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  The facts on crucifixion, stauros, and the "torture stake"

  by Leolaia in

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  finally, i will look at biblical and patristic evidence bearing on the crucifixion of jesus in particular.

  we need to examine the earliest known descriptions of the kind of crucifixion adopted by the romans and the specific terms they used to refer to it.

  apparently the society believes that crux still meant "stake" in the second century a.d., when tacitus composed his annals.

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  bernadette

  Leolaia

  Thanks for the article. I can't believe it - its like christmas everyday. Have to keep pinching myself. Must have been starving

  Bernadette
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  NEW BOOK Take Back Your Life

  by Lady Lee in

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  2. medical

  i emailed the publisher this morning and did not expect to hear from him at least until monday.

  but i have my response already.. the book can be found at the publisher's website .

  http://www.baytreepublish.com/take-back-life-fr.html.

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  bernadette

  My experience with the psycho-psychiatric community is that they gloss over, completely, the inner relationship between a human's heart and the heart of God. They don't get it; they talk around it. Loving God, who's not "in the room" is a matter that psychology doesn't abide with at all; and it doesn't matter which church you find as a sanctuary after leaving the Witnesses. Psychiatry will try to talk you out of all spirituality because they are strictly behaviorist; and psychology will try to talk you right in to the Occult and New Age unitarian/universalist concepts.

  I hae been for counselling and did not find that they talked me out of spiritually but enabled me to go in the direction that was most beneficial for me personally

  Many years ago I was offered stress management with a clinical psychologist but was told more or less what you have said above 'they will try to talk you into the Occult and New Age unitarian/universalist concepts'

  I wish I had not listened to that JW teaching at that time.

  Bernadette
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  Please welcome my friend chaiyah

  by unclebruce in

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  2. friends

  g'day chaiyah,.

  welcome to jwd.

  this place needs your broom of truth to sweep through it like there's no tommorrow!

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  bernadette

  welcome chaiyah ----- good to have you with us

  bernadette
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  Gays Leave JWD!

  by hambeak in

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  2. friends

  i got a phone call from a person that i gave my phone # to.

  and this person said that gays are not welcome here and this is not what this board was really about.

  i told them that this is only one part of the crap that the wts did to people and that we are people too.

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  (((((hambeak)))))

  Sounds like the chap who rang you has a lot to deal with .......... but he does not speak for me and never will
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  Here's my latest poem

  by Abandoned in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i worked this morning and on my break i felt inspired.

  let me know what you think.. the real life.

  terrified of friendship's bite,.

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  a victory poem.

  Shows what a complete transformation we make. Courage through tears
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  JW's and John 5:23

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  has anyone on this board ever used john 5:23 when talking to jw's?.

  unfortunately, one of my friends is currently in a "bible" study with the jw's (and has been since last year).

  i asked my friend to ask the jw what john 5:23 means, so my friend did ask the jw who was conducting the "bible" study.

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  bernadette

  Wow undisfellowshipped that's a lot of valuable research. I'm going to print it out and share bit bit with my other half.

  Thanku very much.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-26-06 WT Review (Honorable Weddings)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 11-26-06 wt study (october 15, 2006, pages 18-23)(honorable weddings).

  review comments will be in red.

  quotes from other sources will be in quotes boxes.

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  Did anyone of you get married at a KH? What were your experiences like? No KH for me…I love an outdoor wedding. The JWs in this area assume you must have sinned sexually and couldn’t have it at the KH.

  I remeber when we were courting we had a lot of pressure to court for 6 months and get married within a year. Then we were told about the privileges of having the wedding at the hall and how that would give us a clean start to married life.

  Right through our courtship every week my husband to be was asked 'when are going to get engaged, have you bought the ring yet. He was a poor pioneer and could not afford a ring. The elder gave him the money so that he could go and get one and do it quickly. Then once we'd got engaged the pressure was on to set the date and remember stay 'clean' so u can have your wedding at the hall! Courtship itself was made to feel unclean

  In our area it still matters whether one has the wedding at the hall or not.

  Bernadette
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  my cat died today... i need consoling...

  by theinfamousone in

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  2. friends

  this is the guy that sat on my razor blades the one time i was thinking of cutting myself... this is the guy that everytime my dad beat me, would come to my room and lay with me... this is the guy that one time jumped into the bathtub with me while i was crying after a brutal beating, the cat hated water... this is a cat that was more family to me than my own father and mother combined... this was my best friend... .

  today i had to do the hardest thing i ever did, i had to choose to have him put down... and as he fought the vet, and tried to bite her, i put my hand on his head, and he stopped struggling... and as they put the last needle into his leg, he purred until he died... the vet says she has never seen that before... this was my best friend and i had to kill him... fuck, im a baby, but i miss him soooo much.

  the infamous one.

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  Cats have a sixth sense. Your cat loved u with all his being and you loved him your only friend - he knew. Sorry for your loss he has left you a legacy of love, comfort and courage
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  Sorry, I need to vent for a moment...

  by Abandoned in

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  normally, i don't mind where i'm at in my life.

  i'm forty, no kids, low-paying job, live in a trailer court, etc (and trust me there's more to the etc, then i've already mentioned), but today i had a hard time.. one of my best friends from high school was a big dope head (no offense to the dope heads out there).

  he showed up nearly every day to our first period art class smelling of weed and was generally so whacked out of his mind that he got horrible grades.. he finally graduated - barely - and made it to college.

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  bernadette

  Abandoned you have a gift for poetry. When we did that poem together it was such a release for me. I remember saying to my daughter -she has chronic fatigue and depression through slaving for the wts but is coming out of prison now - lets start putting our feelings down in verse, but we never got round to it. I'm gonna start today
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  The Science of Belief

  by LittleToe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  time and again the refrain is heard that belief and science are mutually exclusive, that belief somehow corrupts good science, that belief is not empirical.

  i'd like to throw another slant on that, if i may.. belief is an inherent part of the human psyche.

  the desire to know more about our environment and how it all works is also an inherent part of our psyche.

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  bernadette

  Nark

  thats an amazing website. Worth visiting