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  Goodbye.................

  by Princess in

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  mulan and i are off to the "happiest place on earth", disneyland.

  we are leaving early monday and will be back late friday.

  oh yeah, we're taking the kids too.. be nice now.

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  bring me back a cookie! ~FS
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  Wanna E-mail George W Bush?

  by cellomould in

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  stop the rush to war

  most americans agree that iraqs longtime dictator, saddam hussein, is a sadistic thug.

  despite this, white house calls for a massive, preemptive invasion of iraq are dangerously misguided, and not in tune with americans current priorities.

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  You said:

  None of you pacifists ever have any solutions on dealing with true evil, you just assume that if we are nice and give them what they want they'll become good. This is a lie. We are in a struggle, a battle.

  That is an ASSUMPTION on your part. I never made any statement like the one you are accusing me of. If i remember correctly i said

  "If MAN would only LISTEN to the one giving DIVINE WARNING ...they would not NEED to save anyone...but all would be saved."

  Which is actually in Isaiah 48:17,18, Hebrews 12:25. Your country (as it does say so in your profile you're from the United States correct me if i'm wrong.) Does or does not say "In God we trust?" If they truely did trust in God..and have faith in Him and His Son Christ Jah-Eshua, then what are they so worried about? Why are they being so paranoid? And trying to handle the situation with their OWN actions...which puts more blood on their hands. INNOCENT blood. This is a lack of (or none) Faith...and Man is trying to guide his OWN footsteps (Jeremiah 10:23). If God wanted to go to war as He did in the days of Joshua, ..He would have said so. But this cannot be so, because God is not going to say "bomb the heck out of Japan where innocent women,man, and children live."

  The ONLY time this (when God allowed someone innocent to die to save others) was done was when Jah-Eshua ..the King of Israel gave His LIFE in BEHALF of the WHOLE world. After this ...there was no need to have innocent people DIE so OTHERS may be "saved." Why? Because the Ransom from Death was paid...and this was no longer needed.Why did Death wish for the blood of Christ? Because Christ is LIFE (John 14:6) and DEATH wishes to consume LIFE to sustain Himself. But Death proved to be selfish and wished to hold the whole world in ...that which He promised would release in behalf of the blood of Christ. (John 8:44,Proverbs 27:20, Mt 20:28, Acts 2:24, Psalms 68:18,20, Hosea 13:14 )Therefore my Father resurrected Christ and gave the whole world an opportunity to be saved by MEANS of His Son. (John 3:16,17) If anyone wanted to LIVE all they had to do is Listen and obey the Father's Will. That being that ANYONE that BELIEVES(not just know, but BELIEVE) in Jah-Eshua ...will be saved. (John 6:40) You believe in Life...you will have Life...(John 11:25)you believe in Death...you will have Death. You believe that ALL life is the fleshly life when in actuality it's an illusion set before you to hide you from the advesary and His Father ..Death. We are the symbolic form of the Reality that exists in the OTHER dimensions. Or as the bible states "heavens." Yet when one innocent fleshly life is murdered ...That one may ask for vengence in the Reality that exist outside the physical. And Man has shed much innocent blood. Are you not aware it says "to LOVE your enemies and to do good to those hating you?" (Luke 6:27) This is put here for YOUR benefit. For if you shed innocent blood and not shown love to your enemies...then you yourself are not living by the ransom but by the law because you have judged out a sentence upon someone...and likewise you are judged are you not? (Mt 7:1-2) Those that live by the law are JUDGED by the law.(James 4:11) Those that live by the ransom are saved by the ransom. Most truly i say to you..of what benefit is it for you to shed innocent blood and judge in the flesh and likewise be judged in the reality that exists in heaven and receive death? (Mt 16:26 John 12:25)If only you would put aside your pride and listen to Jah-Eshua..."would you're peace be like the WAVES of the Sea." ~FS

  Edited by - FiveShadows on 8 September 2002 17:49:49
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  Wanna E-mail George W Bush?

  by cellomould in

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  stop the rush to war

  most americans agree that iraqs longtime dictator, saddam hussein, is a sadistic thug.

  despite this, white house calls for a massive, preemptive invasion of iraq are dangerously misguided, and not in tune with americans current priorities.

