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help.. urgently a friend has spirits in her house priest removed then can they come to me if she s in my home.

by suzanne.dickenson in

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friends

please advise i was brought up as a witness and know the faith of jehovah very well i choose not to follow my dad as a witness as i didnt like the way he taught me the truth hence i know its true.. we are having a party at our house for chikdren ans a mum at the school has been invited she told me shes devestated as she has a ghost and its touching the kids on the landing................. i t freaked me out oviously its saturn the devil or his spirits, i came home said a prayer to jehovah as i do quite often to protect us etc.

if she arrives at my hpome can the spirts come here, please advise as i dont want to put my family inthis situation , she has told me a priest has taken it away... i dont believe it............ my dad is a elder of the congregation hence we dont speak, he always taught me stay well away and youll be ok, so even though its gone from herehouae id love your thoughst so i can maybe cancell her calling, i certainly wouldnt keep any gift from her in my home... many thanks suzanne dickenson.. .

BurnTheShips

Welcome, Suzanne, I think spirits have only the power that you give them.

Absolutely agree.

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How did you vote this year?

by sooner7nc in

straight ticket?

pick and choose?

close your eyes and vote for whoever your finger lands on?.

BurnTheShips

California: The Lindsay Lohan of States

Sacramento is headed for trouble again, and it shouldn't expect a bailout.

Listen up, California. The other 48 states—your cousin New York excluded—are sick of your bratty arrogance. You're the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima donna who once showed some talent but is now too wasted to do anything with it.

After enjoying ephemeral highs and spending binges, you suffer crashes that culminate in brief, unsuccessful stints in rehab. This cycle repeats itself every five to 10 years, as the rest of the country looks on with a mixture of horror and amusement. We'd feel sorry for you if you didn't constantly flip us the bird.

Instead, we're making bets on how long it will be before your next meltdown. Oh, wait—you're already melting down.

You've racked up nearly $70 billion in general obligation debt, and that doesn't include your $500 billion unfunded pension liability. Your own analysts predict you'll face a hole of at least $80 billion over the next four years.

Your government's run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums. When they're not taxing or spending, they're creating regulations and commissions like the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology and the California Blueberry Commission. Many businesses would leave if it weren't for your sunny climate.

Which may explain why you're so obsessed with climate change. If your climate changes, no one, including your Hollywood friends, would tolerate you anymore. So you've created a law to tax carbon emissions—no matter that it will kill jobs.

It's not as if you don't recognize that you've got problems. Roughly three-quarters of you say you're headed in the wrong direction, according to a recent survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. You're even more depressed than Illinois and New York, and you've got sunshine 10 months of the year!

You appropriately give your government low marks—28% approval for outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 16% for the legislature—yet you continue to re-elect the politicians who got you into this mess. Not a single incumbent state legislator lost re-election this year, including one Democrat who died a month ago (no joke). What's scarier is that you've just given almost all of the keys to statewide offices to Democrats.

Jerry Brown will be your new (old) governor. This is the man who acted as a gateway drug to your spending addiction three decades ago when he gave public-sector employees collective bargaining rights. Helping enforce your wacky laws will be Lt. Gov-elect Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco mayor who flouted state law by allowing same-sex marriage. On the plus side, he has nice hair and loves you just the way you are. This is what he had to say after winning his race:

"We're nothing but a mirror of our consistent thoughts. You tend to manifest what you focus on. If you look around for what's wrong, you'll find it. But as all we know up here in San Francisco, when you focus on what's right, you see it all around you. . . . There is absolutely nothing wrong with California that can't be fixed by what's right with California. . . . If you're from another state, you'd love to have the problems of California."

You've also just re-elected Barbara Boxer (that's Senator Barbara Boxer) to a fourth term. She boasted on election night that it's her "eleventh straight election victory, and what a sweet one it is . . . [since] everything was thrown at us, including the kitchen sink, and the stove and the oven and everything, millions of dollars of negative ads from known and unknown opponents, millions and millions of dollars."

We've tried to help you, California. Some spent millions on campaigns to entice you to change your reckless behavior. And you told them to kick rocks.

So here's our final warning: When you inevitably crash and burn, don't count on us to bail you out.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703506904575592612400443370.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_News_BlogsModule

PS:

I voted for legalization of marijuana - however it went down in flames

What happened, the pro crowd too stoned to be able to understand the ballot?

I'd be tokin' hard if I was over there too. You guys are phukt, and you just dug yourselves in deeper.

So sorry to harsh your mellow.

Hey! I live in Florida, don't ask me to bail your dumbasses out. You're, like, on your own, dude.

California, national punchline. This crap is going to be interesting to watch as it goes down.

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Matthew 10:29 Where is the line for remembering life forms that die.

by donny in

i pitching this to the group because i am looking for a variety of responses to a question a co-worker has posed to me.

since i am agnostic, i know what my answer to him will be, but i'd like to hear others response.. the question he brought up was in regards to matthew 10:29 where it states that not even a sparrow dies without his knowledge.

he asks "where does god draw the line on this 'remeberance'.

BurnTheShips

What say you?

I think this is taking an example used for didactic purposes way too far.

Still, if God is omniscient, then he is omniscient, no?

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I admit, abject and utter failure.....

by notverylikely in

i tried, i thought i could make it work, it seemed so easy, but alas, in my project to turn a used $3 cigar box into a functional humidor i failed miserably.

i never could make the box airtight enough and allow enough air to circulate through to keep the cigars moist enough with a passive humidifier.

the humidity kept falling too low, i kept have to try to seal more edges of the box and eventually i started losing cigars.. i broke down today and bought a $40 humidor and in the space of just a few hours it is already keeping the cigars more moist and humid.. i failed.

