I have read gnostic gospels.
Really, they have bishops? Overseers?
Hierarchies? Gnostic texts endorse this?
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Have you investigated Gnostic Christianity?
by Gnostic Bishop inhave you investigated gnostic christianity?.
the gnostic wing of christianity, if it can even be called that today, has quite a few differences to christianity and catholicism.
if the old gnostic christians were here, they would hardly recognize what has happened to the original orthodox catholic church or its various offshoots in protestantism and islam.
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Interesting Iraqi Humor
by metatron inhttp://www.latimes.com/world/great-reads/la-fg-c1-iraq-isis-tv-comedy-20141029-story.html#page=1.
crude and anti-semitic admittedly but effective.
if the muslim world can get away with lampooning these murderers, then it is a positive thing.
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Ditto, Phizzy
and thanks, metatron for posting this--absolutely the best thing I have heard or seen to make hope rise for savvy, humane and brave in Muslims everywhere.
If Jon Stuart had produced this, it would never have had the potent effect as these guys can and have had. Stuart is in the U.S. and he is Jewish-- and this would have automatically discounted the impact. Not that Stuart wouldn't have included any allusion to Israeli political factors in the active ingredients that are stirring radical Islamic ideology--if the cutting wit of these comics cannot use all the truth to atack extremists then they are not credible even to myself---a western non-Muslim.
Brave brave brave.
I do believe that humor that is truthful is the most powerful force we have to infiltrate, warm and strengthen fear frozen minds.
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New ExJW here for the first time.
by WideAwake7 ini am here for the first time ...but have enjoyed reading others experiences that i feel i can relate too.
i used to be an elder for more than 20 years .
i have successfully faded with my wife and children.
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My Relief
by Smart inwhat a massive relief!
thank god i have just found this site the other day!
i don't know where to begin!
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As for your identity--People here are respectful of your privacy. If you have nothing to lose as far as the JWs are concerned-- let 'er rip! But I find that though I have nobody in the Org. of my family, sometimes I converse on a thread that covers sensitive matters and then I have wished I had anonymity. Just my thoughts.
But this forum addresses issues of persons touched by the JW Org. You should be here.
Share carefully, thoughtfully, for your own sake. But welcome, smart. Welcome.
Maeve--whose Grandma Beatrice (nee Jones) was half Welsh
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The Witness beliefs remind me of the Nazis and ISIS
by NAVYTOWN inthe nazi regime hated jews, gays, jws and other minorities.
so they solved the 'problem' by exterminating them.
the current isis group hates jews and christians and beheads those it considers 'enemies' and 'infidels'.
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Morning Witness - Sowing the Seeds
by Frazzled UBM inso i walked past a couple of young witnesses on the way to dropping my son off this morning and they were still there at the station when i came back to catch the train.
seeing them made me feel sad and think about all the stories of regret here on jwn so i figured what the hell i'll tell them.
so i approached them and asked how old they were.
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humbled
I remember the two times when persons responded with simple gestures in my door-to-door work that made me question in a general way what I was doing. It troubled me to have people respond with an aversion so unmistakable and clear to my presence as a bearer of the "Good News". It did make me wonder what their experience had been.
It never hurts to chip away at the wall, FUBM.
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humbled
I think it is both what Londo said and what you said: If you know what hurts you,then you do not want another to feel that same pain. So I think love is the desire to mitigate the pain of living and share the joy.
Now, are we talking about romantic love and having children? this topic could swarm....and I hope it does.
Love is wonderful.
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Latest stage
by thedog1 ini've posted on and off here over the past year, but not much recently.
anyone who read my previous posts will know that i started learning all sorts of surprising things about jehovah's witnesses about a year or so ago, well, surprising to me anyway.
i feel very sad now as it is getting harder and harder to go to meetings.
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humbled
The part of your post that struck me as saddest is not being able to talk to your wife.
The irony of "the truth that makes you free" is that you can not freely speak. You cannot free her with the truth about the "Truth".
I hope you can soon. I knew people like her, women mostly, who seemed to be sickened by the burden that was not "light".
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Shootings in multiple locations in Canada's capital today - Wed Oct 22/14
by Heaven inone soldier is shot at war memorial.
multiple shooters suspected.
national post has live updates:.
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Despicable crazy people
by jgnat inthere are some mental illnesses which come with the potential for extreme violence.
i'm not talking the sociopath here who kills without remorse, but those mentally ill people while in the throes of their delusions who are driven to kill.
the outcomes can be horrific.. on december 6, 1989, a lone gunman gunned down fourteen women at a montreal college.
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