Blondie, I checked his threads. As I understand, he became a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and stopped posting about three years ago without saying fairwell. His last post was actually pretty casual. So i was left wondering.
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i have read last night the personal story of forum member "amazing", which he posted in 19 installments about 12 years ago.
there are so many things about his experience that i can relate with.
he seems to have vanished from this forum, for his last post as "amazing" was about 3 years ago.
Blondie, I checked his threads. As I understand, he became a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and stopped posting about three years ago without saying fairwell. His last post was actually pretty casual. So i was left wondering.
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If Chile steps up their game just a little bit (after watching the Chile 3 - Australia 1 game), the broken Spanish armada may well be in deep trouble to get past the groups phase.
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i heard something about the memorial to cease soon.
not anything to do with jesus returning but rather that the number of folks partaking is increasing and the gb can't explain it since it should be decreasing or staying the same.. has anyone heard of this?
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It's far more likely that they stop publishing the number of partakers, for they can argue that it has become a "stumbling block" for the rank & file, for it was used to try to divinate how close the Big A was.
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i have read last night the personal story of forum member "amazing", which he posted in 19 installments about 12 years ago.
there are so many things about his experience that i can relate with.
he seems to have vanished from this forum, for his last post as "amazing" was about 3 years ago.
I have read last night the personal story of forum member "Amazing", which he posted in 19 installments about 12 years ago. There are so many things about his experience that I can relate with. He seems to have vanished from this forum, for his last post as "Amazing" was about 3 years ago. Does anybody know what happened to him? I would like to say "thank you" for his story.
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Amazing match. I could only watch the second half, but my jaw dropped. Holland obliterated the world champions...wow! Personally I find the way Spain (and Barcelona FC ...) typically plays to be boring to death, albeit terribly effective. It seems that Holland has found the antidote! Well done!
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some of you might know me from this thread.
i wrote a longform article, 'in the belly of jehovah', on the jehovah's witnesses for an australian magazine, which today has been published online: .
http://theliftedbrow.com/post/88214463157/in-the-belly-of-jehovah-by-pete-nicholson.
marked...good article.
some of you are probably a bit tired of me promoting these history books, but im doing it again.
1. nelson barbour: the millenniums forgotten prophet.
de vienne is not.
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the other day i was sitting in one of those meetings where the public talk was absolutely mind-dumbing.
by minute 5 i couldn't take it anymore paying further attention to what was being said, so my mind wandered.
i looked around to my own kh and started to notice something.
It seems to me that the majority of those few who
a) Were adults
b) Without *any* family ties to the JW's
c) Possessing a higher education degree
and still decided to become baptized Jehovah's Witnesses did so in circumstances of emotional vulnerability: Either they were emotionally engaged with a member of the congregation, or they had suffered emotional damage (abuse, divorce, loss of a close relative, solitude) and were impressed with the "love-bombing" they've experienced when coming to the congregation. Very interesting - and very telling.
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the other day i was sitting in one of those meetings where the public talk was absolutely mind-dumbing.
by minute 5 i couldn't take it anymore paying further attention to what was being said, so my mind wandered.
i looked around to my own kh and started to notice something.
The other day I was sitting in one of those meetings where the public talk was absolutely mind-dumbing. By minute 5 I couldn't take it anymore paying further attention to what was being said, so my mind wandered. I looked around to my own KH and started to notice something. Those who have been baptized - in what marks a positive statement of commitment to the JW faith tennets - in the last, say, 15 years, are either children of Jehovah's Witnesses or people with a relatively poor (many bordering illiterate) secular instruction. Forget the wonderous experiences told in the JW publications - what is your experience in your Kingdom Hall, in your congregation? In the last 15 years, how many: a) adults that are b) unrelated with JW by family ties and c) possessing a higher education degree have become baptized Jehovah's Witnesses?
In my KH = Zero.
What's your experience?
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the numerous comments and experiences from this sites contributing posters add a real flavour to a persons overall knowledge of the society, both present day and historically.
i can well see how even many, many dyed in the wool witnesses skim or even study this site.
if i was still attending and seriously supporting the society, i would be fascinated to read these comments.
I do.
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