Good god, man. You gave me a panic attack. I did not know it was a spoof till I started reading the comments.
Wish someone could sabatoge the press and include that page by mistake in the actual magazine.
Can't you just see it now? (Tone down the spoof a bit on the upcoming articles) and I wonder how many of the TBJWs would actually believe it and get excited!!!
i, an oft lurker, am lured out of my shadows of lurkerness.
by stumbling across a find in this very forum- .
feb 2005 by bennyk:.
welcome to the forum, Inkling. This is what I have heard about it:
Planet Earth banning common light bulbs Environmental concerns cited in growing global crackdown
European Union says they soon simply won't be available and now the U.S. is considering new rules that effectively would ban the incandescent light bulb. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54822
Seems there is going to be new light everywhere pretty soon. Nothing hidden that will not be revealed.
And speaking of that, there is a new light bulb called "reveal". It works great for people who have macular degeneration and for artists. It is the closest simulation to actual sunlight. It is more of a "true" natural light. Just fyi.
> > this is worth reading for the statistics and knowledge of the world we .
> >live in.
it comes from the new york times.. > >.
world traveler, that was a very interesting post. I enjoyed reading it. It was a very creative way of expressing the statistics. Thank you for posting that food for thought.
i saw this earlier.. i'm so sorry - it must be painful for two people who love each other to have to part this way - one goes through the door alone and the other stays behind alone.
all the more because my wonderful nephew was killed in an auto accident today, a young man with three children.
death is so cruel.. and in the wake of such terrible news today, i did not miss what you had said, but rather blocked it out for a moment.
Hortensia, I did not see your post.
I am so sorry for your grief and your loss.
Wish I knew what to do for you. If I were there, I would hug you.
Love, Tula
There are some good suggestions here. But what works for one may not work for another. So what I say here is just my personal opinion.
The L-theanine is good for calming you down, especially if you are a hyper person. Or if you have had an upset or some stress going on it may help to relax you.
Some people use valerian root as tea or tincture. As tea it tastes absolutely terrible. And when I have used it, I wake up with a damn headache every time.
I have had bad experiences with kavakava. I had nightmares. Thinking it might just be an isolated incidence, I tried it 2 more times. Each time had the most disturbing nightmares of my life. Any of you Poe lovers might want to try it. Also, there has been some new information the last couple of years that people with liver problems should not use the kavakava.
Melatonin works well for some folks. But not all melatonin is the "real thing". I recommend the sublingual. It helps to relax you, but takes an hour maybe to kick in.
My problem is that it takes me a long time to fall asleep. And when I finally do, I do not sleep all the way through the night.
What has helped me when I know I really need rest, I take Tryptophan. You can get it at Walgreens and probably most any pharmacy. It was taken off the market a few years ago because there were problems with quality control of one company that produced it. It was not removed from market due to any serious side effects of the tryptophan itself. Tryptophan is an amino acid.
i should introduce myself, since this is my first post.
i'm actually not an ex-jw, but rather someone who has just lost his faith in a different church, the mormon church.
i've long suspected that in terms of the organizational aspects of our two churches, how they hook you mentally, how they condition you, how they socialize you and make it very hard to leave, from an abstract level there's really not a dime's worth of difference.
sethMo, you have a PM
i have a question..... this question is open to everyone, but as you will see, input from jwd's resident scholars ( like narkissos and leolaia ) will be essential.. in the account found in 1 samuel chapter 28, we read about sauls infamous visit to the spirit medium of en-dor.
at sauls request she summons the spirit of samuel.. in the notwelltranslated, the name samuel is written in quotation marks like this..."samuel.
" this, of course, gives the reader the impression that this is not really samuel.
18 Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the LORD, and didst not execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
Saul defeated them utterly, but earned the wrath of God by sparing some for use as slaves, and failing to burn their treasures (1 Sam.). Saul also hesitated to kill Agag, at which point Samuel executed the Amalekite king himself.
In the Pentateuch, the Amalekites are nomads who attacked the Hebrews at Rephidim in the desert of Sinai during their exodus from Egypt: "smiting the hindmost, all that were feeble behind," (1 Samuel 15:2). The Tanakh recognizes the Amalekites as indigenous tribesmen, "the first of the nations" (Numbers 24:20).
It is important, in Jewish tradition, that the plot to exterminate the Jews, as reported in the book of Esther, was carried out by Haman, an Agagite, or Amalekite. Because the Lord promised to "blot out the name" of Amalek, when the book of Esther is read at the Purim festival, the hearers make noise whenever "Haman" is mentioned, so his name is not heard.
Rejection of God
The concept has long been used by rabbis (particularly the Baal Shem Tov) to represent the rejection of God, or Atheism. Of the 613 mitzvot (commandments) followed by Orthodox Jews, three refer to the Amalekites: to remember what the Amalekites did to the Jews, to not forget what the Amalekites did to the Jews, and to destroy the Amalekites utterly. The rabbis derived these from Deuteronomy 25:17-18, Exodus 17:14 and 1 Sam. 15:3. Rashi explains the third mitzvah:
So my question is, in continuing to dissect these scriptures....
was this knowledge of god's command to kill every animal and destroy every possession of Amalek made known publicly through older scriptures that had been written at the time? Was this common knowledge that the medium had? Or did she indeed summon a spirit from the dead to relate this?
a couple of jw friends came yo visit us today and we had dinner together.. at some stage in the conversation, i said that i do understand that an increasing number of jws from developing countries take emblems at memorials because, if we consider that europe and the us compose, together, about 700 million people, there is no good reason why nearly the whole lot of the little flock should be chosen from one tenth of humankind.
it is therefore all too normal that jws from third world counties think that they should have their fair share since jehovah id not partial.
the husband listened attentively and agreed but his wife probably found that we were engaging on a slippery ground and she shortened the visit.
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1tim 2:14-15 adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and came to be in transgression.
15however, she will be kept safe through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and sanctification along with soundness of mind.. so how do yall interpretate this scripture?.
is it saying that it was eve's fault, that adam was not deceived.
Do we really know what happened to Adam's first wife, Lillith?
JWs tell me that, had Adam refused to "plight his trough" with Eve, god would have given him yet another wife!
(and yet we are expected to make such a marriage pledge)
Adam was not deceived, but perhaps he loved his wife too much because he chose to share in her fate over obedience of god's rules.
Maybe this is why the JWs are so coldhearted toward rule breakers.
By illustration of this very story they are coerced into believeing that loving any human takes a back seat to obeying gods the orgs rules and regulations.
scientists have taken to wearing acemasks to prevent the spread of flu etc.
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what do you think?.
well, first of all you might want to turn off your caps lock. It is considered shouting (in internet ettiquite) to use all capital letter.
I don't know what an acemask is and your question is rather vague. What's your point?
