hey all!
Thanks for the input. Trying to decide which are worth spending money on, and which are baloney, hehehe. And thanks for the compliment waiting You guys are the best!
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by eyes_opened indoes anyone know if the books written by carl o. jonsson are any good?.
i looked at the descriptions at amazon and they look really fascinating.
was wondering if anyone here has read them and what they thought.
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by eyes_opened indoes anyone know if the books written by carl o. jonsson are any good?.
i looked at the descriptions at amazon and they look really fascinating.
was wondering if anyone here has read them and what they thought.
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How about David Reed, Ron Rhoades, Robert Morey? Some other names I just turned up at Amazon.
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by eyes_opened indoes anyone know if the books written by carl o. jonsson are any good?.
i looked at the descriptions at amazon and they look really fascinating.
was wondering if anyone here has read them and what they thought.
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Thanks! They do have it at Amazon now though.
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by eyes_opened indoes anyone know if the books written by carl o. jonsson are any good?.
i looked at the descriptions at amazon and they look really fascinating.
was wondering if anyone here has read them and what they thought.
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Does anyone know if the books written by Carl O. Jonsson are any good?
I looked at the descriptions at Amazon and they look really fascinating. Was wondering if anyone here has read them and what they thought. I've just started Ray Franz' book Crisis of Conscience <the one printed in 1998> I'm only up to chapter 3 but I'm amazed already at what I am reading.Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions
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by eyes_opened indoes anyone know if the books written by carl o. jonsson are any good?.
i looked at the descriptions at amazon and they look really fascinating.
was wondering if anyone here has read them and what they thought.
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Does anyone know if the books written by Carl O. Jonsson are any good?
I looked at the descriptions at Amazon and they look really fascinating. Was wondering if anyone here has read them and what they thought. I've just started Ray Franz' book Crisis of Conscience <the one printed in 1998> I'm only up to chapter 3 but I'm amazed already at what I am reading.Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions
Eyes
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Another pagan ritual JW's practice
by TR ini recieved this in an email this morning: thanks, man.
it was the accepted practice in babylon 4,000 years ago that for a. month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.. tr
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Thanks RR!
had never heard of them before :) Just did a search at google for "pagan rituals" and that page came up. Yikes! an offshoot of the witnesses? run away! run away! I am definitely not looking to join another group of any kind right now. Trying to get over the damage the other one has done.
Thanks again for the info.
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Another pagan ritual JW's practice
by TR ini recieved this in an email this morning: thanks, man.
it was the accepted practice in babylon 4,000 years ago that for a. month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.. tr
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Found an interesting page.
http://www.wcg.org/lit/church/holidays/paganism.htm
Have no idea who The Worldwide Church of God is, but I think that they make some good points here on this page...especially at the end where the writer says:
Paganism is an emotion-laden subject. Conservative Christians have a history of being dogmatic, legalistic, and of misusing the Scriptures when we argue our point. With that history, of course, it is impossible to discuss this subject without somebody disagreeing. Each person thinks himself to be properly balanced -- but each person's balance point is different. Equally sincere people draw lines in different places. What then are we to do?
Should the church legislate about which practices are OK and which are not? That is not our commission. We are not in the Talmud business. Each Christian should draw his or her own lines, and be tolerant of those who draw different lines. Do not judge your brother, Paul says (Romans 14:5-13). That is one of the most difficult commandments in the entire Bible!
No one has to participate in Christmas or Easter, but we should not condemn those who do. Just as in the matter of makeup and birthdays, some will do it one way and some will do it another. Whether you participate or whether you abstain, do it all to the Lord, and let him be the judge. This is the Christian approach to the cultural situation today.
Sounds like a rather balanced outlook on life
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Another pagan ritual JW's practice
by TR ini recieved this in an email this morning: thanks, man.
it was the accepted practice in babylon 4,000 years ago that for a. month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.
mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.. tr
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Wow, had always wondered why it was called a honeymoon! That's very interesting. Thanks for posting.
But reading it also ticks me off. It's so infuriating the way the GB dictates the customs that their followers are allowed to observe and those that they aren't when nearly everything we do today has roots somewhere in the past and no doubt has *pagan* origins...such as a honeymoon, wedding rings etc. Would be very interesting to do some research and find out what other everyday things that JWs do and wear as a matter of course, that might have their beginnings with those that the GB would consider pagan
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Who's Going to the Memorial??
by Prisca injust wondering..... for those of us who are inactive, or have serious doubts, etc etc... are you going to the memorial, even though you don't fully agree with how they explain things?.
anyone planning to have their own at home?.
or are you still planning on going, even if it's to say g'day to long "lost" friends?.
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Thanks LDH :)
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Did you watcht the Practice last night?
by Venice ini didn't but there's been a lot of talk about it on h2o and other boards.
here's the opening post on h20.. ______________________.
biblexaminer .
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Hubby and I saw it :) It was funny in that I have never even seen that show before, but for some reason we caught it last night. And how about the one month early baby the one lady had at the end? lol! It looked like it was a three month old full term baby <with no umbilical cord I might add> anyhow.....
Got a kick out of the Jehovahs witness lady quoting the scripture from leviticus and it was a king james bible she was quoting from :) Guess the shows writers couldn't get their hands on a NWT.
I thought that they handled the plot line, as far as the JWs go pretty well. I was suprised that they didn't jump all over the JW's belief system and vote all the way for the lawyer who was objecting. Thought they were pretty tactful, showing both sides feelings. Don't get me wrong....I'm an on my out JW who is fed up with the back pedalling and hypocrisy in the *disorginazation* but I still thought the writers did a good job with that episode, showing the turmoil that people in that situation go through.
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