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  Happy Birthday to Me!

  by Iown Mylife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there's a beautiful sky this morning.

  it's my birthday, today i'm 64 and look every inch of it, but i appreciate my life and feel fortunate to be cult-free.

  also very fortunate to have a purposeful and entertaining existence here in gorgeous north georgia (in the usa).

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  Iown Mylife, you have a PM.
  
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  Happy Birthday to Me!

  by Iown Mylife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there's a beautiful sky this morning.

  it's my birthday, today i'm 64 and look every inch of it, but i appreciate my life and feel fortunate to be cult-free.

  also very fortunate to have a purposeful and entertaining existence here in gorgeous north georgia (in the usa).

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  IOML,

  That's what they did when she was a girl in Cuba.
  

  I'm Cuban too! I guess that makes you a second generation Cuban. Tell me, did she flee from Fidel Castro's regime or was she already here in the States in the late 1950s? I came here as a baby in my mother's arms when Fidel was consolidating his power and just before he shut down all flights to the United States.
  
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  Happy Birthday to Me!

  by Iown Mylife in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there's a beautiful sky this morning.

  it's my birthday, today i'm 64 and look every inch of it, but i appreciate my life and feel fortunate to be cult-free.

  also very fortunate to have a purposeful and entertaining existence here in gorgeous north georgia (in the usa).

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  Will there ever be an accounting for religious leaders that go beyond what's written?

  by Chook in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all including wt prophets may be surprised.

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  Will there ever be an accounting for religious leaders that go beyond what's written?

  Who will bring them into account?
  
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  What could it be?

  by Randy notmarsh in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm doing some research.

  someone snitched over something minor-ish on me about six months ago the person is from a different hall, person got df ( over some other stuff) why haven't the elders talked to me?

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  I think you're worrying yourself in expectation of something bad. Just don't bring it up and forget about it. They probably have.
  
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  Anyone read the latest Awake (on the supernatural)?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just read some of this latest awake on the org's webshite.. it begins by talking about the 'supernatural' - wizards, witches, vampires, etc.

  - their popularity and why they might appeal to people.

  then it goes on to state the wt belief that someone is 'behind it'.. now, i like a few horror/scary films - when i was a kid, i always actually liked being a bit scared by them, tbh.. the silence of the lambs, a nightmare on elm street (1984), the ring, the witch, the thing (1982) and a few others are all great, imo.. they are just genres and subgenres of film, that's all.

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  I once watched Dawn of the Dead and made the mistake of telling one of my friends about it. He snitched me to an elder. When the elder talked to me he told me "Do you realize that live people played their (zombies) part"?
  
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  Does Paul preach a fundamentally different religion than Jesus?

  by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  controversy has arisen regarding jesus versus paul as scholars debate the different emphases and messages of jesus and paul.1 jesus preached the kingdom of heaven.

  paul did not.

  paul preached justification by faith alone.

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  Cofty,

  I disagree that Jesus was lax about the sabbath. He kept the Law meticulously but refused to bow a legalistic application of it.
  

  And killing a man for gathering firewood is not legalistic?
  
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  Does Paul preach a fundamentally different religion than Jesus?

  by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  controversy has arisen regarding jesus versus paul as scholars debate the different emphases and messages of jesus and paul.1 jesus preached the kingdom of heaven.

  paul did not.

  paul preached justification by faith alone.

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  Crazyguy,

  Jesus contradicts Yahweh...

  Cofty,

  I'm not convinced about that.
  

  He's right cofty. For example, Moses had a man executed for gathering firewood on the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36.) yet Jesus was very lax (Matthew 12:1-5.). And yes, it stands to reason that Jesus be interpreted as the same god by the doctrine of the Trinity but this does not contradict the fact that there were contradictions or at the very least a contrast between Jesus and the Old Testament god.
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. social
  2. current

  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  freemindfade,

  That's not saying he is better, that is saying people were fed up. There was one simple solution that would have avoided all this

  bernie...
  

  We agree on Bernie Sanders and that people were fed up. I still believe that a rational choice would have been third party or Bernie being written in. But let me ask, would you have supported Bernie?
  
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. social
  2. current

  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  Village Idiot

  The OP was about Trump's administration's gross lack of security. Trump uses his unsecured phone for his daily tweets. The Secret Service tried to get him to use a more secure phone but he refuses to change his habits. Richard DeAgazio outed a man named "Rick" as the doomsday 'football' carrier. Trump had a conversation with others on a sensitive matter in a loud manner which could be overheard in the club’s dining room by members of the public.

  My general point is that whatever the merits of Hillary Clinton's issues it was not justified by voting for an imbecile like Trump. There were third party candidates.