someone asked a question in the "what generation are you" thread:.
were you "raised in the truth," or did you "come into the truth?".
i was raised..
In fact, my first recollection of assemblies was when my mother was 8 months pregnant with me and all I could hear was a muffled echo of the big speakers blasting at Yankee Stadium.
lol it really doesn't change much when your outside of the womb and older.
Me - razed in it.
Statistics on this would be interesting.
Third,
I makes me wonder...are most new JWs born into it...or brought into it...
Cate
Its got to be 90 % or more that are born into it.
What a waste of time all that field service.
Would be an interesting statistic to know.
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since jw,s cannot celebrate "christian holidays" can they celebrate jewish holidays.
i asked my mom this question never got an answer.. jesus was at the temple for the feast of the dedication for starters.. thoughts
I do not want to start celebrating Jewish Holidays, but since I faded I have celebrated christmas and I thought saying that I was celebrating Hannukah would have been a good excuse not to be df'ed.
They might not like the excuse but at least they can't df you for it.
I also wondered about saying, I'm not celebraing it but my son is, he's fifteen.
Thanks for the input .
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since jw,s cannot celebrate "christian holidays" can they celebrate jewish holidays.
i asked my mom this question never got an answer.. jesus was at the temple for the feast of the dedication for starters.. thoughts
Since JW,s cannot celebrate "christian holidays" can they celebrate jewish holidays. I asked my mom this question never got an answer.
Jesus was at the temple for the Feast of the Dedication for starters.
thoughts
i have now spoken with a couple of worldly people regarding the practise of disfellowshipping.
having been out of the org for a few months i now feel confident enough to expose the things that i knew were wrong.
d/f was one of the biggest issues i had.
My wife and I have told all our co-workers about the JW,s they won't be gettin any of those people !
One co-worker in particular just couldn't believe that anyone would ever shun their own family just because a religon told them so, it took me awhile just to convince him that I wasn't making it up.
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if the nwt was produced by people who can't read and write the translated languages - can it really be a translation ?
or, is it a transliteration - have they used other bibles (of english) to produce the work - altering the words as they go ?
can it really be a translation ?Or, is it a transliteration
I always thought there was no such thing as a true translation of the bible, because of the impossibilty of translating Hebrew into other languages 100 percent accurately.
That's why all other bibles are called versions. I think the WTBS are the only people haughty enough to call there bible a translation.
hello, i discovered this site yesterday and have been on it for hours!
i've been studying with jehovah's witnesses for 4 years and quite frankly love it.
a bit of background, i am a college educated young man (have a bs in psychology) and am currently a medical student.
The fact that lives have been affected is understandable.
To what point?
After your dead because of blood doctrines, oh well nobodys perfect they tried there best to interpret scriptures .
my 2 cents
did rutherford love his wife?.
if he did, why did he reside in brooklyn, while she lived in california?.
if he did, why during the times he did visited california he resided at beth sarim in san diego, when his wife, mary, resided in the los angeles area, where his son malcolm also lived?.
He who can't take care of his own household, can't take care of the Lords household.
there was a post in the past that listed ray franz as the "king of the apostates" to flip the script who would you nominate as the reigning "queen of the apostates"?
my nominee would go to joan cetnar.
but to be honest joan is such a nice person that i had the pleasure of meeting at a ex-jws convention.
Blondie you can be the,
Princess Apostate.
where did she live?
did she have a family?
did she ever speak out for or against the witnesses?.
Did either of these women have children?
It would be great if there were people alive who could
give testimony to the different allegations made about CTR.
