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  Taliban hang 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy...

  by Deputy Dog in

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  taliban hang 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy,.

  from: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/06/10/2010-06-10_taliban_hang_7yearold_boy_accused_of_being_a_spy_suicide_bomber_kills_40_at_afgh.html#ixzz0qjy3uv6j.

  twisted taliban militants took terror to a new low by accusing a 7-year-old boy of spying - and hanging him high.. that outrage drew immediate condemnation from the afghan president, who called the execution a "crime against humanity.".

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  Terrible, what's also sick is our Government training Boy Scouts to use guns to go after disgruntled vets.
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  No typos or grammatical errors ever????

  by StAnn in

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  seems to me that, despite the fact that the content of the wts literatrash is crap, i've never seen a typo or grammatical error in the lit.

  anybody ever noticed this or ever found instances of errors?

  and, if there are no errors, how do they manage that?

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  Oh there was one, 1975 was just a typo, 1914 too.
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  As a JW, Did You Skip Houses You Knew Were Not Interested?

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  i have to confess: in my last 3 - 5 years in field circus, i basically only went to neighborhoods that were extrememly poor and thus i knew they would be favorable to the message.

  i always had my own territory checked out, and even if an elder suggested i join another group in working another territory, i always had plenty of reasons why i needed to work mine.

  (bible study or rv that i had to make at 11 am, etc...blah blah blah..lol).

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  No I was under their mind control, counting time, I wanted to call on any door where someone would talk to me interested or not, if they didn't answer I would stand their a long time streching the time, gotta get those pioneering hours in. That was sressful trying to make those one hundred hours every month, and meet your literature quotas. What a waste of time.
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  Public Viewing of "Inside Islam: What Do A Billion Muslims Really Think?"

  by Justitia Themis in

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  there will be a public viewing at the university of washington-tacoma, on may 26, 2010, from 4:00-5:30 in the milgard assembly room.. it is free and all are invited.

  http://upf.tv/upf06/home/tabid/320/default.aspx.

  keynote address world premiere june 3rd, 2009 inside islam: what a billion muslims really think .

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  I rember Madeleine Albright for this statement:

  "U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright reflected the mindset of U.S. officials when she told “Sixty Minutes” (and the people of the Middle East) that the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions were “worth it.”
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  Judgment Day and the End of the World 2011

  by RR in

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  it's coming, so pack your bags everyone.

  less than a year to go.. .

  http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/index.html.

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  I am sure the JW's are like the kid standing outside the locked toy store window, wishing they could get in on the action of predicting the time of the end again but knowing there are enough of their older former members around who would throw 1975 in their face. Oh well they'll have to limp along until most of us die. Then they can start up their end of the world band wagon again.

  Still crazy JW's aside there are alot of things going on in the world that seem to look alot to me like Revelations or Isaiah or Daniel's phrophecies, I am not sure how I interpret it, I just think were living in more difficult and dangerous times than anything I have seen in my lifetime. I wonder what 2012 might bring.
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  Art Linkletter dies at 97

  by straightshooter in

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  sad to hear that art linkletter passed away.

  i remember his shows, they were very entertaining.

  i especially enjoyed the "kids say the darndest things.".

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  Wasn't that show on Tuesday nights , book study night?
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  Would Jesus have told us the devine name was lost?

  by wannabe in

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  some would just love to see it lost!

  satan the devil maybe he`s a god!

  {jehovah} 7 " 'i will make known my holy name among my people israel.

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  "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel never used any personal name to distinguish Him from any peers because He had no peers. Therefore, no personal name was ever needed. The only name He gave for Himself was "I am," which indicated that He is to be identified with all existence. The Greek Septuagint Old Testament of 285BC never used any sacred name for God, nor was such ever mentioned by other ancient writers such as the Israelite historians, Philo, and Josephus, or the later Eusebius, or even the Jewish Aristeas the Exegete who wrote his commentary on the Greek Septuagint. The word did not appear in any Old Testament text until the Masoretic Text of 1000AD!"
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  Mormon Version of Hell

  by cameo-d in

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  .....teaches that upon death, righteous souls go to paradise, while the souls of the unrepentant go to a spirit prison, where the former are sent from paradise to preach the gospel to the latter, and the living perform work in lds temples providing ordinances that can only be received in the flesh, which the repentant imprisoned ones can accept.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/resurrection.

  imagine that you were an apostate and you end up in the spirit prison.

  would you rather have to listen to the righteous mormons or the righteous jws (providing you were given a preference)?.

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  Don't forget that the GB forbade marriage before "Armageddon" in 1925.

  At Bethel too before 1975 you had to put in four years as a single person, if you didn't make your four years you were branded as somebody who didn't keep their word. President Knorr would go on tirades against the people who left early.
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  Who wrote the book of Revelation?

  by Doug Mason in

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  i commented elsewhere that some believe john the baptist might have been the author of the book of revelation.

  i thought i should start a new thread on this subject, since the subject might be of interest to others.. over the centuries, several names have been put forward as the author but, as i wrote, some only think the firebrand baptist might have been the author, but no one really knows.. i have provided a scan from a book that discusses what we know of the author as well as canvassing possible candidates.. the pages are available at:.

  http://www.jwstudies.com/who_wrote_revelation.pdf.

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  Interesting, perhaps, but on the other hand...

  Bible Scholar Vernon Mcgee makes some points that I believe would tend to put the Revelation as the type of book written by John.

  Where's the part about "Bible Scholar"?

  After completing his education (earning his A.B. from Southwestern University in Memphis, Tennessee; his B.D. from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia; his Th.M. and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas

  Well he is a graduate of a seminary but he has written on almost every book of the bible and I find his work quite scholarly and also he is dead now but his old broad casts were every informative. He may have views I disagree with but he is one of the scholars I like to go to for a quick explanation of a scripture, not that I am a member of his or any church.
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  Who wrote the book of Revelation?

  by Doug Mason in

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  i commented elsewhere that some believe john the baptist might have been the author of the book of revelation.

  i thought i should start a new thread on this subject, since the subject might be of interest to others.. over the centuries, several names have been put forward as the author but, as i wrote, some only think the firebrand baptist might have been the author, but no one really knows.. i have provided a scan from a book that discusses what we know of the author as well as canvassing possible candidates.. the pages are available at:.

  http://www.jwstudies.com/who_wrote_revelation.pdf.

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  There was a great deal of "mysticism" and "hermeticism" and "initiation" schools extant in that time period. A number of divisions within Judaism and proto-christianity existed. Opinions and practices were amazingly varied.Please do some reading and snooping around concerning this subject and you'll be quite transformed in your opinion

  Interesting, perhaps, but on the other hand...

  Bible Scholar Vernon Mcgee makes some points that I believe would tend to put the Revelation as the type of book written by John concerning the transformation of Jesus from the victim in the Gospels to the triumphant conquering King in Revelation, the one thing about Revelation is that it ties together many of the themes that start in Genesis and run throughout the old testament in Genesis the earth is created in Revelation it passes away.

  In Genesis you have the first rebellion of Satan in Revelation Satan is destroyed.

  In Genesis is the first sin in Revelation sin is done away with.

  Death enters in Genesis exists in Revelation.

  In Genesis you have the first Adam in Revelation the last Adam.

  In Genesis you have man's city Babylon enter, in Revelation Babylon is destroyed.

  In Genesis the curse is introduced in Revelation the curse is removed...Genesis tells you how the human races started Revelation tells you how the human race will wind up. To me I think that makes more likely the work of a Bible Scholar like John.