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  Jail him as an example !

  by Simon in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2004/allpolitics/04/20/congressman.gun/index.html

  some dumb congressman taking a loaded glock pistol onto an aircraft.. a guy was just jailed for 9 months in the uk for arriving at heathrow (from washington dulles) with amminution in his jacket.

  but hey, he wasn't a congressman ... just a black guy.

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  Amazing1914

  Simon and AlanF,

  I agree with with the points about forgetting to have things in our possession that could cause trouble. Like Alan, I too was detained at the Daley Center in Chicago after 9/11 because I have a keychain knife similar to Alan's Swiss Army knife. They made me check it into the "weapons" locker before I was allowed to proceed into the court room at the center. Though the little blade is only one inch long.

  However, I agree that this Congressman (my Republican bud) should have received some extra hell for having a loaded gun in his possession at an airport. True, because he forgot what bag he was carrying, he should not go to jail, but he should have been seriously fined to help him with his memory. I am a pro-gun-ownership person, but I don't want anyone but pilots and flight marshals to carry them on airplanes.

  Side point: Our more liberal politicians try to make gun ownership a matter of the right to go hunting. However, any reading of American history and the Constitution - as well as a good study of how Hitler took control of Germany - one comes to understand that the right of the people to bear arms was designed to help the general public keep the government under control, as a last check and balance against tyranny.

  Some argue that modern armies have such superior training and weapons that an armed public is no match, and hence the need for a gun in the hands of law abiding citizens is moot. However, one only has to look at Iraq in the year 2004 to see what a handful of untrained men can do in giving hell to the US and British military - the two most advanced militaries in the world. Can you imagine having to face over 200 million guns currently in the hands of 280 million Americans.

  The American government knows its boundaries with the American people, and that is an important deterant against tyranny ... as well as 200 years of practice at learning civility. We are far behind British civility and need guns for another hundred years until we evolve the sense that our Bobbies need not carry guns down the streets of New York to protect us ... they merely need to use polite language to get criminals to stop their shannanigans.
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  The Ugly Truth about Jesus 2nd Presence

  by Amazing1914 in

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  2. friends

  as jws we learned the utmost central watchtower doctrine that jesus returned "invisibly" in 1914 (well it was 1874, but then j. f. rutherford decided jesus really, really, really returned at a later date ... this is also known to jws as "jesus second presence" (greek: parousia = english: presence):.

  ref.

  related new thread at: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/70098/1.ashx .

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  Amazing1914

  Scholar,
  

  I am confident that the NWT a translation on the cutting edge of biblical scholarship will be vindicated in this respect.

  Another Greek Scholar, Dr. Julius Robert Mantey, A.B., Thd. D, PH. D, D.D. is an author of the "Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament." The Watchtower Society quoted him to try and justify their NWT product. Dr. Mantey took great exception with the NWT, and wrote some commentaries refuting the NWT. The Society had quoted Dr. Mantay out of context, so he wrote to the Society demanding they stop quoting him. He once commented that the NWT is a horrible translation containing thousands of errors.

  Dr. Mantey, I believe, is now deceased. However, I recommend that you contact Greek scholars in both modern and ancient Greek, at Lunds University.

  Click here: http://www.lu.se/klass/klasspr/greschol.html

  I have already sent them an e-mail and asked their opinion of "parousia" as it is used in the NWT at Matthew 24:3. I have asked their permission to post their response to this site. Further, I am sending them a link to this post in case they wish to review your comments v. the in-depth arguments excellently developed by AlanF. Let's see what independant experts have to say about this. I hope they find the time to respond.

  Amazing

  PS: I wrote to Dr. Blomqvist at Lunds University. He is a Ph.D., Professor emeritus of Greek Language and Literature. Research areas: grammar; historical linguistics; Hellenistic poetry; mythology; history of science and medicine; skeptic philosophy.
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  Where did Scholar go?

  by Amazing1914 in

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  come on buddy, you have some serious explaining to do regarding "presence" v coming.

  what happened to ya, huh?

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  Amazing1914

  Scholar,

  I am invisibly present!

  Cool ... good come back ...... then I know you are around and reading ... just not answering except for this post ... I can wait, time is on my side ... kind of ... sort of ...
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  I need critter advice badly!

  by little witch in

  1. jw
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  ok, here is the problem... we did some window restoration work in my living room last month.

  in doing so, we lossed a peice of trim on the outside of the house and so far, pa kettle hasn't replaced it.

  soooooo in the meantime, a mother bird has nested in the wall, and there must be a whole nestfull of baby birds.

