I wonder if the Armenians know about the JW who was recently DF'ed because he was in the Coast Guard Reserves and was recently called to active duty?
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What's your verdict?
by ozziepost innotice the points emphasised by me in red.
is the wts telling the truth about their beliefs and practices?
when his turn came, brother margaryan testified that minor children who attend meetings of jehovah's witnesses do so with their parents' permission.
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The Passion of the Christ (Movie)
by Golf inafter hearing the pro's and con's about the movie, i went to see it this afternoon.
i know we all have differing views, but i'm interested in knowing what impression it left you.
for me, i went in with a critical eye and i was emotionally detached from the movie.
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grows1
I saw "The Passion of the Christ" today (well, its yesterday, now). It was a very brutal movie. I had to get up and go outside to the lobby for @15 minutes because I could not stand it- I was nauseated and sickened by what I was seeing. Until today I was never able to visualize what I read in the Bible about scourging.I am a very UNimaginative person and the words in the Bible never really meant anything to me because I was unable to visualize those kinds of thing in my mind. Today that changed for me forever. The images of a scourged Christ are FOREVER burned into my memory. I cannot get those images out of my brain. There was audible weeping (including me and my friends) thruout the theater during the movie. It was and is the most accurate attempt to portray Biblical events by anyone in Hollywood, ever, IMHO. And that is why this movie is so hated. Is it 100% biblically accurated? No. Some words and scenes were added that were not in the Bible but I do not think that these additions detracted from the movie. Some things were necessary in an attempt to meld the 4 Gospels. Was the film anti-semitic? I don't think so but then I'm not Jewish so I don't know how Jews will view it. Caiphas was a bad guy in this movie. But I see a LOT of present day religious leader who act just like him- Muslim Imams, race hating "Christian" sects and the GB of the WTBTS to mind. The Roman soldiers came across as brutal mindless sub human Neanderthals. Herod was portrayed as a weird deranged person and Pontius Pilate as a semi-sympathetic ruler caught in a situation he wanted no part of. The Jewish crowds were like frenzied crowds seen during every time period and every age- "packs" of people driven by a mob mentality by manupilating religious (or political)leaders. I didn't see Mary portrayed as some sort of co-redeemer. I saw her as a mother forced to confront what was happening to her son at the time it was happening. Just as ANY mother would. What Jesus endured for us , what He went thru for us will be forever burned into anyone's memory who sees this movie. I do not think that I exaggerate when I say that this movie will forever change how you view Jesus willingly offering Himself for us. It is no wonder He sweated blood in the garden before Judas betrayed Him. This is a great movie and will become one of Hollywood's best movies of all time.
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THEY'RE CALLING MY BOSS!!
by new light ini've been using the walk away, avoid elder contact play for a couple of months now.
my boss (an ms in a different cong.
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What your boss is doing constitutes religious harrassment. Tell him that you do not think that it is proper or professional for him to address YOUR religious beliefs of lack of beliefs at work and during work hours. Save ALL correspondence regarding this issue. You will need these when you see a lawyer if he continues to inject his religion into your work environment.
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The Environment, Nature, Wilderness, etc
by asleif_dufansdottir inas i'm leaving in a bit to go have drinks with paul ehrlich (those of you who've heard of him, yes, that paul ehrlich - steven is so excited!
), i've been trying brush up a bit on his writings, research, etc, and i was just wondering.... the main thing that attracted us to the jws was the promise that the earth would be restored and that all the damage done to it would be corrected.
we've always been environmentalists, but environmentalists that wanted to base their views on good solid research.. were a lot of you attracted mainly by the hope that the earth's problems would be 'fixed'?.
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Here are some of Ehrlich's predictions in the 60's-70's and how they have fared when compared to REAL history.......His Population Bomb began, "The battle to feed all of humanity is over ... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." In 1969, Ehrlich added, "By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people." The same year, he predicted in an article entitled "Eco-Catastrophe!" that by 1980 the United States would see its life expectancy drop to 42 because of pesticides, and by 1999 its population would drop to 22.6 million. In the mid-seventies, with the release of his The End of Affluence, Ehrlich incorporated drama into his dire prophesies. He envisioned the President dissolving Congress "during the food riots of the 1980s," followed by the United States suffering a nuclear attack for its mass use of insecticides. That's right, Ehrlich thought that the United States would get nuked in retaliation for killing bugs. As good as they were for the rest of us, the 1980s weren't so kind to Prof. Ehrlich. There were no food riots of 1980, Congress stayed in session (though perhaps Reagan should have taken a hint from Ehrlich when the Senate started wondering why we didn't send the Girl Scouts to deal with the Sandinistas), and in general Americans got richer, fatter, and more numerous. As did the rest of the world. According to the Food and Agriculture, the Third World now consumes 27 percent more calories per person per day than it did in 1963. India is now exporting food, and deaths from famine, starvation, and malnutrition are fewer than ever before. .................Like I said as good at prophecy as the WTBTS 100% wrong 100% of the time!!!!! I do stand corrected about his child. He did only have one child.
