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  The Governing Body: very busy?

  by Awakened07 in

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  i have a couple of gb related questions.. in crisis of conscience, ray mentions several times the way decisions are (were?

  ) made by a voting system.

  having been brought up in another country (not us), i was rather surprised at the kinds of things they would decide; ray has a few copies in his book of letters from various congregations, letters that sometimes take up quite personal matters concerning a couple of people in one single congregation, for instance.

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  Sorry - 1918/1919 again...

  by Awakened07 in

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  this story of how jesus supposedly inspected earth in 1918 and as a result chose the bible students to be his people in 1919 (since they were the only true christians) is rather important to me.. we have discussed previously to some extent how they at that time believed a lot of things that jws no longer believe; for instance they still celebrated christmas and russel was the entire faithful and discreet slave.. however - the reason i raise the topic again, is to ask what things did they believe in 1919 that one could say would truly separate them from all other denominations?.

  i guess they used the name jehovah.

  i guess they didn't believe in the trinity(?).

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  Isaiah 35.

  by Awakened07 in

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  http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2007/12/19/tuchman.i.35.to.heaven.cnn.

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  no comment..

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  Field ministry blooper reel:

  by Awakened07 in

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  -did you ever stuff up your presentation while going door-to-door?.

  i remember one beautiful summer day, me and my 'partner' were slowly approaching a man working in his garden.

  it was warm, it was sunny, it was beautiful, it was peaceful and quiet - you might say it was "paradise".

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  "If evolution is true, what's to keep us from behaving like animals?"

  by Awakened07 in

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  are we "just babies"?

  are we "just animals"?.

  yes - animals do not and cannot appreciate art, music, poetry, history, beauty etc.

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  Newly baptized JWs = strict, "old" JWs = not so much?

  by Awakened07 in

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  yes - it's one of my flashes of memories again:.

  i remember how when someone new and really eager and zealous came along, at some point in the conversation (or later) it would be brought up how these new jws (newly baptized) were so "square" (in my language), meaning they were so strict, by-the-book, rigid.

  whereas those who had been in longer were more "round", as in more relaxed, not so bothered by the "details"... i remember joking about how newly baptized people should have a year or two of "quarantine" from the field ministry, because they were being too assertive.. now that i remember it so many years later, it's actually rather interesting.

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  -Turns out I was ALWAYS an "apostate".

  by Awakened07 in

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  a recent post by jcanon (of all people, lol) jogged my memory and brought back (repressed?

  ) memories from when i was just a kid.

  i remembered that i was constantly thinking - thinking of all that i learned as a jw (and at school/elsewhere), but i was always able to look at it from "outside the box" even as a kid.

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  Facebook surprise: looks like most of my childhood friends got out!

  by Awakened07 in

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  i only recently joined facebook (yes, a little late to the party).

  and today i found one person there that i still consider somewhat of a friend, that i know is disfellowshipped.

  this person turns out to be a 'hub', in that this person has a lot of facebook 'friends'.

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  Help please (Leolaia, Narkissos?).

  by Awakened07 in

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  not sure if these are stupid questions or not, but i just thought of it all last night, and would like to have it answered:.

  so - the jews around the time jesus came around were apparently expecting a messiah to show up, because of the prophecies in the ot.

  so they were waiting for the messiah to 'arrive' at the time.

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  Tower of Babel - /another thing/ God didn't have to do.

  by Awakened07 in

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  we all know the story of the tower of babel, and there are lots of things one can discuss around the topic, like for instance how god actually didn't allow mankind to 'experiment' with governing themselves, but chose to intervene whenever they seemed to get close to being united.. however - that is not the topic of this thread (and has been covered in other threads already).. .

  so - what do i mean when i say "another thing god didn't have to do"?.

  the first of the things i'm referring to, is the diversity of life itself, as it happens through evolution by cumulative steps of naturally selected, inherited traits over the generations of a population (i'm not going to go into detail here).. so - over to the other thing that god didn't have to do:.

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