Posts by John Aquila

Terry, you've had a very interesting life. You could write a book. Oh wait you did write a book, I mean two. But it's not the same as being inside your head and feeling all the emotions and thoughts that went though your mind- real time.

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My Story of Waking Up - in retrospect

by cappytan in

so, many of y'all know bits and pieces of my story of waking up, but i thought it might be nice to have it all in one place.. i was baptized at 11, auxiliary pioneered every summer, regular pioneer at 17, ministerial servant by 19, then went to bethel for a year.. i always had minor doubts from time to time, but nothing serious.

always dismissed doubts and decided to "just have faith.".

after leaving bethel, i was never really firing on all cylinders "spiritually speaking.

John Aquila

Yep, 587 did it for me to. Everything else was like water on a duck. It didn't phase me. It seems like the 607 vs 587 is a big shaker. If you don't wake up after thoroughly researching the information without bias, you will never wake up.

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Does Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn) qualify for Baptism?

by John Aquila in

im not sure if bruce had a sex operation but lets say someone did have a sex operation and then studied with the witnesses and wanted to get baptized, would he qualify in todays jw world?

could he have privileges?

the bible says the past cant be held against you, once you accept the truth.

John Aquila

Morpheus
Lol until 6 months ago i was an elder. That is the current view

These guys don't grow do they? Unless they are pushed into a corner like organ transplants or blood fractions. Then new light appear out of nowhere!

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Does Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn) qualify for Baptism?

by John Aquila in

im not sure if bruce had a sex operation but lets say someone did have a sex operation and then studied with the witnesses and wanted to get baptized, would he qualify in todays jw world?

could he have privileges?

the bible says the past cant be held against you, once you accept the truth.

John Aquila

LoveUniHateExams an hour ago
The answer I got, mid 90s, was that a reverse transition would be expected -

I guess there's only one way to find out the current view for 2015, I'm gonna have to call up an elder and ask what their view is today.

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Does Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn) qualify for Baptism?

by John Aquila in

im not sure if bruce had a sex operation but lets say someone did have a sex operation and then studied with the witnesses and wanted to get baptized, would he qualify in todays jw world?

could he have privileges?

the bible says the past cant be held against you, once you accept the truth.

John Aquila

Mephis
The answer I got, mid 90s, was that a reverse transition would be expected. I know of one person who was studying who was expected to stop their transition

That's crazy!

I wonder if any of the GB has ever gotten a...............!!!

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Are Jehovah’s Witnesses losing the War on Apostates

by Watchtower-Free in

found this.

http://jwalumni.org/2015/06/08/who-are-jehovahs-witnesses-september-watchtower/.

by misha anouk on 8. june 2015 in news

John Aquila

It's great that you're keeping us informed of the situation.

OUTLAW, I went from reading something serious to cracking up with laughter. It was like a freaking roller coaster ride. Lol!

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Does Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn) qualify for Baptism?

by John Aquila in

im not sure if bruce had a sex operation but lets say someone did have a sex operation and then studied with the witnesses and wanted to get baptized, would he qualify in todays jw world?

could he have privileges?

the bible says the past cant be held against you, once you accept the truth.

John Aquila

Thanks BluesBrother for that 1974 WT article.

An estimated 1,500 persons in the United States and about 150 in Britain have done so

Well it’s a lot different now than in 1974. And now that it’s being accepted, I would say that it’s going to be a problem for the WTS.

Quote:

We discover to our amazement that at least one out of every 2500 persons born male in the United States has already undergone S.R.S. to become female! This 1:2,500 estimate is vastly higher than the 1:30,000 estimate so oft-quoted by the medical community. The D.S.M.-IV number is clearly way off, and by at least a factor of 12! However, on closer examination we will find the error is far worse than that!

My estimates are quite consistent with the estimates of prevalence in other cultures where transsexuals have some means to gender transition. For example, estimates of the number of Hijra in India range between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 in a country of about one billion population. Given about 1.5 million post-op Hijra in a source population of about 375 million males over age 13, the prevalence of Hijra is on the order of is 1.5/375 = 1:250.

http://www.gendercentre.org.au/resources/polare-archive/archived-articles/how-many-of-us-are-there.htm

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Does Bruce Jenner (Caitlyn) qualify for Baptism?

by John Aquila in

im not sure if bruce had a sex operation but lets say someone did have a sex operation and then studied with the witnesses and wanted to get baptized, would he qualify in todays jw world?

could he have privileges?

the bible says the past cant be held against you, once you accept the truth.

John Aquila

Transgender people are born in the wrong body.

With that in mind, I don't see individual Jehovah Witnesses "Not" want to study with such a person. Neither do I see elders stop any "study" based on that itself. The problem would be-if and when that person decided they wanted to get baptized. Would they be prevented? If they did prevent them, it could backfire media wise. I don't think they are willing to get that type of publicity.