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I have a sincere question....

by AGuest in

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friends

if i may... and may you all have peace.. at risk of chafing some... uh, 'positions' with regard to the current 'situation' facing this nation (u.s.) and a good part of the world, i have to ask:.

just now, i was watching the opening of president bush's address to congress.

as he entered the room, bush was given a grand standing ovation, whistling, cheers and great applause.

AGuest

Ah, yes, DWilt... a TRUE 'man of God', would always say the 'right' thing... which would be the 'thing' folks WANT to hear (or not)... rather than what is truth, yes?

So, let me ask you: what's wrong with 'sass'? I am a black woman; 'sass' is our trademark! Oh, wait! Please tell me you are NOT one of those men who think women belong... ummmm... 'in their place'.

Does it really matter, DWilt, truly, what 'tone' I take? Whether it is 'sassy' or not? TRULY? No, you and both know that neither the words, the tone, the context... or the TRUTH... of what I speak matters. Doesn't matter HOW much 'salt' I put on it... because that is the VERY purpose of this particular part of this discussion:

"Shelby, you're using WAY too much 'salt'. Stop it with all the 'peace' talk."

"Ah, now, Shelby, you need a little MORE 'salt'... and a lot less 'sass'."

May I suggest a verse for you to read, then, dear DWilt? Thank you:

Matthew 11:16-19

Truly, the 'children' of THIS 'generation'... are no different from the 'children' of that one.

My peace remains, and I remain...

Your servant and a slave of Christ,

SJ

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Afghan Women under Taliban

by Tina in

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friends

for those who might be interested in the plight, public murder,bride-price, of women who live under talibans terroriistic fundamentalism........ warning!

graphic photos.. http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/women.html.

carl sagan on balancing openness to new ideas with skeptical scrutiny..."if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense-you cannot distinguish useful ideas from worthless ones.

AGuest

Tina-Girl, peace to you and c'mon... you 'know' me better than that. I think those whom I addressed know who they are. If I thought you hypocritical in your position (and I don't; your making this posting and presenting the plight of the Afghan people showed ME your compassion, much more than any particular 'thirst' for blood by you...), I would have addressed you personally... and pointedly. I did not address you here, because I had previously, when I added TO what you were already trying to get folks to see. As I stated, in response to the treatment of the Afghan people, 'to top it all off, they've got U.S. missles aiming at 'em.' Since you didn't respond to that, I assumed you had got my point, as I yours. WE have no problem, dear one. Honestly.

But my statement about hypocrisy... of those for whom 'the shoe fits'... must stand.

Keep your chin up, Tina, and know that I bid you nothing but peace... and love, and that I am, STILL...

Your servant, friend, SISTER... and a slave of Christ,

Shel

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Afghan Women under Taliban

by Tina in

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friends

for those who might be interested in the plight, public murder,bride-price, of women who live under talibans terroriistic fundamentalism........ warning!

graphic photos.. http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/women.html.

carl sagan on balancing openness to new ideas with skeptical scrutiny..."if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense-you cannot distinguish useful ideas from worthless ones.

AGuest

Six, you are correct: the correct word would have been discriminate. My bad.

Path and GWEEDO, thank you tremendously. Your point... is MY point. I am at complete and utter LOSS as to how this has now become and issue of 'remove the Taliban and free Afghan women and children (and oppressed men). If the Taliban were to turn Bin Laden over TODAY... no one's gonna go in the remove anyone else... or free anyone else. They haven't done so yet, and the heinous treatment of Afghan people has been presented to the U.S. 'power brokers' for YEARS. Even celebrities have taken up that particular issue.

The U.S. wants REVENGE... NOT freedom for an oppressed people. And in SEEKING that revenge, knows FULL well that it is the innocent and oppressed that will die, people who have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the matter, who are starving AS WE SPEAK, and who might actually BE better off dying from a U.S. bullet than having the ABJECT STARVATION that is certain in their future (apparently, some think they'll be 'better off' dying... from whatever means... but how they feel it THEIR position to decide that truly baffles me...), from their current national situation to what a war will leave behind.

I am totally amazed at the lack of concern for HUMAN life that many have: "We've got to teach them a lesson, teach them that they can't just DO what they did to the U.S.!" WHO? Teach WHO? There is no 'war' against the Taliban or any other faction of the Afghan government, other than to say if they don't turn over Bin Laden there will BE a war. But missles aren't dropped soley on covert camps and government buildings. They are dropped ON HOUSES, and BUSINESSES, and SCHOOLS and IN THE STREETS.

