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  dear Friends...

  by myelaine in

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  happy valentines day!.

  love is but a song we sing and fear's the way we die, you can make the mountains ring or make the angels cry, tho' the bird is on the wing and you may not know why.

  c'mon people, now smile on your brother, ev'ry-body get together, try to love one another right now.

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  if it's the truth..

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  i'm finding online people who tell me that they believe the jw's are the truth.. yet they are living a life which says the exact opposite.

  i'm not talking about people who are trying to fade.

  these are people who specifically say it's the truth.

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  I can only start one thread a day. So I want to post this letter yet could not satart a new thread so I picked yours. Do you feel special?
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  valentines day sucks

  by lola28 in

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  this thread is for those of us that are single and hate everything that this day is about.

  i was using the atm at albertson's this morning and all around me i saw men buying candy and flowers and i seriously wanted to stab them....**note i would never actually hurt someone** sooooooooo i left the store and came right to work where i will be safe from ppl and teddy bears and candy and flowers.

  so if you hate this day as much as i do, feel free to use this thread to vent.. lola ** of the bitter table for one class** saying a big f*ck you to today..

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  Bethalite Paycheck?

  by nonamegiven in

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  how much to bethalites get paid today?

  i know it varies by length of service and marital status.

  does anyone know?

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  what are you going to buy with $100.00? Maybe a new tie? One shoe every two months..
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  Christians are hypocrites

  by Handsome Dan in

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  christians are hypocrites.

  christians, they love to talk about how loving, dutiful and compassionate they are, yet i have yet to meet one who does not practice hypocrisy to the highest degree.

  their willful ignorance of the bible combined with their two faced idealism to preach it, has made us sick, hasnt it?

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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE a cult!!!!

  by cultswatter in

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  when i was in the "truth" all the wts dates just were part of my everday thinking.

  now that i have deprogrammed myself i can clearly see that i was part of an evil cult.

  just thinking about those stinking dates makes me want to vomit.

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  This article discusses cult in the original sense of "religious practice." It does not discuss religious or sociological cultist groups or uses in the sense of "cultural sub-group," as in cult film, etc.

  In traditional usage, the cult of a religion, quite apart from its sacred writings ("scriptures"), its theology or myths, or the personal faith of its believers, is the totality of external religious practice and observance, the neglect of which is the definition of impiety. Cult is literally the "care" owed to the god and the shrine. The term "cult" first appeared in English in 1617, derived from the French culte, meaning "worship" or "a particular form of worship" which in turn originated from the Latin word cultus meaning "care, cultivation, worship," originally "tended, cultivated," also the past participle of colere "to till". Thus in French, for example, sections in newspapers giving the schedule of worship at Catholic churches are headed Culte Catholique; the section giving the schedule of protestant churches is headed culte réformé.

  By extension, "cult" has come to connote the total cultural aspects of a religion, as they are distinguished from others through change and individualization.

  The meaning "devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829, and from that connotation comes the modern meaning of "cult" as in a "cultist" or a "cult following". Cult and cultist have recently accrued negative connotations that are separately dealt with at the entry cult.

  In Roman Catholicism, cultus or cult is the technical term for the following and devotion or veneration extended to a particular saint.

  Some Christians make refined distinctions between worship and veneration, both of which are outwardly expressed in cultus or cult and are indistinguishable to the observer. Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy distinguish between worship (Latin adoratio, Greek latreia[?at?e?a]) which is due to God alone, and veneration (Latin veneratio, Greek doulia[d???e?a]), which may be lawfully offered to the saints. These private distinctions between deity and mediators are exhaustively treated at the entries for worship and veneration.

