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  Short Video - Interviews with Creationists

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  this short video demonstrates how faith is impervious to facts.. the contributers are honest about their beliefs but so badly deceived about reality it is quite depressing.

  spot the canards - some of them are jaw-dropping.. pastor peter laruffa exudes, "if somewhere within the bible, i were to find a passage that said two plus two equals five, i wouldn't question what i'm reading in the bible.

  i would believe it, accept it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand it.".

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  Fear of life without God is the theme throughout this video.

  No Go= no prayer=no reward=no resurrection.

  "Try God" says the woman at the end. She poses it as a choice.

  Believe God into existence?

  Have they known a person to beg for God's mercy and receive no mercy when they "try"? (husband's complaint for himself during the time that I had God for me)

  "TRY GOD"?

  It hurts to discover that something is lost in translation. That the only god available to many is a very, very trying one. So trying as to be, well, as good as gone.

  Sometimes faith can be fear based--fear, not of hell, but of God not being there.
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  Do you remember the girl in the coffee shop?

  by quellycatface in

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  2. friends

  i posted a few weeks back, about a young girl having a study in a local coffee shop.

  the sister she was studying with i knew, from my ex kh.. i saw them again today.

  i acted on the advice from my previous post and wrote a note.

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  Quelly--no regrets. You did not stand by idle.

  I remember ignoring warnings from people who knew I was studying. I need to think more about the things that might have helped me.I wonder if anything could have.

  The woman who studied me in was/is a well-known pioneer who was strong and unstinting. (My husband referred to her as "The Dragon Lady).

  Maeve
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  Helping your Loved one correlate WT mind control by exposing OTHEr groups

  by Jon Preston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ive been watching "the following" lately and my wife watched a few episodes with me.

  she couldnt fathom at first the depth that mind control or "destructive influence" can take you.

  so in accordance with hassans "freedom of mind" i have decided that exposing other cults to my wife will help me help her to find correlations to the wt and hopefully lead her to the bite model.

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  I discovered by accident how effective this method was while I was an active JDub.

  A youngMormon woman who had been my oldest daughter's best friend (I now that's not supposed to happen) had since married and stayed in touch with our family. She called me and invited me to view at the local LDS meeting place on our local University's campus the annual (? what-ever-it's-called) that the LDS President presents. I thanked her but declined, saying that I thought it would be a good thing for her to read the Bible so that she could be certain that everything she learned lined up--In fact, I said, she should beware of these men that she referred to as "prophets" of her church. They might be shifting doctrines without her knowing it.(lol,<idiot me!)

  She then made this remarkably insightful comment: But the men who guide you are like our leaders. They provide you all with new prophesy, don' they.

  I was quite stricken dumb. She had inadvertantly blind-sided me. I was so certain I was helping line up her thinking.

  Her comments really helped put pressure along the "fault line" where tensions mounted rapidly within a few years until the big quake happened for me.
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  scary21, I love how you solved the "strange" chick problem.

  It is so fascinating to watch the dynamics of animals--that solution you came up with is very thought provoking. Goldie is managing her mothering of her 2-3 day old babies so beautifully. They pop out from under her full breast or from under her wing and "forage" in the flat pan that has finely ground feed in it. they drink so daintily from the shallow water bowl.

  Goldie abandoned the 5 unhatched eggs this afternoon. Of the eggs rescued from the snow, there were 15 when I found them. Two were damaged and Goldie herself broke another whether intentional or not--but it was spoiled and showed no developing chick. Surely some of those eggs had been frozen before she began to set them. and perhaps the transfer to the house harmed some--though ultimately it saved those 7 and perhaps Goldie herself.

  I am glad I am no longer conflicted about spending time with and enjoying animals. My years as a JW so discouraged taking time away from reading and studying and serving in the door-to-door work. and i had kids at home, and my husband who--thank goodness was not a JW-- and often some outside work. It was not a time to enjoy life so much as now.

  O, chickens! Do you have a chance to keep any at all now?
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
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  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  DONE! the last chick is named!( Feeding the red hens off the fly swat!!!)

  Hortensia, there was the final, 7th chick out yesterday. The others did not hatch, so there's the end of it.

  Yes, Hortensia, chickens are lovely pets!

  I acquired my motley assortment of poultry at the end of the hatching season. Five baby guineas and three unidentified chicks. The woman said she had bantams and also kept Rhode Island Reds. Certainly little Goldie has some RhodeIslandRed in her background. But she is small and obviously broody--her eggs a pale, pale brown. And small.

  Well, folks, I'll take good care of your namesakes.
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  My latest work - A Raven

  by nugget in

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  Beautiful, nugget. Catches that bird perfectly.

  What medium? Ink, etching?

  It would be lovely to see more of your work.

  Maeve
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  Are Men's Rights Laughable?

  by Paralipomenon in

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  2. friends

  reading over the woody allen thread i noticed a couple things but didn't want to side track the "discussion".

  1) woody allen is creepy.

  2) nobody really seemed to care that his ex-wife was abusive towards her children.. an example i think is perfect was the release of twilight where you would see lineups of 30-40 year old women making very inappropriate comments about a 16 year old boy.

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  Justice is justice.

  A man who makes one woman "pay" for his abuse is no better or worse than a woman who makes a man "pay" for a past abuse.

  Let the perpetrator pay for his/her own crime or else justice can never be served to any man or any woman.
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  Hello. She is up to at least 5 and one breaking out now. I just peek and pry but don't lift her. So far:

  3 pale yellow, 1 tiny black, 1 black and pale striped.

  Names? When I sort them out--Lisa, Lois, Rip, Bruja, Clare, and Xan-- we'll see who crows later and know how close the matches are ;>)

  The name of this little Ozark Mountain is Chicken Bristle. It is even mapped by that name here in Elkins, Arkansas. I just remembered that this morning.

  I have no idea why it is named that.

  Spring is coming. Here my husband has always been right about this: the spring peepers--little tree frogs--start their songs by the 3rd week of February. Even if it's cold. We'll see...

  Thanks for sharing the day's delights, friends. I hope each of you are having a fine day with at least a warm heart til the days match it.

  Maeve

  p.s. I am so glad that I wasn't "dubbing" out this morning either, clarity. Coffee with husband and son----and chickens.
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  My son got a picture of Goldie's first success---she had more out this morning. Four and counting! But we can't get the photo to post :(

  O, well. Picture Goldie's red-gold mound with a yellowie head/w beak sticking out under her breast...
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  Valentine's Day:" At least someone got a chick today!"

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's what my oldest son said when i texted that our little red hen, goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight.

  nearly midnight now and i checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--.

  --i put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!.

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  humbled

  That's what my oldest son said when I texted that our little red hen, Goldie, against all odds, hatched herself a chick tonight. Nearly midnight now and I checked--there's another one breaking out to join the first one--

  --I put the egg to my ear and heard it cheeping!

  I had written in Xanthippe's thread "So what are you up to?" about finding Goldie's hidden nest after a long freezing time and then the heavy snow. She had 9 days to go to any possible success, but poor thing was bound to freeze in the wretched subfreezing temps,snow and freezing rains. Rugged little girl--the rooster diddied her and the guineas tweeked her tail as she ate the warm mash I gave her when she mad the dash to the porch after setting her precious eggs through the snowfall.

  We brought her in ,Dick and I did. Put her in near the woodstove. An old woodbox with a lot of saw dust and some straw. She settled down and I noted that Valentine's Day wa s when it was supposed to happen---

  and, by cracky, she did it!

  I'll count my chickens after they hatch and see if my other son can get pictures up.

  Ahhhhh, LIFE!

  Happy Valentine's Day!