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  Hilarious quote tonight to one of my "ex" friends...

  by bluesbreaker59 in

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  so tonight, i have one of my buddies over that is a fader, and we're sitting around eating some smoked pork and bbq beans that i made over the weekend.

  one of our "conditional friends" called me and asked if he could pick up his mail, that he had forwarded to my house.

  you see our former friend has a credit card and cell phone that he doesn't want his dub parents knowing about, so he had it forwarded to my place.

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  Maybe you can nickname him "esau". Trade his soul for a bowl of beans (and pork!)
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  Tipping your hat to a lady is demonic

  by marmot in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...according to the watchtower.

  i don't have access to the watchtower library right now (i've only got a mac) but i remember laughing my arse off when i read that in an old questions from readers.

  apparently tipping your hat to a lady is considered demonic because it shows deference to the lesser of the sexes, a man putting himself below the woman and other rambling "reasoning" about its origins in medieval times and such garbage.

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  Politeness has always been against the rules. I always thought it was bad mannered to go to someone's house without being invited. Just show up and expect them to stop what they are doing and listen to someone tell them what they are doing wrong. I don't think they have ever been big on politeness or manners.

  Also, when they are "spying" or "stalking" you, its the same thing. They just sort of "jump out of the bushes at you". Follow you to a restaurant, follow you to a friends house, come to your house after dark to announce your JC.

  It's all rudeness...which is a tactic of intimidation. It's manipulation.
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  My Opinion: The Majority of ExJWs Are Quite Reasonable!

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  thankfully, as a group, we're pretty normal, don'tcha think??

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  If you talk like you write, I don't see how any of your speeches could be very effective.
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  So who else chose not to respond to Journey-on's "not respond" post?

  by sir82 in

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  sign in here!.

  sorry, couldn't resist....

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  I did not choose to respond to journey-on because I did not qualify. Big time did not qualify!!!
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  My Opinion: The Majority of ExJWs Are Quite Reasonable!

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  thankfully, as a group, we're pretty normal, don'tcha think??

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  reasonable? Yes.

  Normal? ............................
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  jacobs ladder

  by Beta Male in

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  according to the wikipedia article on this vision(yes i know its not known for its scholarly merits), the angel falling 70 rungs off the ladder represents the babylonish captivity, according to one jewish interpretation.

  my question is, how long to modern jews believe they were held in captivity in babylon?

  fwiw, heres the article.

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  We still have the trappings of babylon in our society today. Babylon the great is much more than merely false religion. It is the entire system of politics, religion, sorcery (modern medicine; pharmakeia). scriptures tell us that it will remain so until Christ returns. So obviously he did not return in 1914 or these bonds would not still be here.
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  Clean up your own Backyard

  by purplesofa in

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  elvis slamming hypocrisy.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap9hlk4vhxq&mode=related&search= .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruofrrzih1g.

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  Ladies and gentlemen.......

  ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
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  Re: Possible Generation Change........Would Postcards Do Anything?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  speaking to someone from north of england last week with regard the possible 'new shite' on the generation teaching that may be coming in the new year.. they were thinking of printing off postcards with a simple message such as,.

  'they are going to change the 1914 generation again!

  'would you believe it, another change in the 1914 generation coming up'.

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  don't know what happened to your picture, gopher, it's just missing.

  Anyway, hope folks will join in on this idea. I think it's a good one.

  I am bumping it to get it back out there.

  edited cause some of the words are turning blue when I type???
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  If we really lived by the rules of the bible

  by kwr in

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  2. bible

  http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/books/603143,jacobs101407.article.

  within the first months of trying to live by the rules of the bible, a.j.

  jacobs started carrying around a portable seat so as not to sit after unclean women (leviticus 15:20).

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  He invited a Jehovah’s Witness into his home and kept him for so long the Jehovah’s Witness started looking at his watch and making excuses to leave.

  That is hilarious. Also very interesting. The JWs have been taking their favorite parts and using it just like that. They all quote the same old robotic scriptures whether it fits the question or not.
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  Which countries do the anointed come from ?

  by aligot ripounsous in

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  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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  not one of them let the reader believe that the firstfruits stand for the anointed disciples, they all read plainly that the firstfruits represent Jesus

  As you can see from the following scriptures, firstfruits are PLURAL.....that means more than one.

