helncon
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A Big Warm Hearted Thanks!
by bigwilly into those here that mad me feel welcome upon my recent return, i feel a bit like the prodigal son (poor analogy).. after making this my first board over a year ago, i have meandered the exdub cyber community and made many good friends as well as meeting some truly amazing people.
i feel i've established myself amongst the discussion boards and earned a reputation of sorts (hopefully positive).
i have always checked in here, tho sporatically, and recent board politics and accessability have led me back here.
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you tube video: cambridge KH
by lisavegas420 inthis probably won't last long...video of the inside of the kh including a scan of the information board.... .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5kimmd2qs8.
lisa.
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Honeymoon Disfellowshippings
by dozy inone of the anomalies of the disfellowshipping process is the common situation when someone who is unscripturally divorced remarries.
in these occasions , the instruction is to always disfellowship the individual , regardless of repentance or attitude - what is referred to as a honeymoon df in elders jargon.
hence you have the (to me) bizarre situation of privately reproving a child molester , rapist or murderer one week and disfellowshipping a newly remarried middle aged sister who has been divorced for 20 years the next week.
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Is there a DF cut off point
by fringe dweller indoes anyone know if there is a set time period after which a baptised witness, who has ceased attending meetings or having any association with the congregation, can begin living openly as a non-witness (living with a partner while not married) without incurring the punishment of disfellowhipping?
if so, can you direct me to printed 'proof' of the wts edict in this regard.
i completely withdrew from the society about 6 years ago and have left the town i lived in whilst i was active, but i have family members who are still witnesses and i don't want to risk being formally 'banned' from associating with them on the rare occasions that we see each other.
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Update... Re my dad scriptual divorce
by helncon inwell i thought i better give an update of some events that have happened over the last few weeks with to a post that i put her about how to get a scriptual divoce on no grounds.. was i in for a wide awakening i had a father daughter chat with my dad and it seems that back in july/august last year he was slightly a naughty boy and was 'privately reproved' and that he only just told me on a visit just a few weeks ago.
well was i shocked that this had happen and that if he had told me earlier i think i would have been able to get my head around alot of things a bit easier.. so now i know how he got a scriptual divorce.. anyway this solved one of the mysteries that i had, but then it opened a huge problem that my so called witness brother put an allegation to the elders that he was dating someone before he was legally divorced and that they wanted the ins and outs of why he was privately reproved and that it should have been made public if not df (even though they very rarely attend meetings and that they are in complete different congs).
so then my dad had to face the elders in his cong and now what suppose to have been a smooth transition has now been a big delemia to the point of his fiancee is ready to walk away and that they even have had to postpone the wedding till when, no one knows.. even i can't believe that all this is happening.
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100 things to do before you die
by fifi40 inwhat would you put on the list, here is a starter.
1. arrive late in the evening to venice's st marks square (this has to be your first visit).
2. be present at the birth of a child.
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Taking the p*** out of Aussies
by winnie inmy husband (english) loves this one.. a member of the barmy army, sick of sitting through match after match of cricket with england losing, goes to the doctors and says.
"doctor, i'm sick of being english.
i want to become a kiwi.
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ex JW atheists
by Bobhere ini know we were sold a lie in believing god was only dealing with the wt and to obey them is to obey god.
what puzzels me is that in rejecting the wt so many also reject their belief in god.
surely they believed that god existed as witnesses.
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Let's hear from you!
by mavie ini saw a chinese proverb yesterday that stuck me:.
"to know the road ahead, ask those coming back.".
being relatively young and inexperienced, i'm asking for your opinion about this great adventure we call life.
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why do............
by helncon inelders have to know everything and i mean everything !!!!!!.
you know this morning i got woken by my dad and apparently he got hauled into an elders meeting last night and was told that he has to put his wedding on hold (see previous post) because my so called active brother sat down and had a chat with them and told them that my dad owed my mum money ( which is getting sorted out anyway damn solicitor taking their time) and i thought the whole idea of my brother and his wife were to have a chat about their marriage, anyway they also brought up how my dad is getting married so quickly and how did he get a scriptual divorce ( which no one know's how he got one).. i even rang my mum ( i was very upset by this time) and said my mind on that my dad deserves to have a life and that even though my brother doesn't have much contact with him he should leave him alone even if he doesn't agree with what he is doing .
he left us ( me and my brother) alone when we made our choices so why can't they leave him alone.. so why do the elder have to know about my dads personal life(as he has done nothing wrong) when there are more than others who ned help..... you know, now i know why i left so much crap that goes on that is really needless they don't need to know everything.... or do they?.