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Flowerpetal
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Top ten internet sites
by sleepy inanyone recommend some good internet sites, they can be about anything just need to be interesting(for something good to read) and well presented.
(for my graphic design research)
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Poll - What kind of Ancient People are YOU???
by LittleToe inare you: a minority group called "jew" a majority group called "greek" a minority group called "christian"
to believe in christ, the jews asked for a powerful sign, before they would believe.. to believe in christ, the greeks appealed to logic and wisdom, before they would believe.. to believe in christ, the christians simply believed, and treated it as a personal calling.. which category do you believe you fall into 1, 2 or 3?.
.. 1cor.1:22-25 - the message.
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Flowerpetal
I would hope I would be in category 3. But there are things to consider about the early Christians.
I don't accecpt that they just believed. I think they may have seen Jesus perform miracles, even maybe when they were little kids, or young adults. Years may have gone by before they actually made the commitment or the conviction of heart to become a Christian. But they did not just believe or accept--period.
And now it is the same. People become Christians, by reading the Bible and accecpting that Jesus was God's son and salvation is only thru him.
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Some Arguments Just Can't be Won. . .
by StinkyPantz in.and yet i still find myself engulfed in them.
starting a thread about abortion, homosexuality, religion, capital punishment, euthanasia, evolution, race relations, war, politics, ect.
are ultimately pointless.
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Flowerpetal
I've always looked at it this way, if you know you are right about something, do you find yourself infuriated over someone else's statements or opinions? Are you compelled to try to change that person's beliefs? Do you resort to emotional reactions and mind games in arguing your point? If these happen to you, maybe you don't have any real basis for your belief and just have a mind virus instead.
MindChild,
I bet you read that book by Ken or Steven Brody about mind viruses? Can' remember which was his first name. I read it a few years ago. Got it from the library, but I think I want to own it.
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Here's a Good Example of Elder Humility!
by Voyager inthis elder refers to (himself)14 times in this article.
james 4: 16 reminds us, "but now you take pride in your self-assuming brags.
all such taking of pride is wicked.
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Flowerpetal
I was looking at his main page, with some quotations he has listed. I wonder how he meshes the following into his life as being an elder in his congregation:
Live your live with conscious choice rather than through unconscious programming. The observing consciousness is the vantage point from which we see our life from an objective point of view. Anytime you are experiencing a situation that doesn't seem to be working for you, exercise the observing consciousness:
1. Observe your emotions; what am I feeling?
2. Observe your thoughts; what are the thoughts, judgments, attitudes or perspectives I have that are causing these emotions?
3. Look at your only options:
- change the situation
- change your thinking about the situation
- leave the situation
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Here's a Good Example of Elder Humility!
by Voyager inthis elder refers to (himself)14 times in this article.
james 4: 16 reminds us, "but now you take pride in your self-assuming brags.
all such taking of pride is wicked.
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Flowerpetal
I agree with Maverick--he is probably pretty "slick." I know of this "elder" who looking back in retrospect, I suspect, had a plan to manuever things to steal my husband's and my business away from us, by first sending his two sons to work for us. I'm pretty sure they reported back to their father everything that happened, and I think they sabotaged our business. Thankfully they were not in our congregation.
Well to make a long story short, when we ended up losing our business (I will have to say my husband was partially to blame as well --he financially extended himself too much) and the other "brother" ("elder") took it over, he treated it, as he told a pioneer brother in our congregation as his "mistress". The pio. brother didn't like that attitude so much and he didn't like this guy as well. He viewed him as "slick". I do not trust anybody who view themselves as self-important, esp. ones who claim to be JWs and have positions in the cong.
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Jesus Had John the Baptist Killed?
by StinkyPantz inin the bible we are told that when paul visited ephesus and corinth as the first missionary in the area he found already in existence a flourishing church of john - john the baptist - but the followers of john had not even heard of jesus.
today the mandaeans of modern iran and iraq have held john in special reverence for 2000 years calling him the "high king of light.
" jesus is referred to as a "usurper" who "perverted all the cults and turned light into darkness.
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Flowerpetal
OOPS--I think I made a mistake in the link. Here it is again:
http://www.mystae.com/streams/scripts/egregor.html
There are layers upon layers upon layers of myths and stories on this mystae site. Very intriguing.
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Jesus Had John the Baptist Killed?
by StinkyPantz inin the bible we are told that when paul visited ephesus and corinth as the first missionary in the area he found already in existence a flourishing church of john - john the baptist - but the followers of john had not even heard of jesus.
today the mandaeans of modern iran and iraq have held john in special reverence for 2000 years calling him the "high king of light.
" jesus is referred to as a "usurper" who "perverted all the cults and turned light into darkness.
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Flowerpetal
Ravyn,
This is a very interesting site. I couldn't read it all there is soooo much..but I am going to get thru it.
I found this to be particularly scary, although I didn't read it all yet: http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/gnosis/golden.htm.
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Any Advice - Afteraffects of taking the Reality Pill
by dobby ini have been posting on this board on and off for about two years now.
it has been a tremendous help to me to read other people's experiences, to laugh, cry and just plain identify.
however, something weird is going on with me in the last six months and i am totally freaked out.
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Flowerpetal
It's interesting that though I am still a "dub", I am sort of starting to explore the possibility of what Frannie said.
But Dobbie, I would also take Tashawaa said--pray. It certainly can't hurt and at least you will have spoken your concerns out loud and you could even ask for peace of mind or ask God to still your mind from these concerns you have.
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Something I've never told you........
by Tinkerbell4125 ini've really been struggling over the past few months.
when craig and i got married, i didn't invite my dad to my wedding.
six weeks later he takes his life.
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Flowerpetal
OOPS! That one got away....
You don't know me very well because I seldom post here although I read a lot of the posts, and I am so sorry for you pain. Hopefully the friends here can help.
I just had to reply when you said you thought you had control over your life. Until recently I thought that too about my life; then I get thrown a curve ball out of the blue, and it's something I now have to deal with and I don't quite know what I'm going to do or how. I guess these kinds of uncontrollable things happen to all of us when we least expect them to happen. Humanity ebbs and flows just like the waves of the ocean, and there's not a thing we can do about it, I think sometimes.
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Something I've never told you........
by Tinkerbell4125 ini've really been struggling over the past few months.
when craig and i got married, i didn't invite my dad to my wedding.
six weeks later he takes his life.
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Flowerpetal
Tink,