So LT, how many angels do you think would fit on the head of a pin?
Cygnus, of the 'I don't need no stinkin' sleep class'
Posts by Cygnus
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215Trinity- True or False
by defd ini know from going door to door that people are generally divided as to who god is.
what are your thoughts?
is jesus almighty god?
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Trinity- True or False
by defd ini know from going door to door that people are generally divided as to who god is.
what are your thoughts?
is jesus almighty god?
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Cygnus
LT, the best explanation I've read to answer your question is Stafford's, where he points to some passage in Chronicles somewhere that says the Israelites worshipped their king, along with worshipping Jehovah. ("proskuneo" in the Septuagint) So humans, with Jehovah's approval, can receive such "worship" if rightly devoted.
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Today on my birthday.
by ColdRedRain ini karate kicked a friend's car window, then i met up with the guy that introduced me to independent thought and out of the org at a rock concert.
anyways, i'm drunk.
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Cygnus
Now why can't I get away with ultraviolence like that?
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OK, fess up. . . has anyone tried internet dating?
by carefully faded ini recently signed up on a couple of internet dating sites.
i've been talking with one guy for about a week now and he's asked to meet for coffee.
i'm a little nervous and wanted to hear how many others have tried this.
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Cygnus
Never tried an internet dating service, but I met caty in Yahoo chat and knew her for probably 8 months or so as casual online friends and one day realized I wanted it to be something more. Took over 5 more months but I finally went to visit her and the rest of the love story continues....
Her JW sister and JW brother-in-law met on jwmatch.com and got married a little over a year ago. So there's one good success story, although such conduct is not likely sanctioned by the FDS. lol
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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The "Just Pretend" Religion
by RunningMan inthe just pretend religion
i was rooting around on the internet today, and i came across something that gave me a unique insight into how fundamentalists have a good time.
one suggestion was to have the kids re-enact the ten plagues of egypt.
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Cygnus
Just a couple of corrections.... I'm so damned stubborn. It wasn't Kool-Aid the Jim Jones cult drank, it was FlavorAid. And, those weren't JWs that expected the world to end in 1914. They were "earnest" Bible Students, from which the JWs became an offshoot. Carry on, folks.
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Our Own Conference
by Valis ini know there are conferences that xjws attend, but since i ran accross joy castro's writings and new book today it got me thinking about the subject.
something non-religious in nature.....well as non religious as xjws can get anyway lol.
i think it would be cool if we could have people like her, kimberly norris, bryan, donald, and so many of the others that have done stuff for us.
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Cygnus
Sorry Valis, didn't mean to offend. From pictures I've seen and stories I've been told that seems to be commonplace at so-called apostofests. Please don't reduce my posting limit any lower. Simon doesn't return my PMs asking for a raise.
By the by, the meaning of my post and the sad face i.e. :( meant that I wish I enjoyed pot - I don't. And alcohol doesn't mix with the heavy dose of anti-coagulants I have to take every day so my prosthetic heart valve doesn't form a clot which would kill me. So I miss my precious Guinness and Harp. :(
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WHAT DID YOU THINK OF APOSTATES ?????????+
by vitty inwhen you were still in the org, did you ever wonder what the apostates were saying?
the society would just say lies and half truths.i always assumed it was about the trinity, and other religious stuff.
i thought they were exjws who had become born agains !.
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Cygnus
I remember some woman yelling as she approached the platform at a DC. Then 10 minutes later a man did the same thing. This was maybe 20 years ago. Soon thereafter DCs started posting brothers, 2 a side, as "guards" to the platform. I did that once, and almost fell asleep. Which reminds me of a bad joke: who was the smallest man in the Bible? Peter, cause he slept on the watch. (alternatively, Knee-high-miah, or Ezra, because he read the word of god aloud in the king's ear). har-har
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Cygnus
Don't worry, Gary, you'll always have me and AlanF as buddies. :)
I outed myself a long time ago on Hourglass2 Outpost when I posted my real name and picture. It was around April of 2000. I'm still posting links of pics of myself. I did so this morning and I'll do so again here.
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What really happens to people when they die?
by ButtLight indo you think people can stick around, like ghosts?
i think they can, and i think you can communicate with them.
i told my mom to haunt my house when she dies.
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Cygnus
Hmm.. nobody's tried to answer my question yet. Just once I'd like to have an intelligible conversation with, say, my dead great-grandfather. Yet his spirit and everyone else's that are dead either sit in silence, act like the bogie-man, or most probably simply don't exist and the phenonenae attributed to them can be explained in other ways.
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What really happens to people when they die?
by ButtLight indo you think people can stick around, like ghosts?
i think they can, and i think you can communicate with them.
i told my mom to haunt my house when she dies.
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Cygnus
doogie, ever consider changing your name to droogie? sorry.... big clockwork orange fan here :) carry on with the thread, folks.
