Do you Americans realy find him funny? There must be someting missing in the translation
Posts by barry
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20I love Red Neck Humor
by FlyingHighNow ini'm a southern girl, born and raised in the southeast.
i don't think humor gets any better than redneck humor, unless maybe it's black humor.
black southern humor, even better.
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barry
OK I will admit that torture would cause pain but it would be for the greater good.
Many of us in ordinary society suffer pain for the greater good such as kidney donors, bone marrow donors and even blood donors. So why should we be concerned about a prisoner suffering some pain for the greater good if he has information about bombs or other WMDs he knows about.
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C. T. Russell and the Trinity Doctrine
by NanaR ini have a question.. i know that russell's hallmark was "putting the hose on hell", so i'm assuming that the belief that humans do not have an immortal soul was also one of his early teachings.. however, i know that russell used the symbol of the cross, celebrated christmas, and that the early bible students also fellowshipped with other christians.
my grandmother, for example, attended a baptist church on sundays but went to bible student group studies with her father through the week.. so i am wondering about the witnesses rejection of the trinity doctrine.
did russell outspokenly reject the trinity doctrine?
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barry
Gday jwfacts, You said that SDA offshoots held to Arianism and while that is true it may supprise some that during the 50s when Barnhouse and Martin studied SDAism they found a morass of contradictions of material all with the church logo but teaching both Arianism and the trinity doctrine. These crontradictions are found in the opinions of the SDA church members.
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Video Mormons Vrs DNA Great information to have in your arsenal
by skyking inthis video is great.
made me a little sick to my stomach remembering what it was like to have that epiphany you been lied to.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svfxsscxh8o&feature=related.
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barry
Im wondering when our Mormon friends will comment. I didnt get an answer when I asked some questions about why not even one artifact has been found or one city found out of 38 cities mentioned in th ebook of mormon.
My conclusion so far is the book of mormon is a fake.
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JW IQ's. Below average? (Includes SM anecdote.)
by Open mind inare dub bulbs just a little dimmer than the general population?
here's a little highlight from this week's local service meeting that prompts my question.. it's the annual, 20 minute, robotic hand-pumping session conducted by the secretary trying to get everyone all hyped/guilted up for this summer's district convention.
anyway, towards the end of the q&a, there's a paragraph that talks about offering a ride to the elderly/infirm ones in your congo.
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barry
I beleive JWs are of high intellegence because it is well known a person of high intellegence can be more easily brainwashed.
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Just supposing I was thinking of emigrating to Australia..
by katiekitten in.. what advice would you give me?.
anyone who lives in australia - is there a need for secondary school mathematics teachers?
what general advice would you give about location / quality of life / anything else at all you think i should know.. anyone who has ever emigrated anywhere - any advice at all about anything to do with moving ?.
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barry
I know a lot of pommys here and they love it here. Most I talk too wouldnt think of going back even with man eating sharks crokodiles ans poisonous snakes not to mention poisonous spiders. .
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Are Seventh-Day Adventists a better Church to belong to than being a JW
by jwfacts ina lot of exjws need an answer to "where else to go?
" and some people seem to need to belong to an organization.
doing some research on answers.yahoo.com i noticed that both jws and mormons come in for a lot of criticism for being manipulative cults.
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barry
Gday Da Cheech, Maybe youre friend wasnt a perfectionist. MAybe perfectionists have some good qualitys too.
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Are Seventh-Day Adventists a better Church to belong to than being a JW
by jwfacts ina lot of exjws need an answer to "where else to go?
" and some people seem to need to belong to an organization.
doing some research on answers.yahoo.com i noticed that both jws and mormons come in for a lot of criticism for being manipulative cults.
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barry
As a third generation Adventist I would like to some perspective into SDAism.
Within SDAism broardly speaking there a two groups the first being the traditional Adventistis. This group is cultic with there doctrins as they hold to older interpretations that came from the great dissapointement such as the 1844 investigative doctrine as well as other cultic doctrins. The reason I mention the 1844 doctrine is because of the heracy of perfectionism. Traditional Adventists beleive they will acheive absolute perfection before the second comming. So to a Traditional Adventist being saved is presumption because they would say only with absolute perfection they could claim such a state. This is the group that oposed Questions on doctrine since the 50s. This group also beleive that christ had a sinful human nature and that beleif also contributes to there perfectionism. Websites against SDAism are targeting the beleifs of this group.
The second group is what I would call the evangelicals and are supported by the scholars of the church. This group rejects the 1844 perfectionistic interpretations of the former group and accepts the protestant beleif od righteousness by faith.. This group is accepting of other christians as the body of christ.
So for anyone out there wanting to find a church home I could only reccommend an Adventist church that primarily is guided by people of the second group. The other alternative is to look for a group that does teach the protestant gospel. As Ive said Ive always been an Adventist but in may younger days I used to go with my friends to the Baptist church and went to school scripture lessons with the Anglicans and Prespetarians which I found OK to. I find it strange that people here sometimes favour non denominational groups. Some of these groups may be cultic also and sometimes they are groups that have broken away because of there fanaticism.
Buy cultic I mean a system of beleif that departs from traditioal christianity. I realise cult could also mean a high control group.
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Are Seventh-Day Adventists a better Church to belong to than being a JW
by jwfacts ina lot of exjws need an answer to "where else to go?
" and some people seem to need to belong to an organization.
doing some research on answers.yahoo.com i noticed that both jws and mormons come in for a lot of criticism for being manipulative cults.
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barry
Gday Mulan the SDAs have allways celebrated holidays from the 18oos one leader Ellen White reccomends placing a xmas tree inside the church over the holiday time. SDAs are strict about not drinking 99% would be t totalers.
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Are Seventh-Day Adventists a better Church to belong to than being a JW
by jwfacts ina lot of exjws need an answer to "where else to go?
" and some people seem to need to belong to an organization.
doing some research on answers.yahoo.com i noticed that both jws and mormons come in for a lot of criticism for being manipulative cults.
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barry
jgnat,
A pastor does have to follow the churches teachings because the church pays his wages and retirement fund. When Barnhouse and Martin studied Adventist doctrine in the 50s they presented the Adventist theologins with a suitcase full of conflicting statements all with the church logo on them and they threatened to label the SDA a cult because of the diversity. The SDA theologins said they would clean things up and were supprised at there findings
A church member has no restrictions on how he may interpret the bible.
Both church members and ministers dont get disfellowshiped. They did dissfellowship before the year 2000 but didnt shun even then.
The SDA church does have reccomendations concerning diet which is followed by less than half of church membership.
When my father visited us for xmas the other week we had turkey for xmas dinner. My dad is mostly a vegetatian we arent vegetarian at all.
For me SDAism is another denomination no better or worse than another