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  The Trinity!

  by ((Omega)) in

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  i have done some research on the truth regarding the godhead and who the god of the bible truly is.

  i have studied all the denominations of christianity, those who deny the deity of christ, and those who don't, those who believe in a trinity and those who do not.

  after years upon years of diligent studies i have concluded:.

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  If one concentrates on Mark and to some extent Matthew and Luke then one can make a good argument for an adoptionist Christology (subordinationism too). If one concentrates on the Johannine writings and some of Paul's then one can strongly argue for the full deity of Christ. There were different views of who Christ was by different communities of christians. The trinity was a decent attempt of the fourth century church to resolve this, but entirely ignored some other views like those of some docetic gnostics. People reading the different works can still perceive bits of those different views even though there were attempts to make the works "orthodox". I say the differences make for interesting discussion.

  As it was in the beginning (apparently), is now, and (maybe) ever shall be.
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  Rrrrrrrrroll up the Rrrrrrrrrrim and win!!!! Tally of JWD winners.

  by kwintestal in

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  to date, 2 donuts here (yuck, i hate donuts)!.

  kwin

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  Nothing yet but, but so far I've only bought a total of 7 medium coffees.

  I know two people who won bikes two separate years. Both of them JWs.
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  Just learning the lingo here......

  by doubtless in

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  sorry for the crazy question, but what's a dub?

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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Dub is short for dubya... as in JW (a Witness)
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  Dave Allen has died :(

  by Angharad in

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  so sad, he was one of my all time favourite comedians .

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4340115.stm

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  Thats too bad. But alot of people will remember him fondly, as will I. Believe it or not my JW Dad loved to watch Dave Allen at Large reruns and would even let me and my sister watch because he wa always poking fun at the churches. There was only a handful of jokes and skits he was a bit upset with but I think it was more for my "instruction".
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  Were You Ever Moved To Tears By A JW Moment Like In The Movies?

  by Englishman in

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  just once.. i was on the way home from the 1958 assembly at yankee stadium.

  we were aboard the "arosa sun" and sailing from new york to plymouth, england.

  the ship was pretty well 50 - 50 split between british and german.. when we arrived at plymouth, the british contingent disembarked whilst the germans stayed on board to continue on to bremerhaven.

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  It was an experience about a boy with some degenerative disease, so that eventually he needed crutches to walk. But he wouldn't let that stop him from going out preaching, despite living in a mountainous and rugged terrain. The other jws affectionately called him 4 wheel drive. I was choked up (but managed to hold it back). I admired his determination but also felt sorry how he was just being used by a sham organization.
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  So why do we need 'Bible Based Publications' then?

  by uriah in

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  2. bible

  it may have been mentioned - sorry if it has.

  the wt of 15th april 2005, page 5 para 1 says 'hence, the knowledge of jehovah and jesus christ as found in the bible is sufficient to show you how to gain everlasting life.

  the bible is a unique book.

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  At least the gnostics usually stressed a personal experiential revelation of the gnosis (knowledge). They didn't say one had to believe without question.

  They will never be as blatant in print, as they once were, but that idea of needing their organization to correctly interpret the Bible has to stay. Its kind of sad. The way they're trying to portray themselves as a more mainstream religion has made alot of their writing more bland. The kookiness of their artciles from say 50 years ago, would at least give me a smile now and again.
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  Led Zeppelin

  by stillajwexelder in

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  which was the best led zeppelin album?

  to me it was number 4 - but 2 and three were both excellent - its been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely time

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  Aaahhh its hard to describe the powerful draw of the first Led Zepplin song I ever heard. The screams of Immigrant song awoke a primalness, that I hadn't yet known (I was only 13). The vocals along with the guitars seized me. From there I had to hear the rest of their stuff. IV is my favourite from them.
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  What's Your Opinion of Michael Jackson?

  by minimus in

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  is he a molester?

  a nut?

  a gifted musician??

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  Why didn't he even take a fraction of the measures that any average person would have to avoid these accusations again? If he's innocent, he's a moron. Is he just too naive? Drives have a way of making people do irrational things too you know.

  He's definitely touched in the head, and he does fit the profile of a pedophile. In fact in one of the congregations I was at, there was for a short time, a mentally challenged guy who is a convicted child molester. He seemed naive about alot of things, but you don't need alot of grey matter to be a pervert.
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  Trying to get to know people on the JWD

  by cindykp in

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  i havent been here that long, and just trying to get to know a little more about the people im chatting with.

  i know some dont want to share too much info, which i understand.

  so.............im divorced, have 3 kids, lived in florida for 15 years, now back home in wi.

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  First name?

  Married? Nope, never

  Single? Yep....must mean I'm a real catch eh?

  Gay? Don't believe her (errrr.....them)!!!!! I only went out on a few dates with them and well I was a little under the weather each time.......seriously, I'm hetero.

  Kids? My Darwinian fitness is zero....I'm wondering how much damage I'd do to the genepool if I did

  Anything you care to add...to call me midget is somewhat true, seeing as I'm only 5' 2"
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  The tyranny of religious experience

  by Narkissos in

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  in the discussion of religious or mystical subjects on this board, the "experiential vs. intellectual" issue often comes up.

  while mostly those on the "experiential side" of the debate are content to share their experience without imposing it on others, sometimes the appeal to "experience" sounds like a subtle way of disqualifying the comments of "intellectuals" who cannot know what they are speaking about as long as they haven't got the "right experience".. i remember once discussing that with a welsh evangelical lady: she complained that pentecostals and charismatics in her neighbourhood dismissed her views because she was not "baptised in the spirit" according to their definition of the term.

  i pointed to her that her fellow churchgoers were doing exactly the same thing when they dismissed the views of "unbelievers," or traditional believers who didn't claim to be "born again" in the evangelical style.. here the issue of qualitative or quantitative appraisal of religious/spiritual experience steps in.

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  You bring up an excellent point Narkissos with epilepsy.

  Persinger, a university researcher here in Ontario, was able to induce different kinds of paranormal experiences in unaffected people, by fluctuating magnetic fields mostly around their temporal lobes. They heard voices or felt an invisible presence much like if they had temporal lobe epilepsy. At least in the past they weren't marginalized like in our more enlightened(?) society.

  Now before anyone gets upset, this mostly points to the "how" of the phenomenon. What brings on that storm of neural activity could be a number of things, like external changing magnetic fields, or some psychoactive drugs, or who knows maybe even a genuinely supernatural agent.