Posts by Justitia Themis

I was an elder that was deleted because I disagreed with the blood issue. Said somthing about it and that was it met with all the elders and the CO they asked me a bunch of questions for several hours and then told me I was no longer an elder. That's all I needed to realize what an oppressive group I was in. Ordered C of C and showed my wife the book and within a month we were rapidly fading. It was easy, they got rid of me so now they don't bother me. It's great having our freedom.

LD

LD was an elder in my congregation. :) I found out through a sister in our congregation that he had read the Tort of Misrepresentation. Shortly thereafter, I noticed changes in him, and I suspected that he and his wife were fading. My husband and I were in the process of fading also.

Now, we go out to dinner, etc. It is amazingly refreshing to associate with them!

Justitia

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2008 Keep Yourselves In God's Love--PDF!

by Atlantis in

2008 keep yourselves in god's love--pdf!

bookmarked searchable reduced to 2.4-mb from (anonymous-5) please note the "appendix" of this book!

click the link at the bottom of the next page.

Justitia Themis

the section on toasting quotes from the 1995 International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture and contain alot of ellipsis. Wonder what words they are hiding.

Can anyone check on this?

Here is the quote; it is a "Google" book that has been digitized. If the link doesn't work, just perform a google search of the quote.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ztzcZbRaKXsC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=is+probably+a+secular+vestige+of+ancient+sacrificial+libations+in+which+&source=web&ots=AC9brk4-tS&sig=zm1n4cGoz4EuJs5SBGrPw4XD1Gk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

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How do we know that humans have been around for more than 6000 years?

by inkling in

after a conversation with my dad last night, i realized that it is fairly.

easy for jws to weasel out of issues involving the fossil record because.

a) the wt has very little to say on the subject and b) witnesses are.

Justitia Themis

I believe the story of Adam and Eve was made up by the Christian Church trying to scare people and put women in submission to men.

Male dominance and goddess worship notwithstanding, you are aware that the account is from Genesis, the Old Testament, and predates Christianity...right?

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How do we know that humans have been around for more than 6000 years?

by inkling in

after a conversation with my dad last night, i realized that it is fairly.

easy for jws to weasel out of issues involving the fossil record because.

a) the wt has very little to say on the subject and b) witnesses are.

Justitia Themis

It's important to distinguish between the fossil records and bone record. When have actual Neaderthal bones from which DNA has been extracted. DNA mutates at a somewhat predictable rate. By counting how many mutations have occurred between Neanderthals and us, we can approximate how long ago they lived. I must point out however, that many scientists feel Neanderthal and AMHs (anatomically modern humans) evolved independently.

I don't see the issue as either/or. Scientists feel the AHMs appeared "Out of Africa" about 10,000 years ago. In the eons of the time, 6,000 versus 10,000 years is not that much. Perhaps, when God said he "created" man, it just meant that he had directed evolution to the point that man, with a brain that could process and appreciated art and religion, now appeared. Maybe the Bible AND scientists are both correct.

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Aug 15-08 Study WT - More evil apostates!

by still_in74 in

well i just got the aug 15 study edition.

i flipped through it for about 10 seconds and found the word apostate.

big surprise.

Justitia Themis

Per the article, apostate false religion was practiced at BETHEL? Say it isn't so....

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Why we must obey the F&DS - according to this "brother"

by bud2114 in

some may have seen this tid-bit being passed around in certain jw email circles.

a "deeply concerned" jw relative (who knows i have soured on the whole jw thing) emailed this to me in hopes that it would improve my attitude.

at first i was just going to thank them for their concern and for the "encourgaging" email, but then i decided i must respond to this.

Justitia Themis

That is an AMAZING reply. Can I have your permission to plagiarize it? I want to save it; there may come a future time that I need it.

Justitia

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Post-Rapture E-mail Service

by Justitia Themis in

jw
friends

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/service-lets-yo.html.

website lets you send a post-rapture e-mail to friends 'left behind'by kevin poulsenjune 03, 2008 | 3:42:43 pm if millions of christians suddenly disappear from the face of the earth as the opening act for armageddon, threat level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail.

but if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-rapture needling from their missing friends and loved ones, courtesy of web startup youvebeenleftbehind.com.

Justitia Themis

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/service-lets-yo.html

Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind'

By Kevin Poulsen June 03, 2008 | 3:42:43 PM

If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for Armageddon, Threat Level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail. But if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-Rapture needling from their missing friends and loved ones, courtesy of web startup YouveBeenLeftBehind.com.

For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture, that day when -- according to Christian end times dogma -- Christians will be swept up to heaven, while doubters are left behind to suffer seven years of Tribulation under a global government headed by the Antichrist.

"You've Been Left Behind gives you one last opportunity to reach your lost family and friends for Christ," reads the website, which is purportedly run "by Christians, for Christians." The domain name is registered through an anonymous proxy service, presumably to protect the proprietors from the Forces of Darkness, and not because they're up to anything shady.

The e-mails will be triggered when three of the site's five Christian staffers "scattered around the U.S." fail to log in for six days in a row -- a system that incorporates a nice margin of safety, should two of the proprietors turn out to be unrepentant sinners or atheists.

Users can also upload up to 150 megabytes of documents, which will be protected by an unidentified encryption algorithm until the Rapture, then released to up to 12 nonbelievers of your choice. The site recommends that you use that storage to house sensitive financial information.

"In the encrypted portion of your account you can give them access to your banking, brokerage, hidden valuables, and powers of attorneys," the site says. "There won't be any bodies, so probate court will take seven years to clear your assets to your next of kin. Seven years, of course, is all the time that will be left. So, basically the Government of the Antichrist gets your stuff, unless you make it available in another way."

Of course, some of us would sooner trust the Antichrist with our stuff than turn it over to a company that hides behind an anonymous domain registration service, and doesn't list a single corporate officer or employee by name on its website.

The company, You've Been Left Behind LLC, didn't respond to an e-mail query, raising the obvious question of whether the Rapture has already begun. Developing …

Update: You've Been Left Behind's Mark Heard responded to our e-mail Wednesday.

The site is for real. I came up with the idea back in 1999, for my own personnel situation, but did nothing about it. I started thinking about it again last year. I first contacted another company about putting it together. We discussed it for about a month, but they weren't really interested. In the meantime I found two other sites that were offering a similar idea. One was run by and Atheist who mocked his customers. (not exactly trustworthy to the Christian!) The other was a postcard snail-mail system. Neither one had the ability to edit stored documents and addresses. I ended up building the system that I needed.
The encryption is 256bit, but that is all I know of it. I'm not that tech savvy. I'm the guy who pays, the central link between team members, and face.
I actually started by registering the domain name. I don't really no why it shows up as anonymous, possibly because of the service I registered it through, possibly because I did not buy their servers and assign the name to it.
We do have customers. The site has seen a great deal of traffic. I think that most of the traffic is by angry non-Christians checking it out and venting on various blogs. I have read quite a few of these and politely answered some of them. I have taken some of their negative comments as constructive criticism and ordered a few changes on the site.

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