Posts by jula71

hi every body...i grew up beleiveing in the jw religeon...my mother studied off and on.. due to problems in the family she never got baptized...but she allways beleived in it and so do i..but recently i decided that i want to start studying again..and this time serioulsy b/c before i was a kid now im grown..but for the past 10 or more years ive been sinning..i had a baby without being married ...and i used to smoke marijuana alot!

but i stopped ...but i still do smoke ciggarrettes im trying to stop but its hard to quit cold turkey!

my ?for jw please i will take advice from others but i really dont want to b/c i really want to study and eventually get baptized...anyway my ?

jula71

Daisy, welcome to the board. Here is some advice I hope you take to heart if you do indeed start to study. ASK QUESTIONS!! And search within yourself if the answers make sense. Ask them to prove that the heavily relied on date of 607BC is real. Ask them why they were working with the UN as a NGO for over 10 years then quit only because they got caught. Ask them if they think they are blood guilty for kids and others dying because of not accepting blood products they now say is Ok to accept. ASK QUESTIONS.

I don't want to criticize you by any means but your first few posts told me a lot and is something I always hear. In short, it sounds good. It's really strict, but it sounds good. You know what the old saying is, "if it sounds to good to be true........"

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Damn Exciting!

by the_classicist in

okay, so i'm reveiwing the cases for and against the doctrine of sola scripture, when i see a patirstic quote attributed to st. augustine, in de unitate ecclesiae.

so i'm trying to find it and a reference website said there was no english translation.

then i start searching for it in latin, and i came across "epistola ad catholicos de secta donatistarum vulgo de unitate ecclesiae.".

jula71

Damn it......can't rub these goose pimples down!

OK in all seriousness. How many scriptures are wrong due to faulty translation? Even a good translation is still up to interpretation. Which 9 times out of 10 is wrong to what the writer may wanted to express.

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How much is enough?

by jula71 in

many know my story; im in a fade, still attending meetings every now and then.

recently i had to endure a co visit.

during one of his talks i didnt know what to do, laugh or start yelling.

jula71

Hehe, TY for your condolences 144001. The attention now is fully turned, not to “saving” people, but furthering this publishing company.

Interesting quote Blondie, that just shows how 2-faced they really are. If you’re not getting 10 hours a month your lazy, but don’t let people criticize you.

Good point as well U/D

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How much is enough?

by jula71 in

many know my story; im in a fade, still attending meetings every now and then.

recently i had to endure a co visit.

during one of his talks i didnt know what to do, laugh or start yelling.

jula71

Many know my story; I’m in a fade, still attending meetings every now and then. Recently I had to endure a CO visit. During one of his talks I didn’t know what to do, laugh or start yelling. His talk was, of course, based on the "activities" of the cong. First he mentioned a 5% increase of inactive ones. This came with a gasp from the audience. He then went on to say that the national average was something like 10.5 hours and the cong’s average is just over 7 hours. This came with a lot in the audience looking around shaking their head’s in disgust. His next comment was that almost 40% are "low hour publishers." This came with audible gasps of shock from the audience as if to say "how could this have happened??" I couldn’t believe both his comments aimed at causing guilt, and the reaction from the audience. Then he went into the whole spiel of staying away for things that distract of the "ministry." Which is a growing trend this year in particular, anti-career, anti-college or university. But the emphasis on "works" is sickening!! Where is written that the national average is the required amount for all? Where is it written to keep tract of hours in the first place? How much really is enough? And why isn’t the R&F picking up on it?

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What do you do in your spare time?

by EvilForce in

i have been here for almost 3 months now and was curious what ya'll did for fun outside of jwd.com.

right now because it's summer and it's too hot i don't do much glassblowing.

but that is where i spend most of my weekends when i'm not working.

jula71

When I'm not doing school work, biking, playing my bass, and hangin' with the fam.

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Chilling story-Is this a California Thing?

by CaptainSchmideo in

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/law/06/17/fresno.murders.ap/index.html

why does this crap seem to thrive in california?

is it something in the water?.

jula71

As you can see, the death penalty is not the deterent it is intended to be in preventing these heinous, evil, awful crimes.

That's a joke. If the penalty was carried out, it would be a deterrent. Since 1977, 630 have been sentenced to death in Cal. It has been carried out 10 times. Those on death row will die of old age before any sentence is carried out, they know that.

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Can someone help me to understand?

by hiccup in

i am very new to this whole "religion" and although i have pulled up some information on jehovah's witnesses, i can't seem to get my arms around it.

the reason i have come here is because my father has been doing bible studies and readings for about 2 years now and over the last 6 months to a year he has been someone very different from who i used to know.

it all started with a near fatal car accident and then with my sister getting involved with drugs and running away with her boyfriend.

jula71

Undoubtedly it is. JWs tend to attract people who are going through a vulnerable period in their life or who are lonely or who have experienced bereavement.

Spot on Crumpet. But not just vulnerable, but I read a post a few days ago, that really got me thinking as well. A common thread in dub's is addictive behavior. Combine those two patterns, you have a perfect candidate to be a dub.

And I have to agree with WingCommander, but that's a different thread all together.

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Please help teach my Jewish friends

by Booker in

i am interested in jehovah witness theology, and i at this time write to a jewish news group.

many of my jewish friends are starting to belive in the new testement.

i was hoping that someone could reply to my public post below, so that me and my jewish friends can understand why we should become jehovah witnesses.

jula71

The problem is, myself included but I don't consider it a problem, most people that escape a cult like the JW's cut through the shroud of religion and become agnostic or atheist. Why escape one cult only to join another? Likewise I can't see a point in assisting some-one from one religion to follow another.