IF the U.S. is SUCH a great intellectual 'superpower', indeed, IF some of us here are so 'intellectual', why in the WORLD can't they figure out a resolution to this matter that won't cost ONE SINGLE INNOCENT LIFE... at the hands of U.S. weapons? Why? Because they are NOT that intelligent. They are nothing more than the people who started this for their own particular brand of 'justice'.

If you slap me... and I slap a thousand people before I ever finally slap you... if I indeed DO ever slap you... how am I 'better' than you? Is that not what the 'terrorists' did, needlessly kill over 5,000 INNOCENT people due to their anger at a paltry few? And if the U.S. turns around and does the SAME EXACT THING, someone... PLEASE... tell me... HOW ARE 'WE' ANY DIFFERENT?

Hypocrisy... is hypocrisy. Some here apparently... due to their craving for the 'taste' of blood... simply cannot see that. And to me, such ones are not better then, than the 'blind' and 'evil'(?)... Taliban, Bin Laden and others like... which sees what THEY want to... when, where, how and AS it wants to.

Rally around the President, indeed. We should ALL be grieving for what HAS happened... and what may yet occur. All of it is disgusting and DESPICABLE.

A slave of Christ,

SJ

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Afghan Women under Taliban

by Tina in

jw
friends

for those who might be interested in the plight, public murder,bride-price, of women who live under talibans terroriistic fundamentalism........ warning!

graphic photos.. http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/women.html.

carl sagan on balancing openness to new ideas with skeptical scrutiny..."if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense-you cannot distinguish useful ideas from worthless ones.

AGuest

Rather than 'laugh' at myself, Six... I will 'grieve' over you... and your absolute, total, bigoted ignorance. Do you SERIOUSLY think that any attack by the US on Afghanistan for failure to deliver up Ben Laden (which IS what the 'offer' was, yes?), will be SO indiscriminate as to miss the women and children ALREADY undergoing serious oppression, at the hands of a government THEY do not want?

You know, I don't get mad too often. Really, I don't. But I have just taken about THE deepest breath I have in quite some time, because your complete ignorance of the ISSUES... and tiny brain which impedes your ability to even SEE the issues... simply ires me. It does. Yet, rather than allow myself to FEEL such ire, I will instead feel pity for you in your ignorance.

The best thing, then, is for you and I to conclude our interchange as of this point. But... I know you are going to HAVE to throw at least one more malicious insult out there, because that is the 'nature' of your tiny heart, and even tinier brain. It's THE best you can do. So... don't make me out to be a liar, but rather, 'do me proud'. Go ahead... insult away!

It STILL won't change the TRUTH of what will result if this matter continues in the manner threatened... by BOTH sides.

A slave of Christ,

SJ

57

I have a sincere question....

by AGuest in

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friends

if i may... and may you all have peace.. at risk of chafing some... uh, 'positions' with regard to the current 'situation' facing this nation (u.s.) and a good part of the world, i have to ask:.

just now, i was watching the opening of president bush's address to congress.

as he entered the room, bush was given a grand standing ovation, whistling, cheers and great applause.

AGuest

Hey, there, 'friend' Daddy-O... and may YOU have peace!

JustAThought... and may you have peace!

Yeah, I said... uh, 'wished' that...

I'm drowning in your "peace."

Are YOU JustAThought, Daddy-O? Truly, I did NOT know that! Honest.

Did God tell you to say that 1,000,000,000 times?

Uh, actually more like seven TIMES 1,000,000,000. LOL! No, really, I don't think there's a 'limit'...

I have been directed to ask you... and PLEASE understand the INTENT of my asking: Do you want the TRUTH?

Yep, I said that, too...

'Do you want the TRUTH?' Yes, I do. That's why I'm not asking you for it.

So... you're NOT JustAThought? You just respond to posts TO JustAThought? Can you help a sista' out, here? I'se 'confoozed'.

I'll figure it out on my own.

Well, you GO, boy!

Or I won't.

Well... at least you didn't hear it from me... but truth is, after all, TRUTH. Yes?

But I won't get it from you.

You most certainly won't. While I do KNOW the Truth, I do not 'possess' him or 'contain' him. Indeed, I can also TELL you the Truth... but I can't GIVE him to you... or to anyone else. You've got to go directly to HIM for that... well, at least ASK him. I think that's what I said to JAT, though.

You and only you have convinced me of that.

Well! At least I've 'convinced' you of something. Not that I was trying to... either way.

With that last question, your just set yourself up for another 100 post thread "humbly" aggrandizing yourself and your "gift."

Nahhh... I just spoke the truth, as I heard it FROM the Truth. You needn't have responded, as needn't anyone else... except, perhaps, JAT.

Jesus never did crap like that, I wish you would cut it out and follow his example.

But, indeed, I AM, dear one... truly.

And another thing: he never said "may you have peace" 1,000,000,000 times, either.

