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  vorrei un commentario Bibblico IT

  by marcopolo in

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  who know some commetary bible in file??

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Ciao MarcoPolo,

  Mi devi scusare per molti sbagli di lingua che faro. Io sono dal Canada (nato e cresciuto). Non sono stato disassociato (almeno non ancora). E anche io sto cercando di liberarmi dalle grappole di questo culto. Sono molto fortunato che la mia lingua principale d'inglese mi ha dato l'opportunita di facilmente leggere i libri davero informativi come quello da Raymond Franz. (Una volta parte del Corpo Direttivo). Credo che tu troverai molte risposte su JWN. Ci sone molte persone scolastiche e istruiti sulla Bibbia. Certi perino traducevano letteratura nel betel.
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  What are your opinions of Alex Jones and/or David Icke?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  i supposed only people who know who they are and have read, heard, or listened to them at some point can answer.

  they are fairly popular (at least on the internet) conspiracy theorists.

  (and everyone loves a good conspiracy theory!!).

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  Hi Ninja,

  Sorry for the delay. I don't come to the board as often as I used to. Alex Jones has the one conspiracy site infowars.com. There's also a forum he has called Prison Planet. Here's a link to the supporting material you were asking for:

  http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=85174.0

  Hi Jaguarbass

  "Junk" DNA isn't unique to humans. You'll find varying amounts of it in many mammals for example. So that alone doesn't necessarily point to our having been worked on in a lab. Since you're very keen on genetics and chromosome structure, I really encourage you to read up on human chromosome number 2. It appears to be a fusion of two chromosomes into one. I think you'll find this and its implications and possible effect on our evolution very interesting. And its all verifiable.
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  What are your opinions of Alex Jones and/or David Icke?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  i supposed only people who know who they are and have read, heard, or listened to them at some point can answer.

  they are fairly popular (at least on the internet) conspiracy theorists.

  (and everyone loves a good conspiracy theory!!).

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  How people can swallow some of their junk is beyond me. The "Masters" created these slave forms (i.e. humans) but these would be unanimated bodies without souls....so lets infuse them with souls of criminals!....Yeah thats the ticket!...Brilliant lot they are. Thats what Alex Jones and his whole PrisonPlanet readers actually believe?!

  This kind of garbage makes those of us who're interested in ET life, and the possibilities of contact etc. ashamed to even hint at it, otherwise we're lumped in with them.
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  finding purpose and meaning in life, a religous ideal

  by chellechelle in

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  what i have found most interesting is that many of us, upon leaving the cult, become depressed and are afraid because we feel as if our lives have no purpose anymore or that we should be doing something meaningful with our lives but are not.

  i have become sick of feeling this way and watching otheres feel this way aswell.

  this is what i have come to realize.

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  I'm tending to side with some of the thoughts posted by StAnn.

  My ambivalent take on this: Maybe its not so much that religion tries to manufacture in us the idea of a purpose just to enslave us, but it co-opts an innate (to many) desire and tries to redefine it so that its expression benefits the religion. Now I can see how it could be very hard for some born-ins to counter the dub view of how this impulse is to be thought of, so they throw it all out and even consider the impulse itself as external. But Like others pointed out people have expressed this impulse in a variety of ways and towards different ends.

  I can't say how or why this desire for a purpose, for more than mere existence came about. Maybe its part of us being stroy-telling animals and a good narrative has interesting characters acting towards certain ends. Our own life is a narrative.

  Then again Seinfeld was pretty popular and that was supposedly "a show about nothing" so maybe your right. Oh God, I think I'm George.

  Take Care Chellechelle.
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  Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God

  by BurnTheShips in

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  twenty arguments for the existence of god.

  the argument from changethe argument from efficient causalitythe argument from time and contingencythe argument from degrees of perfectionthe design argumentthe kalam argumentthe argument from contingencythe argument from the world as an interacting wholethe argument from miraclesthe argument from consciousnessthe argument from truththe argument from the origin of the idea of godthe ontological argumentthe moral argumentthe argument from consciencethe argument from desirethe argument from aesthetic experiencethe argument from religious experiencethe common consent argumentpascal's wagerbts.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Like Satanus said before:

  For which God? And to further that: What is the character of the God of Pascal's Wager?

