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  Another set of piks of contemporary Iran

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the piks come from an album posted on leonid petrov's fb page.. leonid was my guide through both traditional and contemporary korean history last year at sydney u.. the piks are from an album put together by a clint teo of his recent visist to iran: .

  ttp://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200197383682358.1073741826.1384899850&type=1 .

  here's one of his photographs of the remains of the ancient persian capital of persepolis.. .

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  Cool photo fulltimestudent. The album is locked for me, too. I'd love to see the pics.
  
  My good friend and coworker, American like myself, went to Iran last year for a visit and loved it. He's planning to return at the end of the year to study Farsi and possibly teach English.
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  Did Yahweh command child sacrifice at one time?

  by srd in

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  2. friends

  although there is no explicit commandment or stipulation that ordains child sacrifice in the bible, there are nonetheless numerous passages that discuss it as if it was being practiced.

  this post lays the query out.

  http://contradictionsinthebible.com/firstborn-sons-redeemed-or-not/.

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  Marking for ADCMS's awesome comment.
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  Can somebody explain the changes I read in the WT??

  by diana netherton in

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  my grandmother asked me to read to her so i asked her what she wanted me to read.

  was the watchtower, but she specfically asked for the one with "the timeline.

  it for a few days and apparently hasn't read up.

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  Nice synopsis. Marked.
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  NEW video on Youtube MUST SEE! the elder's meeting is ridiculous!

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  brother of the hawk, newly enlightened & gojira, recorded an elder's meeting on 5/7/03.

  both does a great job of defending me and making the elders look foolish!.

  thank you raypublisher/jj and jwstruggle for the awesome job you did on it.. follow up story was not recorded but we will post it here hopefully over the weekend.. enjoy, it's pretty hilarious how they try to control us and come after me on a work of fiction!.

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  I love this comment from the video: "Those elders never read 50 Shades Of The Song Of Solomon"
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  Mouthy Grace is not well. Please send love.

  by return of parakeet in

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  in another thread, mouthy said she was "not well" and mentioned "kicking the bucket.

  i believe she needs some encouragement and well wishes.. mouthy, you don't need to respond to this thread if you don't feel up to it.

  just consider it an exceptionally long get-well card..

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  Glad to know you're feeling better Mouthy. When you said you were going to take your driver's test, I immediately thought of...
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRR_b5aDn6w
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  A New Video - Helping kids get ready for service

  by sosoconfused in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/lets-go-in-service/.

  it all seems so playful and cutsie wootsie to an insider i suppose, i am seeing posts all over facebook about how this is just what my kid needs.. this is truly proper food at the proper time blah blah blah blomit blomit vomit vomit... the funniest part is however is that it cuts out at the end by saying "let's practice what you are going to say".. .

  why not make the video longer and discuss how you can get an idea for a 6 year old on how to talk to a grown person about how they are going to die unless you study the bible with me..

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  Billy, that was my childhood to a T. Ugh, I shudder thinking about it.
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  I hope this is a joke.

  by dazed but not confused in

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  i sure hope this is a joke.... .

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  Snopes is researching this.
  http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/sciencetest.asp
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  What did I miss? New twist on a very old song, SHUNNING?

  by freeflyingfaerie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is there new info coming out in june watchtower about how to treat families?.

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  I would venture to say that shunning has just the opposite effect for the majority of us. Why in the world would I want to go back to a religion that promotes the cultlike cutting off of family?
  
  And at this point, taking into account what I've learned about the organization since leaving, even if family weren't shunned there's no way I'd go back.
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  Shunning a myth says jw spokesman

  by doofdaddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.theage.com.au/national/jehovahs-witnesses-a-cruel-cult-20130315-2g5x3.htmlit's hotting up in australia regarding cults, especially tax free like jws but how is the response of vin toole (the australian wts legal mouth piece) regarding shunning!.

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  I found Vincent Toole's address at whitepages.com.au. I'm going to write to him, referencing the article in The Age (along with Jeffro's quotes from the Society's literature), and ask him if he was quoted correctly.

  Think he'll respond?
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  Who plays video games?!!

  by DATA-DOG in

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  any gamers out there?

  i love a good game.

  to me a great game is like a great book!

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  I just turned 50 and still like video games, but not the shoot-em-up types. My favorites are ones like the Myst series (Riven, Exile, et al) and the Zelda games. Recently I downloaded an emulator for my PC and started playing Zelda: Twilight Princess for the first time.

  I'll have to check out Ni No Kuni.