Hi Doodle-V,
If you were to come to my town I'd invite you to eat at our fave restaurant, our home.
We almost always eat home cooked even when friends are visiting, but it's the best in town!
Sabrina
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If I were to visit your town for the first time..
by doodle-v inwhat food places would you reccomend?
if im in a new town, i like going to eat at places that locals go to that most like likely are not in all the tourists guides, if possible.
if you were to come to my town, i'd probably take you to eat at dick's drive in (best burgers imo) and if you were in the mood for something fancy, maybe el gauchos (best steakhouse imo) and terrific atmosphere... how bout you?
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Cross or torture stake.....
by snakeizz inthis has always puzzled me.....can anyone shed some light as to what it really was?
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Do you believe in ghosts?
by Country Girl ini am posting this because i know there are many people that have had experiences that cannot be explained by natural means.
i am a ghost hunter, as a hobby.
my hobby is to disprove ghosts.
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Greenpalmtreestillmine
No, I don't believe in ghosts but I do believe in a level of consciousness unknown to us and unseen by us. In the Bible they are referred to as spirits or angels or demons. Those are simple terms for a not so simple reality we are, at present, unable to fathom.
Sabrina
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Cross or torture stake.....
by snakeizz inthis has always puzzled me.....can anyone shed some light as to what it really was?
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Triple A,
Why couldn't God tell Moses to make an Asherah pole?
Sabrina
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Neutrality of the WT
by blindfool inone of the issues i have with the wt teachings is that it is taught that a true believer must not engage in warfare.. the problem is: evil does exist and someone must be willing to stop evil.
if not good people then who will?.
many years ago, i asked a sister this question: "if no one had stopped hitler (the best example of evil at the time) what would have happened?
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Greenpalmtreestillmine
Parousia never came and will never come.
I do not agree!
Sabrina
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Neutrality of the WT
by blindfool inone of the issues i have with the wt teachings is that it is taught that a true believer must not engage in warfare.. the problem is: evil does exist and someone must be willing to stop evil.
if not good people then who will?.
many years ago, i asked a sister this question: "if no one had stopped hitler (the best example of evil at the time) what would have happened?
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Bradley,
I cannot see how it is possible for one to be a Christian in expectation of the Lord's Return and involved in warfare at the same time.
I think a Christian should keep all their options open because nothing is impossible with God.
Sabrina
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Neutrality of the WT
by blindfool inone of the issues i have with the wt teachings is that it is taught that a true believer must not engage in warfare.. the problem is: evil does exist and someone must be willing to stop evil.
if not good people then who will?.
many years ago, i asked a sister this question: "if no one had stopped hitler (the best example of evil at the time) what would have happened?
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Hi Blindfool,
Should a Christian not be willing to defend what is good?
Of course. But if I may, I'll play Pilate a little and ask, "What is good?" If a murderer enters my home and I kill him to protect my children that may be good but if I give my free will to another and he tells me to not only kill the potential murderer but also every member of his family by bombing his house then personally I may not think that's good. But someone else may feel differently about it believing that the end, winning a war, justifies the means, bombing cities, and sometimes it does. Another thing some may consider is while there may be just wars no war is without unjust acts because no military is without unjust people. Rape, torture and other inhumane crimes are committed by the best of armies in the most just of wars, it can't be avoided. So in the military a good person is between a rock and a hard place I think.
War is inevitable and I agree sometimes even necessary. Why even the book of Revelation recognizes that.
I agree with Joyzabel, it is an individual conscience decision. imo
Sabrina
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Cross or torture stake.....
by snakeizz inthis has always puzzled me.....can anyone shed some light as to what it really was?
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Greenpalmtreestillmine
The Watchtower prefers to continually strain out the gnat and swallow the camel. On the one hand they studiously exclude all self-proclaimed worldly impurities hoping to attain righteousness but then they leave the inside of their congregational cup filthy. They proclaim "Stake Not Cross!" while at the same time allowing child molestors among them to continue on their sick path. Jesus would have condemned the Governing Body as hypocrites and liars and defamers of God!
As for cross or torture stake, I really don't think it's that important. The Christ died whether it was a cross or stake he died.
Sabrina
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Do you still Pray?
by Dustin insince i stopped being a jw i haven't prayed.
so the other day i went to supper at my parent's house who are still jw's, and they prayed before we ate.
it was a very strange feeling, and it stirred up alot of weird feelings.
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Hi Dustin,
The JWs made prayer a stilted kind of thing with all their requirements, you know the use of the name Jehovah in all our prayers, the always saying at the end "in Jesus name", not encouraging us to simply speak to God like we would a friend but instead as if he is on a throne far away. That kind of prayer is not how to get close to God. In fact it really removes us from God. Prayer should be spontaneous and informal. It does not need to be something done at night or in the morning, nor does it need a place or time. Prayer can be just a personal thought or passing glance at God, a rememberance of him without words. Sometimes just the request for faith expressed by just saying, "God help me to have faith" is just what we need. No formalism, no anything, just a few words. Put out of your mind the JW prayer and reach out in your own personal way even in just a thought.
I wish you peace and happiness, Dustin.
Sabrina
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jw takes blood over plasma in b.c.
by orbison11 inthis is an interesting read.
recently, in my same small city, chiliwack, b.c.
a court case was thrown out re a woman who died from complications during birth.
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Hi MySuperSecret,
Sry I dont know why that posted so many times, my computer lagged real bad then did some funy things...I guess.
And here I thought it was "repetition for emphasis".
By the way, WELCOME TO THE BOARD!
Sabrina