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  henrietta m riley

  by lostsheep82 in

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  ok, there's been tons on this i know.

  here's what i found and spent some time researching some of the companies.

  in my search i found in 2014 boeing, lockheed martin & northrop grumman which supports the military.

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  Something to think about:

  "How a Christian puts his money to work is for him to decide personally, just as how he works for a living is for him to decide. There is nothing contrary to Scriptural principles for him to let his money help him earn a livelihood. If he invests in stocks, no one should criticize him. He should, of course, be discreet about what stocks or bonds he buys. When he knows that a corporation is devoted entirely to manufacturing merchandise that is used for a morally wrong purpose, it would be improper for him to violate his conscience by investing in the stock of that company." - AWAKE! February 8, 1962 pg. 23

  If it is wrong for an individual Christian to purchase stock in a company that is involved in questionable practices and accept the dividends and profits therefrom, would it not be equally wrong to accept said dividends and profits from the stocks if they were gifted to a religious corporation in the form of a trust?
  
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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

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  jehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.

  on par with the is and other terroristic groups.

  it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.

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  No religion, including Jehovah's Witnesses, deserves to be banned by any government. Freedom of speech, even speech we don't like or approve of should be guarded at all costs. Period. End of discussion. They have the freedom to publish all the bullshit that they want and we have the freedom to counter it without fear of reprisal or censorship.

  Thank you Giordano for the link to that article. Most people do not realize that Kirill the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and Putin have a history together. Putin believes that Kirill's father baptized his mother and himself when he was a baby. Kirill has Putin's ear and influences him accordingly. Orthodoxy is part of Russian social identity and Putin and Kirill will brook no religious competition in their efforts to unite the hearts and minds of the Russian people. There is now a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox church has decided to break away from the 'mother' church and that has Putin and Kirill pissed.
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  The Photo-drama of Creation.

  by Lost in the fog in

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  2. bible

  if anyone is interested in russell's the photo-drama of creation here's a link to the text and picture slides.

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  http://www.thestudiesinthescriptures.com/pages/english/eng%20pd/eng%20pd%2001-9/engpd%201.htm .

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  Is it a coincidence that this image of "Peaceable Kingdom" from the Photo Drama has pyramids in the background or is it shameless self promotion for Pastor Russell's Pyramidology beliefs?
  
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  this weeks video on older ones stepping down

  by road to nowhere in

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  2. beliefs

  what i caught was how they were baffled by having to be in "the world".

  then any and all help came from friends offering money, food, apartments, jobs.

  can't anyone see how they people are used up and then discarded?.

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  Would someone post the video please. Thank you.
  
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  What Are Your Rights?

  by Simon in

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  2. friends

  rights seem to be everywhere nowadays.

  say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.

  people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.

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  National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi's) - We know how that turned out!

  U.S.S.R. : Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - We know how that turned out!

  "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

  No thank you. I'll live with imperfect capitalism until something better is contrived.
  
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  Baptised 52 years today!

  by Phoebe in

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  2. friends

  january 29th - my baptism date.

  can you remember how you felt at your baptism?.

  i got baptised because my dad kept frightening me.

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  I was baptized 48 years ago tomorrow. January 30, 1971 in Nashua, New Hampshire. I was 15 years old and did it to get my god-intoxicated, religiously fanatical, dyed in the wool Jehovah's Witness mother off my back. I did not believe in the religion since I was a very little boy but got baptized anyway to shut her up. The rest as they say, is history.
  
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  Who will be resurrected? The righteous and the unrighteous

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  chapter seven.

  there will be a resurrection.

  17 who will be resurrected?

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  I still have one of those 'puffy pirate shirts' from the late 1980's. If I wear it sometime and happen to die or be killed, will I be resurrected in it?
  
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  "Never stop your enemy when he's making a mistake" - Napoleon

  by JeffT in

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  2. experiences

  so yesterday when i went to the library there were three older gentlemen in suits standing around the front door.

  i spotted the stand with the magazines a second or two later.

  they were talking among themselves, totally ignoring everybody walking past them.

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  Apparently even Noah found it much easier to stand with his cart just outside the ark door entrance. 'Life saving work' my ass!
  
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  What new cuts might be coming

  by pepperheart in

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  2. bible

  what new cuts might be coming for the watchtower ?.

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  I agree with Vidiot. Watchtower may soon consider those properties redundant, sell them off, reap the financial reward and reassign all those loyal Bethelites 'to the field'. Wallkill would make an excellent addition to the SUNY educational system. ( Not to give the Hateful Eight any financial advice or ideas!)
  
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  Do you believe?

  by rolliepollie in

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  2. beliefs

  do you believe in a higher power?.

  why or why not?.

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  Welcome rolliepollie and please keep an open mind. There is much good information to be learned here from a multiplicity of deep thinkers. I for one would like to believe in a higher power but find I am unable to reconcile reality with wishful thinking. If there was a God or Higher Power and he was really concerned about the human race, his message to us should be clear, concise, convincing, and conceivable on a rational level. Instead we are offered the Bible as holy scripture and it's message is cloudy, conflated, confusing, and crap. On top of that, we are told that we need a third party religious authority figure to interpret it's arcane message. No thank you.