Posts by yesidid

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Let's count the years together.....

by AK - Jeff in

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my years in = 43 total of those on this thread = 43. .

make it progressive - add yours to the last one posted and keep adding - lets see how many years we have invested.. so we have 43 - now add yours and keep it going.

yesidid

From baptism to stopping meetings = 50 + 1095 = 1145.

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Crocodile Hunter - Steve Irwin - DEAD!!!

by misspeaches in

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20349888-2,00.html.

crocodile hunter steve irwin dead.

september 04, 2006 02:14pm.

yesidid

Just heard there may be a special guest coming to sing at the funeral. Sting.

Pope

I hope you didn't think that was funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My friend was "announced" last night!

by fullofdoubtnow in

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my friend marion, who i've posted about on here, was announced at last nights meeting as being no longer one of jehovahs witnesses.

she sent a da letter in recently, and of course the elders tried to get her to change her mind, but she insisted, and threatened to forward a copy to the uk hq, so they made the announcement.. she had a phone call from her jw son just now, and not a pleasant one at that.

he asked her how she could be so stupid, and told her that this was the last call of any kind he would be making to her, and she won't be allowed to see her grandchildren again until she comes to her senses.

yesidid

Dear Marion,

I am so sad for you. I can't imagine how it would feel for your son to turn against you......and not be able to be with

your grand-children. What cruelty.

Of course the gb have to insist on that because you know too much. The mafia have their ways to "silence" those who know

too much, and the WBTS has theirs, both are cruel and wicked.

I pray the pain will not be unbearable.

yesidid

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A True Scholar In Our Midst, Leolaia

by Skoshi in

her posts for a very long time were overflowing with an obvious scholarship.

i have avidly read her posts and have tucked away as much as my much smaller brain could be forced to take in.

i'm sure others have openly expressed their admiration and appreciation for her, but i would like to do so here.

yesidid

Thank you Wilyman,

I was about to reply to prolog and minimus when I read your post.

You said it much better than I:

As a result, I am now all about heaping praise on individuals for all these and many other accomplishments, achievements, milestones, and events, regardless of what dubs and still-dubs-at-heart think or say. If heaping praise on someone worthy bothers you, that says more about you and the work you still have left to do than it does about anyone else.

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Did anyone meet brother Ted Jaracz, what's he like?

by jason bourne in

yesidid

What was the nature of that discussion your husband had with Jaracz, yesidid?

Shall we say it was about "things" my husband saw as problems in the organization.

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Did anyone meet brother Ted Jaracz, what's he like?

by jason bourne in

yesidid

Yes I have met him, but could not say I know him. My husband knows him quite well and Jaracz's appointment to the governing body was a major

factor in my husbands questioning whether or not this could possibly be God's organization.

His final conversation with Jaracz sealed the deal.

yesidid

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Revelation "Adjustments": Complete Analysis

by V in

reference update.

chapter 6. .

reference update.

yesidid

Thank you so much V, I have sent it off to a faithful witness. He can't complain that it is apostate, but it sure shows them off in a bad light.

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Moving on...

by Zico in

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friends

i've been reading this board regularly since it was introduced to me in march of this year.

at first, i was finding it pretty difficult coming to terms with the fact that my whole life had been a lie, but really, i suppose there's not much point in worrying about this now, what's done is done, and i'm still easily young enough to make a life in 'the world' despite a slow start.

the problem is that i have no idea how to go about.

yesidid

Hi Saki,

Welcome to the board. Your sincerity is obvious, and I absolutely understand where you are coming from.

You said in a previous post:

And forget about history. Well, not literally, but when it comes to the history of the WTBTS, why bring that up and build a case against it as though the WTBTS is "evil" because of it?

I find that a little hard to understand. Having been a Witness myself for over sixty years I have very vivid recollections of many articles in the society’s literature about the history of the Catholic church. I have included a few quotes in case you missed them. As you see they go back to the 12 th century.

My thinking is that if it is alright for the society to bring up the Catholic past, why would it be wrong for others to bring up the Witness past?

*** w00 12/1 p. 3 The Bible—Cherished and Suppressed ***

On the European mainland, the Catholic Inquisition ruthlessly hunted down "heretical" sects, such as the French Waldenses, and singled them out for persecution because of their habit of preaching "from the gospels and epistles and other sacred scriptures

*** w05 12/15 p. 15 The Bible in Italian—A Troubled History ***

As a result, Bible burnings in church squares multiplied after the end of the 16th century. In the minds of the people in general, the Scriptures became a book of the heretics, and that image is still very much alive. Almost all Bibles and Bible commentaries in public and private libraries were destroyed, and for the next 200 years, no Catholic would translate a Bible into Italian.

*** w95 9/1 p. 30 The Cathari—Were They Christian Martyrs? ***

In 1231, Pope Gregory IX instituted the papal Inquisition to lend support to the armed struggle. The inquisitorial system was at first based on denouncements and duress and, later, on systematic torture. Its aim was to eradicate what the sword had been unable to destroy. Inquisition judges—were answerable only to the pope.

*** w97 10/1 p. 11 par. 7 The Word of God Endures Forever ***

Pope Innocent III (1198-1216)—who actively opposed translation of the Bible into languages used by the common people. In an effort to crush dissent against the authority of the church, the Roman Catholic Council of Toulouse, France, in 1229, decreed that a layman could not possess books of the Bible in the common language. The Inquisition was used aggressively to enforce the decree

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w02 3/15 p. 22 The Waldenses—From Heresy to Protestantism ***

In 1229 the Catholic Church completed its Crusade against the Cathari, or Albigenses, in the south of France. The Waldenses next became objects of such efforts. The Inquisition would soon be turned mercilessly against all the church’s opponents.

Sincerely

yesidid

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