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  Amazing1914

  The Presidential Whitehouse in Washington, D.C. has the same problem ... they installed sound devices which the birds don't like, and hence problem solved. When I was there, you could see the sound devices - they look like speakers - installed in the trees ... but, you could not hear anything ... the sound is outside human hearing range. You can contact sound recording studios or a zoo for more information ... or search the Internet.

  - Amazing
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  Where did Scholar go?

  by Amazing1914 in

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  come on buddy, you have some serious explaining to do regarding "presence" v coming.

  what happened to ya, huh?

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  Amazing1914

  Come on buddy, you have some serious explaining to do regarding "Presence" v Coming. What happened to ya, huh?
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  Partisan - Good or Bad?

  by Amazing1914 in

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  are you partisan?

  and if so, does that make you an uneducated, narrow-minded, polarizing idiot?

  can we test this theory?.

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  Amazing1914

  Are you Partisan? And if so, does that make you an uneducated, narrow-minded, polarizing idiot? Can we test this theory?
  

  1. Are you strongly in favor of vanilla or chockolate flavors or like both or don't care?

  2. Do you have strong feelings about what colors you wear, or like all colors or it doesn't matter?

  3. Do you support or oppose the Death penalty for some crimes, or does it make any difference?

  4. Do you agree with Blair & UK fighting in Iraq, or should they leave, or you don't give a damn?

  5. Do you support or oppose Watchtower policy on shielding pedophiles - or does it matter?

  6. Do you vote Liberal, Conservative, the candidate or issues, or see voting as a big waste of time?

  7. Does taking a stand mean you're a partisan idiot that should have your mouth taped shut?

  OR ... is Partisan a label, like Apostate, which people use to avoid calm, honest, open debate because they are too damn lazy to use their brains beyond making stereo-typical labels?

  Your thoughts ... open season here ... have at it.
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  Blondie's Updates on Child Sexual Abuse Issues

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a step foward in wisconsin re clergy reporting abuse...except most abuse is revealed in private conversations.

  statute of limitations increased.

  sidepoint, does the wts consider themselves "clergy"?

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  Amazing1914

  Blondie,

  Thanks. Very similar law to the one passed in Illinois and other states. Its a long road, but the Wheels of Justice are turning. - Amazing
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  Words of Christ in Red

  by Blueblades in

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  holy bible, kings james version, the new testament has the words of christ in red.who decided what words should be put in red, and how have they come to this decision?this has always interested me, could it be all hear-say information,or otherwise?

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  Amazing1914

  Red letter editions, as they are often referred to, were done to show Jesus words as quoted. This is done because some people want them set apart for easier reading, and believe it or not, some only want to read what Jesus said, and not the commentary of the Bible writer. When you read only what Jesus actually said, you get a different picture then you do with the added commentary by the writer. I am not sure how long this has been done, but at least since the time of red ink.
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  The arab god... singular or plural

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
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  i was looking around on the arabnews.com web site and i found the following "question from a reader".... the person writing the answer sounds a lot like a jw... "oh no... just because god refers to himself in the plural does not mean he really is.

  sadly, the very next qfr is where someone is wondering if it is ok to raise his hands while saying a prayer.

  i'm reminded of the legalistic bs of the organization.

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  Amazing1914

  I love the plural ... hi Moms, I love you mothers! Hey dads, can you all please take me fishing ... come on dads, play catch with me. Sounds like a lot of legalistic BS to avoid beliwving that my parents are part of a trinity. You know what would have happened to me if I would have said, "you mothers" to my mother? She would have kicked my ass.
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  Has this happened to you?

  by ball. in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just went round the corner for a breakfast in the local cafe, and as i was about to go in, there was a jw, one of my best mates, just coming out.

  i just stood there and looked at him in amazement, as i haven't seen him in 10 years and he had changed a lot.

  i guess i have too.

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  Amazing1914

  When I run into JWs, I go up to them, extend my hand, and speak to them ... why not? What should stop us? Is there some 'no-talking' rule we have to obey? If they talk back with me, which most do, I accept that ... and if they shun me, then I made them feel all the more dirty, unclean, and uncomfortable ... it is a perfect world ... win-win ... except ... I pity them for the communist-style system they live under ...