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Watching the World: Finnish Get High on Jehovah
by betterdaze inconcerns about spread of designer drug jwh.
several young people hospitalised after taking powerful synthetic cannabis.
a number of young people in porvoo have been hospitalised after taking the synthetic drug jwh-018, which has not yet been classified as an illegal substance in finland.. .
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Watching the World: Finnish Get High on Jehovah
by betterdaze inconcerns about spread of designer drug jwh.
several young people hospitalised after taking powerful synthetic cannabis.
a number of young people in porvoo have been hospitalised after taking the synthetic drug jwh-018, which has not yet been classified as an illegal substance in finland.. .
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Concerns about spread of designer drug JWH
Several young people hospitalised after taking powerful “synthetic cannabis”
A number of young people in Porvoo have been hospitalised after taking the synthetic drug JWH-018, which has not yet been classified as an illegal substance in Finland.
Dubbed “Jehovah” by users, JWH is an analgesic chemical which acts as a full agonist at cannabinoid receptors, and produces effects similar to the natural cannabinoid THC.
The substance has been available on the street in Helsinki. Juha Loikas, executive director of the anti-drug organisation Stop Huumeille says that cannabis users generally do not like to use JWH because it is too strong. “It is something for young experimenters and users of hard drugs.”
The people who were hospitalised after using JWH had suffered from hallucinations, and were often non-responsive to outside contact.
Loikkaa says that the substance has been easily available on the internet, as well as in Estonia. It is often mixed with tobacco and smoked, but regulating the dosage is difficult, which means that overdoses can easily occur.
Although the drug itself is not technically illegal, police are investigating its sale to minors as possible aggravated assault. -
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See you later
by pirata init's been a year and a bit since i first joined jwn.
the guilty fascination, turned anger, turned sadness, turned acceptance has been a journey that i'm honored all of you have have been a pat of, whether you realize it or not.
although i haven't said much about myself personally, and probably won't as long as i still am a captive... er i mean a member of jehovah's witnesses, i appreciated reading all your posts, observations, stories and reality-checks.
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Admit it, pirata, you're the chronicially recycled "Andre" of Watchtower sagas, LOL!
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Man jailed for Joshua McAuley death crash in Smethwick
by betterdaze inman jailed for joshua mcauley death crash in smethwick.
25 march 2011 last updated at 09:32 et.
a man has been jailed for six years for killing a 15-year-old boy when his car crashed into a west midlands shop.. .
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It gets worse…
A KILLER driver is today beginning a six-year jail sentence for losing control of his speeding car and ploughing into a 15-year-old Jehovah’s Witness while he was out preaching with his two friends.
Read More~Sue
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Man jailed for Joshua McAuley death crash in Smethwick
by betterdaze inman jailed for joshua mcauley death crash in smethwick.
25 march 2011 last updated at 09:32 et.
a man has been jailed for six years for killing a 15-year-old boy when his car crashed into a west midlands shop.. .
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Man jailed for Joshua McAuley death crash in Smethwick
25 March 2011 Last updated at 09:32 ET
A man has been jailed for six years for killing a 15-year-old boy when his car crashed into a West Midlands shop.
Mahamed Salam, 29, of Kendrick House, West Bromwich was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Thursday.
Jehovah's Witness Joshua McAuley went to hospital and is believed to have required a blood transfusion, which was declined for religious reasons.
He died after the car left the road in Cape Hill, Smethwick, in May last year.
'Trapped by shop'
Insp Mark Watkins, of West Midlands Police, said: "Salam drove in a dangerous manner on a busy main road on a Saturday morning and Joshua's death was a direct consequence of Salam's dangerous driving.
"His actions were made all the worse by his failure to stop at the scene.
"The sentence imposed by the courts reflects the serious nature of his crime."
At Joshua's inquest last June, coroner Robin Balmain said the student, of Church Road, Smethwick, had been trapped between a Vauxhall Astra and the shop.
The teenager had surgery at Birmingham's Selly Oak Hospital after suffering severe leg injuries.
The coroner said he was told Joshua required a blood transfusion but, due to being a Jehovah's Witness, this option was declined. -
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Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible
by betterdaze inthomas jefferson's cut-and-paste bible.
our third president sought to separate the words of jesus from the 'corruptions' of his followers.. by stephen prothero.
last november, in response to protest, the smithsonian's national portrait gallery removed a video installation depicting ants crawling over a small crucifix.
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THE LIFE AND MORALS OF JESUS OF NAZARETH
Extracted Textually from the Gospels,?together with a comparison of?his doctrines with those of others.
