It was such a great car, that I kept it for two years, sold it for a huge profit, and upgraded to this baby, '76 Monte Carlo (fully legal!). Only problem was, I was like the ninth person on my block to get one.
ProdigalSon
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What was your first vehicle? (pics!)
by sabastious inmine was a 1986 ford courier i got after working a summer and obtaining $600.00.
it was a beater and i named him earl.
like this one just white and more zombified:.
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What was your first vehicle? (pics!)
by sabastious inmine was a 1986 ford courier i got after working a summer and obtaining $600.00.
it was a beater and i named him earl.
like this one just white and more zombified:.
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'73 Pontiac Grand Prix.... 455ci 4bbl ....what an animal. I left a state trooper in the dust with this thing. I didn't have a choice. It was my car, but being that I was only 14, I had no insurance, stolen plates and a stolen registration sticker. So much for being a good little JW.
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I find it very hard to believe in a god
by Newborn inbut i find it equally hard to believe in the evolution theory .
so for now, i chose not to believe in anything but myself and love.
that was all.
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ProdigalSon
I find it very hard to believe in a god but I find it equally hard to believe in the evolution theory so for now, I chose not to believe in anything but myself and love
Sounds good to me!
"You are gods" ~John 10:34
"God is love" ~1 John 4:8
"...the body of YOU people is [the] temple of the holy spirit within YOU, which YOU have from God..." ~1 Corinthians 6:19
Pretty simple, isn't it?
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400,000 year old human tooth?
by sabastious ininteresting stuff.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_teeth.
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More false evidence of humans older than Adam planted by that dang serpent!
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This is Why I Don't Like Having Pets
by XJW4EVR inwe moved a couple of days ago to a totally new area.
the cat we had seemed to be getting used to the new place, though she was hiding alot.
she would burrow herself under the sofa cushions or under our blankets.
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I'm in the pet care business...grooming, boarding, designer breeds, high-end boutique type stuff... ....I've dealt with a lot of customers whose pets got away so I can totally relate to how you feel. But when all hope is seemingly gone, after sometimes weeks go by, they're found, and there's this ecstatic reunion. I've heard of cats finding their way home from dozens of miles away.... so keep the faith!
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My Experiences
by Former ini'm a former ministerial servant and bethelite that left about six months ago.
my stay at bethel ended one year ago.
for those interested, this is my story:.
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ProdigalSon
Welcome to the nuthouse here Former. It's funny, when I first read your post I didn't pick up on any of those things that some others picked apart. Some have suspicious minds I guess. What the heck motive somebody would have to make up stuff like that is beyond me, but.....I'm glad you're sticking around.
I was just a couple of months from turning 15 when I met the love of my life, and she was also 15. It was intense, like Romeo and Juliet. She was from one of the congregations that shared the same Kingdom Hall. She was the oldest of five children, the youngest was not even five years old. Her absolutely stunningly beautiful mother had died of cancer just three years before, and her father very quickly got remarried to a beastly, nasty, selfish, domineering fat pig just so she could take care of his kids. It was the summer of '76, and because my girlfriend was a little older then, she began spending a lot of time shopping, going to the movies, the beach, hanging out with her ONE fat pig friend, etc. and was rarely home during the day, forcing my girlfriend to do all this babysitting, and it was very difficult to see her.
Her P.O. was a another big fat tyrannical pig, the typical judgmental, pompous elder with two nerdy sons that no one could stand hanging out with except a few other dorks. He didn't like me because I hung out with some "weak" rebel-types sometimes. He didn't know me from a hole in the wall and poisoned her parents about me, telling them I was no damn good and to keep her away from me. The evil witch locked her up in the house with all these kids and locked the phone. They totally cut us off from one another. For me, the whole universe turned pitch black. I didn't know what to do. I would watch her house for hours, days, weeks on end, from a block away on my bicycle, waiting for an opportunity to see her or talk to her. It never came. She never came out of that house.
After a few months of severe depression, my friends couldn't stand seeing me suffer any more, so they set me up on a date with somebody. I hastily agreed to go, but I was totally not into it, nothing came of it, and I never even kissed her. I just wasn't interested. Nobody could shine my beautiful sweetheart's shoes. She was IT and there was nobody else.
Well, she found out about this "date", and was totally devastated and really pissed. I know its stupid, but I was stupid for going. I should have waited three years if I had to, until we were both "legal", and then we could elope. But to me, being in a really bad home situation myself with a psychotic abusive JW mother and a unbelieving dad who was never around, I had nowhere to turn and no one to help me. To make a long story short, I married someone I didn't love, even had a couple of kids with her, and at the age of 29 I was still pining over what happened and what those JW bastards did to us. I believe my whole life ended up down the shitter because of that and it wasn't until recently that I started my recovery, when I finally found out that this cult was NOT "Jehovah's Organization" and never was.
