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  And so it begins

  by Yerusalyim in

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  tom green, the convicted polygamist in utah, is requesting (through his lawyers of course) that the supreme court overturn his convictions based both on the supreme court ruling on the texas sodomy law and the massachucetts supreme court ruling on gay marriage.. so begins the trip down the slippery slope.

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  Thinking back......What could have been! (LONG)

  by Turnpike Mike in

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  i am not trying to brag or make myself sound really good.

  maybe i just think i am good because i am playing against brothers from the hall and they suck.

  i tell the qb "look for me again, i will be open deep.

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  Abraham.... why such a GOOD guy?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by outbutnotdown in

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  i used to be a jw, (from birth until about 12 years ago... now 34).

  the one thing i could never figure out was why abraham was considered to be a chosen person, not only by christians but muslims also.

  for arguments sake, we have to take the same stance that other religious people do, that the bible is factual and literal.... (although my opinion on that is different).

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  They have nothing to loose by shunning

  by garybuss in

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  if my attitude toward the shunners is to be waiting for them with a full pardon, waiting for them to quit shunning me so i can shower them with love as their reward for being jerks, they have nothing to lose by continuing the shunning.

  they don't have a dog in the fight.

  if children who shun parents were notified by the parents that they will loose their inheritance if they continue the shunning, all of a sudden they have something to loose by shunning.. .

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  Evolution Question(s)

  by Cassiline in

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  if we have evolved my assumption is we still are evolving correct?

  or am i wrong in this assumption as well?

  with all that was wrought on jws this is one teaching i can not get past that of evolution v. creation.

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  He had three and a half years.What about YOU!

  by Blueblades in

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  for those of us who had a lifetime of trying to do it right under all kinds of very difficult tests of faith while imperfect,how do you think jesus would of done if he had to be tested for a lifetime of say 70 or 80 years and not just three and a half years.. what if you had only three and a half years to prove faithful knowing that in just three days after you died you would live again in heaven and would that have been easier than having to spend a lifetime trying to be faithful through all the years of 70 or 80 yrs.. just asking,it's something that i was thinking about today.. blueblades

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  "Unconditional Love" poem

  by outbutnotdown in

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  about a year ago, i started from the freeminds.org site and ended up on some other site, where i found a beautiful poem entitled "unconditional love".

  i have been looking for it a few times again, since then, and haven't been able to find it.

  can anyone tell me if they have seen a poem that sounds like that to them?

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  weird JW Zone ideas on s11

  by blackout in

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  i thought this post from jw zone was pretty bizarre yet indicative, interesting jw take on sept 11.. .

  ohttp://www.jwzone.org/forums/showthread.php?s=b803e894ac60f4544122765894e2a8cf&threadid=8037&perpage=25&pagenumber=1on sept 11 i had just got back from st work with my dad to meet the group at the kh when we had heard over the radio that the first tower was hit.

  i had conducted the group and everyone's mind wasn't on the text frankly.

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  I need advice quick...and a hug.

  by dmouse in

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  i'm in a bit of a state at the moment, my wife has just left me about 30 mins ago and took the kids...i don't know where.... ok, some of you long-timers may remember the problems i had with my son ben, who decided that the jw religion wasn't for him about a year ago.

  i supported him as best i could through that and he's developed into a fine young man with a more healthy spiritual attitude, investigationg a number of christian churches in the area and finally settled on church of england, which he really likes now.. although no longer a christian myself i have no objection to them pursuing whatever religious path they choose (obviously within reason).

  that has been the case with all of my children: ben, 15, charlotte, 14 and chloe, 12. i have never attempted to stop my wife taking them to the meetings although i have voiced to them privately my concerns about the religion.

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  Why There Will Never Be A Perfect World.

  by Englishman in

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  george burns explained it so well in oh god!

  part 2.. "you can't have a top without a bottom".. "you can't have sweet without sour".. "you can't have up without down".. "you get rid of sad and happy goes right out the door too".. so now we know why god doesn't want to make life perfect.

  it's not natural!.

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