BY THOMAS JEFFERSON.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/jb/jb00.htm
The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth: extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French, and English (Google eBook)
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Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible
by betterdaze inthomas jefferson's cut-and-paste bible.
our third president sought to separate the words of jesus from the 'corruptions' of his followers.. by stephen prothero.
last november, in response to protest, the smithsonian's national portrait gallery removed a video installation depicting ants crawling over a small crucifix.
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Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible
Our third president sought to separate the words of Jesus from the 'corruptions' of his followers.
By STEPHEN PROTHERO
Last November, in response to protest, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery removed a video installation depicting ants crawling over a small crucifix. This coming November, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will exhibit a cut-and-paste Bible of a mere 86 pages. Were it the work of David Wojnarowicz (the artist behind the crucifix video) or Andres Serrano (of "Piss Christ" fame), this Bible would doubtless stir up a hornet's nest. But in fact, it was created by Thomas Jefferson.
During the election of 1800, Jefferson was denounced as a "howling atheist" and "a confirmed infidel" known for "vilifying the divine word, and preaching insurrection against God." But the Virginian also revered Jesus as "the first of human Sages" and was, according to one biographer, "the most self-consciously theological of all American presidents."
The book that the Smithsonian is preparing to put on display is actually one of two Jefferson Bibles. Jefferson produced the first over the course of a few days in 1804. Not long after completing the Louisiana Purchase, he sat down in the White House with two Bibles and one razor, intent on dividing the true words of Jesus from those put into his mouth by "the corruptions of schismatising followers."
The result was "The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth": a severely abridged text (now lost) that, like the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, consisted entirely of Jesus' sayings. In this "precious morsel of ethics," as Jefferson put it, Jesus prayed to God and affirmed the afterlife, but he was not born in a manger and did not die to atone for anyone's sins.
In 1820, after retiring from public life, Jefferson produced a second scripture by subtraction—the book that is now being restored in D.C. In "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth," he again sought to excise passages "of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, or superstitions, fanaticisms, and fabrications." This time, however, he arranged his material chronologically rather than topically, and he included both the sayings and actions of Jesus. He also included passages in English, French, Latin and Greek.
To readers familiar with the New Testament, this Jefferson Bible, as it is popularly called, begins and ends abruptly. Rather than opening, as does the Gospel of John, in the beginning with the Word, Jefferson raises his curtain on a political and economic drama: Caesar's decree that all the world should be taxed. His story concludes with this hybrid verse: "There laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed." Between these points, there are no angels, no wise men, and not a hint of the resurrection.
After completing this second micro-testament, Jefferson claimed in a letter to a friend that it demonstrated his bona fides as a Christian. "It is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."
That, of course, has been hotly debated from the election of 1800 to today, and Jefferson has been called an infidel, a Deist and more. What is most clear is that he was not a traditional Christian. He unequivocally rejected the Nicene Creed, which has defined orthodoxy for most Christians since 381. And he was contemptuous of the doctrine of the Trinity, calling it "mere Abracadabra" and "hocus-pocus phantasm."
None of that prevented Jefferson from claiming to represent real Christianity, or from dismissing his clerical despisers as "Pseudo-Christians"—imposters peddling a counterfeit faith. Religion is about doing good, he insisted, not abstract theologizing.
Americans have long been a people of the book. John Winthrop quoted from the Bible in his "city on the hill" sermon in 1630, and American political leaders have been quoting from it ever since.
But we craft new Bibles too, from the Book of Mormon of the Latter-day Saints to the Christian Scientists' "Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures" and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Woman's Bible." Jefferson was out in front of all of these efforts. Here, too, he was a declarer of independence.
When the Jefferson Bible goes on display in November, Americans will have another opportunity to debate not only their third president's faith (or lack thereof) but also the religious character of the nation and the true meaning of Christianity. This seems as good a time as any to ponder whether the "sum of all religion" is, as Jefferson once put it, "fear God and love thy neighbor."
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Just one simple question to ask Jehovah's Witnesses about the recent earthquakes.
by nicolaou in"is jehovah causing these earthquakes?".
whether or not jesus said that earthquakes would 'increase', jehovah's witnesses assert that earthquakes are a sign of the 'time of the end'.
the recent cluster of awful earthquakes has only increased that sense of expectancy.. does this mean that jehovah is responsible for these earthquakes?
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"Satan causes the earthquakes because he knows his time is short."
~Sue
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Welcome !
by Simon inwelcome to the newest jehovah's witness discussion forum on the net.. please register so that you can post to the forum and turn this into a welcoming place for other brothers and sisters online
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~Sue
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So many reasons prevented me from ever getting baptized JW.
Motorcycles, a cranky old man, the ocean... are just a few.
Thanks for the reminder, BB.
~Sue