The reason I'm telling you all this, is because I would hate to see the same thing happen to your sister. She needs help and she needs to be with her boyfriend. She may very well outgrow him but she at least should have the opportunity to find out.
GOD, I HATE THIS F***KING CULT!!!
Thanks for posting your story, and.....
Love and prayers to you and your sister,
Jimmy C.
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On the Nature of Our Savior & Idolatry
by Perry inot - isaiah 43:11 ~ i, even i, am the lord [jehovah]; and beside me there is no saviour.. nt - 2 peter 3:18 ~ but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ.
to him be glory ... for ever.
nt - 1 john 4:14 ~ and we have seen and do testify that the father sent the son to be the saviour of the world.. ot - isaiah 45:21 ~ there is no god else beside me; a just god and a saviour; there is none beside me.. nt - 1 timothy 2:3 -5 ~ for this is good and acceptable in the sight of god our saviour ... the man christ jesus.. nt - 2 timothy 1:10 ~ but is now made manifest by the appearing of our saviour jesus christ.
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dear ProdigalSon...
you said: "If we see God in ourselves, we will also see God in others" the problem with celebrating the "God in ourselves" etc. is that everyone has a different idea about what constitutes "god"...some people idolize their children, some people idolize movie stars, the pope, their church, angels, their friend...that is where having and knowing that there IS an "outside" God who is seperate from but a part of us helps each of us have a correct perspective as to WHO we should worship...revelation 19:10 speaks to me about being too inclined to focus on the "god/inner christ" of "your brother".
Hi myelaine
I think that if a person really wants to get to the root of their own spirituality, it would be a good idea to find out the difference between the egos and the true inner being or higher self. It's really not open to interpretation. We can certainly try to fool ourselves and go ahead and incarnate the egos but that is Black Magic, a Watchtower specialty! That can be done every bit as much through FEAR as it can through pride. haughtiness or narcissism. Egos can destroy us by dragging us down too low or raising us up too high. Finding the Divine Inner Monad is what all the great Masters have taught throughout human history. Yes, there is a God outside of you but also within you. You are as much connected to him/her as he/she is to you...
Try this experiment.... read the 17th chapter of John and imagine yourself saying those words to God, not Jesus 2,000 ago but YOU, right here and right now...and all the other people that Jesus refers to are YOUR friends and family, and everyone that YOU know or don't know that you wish to enter into the Love of Christ. Trust me, the Catholic Church, the Watchtower, and every other Pharisee religion would have you believe its blasphemous to do so, but it isn't. YOU are the "I AM". YOU have every bit as much a birthright to being "anointed" as any one of them!
There are many, but this article might help explain the difference between the "self" and the "ego"....
http://www.vedanta.org/reading/monthly/articles/2003/8.ego_%26_the_self.html
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On the Nature of Our Savior & Idolatry
by Perry inot - isaiah 43:11 ~ i, even i, am the lord [jehovah]; and beside me there is no saviour.. nt - 2 peter 3:18 ~ but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ.
to him be glory ... for ever.
nt - 1 john 4:14 ~ and we have seen and do testify that the father sent the son to be the saviour of the world.. ot - isaiah 45:21 ~ there is no god else beside me; a just god and a saviour; there is none beside me.. nt - 1 timothy 2:3 -5 ~ for this is good and acceptable in the sight of god our saviour ... the man christ jesus.. nt - 2 timothy 1:10 ~ but is now made manifest by the appearing of our saviour jesus christ.
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LOL.....Leo X was probably drunk when he spilled the beans.....
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican30c.htm
It is from Christianity's own records that Pope Leo's statement became known to the world. In his diaries, Cardinal Bembo, the Pope's secretary for seven years, added that Leo:
"...was known to disbelieve Christianity itself. He advanced contrary to the faith and that in condemning the Gospel, therefore he must be a heretic; he was guilty of sodomy with his chamberlains; was addicted to pleasure, luxury, idleness, ambition, unchastity and sensuality; and spent his whole days in the company of musicians and buffoons. His Infallibility's drunkenness was proverbial, he practiced incontinency as well as inebriation, and the effects of his crimes shattered the people's constitution." (Letters and Comments on Pope Leo X, ibid.)
On behalf of the Church, Cardinal Baronius officially defended Pope Leo's declaration, saying it was "an invention of his corroded mind" (Annales Ecclesiastici, op. cit., tome iv) , but in applauding the pope's tyrannical conduct supported the essence of his testimony on the grounds of the infallibility of the Church of Rome:
"Of his wicked miscarriages, we, having had before a careful deliberation with our brethren and the Holy Council, and many others, and although he was unworthy to hold the place of St Peter on Earth, Pope Leo the Great [440-461] originally determined that the dignity of Peter suffers no diminution even in an unworthy successor.