Uh, and just how would YOU know that? Because it wasn't RECORDED 1,000,000,000 times? Have you not heard and did you not read:

"JahEshua came and stood in their midst
and said to them: 'May you have peace'"

John 20:21

and...

"There are, in fact, many other things
also which JahEshua did, which, if ever
they were written in FULL detail, I
suppose, the world itself could not
contain the scrolls written."

John 21:25

So, maybe he did... and maybe he didn't. So what? At any rate, I am seriously at a loss as to why a SINCERE wish of peace for some of you is such an irritant. Now, if I was to say something like... hmmmmm... "drop dead and kiss my..." I could see ya'll getting upset. But, I don't talk like that. (Well, yeah, I most CERTAINLY think like that, from time to time, and lately, quite a bit, if you want to know the truth...) However, I know a WHOLE lot of folks that do, some who even post here. Would say it right out... in a post... AND to your face. Why is it that that type of 'dialogue' makes some of ya'll giddy with excitement, and in contrast, wishing you well... by means of wishing you PEACE... just... well, pisses you off?

But frankly, my dear...

Chill, girl.

Cool as a cucumber, Daddy-O. Always. Honestly and truthfully. Easy to be, too, 'cause my Lord has said, in essence... "And NEVER let 'em see you sweat." So, I'm running at about a 'cool' 97.6 (my 'normal' body temp...)

Your friend,

LOLOLOLOL! Your REAL name wouldn't happen to be 'Brute', now, would it, Daddy-O? Ah, nevermind!

Peace, boy!!

Your servant, friend and slave of Christ... STILL...

Shel (who ain't mad at 'cha...)

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Afghan Women under Taliban

by Tina in

jw
friends

for those who might be interested in the plight, public murder,bride-price, of women who live under talibans terroriistic fundamentalism........ warning!

graphic photos.. http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/women.html.

carl sagan on balancing openness to new ideas with skeptical scrutiny..."if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense-you cannot distinguish useful ideas from worthless ones.

AGuest

Maybe the 'outcome' will be 'better' for WHICH 'Afghany' women, Six? The ones killed by their own men? Or the ones killed by ours?

Oh, and it's 'Afghan', dear O-So-Bright-and-Full-of-Knowledge-One. "Afghan women". The "afghani"... is their currency.

Moving right along...

A slave of Christ,

SJ

57

I have a sincere question....

by AGuest in

jw
friends

if i may... and may you all have peace.. at risk of chafing some... uh, 'positions' with regard to the current 'situation' facing this nation (u.s.) and a good part of the world, i have to ask:.

just now, i was watching the opening of president bush's address to congress.

as he entered the room, bush was given a grand standing ovation, whistling, cheers and great applause.

AGuest

Hello, JustAThought... and may you have peace!

I have been directed to ask you... and PLEASE understand the INTENT of my asking:

Do you want the TRUTH? Or do you simply want my opinion, which would be an answer with which to debate?

I am to ask you this because of the way in which you phrased your question(s): you first ask if MY 'present level of enlightment includes anything on the subject, which means it is an 'opionion', really. Yes? But you go on and ask in a manner that suggests I might have received and possess 'the' answer. Which would NOT be an 'opinion'. Yes?

If you are asking my OPINION, based on my 'present level of enlightenment,' I can only say to you that MY opinion... doesn't mean 'squat'. It holds NO weight, whatsoever. The TRUTH, however, 'the' answer... is not 'my' opinion, for I would not have thought of it on my own anyway... one way or another. I promise you.

Thus, I DO know the answer, as it was GIVEN to me... and I simply 'received' it. And I personally have absolutely NO problem sharing with you at all. However, my Lord has directed me to admonish you to unify your heart in this matter, for an 'indecisive man' receives... nothing.

He says that rather than worrying about what some might think of you for asking, put aside your 'fear of man'... and simply ask. So... you must let him know just really what is it you 'wish' to know on this matter, before I will be permitted to respond. Ask him first, JAT.

Psalm 4:4

In the meantime, I again bid you peace, and I am...

YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,

SJ

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Afghan Women under Taliban

by Tina in

jw
friends

for those who might be interested in the plight, public murder,bride-price, of women who live under talibans terroriistic fundamentalism........ warning!

graphic photos.. http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/women.html.

carl sagan on balancing openness to new ideas with skeptical scrutiny..."if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense-you cannot distinguish useful ideas from worthless ones.

AGuest

And to top it all off, Tina-Girl (peace to you!)... they've also got U.S. and allied military and missles 'aiming' for them. Talk about a 'can't win' situation. My heart grieves tremendously... for my sisters... and their children... who are facing certain death from either end: the 'unreasonable' men that will not hesitate to oppress and kill you... and the enemies of such men who, in supposedly seeking to kill THEM for the sake of 'peace'... will also not hesitate to kill you.

