Jim-TX, When Lazarus died the first time, Jesus had not paid the debt as yet...
Posts by TopHat
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42Why did Death not stop as soon as the RANSOM was paid?
by jwfacts interry's recent thread about god's love made me start wondering the above question.
normally a ransom is done as a swap, the payment is made on exchange.
2000 years ago jesus made payment by dieing.
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Bye-Bye Brooklyn....were OUTTA there! Real Estate news.
by oompa ini was told today by a heavyweight elders wife, both of whom were at bethel for many years and are very well connected to the brooklyn brass, that all brooklyn bethel operations will be moved to wallkill and patterson.
in fact, there is a very exclusive walk-through next week for some of the top real estate investors/developers who will see all the properties, starting with the sands, and its lobby has now been remodeled to look just like a high-end hotel..................just fyi.................................oompa
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TopHat
I have to conclude that, September, 11, 2001 was the pivotal point that made the decision for them.
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The "God Particle" "Big BANG"
by TopHat inkey scientist sure "god particle" will be found soon
by robert evans mon apr 7, 12:27 pm et
geneva (reuters) - british physicist peter higgs said on monday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible -- as he first argued 40 years ago.
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Do you think it is possible to find God in a Particle?........................................ Key scientist sure "God particle" will be found soon By Robert Evans Mon Apr 7, 12:27 PM ET GENEVA (Reuters) - British physicist Peter Higgs said on Monday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible -- as he first argued 40 years ago. ADVERTISEMENT Higgs said he believes a particle named the "Higgs boson," which originates from the force, will be found when a vast particle collider at the CERN research centre on the Franco-Swiss border begins operating fully early next year. "The likelihood is that the particle will show up pretty quickly ... I'm more than 90 percent certain that it will," Higgs told journalists. The 78-year-old's original efforts in the early 1960s to explain why the force, dubbed the Higgs field, must exist were dismissed at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Today, the existence of the invisible field is widely accepted by scientists, who believe it came into being milliseconds after the Big Bang created the universe some 15 billion years ago. Finding the Higgs boson would prove this theory right. CERN's new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) aims to simulate conditions at the time of that primeval inferno by smashing particles together at near light-speed and so unlock many secrets of the universe. Higgs was in Geneva to visit CERN for the first time in 13 years in advance of the launch. Scientists at the centre hope the process will produce clear signs of the boson, dubbed the "God particle" by some, to the displeasure of Higgs, an atheist. He came up with his theory to explain why mass disappears as matter is broken down to its smallest constituent parts -- molecules, atoms and quarks. BIG BANG The normally media-shy physicist, who has spent most of his career at Scotland's Edinburgh University, postulated that matter was weightless at the exact moment of the Big Bang and then much of it promptly gained mass. This, he argued, must be due to a field which stuck to particles as they passed through it and made them heavy. If this had not happened, matter would have floated free in space and stars and planets would never have formed. Higgs said he hoped the elusive boson -- which an earlier but less powerful collider at CERN and another at the U.S. Fermilab had failed to detect -- would be identified before his 80th birthday in 2009. "If it doesn't," he said, "I shall be very, very puzzled." But there may be no immediate visible proof -- despite some fanciful portrayals of what it might look like -- of the boson's appearance on the ultra-sophisticated computers used by CERN scientists to track the billions of collisions in the LHC. "It all happens so fast that the appearance of the boson may be hidden in the data collected, and it could take a long time for the analysis to find it," said Higgs. "I may have to keep the champagne on ice for a while yet."
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When you went out in field service
by megaflower inhow often did you have to talk yourself into going out?.
how often did you wait till the end of the month to get some time in?.
how often did you fudge your time?.
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TopHat
Going out in field service was akin to a flogging once a week. Nothing I looked forward to or wanted. I hated waking up householders who were sleeping.
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Don't bother recycling ... God will fix the earth
by 10p inhttp://www.watchtower.org/e/20031122a/article_03.htm
just browsing the site for kicks, and this annoyed me.
typical jw attitude - with the readership they supposedly have, they could have made a real difference ... encouraged all jw's to recycle, buy carefully etc.
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Doesn't Revelation say, God will destroy those who pollute the Earth?
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What was your first Religious Experience ?
by Casper injust wondered how others first learned about religion.
i know "born ins" were taught from the start but the rest of us had to start somewhere.
my very first memory of anything supposedly religious was at the age of six... my grandmother took me to a "tent revival".
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My parents were not religious...so a friend of theirs thought I should go to church with them on Sundays. I guess I was all of 4 or 5 years old. It was the Local Southern Baptist church. The ONLY church in the little country town we lived in at the time. I loved "Sunday school" However, the preacher was a total bore and I fell asleep.
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What the Hades is going on at the local Kingdom Hall?
by AK - Jeff inthe kh that i attended has always held it's meetings on sunday morning, and still does.
even on the days when the co visits there are normally only a handful of cars left in the parking lot after 3 pm, as the co typically quits service and heads home by 3 or 4, and besides, if you are not in his group it is usually 'take a few doors, count an hour, and get home in time to watch the game' attitude.
so today i drive by after work - it is 4 pm when i pass the kingdom hall, and the damned parking lot is just packed - maybe 45 or 50 cars in the lot.
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A video slide from a brother who went overseas to help out somewhere? I remember when a few brothers went to Jamaica to help restore 2 or 3 KHs after a hurricane, there was a special meeting to see the slides they brought back with them from Jamaica.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-30-08 WT Study (God's ways)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the march 30, 2008 wt study (february 15, 2008, pages 7-11) (walk gods ways).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
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Poztate....LOL...just what I was thinking...The anger coming from that poster toward blondie means a Watchtower brainwashed slave.
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Nothing but the Blood - Chapter 3
by daniel-p in[this is the true story of my life.
i'm posting it in installments.
the final installment will include post-script-type thoughts, with acknowledgements to those who've helped me along these last two years, as well as those who've been an inspiration.
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Good reading Dan...keep them coming
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 3-30-08 WT Study (God's ways)
by blondie incomments you will not hear at the march 30, 2008 wt study (february 15, 2008, pages 7-11) (walk gods ways).
review comments will be in red.
wt material from today's wt will be in black.
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TopHat
The one thing that started to open my eyes about the Watchtower was their constant way of comparing themselves and implying they were the ones mentioned in the Bible in so many ways. I said to myself...How dare they!