A hearty congratulations!!! you are an inspiration!
Posts by carla
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97I did it !!!!
by snare&racket in7 years ago i started on a path i had long ago given up on as impossible.
i met with my elders and told them i could not justify carrying on as a jw.
i went and got my high school qualifications and my higher education diploma (a levels with distinction) in just 12 months.
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"We have NO idea how many in our congregation were baptized last year."
by NeverKnew inwas i lied to?.
are the members of a congregation even mildly aware of how many people who belong to their very own congregation were recently baptized?
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carla
I can't imagine congs that big around here either even if every car was filled to capacity, an ex elder told me that they like to keep the congs to around that number if there are large numbers of jw's at one kh, smaller is even better.
The people in each cong know who is getting baptized or df'd, marked, bad association, etc... so there is no way they don't know how many got baptized. Perhaps if one was a fader, they may not know all the sorid details of kh life.......
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Aren't Jehovah's Witnesses really standing in front of the LIGHT and blocking it?
by Terry infolks are about as happy as they decide to be.. looking on the bright side of life gives you more of a foothold when things go awry.
nurturing hope builds a foundation for you which enables you to save for tomorrow and build toward the future and hang on when things get tough.. people dig their own graves when they become pessimists.
"why bother" replaces "that's worth a try!".
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carla
Doesn't Matthew 5:16 talk about not hiding your light? jw's not only do not allow their own members from seeing any light but they hide themselves away from society and family who believe differently therefore not showing any light (or goodness) they may have to others.
I once asked an elder about shunning and how could his family he was shunning learn anything from his actions when they do not see him or speak to him? They could not even see his life as an example by which to live, how could they then improve on their life by his actions? crickets, deer in the headlights look, change the subject.
You can show a jw that life has in fact improved and they just will not have it because it is not their fictional paradise earth. Jesus said there would always be problems and we would always have the poor with us but jw's don't like to listen to what Jesus actually said much. Their gods in NY are more tangible for them.
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"We have NO idea how many in our congregation were baptized last year."
by NeverKnew inwas i lied to?.
are the members of a congregation even mildly aware of how many people who belong to their very own congregation were recently baptized?
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carla
Please correct me if I am wrong-
Aren't most congregations kept at about 144 people or so? One kh may have 2 or more congregations. It is not that difficult to keep track of 140 some people and if they are baptized or not! Especially when they see each other at least 3 times a week, mid week meeting, Sat fs, Sunday meetings. In any given cong there cannot be that many eligible new converts for baptism! If they are the kids of long time jw's they would certainly be known and knowing the gossip mills that kh's are, everybody would know if someone was getting baptized at a dc or where-ever.
I call b.s. on the comment that they have no idea.
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Hardcore JW Friend Predicts the End of the Organization within 10 years.
by kneehighmiah inhad a conversation with an aspiring elder.
he said the end must be close because people are so discouraged that the organization can't last more than 10 years.
this is before we received the please come to the international convention letter.
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carla
They could tell them the new system is here already and if they can't see it then they are not spiritual enough!
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Is the Governing Body trolling us?
by kneehighmiah ini'm starting to believe the bethel higher ups are trolling us.
the outright contradictions and stuff like overlapping generation is too ridiculous.
calling out the harold camping when we did the same thing.
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carla
I don't know why it still baffles me that jw's do not know their own history
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ATMs in assembly halls
by Xanthippe ini only heard about these atms last year on this forum.
the poster seemed to be saying they are for donating only, is that correct?
absolutely gobsmacked over this, don't the brothers see any correlation between this and the likes of jimmy swaggart?
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carla
marking for Blondie's great quotes!
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Baptisms only at regional ( district ) assemblies from 2014 / 15 service year?
by dozy injust a rumour but i guess it makes sense - i've a friend on a circuit committee ( he knows it's not "the truth" but for family & work reasons he stays in ) & he says that the wtbts have told them not to book a swimming pool for next years one day assemblies as the plan is to have only one baptism a year at the main regional ( what they used to call "district" ) convention.. with the drop off in baptisms so that sometimes there isn't anyone baptised or just a handful , i guess this is inevitable.
i remember going to a baptism a few years ago - we had hired a municipal 25 metre swimming pool and only one person ( a rather confused and scared middle aged lady who hadn't been in a swimming pool since her youth ) was being baptised - it was all something of a farce with the "worldly" staff looking on very puzzled at such an elaborate & expensive ceremony for one person.
) also with both assemblies being one day with just short morning & afternoon sessions , i suppose it is sensible to ditch the baptism talk - it tends to be something of a snoozefest anyway at the end of the morning session.
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carla
This could be a good thing for those who have to wait for baptism! Waiting may give them time to find the TATT. Imagine a kid who has to wait, discovers it is a cult and never ends up getting dunked, his/her parents would technically never have to shun them! (depending on current light at the moment)
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More Canadian Vandalism!
by jgnat in...and no, it is not justin bieber peeing his initials in the snow.. .
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Why JW assemblies NEED to change
by kneehighmiah inthe assemblies would be get better results and get more people to come and be inspired if they were more encouraging.
instead the assemblies are a giant guilt trip.
don't go to college, don't get a good job, dont buy things even if you can afford them, don't play violent games, don't flirt.
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carla
Kneehigh, sounds like you would appreciate a Christian church.
"Paul tells us in Romans and Galatians that the purpose of the law was to remind us of our sinful nature. Now that the law has been abolished we are supposed to focus on faith. Why aren't we doing this at assemblies?"
Forgive me but you don't sound like a jw at all (I have never been a jw, married to a later convert). My jw claims he is not a sinner, just original sin from Adam. jw's are not 'intentional' sinners according to him. Oh sure, he needs to do more according the borg but glad he's not like us regular sinners I guess.
Why aren't we doing this at assemblies?- because jw-ism is not about faith, God, Jesus or Grace and forget the Holy Spirit they fired the Holy Spirit years ago and He is not needed when they have the gb in NY to take His place. The entire cult is based on 'what have you done for us lately? it's not enough'. They keep the flock so busy running around in fs, following silly rules, judging non jw's, underling and parroting the wt's, shunning family and not allowing natural affections that the rank and file have no time to think about God, the Bible, or Christ and what the message of Christ truly is.