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  Edge,

  I am young that i do admit. Whether it was a million ...or fraction...one life is TOO much. I am not clueless...my purpose of the post was to show what MAN has done. Not to get into why MAN THINKS their actions are JUSTIFIED when they're NOT. H bomb A bomb ..i don't care...i don't study nuclear weapons...and nor do i have any desire to study something that will do such damage. The point is...war began in the first place because of MAN'S pride, and the love of money. Am i really that clueless? Lets analyze this: One country decides to take over another, destroy another...or any unjustified reason. Be that assassination of Archduke Ferdinand before WW1...or Pride...love of money...domination...extermination of races... Am i really THAT clueless when i point out the flaws and hypocrisy of governments, yet others go on supporting any judgement rendered by governments and do not even see the hypcrisy? Where one nation rises against another...yet it has slaughtered "a fraction" of a million people? My friend i bid you peace...however Saying i am totally clueless in this aspect is foolishness on your part. Man will never learn because it's pride has been glorified by eachother. He TRIES to justify his actions by anyway yet he himself has done the same thing previously. MAN may sit and say "We saved so many people" yadda yadda yadda...but why do you have to 'SAVE.' If MAN would only LISTEN to the one giving DIVINE WARNING ...they would not NEED to save anyone...but all would be saved. It doesn't take a rocket scienctist to see hypocrasy. Man points the finger at whomever is responsible for 9/11 and thinks bombing Afghanistan or going towards any other nation with war is justified, Yet man has killed INNOCENT people (just as 9/11) himself. Hypocrite! Two wrongs don't make a right.I do not promote ignorant statements over and over again...for what i have spoken is Truth. If it is not truth then i will render an account for it. However if it is..why do you persecute me? I see 2 World Wars ...and countless other wars fought for unjustifed reasons. All countries sitting there praying to my Father for assistance...And yet none of them do my Father's will. They argue fight and scream at eachother like idiots. If i have offended you ..i apologize...but my Father, did He not say "Thou shalt not shed innocent blood?" Yet man has done this with their A-Bomb then as hyporcites say "In God we trust". Perhaps the Truth is too much for some people, and that's why they try to find reasons to justify their actions. How "clueless" man really is when they do not even KNOW they're being hypocrites. ~That is why i do not support man made governments...so i do not think when a government goes to bomb the heck out of another...it's justified...which would make ME a hypocrite because i would be in agreement with the government's JUDGEMENT for anothers. "do not judge so that you are not judged with the same judgement you render out towards others." I pray that Jah of Armies and Jah-Eshua the Christ ...bless you and your entire household. Peace to you my friend. ~FS

  Edited by - fiveshadows on 7 September 2002 19:49:42
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  NEW LIGHT!!!!!!!!!

  by minimus in

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  we heard new light this evening.

  a local needs talk was given about how anyone that knows someone might be dating a non- witness and doesn't report it to the elders is actually hindering the free flow of jehovah's holy spirit.

  yes, if the "sin" goes unreported, the whole congregation will be affected, just as in the case of achan and his family!

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  Holy spirit is Free....to anyone asking...worldly...jw...christian...buddist...anyone yes? ...jw's are so stupid sometimes ~FS
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  District Assemblies and Coventions

  by FiveShadows in

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  it just occured to me...lets say it takes the society 1 million dollars to print the awake...twice as much for the watchtower ...on top of which they have new bibles 500k brochures another two million or so...pamplet 200k ...new books at coventions 2 million again (this is just estimating not actuality..i don't know the real numbers) ...insight books...another 200k ...revelation books ...so forth so forth..lets say their total number of sales in one year alone is 7 million dollars... not to mention the people living in bethal and going on missionary trips all over the world ...plane tickets... co's expenses...do's expeses...new cars given to the co's and district overseer's.

  feeding everyone at bethal...(not just in brooklyn but alllllllllllllll over the world) ny has 3 places ...that's just one country...not to mention the other 266 countries that repeat all these things.

  did it ever occur to anyone that they might have all these assemblies and coventions sole reason not because they wanted to "feed" the sheep..but to make money from donations so they can sustain their life style of never really having to work?

