I didn't vote for him and i didn't vote for his daddy either.
DannyHaszard
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Bush - Idiot Hypocrite
by Simon injerusalem - president bush said on israeli television he could consider using force as a last resort to press iran to give up its nuclear program..
erm ... doesn't israel have nuclear weapons?
i guess they are allowed to do what they want eh?
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Propaganda puff piece-same ole same ole
by DannyHaszard in'we feel we're doing god's will, preaching the good news to everyone,' doctor says of jehovah's witnesses.
'we feel we're doing god's will, preaching the good news to everyone,' doctor says of jehovah's witnesses.. .
that's how we feel about our message.
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Jehovah's Witnesses reach out to all
San Antonio Express (subscription), TX - 6 hours ago
... about their religion. 'We feel we're doing God's will, preaching the good news to everyone,' Doctor says of Jehovah's Witnesses. ... Jehovah's Witnesses reach out to allWeb Posted: 08/13/2005 12:00 AM CDT
Vianna Davila
Express-News Staff WriterFor every door that has opened for lifelong San Antonio Jehovah's Witness Joe Doctor III, plenty have slammed in his face.
(Kin Man Hui/Express-News)
Walter Garbut, 14, and August Torres, 8, go door-to-door as they volunteer as part of a team of Jehovah's Witnesses recently. Their group was on a weekend mission going through a neighborhood to talk to people about their faith.
He's learned not to take it personally.
As a so-called "publisher" — one who publicly identifies as a follower of Jehovah through a door-to-door ministry — Doctor is one of 6.5 million Witnesses worldwide who aim to reach every household at least once a year with one mission: to love thy neighbor and share Jehovah's kingdom.
"We know that every door we knock on is a challenge," said Doctor, 43. "If we talk to somebody one day and they are hostile, we feel in our hearts we've planted a seed."
With 85 English and Spanish Jehovah's Witness congregations in San Antonio, Witnesses ferry their message across city blocks with methodical perseverance and unyielding sincerity.
But the right to ring a doorbell or wedge their literature in a doorframe represents decades of hard-won battles.
"You may be irritated when somebody wakes you up on Saturday morning and knocks on your door," said Jehovah's Witness General Counsel Philip Brumley, based in New York. "But you might think on another hand, isn't it nice in this country we have a freedom to do that?"
A right to minister Witnesses have successfully argued cases in front of the Supreme Court 48 times. One of their most prominent Witnesses and general counsels was Hayden Covington.
(Kin Man Hui/Express-News)
David Casillas (left) and Joe Doctor III meet with Roger Casias (right) at his home recently after asking permission to talk to him about their religion. 'We feel we're doing God's will, preaching the good news to everyone,' Doctor says of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Covington was second only to Thurgood Marshall in the number of successful civil liberty cases he argued, many with far-reaching implications for all Americans, Brumley said.
Witnesses won cases that allowed them to distribute information without taxation, a precedent that later affected the right of newspapers to do the same, said Trinity University assistant communications professor Jennifer Jacobs Henderson.
They have argued that politicians might not have the right to canvas door-to-door and people could be forced to salute the American flag against their will, Brumley recalled.
The greatest blow to the religion in the United States came with the 1940 Supreme Court case Minersville School District vs. Gobitis, which said that Jehovah's Witness children could be forced to salute and pledge to the flag in school, a violation of their allegiance to Jehovah.
The ruling opened the door for Witness persecution across the country, said Henderson, who's writing a book on the religion's contribution to First Amendment rights. In Texas alone, there were mob beatings and an attempt to hang a Witness.
Minersville was overturned in 1943 with the case West Virginia Board of Education vs. Barnette, known as the flag salute case, Brumley said.
In a recent 2002 victory for Jehovah's Witnesses, the Court ruled that the city of Stratton, Ohio, could not force religious groups and political canvassers to obtain a permit before taking to the streets.
Both decisions weren't just boons for the Witnesses: it meant more rights for everyone, Brumley said, calling the religion and the paths Witnesses forged in the name of freedom of _expression "a slice of the American pie."
But the right to sacrifice time for their religion, which began in the late 19th century with a focus on evangelism and the coming of the millenium (sic two n's), didn't come easily. Between 1935 and 1950, at least 10,000 Witnesses were arrested in the United States for their door-to-door ministry, Brumley said. They've had to fight for their right to refuse blood transfusions because Witnesses believe blood is sacred.
