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Post by been there on May 23, 2006 17:07:41 GMT -5
Nathan9, why did you leave the work ?
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Post by been there on May 27, 2006 13:25:06 GMT -5
feb6div@yahoo.com
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Post by wondering on May 28, 2006 14:05:32 GMT -5
why does answering the question as to why you left the work cause you not to answer on this board? Is it that big of a secret?
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Post by deepest feelings on May 28, 2006 18:56:15 GMT -5
Nathan, TMB is a forum in which one should feel encouraged to let things "all hang out". Why have TMB...if we cannot share our deepest feelings?
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Post by gut bucket on May 28, 2006 18:59:08 GMT -5
I agree with "deepest feelings". This is (or should be) a gut-bucket place where we all might share our innermost feelings. Let us not be timid in expressing ourselves.
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Post by guesty on May 28, 2006 20:44:46 GMT -5
Who in their right mind would share their deepest feelings on a web board...good grief...You'd actually pour your heart out to strangers? You are being facetious..right?
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Post by horsewoman on May 28, 2006 20:54:36 GMT -5
Well.....Horsewoman can tell you that expressing oneself in a public forum is risky. I dont post here much anymore. The time will come, probably sooner than later, that I will stop doing so.
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Post by IllinoisGal on May 28, 2006 21:15:35 GMT -5
HorseWoman. what makes you say it is risky when no one actually knows us. Not unless of course you post your name and address or something such as that
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Post by justamom on May 28, 2006 22:10:04 GMT -5
IllinoisGal... what makes you think that we don't know each other? I know some on here who I have met in person.... and some that I have even went to conventions with them when I was younger.... and some that I know their relatives.... I think that if anyone wants to proceed with caution on a board like this is very wise....
Have a great day..
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Post by to invalid on May 29, 2006 3:44:04 GMT -5
What could happen by writting on this board, that wouldn't have the same chance of happening it the same things were said face to face? Has the privelage of free expression become surpressed in 2x2 or ex-2x2 circles?
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Post by guesty on May 29, 2006 12:21:22 GMT -5
I am assuming face to face means one on one..not one on a few hundred?..I think there is somewhat of a difference. And face to face I would suppose you would know to whom you are divulging things close to your heart. Cast not your pearls....regardless of who you are. Freedom of expression proposes choice to not express if that is one's desire. Are you trying to say people who don't parade their hearts in public are under some sort of "suppression" doctrine. How about self respect, dignity and prudence as doctrine.
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Post by IllinoisGal on May 29, 2006 13:30:06 GMT -5
IllinoisGal... what makes you think that we don't know each other? I know some on here who I have met in person.... and some that I have even went to conventions with them when I was younger.... and some that I know their relatives.... I think that if anyone wants to proceed with caution on a board like this is very wise.... Have a great day.. I didnt say people might not know each other. Neither do I think its wise to give personal info. However, Im saying, No one would know who the poster is unless you actually cared to tell that part. I suppose anyone could post there feelings under an assumed name but I just prefer to stick with my Registered name
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Post by worker question on May 29, 2006 18:27:53 GMT -5
what causes a worker to leave?
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Post by guesty on May 29, 2006 21:35:00 GMT -5
It probably depends on the worker.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2006 0:19:34 GMT -5
I left the work in 1981 (after 16 years in the work) because I fell in love and wanted to get married.
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Post by T2M on May 30, 2006 3:35:43 GMT -5
I left the work in 1981 (after 16 years in the work) because I fell in love and wanted to get married. Who told you you couldn't stay in the work and be married? Did they show you supporting scriptures? Or was it just your assumption/understanding that it was either the work or marriage--mutually exclusive?
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2006 4:52:20 GMT -5
I left the work in 1981 (after 16 years in the work) because I fell in love and wanted to get married. Who told you you couldn't stay in the work and be married? Did they show you supporting scriptures? Or was it just your assumption/understanding that it was either the work or marriage--mutually exclusive? It is important to remember that, at that time, I was a firm supporter of the 2x2 culture - I was well aware of the fact that I would not be allowed to continue in the work if I married ---- but at that time I personally felt that married life was not suitable for workers. This was 20 years before I understood the enormous effect that unChristian 2x2 principles had on my thinking.
