www.addall.com use it on their book search engine so I'd imagine its a reputable site - if you haven't tried Addall, I recommend it, you may find your books from somewhere cheaper.
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Cool
by the_classicist innow this set makes me randy: http://www.christianbook.com/christian/books/product?event=aff&p=1017523&item_no=30815.
does anyone know if this is a reputable website, i would consider this an invaluable source to be able to buy this so cheap (i have 1 vol.
that i got yesterday and would love to pick up the rest; amazon sells it for over $1000 in canada).
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Belief-O-Meter Know Your Faith...
by EvilForce inthis is a fun little site where you spend 15 or 20 minutes answering 20 questions and it will give you the rankings of the 27 most popular religions in america by % basis on how much you agree with them.
go to: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html my results listed below: .
1. unitarian universalism (100%) .
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Ooops personal Insight on my results got chopped off the bottom for some reason! -
Errr.looks like the only thing I'm not is nontheist and I'm more dub than the ex ones
I don't think my musical tastes would go down too well with the Quakers either.. anyone know if they play the Chemical Brothers in their services?
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Belief-O-Meter Know Your Faith...
by EvilForce inthis is a fun little site where you spend 15 or 20 minutes answering 20 questions and it will give you the rankings of the 27 most popular religions in america by % basis on how much you agree with them.
go to: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html my results listed below: .
1. unitarian universalism (100%) .
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2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (93%) 3. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (89%) 4. Seventh Day Adventist (86%) 5. Eastern Orthodox (84%) 6. Roman Catholic (84%) 7. Liberal Quakers (74%) 8. Bahá'í Faith (74%) 9. Sikhism (70%) 10. Reform Judaism (70%) 11. Islam (67%) 12. Orthodox Judaism (67%) 13. Hinduism (62%) 14. Unitarian Universalism (61%) 15. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (59%) 16. Mahayana Buddhism (59%) 17. Theravada Buddhism (59%) 18. Jainism (55%) 19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (51%) 20. Neo-Pagan (48%) 21. Jehovah's Witness (47%) 22. Scientology (47%) 23. New Age (47%) 24. New Thought (42%) 25. Taoism (38%) 26. Secular Humanism (34%) 27. Nontheist (24%)1. Orthodox Quaker (100%) Errr.. looks like the only thing I'm not is nontheist and I'm more dub than the ex ones
Don't think I'd get far in the Quakers with my my musical tastes either - anyone know if they play the Chemical Brothers in their services?
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Fe2O3Baby
by Fe2O3Girl inmr fe2o3 and i are expecting a baby.
i am 22 weeks pregnant, our baby is due at the end of october.. mr fe2o3 is a wonderful, gorgeous man.
we have been married for four years now.
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Congrats!
We'll find out the sex when it is born. I like surprises.
Good on you for wanting the surprise - I think thats part of the experience!
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Another topic on lieing....
by shera inso...i'm in a relationship,where my man lies alot about his gambling problem.of course.... .
the thing is he tells me all men lie and basically saying...like him.
(also i will never find a man that won't lie).
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I agree, not all men are like that. Your guy will carry on making excuses for himself until he admits he has a problem. sad that the one with the problem is usually the last to realise it.
Rooting for you. hope it all works out.
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A newbie's impression on this board, pros and cons
by smelly onions incons.
i don't know who is scarier, the jw's or some people on this board.
man, r u guys bitter?
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Smelly
the folks on this board ARE getting on with their lives, dealing with the anger and pain is part of the journey. From where I'm sitting it looks like its you thats got a problem with bitterness - you just haven't fully realised it yet - biterness often manifests itself in taking side swipes at others without regard for their feelings, sometimes you don't even realise you're doing it - which is why you posted an apology after you realised you was annoying everyone.
Been there, done that, still doing it occasionally
Good luck on YOUR journey
they're all very nice stuffedwhich onions are more smelly, white, red, or yellow?
Josie ~ loves a nice pile of onion rings
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Intro/Is it ok for me to be here?
by Sad emo inis it ok for me to be part of your 'gang'?
you see i'm not a jw and never have been and a bit of of me feels like i'm gatecrashing.. i was raised in a strong roman catholic family - i was expected to believe everything the church taught without question and i did.
when i left school, i found myself working with an evangelical christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - i truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that i made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually i began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of the rc church began.. i was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines i'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with god through the priest (big issue here was how do i get my sins forgiven cos if i don't i'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before i finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:.
