Topics Started by Quendi

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Trying to Salvage a Friendship
by Quendi in
1. jw
2. experiences
my friends,.

i need your counsel on a personal matter, and i hope you will give it in love.

as some of you know, i was disfellowshipped six years ago, but it wasn't until june 2010 that i made up my mind never to return to the wts.
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Heavenly Hope
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
here are some questions i want to pose to our friends here.

does a person have to be baptized to go to heaven and if one must get baptized, how is this to be arranged and by whom?.

the reason i ask this is many here have professed their belief that they are part of the body of christ, should partake of the emblems whenever they celebrate the lord's supper, and will go to heaven after they die if they have been faithful.
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"Banned in Brooklyn"
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i hope this thread generates some discussion as well as some amusement.

i want to talk about "banned books".

back in the middle ages, the roman catholic church issued its index librorum prohibitorum, the list of prohibited books.
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The "Ten Toes"
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i talked to my witness friend who attended the district convention over the weekend about the program.

we have been in constant and close communication during these six years that have passed since my disfellowshipping.

he enjoyed the program.
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i know this has been discussed before, but i want to reopen the topic.

i am currently reading ray franz's memoir crisis of conscience and ran across this footnote with respect to the new world translation of the holy scriptures:.

"the new world translation bears no translator's name and is presented as the anonymous work of the "new world translation committee.
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Lead Codices Now Called Fake
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. bible
well, that huge sigh of relief we're hearing is from brooklyn.

evidence is mounting that the lead codices found earlier this year which depicted jesus being executed on a cross are fakes.

so jehovah's witnesses can still maintain their assertion that christ was executed on a stake and not a cross for now.
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Apostasy vs. Heresy
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hello friends,.

the july 15, 2011 issue of the watchtower and its hard line on "shunning" of the disfellowshipped has generated much discussion on this board.

i thought i would start a thread on a related issue because i would appreciate getting your thoughts on this.. we all know how liberally the wts uses its favorite curse word, apostate, to describe those who have left the organization.
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Anyone Here With an "Earthly Hope"?
by Quendi in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
since the memorial is a little more than two weeks away, i thought i would raise this question, particularly for those of us who have left the organization.

do you have what the wts calls the "earthly hope"?

i know many ex-jws have renounced religion altogether and don't believe in any of these things.
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Worst Night of the Year
by Quendi in
1. jw
2. experiences
well, it's that time of year again.

the memorial season is upon us and jws the world over are getting ready for the celebration which this year falls on 17 april.

for the first time since 1975, yours truly will not attend and i couldn't be happier.
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Fred and Jeanie Maes
by Quendi in
1. jw
2. friends
i cannot recall exactly where on this forum i read this, but there are people on jwn who knew fred maes.

fred had served in brooklyn bethel, i believe, and was also a circuit overseer.

i first met him in 1976 in tuscaloosa, alabama.