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  WTBS attitude towards vegetarians ...

  by El blanko in

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  having flirted with meat off and on through my life, but mostly conforming to the vegetarian standard (due to the obscenity for the most part that is the meat industry) - i noticed when serving with the society, that i came under fire from the brothers.. my moral arguments about cutting down on meat consumption based around the factory farming methods were cast aside and often sneered at.. "well god gave us the right to eat meat" was the usual line i had to swallow down.. have any of you guys faced the same situation?

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  The rights of the WTBS vs the rights of those who doubt their claims.

  by El blanko in

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  i had an interesting chat(?

  ) last night with two friends who were involved with the wtbs and active jws.

  the one desires to return and the other appears to defend the wtbs, whilst having a very unusual set of beliefs that are tacked onto the jw dogma.

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  Smoke and orbs ... hmmm ... surely not?

  by El blanko in

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  a friend of mine has had many odd experiences through his life, the latest being a series of very odd occurances in his house involving the manifestation of swirling mist (or smoke) and bright orbs passing through the living room area.. he hesitated to tell me these recent events due to feeling foolish.. his girlfriend has also witnessed the same events in the same area of the property.. weird eh?!.

  a few years back he returned home (to another house) and noticed a glowing ball above his property and for some reason he commanded it to move to the right, which it promptly did and then returned to the centre before vanishing.. he has also heard padding sounds across the floor in his new house, like a dog moving around the property.

  his girlfriend reported hearing this first and my friend said she was probably imagining it until he heard the same after a bin fell over in the main living area.. anybody else here had these kinds of experiences?.

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  The human eye - faulty?

  by El blanko in

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  just a link to provoke thought:.

  http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/1139.asp.

  well written i thought.

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  You know you want to buy these ... roll up, roll up !!!

  by El blanko in

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  http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&category=1600&item=4208871110&rd=1&sspagename=wdvw

  just what you need my friends for an evenings respite.

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  Baraka

  by El blanko in

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  http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=search&adudisc=y

  click the link up there and if any of you haven't seen the film, i can't recommend it enough.

  sheer beauty - i am only sad that i missed this years ago.. well worth the investment in terms of money and time spent.. sniff... almost makes life worth living again...

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  Favourite comic book or comic book hero ?

  by El blanko in

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  i noticed somebody said they were bored, so i thought i'd start up a ' fluff ' thread .

  i have been a minor fan off and on of comic books through the years (although not as obsessed as a guy i know of who owns 1000s of the comics and delves deeply into that particular universe of artwork for spiritual insight) and have a favourite book that inspires thought and fires up my imagination:.

  ' watchmen ' written by alan moore.

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  Uplifting music

  by El blanko in

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  hi there and good day to you all .... i purchased an album yesterday which has just been released called immortal memory by lisa gerrard & patrick cassidy, it really is beautiful in places and has a certain uplifting meloncholy throughout.

  i know that sounds contradictory, but really, the first few tracks really tug at the heart strings.. if you need an aural and highly textured experience, this album is worth going for.

  it really helped lift my mood and is playing in the background as i work.. one track features the lords prayer sung in aramaic taken from the peshitta version of the holy scriptures.. if you do not know who lisa gerrard is, she used to sing with a group called dead can dance and is probably most noted for her vocal work in the film gladiator.

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  The societys view would be what?

  by El blanko in

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  i'll boil it down to this: .

  does an "active male jw" who is married "have the right to stand in the way" of an "inactive and divorced mother-in-law"; by not allowing her daughter (his wife), on the grounds of the divorce and bad association, to see her mother?

  the mother-in-law was seen with a disfellowshipped person and is now divorced from her husband by secular law.

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  Cannabis & priestly anointing oil ?

  by El blanko in

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  2. bible

  hi there fellow students .... a quick question for you all.

  do you know whether in the temple arrangement, the anointing oil used contained flower heads from the cannabis plant?

  there appears to be evidence that suggests that the word kineboisin refers to the plant.

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