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The Environment, Nature, Wilderness, etc
by asleif_dufansdottir inas i'm leaving in a bit to go have drinks with paul ehrlich (those of you who've heard of him, yes, that paul ehrlich - steven is so excited!
), i've been trying brush up a bit on his writings, research, etc, and i was just wondering.... the main thing that attracted us to the jws was the promise that the earth would be restored and that all the damage done to it would be corrected.
we've always been environmentalists, but environmentalists that wanted to base their views on good solid research.. were a lot of you attracted mainly by the hope that the earth's problems would be 'fixed'?.
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grows1
I remember that lunatic- he's one of the chicken little's running around in the 70's screaming about too many people on the earth and everyone had to stop having kids (except himself, of course, being of the self elected elite he allowed himself to have 5 or 6 kids if I remember correctly); about the new coming ice age caused by humans(in the 70's the newest econazi craze was the new ice age, when that didn't happen they started on global warming); about running out of energy by the early 90's (ask him what his energy prediction is this week);about running out of food (that was before the Green Revolution). As a modern day prophet he ranks right up there with the WTBTS-100% wrong 100% of the time.
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Yankee or Dixie?
by closer2fine inhttp://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm
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82% Dixie- born and bred in the deep south. Altho being from New Orleans I have been accused of being from Brooklyn at times and the North at other times.
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Will the Human Race B able 2 feed itself in future?
by badboy in.
i understand that enough topsoil is lost from an area sufficent 2 feed europe population in a year.. at the rate soil degradation is happening,do u think the human will b able 2 feed itself in the future?
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Since the 70's the chicken littles have been screaming about starving people and an inability to produce enough food. At the same time science has made so many advances in food production that countries who had to import food before are now exporting large amounts of excess food production. The Green revolution has produced an abundance of food in places where food has not readily grown before. There is hydroponics now. A relatively new industry that will further increase food availability and supply when it get into full swing. The Israeli's are leading the way in hydroponics and other food techlologies. Producing food is not so much the problem anymore it is the politics of countries that inhibits food production. People do not want to produce food if it is taken away from them to give to others as socialist countries do. Why work hard growing something when you don't get to eat any of it? The old USSR proved that when they allowed very small private plots to be farmed by people who were allowed to keep and sell what they produced on those private spaces. Food production on those private lots was many times what the state collectives were and sustained the soviet food economy for many years. Also many corrupt gov's use food as weapons against their enemies in their own countries and othe r countries. They don't have a problem starving their enemy and their enemies families. Look at Iraq during the embargo. The big shots got plenty of food (much of it donated food thru the UN) but they let many Iraqi's starve as a political tool.
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Jesus of African Heritage. :)
by Record inhave archeologist discovered the race of jesus?.
his race didn?t matter to us.
and then in genesis 24:37-38, they use my father?s house.
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I don't care what color Jesus was. All I do care about is that He died for me and His blood covers my multitude of sins.
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My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 2
by Simon inprevious: my life ... and how jwd came to be - part 1. .
how many times have people said ?if i knew then what i know now??
what a difference that would have made to my life.
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A lot of people sleepwalk thru life until something momentous wakes them up, Simon. I'm glad that the birth of your son brought you to that point. Some people NEVER get to wake up. Think of how many people that you have POSITIVELY affected because of your willingness to face what you weren't able to before.
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grows1
No major candidate represents the American people. Bush and Kerry are internationalists, blue blood elitists, CFR members, who BOTH pushed for NAFTA,WTO, and are going to enact FTAA, the new pan American agreement that will further siphon jobs out of the USA. Both represent and protect corporate interest to the detriment of working people. Kucinich is the American version of Putin who wants us to live in collectives and bow to the state and Edwards is the ambulance chasing multimillionaire idiot with a southern drawl who represents the ABA. As long as the Repub and Democratic parties continue to control the election process no one who really wants to represent us, the people, has a chance.