Posts by dh
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22Four films worth seeing
by MegaDude insome films have been released recently on dvd that i thought were really good.
i give 'em all a big thumbs up.
if you see them, let me know what you thought of them.. 1.
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Moscow Rule on JW Ban for this Wednesday
by Gerard in[...] moscow city prosecutors have been trying to shut down the church for nearly six years, charging that the witnesses are subversive foreign cultists intent on breaking up russian families, endangering children and inciting religious discord.
a ruling on a final appeal of the case is due wednesday [...]
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8921517.htm?1c
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dh
One man was so unnerved by a Witness appearing at his door that he attacked her. He broke two of her ribs, then successfully sued her for invasion of privacy.
hahaha
i'd like to say i cared about jw's in russia, but i don't, they will surely be falsifying the numbers of 7% per year, and who wants them knocking on the door anyway? maybe they should ban jw's entirely from the world they hate so much, and give them a state of their own to live in.
russian democracy? putin is an old style dictator!
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Need Some Advice.
by Lostreality ini love my girlfriend with all my heart and soul, but her family is very patriotic.
i see it rubbing off on her, i see her friends rubbing off on her.
the problem is, growing up in a witness household, patriotism was downplayed.
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joining the military for health benefits is patriotic?
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Are you afraid?
by UnDisfellowshipped infear not:
1st john 4:18: there is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.
but he who fears has not been made perfect in love.. 2nd timothy 1:7: for god has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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nope.
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What makes you happy?
by winter in.
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there are many thing's in this that makes us happy, could you mention one?
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nothing really, maybe knowing that i don't have to go on forever like this.
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Finish this Sentence- JW's are good liars because.......
by doodle-v in.
because they are brainwashed into thinking that "distorting the truth" is ok in circumstance involved in defending their faith-theocratic warfare.
they constantly lie to themselves about what kind of person they really are and deny themselves life's pleasures-hence the "double life syndrome" lie to friends at school, lie to elders, lie to people in the cong.
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they have lots of practice.
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what do you make of these scriptuires... (re: elijah's mantle)
by dh inas a child this was one of the first passages in the bible that made me question god, and one of the first that made me think the yhwh described in the the bible was not dissimilar to us in many ways, and clearly a being that like us, used machinery and technology to get things done... .
when i think of the mindset that wrote these scriptures, i can't help but liken it to the way native american indians would describe a locomotive train as an 'iron horse' though clearly it is not an iron horse, it's a case of using the words you know to describe a thing you do not understand.. if you believe the bible, or if you think it is an accurate teller of history... what do you think this biblical passage is descibing?.
2 kings 2.
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dh
thanks for the replies! for me this is a very interesting subject, i agree that it could be to do with hallucinations, but i do not think so, not considering the number of references to similar things, seperated by large time frames, and the fact that it is documented by a historian like josephus, who is both recognised and respected.
i don't think the reference to a fiery chariot & fiery horses is a literal reference to things that look physically like those things, the same as the iron horse, doesn't look like a horse, to me if you break it down to the fundamentals, you have a vehicle that is powered by something with flames, and it creates a whirlwind when it takes off, blowing trees etc... i don't understand how a lot of people who totally believe the bible can pass over these references without giving them a second thought.
re: armageddon, i don't really belive that is coming in the jw sense, or any religions sense, but i do think that whoever had those chariots back then is up to something and will surely have some highly developed technology by now, maybe they are getting ready to kick us into touch.
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it's not only these verses that bother me, it's the whole way it is through the whole old testement, the way natural events are often attributed to god, when in fact many of these we (humans) could ourselves today forecast, like a flood, hail the same as we can even create plagues, and bad ones at that, or we could take credit for natural ones if we could see them coming, i'd dare say we could coax a volcano into erupting and spewing fire & sulphar, or create our own, or even turn 'water into wine' or something like wine, if we put our minds to it, and if today we were zapped into some undeveloped region of the world and we predicted a storm coming with satelites, and it came, i'll bet the people would be impressed... it's weird, but to me god/s always appeared to leave a trail about its nature, things that seemed to clearly spell things out, but the church for some reason seems to have everyone convinced that god is a spook in the sky that's invisible and almighty and holier etc, it just doesn't wash.
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I graduate tomorrow!!
by Leolaia inwith my phd!
finally after all these long years.
the funny thing tho is that i'm walking through the ceremony, but not getting my diploma... yet.
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congratulations leolaia!
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Encouragement to get back to the meetings
by cyber-sista ini keep getting these forwards from certain ones who i knew in the org.
they know i have left because i was "discouraged".
they are keeping their distance by not writing to me anything personal, but keep sending these "encouraging" forwards in hopes that i'll be re-awakened, dust off the book bag and head on back to the old kh.
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goodness me how pathetic.
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quick question for ladies...about screaming
by onintwo ini was just wondering about the scream mechanism.
if a lady is suddenly taken by surprise and is fearful, she's likely to let out a blood curdling scream.
but that's not the natural reaction for men.
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slightly off topic: but aren't guys vocal chords different to womens... like when we get to a certain stage, our voices break and we can't scream. i know i can't, i can only shout.