Posts by freyd

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Do Muslems and Christains have the same God?

by Undecided in

jw
friends

the koran and the bible says to do the same acts of violence to anyone who worships a different god.. deuteronomy 13:6-8, it reads: "if thy brother, the son of thy mother.

or thy son, or thy daughter, or thy wife of thy bosom.

or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; (7) namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth unto the other end of the earth (8) thou shalt not consent unto him, nor harken unto him; neither shalt thou conceal him (9) but thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

freyd

"Muslims outright deny the Sonship of Jesus Christ; therefore, Islam is of the Devil. Islam is a damnable organization, who denies Jesus Christ. Don't believe the lie, not for one second--that Muslims and Christians worship the SAME God. No, we don't! The Koran clearly states in, The Women 4.171, that God has NO Son. In sharp contrast, John 3:16 in the Word of God declares that God DOES have a Son, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The Koran even goes as far as to claim that Jesus never died, nor was He crucified (The Women, 4.157)." http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Freemasonry/freemasonry_is_of_the_devil.htm

Hey Michigan Fans

by freyd in

when you get tired of bashing the wt this almost as much fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobjdka9uew&mode=related&search=

freyd

When you get tired of bashing the WT this almost as much fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOBjdka9uEw&mode=related&search=

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Brain Damage Plagues Thousands of GIs

by freyd in

brain damage plagues thousands of gis by marilynn marchione,ap posted: 2007-09-10 06:58:55 filed under: health news, iraq news, world news http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/brain-damage-plagues-thousands-of-gis/ 20070909172009990001?ncid=nws00010000000001

nashville, tenn. (sept. 9) - the war in iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across america: a "silent epidemic" of brain-damaged soldiers.

thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or tbi.

