veradico
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reflections on the innocence of the rank and file, and a fairy tale
by veradico in"yes, that is just what i want to know," said the duck; and she swam away to the end of the pond, and stood upon her head, in order to give her children a good example.
" asked the water-rat.
"'well, really,' answered the miller, 'as i have given you my wheelbarrow, i don't think that it is much to ask you for a few flowers.
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fun evolution/beer video
by veradico inhttp://www.framestore-cfc.com/press/05pr/051003noitulove/amv_gune339_050_qt.mov .
oh, and here's a fun intelligent design one: .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpnoqab2lt0
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Greg Stafford is clamping down on dialog. Is he starting a new religion?
by veradico inhi there, greg.
greg .
nate and john: .
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undergrad paper on Witnesses
by veradico inhey everyone!
i don't know whether anyone will find this interesting or not, but, when i was an undergrad, i wrote a paper evaluating jehovah's witnesses.
it provided me with an opportunity to organize my thoughts at that time concerning the religion.
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anyone seen the new Spider Man movie?
by veradico inthe movie is full of action, gymnastic feats of superhuman dexterity and strength, humor, interesting characters, etc.
all one could ask from a comic turned into a movie.
the ending will leave one with a bad impression.
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shun the non-believer!
by veradico inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5im0ssyyus .
this is great!
can someone make this clickable?
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could someone explain how to work this forum?
by veradico inhow do you make a link to another webpage active on a post so that people can just click it and go?
every time i post something the formating gets lost when i submit.
all my paragraph divisions get lost, etc.
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Asherah, the wife of YHWH
by veradico inas we all know, the bible tends to overlook and often look down on women.
the priests and scribes who were in charge of it did everything they could to emphasize the maleness of god, thus supporting the social organization in place.
however, we can also detect in their writings the obvious fact that most of the people and many of the nobles of israel liked to turn to goddesses like asherah, who they could expect to be more sympathetic and compassionate than yhwh, and that the jewish people, in their legendary past, had other gods and goddesses (think of rachel's teraphim, get a bible commentary that talks about how the ot interacts with near eastern myths in attempting to have yhwh absorb the characteristics and titles of other gods and goddesses, note the lateness of even the prophetic condemnation of asherah compared to the early condemnation of ba'al worship).
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the apocalyptic wrath of Jehovah
by veradico inhas anyone here ever read donald hall's "prophecy," from the one day: a poem in three parts?
it gives deuteronomy chapter 28 a run for its money.
its disturbing vision is sure to thrill those dubs whose only christmas wish (if they could have such a pagan thing) would be for everyone else to just die already.
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Watchtower humility and The Gitanjali of Tagore
by veradico ini was thinking about how watchtower publications talk so much about humility, but really they are designed to humiliate.
we are instructed to distrust our hearts, think of ourselves as sinners, and look to the society for direction and salvation.
the publications spend so much time condemning independent thinking, higher education, higher criticism, the pleasures of life, the diversity of human expression, and the general messiness and complexity of life that the poor people like many in my family who are still trapped are consumed by a fear of getting their white robes (washed in the blood of the lamb) messy in the dirt of the world.
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