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  She is a different person since accepting Jesus . . .

  by compound complex in

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  this morning, i was working at a home where the tv had been left on.

  i listened in but didn't watch, for the most part.

  ms. davis was flanked by her lawyer and another gentleman.

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  "Strange how each religion or grouping of similar faiths has its distinctive jargon and identifying marks."

  Differences in beliefs will create different jargon to state their differing ideas. Even if two groups are identical to each other they may evolve different phrases for the same thing due to their isolation from each other. That would be equivalent to genetic drift where one species develops different genes from her sister species in another continent.

  As you Co co are well aware, language is fluid and changes within time and region. Example, British and American English.
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  Could "this generation" inspire a new "1975 debacle"?

  by Island Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i think that it's possible that they're getting ready to issue a new end time date insinuation like they did with 1975. now i know what some of you are probably thinking: why would they be so stupid as to repeat such a mistake, knowing what happened in 1975?

  well here're two reasons why i think they could do it:.

  first, it's important to remember that they are deluded.

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  Island Man: "I can totally see this happening."

  Not necessarily. They seem to want to distant themselves from 1914 or any set date that can easily be falsified and just continue prattling about how current events are an imminent sign of the end. If I'm not mistaken, the Advntists have not set a new date since 1844.
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  If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

  by DJS in

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  scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

  by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

  updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

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  Good point Lisa.

  One can come up with many similar examples like that of a Jew working at a restaurant refusing to serve pork products.
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  What ARE the fruits that the JW tree produces?

  by TTWSYF in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my brother [the elder] often refers to this line as to 'knowing a tree by it;s fruits'.

  so,my question is what are the jw fruits?.

  just asking....sincerely.

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  Unhappiness, backstabbing, self-righteousness, humiliation, etc.
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  BBC interview about 1975 - never heard this before..

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for any lurkers who don't believe the watchtower taught that the world would end in 1975... rare jehovah's witnesses 1968 interview "armageddon and 1975" london watchtower rep speaks to bbc.

  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=npmt-ml-m-g. --------.

  but where will this system of things be by that time?

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  I was in the JWs in the mid 70s and I know for a fact that they stated that the Great Tribulation/Armageddon would occur within a few months or years of 1975.

  I distinctly remember going to a special talk given by Fred Franz in which he gave explicit detail to the 1975 doctrine. I was recording that talk and I now wish I knew were that tape cassette is at.
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  If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

  by DJS in

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  scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

  by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

  updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

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  OUTLAW: The Contempt Charge is "based on her refusal" to do her job..

  Thank you Outlaw for stating what should be obvious, now if this thread could just die.
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  to the devil--a daughter

  by stan livedeath in

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  Village Idiot

  WHY1914
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  Revelation 8:8 Is a comet / asteroid heading here soon?

  by FuzzyPaul in

  1. social
  2. current

  i have read a lot and watched some you-tube videos (some by marginally lunatic fringe christians - not necessarily invalidating) searching for asteroid september 2015 or comet september 2015.. there is some biblical evidence that, if one doesn't spiritualize / make literally invalid by symbolic exercise, that at the time of the end of the age there will be a uniquely severe, single great earthquake (isaiah 29:6, zecharia 4:7, haggia 2:6, revelation 6:12, revelation 16:18) and destructive objects described as hail, mountains falling from the sky, stars falling onto earth.

  i note that ancients would not recognize the vastness of outer space and meteroids, asteroids, comets, planets being what we know them as.. there is also the exact symbol of "then the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea.

  one-third of the water in the sea became blood, one-third of all things living in the sea died, and one-third of all the ships on the sea were destroyed.

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  Village Idiot

  Look up in the sky!

  It's a bird.

  It's a plane.

  It's superman!
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  Angola BANS ISLAM and MUSLIMS. Calls it a sect.

  by PaintedToeNail in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  angola has banned islam and closed the mosques, saying that it is a sect and counter to the culture of the country.. http://www.worldbulletin.net/headlines/163865/angola-bans-islam-shuts-down-mosques .

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  Conservative Muslims hate Christians and non-Muslims.

  Ancient Hebrews hated non-Hebrews and were barbaric in their laws in general.

  Fundamentalist Christians consider non-Christians to be worthy of eternal torture unless, of course, they convert.

  The three sisters Judaism, Christianity and Islam have similar temperaments even if they look different from each other in superficial appearance.
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  If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future

  by DJS in

  1. social
  2. current

  scotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.

  by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.

  updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..

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  violias: "He has attacked a religious belief..."

  Only from the point of view of those who share that religion. From an objective point of view he is simply punishing a person who isn't following orders.