the real reason why young people get baptized .... to make their parents happy and proud.
to be able to get married (which is some cases, is to get away from parents).
... okay, okay, i know it depends on how young we are talking.
baptized as young as 6.That's sick and wrong.
I was baptised infant 
Of cause that is when your parents say your vowels when your older you recieve "confirmation" but the church makes it very clear that you only do confirmation if you are happy with the Catholic faith.... there is no pressure at all, they'd rather you not do it if you don't want to
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i am sure that most of you here are familiar with psalms 83:18. .
so, whats the skinny?
what is the christian god's name?
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=70538
Hebrew has its own alphabet. In the Hebrew alphabet, the Name of God is written yodh-he-vav-he. The "yodh" looks a lot like our apostrophe and is the equivalent of our letter "i" or "y". The "he" is the equivalent of our letter "h". The "vav" looks like a yodh with the lower part extended down to the line on which the letters are being written, and is the equivalent of our "o", "u", "v", or "w". So the Holy Name can be transliterated into English as "YHWH" or "YHVH"; there's not really a reason to prefer one over the other that I know of.
The future tense of the verb "to be" in modern Hebrew is conjugated in part as follows:
aleph-he-yodh-he (pronounced "eh-hi-yeh") - I will be
tav-he-yodh-he (pronounced "ti-hi-yeh") - you will be
yodh-he-yodh-he (pronounced "yi-hi-yeh") - he will be
I don't remember how to spell "she will be" but it is pronounced "ti-hi-yeh-na".
Ancient Hebrew is a good bit wilder and woolier than modern Hebrew, and the form for "I am who I am" in Exodus 3:14 is "eh-hi-yeh a-sher eh-hi-yeh." But elsewhere in the Hebrew Old Testament the YHWH Name of God is spelled as yodh-he-vav-he.
Interestingly, the letters in the Hebrew alphabet all stand for numbers and the ancient Israelites did not have separate numerals. The value for yodh is ten and for he is five. The number 14 is written as yodh-daled (daled being four) but the number 15 is written as tet-vav (tet being nine and vav being six) because to write yodh-he would be to start writing out God's Name. Sixteen is written as yodh-vav.
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that when your cat is going to be sick they do it in the most difficult places to clean?
ours has done it regularly, starts making that noise and you jump up to shoo her our and she spews 2 inches away from the kitchen floor or the outside right on the carpet.
she has just really excelled herself this time she has just thrown up into a box of lego pieces
LMAO! We have two cats and a dog, so I understand. I guess it's hard for a kitty to scratch their butt with those claws.
lol! well my cat does it everywhere, on the carpet, on the chairs, on the couch, out the front for the neibours to see on the slate and even on your bed
evil cat!
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'god told me to invade iraq' - bush .
friday, october 07, 2005. source: ananova.
us president george bush has said that he was instructed by god to invade iraq and afghanistan, according to a new bbc series.
Hmmmm. this is not new......
many times the polititions would do something, but when they cannot justify their actions they turn around and say they did it because God told them so.....
The Catholic Church has been subjected to this a lot in the past.... which leads to alot of critisism today
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that when your cat is going to be sick they do it in the most difficult places to clean?
ours has done it regularly, starts making that noise and you jump up to shoo her our and she spews 2 inches away from the kitchen floor or the outside right on the carpet.
she has just really excelled herself this time she has just thrown up into a box of lego pieces
I'm sure its all part of their evil plan
LOL cats are like that
My cat throws up as well... when you hear 'the noise' it sure makes you jump up and fling the cat outside
well for my cat she loves to drag her a.... I mean "skoot" accross the carpet talk about gross
then my cat goes around ripping up the posters on the wall, or jumps on the newspaper and rips it up
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what would your views be on mormons?.
was there much incidences where jw's and mormons would ever catch eachother while going door-to-door?.
just curious cause both of you do it and wondered if there was ever any conflict between the two..... evanescence
Thankyou very much Qcmbr that was all indeed very interesting
Hope that's ok. And for those who keep alluding to 'dark secerets' I hope anyone whose read my post history will know that as far as I'm concerned , as long as you have a bit of respect, I'll tell you anything. I have read all our secrets and none of them are 'oh my gosh - its all false' things.
Why do LDS have "secrets?"
I don't hear much from the Mormons, I don't get them to my door what are you guys like door-to-door?
Qcmbr, what brings you to this forum?
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back in the mid 70's my sister won a 45rpm record from a radio station, and it was horrible .
the title is "don't worry kyoko" by yoko ono.
dont, dont, dont worry, kyoko.. mums only looking for her hand in the snow,.
Oooooooooo how I hate that song also! now I have it stuck in my head
Anyone mentioned the "crazy frog" ???????
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i posted on another thread a bit ago and it reminded me of how kind and warm and supportive so many jwd womenz have been.
sometimes we don't sieze the opportunities we have to let others know how much we appreciate their caring and support.. i lurv you womenz!!!
yall are appreciated very much!!!.
Its ok mysterious I know how it feels
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hello, wondering if anyone had the piano or guitar music to any jehovah's witness songs, .
one in particular is the song "we are jehovah's witnesses".
evanescence.
Yes, i've noticed that the song is not to hard to pic up when playing by ear its just I rather take the short cut and have the sheet music, that way for sure I know I am getting it right....
so is there not any sheet music on the internet?
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what would your views be on mormons?.
was there much incidences where jw's and mormons would ever catch eachother while going door-to-door?.
just curious cause both of you do it and wondered if there was ever any conflict between the two..... evanescence
yeah I have heard that its hard to understand the LDS faith, and in this case its hard to get any clear answers out of the mormons and the ex-mormons.....
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