Fascinating! Thanks for posting it.
National Geographic article and photo gallery.
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Pre-pottery Neolithic A : Origin of Samson & Delilah story?? June National Geographic.
by hamsterbait incharles c. mann wrote an article about the "birth of religion" june "national geographic".
did anybody notice that in the temples at gobekli tepi, all the central sacred shrines had two pillars at the center?.
all the [circular temples] follow a common design.
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JWs good for free labor to scrub gum at stadiums
by Gayle inhttp://www.voiceofsandiego.org/government/thehall/article_8627dd7a-8812-11e0-bc0d-001cc4c03286.html.
then, the wts saves $35,000 for rental.
then, at the assembly, the youth are strong discouraged to go to college for 4 yrs.
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But Oh, the happified children! Just look at the joyous expressions on their faces!
Surely they are pleased to serve Jehovah in their youth?
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Lottery winner's son finds religion
by betterdaze inlottery winner's son finds religion.
published: may 26, 2011 10:24 pm?by matthew chayes [email protected].
for gloria bentivegna, winning the $1-million lottery jackpot was .
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Lottery winner's son finds religion
Published: May 26, 2011 10:24 PM?By MATTHEW CHAYES [email protected]
For Gloria Bentivegna, winning the $1-million lottery jackpot was . . . divine.
The West Babylon woman is crediting the state Lottery win with helping to bring her son Sal, 28, -- who places himself someplace on the spectrum between atheism and agnosticism -- back to his mother's faith.
The day before she won the scratch-off game in late April, Sal had challenged his mother -- and their Roman Catholic faith -- to win in the name of religious proof.
"I told her, 'Why don't you ask Jesus for a million dollars?' and she said, 'It doesn't work like that,' " he said Thursday.
" 'Jesus, give my mom a million dollars,' " the Smithtown man recalled saying at the time. "If he wanted me to have a little bit of faith, he would do it."
Then his Gloria Bentivegna, 61, won.
"It was a true miracle," the retired store manager said. "I prayed for it so hard. . . . Jesus was there, guiding everything."
After taxes, she will be paid $33,000 a year for 20 years, which is about how long she said her son hasn't gone to church.
But all that's changing: After Bentivegna won, Sal, a car audio installation technician, and his mom went to a Wednesday Mass at Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Deer Park, his first service in decades.
Bentivegna said she's still absorbing the fact that she's a winner and hasn't decided how she'll spend the money.
And her son is beginning to believe again.
"There's so many coincidences. Sure, I could brush it off as another freak incident. But to do so would be just stupid -- would be ignorant on my part," he said.
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Grey. Looks like I'm the only one so far....
Pale grey eyes ringed in blue (like a wolf's!) run on the Eastern European side of our family. My father and brother are blessed to have them.Mother, sister, and I?
"When Irish eyes are smiling, sure 'tis like a morn in spring… "
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July 15th WT- Don't Research " False Stories " - Inspired by Satan !
by flipper ini know the poster lost generation made a fantastic thread on this july 15th apostate article, however - i noticed some very powerful points on pg.
17 paragraphs 9 - 11 which weren't brought out that i feel needed to be touched on.
as was brought out in his thread this article told jw's to avoid apostates because they are " mentally diseased " allegedly and to avoid their web sites, not read their literature, watch t.v.
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"False stories" are streaming in from the few studies they can obtain in a field with 24/7 Internet access. Pretty much anything in the publications is quickly debunked by a simple Google search. Conductors can't keep up with the deluge of damning evidence against their organization and are encouraged to lazily, hastily, blame "false stories" (SATAN) rather than sincerely research what the Berean-like studies discover online.
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Genius cosmologist Kirk Cameron takes down Hawking & Lennon
by unshackled inall hail the genius of kirk cameron...he hath spoken.
if you missed it, stephen hawking did an interview with the guardian the other day in which he said the following:.
"i regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.
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Somewhat dated, but I this response to Kirk & company…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHN3JtyUXg
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Will you be attending a "Rapture" party?
by Snoozy inmany others will apparently:.
http://raptureparty.org/.
why are atheists celebrating the rapture?
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What they DON'T tell you
by Black Man inhey everybody, i'm in the middle of an ongoing debate w/some jws and they are asserting that everyone knows what they're getting into when they are studying and getting baptized and that nobody forces anyone to become a jw and that you can leave anytime you want.
ok, we know that's not true.
how would you counter that argument?
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They will never tell you where the $$$ for the "World Wide Work" slush fund goes.
Certainly not to soup kitchens, homeless shelters, orphanages or hospitals.
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Crimes committed by JWs
by Black Man inhey all, i'm still embroiled in my ongoing debate w/a few jw's and now we're on this tangent where they are saying that jws are the most peaceful and law abiding people in comparison to other religious people.
i said that's not true, there's been many news articles that detail various crimes committed by jws.
i couldn't find anything right away when i did a google search, so can someone point me to some threads or links that contain recent and past articles of jw's in trouble w/the law or who have committed crimes?.
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Crimes committed by JWs
by Black Man inhey all, i'm still embroiled in my ongoing debate w/a few jw's and now we're on this tangent where they are saying that jws are the most peaceful and law abiding people in comparison to other religious people.
i said that's not true, there's been many news articles that detail various crimes committed by jws.
i couldn't find anything right away when i did a google search, so can someone point me to some threads or links that contain recent and past articles of jw's in trouble w/the law or who have committed crimes?.
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http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/206566/1/Elderly-woman-allegedly-abused-by-caretaker
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/child-abuse/204276/1/Perfetto-update-Child-porn-on-laptop-police-say
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/204117/1/JW-scams-elderly-woman-WTBT24-is-beneficiary
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/current/201848/1/Son-says-he-killed-parents-according-to-Jehovahe28099s-command
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/current/189089/1/Suspect-in-trooper-shooting-still-active-with-local-Jehovahs-Witnesses
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/current/186806/1/Husband-finds-missing-wife-dead-in-the-snow-in-Kingdom-Hall-parking-lot
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/current/183070/1/Police-To-Question-Jehovahs-Witness-Members-In-Burglaries
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/173109/1/Abandoned-Jane-Doe-Identified-She-was-a-JW