I believe that the book exists. I've seen in many homes, churches, and bookstores. Is it the inerrant word of God? Should it be seen as a divine message to all of mankind. Regardless if it is or if it not, no one can doubt the impact the book has had on the world, especially western civilization. There are things that are very human about the book, and over the past few months I have been looking at it from that perspective more and more. So do I believe in it? Most of what that question entails is that do you believe in supernatural phenoma desribed in its pages, and if it is all real. I don't doubt the supernatural, my gut feeling (whatever it is worth) takes me to believe it is there. I'm just borderline between the Bible being inerrant or being human, and if it is from God (whole or in part) what his purpose with it is. It surely is a book that drives home the point of being a spiritual person, something I agree with. On the other hand, I don't know if trying to defend every single line as if it is from Gods mouth is helpful. I actually like to see the spiritual more with faith, rather than fact.
drew sagan
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Do You Believe In The Bible At All?
by minimus indo you believe god used men to write his thoughts?
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You've rented a billboard in front of a KH. What would you put on it?
by whyizit inif you could rent a bill board where you knew jehovah's witnesses would see it, what would you put on it to try to effectively reach them?
and don't forget that lots of other people would see it to.
maybe the regular joe would be able to develope some good questions from your ad too.
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drew sagan
Let us face the fact that no matter how much Bible reading we have done, we would never have learned the truth on our own.
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Please expand my cd or record colldection.
by jojochan ini was just diggin through everything in my crates and just noticed that i had just listened to everything here.
i'm bored with my music now; please broaden my mind...list some tunes for me to listen to.
i listen to everything,everything.don't be shy, list whatever, jazz, ska, dub, electronica, ambient, punk, bluegrass, industrial, classical whatever.
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drew sagan
some of my favorites include:
-lou barlou, emoh
Really good acoustic music
-the flaming lips, yoshimi battles the pink robots
wonderful album filled with all sorts of electronic rock and variations
-anything by wendy carlos
a strange musician that plays bach and other famous composers on the synth, has been putting out albums since the 70s. Also did the soundtrack to "A Clockwork Orange". Great stuff.
-brooklyn sax quartet
a great group of musicians from brooklyn, no percussions just horns
-Lou Harrison
A wonderful composer. Just bought his album "Serenado", it's a good buy. Some of his other works include many one of a kind instruments he built himself.
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Daniel Book Variation
by drew sagan inis anybody familiar with the variation in the daniel book on page 275 (i think), taking about how true worshipers would be refined.
i remember that at the convention some brothers commented that some books read one way and other books read another way.
some people talked about it briefly last night at the book study.
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drew sagan
Is anybody familiar with the variation in the Daniel book on page 275 (i think), taking about how true worshipers would be refined. I remember that at the convention some brothers commented that some books read one way and other books read another way. Some people talked about it briefly last night at the book study. Just curious.
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April 1, 2006 WT: You Can Understand The Bible (deliberate lies)
by truthseeker inon the front cover of the april 15, 2006 wt is a picture of a bible with the title, "you can understand the bible".
now bear in mind, that the wt magazine is considered the more scholarly of the mags that come out, where the awake!
is considered little more than a cut-down version of reader's digest for 12 year olds.. i'm only including the interesting bits.
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drew sagan
So true, so true. The sad fact is since those comments where made years ago many current witnesses view them as "old light". They think that things have changed since then. The same attitude still exists though, it's just not put in the publications.
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Stay away from the Weirdos!!
by Gill inoh dear!
this is not something i want to tell my mum about.
she would be horrified to hear it.
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drew sagan
The amazing thing about JWs is how normal they think they are. They think people feel they are weird because of misinformation. The truth is that Witnesses are a strange bunch. Before I became a Witness I kind of saw them in the same light as the Mormons and other small and tightly organized religions. People who where very devout and "into" their religion. People who let it dictate everything they did. Witnesses don't realize they are seen this way. They don't realize that following the "faithful slave" and all they tell them to do makes them wierd, because they simply follow a list of rules handed down by authority.
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2006 - A Year of Movers and Shakers for The Society
by truthseeker init's only march 1st and already several things have happened in witless land.... 1) awake!
goes monthly beginning january 1, 2006.. 2) to be confirmed: bound volumes cease production.
3) confirmed by congregation letter: paperback bibles replace hardback bibles.
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IS THERE A SAFE/EFFECTIVE WAY?
by Terry innow that i'm single again i face the same problem that many baby boomers face: how in the world do you meet somebody??.
i don't go to bars.. i don't like smokers.. i am not nutty enough to be attracted to young and dumb.. crazy music isn't my cup o' tea.. i like conversation with at least some minimal content.. online dating service seem outrageously weird to me.. what's a poor lad to do?.
any reccomendations?
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drew sagan
I agree with frannie, getting involved in activities you enjoy will bring you in contact with all sorts of people who share the same interests. I came across your music one day on freeminds, it was great stuff! I'm sure you'll be albe to impress a few ladies with your talent.
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I Don't care - I got my Plastic Jesus
by unclebruce inremmember the other day when i made a jesus in my own image.
well imagine my joy today when the box finally arrived - my plastic jesus is here and now my spiritual journey is complete.
(only $7.50aus on ebay).
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drew sagan
i love the flaming lips, their version is great
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Brokeback mountain
by InquiryMan ini finally got to see it tonight.
actually i wanted my wife and me to see it yesterday, but we were both too tired.
it was very touching, well-made.
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drew sagan
We were going to go see it, but I looked it up at kidsinmind.com and it seems to be a little more graphic than I wish to view. I'm sure it's a good movie.