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An emo is referencw to musical taste - electro mosher. its what my more streetwise niece calls me - well she actually calls me a dirty emo but I thought that might give you all the wrong impression of me
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Intro/Is it ok for me to be here?
by Sad emo inis it ok for me to be part of your 'gang'?
you see i'm not a jw and never have been and a bit of of me feels like i'm gatecrashing.. i was raised in a strong roman catholic family - i was expected to believe everything the church taught without question and i did.
when i left school, i found myself working with an evangelical christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - i truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that i made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually i began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of the rc church began.. i was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines i'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with god through the priest (big issue here was how do i get my sins forgiven cos if i don't i'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before i finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:.
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Have you started to get the impression you're WELCOME here, sad emo?!?Make yourself ta home...
I think the penny's dropped!
Thank you all for your BIG welcomes. I was sooo overwhelmed by your responses that I couldn't stop crying - not ideal whilst at work! - so I waited until I got home before reading them.
SF - I got invited along to all the midweek studies including the theocratic misery school - I've still no idea why, after pubsinger told me what they do there it seemed a bit odd that they invited me to it, maybe it was easier to try and get me to go to those than the Sunday services cos I already went to church on sunday?
Crumpet - enjoy the ball and congrats on becoming a Jedi Master. The race to the finish kept me going this afternoon!
se (of the working hard to become a happy emo class)
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Intro/Is it ok for me to be here?
by Sad emo inis it ok for me to be part of your 'gang'?
you see i'm not a jw and never have been and a bit of of me feels like i'm gatecrashing.. i was raised in a strong roman catholic family - i was expected to believe everything the church taught without question and i did.
when i left school, i found myself working with an evangelical christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - i truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that i made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually i began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of the rc church began.. i was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines i'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with god through the priest (big issue here was how do i get my sins forgiven cos if i don't i'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before i finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:.
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Is it ok for me to be part of your 'gang'? You see I'm not a JW and never have been and a bit of of me feels like I'm gatecrashing.
I was raised in a strong Roman Catholic family - I was expected to believe everything the Church taught without question and I did. When I left school, I found myself working with an evangelical Christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - I truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that I made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually I began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of The RC church began.
I was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines I'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with God through the priest (big issue here was how do I get my sins forgiven cos if I don't I'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before I finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:
One Sunday the priest said in his sermon that you either accept all the churches teaching or none of them. Needless to say this made me really uncomfortable and like a true hypocrite for being there.
Another Sunday shortly after, he was preaching on the gospel where Jesus talked about not prefering your parents more than
him - the priest said something which really hit a nerve, he said if you hate your parents then you are nothing to God. BANG! It was like someone turned off all the lights. This is because I had an abusive father and I hated his guts for it (although at the time it was happening I was thinking I deserved it, I knew now that wasn't true) The long and short is that I got it into my head that God didn't love me so there was no point carrying on and nearly cut my wrists (providence saved me,another story)
At that time my friend who I'd worked with moved closer to where I lived and she'd found an Anglican church so I started going along there with her and after a year I became a member, because as long as I was a member of the RC church, I felt that I was tied to their rules. All hell broke loose, one of my sisters didn't speak to me for two years - if she does now its usually to make a backhanded comment and she always plays 'mind games' with me which makes me feel bad.
Two years ago I started doing home studies with some Witnesses and although they thought they'd no chance of getting me to change my beliefs, they've no idea how close they came - for a long while, everything they said seemed to make sense and they showed me a kind of friendship which I rarely encounter - I think its only because I know Mr & Mrs pubsinger and I was talking with them about what the JWs were telling me that I didn't join because they gave me the alternative argument. I still like to read and study the publications though.
Over the last year all my past baggage has come back to haunt me and I've been struggling with depression. I knew pubsinger was a member of this forum and the other week he showed me what was on it and suggested that I joined cos it might be helpful for me. He's right, it is helping me. Although I know you guys have come through some far worse stuff than me I see at least a little that I can relate to. Thanks that you're here.
sorry this is such a long post and thanks for reading if you made it this far!
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Catholicism
by Chia ini went to a catholic church this weekend with my boyfriend.
he was raised catholic and was thinking about going back to church, but after the service decided that his belief system was now too different for him to attend services anymore.
as for myself, it stirred an unexpected reaction in me.
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cheers for telling me to register! - hope everyone doesn't hate you for doing that - I wouldn't like to have competition for my 'most hated person in the world' title.