G'day SD-7, nice to have you on board. All the best with your journey ahead... Mattieu.
Mattieu
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The story of SD-7
by sd-7 inwho i am is inconsequential.
it's safe to say, however, that i am between a rock and a hard place.
or perhaps...a watchtower and a hard place, more accurately.. i was raised a jw--mom got baptized same day i turned 4 (in 1986), alleged that 'satan got to' me because i wanted to do fun stuff on my birthday rather than go to the convention to see her get baptized.
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Only JW "adults" getting baptized in France?
by Gayle intens of thousands of jehovah's witnesses meet in france(afp) 43 minutes ago.
paris tens of thousands of jehovah's witnesses gathered on saturday in cities across france for an annual international gathering, the religious movement said.. about 150,000 flocked to meetings with the main gathering in villepinte, in the paris region, attracting 50,000 followers.. several hundred jehovah's witnesses were baptised by being immersed in water during the event, which lasts the whole weekend.. those baptised were adults, following the example of christ.. jehovah's witnesses consider themselves the heirs of a primitive form of christianity.. their beliefs are strongly based on the text of the bible and they consider modern christian churches to have deviated from the book's true teachings.. followers reject the ideas of modern evolutionary theory and refuse blood transfusions.. they are perhaps best known for preaching on doorsteps, where they offer religious literature and attempt to convert people.. the movement emerged towards the end of the 19th century in the united states and arrived in france in 1906.. there are more than seven million jehovah's witnesses worldwide and around 150,000 in france.. the group's status varies from country to country.
they are given the same recognition as mainstream religions in austria and germany but are classed as a "recognised cult" in denmark.. in france, some of their branches have the status of "religious association" but the movement was also mentioned in a 1995 parliamentary report on sects.. google_ad_section_end(name=article) copyright 2009 afp.
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Mattieu
I was baptised at the grand old age of 15....... Man, all those years wasted between 12-15 when I could have been reaching out more in the org.....
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Max Hatton's 1960s study into the WTS chronology
by Doug Mason inin the early 1960s, a jehovah's witness named max hatton was living and working in albany, a town on the southern coast of western australia.
when he was challenged by sda geoff rogerson, who lived in the nearby township of denmark, about the watchtower society's neo-babylonian chronology, max investigated geoff's claims.. after four years of intensive research, max resigned his position as a "servant in the organisation".. max documented the result of his research, and his 77-page study is remarkable and deserves to be widely known.
it is quite likely that the copies max and i have are two of very few copies that now exist.
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Mattieu
Hi Doug, you have a pm
Mattieu
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"the Truth". So many changes prove they never had it.
by lurk3r ini often wondered about this when i first started questioning things.. .
any jw that has died in decades past, how are they even eligible for ressurection?
during the time in which they died, they were never taught "the truth", as everything changed.. any jw today, looking forward to armageddon coming tomorrow, isn't being taught "the truth" either, as will be made manifest by more doctrinal change.
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Mattieu
I had someone say to me the other day “it’s sad that you left the truth”, no doubt hoping to get the guilt feelings stirred up inside me. I nearly laughed out loud as I have been reasoning that the “truth” changes so much, that old truths become lies. So what was I leaving, “the truth” or a publishing company that keeps changing its mind to suit the dollar?
Mattieu.
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Reaching Out
by lancelink indid any of you guys ever try to "spiritually advance" by really making an effort in reaching out,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.
only to be overlooked while some other brother who was honestly just a brown-noser or genuine hypocrite gets appointed.
without hardly any effort on his part?.
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Mattieu
Same story as you Lancelink, did everything asked of me and more, yet after each c/o’s visit there was always something else that I needed to work on. It didn’t help that I wasn’t related to any of the elders or in a particular boys group. Later on I learnt various elders were holing grudges against me for “dobbing” them in to the society over some unscriptural practices. By the time I was appointed an ms in another congo, all of the previous body of elders bar 1 had been deleted. Corrupt sons of %$#%^’s!
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Dinner help
by beksbks incould you kids just come up with some suggestions??
i love to cook, but i have such a hard time coming up with new dinner ideas.
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Mattieu
Chicken breast fillet, slice open the thickest part. Mix together sliced pecan nuts with fruit chutney, insert mixture into fillet.
Curl fillet up into a ball, wrap in a slice of bacon, using tooth picks to hold it together. Cook on BBQ or frying pan, 5 minutes each side.
Mix together 2 tablespoons of olive oil, lime juice, salt & pepper, sprinkle mixture over chicken during cooking.
Enjoy with salad and a nice sliced baked potato/onion/cream sauce dish!
Mattieu.
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Michael Jackson is Dead!
by slimboyfat insomeone else posted on another forum they heard on the radio michael jackson is dead.
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Mattieu
The morning radio stations here in Melbourne are ALL playing nonstop Michael Jackson songs, even radio stations that would never play his music normally. 90% of talkback callers are not saying pleasant things about him. The jokes have already started to circulate. Remind me to tell you the joke about him coming back as a playstation later, once the grieving has come to an end....
Have to feel for his family & kids though.....
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Have you ever heard of brothers refusing to give public talks in other congregation(s)?
by asilentone inmaybe some of them do not like particular people in other congregations, so they refuse to give the talk there.
do you know of any experiences like that?.
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Mattieu
My old hall had 4 congregations meeting in a twin hall complex. Heaps of personality conflicts and internal politics amongst the 4 bodies of elders. And yes, some went on the record as saying they would never give a talk in certain congo’s whilst so and so was still an elder there.
When they had big working bees at the complex, it was always fun to pretend to be pulling out weeds whilst watching the goings on between some of those elders & elderettes.
Mattieu.
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Swine flu - has anyone had it yet?
by slimboyfat ina few people have been sent home from my wife's workplace with swine flu today, including her neighbour.
we don't know if my wife has it yet.
scotland seems to be the epicentre of this outbreak in europe, but i know it has also been common in the us.
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Mattieu
Hi Slim,
Yes my two daughters, my wife & I have had it. It really is a media beat up; it was just like the normal winter flu which we generally get here in Melbourne. The people at high risk are the elderly or those with pre-existing health problems. Sadly, in Australia appx 3000 people die every year from the common flu – and they are those in the above category.
3 People have died so far of the swine flu here in Oz (if you believe the media that is). One was passing away from cancer and the other two were from complicated health issues.
So whilst we had to have the face mask, be quarantined and overdose on Tamiflu, you could not tell the difference from “swine flu” and the “normal flu!”
That being said, as you are on medication that suppresses your immune system, I would be careful.
Mattieu
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a dub co-worker of mine...
by thomas15 inas i have mentioned before, i have a co-worker friend who is a long-time jw.
5 years ago, both of us (as well of a few others at my workplace) relocated to ne pa from the jersey shore.
my friend, who is at retirement age btw, lives about 30 miles from me.
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Mattieu
Hi Thomas,
No doubt you would get the standard induced response “why are you being negative about the large door of activity that has been opened up to us?”
That was the response I got a few years ago when I asked why car groups were being organised in our congo to go help a rural cong some 4 hours drive away in country Victoria. Our own congo is on the list to serve where the need is great, we do not cover our territory according to the borgs timetable and we have an extensive amount of rural maps ourselves. (Our congo is on the edge of Melbourne, so we have city & country maps).
It was just an excuse for an elite group to go off to blow their own trumpets (and each other). The PO, sorry, co-ordinator of the body of elders, used to leave his wife at home whilst he joined a car group that also had in it a single pioneer sister that he used to spend a bit of time with in the door to door work....
Mattieu