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Post by if on May 30, 2006 4:55:54 GMT -5
Who told you you couldn't stay in the work and be married? Did they show you supporting scriptures? Or was it just your assumption/understanding that it was either the work or marriage--mutually exclusive? It is important to remember that, at that time, I was a firm supporter of the 2x2 culture - I was well aware of the fact that I would not be allowed to continue in the work if I married ---- but at that time I personally felt that married life was not suitable for workers. This was 20 years before I understood the enormous effect that unChristian 2x2 principles had on my thinking. if you had remained a worker and married how would you have looked after you wife? where would she have lived?
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2006 4:59:42 GMT -5
Actually living together in couples is a common configuration for workers -- so I don't see the problem.
But don't get me wrong -- I am not suggesting that being in 'the work' is a good thing -- either for singles or for couples.
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Post by a believer on May 30, 2006 5:18:41 GMT -5
It is important to remember that, at that time, I was a firm supporter of the 2x2 culture - I was well aware of the fact that I would not be allowed to continue in the work if I married ---- but at that time I personally felt that married life was not suitable for workers. This was 20 years before I understood the enormous effect that unChristian 2x2 principles had on my thinking. if you had remained a worker and married how would you have looked after you wife? where would she have lived? Yes living to gather as couples is how they live as workers. So why only single sex couples, why not married couples. Jesus had no problem calling married men into the ministry, so why do workers have the problem. IS it that they lack the faith to believe God can provide for married couples as well as same sex couples? Nathan asked how could you look after a wife? The answer is that he would not have to look after his wife, other professing people look after her the same way as they look after the workers. Maybe there would be 2 homes instead of one tohouse the workers. Didn't Paul or someone say why could they not lead a wife around like the others.....
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Post by heres why on May 30, 2006 9:53:28 GMT -5
professing.proboards15.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=1143328402&page=7#1143519641Use this link and scroll down to the 14th post on the page it takes you to. You will read in Nathan's own words why he left the Work. I will re-post a portion below, in case there is a problem with the link, or the original post disappears. *can you share why you left the work?
~~ My reply: I got Stressed out my last two yrs in the work. I didn't get along with my overseer because he was getting senile and unbearable to deal with. He made my life a living hell but I hold no hard feelings against him I know he wasn't like that in his younger years.
The overseer was a very kind and compassionate man before he got to be unbearable person to be around with. One worker had to move out of the state to get away from him, another left the work and got married due to stresses in dealing with him. It was chaos.
I didn't like the politics at the end they should have sent him to a nursing home instead staying with us brothers in our field.
They sent him to a nursing home when the older brother saw what was happening but it was too late for some of us already had it up to our necks.
Well, I enjoy what I am doing on the Internet the last 8 years less stressful and no politics to deal with.
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Post by Bert on May 30, 2006 10:11:18 GMT -5
To "here's why" You characters who are "saved by grace", ok? you posted something here to offend or embarrass Nathan. Why can't you show this grace you imagine you have been given?
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Post by you assume on May 30, 2006 10:31:16 GMT -5
To "here's why" You characters who are "saved by grace", ok? you posted something here to offend or embarrass Nathan. Why can't you show this grace you imagine you have been given? You make some enormous jumps. Go back and re-read, slowly this time, without projecting. The re-post was Nathan's own words. If he was embarassed by them, he could have deleted his post a long time ago. He's registered.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2006 14:24:33 GMT -5
if you had remained a worker and married how would you have looked after you wife? where would she have lived? Yes living to gather as couples is how they live as workers. So why only single sex couples, why not married couples. Jesus had no problem calling married men into the ministry, so why do workers have the problem. IS it that they lack the faith to believe God can provide for married couples as well as same sex couples? Nathan asked how could you look after a wife? The answer is that he would not have to look after his wife, other professing people look after her the same way as they look after the workers. Maybe there would be 2 homes instead of one tohouse the workers. Didn't Paul or someone say why could they not lead a wife around like the others..... Yes I agree -- I am thankful for the privelage of service/ministring within Gods will today -- and now I have a wife and 6 kids. I regard them as an asset to my service to God - and find more 'full time' privelages in this service than I did when I was in 'the work'! Edgar Actually I don't like the expression the power to "lead a wife arround" -- Sounds quite male chauvanistic to me -- I lead my dog arround -- but not my wife and kids!!
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Post by l on May 30, 2006 16:26:58 GMT -5
Philip had four daughters he was a evangalist Judas was married Peter was married also Philip I mentioned earlier
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Post by so on May 30, 2006 19:47:51 GMT -5
Philip had four daughters he was a evangalist Judas was married Peter was married also Philip I mentioned earlier so
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Post by horsewoman on Jun 6, 2006 14:23:50 GMT -5
That would be today. Thank you very much.
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