BurnTheShips

have you tried dipping the end in a good liquor

It helps encourage the wife.

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BrotherDan's POV

by PSacramento in

jw
friends

brotherdan seems to have left and before he did he psoted this:.

so this is goodbye.

thanks for the help in getting out of the cult.

BurnTheShips

Leaving the Watchtower may be likened to one of the phases of Positive Disintegration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration

This board just helps.

We all take on our OWN values, if we grow enough.

We don't all have the SAME values.

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I admit, abject and utter failure.....

by notverylikely in

i tried, i thought i could make it work, it seemed so easy, but alas, in my project to turn a used $3 cigar box into a functional humidor i failed miserably.

i never could make the box airtight enough and allow enough air to circulate through to keep the cigars moist enough with a passive humidifier.

the humidity kept falling too low, i kept have to try to seal more edges of the box and eventually i started losing cigars.. i broke down today and bought a $40 humidor and in the space of just a few hours it is already keeping the cigars more moist and humid.. i failed.

BurnTheShips

Feel free to fedex me a cuban. and i'm with you except for the candles.

They are citronella candles, NVL. For the mosquitos.

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Are You For Or Against The Death Penalty?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i clearly am for it if it's proven without a doubt that a person murdered another in cold blood.

recently, in connecticut, a man was convicted of killing 2 young girls and their mother.

the animal raped them and almost killed the defenseless husband/father who could do nothing while these atrocities were being carried out in his own home!.

BurnTheShips

What should the punishment be for these guys?

Put them in a room with Marsellus Wallace's "employees"?

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If You Had To Have A Religion Which Would You Not Mind Belonging To?

by minimus in

jw
friends

if you were even born into a religion, would you feel that you had to get out?

( the only religion that i know of where people get out and often never go to any other religion is the jw religion)..

BurnTheShips

Well, I am Catholic, but there are a few other religions that I like too. Too bad you can't be a member of several....except Outlaw's Beer Church. From the book of Guinessis:

And God said, Let There Be Beer!

And there was Beer.

And it was Good.

Still, no disrespect to Outlaw's faith, but only in the Catholic Church can you be Canonized for a Beer Miracle.

St. Arnold of Metz:

He is said to have spent his life warning peasants about the health hazards of drinking water. Water was not necessarily safe to drink during the dark ages, especially around towns and villages. Nasty stuff. Arnold always had the well-being of his followers close at heart.

Beer, on the other hand, was quite safe. Arnold frequently pointed this out to his congregation. He is credited with having once said, "From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world." It goes without saying that the people loved and revered Arnold.

In 627, Saint Arnold retired to a monastery near Remiremont, France, where he died and was buried in 640.

In 641, the citizens of Metz requested that Saint Arnold's body be exhumed and carried from the monastery to the town of Metz for reburial in their local church - The church where Arnold had so frequently preached the virtues of beer. Their request was granted.

It was a long and thirsty journey, especially since they were carrying a dead bishop. As the ceremonial procession passed through the town of Champignuelles, the tired processionals stopped for a rest and went into a tavern for a drink of their favorite beverage - Beer. Much to their dismay, they were informed that there was only one mug of beer left, and that they would have to share it. That mug never ran dry and the thirsty crowd was satisfied.

Every Saint needs a miracle. That's how the Church decides you are a Saint. The story of the miracle mug of beer spread and eventually Arnold was canonized by the Catholic Church for it.

The Legend of the Beer Mug

It was July 642 and very hot when the parishioners of Metz went to Remiremont to recover the remains of their former bishop. They had little to drink and the terrain was inhospitable.

At the point when the exhausted procession was about to leave Champigneulles, one of the parishioners, Duc Notto, prayed “By his powerful intercession the Blessed Arnold will bring us what we lack.” Immediately the small remnant of beer at the bottom of a pot multiplied in such amounts that the pilgrims thirst was quenched and they had enough to enjoy the next evening when they arrived in Metz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_of_Metz

"From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world" - St. Arnold of Metz.

And that is why I am Catholic.

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I admit, abject and utter failure.....

by notverylikely in

i tried, i thought i could make it work, it seemed so easy, but alas, in my project to turn a used $3 cigar box into a functional humidor i failed miserably.

i never could make the box airtight enough and allow enough air to circulate through to keep the cigars moist enough with a passive humidifier.

the humidity kept falling too low, i kept have to try to seal more edges of the box and eventually i started losing cigars.. i broke down today and bought a $40 humidor and in the space of just a few hours it is already keeping the cigars more moist and humid.. i failed.

BurnTheShips

Picked up some Cubans in Mexico a few weeks back. In the evenings, I sit out on the patio, light some candles, pour me a scotch and have a smoke!

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I admit, abject and utter failure.....

by notverylikely in

i tried, i thought i could make it work, it seemed so easy, but alas, in my project to turn a used $3 cigar box into a functional humidor i failed miserably.

i never could make the box airtight enough and allow enough air to circulate through to keep the cigars moist enough with a passive humidifier.

the humidity kept falling too low, i kept have to try to seal more edges of the box and eventually i started losing cigars.. i broke down today and bought a $40 humidor and in the space of just a few hours it is already keeping the cigars more moist and humid.. i failed.