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  Any suggestions on a Bible and a Bible commentary?

  by DB in

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  i currently use the new world translation of the holy scriptures, and it seems to be a pretty good bible.

  but i am looking for a good, modern-english version with which to do some comparison reading.

  plus, i am looking for a good bible commentary for research.

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  Rhett...
  hahahah! good one! =)
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  Have you read this book?

  by Eyebrow in

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  about three years ago my future husband suggested i read a book by robert heilein called, job: a comedy of justice".

  i reccommend this book to everyone and anyone that has been in any religion.

  it is quite an amusing, but disturbing story about a minister that keeps being put into different lives.

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  Eyebrow

  About three years ago my future husband suggested I read a book by Robert Heilein called, JOB: A Comedy of Justice".

  I reccommend this book to everyone and anyone that has been in any religion. It is quite an amusing, but disturbing story about a minister that keeps being put into different lives. It addresses a few different versions of heaven and hell.

  About 1/3 into the book I got pissed off at the author because he was making so many good points. Understand, this is a novel, not a work of nonfiction, and it is not preachy. It is a riot, but really opened my mind regarding religion in general. You can find it at Barnes and Noble.com and I am sure a bunch of other places.

  Has anyone else read this book?
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  Some one broke in my house yesterday

  by rhett in

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  there's this guy who i used to be friends with who thought that the only reason my kids loved me was because i rewarded them.

  of course, i had to prove him wrong.

  last friday i heard him talking to some people that he was going to break into my house and kill a few of my kids as well as trash the house.

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  Richard,

  OUCH!!!

  A sad, but poignant analogy.
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  What if?- A sobering Thought!

  by Bill Parker in

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  has anyone ever pondered over the two scripture's at matthew 25: 31, 32 and daniel 12:1?

  the first tells us that the son of man is "sitting down" ... and that then a "separating" work begins.

  then in daniel 12:1 it tells us that when michael "stands up" a great time of trouble ensues.. do you think it's possible he is not yet "standing up?

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  Eyebrow

  I am a basically good person. I do not believe that God would lump me or my family in with murderers or the like.

  Basically, if the Witness DO have it right, that just means I am going to die, kaput that is it.

  No major regrets here. My life has not been perfect, could be better, but it is still precious, and I am grateful for it. I think God realizes that.
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  They think this is funny?

  by outcast in

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  the funny thing about it is, it's not far from the truth.. .

  coming soon to a congregation near you!!!!.

  elder voice mail.

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  Eyebrow

  That's a riot!

  When I was going over the questions to get baptized in 1992, one elder told me that I needed to understand that the elders may not be available right away for assistance if I had a problem. After all, they do have families of their own.

  I guess for some elders' families it really was a problem of the elders putting their families second to "the flock".
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  Why abortion shouldn't matter to a Christian

  by rhett in

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  first off, let me say that i am not a believer of the bible and am totally against abortion.

  that being said, i'll get to the point of this post.. this is something that has bothered me even when i was a jw.

  kids are judged by the holiness of their parents.

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  I have never heard wanting an abortion was as bad as getting one. I think you are stretching the "committing adulterly in your heart" thing a bit much.
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  they wont leave me alone!

  by zanex in

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  i have a problem..i have been df'd for like 6 or 7 years i lose count but point is my parents are still stuck in the alternate dimension called jw and they seem to think that there is still a "chance" for me.

  lol..funny shit i think but anyway, the town i live in just happens to house some of my friggin elder pop's elder friends...like i thought when i got df'd that meant they would leave me alone but now that i have a wife and kid that arent jw related at all my parents seem to think that my wife will "convert" i trust my wife better than that and i know that there is no way that she would ever do that..she is as cynical as i am..my prob is that they have infiltrated me at my work and i dont want to have to be an asshole about it but i just need them to leave me be...anybody got any ideas on things i can do shy of buying a fully automatic weapon and perching myself on my front doorstep?

  anyway..i can hear the psychiatrist callin my name...lol..

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  Andi,

  I couldn't agree with you more! A few annoying conversations are worth it for my family to not have to shun me. I know what it is like to feel obligated to shun someone. I don't want to put my family in that position unnecessarily.

  Englishman:

  Your wife's response was beautiful! I am going to remember that one!
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  More Rand Corp.Info

  by OUTLAW in

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  as some of us know wbts owns 50% of rand cam corp.i was watching cnn and they said rand corp operates a military think tank.does anyone know anymore about this?...outlaw

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  Sorry, but I think this is TOTAL BS.

  I honestly think that if a religious organization owned that much of a company that makes bombs it would raise more than a few eyebrows and be pretty easy to find articles about it.
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  Way Back When You Were A Witness.......

  by LB in

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  back in the dark ages did you used to come into message boards like this one, or h20 and try to defend the watchtower society?

  i did and things didn't work out so well.

  actually they worked out fine, i switched teams.

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  How about tshirts that say "Have you hugged an apostate today?"

  I read about an exmormon who had one. Heehee!
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  Pioneering

  by ItsJustMe in

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  just out of curiosity, was anyone here ever a pioneer?

  what motivated you to pioneer?

  what made you get off the list?

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  Eyebrow

  I never became a pioneer, but desperately wanted to be one when I was in. In fact, an essay I wrote for my freshman English midterm in high school was about what I wanted to be when I grew up - a missionary.

  When I was 12 and 13 I would pack my meeting clothes in a back pack and bike the 4 miles (up hill, both ways) to the Hall and go out in service all summer. I loved talking to people at the doors and loved return visits. When I was 14 I visited the Watchtower Farms and absolutely fell in love with it. I can still vividly remember the tour I took.

  By the time I was a sophmore in high school I started to stray, and by the time I came back when I was 20 I was an unwed mom and had to work to support my son. But I desparately still wanted to pioneer.

  As an adult, the more pioneers I got to know the less I wanted to pioneer. I meet several that were actually zealous and loved the work, but I met even more that seemed to be in it for the pretigue it seem to have in our congregation. It made me sick!

  I just finished reading Crisis of Conscience. What impresses me the most about that book is Ray Franz's LACK of bitterness. He doesn't get caught up in the past and neither should we. Hindsight is 20/20.