  If you look at these old testament scriptures, remembering that the old testament often foreshadows, then you will see that the firstfruits are always PRESENTED TO the lord. The Lord is NOT a firstfruit.

  1. Exodus 23:16
     "Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. "Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
     Exodus 23:15-17 (in Context) Exodus 23 (Whole Chapter)
  2. Exodus 23:19
     "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
     Exodus 23:18-20 (in Context) Exodus 23 (Whole Chapter)
  3. Exodus 34:22
     "Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
     Exodus 34:21-23 (in Context) Exodus 34 (Whole Chapter)
  4. Exodus 34:26
     "Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."
     Exodus 34:25-27 (in Context) Exodus 34 (Whole Chapter)
  5. Leviticus 2:12
     You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of the firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.
     Leviticus 2:11-13 (in Context) Leviticus 2 (Whole Chapter)
  6. Leviticus 2:14
     " 'If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.
     Leviticus 2:13-15 (in Context) Leviticus 2 (Whole Chapter)
  7. Leviticus 23:9
     [ Firstfruits] The LORD said to Moses,
     Leviticus 23:8-10 (in Context) Leviticus 23 (Whole Chapter)
  8. Leviticus 23:17
     From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD.
     Leviticus 23:16-18 (in Context) Leviticus 23 (Whole Chapter)
  9. Leviticus 23:20
     The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest.
     Leviticus 23:19-21 (in Context) Leviticus 23 (Whole Chapter)
  10. Numbers 18:12
      "I give you all the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain they give the LORD as the firstfruits of their harvest.
      Numbers 18:11-13 (in Context) Numbers 18 (Whole Chapter)
  11. Numbers 18:13
      All the land's firstfruits that they bring to the LORD will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
      Numbers 18:12-14 (in Context) Numbers 18 (Whole Chapter)
  12. Numbers 28:26
      [ Feast of Weeks ] " 'On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the LORD an offering of new grain during the Feast of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
      Numbers 28:25-27 (in Context) Numbers 28 (Whole Chapter)
  13. Deuteronomy 18:4
      You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep,
      Deuteronomy 18:3-5 (in Context) Deuteronomy 18 (Whole Chapter)
  14. Deuteronomy 26:1
      [ Firstfruits and Tithes ] When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,
      Deuteronomy 26:1-3 (in Context) Deuteronomy 26 (Whole Chapter)
  15. Deuteronomy 26:2
      take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name
      Deuteronomy 26:1-3 (in Context) Deuteronomy 26 (Whole Chapter)
  16. Deuteronomy 26:10
      and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, O LORD, have given me." Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before him.
      Deuteronomy 26:9-11 (in Context) Deuteronomy 26 (Whole Chapter)
  17. 2 Chronicles 31:5
      As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously gave the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, oil and honey and all that the fields produced. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything.
      2 Chronicles 31:4-6 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 31 (Whole Chapter)
  18. Nehemiah 10:35
      "We also assume responsibility for bringing to the house of the LORD each year the firstfruits of our crops and of every fruit tree.
      Nehemiah 10:34-36 (in Context) Nehemiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
  19. Nehemiah 12:44
      At that time men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the contributions, firstfruits and tithes. From the fields around the towns they were to bring into the storerooms the portions required by the Law for the priests and the Levites, for Judah was pleased with the ministering priests and Levites.
      Nehemiah 12:43-45 (in Context) Nehemiah 12 (Whole Chapter)
  20. Nehemiah 13:31
      I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me with favor, O my God.
      Nehemiah 13:30-31 (in Context) Nehemiah 13 (Whole Chapter)
  21. Psalm 78:51
      He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
      Psalm 78:50-52 (in Context) Psalm 78 (Whole Chapter)
  22. Psalm 105:36
      Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.
      Psalm 105:35-37 (in Context) Psalm 105 (Whole Chapter)
  23. Proverbs 3:9
      Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops;
      Proverbs 3:8-10 (in Context) Proverbs 3 (Whole Chapter)
  24. Jeremiah 2:3
      Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest; all who devoured her were held guilty, and disaster overtook them,' " declares the LORD.
      Jeremiah 2:2-4 (in Context) Jeremiah 2 (Whole Chapter)
  25. Ezekiel 44:30
      The best of all the firstfruits and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal so that a blessing may rest on your household.
      Ezekiel 44:29-31 (in Context) Ezekiel 44 (Whole Chapter)