Welcom GoUnion - enjoyed reading your first post and will look forward to more.
krejames
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Hello
by GoUnion inhello everyone it's nice to finally be able to post i had trouble getting emails last month and was never able to sign up.
this has been a very informative site which has really helped me grow and to think for myself.
please allow me to introduce myself.. i was born into a witness family and was baptized at a young age an was part of a small kingdom hall.
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Do you think not having the book study in private homes has had much effect?
by truthseeker init's been a few years since the organization ended the book study arrangement in private homes.. gone was the last opportunity to have tea and biscuits and a natter with the friends afterwards.. do you think people regret losing the book study?
for some, it may have been the only time they were able to get some "associaton".
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krejames
My goodness I've started remembering all sorts of incidents around that book study back home now! I could write a book on it! hehehe
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Do you think not having the book study in private homes has had much effect?
by truthseeker init's been a few years since the organization ended the book study arrangement in private homes.. gone was the last opportunity to have tea and biscuits and a natter with the friends afterwards.. do you think people regret losing the book study?
for some, it may have been the only time they were able to get some "associaton".
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krejames
I also had a love/hate attitude towards the book study. When I was growing up, the book study was in our home for some years and we had all sorts of odd characters in our group and loads of drama, which I loved. We had a sister who said she had a demon living in her big toe. Me and my sister had to walk her home afterwards and she would fart all the way back and blame it on the demons lol.
In the same group we had an ex-spirit medium and another sister whose mum had been a spirit medium who had been in competition with the other sister before they were witnesses and they didn't like each other.
One of the sisters had an opposed husband and during one book study he came around and put his fist through our front door and smashed the glass. Then the following week he came with her to the study and he was in his pyjamas claiming to have lost his memory and started introducing himself to everyone - completely cuckoo lol
Then I remember having to read the paragraphs. We had a spanish sister who used to tut and huff and puff and roll her eyes all the way through the study and she was sitting next to me making me laugh. I remember on several occasions having to get up and leave the room in the middle of reading the paragraph because I was laughing so much.
They were the good times.
When I lost my privileges as an MS I was the only brother in the group apart from the study conductor and they would get a sister to read (nothing wrong with that in itself but it was the shame of being unworthy). Thankfully it was during this time that they abolished the meeting. Can't say I was disappointed because at that time I had to travel right over to the other side of town during a time when I had no car so I had to rely on the bus and I used to have to literally sprint up the road after "amen" so I could get the bus or else I would have to wait another hour or so. I loved the family atmosphere though and yes we would often have cakes and coffees afterwards - like others, that's what I missed when it stopped - not the study itslef which I often found excrutiatingly boring.
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According to WT rules, the virgin Mary and Jehovah are guilty of Por'neia!
by BU2B inaccording to wt tamud, if a jw does in-vitro fertilization, carries a surrogate child, uses a surrogate, and so forth then it is "por-neia".. the bible says that mary was a virgin when implanted with the embryo of jesus christ.
under the mosaic law adultery was punishable by death.
since mary was already engaged to joseph, if she was to sleep with another man it was the same as adultery in the eyes of the law.
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krejames
i like your thinking BU2B!
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I did it !!!!
by snare&racket in7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.
i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.
i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.
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krejames
Well done! That's great news ! :) x
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NEW BOE LETTERS
by WatchTower87 ininstruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily no virus ;-).
1 -theocratic ministry school review answer sheet to give to the school overseer.
theocratic ministry school review answer sheet covering assignments for weeks of march 3 through april 28, 2014. pdf : http://adf.ly/egjx8.
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krejames
To be fair the letter explains that "qualified" means fluent readers including sisters. c'mon people we can't criticise JWs for being judgmental if we are judgmental ourselves!
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Jesus washing feet in underwear or naked?
by John_Mann injohn 13:4,5. got up from the evening meal and laid aside his outer garments.
and taking a towel, he wrapped it around his waist.. after that he put water into a basin and started to wash the feet of the disciples and to dry them off with the towel that was wrapped around him.. .
the wt "translates" himatia as outer garments but some other translations says just clothes.. if he were wearing just an underwear, why wrap a towel around the waist?
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krejames
Mark 14:51,52: "However, a certain young man wearing only a fine linen garment over his naked body began to follow him nearby, and they tried to seize him, 52 but he left his linen garment behind and got away naked."
The Bible says he was naked. Does that mean he was naked? of course not, silly! he was obviously still wearing clothes because to be naked would have been just wrong!
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$1 Million Paranormal Challenge
by rebel8 inwho is james randi?.
the [james randi educational] foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims.
it both supports and conducts original research into such claims.. at jref, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.
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krejames
You don't need to go to such lengths to find evidence of supernatural abilities. Just watch Troy. I'm convinced he's a wizard ;)
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Modern Day Governing Body Members Do Not Go "Door To Door" or Informal Witnessing! Why?
by RottenRiley inwhat sorrow awaits you!
for you say that it means nothing to swear by gods temple, but that it is binding to swear by the gold in the temple.
20when you swear by the altar, you are swearing by it and by everything on it.
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krejames
Isn't it the guy on the right of the picture that's the GB member? Has his briefcase been superimposed? or more likely have they both been superimposed onto a more 'pleasant' background than was on the original pic? Personally, much as I have no time for the GB I am not convinced of any evidence of hypocrisy on this particular point. hearsay generally wouldnt stand up in a court of law (at least not in the UK). There are surely more convincing things to get riled about than an apparent report based on what is effectively gossip.
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Modern Day Governing Body Members Do Not Go "Door To Door" or Informal Witnessing! Why?
by RottenRiley inwhat sorrow awaits you!
for you say that it means nothing to swear by gods temple, but that it is binding to swear by the gold in the temple.
20when you swear by the altar, you are swearing by it and by everything on it.
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krejames
Ultimately this is all hearsay and rumour. Shouldn't we "bitter apostates" be above this kind of judgementalism or at least quit wasting our mental energy on stuff we really don't know whether true or not? ;)