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  Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower, and Armagedon, in the news... again. Washington Post story.

  by Balaamsass in

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  dec 22, 2012 03:29 pm estthewashingtonpost /for ap news registry the end of the world has been postponed - againby angelo stagnaro.

  people gather around a sacred fire at the mayan archeological site of iximche during a ceremony marking the end of the 13th oxlajuj b'aktun in tecpan, guatemala, on dec. 21, 2012.

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  glenster

  http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/Nostradamus.html
  http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/ReinSkp4.htm
  http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/ReinTxt6.htm
  http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/Dixon,%20Jeane.html
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  WHY are guns less controlled in the US than hardcore porn?

  by hamsterbait in

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  2. beliefs

  well?.

  hb.

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  glenster

  Because you don't take a d**k to a gunfight. (Sorry)
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  Question, God order his people to commit genocide.

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just to be clear his instructions to the israelites were.

  to commit genocide.

  deuteronomy 7:16 "you shall destroy.

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  glenster

  God has the prerogative to take everyone's life, and does, but people don't
  have the right to do that for God except with proof of God which is alleged.
  It's a matter of faith if they did or not.

  Conservative: it happened as the writers claim.

  Liberal: various options--it happened as claimed but God only took the early
  followers so far (Jesus regarding marriage, monotheism only took hold in the
  time of Isaiah, ANE cosmology, etc.), it's a romanticized rendering of the rise
  of monotheism from Canaanite culture, some scriptures indicate it wasn't a total
  herem (see the links), etc.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herem_%28war_or_property%29
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_violence_in_Judaism
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfare_in_Judaism
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkhemet_Mitzvah
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_peace

  The real problem isn't any of those things as much as if current followers see
  those scriptures as meant as guidance currently, which they generally don't.
  Exceptions include Christians who wanted to eliminate Jews, Jews seeing the
  Palestinians as Canaanites, Islamist terrorists regarding non-Muslims esp. Jews,
  etc.
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  Dear Santa

  by PSacramento in

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  an oldie but a goodie:.

  dear santa,.

  santa claus.

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  glenster

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oVPVsCqs4
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  Christianity gives you....ummm...ummm....exactly what?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  christianity:.

  you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. you pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum but you force a smile and forgive.. .

  if you are abused?

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  glenster

  I can't prove God let alone specifics added to the basic concept, that I'd
  pick my parents if all I could do is pick them out of a summary of the qualities
  of all the possible parents in the world, prove that you have to love a song I
  love, etc., and, all due respect to the math of them and related odds, I'm glad
  that's not all there is. Some things are subjective and can not only be under-
  stood as such but cherished. It's a personal call.
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  Sandy Hook Massacre - Solutions

  by tootired2care in

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  glenster

  "Sandy Hook Massacre - Solutions":

  They're not going to enact federal programs that require people who go off by
  themselves to join a group to go bowling or something or require people who
  can't defend themselves to stay in shelters. They're not going to change the
  censorship laws, ban all guns, or eliminate all liquor and street drugs someone
  could take instead of psychotropic meds.

  With the best of mental health programs, they won't be able to predict that
  because a guy has a Mom with a prepper/survivalist concern but is known as
  friendly and helpful, because he has Asperger's syndrome and is shy and awkward
  socially, and plays videogames, he plans to enact a "three guys, one hammer"
  fantasy of murdering lots of people who don't seem likely to fight back very
  well.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

  Medicine and science coming up with something that diminishes excess aggres-
  sion, and cures schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, would help. Short of
  that, mental health programs will have a process to have people committed.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_commitment

  Adam Lanza's Motive: Did Fear Of Being Committed Lead To Sandy Hook Elementary
  Shooting?
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/adam-lanza-motive_n_2329508.html
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  Christianity gives you....ummm...ummm....exactly what?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  christianity:.

  you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. you pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum but you force a smile and forgive.. .

  if you are abused?

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  glenster

  A nice hope, lots of tunes, food from the food bank when I was poor, my Mom
  and Dad, M.L. King, Steven Colbert, Robert Kennedy, etc., and people like that.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_left#United_States

  Lots of material to show the JWs leaders lied about for GTJ Brooklyn.
  http://glenster1.webs.com/gtjbrooklynindex.htm
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  Mental health crisis in America-

  by moshe in

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  i found this mother's letter to be an eye opener--.

  written by liza long, republished from the blue review.

  friday's horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in america.

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  glenster

  l p: I'm not sure what your complaint is. The Wikipedia articles agree with
  the JAMA and are well-researched. That's why I thought "this i would believe
  more than what i would read on wikipedia" was curious.

  The shooting does motivate us to see if there could be improvement in mental
  health care. But regarding Adam Lanza "Several medical experts have stated that
  there is no link between the shooting and either Asperger's or autism in
  general." "The hypothesis that individuals with AS are predisposed to violent
  or criminal behavior has been investigated but is not supported by data. More
  evidence suggests children with AS are victims rather than victimizers. A 2008
  review found that an overwhelming number of reported violent criminals with AS
  had coexisting psychiatric disorders such as schizoaffective disorder."
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting#Perpetrator
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
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  The 144,000

  by dabster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading in revelation 7 yesterday, where the 12 tribes of the sons of israel are named and where we learn that 12,000 from each tribe are sealed.

  how do the jws explain that the 144,000 are identified as israel - and identified so specifically that the 12 tribes are named?

  be gentle with me when answering.

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  glenster

  Some preachers like Popoff cook stuff up about exclusiveness to draw people to
  their collection plate or buy their literature. The current JWs leaders
  claim to being God's special spokespeople of a literal 144,00 goes back to
  Russell in the 1880's. Exclusive claims/relatively exclusive claims distinc-
  tively taught about what the Bible requires are contrived to affect that.

  JWs who are outspoken about persistent disagreement with one of those policies
  or claims is disfellowshipped to prevent them from spreading their research
  findings among the paying customers.
  http://glenster1.webs.com/gtjbrooklynindex.htm
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  Mental health crisis in America-

  by moshe in

  1. social
  2. current

  i found this mother's letter to be an eye opener--.

  written by liza long, republished from the blue review.

  friday's horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut -- has ignited a new discussion on violence in america.

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  glenster

  PS to my last post: if a seriously schizophrenic (manic depressive, etc.)
  person is taking street drugs they're probably not taking their psychotropic
  meds.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotropic_medications