Abroad, the Nazis persecuted them during the Holocaust; at least 2,500 died in concentration camps, Brumley said.
Though they are Christian, many of their beliefs are different from those of other Christian groups. Their name originates in Isaiah 43:10, Brumley said: "'You are my witnesses,' is the utterance of Jehovah, 'even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that you may know and have faith in me.'"
Witnesses also believe Jehovah is the one and only true God and that Jesus is his son. They discount the idea of the Holy Trinity. Witnesses believe Earth will be restored to paradise, and unrepentant sinners do not face hell but cease to exist upon their death. They do not use religious symbols in their worship.
San Antonio Witness Vivian Riley, 59, remembers friends from San Antonio who were jailed when they refused to fight in the Vietnam War. Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to bear arms because doing so violates Jesus' commandment to love they neighbor, Brumley said. The 1953 case Dickinson vs. the United States clarified draft exemptions for ministers — all Witnesses are considered ministers, Brumley said.
"There's forces that like to restrict religions," Brumley said. "We are then obligated to push back in the other direction."
Perfected to a science For Riley, the cases have only ensured her right to complete her mission: "If you saw a neighbor's house on fire, you'd run over, wouldn't you, to warn her. That's how we feel about our message."
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that God, through the Bible, instructs them to spread a message of love throughout the world. Brumley references Matthew 24:14: "And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."
The well-known door-to-door ministry is a requirement of all Witnesses, and they have perfected their work to a science.
They carry laminated territory cards of individual neighborhoods and chronicle each house they visit on small sheets of paper, noting points of interest or concern in every household like "worried about crime" or "searching for the meaning of life."
Children are encouraged to publish, as are the elderly. Some publishers graduate to become "pioneers," who make a yearlong commitment to log 70 hours of ministry every month.
"This is something since I was younger that I've wanted to do," said Lisa Riley, 34, Vivian's daughter-in-law, who started her year of pioneering last September. "It's hard to explain. It's just been wonderful."
The time of publishing excludes the hours Witnesses spend in five meetings sprinkled throughout the week at each congregation's Kingdom Hall, the name for their gathering place.
Clearing up misperceptions also consumes a large part of their ministry: No, they are not Mormons. Yes, they can drink alcohol, in moderation. One woman who Doctor's wife, Kim, encountered thought Witnesses lived in communes and grew their own food. Witness David Casillas said he's had to politely ask his co-workers to remove his name from the office birthday list because Witnesses don't celebrate them.
"Nine times out of 10 they (people) are ignorant as to what our beliefs are," said Casillas, 39. But after some explanation, "they realize you're just like everyone else."
Converting isn't necessarily their goal, either, Doctor said. They don't want to shove the Bible down anyone's throat.
"We feel that if a person makes a decision that they do not want to follow God's principles and become a Jehovah's Witness at this particular moment, we still feel satisfied," Doctor said. "We feel we're doing God's will, preaching the good news to everyone."
Lisa Riley's daughter Jasmine, 11 and a publisher since she was 8, explains her tenacity like this: "There are so many more people that don't know about God's kingdom," Jasmine said.
'No Jehovah's Witnesses' Though many of the big battles for Witnesses in the U.S. have been won, the day-to-day challenges continue.
On one Saturday morning spent publishing, Kim Doctor and another publisher knocked on a door on the city's Southwest Side. When it's opened they began with a Bible verse. "No thank you," said the woman who answered.
At the next house they encountered a sign pasted on one door: "Aqui somos catolicos" "We are a Catholic household."
Kim knocked and when she received no answer, left behind a pamphlet.
Other days the signs are clearer. In one neighborhood, she spotted a string of placards that specifically said "No Jehovah's Witnesses." Sometimes people call the police or yell obscenities. Kim once even heard a man murmur to his dog, "Sic 'em," as she and her fellow publishers passed.
It's all opposition they've learned to take in stride because they never know whose door could open and whose life they could change.
"We're not there to argue," Kim said. "We're there to share. And it's up to them if they want to listen or not."
[email protected]Footnote : "Nine times out of 10 they (people) are ignorant as to what our beliefs are,"Ray Franz described this phenomena as the "great preaching paradox" all the evangelism they do and still nobody knows their message Extra-WHO is Phillip Brumley?
