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  Micro-Pigs

  by Quirky1 in

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  have you ever wanted to own a pig but found the prospect of living with a 250-lb.

  (110 kg) hog to be too much of a commitment?

  the adorable little porkers start out at less than a pound and grow to weigh somewhere between 40 lb.

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  Tastes great!

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  Atheists Declare Religions as 'Scams' in New Ad

  by Quirky1 in

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  http://www.christianpost.com/article/20110103/atheists-declare-religions-as-scams-in-new-ad/.

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  Not the one that died, that one was President of the American Atheists, Jon G. Murray. The other one, William Murray, was not there.

  For this particular organization to run an ad campaign calling religion a scam seems like the equivalent of the Watchtower's recent issue.

  

  Hypocrisy.

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  Atheists Declare Religions as 'Scams' in New Ad

  by Quirky1 in

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  http://www.christianpost.com/article/20110103/atheists-declare-religions-as-scams-in-new-ad/.

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  Why should an organization founded by Madeline Murray-O'Hair not be all of those things?

  She had multiple affairs. She assaulted police officers who were trying to recover a runaway minor. She tried to defect to the Soviet Union.

  O'Hair was the very first guest on The Phil Donahue Show, when it debuted as a local program in Dayton, Ohio on November 6, 1967; [15] [16] she would make several appearances on the program during its run. HostPhil Donahue would later call her message of atheism "very important," but said that O'Hair was "unpleasant" to be around and that she mocked him off-camera for being Catholic.

  All in all, a very nasty woman.

  Her son described her as "profane and vulgar." He later became a Baptist preacher.

  "When I was a young boy of ten or eleven years old she would come home and brag about spending the day in X-rated movie theaters in downtown Baltimore.... My mother’s whole life circulated around such things... It was love of power over people that finally caused not only her death, but the deaths of my brother and my daughter... My mother was an evil person... Not for removing prayerfrom America's schools... No, she was just evil. She stole huge amounts of money. She misused the trust of people. She cheated children out of their parents' inheritance. She cheated on her taxes and even stole from her own organizations. She once printed up phony stock certificates on her own printing press to try to take over another atheist publishing company....Regardless of how evil and lawless my mother was she did not deserve to die in the manner she did."

  Lastly, she was murdered by her (atheist) typesetter at American Atheists. He sawed O'Hair and her family up in little pieces, and threw them in a hole in the ground in Texas. He then went on an epic debauch with the money and credit cards he stole from her.

  Could almost be the biography a swindling fundamentalist snake handler.

  Looks like the O'Hair founded Atheist group that produced the "scam" ad is a bit of a scam itself.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair

  But at least she wasn't deluded or anything.

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  Anybody into aromatherapy and smell good stuff?

  by littlerockguy in

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  i always like my apartment smelling nice with a great fragrance and i like different ones throughout the year.

  however there are some smells i can't get enough of, like the smell of sandalwood.

  i just stocked up on some since the price is skyrocketing right now.

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  I'm convinced that the cure for whatever ails us, physically and spiritually, can be found in plants.

  I think you might be right, or really really close to it.

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  Micro-Pigs

  by Quirky1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  have you ever wanted to own a pig but found the prospect of living with a 250-lb.

  (110 kg) hog to be too much of a commitment?

  the adorable little porkers start out at less than a pound and grow to weigh somewhere between 40 lb.

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  Roasted two, whole, this holiday season. Maybe micro-pigs could become the porcine equivalent of the Cornish hen.

  

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  Ronald Reagan

  by free2beme in

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  i miss ronald reagan!!

  !.

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  That is not Reagan's grave, FHN.

  This is.

  

  I really like RR. We could use one right now.

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  Proverbs 8:1-3 -- is Wisdom personified as a female?

  by sd-7 in

  1. watchtower
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  i was reading proverbs chapter 8 last night, and i just happened to be using the nasb, and i noticed that wisdom is personified as a female in verses 1-3, calling out to people to listen.

  i noticed that in the nwt, wisdom is not personified in these verses, but rather referred to as "it".

  eerie coincidence was that this morning on the subway train, a woman was reading proverbs 8 in her kjv as i was standing over her.

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  The NWT's use of the pronoun "it" undercuts its own claim that Proverbs 8 is referring to Jesus.

  The association of that passage as an allusion to Jesus goes back to the very early times of Christianity.

  1 Corinthians 1:30

  And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,

  Colossians 2:2-3

  My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  The Logos is also used as name for the divine wisdom.

  John 1:

  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

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  Anybody into aromatherapy and smell good stuff?

  by littlerockguy in

  1. jw
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  i always like my apartment smelling nice with a great fragrance and i like different ones throughout the year.

  however there are some smells i can't get enough of, like the smell of sandalwood.

  i just stocked up on some since the price is skyrocketing right now.

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  For Snow:

  Exodus 30:34-37
  And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight. And thou shalt make incense compounded by the work of the perfumer, well tempered together, and pure, and most worthy of sanctification. And when thou hast beaten all into very small powder, thou shalt set of it before the tabernacle of the testimony, in the place where I will appear to thee. Most holy shall this incense be unto you. You shall not make such a composition for your own uses, because it is holy to the Lord.

  Matthew 2:11
  And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him: and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

  Apocalypse 8:3-4
  And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the throne of God. And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel.

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  Proverbs 8:1-3 -- is Wisdom personified as a female?

  by sd-7 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was reading proverbs chapter 8 last night, and i just happened to be using the nasb, and i noticed that wisdom is personified as a female in verses 1-3, calling out to people to listen.

  i noticed that in the nwt, wisdom is not personified in these verses, but rather referred to as "it".

  eerie coincidence was that this morning on the subway train, a woman was reading proverbs 8 in her kjv as i was standing over her.

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  Yes, the Divine Wisdom is frequently personified as female, both in the Bible, and outside it. In greek, the word is "sofia" which is a common girls name.

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  Anybody into aromatherapy and smell good stuff?

  by littlerockguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i always like my apartment smelling nice with a great fragrance and i like different ones throughout the year.

  however there are some smells i can't get enough of, like the smell of sandalwood.

  i just stocked up on some since the price is skyrocketing right now.

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  BurnTheShips

  I like to burn nag champa. We also burn "sacred" sage. The last few days we have had rose scented candles.

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