Jesus had not paid the ransom yet so everlasting life was not yet available or something like that?
Acts 9:40
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Why isn't Lazarus my next-door neighbor?
by return of parakeet inafter looking through doug mason's "ransom" thread, i noticed a little discrepancy between dub doctrine and the bible; i.e.
lazarus.. if the wages of sin is death, lazarus paid the wages in full by dying, and when resurrected by jesus, he should then have been a "perfect" man.
after all, he paid his wages for his imperfection -- he died.
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CA question....
by DATA-DOG inso mrs. dd is going to the ca, and it's refreshing to realize that i had no idea that it was coming up!
😎 what a great mental and emotional milestone!!
yay, me!!!.
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1975... the year that keeps on giving.
by silentbuddha inso i recently moved back to my really really really small hometown in the south.
it was the place that my parents moved to from a major city up north in the early 1970's.
when we lived here times were very tough financially and i was always told that the reason we did not attend meetings was due to the fact that we had no car / no gas for the car / could not afford repairs for the years we were there.
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Given 1975 and that the date of Eve's creation is a variable: Adam was still a bachelor at age 42 -and counting.
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Panpsychism - a philosophy with a future
by slimboyfat inat one time scientists believed that living things and non-living things were made of different material, accounting for the unique properties of living things.
this idea is called vitalism and is no longer popular.
what does remain popular (in fact is still the dominant view) is a similar idea that things that experience the world (humans, frogs, mice) are different from things that don't experience the world (potatoes, rocks, snowflakes).
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Panpsychism is the idea that experience is a property of all matter, and that human consciousness is different in degree rather than kind from the rest of the universe.
Enjoyed reading your interesting post, SBF!
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The end of this system is so very near.....NOT
by RULES & REGULATIONS inworld headquarters of jehovah's witnesses - warwick, new york.
“yes, the end of this system is so very near!
is that no reason to increase our activity?… reports are heard of brothers selling their homes and property and planning to finish out the rest of their days in this old system in the pioneer service.
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While the Faithful and Discreet Slave keep promising that the end is near,
JW would not be impressed if angel materialized, or with any other imperical evidence. That would not add one iota to the faith they already have. What JW want and are anxiously waiting for is vindication and relief. FDS can't make that happen.
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why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?
by poopie inwhat do you think there hiding?.
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I agree there are ethical issues and i dont want any church reporting on confidential minutia, sexual dalliances or even income tax fraud....
You are confused. It ain't about ethics. It is about crimes.
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why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?
by poopie inwhat do you think there hiding?.
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Thank you for your very interesting posts, OrphanCrow!
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why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?
by poopie inwhat do you think there hiding?.
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crimes against children are indeed very different than other offense you listed.
All crimes are not treated the same and the law absolutely makes distinctions between children and adults.
Anyone with a little common sense can figure out that someone that gets a ticket for disorderly conduct faces different legal consequences than someone who commits armed robbery. They are both crimes though and criminal procedure is exactly the same. Child abuse is also a crime and treated just the same as any other crime. There is no special category for child abuse, it is in the same Penal Code with all the other crimes and classified as a Felony with all the other Felonies of the same rank. There is no difference.
Therefore, If a litigant can Supeona private church communications about child abuse to help his civil case, there is nothing special about that crime to somebody else that also wants church privacy files disclosed to help his case about non-child abuse, such as a prosecutor, a victim of a crime, the Federal government going after someone for tax fraud, etc. Sure children should have special protection, but victims of other crimes are entitled to nothing less in getting the same justice and so should other litigants in other civil cases getting the same money and society should also be protected from criminal conduct, not only child abuse but from other crimes too. So, not saying that children should not have special protection, they should, but also others should be entitled to the same justice. --They should be treated the same.
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why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?
by poopie inwhat do you think there hiding?.
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All crimes are not treated the same and the law absolutely makes distinctions between children and adults.
No kidding?!!!
Hmmm. Isn't that what the Penal Code is about?In the Penal Code below, drug possession and child predation carry the same penalty.
A-II Felony
Offense Code Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree 220.18 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree 220.41 Criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the second degree 490.50 Predatory sexual assault 130.95 Predatory sexual assault against a child -
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why won't legal department simply release all the secret pedophile files?
by poopie inwhat do you think there hiding?.
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All you care about is yourself, Finkelstein. You'd hand over any child on a platter to a pedophile personally, just as long as you could get back at Watchtower somehow. That is all you want here.