SIGH! 'Earthling' man... whether white, black, brown... American, Arab, Jew, Greek... and his NEED to 'dominate'... to his OWN injury... and most certainly to that of his women and children.

Go figure.

A very sad and grieving slave of Christ over the 'heart' of man, and, as usual, the 'plight' HE has once again put the innocent in... on BOTH sides.

SJ

57

I have a sincere question....

by AGuest in

jw
friends

if i may... and may you all have peace.. at risk of chafing some... uh, 'positions' with regard to the current 'situation' facing this nation (u.s.) and a good part of the world, i have to ask:.

just now, i was watching the opening of president bush's address to congress.

as he entered the room, bush was given a grand standing ovation, whistling, cheers and great applause.

AGuest

DWilt and Naeb... thank you. Sincerely.

LauraLisa... may you have peace... and may I say that you are absolutely correct in your observation... and evaluation... of me in this instance. You DID answer my question, entirely, and I fell prey to the 'usual suspects'. I sincerely apologize and I think that is what has got me down about this particular thread. I asked myself, "Okay, just where did THIS take a 'left' turn?"... and it took it... with me. When I responded, against my better judgment... and my Lord's voice... to that which in truth warranted no response. I responded, I think, for the most part, out of habit... and I have 'reaped' what I myself 'sowed'.

I am grateful that you and a couple others understood my question, CONDESCENDED to TRY and understand my question, without questioning my motive for asking... and kindly, even LOVINGLY... responded. I TRIED to say I didn't understand... and simply wanted to. Ah, well...

Please, LauraLisa, forgive my rudeness in overlooking you; it truly was not intended. I let myself get distracted from the issue. I guess I just fell into the 'norm' for what tends to ususally transpire between me and some here in discussions. That may have been what DBearMan meant. I think, however, your way of saying it 'rung truer' for me.

Again, I bid you peace, LauraLisa, and I look forwarding to sharing with you... and hearing from you... again.

I am...

YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,

SJ

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How Are Christians Emancipated from Fear of DEATH?

by Winston in

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friends

anybody got answer?.

the bible says those who have faith in christ are emancipated from the fear of death.. what does that really and truley mean?.

speakers for prophet please don't answer, except in you own words.. .

AGuest

Hello, DWilt... and may you... uh, permit me one last response on this subject. Thank you.

I, too, had such fear at one time, of leaving my loved ones and whether they would be 'ok'. You must remember that the WTBTS pretty much attempts to preach 'death' to the 'anointed'... and a resultant type of 'abandonment'... to their loved ones. So, you can most probably figure that when 'it' happened to me, I was greatly concerned.

One particular day, when I was 'stressing' my future (as taught to me by the WTBTS), my Lord said to me, "I know that you love them, child. As do I. Do you think, then, that you can truly take better care of them than my Father? Indeed, if it comes to pass, and you have taken such good care of them, my Father will do the same, and even more."

So, okay, I 'heard' this, but putting faith in it took a bit more effort. It was then that my Lord spoke to me and I 'heard' the words of Psalm 37:25, 26, which I am sure I must have READ before, but did not truly UNDERSTAND. David said:

"A young man I used to be, I have also grown old, and YET...
I have not seen the righteous left entirely... nor...
his offspring looking for bread. All day long he is showing
favor and lending, and so HIS offspring are in line for a
blessing."

I cannot tell you how comforting it was to hear that, and how true it has come to be. So, as David (actually, my Lord THROUGH David) said:

"Although I walk through the valley of Death's shadow,
I fear NOTHING evil... for you are 'with' me."

And indeed, while I know a great many of you are skeptical, and I well understand your skepticism, I also KNOW... that my Father... and my Lord... are 'with' me... and those who 'belong' to me, those of my 'household', whether they reside under my roof with me... or not.

Matthew 28:20

I also know that although my Lord indeed may put a 'sword' between a father and his son, between a wife and mother-in-law, etc., in TRUTH and in contrast to the WTBTS teaching on the separation of 'anointed' from their families (which is an absolute LIE)... my Father saves not only individuals, but ENTIRE households, based on the righteousness of just ONE person in the household.) And so, I have 'learned' not to be 'anxious' over this matter any longer. It is the 'peace' that my Lord gives... not as the world gives it... but HIS peace. And it is the 'peace' that I have wished for so many here, including you.

Acts 2:39
Acts 10:24, 30, 31, 44
Joshua 2:12, 13, 18

Anyway, that's what I had to 'share' with you.

A slave of Christ,

SJ