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TOP TEN SIGNS THAT YOU ARE AN UNQUESTIONING JEHOVAH'S WITNESS
by nicolaou in10- you vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of your god - jehovah.. .
9- you feel insulted and 'dehumanized' when scientists say that people evolved from lesser life forms, but you have no problem with the biblical claim that we were created from dirt.. .
8- you laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in multidues of demons, angels, cherubs etc.. .
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DannyHaszard
Good read for the news wire.
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Where did oil come from?
by IP_SEC in.
i guess there are two theories eh?
one that it came from dead dinos and decaying ancient plant material and the other that it is a normal geological process.. has anyone ever done any research on this?
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DannyHaszard
This is a big quandary that has racked me since childhood(A) Excessive depth of deposits for primordal swamp theory
(B) Hello! why are the outer 'gas giant' planets frozen balls of methane aka swamp gas
Coal the other 'fossil fuel' is different we can see it's ongoing 'evolutionary' process from peat bogs.
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Shining One's Link To A Dishonest ICR Article
by AlanF inin the thread "the skeptic's worst nightmare" ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/96102/2.ashx ) shining one gave a link ( http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&id=2464 ) to an icr (institute for creation research) artcle titled "evolution--impossible to embarass its believers" by the icr's founder henry morris.
why was the soft tissue preserved?
all it means is, "we don't accept what real scientists say.
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Good long read Alan.I can grasp it all clearly,rotten shame too as i recieved a medical exemption from school attendance age 14 and never pursued higher education as 1975 was to cure me of ulcerative colitis and growing old.
Now i am a case of someone indocrinated and throughly brainwashed from birth by watchtower dogma who can see this logic.
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Alan F's flaming arguments and insults
by Rex inhi alan, .
have you ever looked at the carved up mountains, hills and valleys?????
have examined the remarkable similarity to the mount st. helen's canyon that was carved our very quickly?
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Jehovah's Witnesses PBS Film KNOCKING Omits the Facts
Pressbox.co.uk (press release), UK - 14 hours ago
... We divorced in 1994-96.Over the years I did a great deal of research into the beliefs and history of Jehovah's Witnesses. My research ...Alan's up on the news wire (handsome pic too) and at Freeminds scroller
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Hall Closing in Cleveland, OH, USA Area?
by reagan_oconnor inmy husband called me this afternoon to tell me that he drove by the lakewood congregation (on madison ave.) and it is closed, boarded up!
hurrah!.
i only hope this means that there is waning interest in this area and they don't have a large enough congregation, and not that they're building a larger place elsewhere..
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DannyHaszard
I ratted out the abusive Bridgewater Whitman Massachusetts kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses illegal overloaded sewer (cesspool) system to the health dept,when they doubled up.I did this cause they wrongfully DFed me and i had the dirt on em. -
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WTF!!!!???????
by Valis inok so yesterday i am resting from my vacation and my roomie tells me that officer todd calls from some conutry fried town in southern louisiana.
new llano?
he says in 2000 i was supposedly speeding through his town in a red pickup truck.
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DannyHaszard
Gather all your evidence/explanation send copys to the court via certified mail and ask that charges be dismissed.
If they do nothing you can show good faith for any later developments.[Matt.5:25]
no biggie
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"The ultimate obedience"1914 Millerite/Adventist Cult all the way
by DannyHaszard inthe ultimate obedience
... dean, is because 'jehovah is the sustainer of life on earth.
