Does anyone know what the questions would have been in 1974 when as a kid, I was frightened encouraged into saying "yes" to, just before they dunked me?
Seems like a good idea for me to know what they were, all those years ago.
Pete Zahut
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When did the WTS begin to require baptismal candidates to answer 2 questions. What were they?
by AndersonsInfo ini need some research done so if anybody has the time, please see what you can find on the subject as stated in the title.. i clearly remember attending my first circuit assembly.
on october 30, 1956, i definitely answered two questions, along with about ten other people including my mother, not at the assembly, but we were standing at the side of a small baptismal pool that was in the basement of a kingdom hall in ronkonkoma, then a small hamlet on long island in the town of islip, suffolk county, new york, united states.. i know for a certainty that in 1945 candidates for baptism were not asked any questions but they were informed through their congregation that there would be a baptism and told where and when it was to be held.
usually the baptism was done at a beach and when candidates showed up in bathing attire, they were dunked, no questions asked.. so sometime between 1945 and 1956 two specific questions began to be asked of candidates.
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Please Give Me Your Thoughts On Unusual Elderly Behavior....(thanks)
by minimus inmy girlfriend's dad who is 82 lost his second wife to cancer last october.
while she was dying, he secretly was seeing another woman, in her 60s.
long story short, a month after the wife's death, they both moved in together and in early june , they secretly got married.
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Pete Zahut
Some men do think with their pee-pee, young or old. (a quote from my husband, Irreverent)
Some women use their Va-Jay-Jays to get men to think with their Pee-Pees, in order to get what they want-want.
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Why I Refuse to Accept the term APOSTATE
by Black Man inbeen going back in forth with my mom (who is a longtime pioneer and dyed-in-the-wool jw) about the term apostate.
she has labeled me one because of my fading and because i stopped attending meetings a few years ago.
i told her that i refuse to accept the term apostate because its a lazy way for the wts to not deal with dissenters and address why people are leaving this organization in droves.
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Pete Zahut
It was them who changed the truth from what it was when I was baptized....not me.
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Why I Refuse to Accept the term APOSTATE
by Black Man inbeen going back in forth with my mom (who is a longtime pioneer and dyed-in-the-wool jw) about the term apostate.
she has labeled me one because of my fading and because i stopped attending meetings a few years ago.
i told her that i refuse to accept the term apostate because its a lazy way for the wts to not deal with dissenters and address why people are leaving this organization in droves.
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Pete Zahut
Ask your Mom if she realizes that the founders of the JW religion were Apostates from their fomer belief system and were likely hasseled by thier former friends. Apparently being called Apostate, didn't bother them or stop them.
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Did it bother you that they taught, "miss a meeting and you'll fall away?"
by Wasanelder Once inhow many times did we hear that if we dont attend meetings we will leave the truth because satan will get ahold of us?
that always bothered me.
i thought, "if my faith isn't able to stand alone what good is it?
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Pete Zahut
"I'm not opposed to the concept of a Deity but I'm baffeled by the notion of one that takes attendance."
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JW.ORG REPORTS THE WATCHTOWER RESPONSE TO EBOLA
by NAVYTOWN ini just checked the jw.org website and noticed an article about the jw response to ebola.
as i suspected, the entire focus was on alerting and educating jw members about ebola.just like in other disaster situations, the jw organization almost exclusively assists it's own members, ignoring the general public.
it seems their main concern is keeping their members healthy so they can continue to spread the jw message door to door!!!
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Pete Zahut
Isn't widespread disease part of what would be happening in "THE END" ? On one hand they are looking forward to the end and often giddy with delight when any thing like this happens. Then on the other hand they are trying to thwart the progress of it with bleach water.
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Most Jdubs are nice people, not really evil - give us all a break from this
by hamsterbait in.
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Pete Zahut
The evil is so incideous that it isn't apparent even to themselves. It develops so gradually and only becomes evident after it has become well established and when one comes to a crossroads between doing what the organizaton wants and being humane.
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Opps! 2015 Calendar with errors
by pixel into all congregations in the united states branch territory.
re: 2015 calendar in english.
if many publishers in your congregation have requested the 2015 calendar in english,.
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Pete Zahut
We are writing regarding the 2015 Calendar in English that will be shipped to congregations
beginning mid-October. Some copies of the 2015 Calendar in English contain errors.It sounds like they still have the incorrect calendars in their possesion and are going to ship them anyway. Putting the wrong Date on things never stopped them in the past.....why worry about it now?
Additionally, the calendars that contain errors also emphasize starting Bible studies on
the first Saturday of each month.However, as noted in the December 2014 Our Kingdom Ministry,
this arrangement will be discontinued as of January 2015.I always found it odd that they'd emphasize starting Bible Studies on certain days. Isn't that the whole purpose on any day spent in field service? Looks like they realized that themselves.
I notice that so many of the odd things I noticed while growing up as a JW, are now being corrected. It seems like the "new guard" is doing a little housecleaning. I expect them to do away with presenting the Watchtower at the doors. I never understood why anyone who wasn't a JW would want to read them.
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Frieking Bethel Heavies/COs and their second rings!
by lambsbottom indude, every picture i see of any bethel heavies or gb members (a lot of cos also) have them wearing a second huge gold ring!
this is a clear sign of "hey i'm a bigshot!
" you just dont see that in interviews of celebrities or politicials.
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Pete Zahut
Probably trying to prove they are long suffer-ring.
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What Caleb's mom looks like when no one is around
by moomanchu in.
time magazine advertisment.. drugs will get you out in field service.
lol.
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Pete Zahut
The drugs may help for a while but eventually the underlying cause of the depression must be investigated. Too often that only happens after years of suffering and after some major crisis occurs.
There should be a thought bubble over the Woman's head that says: " I know I could probably summon enough energy to hand out a few tracts today but the thought of having to go change into a skirt, heels and stockings makes going in service seem impossible to me right now"