perhaps he got scared by this lmao
pepheuga
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kent's observer site
by pepheuga in.
has kent's place gone down again?
i can't get it from the link at my place.
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kent's observer site
by pepheuga in.
has kent's place gone down again?
i can't get it from the link at my place.
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pepheuga
has kent's place gone down again? i can't get it from the link at my place.
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THE BIBLE ITSELF the rotten foundation of Watchtower theology
by Terry in(below continues an idea started in another post).
just consider the difference in meaning between these two renderings.
1.all scripture is inspired by god and useful for teaching, reproving and setting things straight.
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terry,
any chance you can format in html? i get the most enormous gaps on my screen!
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What's your favorite classical music?
by DanTheMan inof course beethoven's fifth is tops for me, and the ninth close behind.
also sprach zarathustra - strauss.
fanfare for the common man - aaron copeland (what a nice thing that was for him to dedicate such a great piece of music to plebeians like me *sniff*).
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pepheuga
if you can listen to the first eight minute piece (don't be fooled by the one minute or so snippet that you get from amazon...) of this and not be utterly utterly blown away by it, and possessed with a rage to hear more, then i fear we will never understand each other.
i do btw love it as solti did it.
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607 link
by Lot ini ve seen this posted before, but didnt take notice then.
could someone give me the best link on jwd for the 607 vs 587 dates?
of course i'm not talking about the rants of jcanon lol.. thanks,.
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pepheuga
this is a pretty comprehensive post, taken from this site
pepheuga
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Her Ladyship Has Organised A Day With The Dubs For Me.
by Englishman in.
she says it's an experience that i should have gone through years ago.. this coming tuesday, i shall spend an entire day surrounded by thousands of dubs.. think of me, dear people.
i've already started the initial stages of preparation.. englishman.
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eman,
do i misunderstand? is mrs eman a dub?
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THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE
by peggy inbecause you all inform with logic.
i have been reading for several months now.
not even sure how i found this site.
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pepheuga
dammit!
rushed writing is bad for you! i didn't mean being gay was equatable morally with being a thief or murderer or whatever! being gay is fine with peppy as are any number of forms of sexual expression. the only respect in which i equate them is to say that the moral bedrock that condemned the one thing for twenty years, condemned the other things too, and it was not the individual judgement that suddenly disappeared, but rather, and more disturbingly, the bedrock underpinning those judgements.
right that's enough rushed writing for one evening! i'm already very late for a date i need to keep!
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THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE
by peggy inbecause you all inform with logic.
i have been reading for several months now.
not even sure how i found this site.
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pepheuga
peggy, i guess i mean that, at least for someone who has grow up in that religion, leaving it is not just a matter of believing in jehovah one day and then not doing so the next. suddenly everything i ever based a decision on had disappeared, and all my judgement faculties were newly biddable. it was elating, embarrasing, upsetting, confusing and a whole set of other things besides. suddenly, being gay is ok. well, what about being a liar or a thief then? sure, those things feel wrong but where do i turn for instruction or guidance? the law? universities? the media? all of these things, i was told, were evil and corrupting. now i'm told to believe they're repositories of wisdom!
anyway, a mindset goes deeper than just morality, it extends as far as perception too (of course!) and finding words to correspond with those perceptions. and when something very pertinant and pungent such as this site comes into the life of joe or jill dub, and in that dub's mind slips it off the hill called "apostacy", it doesn't find anywhere to sit happily, as it challenges every assumption the dub had been coerced for twenty years into making.
it's when a thing falls in between the cracks that a mindset can easily reveal itself. one gropes for the "right" description, which one would wish to be a thing agreeing with the bald truth of matters, but which causes the searcher often to fall back on the well worn, easily available tramlines of dub morality. a thing that one knows not to be mad or bad can still be thought dangerous. yes, i know, you were wearing a uniform called irony, but isn't the case with irony that when it bites, it bites because it's true; and that the strength of its bite is greatly increased the deeper it goes in order to sink its teeth in.
i just thought that you had chosen that word ("dangerous") because the fresh memory of your earlier encounters with this site still conjoured up some sentiment of residual resonance of discomfort or guilt. that is the mindset i was talking about. it is the one i had, and if i "mapped" it onto your brain in error, i apologise.
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THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE
by peggy inbecause you all inform with logic.
i have been reading for several months now.
not even sure how i found this site.
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pepheuga
oh indeed i did, and as you say, you are clearly thinking very freely, no doubt at all about that. it's just that it takes a while for many of us (myself included) to reset the moral compass, and the old disposition reveals itself from cavernous depths from time to time.
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THIS is a DANGEROUS PLACE
by peggy inbecause you all inform with logic.
i have been reading for several months now.
not even sure how i found this site.
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pepheuga
that you call it dangerous is indicative of your mindset. there is nothing at all dangerous about jwd! there is much to queery about what goes on in the minds of jehovahs witnesses during their indoctrination sessions though. the kingdom hall is more close to being dangerous than jwd.
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