i just saw this over at witnet.
it was also on h20 about a week ago.
[url] http://discussion.witnesses.net/forum67/private-8qwkrq0/html/000162.html[/url].
You guys got me all concerned. I been totally undressed looking in the mirrors trying to identify which side of me is the feminine and which isn't! Derned if I can tell the difference! Waiting, you gotta understand this and explain it to a poor back woodsman..
carmel
Thanks! I did, but dinner was pita bread and peanut butter! No football on Israeli TV, so I laid on the deck and got a sunburn.
cheers'
carmel
hi all brothers and sisters.
i am simply looking for friends to talk with over email or icq.
i am adjusting to living alone after my wife left me and then was disfellowshipped.
Waiting claiming not to be "rabid" with mouth foaming is like "love" in the mouth of a prostitute! Quit leading the poor guy along "Fur". Lure him into your den of iniquity then zap the poor sap.
BTW Chris, Waiting ain't as bad as she seems! Then I guess you are capable of finding that out yourself.
Good to have you here so Waiting will quit picking on me!
Uncle Funny Bunny
all of you are invited to the real macoy thanksgiving dinner at my place!
well all but mrs. wit, or was that twit?
she has her jiggers and snakes and southern comfort to keep her company.. in case you couldn't tell, i wish i were in the good ol us this week for the bird!
Hey seven,
Thanks for the Arabian delight! Actually a year ago I took a trip on a camel and spent the night in a Bedouin tent. We were served goat, lamb, camel and all kinds of sidedishes. Burped for 24 hours!
you ever hear about the twenty scientists that tried camels? all twenty went back to their wives!!!
carmel ducking for cover
all of you are invited to the real macoy thanksgiving dinner at my place!
well all but mrs. wit, or was that twit?
she has her jiggers and snakes and southern comfort to keep her company.. in case you couldn't tell, i wish i were in the good ol us this week for the bird!
Tell you the truth there Peapod, I'm making Seven-up Salad that Em sent the receipt for! My only sin!
Carmel, sufferin from snake bite
all of you are invited to the real macoy thanksgiving dinner at my place!
well all but mrs. wit, or was that twit?
she has her jiggers and snakes and southern comfort to keep her company.. in case you couldn't tell, i wish i were in the good ol us this week for the bird!
All of you are invited to the real Macoy Thanksgiving Dinner at my place! Well all but Mrs. Wit, or was that Twit? She has her jiggers and snakes and southern comfort to keep her company.
In case you couldn't tell, I wish I were in the good ol US this week for the Bird! NO body does TG here in Israel, maybe cause they don't think they have anything to be thankful for!
Ya'll have a great Thanksgiving weekend, ya hear?
carmel
i have been curious why the jw's and other cults claim that the bible does not support the notion of the christ as divine (god).
can anyone offer an explanation?
my reading of the texts brings me to that conclusion.
Theo,
Consider if you have a highly polished mirror and you hold it in such a manner that you see the full glare of the noon-day sun in that piece of glass (silicone). You would be very correct in one sense saying as you point to the mirror "there is the sun". At the same time you would be equally correct in denouncing this as the "sun" but simply a very accurate reflection thereof. What you may or may not engage is that the invisible phenomena called "rays" and the unblemished nature of that mirror combine to give you the best understanding (visually) of the "real thing" without it being the literal fire ball in the sky.
My point is, Jesus, as that highly polished mirror, made of the same humane essense as you and I, through the effects of the "holy spirit" reflected perfectly to us the will of His Father as He came in the "station of the son". He was able to, as the anthropomorphic analogy would allow, more accurately reflect the will of the Father than anyone else at the time, even His announcer, John The Baptist.
So Jesus could be called the "lord" or whatever other appelation, without it meaning that He was literally "god".
just my $.25 which is worth one shekel
gods people.
this is in response to a question asked by martini on the thread reflections, page 4. for those who have not read it, the question is: is it true that the israelites were historically jehovah's chosen people...the israelites make the wts with all it's "warts" look like saints... or are we to deduce from this that jehovah is the kind of god that could accept and work with such wayward people today as he did in the past?
my response was, in a nutshell: yes, the israelites were gods chosen people.
If I may add my NIS I think the whold idea of "chosen" has been misunderstood. The tendency to take scripture and for personal nationalistic self-agrandisment give it an exclusivist twist. Hence the Jews still think they are better than others, chistians take a few of the nt scriptures (ie "I am the truth and the light..." give it a comparable exclusivist twist and bingo, "only followers of Jesus" are "saved".
Chosen can as easily be understood to mean "chosen as an example". Follow the laws of God and you prosper, turn your backs on them and you suffer the cosequences! So the Jews are an example for all of humanity. Given this example, what then is your response to "god's call" when a new message of divine origin comes your way? Again, look how the Jews screwed up by failing for the most part to accept Jesus as the "Messiah".
OBTW, NIS is "new israeli shekel"
carmel
it seems that most on this forum are deep thinkers.
there is much agonizing over the experiences each one has had.
there was trauma, crisis' of conscience, terrible things seen and done.
Ahah,
Actually I don't believe it was from either source. It was a monograph he wrote in the late 60's which I will have to go back and find the title. It was a reading assignment in one of my psych classes.
Get back to you later on it.
carmel
i appreciate so much of what is being said here, but frankly i just want it done with.
i don't even care if their doctrines are right or not, their conduct, their conditional love and their hypocrisy is definitely wrong.. i have given up looking for a church that has the answers, there is none.
there are no perfect churches, doctrines or people.
4I's you old peapod,
living in a desert cave and never having to learn "ya'll" sure beats chiggers and snakes!
