I also find it funny how euorpeans magicly pass on bashing russia and china.Russia and china have murdured more of their people than any other contries in all of history.Russia has stoped its genocide but china continues to add to its total.Mabey china isint bashed because its no fun to bash them.They dont care what some stupid little contry in euorpe thinks of them.
gambler
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Criminal , new US ally
by Norm inthe norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.
he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.
he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.
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Criminal , new US ally
by Norm inthe norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.
he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.
he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.
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gambler
I always find it amusing how some euoropean nations continualy critisize the us military while they relie on the british to protect them.I think the US should pull back from some of its conflicts and let some other nation deal with it.The euopeans should have solved the bosnia problem, it was in your back yard.You should be whineing to the french,british and the russians to help out more but you know they wont becasuse they need to concentrate on themselves, whitch is exactly what the US needs to do.
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Problem with fundamentalist
by Elsewhere inthe problem with fundamentalist is that they think that their salvation is at stake either they act to change the world or face the consequences.
they think that their sky god will punish them for another persons actions.. freedom of thought.
freedom to live as one sees fit.
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gambler
adonai, the problem with that is that the word TRUTH is relative.One mans truth is another mans lie.Hitler and countless others have tried to convince the world that they have the truth.So when I hear someone saying they are just spreading truth,I take it with a grain of salt and tell them is only YOUR opinion of what the truth is.
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1914: A lucky guess? Or divine inspiration?
by Gopher inwe know the wt society has a long history of prophecies, especially regarding dates.
almost 100% of such prophecy was in error.. it seems though, that they got a date right by foretelling that 1914 would be "the end of the world as we know it".
yes, they changed the meaning of 1914 several times.
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gambler
Did russel come up with 1914 or did he lift it from some one else.
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CO says 35% inactive
by target inthe co visiting a congregation in madison wisconsin told them that 35% are inactive.
i wonder if this is the pattern with most other congregations.
that was about what it was in the last congregation i was in.
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gambler
I belive it.Most jws are lukewarm anyway.In most congos there is a very small group of die hards and the rest are the 5 hour or below pubs or people only in for the social or family ties.Most never read any of the mags or books.The org would like the world to think that their members are most zelous in the world but that is a myth.
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adam & eve
by gotcha indoes anyone here take the creation story literally?
if yes, did u do ample research and think carefully but still believe in it?
if u don't think that the story should be taken as literal, what is your reading of it and do u still believe in the bible as the inspired word of god?...thanks in advance..
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gambler
006 you hit the nail on the head in your first post.If people want to belive in these fables they are welcome to do so.But for ME I cant take a book that reads like mother goose very seriously.As Bill Mare said "the bible reads like a mad lib, god made eve from a [noun] rib."To me its just a book that barrowed fabels from other cultures.
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Flood Legends "Proof" of Global Flood...
by AlanF inthe march 1, 2002 watchtower contains a couple of articles on noah's flood and the application of this legend to "our day".
thrust of the articles is first to show that the flood was a real, earthwide event, and then to scare ignorant readers into accepting the jw message by claiming that our world is about to undergo a similar divine punishment.
pretty standard fare for long time jw observers.. in the past the watchtower society has published extensive material purporting to show that a global flood occurred a few thousand years ago.
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gambler
I just love hearing people try to argue that the flood really happend.Lets take some isrealite fables and argue them as fact.I take great offence at people who ridicule MY holy book written by asop.Did you know that at some point in history a hare and a tortise did indeed have a race.And other cultures have simalar storys,that just proves the divine in asops scriptures.There are scientists who say it is possible for a hare and a tortise to have a race, and just last week the bones of a hare and a tortise were found in the same feild.In light of all this scientific evadence is a wonder why people dont belive in asops scriptures.They just need some more faith I think.
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I'm sick of this boring life!!
by Nicolas ini'm really tired of always having to fight.
i don't have any friends in this world and i don't want to return to the evil watchtower.
it seem to me that everyone else around have fun and enjoy the life while, i still don't know what to i do with my life.
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gambler
You have to work at making freinds they just dont fall into your lap and the same thing gos for every thing else in life.Belive me I wish I could be Homer simpson and never have to work for anything yet have it all but it dose not work that way.Too bad because Im on the lazy side.Life can be like turd, floating lazily down the sewer, never doing a damm thing, but only if YOU let it be like that.
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Amish and shunning
by gambler ini just did some research on the amish and found out an interesting fact.shunning created the amish.a group of people broke away from the mennonites in germany because the mennonites would not suport the shunning doctrine.these people became the amish.as a side note, do you guys remember the 60 minutes that delt with shunning.they had amish and jw teenagers that were shunned by their parents because the wanted out of their religion.
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gambler
I just did some research on the amish and found out an interesting fact.Shunning created the amish.A group of people broke away from the mennonites in germany because the mennonites would not suport the shunning doctrine.These people became the amish.As a side note, do you guys remember the 60 minutes that delt with shunning.They had amish and JW teenagers that were shunned by their parents because the wanted out of their religion.
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The top ten movies that I saw from last year.
by Preston inleaving congregation meetings has given me the opportunity to see all the films that a group of old men, many of which have little or no respect for the world of art, have told me not to see.
i saw a lot of films from last year since i got my bachelor's degree, in the midst of a job search (which has now ended)...anyway, these were the best films i saw from last year.
opinions welcome..
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gambler
This years movies were a bust.One of the few films I enjoyed was oceans 11.