  To me at least, Pascal's Wager is unmotivating, not only by its easily countered argument, but from an ethical position. Sure the only reason I should behave and live my life in particular ways is to assure my freedom from eternal torment. Not so much because its the humane thing to do. Just makes me want to sing Kumbaya.

  Now I'm all in favour for redemption (small "r" peeps). So a murderous, thieving scoundrel for most of his life makes a death bed conversion and makes one morally charitable act to atone and picks the right god in his gamble and wins out. Fine. But an atheist or agnostic whose always tried to help people in the here and now will rot ad infinitum? Lovely chap that god.
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  How Tall are You ? Weight Optional - Only if you are Comfortable ?

  by flipper in

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  my wife and i were talking about this and thought it would be fun.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  155 centimeters (for real)...thats 5' 2"

  and my weight yo-yos around the 110 lb mark (not saying by how much )
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  Dawoed as a solution for Middle East conflict?

  by hamilcarr in

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  with the recent escalation of the israel/palestine conflict in the gaza strip dominating news headlines, even former hard-boiled zionist thinkers like daniel gavron start to consider alternative options for the future of the jewish state.

  but these chapters contain only a few vague hints of the heretical conclusion - for a life-long, traditional zionist, that is - that gavron has reached and which he presents to his unsuspecting readers in the book's eighth and final chapter: after 55 years of jewish sovereignty, the time has come to dissolve the jewish state and establish, in its place, a single israeli-palestinian state.

  "having reached the conclusion that the territory between the mediterranean and the jordan river must be shared, but cannot be sensibly partitioned," he writes in his book, "we are left with only one alternative: israeli-palestinian coexistence in one nation.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I doubt a single state solution will work. You'd need alot of entheogens being ingested (to maybe get the kind of "love everyone, we're all connected" result of the Good Friday experiment).

  But less cynically and more seriously, the Palestinians will need a contiguous state for there to be some form of stability.
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  DOES RAYMOND FRANZ 'CRISIS' BOOK TELL THE TRUTH?

  by whereami in

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  this person continues to try to discredit ray franz.

  for a person that is not a jw he really does not give up.. .

  http://www.topix.com/forum/religion/jehovahs-witness/tsrv22ro5585t9asm/p8.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  The WTBTS' silence on the book is enough of an answer for me.

  I agree with others. If even a small portion of the book had something in it that they could dispute and sue Ray over, they would have done it by now. They'd love the idea of having any cent from the book go to them. They'd have the same old kind of lame convention parts touting their defense of "the troof"....Instead they don't even want dubs to catch wind of the book.
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  Book: Misquoting Jesus (The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why)

  by Quotes in

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  my brother gave me this book for my birthday.

  the author is bart d. ehrman, who chairs religious studies at the university of north carolina, chapel hill.

  it is a simple introduction to the topic of textual criticism (a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts) of the new testament.

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  Hi Quotes

  I found it interesting too. I've read a few of his books since our local library has many of them. He's very readable. I wonder how his book TheOrthodox Corruption of Scripture is though? The library doesn't have that one.

  I think you'll also enjoy his book Lost Christianities (very informative).
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  RIP Dansk (aka Ian), 18.12.1953- 20.12.2008

  by faundy in

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  have posted this on the other thread but just making this one as well:

  i need to let you know that dad passed away this morning at 8am.

  he fought so hard but in the end they could not get his blood pressure to rise and he died of heart failure.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  I'm very sorry for your family's loss. My condolances.

  I looked up to Dansk. He faced challenges with resilience, but that didn't make him shut others out. He could be so open to people here. Those are just the most recent qualities that drew me to him. I don't think I ever let him know how I enjoyed his posts and I really regret that. :(