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  It just occured to me...lets say it takes the society 1 million dollars to print the awake...twice as much for the watchtower ...on top of which they have new bibles 500k brochures another two million or so...pamplet 200k ...new books at coventions 2 million again (this is just estimating not actuality..i don't know the real numbers) ...insight books...another 200k ...revelation books ...so forth so forth..lets say their total number of sales in one year ALONE is 7 million dollars... not to mention the people living in bethal and going on missionary trips all over the world ...plane tickets... Co's expenses...Do's Expeses...new cars given to the CO's and District overseer's. Feeding everyone at bethal...(not just in brooklyn but ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL OVER the world) NY has 3 places ...that's just one country...not to mention the other 266 countries that repeat all these things. Did it ever occur to anyone that they might have all these ASSEMBLIES and COVENTIONS sole reason NOT because they wanted to "feed" the sheep..but to MAKE MONEY from donations so they can sustain their life style of never really having to work? ~FS

  Edited by - fiveshadows on 5 September 2002 23:56:35
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  embarassed

  by restorebeauty in

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  i just saw a dub at lunch time, in manhattan, on a busy street, looking like a human magazine rack.. .

  my question is, did you ever get embarrased standing in such a public place?

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  i stood outside of walmart...next to the trash can ...for 5 to 6 hours daily. I would always pass out pamplets or magazines etc...and then people would just drop them into the trash can by me...so i would just reuse them ...lol ~FS
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  Fortunate but not lucky

  by dsgal in

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  does anyone know why jws can say they are "fortunate",but cannot say they are" lucky"?the webster's dictionary says" fortunate" is a synonym for" lucky",so what's the difference?

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  cause they're big stinky poo poo heads? ~FS
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  Society profiting from Conventions

  by freedom96 in

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  i am sure that this has been talked about, but i would love to hear recent input.

  there have been district assemblies where parking is charged, and all the "brothers and sisters" who are taking time off of work, etc, and cannot afford to go to this assembly but have to go, are paying good money for admission to the stadium.

  many times not allowing come and go privledges.

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  It's like all the other religions really. I remember being at a Baptist Church because i was 'sent' to speak to the pastor about what he was preaching (he got mad and threw me out practically)

  I noticed though as i was sitting there waiting for the meeting to begin on both sides of the Cross they had an overhead projection system working on advertizing just about anything. I heard the spirit telling me about how Christ came to Jerusalem and threw all the merchants out because they were making money off the temple. I see this to be the same with the Witnesses...and Baptist...or any other religious organization. It's actually very sad. ~FS
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  It's a small world

  by WildHorses in

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  as a few of you know, i own a house cleaning business.

  last week i recieved a call from a potential client.

  we set up a time for me to go to her house and give her an estimate.. i arrived at her house and rang the door bell.

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  ooooooooooooh did you get a raise?
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  Did you get anyone into the Borg?

  by FiveShadows in

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  i am fortunate enough to say "no.

  " i tried very hard to get people to come to meetings and assemblies...and during it all i was bored out of my mind and had a voice in my heart keep saying "what if what you think is the 'truth' is not really the "truth" and you stand before the throne to be judged?

  would these people take your place and die for you because you believed in them and not jah?

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  I am fortunate enough to say "no." I tried very hard to get people to come to meetings and assemblies...and during it all i was bored out of my mind and had a voice in my heart keep saying "what if what you think is the 'Truth' is not really the "Truth" and you stand before the Throne to be judged? Would these people take your place and die for you because you believed in them and not Jah?" and Here i was desperately trying to get people to come to the meetings. I know in my congregation people weren't as friendly as congregations in the middle east were. I grew up in Cali so things were different. Few brothers and sisters (number of 4 actually) were polite and loving...but now they probably don't care.. Any experiences? ~FS