freyd

Brain Damage Plagues Thousands of GIs By MARILYNN MARCHIONE,AP Posted: 2007-09-10 06:58:55 Filed Under: Health News, Iraq News, World News http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/brain-damage-plagues-thousands-of-gis/ 20070909172009990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 9) - The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: a "silent epidemic" of brain-damaged soldiers. Thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science. "I've been in the field for 20-plus years dealing with TBI. I have a very experienced staff. And they're saying to me, 'We're seeing things we've never seen before,"' said Sandy Schneider, director of Vanderbilt University's brain injury rehabilitation program. Doctors also are realizing that symptoms overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder, and that both must be treated. Odd as it may seem, brain injury can protect against PTSD by blurring awareness of what happened. But as memory improves, emotional problems can emerge: One of the first "graduates" of Vanderbilt's program committed suicide three weeks later. "Of all the ones here, he would not have been the one we would have thought," Schneider said. "They called him the Michelangelo of Fort Campbell" - a guy who planned to go to art school. As more troops return from the war, brain injuries are a growing burden - for them, for the few programs to treat them, and for taxpayers who pay for their care and disability if they cannot hold jobs. Most TBIs are mild, and most of these patients recover within a year. But one-fifth of the troops with these mild injuries will have prolonged or lifelong symptoms and need continuing care, the military estimates. Nearly all of the moderate and severe ones will, too. Though the full number of those suffering from TBI is still unknown, the problem is straining the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Until now, "they were dealing with a cohort of aging veterans with diabetes, heart disease, lung disease," said Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and a VA adviser. Now, these young, brain-injured troops need highly specialized care, and how much it will help long-term is unknown, he said. People with TBI have frequent headaches, dizziness, and trouble concentrating and sleeping. They may be depressed, irritable and confused, and easily provoked or distracted. Speech or vision also can be impaired. Some sufferers have been misdiagnosed with personality disorders. Others have lost jobs because of unrecognized and untreated symptoms. "It's the so-called invisible injury. It's where a troop takes 10 times the normal time to pack his rucksack ... a complicated injury to the most complicated part of the body," said Dr. Alisa Gean, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco. Diagnosing it is imprecise - damage rarely shows up on CAT scans or other tests. Treating it is even more difficult. Lacking a cure, doctors focus on symptoms - headaches, anxiety, vision problems, etc. But they lack good treatments for some of these, too, and are considering some experimental approaches being pushed by private companies with little proof they work. Many troops get no care at all. Some are sent back to fight with their brain injuries undetected, especially if they had no obvious wounds. What happened to Eric O'Brien and Bryan Malone shows the scope of this problem. O'Brien, a 32-year-old Army staff sergeant from Iowa's Quad Cities, was teasing Malone, 22, a specialist from Haughton, La., in a Baghdad gym last summer. "I told him and his workout partner: 'Put some more weight on it,"' prompting the men to get up. Seconds later, a rocket hit where they had sat. They survived, but a pressure wave from the blast coursed through their brains. "I patted myself down head to toe, making sure I wasn't missing a limb," and felt odd, like "I must be missing a chunk of my head,"' O'Brien said. He remembers little else except walking through debris to pick up his iPod and sunglasses. As for Malone, an air conditioning vent had fallen on his head and he had shrapnel wounds. He had multiple surgeries, spent several months in Walter Reed Army Medical Center and now has titanium mesh reinforcing his skull. O'Brien, however, had shrapnel removed from his scalp and then was sent back to his unit - "no antibiotics, no pain medication or anything. They just sent me on my way." When he later complained of pain, doctors gave him Motrin. When he discovered a trickle of blood from his hip, they said he would be fine. Six weeks later, when he could barely walk, tests revealed shrapnel in his hip. By then, he was having headaches and trouble sleeping. O'Brien had been through multiple previous explosions - troops average one a month, a study found - and each raises the risk that the next one will do harm. Soldiers and Marines are proud and reluctant to go "off mission" just because "they get their bell rung," said Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, a top Defense Department physician. "Most of the treatment is explaining the situation and giving the tincture of time - giving it time to heal," he said. If no big symptoms appear in eight to 12 hours, "they're probably ready to go back." Officers also face pressure to return troops to duty, said Jordan Grafman, a neuroscientist who studies TBI at the National Institutes of Health. "People don't want to lose these guys from their command - they can't replace them fast enough," he said. During a surprise visit to Iraq with President Bush on Labor Day, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military was "much smarter about this now," and urged troops to watch for signs of TBI and post-traumatic stress. "They are every bit as much battle injuries as is a bullet or shrapnel. It is OK, it is OK to seek help for those kinds of war wounds, and I ask you all to help your buddies understand what you see in them," he said. But that was long after O'Brien was hurt. His TBI was not diagnosed for months, until his hip injury landed him back at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. By then, the Army needed help treating TBI and was contracting with private rehab centers like Schneider's at Vanderbilt. Malone and O'Brien had become friends, helping each other cope with wounds. "They were sent to us together," Schneider said. "I'll need to get milk and bread and eggs. Milk and bread and eggs. Next thing you know, I drive right by Wal-Mart," O'Brien said. "I can vaguely tell you what we talked about at the beginning of this conversation," Malone said. Memory trouble is a common sign of TBI. It isn't like Alzheimer's disease, where people are so disconnected from reality that they forget things like how a key works or where they live. It isn't like amnesia, where a chunk of the past is missing.

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Reinstatement questions

by RebelWife in

would somebody give me a detailed rundown of what occurs?

and what would i (the evil ubm) notice my husband doing that would give me a clue that he might be planning this?

i've looked at some old threads and see that there must be letters & meeting attendance.

freyd

quote Terry - "The important question to ask is; how much of what is requested/required is in scripture.What are they making up out of thin air?Jesus never mentioned disfellowshipping and conseqently only dealt with forgiveness. Procedures and rules about exclusionary behavior stem from Paul and not the Jerusalem branch of christianity or Jesus.Writing a letter? Where does the bible require that? Professing belief in the FDS? Where does the bible require that? Professing Loyalty to the Organization? Where does the bible require that? The shepherd who leaves the 99 (faithful sheep) and goes actively in search of the 1 stray and brings it back into the fold shows where responsibility really is placed.It is the ELDER who must seek out the "lost sheep" and actively bring them back!The sheep doesn't write letters to the shepherd and confess sins and take loyalty oaths.
IT IS ALL UNSCRIPTURAL!!"

