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  Anyone Seen The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe yet?

  by SWALKER in

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  i thought the photography was awesome and enjoyed the story.

  i loved the books when i was younger and i'm glad they finally made it into a movie.

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  gaiagirl

  I read the books years ago, and liked them very much. I thought there was a great deal of christian symbolism, and even literalization of some scriptural passages. For example, The Last Battle is clearly about Armageddon, and some events are written to happen exactly as described in the bible, for example, stars literally fall from the sky (they are conscious entities). One thing I found interesting was that after everything was over, the survivors were shown that neither Narnia, nor the "normal" world we are familiar with, were "real" worlds. All were sort of imperfect reflections of the "real" world, and everyone who survived the battle now got to actually enter the "real" world and live with Aslan forever.
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  Biblical Unitarians?

  by serendipity in

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  does anyone have any experience or knowledge of biblical unitarians?

  i've looked at their website and was surprised at how many beliefs they have in common with jws.

  they seem to be kind of like bible students without the wacky pyramid stuff and the dates.

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  I attend a Unitarian-Universalist church, which apparantly is not even close to "Biblical Unitarian". As mentioned above, members are free to find their own theology, with no imposed dogmas. The church serves to focus on common threads which unite people, not divisive things to argue about. Jesus is generally viewed as a humanitarian teacher who attained tremendous popularity during his lifetime (somewhat like Ghandi). Decades after his death, other wrote a lot about him, putting their spin on his teaching, often effectively negating them. Different weight is given to what Jesus is likely to have actually said, and what others said about him. Sermons tend to be about how to be better people or how to form a better society in this life, rather than what is neccessary to do to gain some future reward. In a sermon, the minister may quote from the bible, but is about as likely to quote from other sacred writings such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Koran, or the writings of certain philosophers. I know within my own congregation there are some who identify as christians, as well as many who identify as jewish, pagan, muslim, buddhist, etc. The congregation is also welcoming to gay, bi, lesbian and poly families. In many ways its exactly the opposite of the kingdom hall, and therefore, quite refreshing. Years ago, if someone had told me that some of my best friends would be, for example, lesbians and witches, I would have laughed. But that is exactly how things turned out.
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  And the biggest WTBS oxymoron is…

  by zagor in

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  in my opinion it is a current truth.

  ive never heard of such term elsewhere.

  the funny thing is you never really know when an old truth stops being current and becomes a new lie.. .

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  "accurate knowledge"? (Only an oxymoron within WTBTS)
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  Jw movie

  by lime05 in

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  if the jehovahs witness cult was a movie.

  what type do you think it would be.

  comedy horror?

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  gaiagirl

  "The Magdalene Sisters" comes to mind.
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  Eve's story

  by Ellie in

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  after three weeks in the garden of eden, god came to visit eve.

  " inquired god.

  "it is all so beautiful, god," she replied.

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  gaiagirl

  It also agrees somewhat more closely with biology, i.e. every human being begins as a female, and ONLY if certain hormones are present do the organs develop into male organs.
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  American History on outline on Salem

  by MsMcDucket in

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  my youngest had to write this outline for history.. i. the men and women of .

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  the townspeople in believed in witches.

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  gaiagirl

  One small correction should be made: No one in Salem was burned, hanging was the preferred method of execution for the Puritans. Many accused of witchcraft in Europe, however, were burned.
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  Christmas Eve, what are you doing tonight?

  by JH in

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  i might go over to my parents for a few hours, have dinner there, then come back here at my apartment in the evening and have a few beers and chips while i post.. i bought a christmas present for my cat...... new brand of high quality cat food which she tried and she loves..... http://www.royalcanin.ca/products/fn/indoor/mature_en.php.

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  Dinner consisting of pizza and Zima, followed by a special screening of "Bad(der) Santa" : )
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  The fear of "spontaneous sex"

  by free2beme in

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  when i was young and single and a witness.

  i remember often the fear older people had of putting young people together alone.

  not just for dating, but even leaving them in a car while an older couple went to a return visit.

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  Once a date took me to a movie (he picked me up and we rode alone in his car), where we met four or five other witnesses waiting outside the theatre to buy tickets. We had been talking about seeing one particular film, and I decided that it would be fun to watch a different movie instead, so we just stepped sideways to the back of the next line over. When the other witnesses saw that we were going to a different movie...by ourselves...they ALL changed lines, bought tickets for the film we were seeing, and followed us into the theatre, where they sat with us. I suppose they thought we might become intimate if we were the only witnesses in a dark room full of worldly people.
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  Welcome To Paradise

  by fairchild in

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  glen never came back after his last vacation.

  however, the sign read closed until 9pm.

  the waitress caught us on our way out the door.

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  gaiagirl

  That DOES read like a story idea for a dystopian "1984" type film. I suggest that the two leads be played by Scarlett Johannsen and Ewan McGregor, the two actors who were in "The Island" (but others might be acceptable).
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  The best Christmas Gift for an active JW!

  by LDH in

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  friends, (in the true sense, not the jw sense) we all know that the publishing company known as the wbts churns out crap like there's no tomorrow.. part of their motive is to keep jws feeling as though they are not keeping up with god's celestial chariot (tm) if they are not current on all jw literature.. perhaps someone could quote where jw are discouraged from reading 'worldly' literature because surely jehoober has provided the most important reading material through his faithful and discreet slave!

  so what i'm thinking is, get a jw a christmas gift.

  you can even placate them by giving it to them this week or next week and telling them condescendingly, you know they don't celebrate, but this 'really isn't a christmas gift.

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  gaiagirl

  I read that one, and enjoyed it. Others which I also enjoyed include "Cosmos" (and many others) by Carl Sagan, "Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes, "Atlantis" by Charles Pellegrino, "Noahs Flood" by Ryan and Pitman, "Wonderful Life" by Stephen Jay Gould, "The Red Chair" by Anita Diamant, and "The Chalice and the Blade" by Riane Eisler. Any of these titles will greatly expand the readers perspective of the world.