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do you ever recall when a magazine, book, pamphlet or tract made you start to question .
or doubt the written material?
Never questioned a thing. My brain had been trained since youth. I didn't question anything when I quit, just didn't want all the responsibility of being a JW. It was years later that I began to think about it and realized I had been hoodwinked.
Ken P.
did anyone ever hear about bros/sis`s stealing 'dedicated money' from the box?
I was account servant when in my teens. I can't remember much about it now though. I remember getting money from the literature servant but don't remember getting it from the contribution boxes. I think someone else collected it from the contribution box and gave a reciept to me. It's been over 50 years ago.
Ken P.
i know most people have way worse problems then me but i just need to vent.
i have had the worse 3 months ever!!!.
my husband may be losing his job within the next year.
I know how it feels LK. It's been the same here this year.
I'm just glad to still be alive.
Ken P.
Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
name some things that you miss from when you were younger, lets take a walk down a different path, called memory lane!!!!!.
it ought to be interesting reading everyones posts and see the age difference and what comes from different parts of the world and usa.. i miss--a time when the world wasn't as dangerous.
i miss--a time of innocense.. i miss--a time when kids could be kid.
I miss my family so much, mom, dad, grandparents, uncles,aunts, cousins who have died. Not but a few left. When I drive around town(they all lived here) I pass so many places where they lived and remember them and the good times we had growing up.
I especially miss my days as a kid, growing up in the country and playing in the woods and creeks. Life was so simple back then, nothing to worry about. I even enjoyed the meetings back then, they were all family, two different ones. We also enjoyed the movies, my dad was a projectionist and we could see all the movies free. No TV back then for us, late 40,s and early 50,s. I remember the news reels of WWII in the early 40's, that's the only way you could see what was going on over there.
I guess I miss my youth most of all.
Ken P.
my story is sub-titled so you can skip ahead to parts that interest you most.. by way of reminder, my posting on "faith in god and the church" is not meant to convert anyone, because i have been out of the preaching business now for 14-years.
i am sharing my views given the questions i get when i do post about belief in god or my association with the catholic church.. why the catholic church?
protestants, especially fundamentalists and evangelicals have a hard spot with the roman catholic church.
I see no evidence that whoever Jesus was or wasn't was no different from other religious founders who claimed some special relationship with a God. Some are just more popular than others and some have a more loving message, but where is the holy spirit today to raise the dead and heal all kinds of sicknesses?
Ken P.
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compared with the six million jehovahs witnesses worldwide the .
so-called apostates are comparatively much smaller.
It seems to me all religions get some type of grip on the mind because there is no real answers to life and the universe. We just have to make up some story to keep us from losing hope of some future life. The JW religion is just too controlling of our present life to make it acceptable for us.
Ken P.
my story is sub-titled so you can skip ahead to parts that interest you most.. by way of reminder, my posting on "faith in god and the church" is not meant to convert anyone, because i have been out of the preaching business now for 14-years.
i am sharing my views given the questions i get when i do post about belief in god or my association with the catholic church.. why the catholic church?
protestants, especially fundamentalists and evangelicals have a hard spot with the roman catholic church.
I believe every person in the world will eventually have the opportunity to be reconciled back to God. Lilly
From what I see in the USA it's going to take a lot of reconciling for the young people to get back to God. Drugs and sex are about the only things they can think about and it's ruining the lives of my grandkids and wife's nephews and most of their friends. What happened to morality???
Ken P.
my story is sub-titled so you can skip ahead to parts that interest you most.. by way of reminder, my posting on "faith in god and the church" is not meant to convert anyone, because i have been out of the preaching business now for 14-years.
i am sharing my views given the questions i get when i do post about belief in god or my association with the catholic church.. why the catholic church?
protestants, especially fundamentalists and evangelicals have a hard spot with the roman catholic church.
Hi Jim,
That is the best explaination I've heard yet for that question but it doesn't explain the bible's comments about a new earth. There was promised a new earth where there was no more sickness, death or evil. Even the lions would eat straw like the ox. If all christains are going to heaven what is the purpose for a new earth? If all born again christains are going to be changed in the twinklin of an eye, who are the ones waiting for a resurrection, some to life and some to judgment? There are too many ideas presented in the bible to get God's real plan. What is Christ Kingdom about with christains being a bride and rulling over whom? Are they rulling over the earth or some other group of spirits? The bible seems to be a bunch of ideas with out a real explaination. There are too many contridictory explainations of the Christain bible. Evidently the Holy Spirit doesn't know either, since it doesn't explain it all to it's followers.
Ken P.
my story is sub-titled so you can skip ahead to parts that interest you most.. by way of reminder, my posting on "faith in god and the church" is not meant to convert anyone, because i have been out of the preaching business now for 14-years.
i am sharing my views given the questions i get when i do post about belief in god or my association with the catholic church.. why the catholic church?
protestants, especially fundamentalists and evangelicals have a hard spot with the roman catholic church.
What I can't understand about God is how is he causing any real difference in humanity? Do we just have to wait and see what the effect of Christ on earth will be? After all it's been 2000 years and nothing has happened, and he said he would come soon. Is all this faith and hope just a pipe dream?
Ken P.
"and you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
" luke 11:46. as witnesses we want you to realize that the load put upon you is a light one.
one what is not burdensome, not something that would tire you or or over tax the mind.
I got a 2 ton monkey off my back when I left.
Me too. I was divorced at the same time.
Same here.
Ken P.