This is what's so sad and is the give-away that it's not God's direction. It's rules of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation. Individuals are only valued to the extent that they further the corporate agenda and when a mistake is made the punishment process that never really ends is to instill in the individual that they are of no value. Quite a contrast from what Pastor Russell Said. p479

"Is it proper for the elders to sit at a court of inquiry and cite any supposed to be walking in a disorderly manner to appear before them and explain their conduct?" Or should the Lord's advice at Matt 18:15-18 be followed?

Answer - "I agree with the suggestion of the question that it should be handled in harmony with the Lord's direction in the passage cited. The Lord's word does not authorize any court of the Elders, or anyone else, to become busybodies. This would be going back to the practices of the Dark Ages during the inquisition; and we would be showing the same spirit as did the inquisitors. The Lord has put the matter in a simple way and we could not improve upon it......We should remember the word of the Lord which says, 'The Lord will judge his people.' If he should need any punishment, we may trust the Lord to give it to him and not take the matter into our own hands. We should have confidence in the Lord. If we can stop the wrong that is as far as we can go."

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Reinstatement questions

by RebelWife in

would somebody give me a detailed rundown of what occurs?

and what would i (the evil ubm) notice my husband doing that would give me a clue that he might be planning this?

i've looked at some old threads and see that there must be letters & meeting attendance.

freyd

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What's reasonable to expect on a first date?

by serendipity in

i've been on online dating sites for a while, have exchanged emails with over 100 guys (politely saying "thanks, but no thanks" to the vast majority) and went on dates with a few.

i'm generally disappointed in the emails these guys sent and have been disappointed in the dates.

i'm not sure if the problem is with my expectations or if there is just a lack of communications skills and courtesy among people.

freyd

Dating is dangerous. It's like what Woody Hayes thought about the forward pass. Four things can happen and three of them are bad. LOL And never ignore clues.

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Eye Glasses

by freyd in

anybody have problems at lenscrafters?

i live 80 miles from lenscrafters and i've been to them and their doctors 3 times in the last three weeks and they can't get it right.

asked if we could just do the whole thing by mail, but oh no, have to come in and get examined again.

freyd

primarily coral calcium and liquid colloidal minerals.

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Pathological Denial

by freyd in

anybody feel qualified to identify this?

particularly among jw's.

freyd

Anybody feel qualified to identify this? Particularly among jw's.

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Eye Glasses

by freyd in

anybody have problems at lenscrafters?

i live 80 miles from lenscrafters and i've been to them and their doctors 3 times in the last three weeks and they can't get it right.

asked if we could just do the whole thing by mail, but oh no, have to come in and get examined again.

freyd

Anybody have problems at Lenscrafters? I live 80 miles from Lenscrafters and I've been to them and their doctors 3 times in the last three weeks and they can't get it right. Asked if we could just do the whole thing by mail, but oh no, have to come in and get examined again. The bottom line is that I see better at distances without their glasses. They keep reducing the magnification. When I first went in they kept looking at what I currently had which wasn't right either. I think what it is is that they can't believe my eyes are stronger than 5 years ago which is due to nutrition. So are my teeth much to disappointment of two periodontists that said if I didn't fork over 5 grand that all my teeth would fall out. Guess what? Supplements work.

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Dfed and Damned for Life

by Hangin_on in

i have posted my story on here before.

i was dfed at 22 for sleeping with an 18yr old girl in my cong.

i was married and me and my "mistress" were both dfed.. i admit i was wrong by even the worlds standards.

freyd

People are to be treated like tax collectors when they do not listen to the congregation according to Matt 18. In my last congregation the PO's daughter was df'd and reinstated within 6 months. The congregation was not consulted. You can go back but you can never trust. They are a destructive cult.