I must say, I am enjoying some of the catch phrases, if you want to call them that, which appear after the signatures of some posters. Examples: Lauralisa's "If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off"; Battman's "the only informed Witness is a former Witness", and many other examples that do not immediately come to mind, or that I cannot remember exactly (SaintSatan has a good one about Faith, but I forget the exact phrase at the moment).
Anyone else notice these cool phrases, or have any favorites they'd like to mention?
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by DB ini must say, i am enjoying some of the catch phrases, if you want to call them that, which appear after the signatures of some posters.
examples: lauralisa's "if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off"; battman's "the only informed witness is a former witness", and many other examples that do not immediately come to mind, or that i cannot remember exactly (saintsatan has a good one about faith, but i forget the exact phrase at the moment).. anyone else notice these cool phrases, or have any favorites they'd like to mention?
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Why the bible does'nt make sense to me
by Leander infor some odd reason this morning when i woke up the first thing that came into my mind was the suffering and pain that humans deal with on a daily basis.
again i'm not really sure what made me think about that so early in the morning.
(maybe it was a dream i had).
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Leander, you are on a roll, man. You've had some of the best posts in recent weeks, as far as I'm concerned. I have many of the same thoughts/questions.
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Any suggestions on a Bible and a Bible commentary?
by DB ini currently use the new world translation of the holy scriptures, and it seems to be a pretty good bible.
but i am looking for a good, modern-english version with which to do some comparison reading.
plus, i am looking for a good bible commentary for research.
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Hey guys/gals, thanks for the excellent suggestions!!
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Any suggestions on a Bible and a Bible commentary?
by DB ini currently use the new world translation of the holy scriptures, and it seems to be a pretty good bible.
but i am looking for a good, modern-english version with which to do some comparison reading.
plus, i am looking for a good bible commentary for research.
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I currently use the New World Translation Of The Holy Scriptures, and it seems to be a pretty good bible. But I am looking for a good, modern-English version with which to do some comparison reading. Plus, I am looking for a good bible commentary for research. Does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations? Thanks!
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They Stone You When You Try to Figure Out....
by SixofNine indoes this "ring a bell" with anyone?
pardon the pun.
i have a vague recollection of being a kid, and struggling to figure out how to reconcile the practice of execution by stoning with a loving god.
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One account that bugs me is that of Achan, as reported in Joshua ch.7. True, the guy did wrong. But Joshua, in the attempt to single out the perp, says "My son, render, please, glory to Jehovah the God of Israel and make cofession to him, and tell me, please, What have you done? Do not hide it from me" to Achan, and when he fesses up, and if one looks at verses 20 and 21 he actually sounds repentant, or at least sorry, and yet he AND his whole family plus everything the guy owned was destroyed.
The only way I can somehow reconcile this account with a merciful God is that maybe Achan was not really sorry (or he was just sorry he got caught) and that God was able to see through it to his real heart motive. But if that is not the case, then it seems to me that a guy who confessed ought to have received more consideration.
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Julie Newmar as Catwoman was hot; and for fun I like the Joker and The Riddler (Frank Gorshin's, not John Aston's...Aston was better as Gomez on The Adams Family).
More2c, you mean you were not allowed even to watch Batman? Wow, talk about restrictive. But then again, I know of some jws who do not watch Star Trek (too violent, they say). So I guess I am not at all surprised.
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Were you atheist/agnostic BEFORE you came here?
by gumby insomething has puzzeled me for a long time since i came to this board.
first i would like to say i'm not judging any in what i'm about to say as we all are at different places in our lives and i respect that.. here it is: at what point in your life did you no longer believe in god or believe the bible?.
how many came to this conclution after coming to this db?.
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Puffsrule, glad you read the essay. When she mentioned "freedom from religion" I agreed that she has every right to enjoy such. Also, I was not at all surprised that she was turned off to the thought of a destructive god even at a young age. Her thought about the clergyman pointing to all sitting at church and saying "You are all sinners!" while she knew she had done nothing wrong also struck a cord with me.
I am not an agnostic or atheist, but on the otherhand I can respect and understand those who are. Personally, I seldom pray at all, though I am an active jw. Just something odd about talking to an invisible guy, I guess.
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Were you atheist/agnostic BEFORE you came here?
by gumby insomething has puzzeled me for a long time since i came to this board.
first i would like to say i'm not judging any in what i'm about to say as we all are at different places in our lives and i respect that.. here it is: at what point in your life did you no longer believe in god or believe the bible?.
how many came to this conclution after coming to this db?.
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This week's issue of Newsweek magazine (Dec 10th), page 14, contains a very interesting personal essay along the lines of this thread. Linda Angeloff Sapienza authored the essay, entitled "God Bless America? I Just Like The Tune" adding "As an agnostic, I feel out of step with a president who seems equate faith with patriotism". She mentions her youthful days spent going to church, even though she never accepted a belief in God. It makes for some very interesting reading.
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DF'd 4 smoking........feel unworthy;yet....
by IWish4Truth ini was df'd 6 months ago for smoking cigarettes.
i really reached out for help but had a hard time breaking the habit.
maybe i should have been disfellowshipped, according to why it is done.
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One time, when I was an elder, we df'd a woman for smoking. The thing was, she had never even been at our Hall; she simply moved into the territory. Somehow, one elder got info that she was smoking, and the next thing I knew, we were forming a judicial committee to hear the case. I was picked for the committee. To me, the whole thing was absurd; but I did not speak up (which I now regret!). When we announced the df'ing, people in the congregation asked privately: "who?", yes, no one even knew the woman. She was not actively associated with the congregation. At the very least, the matter should have been put on the back burner until she became active again. It was simply a case of hunting a person down and then df'ing her simply to satisfy some weird 'justice'.
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She Doesn't Look Very Submissive To Me..
by Englishman ini'm talking about the rather delightful lady on the intro page at * http://www.watchtower.org/.
nice hat too:.
englishma.. nostalgia isn't what it used to be....
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About three years ago, there was an Awake cover with a very attractive blonde holding a baby. I heard a comment from one younger brother on the 'babe' factor. It does in fact seem that lately, some attractive women have been appearing in the Mags. Maybe it's a ploy to get more readership from the male segment of the population.