has anyone ever seen the movie "stigmata?
" ... except for the actual stigmata..and the baptism...the message of the movie is inspired!
"the kingdom of god is inside you...and all around you.
I saw Stigmata in the CD.
It has the sound in Spanish, English, and French. You can also choose the subtitles in each of the preceeding languages.
What I liked the most is that you can also see it through the eyes of the producer. This is in English only.
He explains the use of colors and symbols that I would have missed by just seeing the movie.
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i am a very sweet 22 year old male living in texas.
for some reason, i can't seem to find a decent woman.
i don't know what i'm doing to turn them off.
I want someone who will respect me as an individual.
Don't look into kingdoom hells. They are already in love with the borg. You'll always come in second. Expect the missionary only.
Looks don't matter a great deal to me.
I know plenty of "bag" ladies.
Someone to "cuddle" on the couch with,
They usually expect more than a "cuddle"
someone to go out and do things with.
You'll be limited to meetings and field services.
Someone to hold, kiss, cherish, love... someone to need.
To need what? If you treat'em like princessess all the time, you'll wind up being their slave. What you want is someone who is willing to be your partner and friend above all. It is also wise to choose someone who is not dead from the waist down.
Someone with morals. Someone for me.
You'll find a lot of them. Oh, I thought you said "some morons".
All women have morals,
some have good morals, others have bad morals. It also depends on what your definition of morals is. Usually people refer to morality as something to do with sex. IMO someone who has other men as her head rather than her husband is an adultress. People who let other people die because of blood transfusions have no morals. People who hide pedophiles have no morals. People who need an organization to tell them what is allowed in the bedroom have no morals.
september 1, 2002 www.torontosun.com reporter's email: [email protected] woman sues churchclaims jehovah's witnesses hid sex abuse.
by brodie fenlon -- toronto sun.
a new brunswick woman claims two jehovah's witness elders and the canadian church hid the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her father.
Honestly
I never said i joined it.I was raised in it as a child,and when I was older made the decision on my own to leave,nobody forced me to stay,nobody tried to brainwash me into staying,I was always treated well by the Witnesses and I havent been to a meeting in at least 10 yrs.I have never been shunned by my family or the witnesses for my decision and yes I was even baptized.So not all ex-jehovahs witnesses feel so much contempt for them and in some cases there is reason for it,but not always.
First of all, you are liar. You say you never joined the religion, but then you say you were baptized. You joined the cult by being baptized. No two ways about it.
I was in the borg for 10 years, and although personally I never shunned anyone, I was told to do so.
After my disassociation, my brain-washed flesh brother, who lived rent-free in my house in Guadalajara as an adult with wife and children for eleven years, has shunned me since my leaving and I have lost all contact with him. My cousin, whose son lived in my house for over 6 months without any charge, told me she would not talk to me until I became a JW again. I was not disfellowshipped. I left on my own. So it was all freedom of choice to me.
I don't feel contempt for them (JWs), but instead I pity them. I was one of them and I know how sincere people can be trapped in their cult.
Thanks to them, I am an atheist. Had I not being there, I would probably still be trapped in some religion. I began asking myself some questions and came to the conclusion that the root of evil is in the bible.
just wanted to let the people know who posted vickys father picture,thats against the law.this thread is being passed on to the court,both vickys lawyer and the jw lawyers.you are in major shit.
honestly,
No Im not an idiot,I know the facts its slander.your the idiot who obviousy doesnt know the law...
Actually everything here would be considered libel, since it is all written. Slander refers to verbal false defamation. Besides having terrible spelling and grammar, you also seem not to know the law.
Im not a JW any longer.I was never disfellowshipped because i never did anything to get disfellowships.I left on my own after being raised in the truth.When I became older I made my own choice.I have nothing bad to say about the organization,I just dont want any religion in my life.
So you left the truth? That would make you a liar!
Did you at least have the guts to get a letter of disassociation? I also felt I wanted no part of any religion. The elders here in Bolingbrook told me I had to write such a letter.
If you have nothing bad to say about them, it follows you still believe all their teachings, yet you don't want any religion in your life. Aren't you being just a little contradictory here?
Edited to add word don't in bold letters in last paragraph
Edited by - faraon on 14 September 2002 8:48:34
Edited by - faraon on 14 September 2002 8:51:23
next year, jws want to hold two 3-day conventions at roberts stadium in evansville, indiana, but they don't want to pay the full price.
scroll down to see article "bigger break sought on stadium.
jehovah's witnesses want it for $4,000 a night instead of $5,000.
I went there but found nothing to cast my vote. I was going to tell them that there is a difference between for non-profit (which the WT is not) and not for profit. When a governmental institution gives a break to a religious groups, it is going against the constitution by ignoring separation of church and state. Do I smell a lawsuit somewhere?
we don't know what jesus was doing during the period of 1914-1919. contrary to the wt doctrine an elder during tonights bookstudy for no apparent reason made this statement after the last paragraph for tonights book study was commented on .most unusuall don't you think?
According to JW theology it took Jesus FIVE YEARS to rassel ole Satan out of heaven
Yes, but in heaven one day equals 1,000 years, so 5x365.25x1,000=1,826,250 years. This comes to about two million years before Satan is kicked out.
i am just going to put this out here to see how you all feel about this.......... here goes............... do you think that being a jw , especially raised in it, has taken away your chance of ever trusting yourself ever again in regards to what you believe in?
i mean , you can read books, many by very educated men/women, you can read every bible printed, you can read every self help book, but do you find yourself at times just not caring anymore?
i mean once your trust has been broken, what is the point in reading another man's version of what truth/reality is?
I now guide my life to do things because they are right, not because of a reward or punishment from a non-existing god. I follow my conscience. I started to investigate other religions, until I came to the realization that when there are two contradictory statements, either
only one is true
or
both are false
but two contradictory statements can not both be true.
Read, visit logic and freethinking sites. Search your engine for bible contradictions, Logic, Freethinking, etc. You'll never regret it since you'll be free from all this do-do.
Edited to revise and add not after statements on previous-to-last sentence
Edited by - faraon on 2 September 2002 17:24:54
i recently came across this warm, encouraging letter i received from an elderette.
background info: after going to the elders twice for drug problems, and of course getting no help, i told them i had decided to see an outpatient detox doctor.
being depressed and scared, i needed support and so asked this "sister" to go with me (my bad).
In the 12 weeks that have elapsed, we have had 60 hours of meetings and a two-day assembly. Is your religion still taking up a lot of your time?
Truth in Advertising disclaimer:
My husband will catch hell for giving you time to think on your own, and once you do that you'll get away from us and I'll lose status when it is known my husband cannot keep you in line.
he does take care of matters in his due time.. (1 samuel 2:12-17) now the sons of e'li were.
attendant of the priest came and said to the man.
be an old man in your house.
Just because jehovah DOES take care of matters in his own time doesn't give people an excuse to continue doing it. Neither does it give ANYTRUE witness an excuse to sit back and say. Oh, jehovah will deal with it.
If J' is going to take care of matters in his own time, How come the GB directs elders take action when they hear someone are inspired by god to know when has been petting, having oral sex with his partner, smoking, joining the YMCA, etc., but they have to wait on J' when it comes to protecting little ones from being molested?
J took action against those catholic priests, but is protecting his organization now from bad public relations!
Oh, well, on the other hand, maybe he enjoys to watch this sort of thing.
