The one and only thing you should drink upon rising in the morning is a long glass of water, or two. This flushes out the kidneys of all the muck that has built up overnight.
Many people are chronically dehydrated without knowing it.
http://www.watercure.com/
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That Morning Drink
by KW13 inin the morning what drink do you first like?
(or need).... i find anything hot such as a tea/coffee or maybe even a hot choclate.
maybe its not necessarily the drink but more the time you allow yourself..
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Favorite Classical Music Piece?
by El Kabong ini'm kind of partial to strauss....listening to "tales from the vienna woods" now......(with images of bugs bunny cartoons in my head).....what are your favorite classical pieces?
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Respighi - sublime.
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When men think they are the "Kingdom of God"
by Doug Mason inin his book kingdom of god, john bright writes the following:.
although the new testament teaches us that the people of christs kingdom are his obedient followers, his church, there is never the slightest hint that the visibly existing church can either be or produce that kingdom.. there is no tendency in the new testament to identify the visible church with the kingdom of god.. the church that makes such an identification will soon begin to invite god to endorse its own very human policies and practices, will equate the people of god with those nice people who share its particular beliefs and participate in its services, and will reckon the advance of the kingdom in terms of its numerical growth.
but it will not be the new testament church!.
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Very interesting, thank you. This is a subject that interests me.
JW's feel that 'fleeing' (from Babylon the Great: the 'world empire of false religion') to their organisation is literally fleeing to the Kingdom. They have a song called "Flee to God's Kingdom", which JW's picture as going to all the meetings and in all other respects dutifully serving as a loyal member of the organisation.
JW's are constantly exhorted to 'put first the interests of the Kingdom', which means to put first the interests of the organisation, ie, do more of the JW programme of works.
To a JW, to 'seek first the kingdom' means almost exclusively two things: to regularly attend and participate in all the meetings, and to have a 'full share' in the ministry ('field service').
Since the anointed are viewed as the kingdom (144,001 government rulers), then the organisation is the literal representation of that Kingdom on earth because it alone contains the 'anointed remnant' of those remaining kingdom heirs yet to receive their heavenly reward.
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Taking predictions for the 2007 memorial partakers!!
by cultswatter ini'm doing this well in advance so that all the wonderful people on jwd can look back later and see just how close they were to the actual number!
(it is possible the wts might stop publishing the partaker numbers) in a few days, i will duly record the link to this thread for future reference.. remember that there were 8524 partakers in 2005 and 8758 partakers in 2006, an increase of 234 partakers.
so how many remnant will partake in 2007??.
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Given that many (perhaps most) of those who partake suffer from mental or emotional imbalances, and given that JW's have more people with mental and emotional imbalances than any other large religion, and given that the levels of disillusionment/frustration/stress/neuroses must logically be increasing in the organisation, I predict a similar increase to 8968, with similar increases every year until 2014.
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who really rules the world now?
by michiyo84 infor now the rules of dis world is satan.
but for 1 day satan will b destroyed.
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Hi Michiyo & welcome. Ignore the smartasses on here.
If your point is meant to show that if Satan is the ruler of the world now then Jesus cannot also be the ruler of the world, then you are spot on! Jesus cannot have been enthroned as earth's new ruler in 1914 and Satan also still be the ruler of the world. Yet the Revelation Climax book says that in 1914 the "kingdom of the world did become the kingdom of the Lord and of his Christ.." (Rev 11:15). How unreasonable is that. So the Watchtower Society's position means that Jesus must somehow be sharing his rulership with Satan!
Oh yea, that's right, I forgot...Jesus has been reigning since 1914 but has not yet 'extended his dominion' to the earth. What utter cobblers! -
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Jesus Never Existed website
by Balsam ini just ran across this website.
has extensive material from many different sources.
for those of you who are atheist you will find it interesting, for those who are believers it still is interesting.
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The only persons who seriously believe that Jesus never existed are on the radical fringe of opinion on the subject. The overwhelming consensus among historians and scholars is that he did indeed exist, at the very least.
For an antidote to that website try this article:
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JWs use 1914 as proof that the devil was cast down, but...
by cultswatter indid you know the wts never announced that the devil was cast down until 1925!!
look at this now will ya.
quote from the book "babylon the great has fallen -god's kingdom rules".
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Pahpa you said:
"To me it is significant that JWs always point to events that can't be proven to "prove" that the organization has "the truth." Examples: 1914 as the date of Christ's INVISIBLE presence, 1914 as the date of Satan's ouster from heaven. 1919 Date that God selects the Watchtower to represent Him. etc. This is one of the reasons that JWs have to cling to these dates even though no real evidence is forthcoming."
Not necessarily. The standard JW defense of this is that there is indeed hard, physical proof that they are right. For example, the claim that the so-called 'composite sign' of Christ's invisible presence has been evidenced by the sheer scale of horrors in the 20th century, such as the two most bloodthirsty wars in history (WW1 and WW2).
However, even if their interpretation of a so-called 'composite sign' is correct, it would only mean that Jesus is 'near at the doors' and that we are in the 'season' BEFORE Jesus returns, not that he returned in 1914 and has been invisibly 'present' (his presence known only to JW's) since.
A big trap that JW's fall into in this regard is that they see their own organisation and its tangible accomplishments as proof that they are the true religion. Examples: the JW's refused to go to war in WW2 (so they alone practice 'love among themselves'); JW's preach the 'good news of the kingdom' in over 200 nations (so they alone are fulfilling Matt 24:14); JW's alone are called by Jehovah's name and publish millions of bibles and publications praising that name (so they alone represent the true God, YHWH/Jehovah). But these claims are all debateable and really amount to nothing but circular reasoning. -
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How much JW doctrine is in harmony with the Bible?
by OnTheWayOut insome have stated that the jw's go too far with their doctrine, but that much of the basic.
beliefs of the religion are correct.
i don't want to debate whether the bible is correct.. i just want opinions on how much of the jw doctrine agrees with the actual teachings of .
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White Dove, I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head when you said:
"I believe that a relegion can have all the truth in the world but lacking love, it is worthless in God's eyes like the Pharisees were. They knew everything of the law of Moses but lacked the whole point behind it. Worthless. To me, it doesn't matter how closely the JW's follow the Bible because they miss the whole point behind it. Sounding pieces of brass and clashing symbols."
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This makes me sick. This is the kind of news that tempts me to dissasociate myself.
What a reproach on Jehovah, whose name they have degraded to being similar to the ancient pagan Gods that babies were sacrificed too! (Jeremiah 7:31)
Shame on the Governing Body and their morbid, loveless, fanatical, pharasaical policies and interpretations, their ruthless brainwashing, and their slimey lawyers. Defending their precious legal 'rights' is more important to the Watchtower Society than saving babies and families.
To the Governing Body: "Go, then, and learn what this means, 'I want mercy, and not sacrifice.'" (Matt 7:13) -
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JWs use 1914 as proof that the devil was cast down, but...
by cultswatter indid you know the wts never announced that the devil was cast down until 1925!!
look at this now will ya.
quote from the book "babylon the great has fallen -god's kingdom rules".
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Interesting. What did Russell believe about when the devil was cast down?