Posts by MorpheuzX

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Would You Return To The Organization If You Were Given Total Amnesty?

by minimus in

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if you knew that the policy was that there would be no more witchhunts, no more disfellowshippings or shunning of any kind, would you be tempted to go back?

MorpheuzX

Well since I willing DA'd maybe I'm disqualified from answering; my answer is an unqualified NO!

The organization is so corrupt. They've acted as false prophets for the last 130 years. IMO they're also wrong about the trinity and their translation of John 1:1 is definitely and purposefully wrong to fit their own doctrine. (See Rev 22:18 for the consequences of doing something like that.)

Add in how they cover up child abuse and cultish nature of the organization as a whole and there isn't a way in heck I'd go back to that cesspool.

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Do you have a favorite piece of music?

by MorpheuzX in

i don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?

i know the question seems juvenile.

but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.

MorpheuzX

Dim, I agree Brian Wilson is a genius and Pet Sounds is a fantastic album. But I'm not sure if it's the greatest piece of music ever written. I'd recommend listening to Vivaldi's Four Season's -- Winter in particular. Besides that J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations and his Ciaccona for violin and four voices is likewise brilliant.

Come to think of it, maybe I just have a preference for violin compositions.

I wish Brian Wilson and John Lennon could have got together and made some music -- can you even imagine how great it'd be? Lennon's 'Imagine' might be my favorite pop song.

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jehovah is not a loving God OK!! never was and never will be!

by frankiespeakin in

i know there are some here that deep down inside themselves,,, they know this is true,,,,, but can't seem to be brave enough,,, ,,to say it.. .

this jeho myth has got you afraid to think anything negative about jeho-bubba.

heres the idea:

MorpheuzX

I don't mean this to be a joke. Although I'm not taking this entirely seriously either. So don't wig if you read this and disagree. But if the God of the new testament is the same God of the old testament, then he seems to have split-personality disorder.

My impressions of the God of the old testament are summed up by scriptures like this:

Genesis 6:13 "So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."

Exodus 22:20 "Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must be destroyed."

Deuteronomy 6:15 "for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land."

The God of the old testament always seems really mad and out to kill someone. Now contrast that with the God of the new testament, who with the exception of one day in the temple, always seems really peaceful and loving.

John 15:9-17 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other."

I mean really, how f@#%ing sweet and kind is that? Now either these are two different Gods talking or God just gets really moody sometimes -- which I can understand, cause so do I.

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Jehovah's Witness prank -- Reno 911

by FirstInLine in

garcia and the black guy on reno 911 stopped two guys guns drawn, felony arrest procedures really aggresively and were very agitated and nervous sounding as they forced these guys to the ground reciting the apb and suspect derscription.. garcia ordered one to toss his satchel as he was on his ground.

the other guy checked it out and he said "its ok false alarm they're jehovah's witnesses, its ok false alarm.".

"ok boys sorry for the misunderstanding have a nice day.".

MorpheuzX

I almost died laughing when I saw that. Gretchen, Reno 911 is on Comedy Central.

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Is That All There Is?

by Carmel in

so much has been written and spoken about chronology regarding the "end times" and/or the "return".

why is there so little attentioned paid to the criteria for "his return" and where he will come from?

carmel

MorpheuzX

I could see Jesus showing up in Las Vegas and eventually taking over for Wayne Newton at the Stardust Casino. He could have a variety hour -- sing some songs, cure some blind folks. He wouldn't have to do that neat fish and loaves trick as dinner would be compliments of the house, with a suite of course.

Oh I know, he could have a musical version of the sermon on the mount! Which of course would now also include, blessed are those that genersouly tip their waitstaff. The show could end with a few baptisms or a resurrection. I'd go see it.

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Do you have a favorite piece of music?

by MorpheuzX in

i don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?

i know the question seems juvenile.

but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.

MorpheuzX

Drwtsn32, have you heard Weird Al's new (2003) album, Poodle Hat? I think it contains some of his finest work. My favs from it are Complicated Song and Why Does this Always Happen to Me -- which I think might be a classic.

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Happy St. Patties Day!

by imallgrowedup in

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how're you going to celebrate it?!

may the luck 'o the irish be with you!

growedup

MorpheuzX

Ditto...Happy St. Patty's Day everyone!

It's definitely time to and until you're or a .

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Victory for Terrorism

by Yerusalyim in

the terrorists won a great victory in spain.

mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.

now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.

MorpheuzX

ThiChi, if you don't care about the roots of 9/11 and the roots of what happened in Spain, then I don't even know how to have an intelligent discourse with you -- not that this thread has been one.

The fact is that the people who are doing these things aren't "EVIL" like our president likes to label them. They're a group of people who have been historically oppressed and disenfranchised and they view their terrorist acts as their only way to escape the influence we have over the region -- which they view as keeping them oppressed.

If America really cared about democracy, we'd let the Emir of Kuwait fall, the Sa'ud in Saudi Arabia fall, and then after the democratic process in Iraq is complete, the area would really have democracy and we'd see an end to this terrorism.

That said, I have no problem with the US hunting down Al-queda and exterminating them. It's what they deserve for 9/11 and the bombing in Spain (which they maybe behind). But the US has to have a major sea-change in middle-east politics.

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Victory for Terrorism

by Yerusalyim in

the terrorists won a great victory in spain.

mind you, i'm all for the democratic process...it's great...and had the spanish decided to part ways with the us of it's own volition, great!...however, the socialists were project to not win a majority in this weekends election...that is until the terrorist attack.

now, with the socialist coming into power...and the promise to both withdraw the 1300 spanish soldiers from iraq and to part ways with the us on foriegn policy we can look for more such attacks in other countries.

MorpheuzX

Explain how that is circular reasoning and not fact. What's the matter, when you're confronted with the facts that's all you can come up with?

The fact is that the US government's propping up of so many corrupt dictatorships in the middle east was one of the root causes of 9/11.

And my point Blacksheep, which you will obviously never see is that not only have we often not stood up to terrorrist, in many cases WE'VE BEEN THE TERRORIST. The CIA over threw the governements in Iran and Chile. The US government invade Vietnam in the 1960s and then illegally expanded the war to Cambodia. Maybe you should research some of the firebombing and napalming we did in Cambodia and the after effects it had -- namely the rise of the Khmer Rouge. I suppose that wasn't terrorism, because we did it, right?

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Do you have a favorite piece of music?

by MorpheuzX in

i don't know if this thread has been covered before; do you have a favorite song or piece of music or performer?

i know the question seems juvenile.

but, i'm curious.. mine, i think, is a tie between wladyslaw szpilman's performance of chopin's nocturne in c-sharp minor and angela hewitt's version of bach's goldberg variations -- the aria is divine!.

MorpheuzX

Talesin, I agree the Rollins Band totally rocks, lol. I listen to their 'The Only Way to Know for Sure' concert album all the time.