Posts by googlemagoogle

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Alot of Questions regarding Jehovah God.

by Geetarfreek! in

hey, i'm new here and have alot of questions i would appreciate being answered.. .

1. does god have anything against jw's playing guitar?.

2. i f i have a family member of friend that i care dearly for but they don't believe in jehovah god then surely i won't see them again after armageddon day.

googlemagoogle

gitfreak, why do you think that there are people who know anything more about god than you do?

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Alot of Questions regarding Jehovah God.

by Geetarfreek! in

hey, i'm new here and have alot of questions i would appreciate being answered.. .

1. does god have anything against jw's playing guitar?.

2. i f i have a family member of friend that i care dearly for but they don't believe in jehovah god then surely i won't see them again after armageddon day.

googlemagoogle

What about Christian Rock and Roll? Is that bad too?

omg, that's the worst.

and i'm sure satan plays his licks a hell of a lot better than god. god only plays harp.

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What's cookin' at yall's house?

by Frannie Banannie in

jw
friends

i'm feeling very ambitious and decided to make napoleon pastries tomorrow nite.

what's cookin' at your place?.

double chocolate napoleon pastry.

googlemagoogle

beer.

btw: i'd kill for almond paste!

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How would JWs run a country if they had one?

by Spectrum in

jw
friends

can anybody imagine what it would be like to live in a country run by jws?

what would they call it?

what laws would they have?

googlemagoogle

usa-like... "the finest people" and all. "patriot act". FBI. guantanamo.

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this has been bothering me for some time now and i'm hoping that some here will shed some light on the subject.. paul goes to great lengths to tell us that we can't earn god's grace (undeserved kindness).. the wts also says that.. but, the bible does give us some do's and don'ts.

the bible does tell us about individuals who would be bad association.

it also tells us about some sins that would cause the sinner to be ineligible for the new kingdom.. so do we in fact have to earn the undeserved kindness?

googlemagoogle

maybe most moved on and don't believe in any ransom sacrifice anymore, thus are considered bad a$$ociation by paul?

jesus: "you are my friends when you do what i tell you to do". interesting kind of friendship. lol.

there are too many theological concepts of salvation, all based on the bible... some say, faith alone, not works. some say works manifest faith. some say all will be saved. some say all will be saved but some will be saved after some cleansing. some say some will be saved this way some another.

i don't know if it's worth bothering. not for me. anymore.

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How did they dare?

by Narkissos in

jw
friends

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this is a very simple question which came to my mind shortly after i broke free from the jw/fundamentalistic mindset.. assuming (1) that "god" didn't do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, and (2) that the writers were not cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control, but really believed in their "god", the question is: how did they dare make their "god" speak and act?.

this question, of course, is pointless to you if you believe (1) that "god" did do and say everything that the bible texts record him doing and saying, or (2) that the writers were cynical, machiavelical atheists forging a "god" for the sole purpose of mind control.. but if you are somewhere in between, as many of us are (i think), this is a fascinating question which can help us get a better idea of the true nature of faith, between passive "fear of god" and the audacity of literary creation.. any taker?

googlemagoogle

hi tophat,

i didn't respond to your last post in a while, because i wasn't sure what position you take in your comment. but i think you agree with excluding this text from the bible.

this is a common strategy of bible-christians, searching for strange sounding parts and making them sound "cookoo".

but consider the following two things: it only sounds strange, BECAUSE it wasn't included in most canons. if it were, our culture would have become used to it and it wouldn't sound strange to us at all.

second, there are lots of strange sounding stories and sayings in the canonized books. like donkeys and serpents that talk, jesus offering his flesh and blood, paul destroying his body, not to mention revelation.

that said, i didn't feel comfortable that some long gone bishops selected the books i would have to accept and they didn't even agree about them.

my experience is, that if some bible-christian finds a strange sounding canonized text, they say it's "metaphors" or "symbolic language". but they usually don't apply the same standard to non-canonized or other-canonized texts.

i just can give you the advice to really look into who really wrote the different books included and excluded from the bible, who compiled the different canons, when all that happened and why it happened (and please don't use one of those pseudo-scientific bible-lexica, you might as well use the insight books). it's really really interesting.

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Do you vote?

by MsMcDucket in

jw
friends

i was just wondering if anyone here votes in the elections?

considering how badly that some of us did on that test, i wonder if anyone is even concerned with politics?

do you care who your congressman is for your state?

googlemagoogle

i don't until someone worth a vote comes around. i rather don't vote than vote for a clown.

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How long do you have to be out...

by jeanniebeanz in

jw
friends

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...before you really don't care about this anymore?.

j

googlemagoogle

it's always comming back someday.

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Tookie is running out of time

by jt stumbler in

city leaders rally against violence .

pending execution causes concern over reaction

by jeremiah marquez

googlemagoogle

if someone starts an illegal gang-war, he rides the lightning.

if someone starts an illegal international war, he's elected for a second term and sweeps his a$$ with 100$ bills.

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JESUS B-day

by I-CH-TH-U-S in

dec 25?.

oct 1?.

i have even heard some recent speculation on jesus possibly being born in march which is interesting.. october seems reasonable with the rational of "shepherds watched their flocks by night" and in the december months it would be too cold for them to be out?

googlemagoogle

september 11?

if so what would you do? having a jesus birthday party or mourn the losses?