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  Suggestions for a cranky, stressed husband....all suggestions welcome.....

  by restrangled in

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  my poor guy is crabbier than hell.

  i have kept him well fed, but it doesn't seem to do the trick.

  i am calling on all men out there to tell me what to do and i know sex is an answer too, but is there anything in addition to this you guys wish for when work/life is stressing you out?.

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  I need a language expert - ref: Mizraim

  by Beardo in

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  hi chaps .... any help appreciated.

  i am having a ridiculous conversation on another forum with a poster who insists that mizraim is not supposed to indicate the land of egypt within the bible texts.. she claims that freemasons (yep - i know) have shoe-horned egypt into the narrative to draw attention to the pyramids and the world of the occult.. i know that this is whacky stuff and my reasoning with her is not actually helping, as she insists that mizraim is a different land altogether, regardless of my pleadings.. i have searched the internet to aid my quest for knowledge, but i haven't found anything particularly useful to date.. so, can anybody who understands the original language explain to me why the name mizraim was altered to read as egypt?.

  thanks .

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  Damn those Pyramids!!!!

  by Gill in

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  damn those egyptian piles of rocks and stones, so skillfully put together without an instruction book as to what their 'true' or not so obvious uses are, or may have been!!!.

  for nearly forty years, because of some blokes pyramidology fantasy i wasted my life and others have wasted their whole lives, waiting for something that was never going to happen in the first place!.

  now, i find myself reading up on pyramids!

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  BBC The Power of Nightmares

  by proplog2 in

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  has this documentary been discussed anywhere in this forum?.

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  Does the Watchtower use Gnostic principles to control its slaves?

  by Gill in

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  the watchtower is noted for its extreme stand on many issues, including life and death issues.. i'm thinking of things such as blood, of course, christmas, birthdays, holidays, private marriage issues etc.. the recent watchtower on the 'antichrist' had me thinking of their criticism of gnostic beliefs and how they worded it is as follows~.

  'ideas of a purely symbolic resurrection were later developed by a group called gnostics.

  believeing that knowledge could be derived in a mystical way, gnostics combined apostate christianity with greek philosophy and oriental mysticism.

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  About early christianity: Good link!

  by Hellrider in

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  2. bible

  i found a good text online, about early christianity: .

  http://www.muslimhope.com/bibleanswers/earlychurch.htm.

  ...the text has nothing to do with islam at all, but it is published on a web-page that tries to reach out to moslems...(never mind that, it`s not important).

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  Does anyone see the UN as having any power?

  by free2beme in

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  i remember growing up as a witness and thinking that the un was this great world power.

  i remember hearing how it was part of this global plan of the end of days, and how jehovah would use it to fulfill prophecy.

  now, i see the un as a giant waste of time and money and if it was disbanded tomorrow, i think it would be the best thing for the world.

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  The "generation" teaching - just to clarify!

  by Beardo in

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  2. beliefs

  sorry to be a major pain in the ass - but could those " in the know " clear something up for me?.

  is the " generation " teaching that was redefined during 1995 still taught to " interested ones " or have the wtbts totally removed this generation idea from their new literature, which is used to indoctrinate a person leading up to baptism?.

  any enlightenment welcome.

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  Intellectual bullies- have you come across them?

  by dido in

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  i recently posted on a thread and couldn`t believe the amount of intellectual bullies on there.

  i was a jw for 25 years, left school 35 years ago and they expected me to know all the info on evolution, and because i didn`t i`m `stupid`.

  i prefer to believe in creation, but it is obviously too simple an explanation for them.

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  is synchronicity the same as coincidence?

  by IP_SEC in

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

  6.66 posts per day on friday the 13th?

  what do you think about synchronicity?

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