Posts by mark hughes

21

Jehovah's Witnesses

by Honesty in

are they being spiritually abused by the watchtower society?

Divine Comedy test

by belbab in

jw
friends

here is a test you may find interesting:.

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv.

i am going to go in limbo, my wife always said i was a goody-goody.. belbab

mark hughes

I lookeed at this post as there is a band over here called The Divine Comedy (very good as well).

Done the test level 6 for me and I tried to be honest! Well.....maybe not about the porn.

20

Circut Assembly 2006 Notes, Part 1

by drew sagan in

jw
friends

much is what we are used to hearing, but i felt it was worth it for everybody to know.

theme: .

clothe yourselves with the new personality -col 3:10 .

mark hughes

Baptism's whats all that about? You can hear the elders saying "we've got you now" as they dunk you.

This will make you laugh. When I got baptised the brother in front of me had forgotten his shorts so was he was baptised in his Y-fronts (underwear). When he came out his Y-fronts were nearly at his knee's! You didn't see anything though, he had a tee-shirt on. I nearly pissed myself! It scared me for life I haven't been able to wear underwear since.

27

Check out my new avatar...It's me!

by Dimples in

jw
friends

.

hey guys,.

now you can see why i call myself dimples.

mark hughes

Lovely picture Dimples! I've added an avator to my profile, its not me though its my cat!

40

Breakthrough with JW mother - Stunning Anti Witness !

by diamondblue1974 in

jw
friends

i thought i would share this with you as i am still a little bit stunned to say the least.

my mother who is a longstanding jw came to stay over the christmas period as my uncle had past away and she wanted to be more local to the family, that way she could attend the funeral and provide some support to her remaining brothers and sisters.

she lives a considerable distance away from me at this moment in time.

mark hughes

Fantastic, you've given her food for thought i'm sure. Sorry to hear your uncle has passed away my thoughts are with you.

60

Without naming your city, tell us more about it

by JH in

jw
friends

where i live, you can smell the odor of paper mills.

it's a port city and people speak french here.

i think the average age of people here is one of the higest in canada.. there is a shrine that attracts many tourists in the summer time.

mark hughes

Hello againEllie, I know where you are i've been over to Ireland from there by ferry a couple of times. I tend to fly there now and hire a car, its a lot quicker.

I think your town was voted one of the most boring places in Britain in a recent BBC survey, which is a bit harsh, I think my town came about 7th.

60

Without naming your city, tell us more about it

by JH in

jw
friends

where i live, you can smell the odor of paper mills.

it's a port city and people speak french here.

i think the average age of people here is one of the higest in canada.. there is a shrine that attracts many tourists in the summer time.

mark hughes

Where I live its not big enough to be called a city its a town, theres only about 20,000 people and well spread out with lots of trees, fields, rivers and wildlife. Night life is c**p there is only one night club and thats c**p!

That woman that was going out with Hugh Grant when he was caught with his pants down, can't remember her name, you know her posh voice? long legs? Elizabeth Hurley. (just remembered) she was born here and Tanita Tikarum. Anyone heard of her? Famous singer in the late 80's.

I think Sean Connery drove through here once, didn't stop though, too busy.

15

Baptisim/Disfellowshipping & Age

by Krystal in

i apologize if i am re-posting a topic that was already discussed, but i have a question:.

i was baptised when i was 14 and disfellowshipped at 17... major life changing decisions all made before i was 18. .

has anyone ever tried to have their baptisim/disfellowshipping annulled based on the fact that they were too young to enter into such a contract?

mark hughes

First of all you need to consider why we are encouraged to get baptised at such an early age.

In my mind it is because when we are older and able to think more clearly for ourselves and realise what kind of cult we are involved in we are too scared to leave for fear of loosing contact with family and friends.

Its a numbers game as well for the WTBTS the more people they have baptised, no matter what thier age, the more they can gloat to the "outside world" about thier growing in numbers.

9

Just Had A Big Surprise!!

by Sunspot in

jw
friends

hubby just came in from work and said that a gal that i knew from the kh had come in and they were talking about me.

she said that it had been announced back in '99 that i had been dfed, and she was shocked to hear that i had left on my own and the way that i had.

(i daed myself by letter)

mark hughes

I hope you find them, I would love to find people that I know have been disfellowshipped since I was.

49

What was "it" that opened your eyes?

by jiggulz in

like so many people, i'm (very carefully)trying to convey the obvious "truth" about the wtb&ts to some of the members of my family.

is there any key point that "stands out" in your memory as pivotal in the opening of your eyes?

or any particular point that may have opened the eyes of your loved ones?

mark hughes

For me it was realising that if I didn't go to the KH I could watch football down the pub with my mates on a sunday afternoon. FANTASTIC!

Also more recently the cover-up of child abuse sickens me. How could elders think that they have the right to decide if these people are guilty or not? Also realising that the bible is just a few stories put together over a period of time.