under the hypothesis that one believes in the bible account): Ther were some past facts, for which they didn't need any faith, because, according to the bible they were facts, they had evidence for these facts, by seeing them. These facts served as a base for their faith in future events - for which they didn't have any evidence, because it hadn't happened yet.
But I am not a scolar on this subject. I have a feeling, that it just comes down to how the word "faith" is defined. And as long as there is not a unique definition understood by everyone, it might be pointless to argue about it.
i am not here on assignment.
we came here (poland) to take care of my wife's mother.. i was often asked when i returned to the us if it was difficult to participate in the preaching work in a foreign country when i was not fluent in the native language.
not at all, i replied.
Hi Fade,
I am doing my PhD in math, and I am hoping to be able to stay in academia. It depends on where there are good post doc offers in my field. One of my class mates got his masters (or equivalent) in Wroclaw. My advisor is originally from Poznan.
I've a Ukrainian friend whose family lives in a small city. They also have some sort of country house, where they grow lots of vegetable and fruit. From what I hve heard it's a very nice place.
And there are no windows in the KHs in the US? The ones in Germany that I went to always had windows.
i am not here on assignment.
we came here (poland) to take care of my wife's mother.. i was often asked when i returned to the us if it was difficult to participate in the preaching work in a foreign country when i was not fluent in the native language.
not at all, i replied.
I had the chance to go to Warsaw this summer for a math conference.
I have to say I enjoyed it very much, it is definitely a country where I could imagine to live.
I am originally from Germany, lived for a while in France, and am at the moment finishing my PhD in th US. My time in Poland was a very relaxed and fruitful for my work, so I am considering applying for a job there.
I always enjoy hearing from life in other countries. Thanks for posting this!
I am actually from southern Bavaria :-)
when i believed in god i tried not to pray for anything selfish.. after a while i began to think that a lot of things i was asking my imaginary friend in the sky for were selfish for some reason.. i do not ever remember a single thing i prayed for ever being answered.
if there was the appearance of an answer it was because i did mental gymnastics to make it fit the delusion that god had actually answered me.
there was never an obvious message/answer from god.
It's funny, I give gifts to MY children when they are in need.
I imagine, you also don't leave your children alone for an unknown amount of time, with a cryptic manual on the kitchen table, that only some "special ones" of your children can understand, watching them in secret to struggle with the meaning of this cryptic letter, watching also what is going wrong in their daily life and what mistakes they make, how they get injured, without doing anything about it...
autobiography.
forever began at the day of my birth, but, it turns out that it was a lie,.
i am who i am when nobody's watching, then nothing is there to deny.. .
Sorry