[see Catholic Encyclopedia, i, pp. 289, 294, passim]
In regard to the keys, as Vicar of Christ he rendered himself to put forth this knowledge truly; and all do assent to it, so that none dissent who does not fall from the Church; the infamy of his testimonial and conduct is readily pardoned and forgotten." (Annales Ecclesiastici, ibid.)
Later, John Bale (1495-1563) seized upon Pope Leo's confession and the subsequent Vatican admission that the pope had spoken the truth about the "fable of Christ" and "put forward this knowledge truly" (Annales Ecclesiastici, ibid.). Bale was an Englishman who had earlier joined the Carmelites but abandoned the order after the Inquisition slaughtered his family (Of the Five Plagues of the Church [originally titled The Five Wounds of the Church], Count Antonio Rosmini [Catholic priest and papal adviser], 1848, English trans. by Prof. David L. Wilhelm, Russell Square Publishing, London, 1889).
He became a playwright and in 1538 developed lampooning pantomimes to mock the pretended godliness of the Catholic Church and "parodied its rites and customs on stage" (The Complete Plays of John Bale, ed. Peter Happé, Boydell & Brewer, Cambridge, 1985).
After the public disclosure of the hollow nature of Christianity, "people were rejoicing that the papacy and the Church had come to an end" (Of the Five Plagues of the Church, op. cit.), but later Christian historians acrimoniously referred to the popular theatrical production as "that abominable satire", dishonestly claiming that it was the origin of Pope Leo's frank admission (De Antiqua Ecclesiae Disciplina, Bishop Louis Dupin [Catholic historian], Paris folio, 1686).
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On the Nature of Our Savior & Idolatry
by Perry inot - isaiah 43:11 ~ i, even i, am the lord [jehovah]; and beside me there is no saviour.. nt - 2 peter 3:18 ~ but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ.
to him be glory ... for ever.
nt - 1 john 4:14 ~ and we have seen and do testify that the father sent the son to be the saviour of the world.. ot - isaiah 45:21 ~ there is no god else beside me; a just god and a saviour; there is none beside me.. nt - 1 timothy 2:3 -5 ~ for this is good and acceptable in the sight of god our saviour ... the man christ jesus.. nt - 2 timothy 1:10 ~ but is now made manifest by the appearing of our saviour jesus christ.
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Perry, I too reject any form of self-worship. That's what has gotten us into so much trouble already... people have been developing their EGOS instead of the Inner Christ. It's a little complicated, but there's a difference between the "animal" self and the "God" self. Until we quiet the constant chatter of the mind, we can't hear that voice of God within. This chatter is exacerbated by Watchtower indoctrination.... it's a major difference to say "I belong to God" instead of "God and I belong to each other". It has to be a relationship....not a one-way idolization. It's not about worshiping God, or Jesus, because if they are ONE just as WE are, they don't NEED our worship. In the article that Walsch wrote, he even mentioned that at first it seems like blasphemy. But this is a man-made idea, dreamed up by a priesthood, who put these things in the Bible. But, if a person chooses to continue the belief that it's one-hundred-percent God-breathed in spite of the incoherent mess that it is, they'll remain under it's spell..... I was THERE for my whole life up until about four years ago. The dark depression finally lifted and I started having a small clue as to just why the hell I was put on this earth.
It not self-worship either, it's about LOVING oneself, because if we don't love ourselves, we can't possibly love anyone else. This is what Jesus was saying in the 17th chapter of John. We are indeed ALL ONE.... we are tied to each other electrically and consciously...separateness is an illusion caused by our egos. If we see God in ourselves, we will also see God in others, and that's where the parable of the sheep and goats takes on its true meaning... if we spend more energy serving OTHERS rather than ourselves, we will reap the real benefit.... didn't Jesus say there is more pleasure in giving than in receiving? It seems to be the best kept secret in the world, but then this wonderful truth manifests itself at Christmas! (Or at least it's SUPPOSED to.)
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On the Nature of Our Savior & Idolatry
by Perry inot - isaiah 43:11 ~ i, even i, am the lord [jehovah]; and beside me there is no saviour.. nt - 2 peter 3:18 ~ but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ.
to him be glory ... for ever.
nt - 1 john 4:14 ~ and we have seen and do testify that the father sent the son to be the saviour of the world.. ot - isaiah 45:21 ~ there is no god else beside me; a just god and a saviour; there is none beside me.. nt - 1 timothy 2:3 -5 ~ for this is good and acceptable in the sight of god our saviour ... the man christ jesus.. nt - 2 timothy 1:10 ~ but is now made manifest by the appearing of our saviour jesus christ.
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Perry, what good will it do Christians to wait for Jesus to come and save them? What has it done for them over the last 2,000 years, when Jesus said he is "coming quickly"? At this rate, we could easily have another 2,000 years of darkness and the Hell that Christianity has been.
I know it's a day late and a dollar short, but I just got this in my email this morning.... it's written by Neale Donald Walsch, author of "Conversations With God"......
Christmas is About YOU