  Among the observances in the cult of a deity are rituals and ceremonies, which may involve spoken or sung prayers or hymns, and often sacrifice, or substitutes for sacrifice. Other manifestations of the cult of a deity are the preservation of relics or the creation of images, such as icons (usually connoting a flat painted image) or three-dimensional cultic images, denigrated as "idols", and the specification of sacred places, hilltops and mountains, fissures and caves, springs, pools and groves, or even individual trees or stones, which may be the seat of an oracle or the venerated site of a vision, apparition, miracle or other occurrence commemorated or recreated in cult practices. Sacred places may be identified and elaborated by construction of shrines and temples, on which are centered public attention at religious festivals (called "feasts" in some Christian communities) and which may become the center for pilgrimages.

  The comparative study of cult practice is part of the disciplines of the anthropology of religion and the sociology of religion, two aspects of comparative religion. In the context of many religious organisations themselves, the study of cultic or liturgical practises is called liturgiology.
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  if it's the truth..

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  i'm finding online people who tell me that they believe the jw's are the truth.. yet they are living a life which says the exact opposite.

  i'm not talking about people who are trying to fade.

  these are people who specifically say it's the truth.

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  ***

  w501/1p.16Letter***

  Letter

  "EACH

  MARRIEDCOUPLEMINDITSOWNCONDUCT"

  Dear Sister:

  Answering yours of September 22 on the matter of sexual intercourse:

  Of course, it is best for everyone not to pry into the private affairs of a married couple and even appear to attempt to dictate to them in regard to this subject. The safest thing we can do is to quote the inspired advice of the apostle Paul thereon at 1 Corinthians 7:1-6 (Moffatt’s translation):

  "Now for the questions in your letter. It is indeed ‘an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman’; but there is so much immorality, that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own. The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his; a wife cannot do as she pleases with her body—her husband has power, and in the same way a husband cannot do as he pleases with his body—his wife has power. Do not withhold sexual intercourse from one another, unless you agree to do so for a time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again. You must not let Satan tempt you through incontinence [through your lack of self-control, AnAmer.Trans.]. But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command."

  It is plain here that the apostle is speaking not just of sexual intercourse for the sake of reproducing children, but for the sake of sexual relief. For this reason, he says, it is better for some passionate persons to have a marriage mate of their own to help keep them from indulging in the immorality prevalent in this world. So married couples should not withhold sexual intercourse; otherwise, Satan might tempt one or both of the couple to immorality with persons outside. But, of course, in this matter self-control must be exercised so as not to overindulge to one’s spiritual harm, even to interfering with ‘devoting yourselves to prayer’. In this respect let each couple regulate its own life and not try to dictate to another couple.

  Faithfully yours in Kingdom service,

  WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY

  Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth; show forth his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvellous works among all the peoples. For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols: but Jehovah made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before him: strength and gladness are in his place. Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples, ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength; ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him; worship Jehovah in holy array. . . . say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth.—1 Chron. 16:23-29, 31, A.S.V.
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  I woke myself up last night screaming "Jehovah"

  by ButtLight in

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  i think i replied to too many threads yesterday about demons and jehovah.

  must have been in the back of my mind when i went to sleep.. i was dreaming that this ugly demon with a pointy hairy chin was after me.

  i dont remember alot, but the end part.

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  Shit they will be back for you...
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  Why Some Stay In The Organization

  by Outaservice in

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  don't you think a lot of brother's stay with the watchtower because in the real world they would never be anybody so-to-speak.

  they would never even attain their '15 minutes of fame' that many have.. but, at the hall, they get to get up in front of an audience, and people listen to them as if they really have something to say!

  and they're given a 'title' such as elder, ministerial servant, microphone handler (wow) etc.

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  I was talking with a "brother" about some of the teachings (his son is in bethel). He said " I doesn't matter I am happy there."

  Like my brother says "where else can you go and tell people how to live their lives after a day of driving the city trash truck?
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  Jan. 1, 2007 QFR quote re: annointed alive @ GT

  by Justitia Themis in

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  this subject was discussed last week.

  i do not know if anyone has posted this information or not.

  if they have, please disregard.

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  The light is changing. Keep up with the mother ship will you?