Just goes to show how the drive for control over-rules practicality. They know how difficult its getting to get skilled tradesmen to do their building jobs for free. Then again, maybe they know there won't be that much more expanding going on? Ha Ha Crooklyn!
Midget-Sasquatch
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What Do You Think About The New S82 Form's Use???
by minimus inthe june km mentions an announcement that you might find interesting.
there's a form s82 which is to be submitted to the building committee when a person desires to volunteer as a worker at different projects.
the regional com.
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Roger Ebert not thrilled with War of the Worlds--2 stars only
by blondie inwar of the worlds
by roger ebert / june 29, 2005 .
cast & creditsray ferrier: tom cruise.
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Midget-Sasquatch
I was disappointed in the invasion's beginning too. The novel had the aliens coming to Earth in meteorite like craft. I think that would have been more credible camouflage.
Dakota is a good child actor. I almost felt a fatherly sympathy for her character in Taken. Everyone loves human/alien hybrids right? But the role given her in this movie fails to do that.
Tom was much better as the cop/destroyed father in Minority Report and I rooted for that character and empathized with him. I know there has to be running, hiding, etc., but I couldn't really get myself to connect with Tom this time round. Again I think its the role and the situations that were lacking here.
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Saw 'The Exorcist' first time last night. You'll NEVER guess what happened!
by nicolaou innothing.. ten years ago i'd have chosen to have a limb amputated rather than let 'satan' into my head by watching such a 'demonic' movie.
well i watched it right through and i thought it was a good movie - if a little dated.
it finished just after midnight and i went straight to bed having turned all the lights out (and brushed my teeth .
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Midget-Sasquatch
I just remembered an incident with my father. After having seen a horror movie once, he couldn't sleep at all that night and was still pretty shaken up in the morning when the neighbourhood dog was digging around the tree in front of our house.
Our mom let the cat out of the bag that it was some movie where a rather nice looking babysitter ends up being some kind of witch that feeds little children and babies to some evil supernatural tree (complete with demon dogs dragging the kids off to it). I never heard of this flick before. Anyone know what it could be?
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Saw 'The Exorcist' first time last night. You'll NEVER guess what happened!
by nicolaou innothing.. ten years ago i'd have chosen to have a limb amputated rather than let 'satan' into my head by watching such a 'demonic' movie.
well i watched it right through and i thought it was a good movie - if a little dated.
it finished just after midnight and i went straight to bed having turned all the lights out (and brushed my teeth .
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Midget-Sasquatch
I saw some of The Exorcist when I was at my second cousin's home. They had cable with movie channels and IIRC I was about 12. Well to my virgin eyes, it was freaky.
What was creeping me out even more than the movie, was when my cuz who thought it would be awesome to really be possessed, talked about some stuff he supposedly did at Confederation park...a place where dead animals usually turned up.
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Historical Worship of Jesus
by M.J. ini'm wondering if the assertion of christ's divinity arose as a natural theological progression from a simple early practice of worshipping christ.
it appears that none of the early controversies even centered on the worship of christ (to my knowledge), but only on the nature of christ.
even the arians worshipped christ, as did russellites/watchtower adherents until the 1950s.
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Midget-Sasquatch
I think that there was at least one group of early christians (the jewish-chrisitians, ebionites, nazoreans), that believed Jesus was the Messiah, but a human like the rest of us. I don't think it was likely that they worshipped him since he wasn't taken as divine in any way. But they revered his teachings about God and the correct understanding of God's Law that they said he imparted to them.
I tried to do a search for relevant stuff on this site but couldn't get it to work.
Maybe you'll have more success ---> I've learned a great deal from Leolaia, Narkissos and peacefulpete's postings.
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What does your name MEAN?
by RichieRich inwe all are identified by our names here on jwd.
some use their real names, and others pick a moniker that is their nickname or perhaps a few words from a song they like.. why did you pick your name?.
for instance,.
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Midget-Sasquatch
I think it speaks to the opposing duality that is me.....lacking in belief for as long as I can remember(practically atheist)....but at the same time fascinated with the notion of the spiritual, and having a desire to "enlightenment" be it genuinely spiritual or just more insight into human nature/the human condition.
I'm also very short, and would probably be mistaken for an Ewok if I were just to wear swimming trunks. A slimmer one though.
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how many of you are considering boycotting tom cruise's 'war of the worlds'
by orbison11 innext week, due to his recently learned so called knowledge of psychiatry and medication??
and bashing of those that use it?.
orbi
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Midget-Sasquatch
For me, Tom's beliefs on chemical imbalances have no bearing on Spielberg's remake. I'm counting on Steven's adaptation having a balanced use of special effects but not relying on them exclusively. I'd like for it to have stronger emphasis on the human reaction to this threat (like how people interact with loved ones and strangers during crises). I hope I won't be disappointed.
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Daniel's Prophecy, 605 BCE or 624 BCE?
by Little Bo Peep inhello all, i've been reading your site for a couple of years now, and have found, for the most part, it to be very helpful.
i must say, at first i was very "scared" at what i might find, but contrary to what i grew up learning, there is a "wealth" of information outside of the watchtower organization.
i haven't attended meetings for about two years now, and like many i've read about, have spent many hours researching, telling myself "i'm not wrong for searching", and doing more research.
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Midget-Sasquatch
As I'm completely ignorant on biblical hebrew or greek, I can't add anything new and substantial to this thread. But I do want to say to scholar:
One side has shown many detailed examples ( I could somewhat follow it so very nicely done!), of similar constructions to the one in question, right from the bible, and they are always non-static or non-locative.
The notion that a language is as highly "fluid" in their constructions as you'd like us to accept, seems very impractical to me as one who's bilingual. Insisting on a particular translation, even if grammatically allowable, usually would get me nowhere. Whereas going with the most commonly used meanings will almost always make me get the point.
To me at least, you've only made repeated assertions (and the bit of support you've offered, like the LXX, turns out to not really do so). I'm still open minded though, if you have more biblical examples to support your stance please do so - (please also show the contructs in detail like the other side).
Thanks all
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marriage in the new system
by gringojj inluke 20:33- 36 talks about there will be no marriage after the ressurection.
my wife doesnt understand this and i know nothing about it.
what is the wts stance on these verses?
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Midget-Sasquatch
The May 1, 2005 WT pg.22 first part of par.20:
Our discussion of the resurrection leaves some questions unanswered. How will Jehovah arrange matters for those who were married when they die? (Luke 20:34,35) Will resurrections take place in the area where people died? Will the resurrected come back to life close to their families? A host of other questions about the arrangements for the resurrection remain.
They need to keep this point fuzzy now more than ever. They've got to keep in check as many spots of hemoraging as possible...especially with the membership being a much older demographic nowadays.
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Scientists create blood from human stem cells
by seattleniceguy in.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=2&u=/nm/20050616/sc_nm/health_australia_stemcells_dc
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Midget-Sasquatch
This is awesome. The article mentioned that they were able to get embryonic stem cells to differentiate into the blood cells. What would also be cool is if they could devise a method that uses the hematopoietic stem cells naturally within the marrow (the blood cells actually originate from them). That way the whole touchy embryo issue may be side-stepped.