all living systems are provisions from jehovah.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Millerite mutation right down to the very month. Always do a regression analysis just where did 1914 come from? Time sneered that it was a "Great Disappointment." Nevertheless, millennial expectations persisted, leading to Seventh-day Adventism and the Jehovah's Witnesses .. Read from this newspaper article: The problem with Millennialism Naples Daily News, FL In 19th-century America the preacher William Miller was persuaded that the Second Coming of Christ would take place on the night of Oct. 22, 1844. When Jesus failed to keep that date, newspapers of the time sneered that it was a "Great Disappointment." Nevertheless, millennial expectations persisted, leading to Seventh-day Adventism and the Jehovah's Witnesses."--------------
There you have it folks backup confirmation that Jehovah's Witnesses are "mutated millerites" a spinoff of second adventist. LOOK and open your eyes!! Why even the "Armageddon will come in month of October" false prophecy time line comes from William Miller a civil war army captain. Growing up born a JW I have heard/read that Armaggedon will come in "October" at least a hundred times,(World War one started and Satan cast out in "October") There is nothing that made me gasp in horror of all WT/JW falsehoods more then this finding that it all came from the Millerite movement! Yes,the "great disappointment" of Oct 22 1844 has never falted... it lives on in the Seventh day Adventist (who admit it) AND the Jehovah's Witnesses who deny it Must see video clip http://www.dannyhaszard.com/cultvideos.htm
The Millerites: Armageddon (History Channel) 4 min clip
This is the highly credible HISTORY CHANNEL (Roger Mudd) not the "apostates" exposing Jehovah's Witnesses as a spin-off of the William Miller movement of 1844 ----------- Watchtower Whistleblower: Danny Haszard Bangor Maine Jehovah's Witnesses are the 'perfect storm' of deception-in a word they are the cult of Innuendo -
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"The ultimate obedience"1914 Millerite/Adventist Cult all the way
by DannyHaszard inthe ultimate obedience
... dean, is because 'jehovah is the sustainer of life on earth.
all living systems are provisions from jehovah.
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The ultimate obedience
... Dean, is because 'Jehovah is the sustainer of life on earth. All living systems are provisions from Jehovah. Obedience is one way to show thankfulness for sustaining our lives ...
The ultimate obedience
'Jehovah has our best interests at heart'There are four reasons why Jehovah God, is the one to whom humans should be obedient, declared Alison Dean, who gave the main public discourse entitled "To Whom Does our Obedience belong?" at the final day of the three-day "Godly Obedience District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses, on Sunday afternoon."
"Without Jehovah, we won't be existing," said Mr. Dean who serves as a minister in the Jehovah's Witnesses Bahamas Branch office. "He (Jehovah) is the creator and sovereign and as the Bible book of Revelation 4:11 states, he deserves our obedience; His creatorship entitles Him to our obedience and worship."
The second reason why humans' obedience should belong to God said Mr. Dean, is because "Jehovah is the sustainer of life on earth. All living systems are provisions from Jehovah. Obedience is one way to show thankfulness for sustaining our lives."
The third reason why humans owe their obedience to God is because He "is a God of matchless qualities," he said. "He loves us (according to 1 John 5:3) and such love has been expressed by telling us to do things to benefit ourselves.
The fourth reason is that "Jehovah has our best interests at heart," said Mr. Dean.
"The Bible book of Isaiah 48:17-18 explains that he is helping us to benefit ourselves. Surely that is the kind of person we would want to worship and as Deuteronomy 4:5,6 states, obeying Jehovah is the sensible thing to do."
While many persons today may not feel that they owe their obedience to God, Mr. Dean stated the Bible indicates that in the very near future, God will command the obedience of all through his Son, Jesus Christ who has been granted power by God as the Messianic King of God's Kingdom to rule over the earth. Referring to the prophetic book Daniel at chapter 7 and verses 13 and 14, Mr. Dean said that according to Bible prophecy "Jesus Christ since 1914, has been glorified and reigning in heaven and has been given (the power to command) the unquestioned obedience of mankind."
He cites three reasons why Jesus has been entrusted with kingly power and that human's can trust him: Firstly, Jesus is the finest example of unquestioned obedience to his father Jehovah, obeying him to the point of death, thereby providing the ransom price for mankind's sin. Would any earthly ruler sacrifice himself?" "Mr. Dean asked.
Secondly, as stated at Matthew chapter 28:18 Jesus relates how Jehovah has delegated to him "all authority in heaven and on earth." "If Jehovah trusts Jesus we certainly can," he said.
A third reason why Jesus will be the ideal ruler of the earth is because he never abused his God-given power and authority when he came to the earth some 2000 years ago. "That is the kind of ruler we yearn for and what Jesus will be," said Mr. Dean, as he urged the large crowd attending the convention "to submit yourselves to the now reigning Jesus Christ, to whom our obedience belong."
The final of four District Conventions was held on Saturday and Sunday in the Creole language for the benefit of the French/Creole congregation and the many Haitian residents in The Bahamas. A total of 3,220 persons attended the conventions held, the first in Freeport, Grand Bahama and other three in Nassau. A total of 22 persons were ordained as new ministers after being baptised at a local beach.
{Footnote from Danny Haszard I got to go water/weed the garden be back hot in Bangor Maine}