I actually saw open water on a river! yay! spring really might be coming after all! one hell of a long winter this year!
Posts by carla
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27How's the weather in your area?
by Decided inhere in nc it's snowing, about 6" so far.
haven't had so much snow and ice in a long time as we have so far this winter.. ken p..
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RIP, resurrection, and long dead ones
by Jon Preston ini apologize in advance if any get offended but.... i had a morbid thought.
if dead ones are resurrected to heaven when they die, why bury the body?
or if they are in soul sleep, wheres the soul when a body has decayed to nothing but bones and hair?
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carla
Seeing as you come from a jw backround you probably won't get this but I like this-
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
jw's in general cannot wrap their heads around the soul, the body being nothing but a shell, and so forth. If you can't contemplate a spiritual being/person/body then you won't get my post at all. In the past trying to discuss any of this with my jw is like one speaking Greek and the other Japanese and expecting the other to understand anything at all, that's if the jw doesn't run from the room with fingers in ears singing "lalalalalalalala, I'm not listening!" (not that you would do such as thing as you are here with an open mind)
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I 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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carla
A hearty congratulations!!! you are an inspiration!
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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)