Posts by Mystery

former elder who drifted away due to congregation hyprocrisy and politics.. went through many of the feelings of inadequacy and/or lack of confidence for a while but the longer i was away the stronger i became.. i'll tell more about myself later but right now i want to thank all of your for sharing your thoughts and comments.. it's truly amazing how bright the light can get when you really learn the truth and get out of the "organization".

Mystery

Welcome -

X-Elders views are requested quit a bit around here.

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SHUNNED FATHER DEATHSUIT AGAINST THE WATCHTOWER - UPDATE

by SHUNNED FATHER in

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the name of the trust fund is save the children.

the cheques should be made out to: save the children and mailed to:.

save the children.

Mystery

bttt

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IT's Oldflames Birthday Today !

by oldflame in

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it's pretty sad when your family and friends don't even remember your birthday.

and for an ol guy who has been on this board since 2001 and no one here remembered either.

oh well maybe somethings are better forgotten.

Mystery

Happy Happy Birthday, Oldflame!

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Re Baptized in The 1970's ( ? )

by The in

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i've been speaking to a few older ones that were baptized twice as jws .. if my memory is correct ,it was around the time that baptism figures took a steep rise.. could this be a major contributing factor for this rise?

were these ( baptisms ) added to the figures?.

Mystery

If you can be rebaptised due to

she didn't feel mature enough at her original Baptism and wanted to 'do it properly'

My mom was re-baptized in the early 70's. ; She said it was because she wasn't mature enough to understand the first time, ; at 14 I think

Why can't you disassociate yourself for being baptised due to not feeling you were mature enough at your original Baptism?

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The Matrix

by The in

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i'm sure some of you have thought about this before.... i've been thinking... you know the part in the matrix where neo is offered the red pill or the blue... well you can see where im getting.. inside the org most of the brothers and sisters are oblivious to the .

real truth.. .

if you had the chance not to know the real truth .. would u stay that way ?

Mystery

Welcome The -

Take your time. Breathe. Cry. Scream. Open your eyes. Cry some more.

When you need to talk, to vent come and talk with people here. Go out and look at the world and indeed see that it is not such a bad place.

Welcome to the 'new light'.

Deborah

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You're not allowed to say anything to Jesus

by JH in

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witness find it silly that catholics have statues or a crucifix, and that some will look at these while talking to jesus in prayer.. the bottom line is, althought you're a christian, you can't even pray to jesus or even say thank-you for anything to jesus.. imagine if an apostle would still be alive today, and although he talked to jesus when he was on earth, and all of a sudden after jesus's death, that apostle wouldn't be allowed to even talk to him in prayer, basically shunning him for the last 2000 years.. when jesus died 2000 years ago, did the apostles just shun him from that day like the jw's want us to do, by only praying jehovah?.

Mystery

I try to come here a few times a week to see if there is any "new light". I guess my biggest fear is WTBTS is going to offer "koolaid" to my family; down to things i can use to gently increase their thoughts of how wrong everything is.

But I am confused with this one; they no longer say "in Jesus name we pray....." Prayers are only directly to "God"?

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Going Door to Door...

by Priest73 in

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some thing just occurred to me.

i live in a city 500+ miles from my home town.

in a large metropolitan area.

Mystery

I live in an area we had rather work door to door when i was growing up. Mostly rural country with an occassional group of houses. I have been here 14 years and have only seen them about 6 times.

"The time is drawing near."

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Your prayers and thoughts for Randy!

by Atlantis in

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i realize that randy watters is not the type of person to want to worry others, especially when it come to his own health.

and i also realize that randy might want to kick me in the backsides for posting this little message.

thats ok, i'll even buy him a new set of boots to kick me with, but for right now if we could take a few moments to send our prayers, thoughts, and perhaps ecards for randy's swift recovery, then i know that randy would certainly appreciate it .dear friends of randy, due to some complications from a pain medication randy was using during an attack of his crohn's disease last week, he became seriously dehydrated and was hospitalized this past thursday, april 13th.

Mystery

My thoughts and prayers are with you.