Posts by leavingwt

. . . Ryan Pann, the 23-year-old Californian who wrote and was lead performer of the tune, the chorus of which commands, rather catchily, "gimme that Christian side hug," said he wrote the song as self-deprecating humor.

The line, "When I hug people, I leave room for the Holy Spirit," may have been the giveaway.

The side hug is a real practice, with people putting arms around each other's shoulders or waists, as if posing for a photo. But clearly, even some in the Christian community greet the concept with, well, a side hug.

"We think it's hilarious because some people think (the video) is serious," said Pann, reached at The Father's House, a Vacaville, Calif., church that sponsors the Encounter Generation Conference, an annual Christian youth gathering at which the video was shot.

"It's not a mockery of the faith," Pann emphasized. "It's a mockery of the act of the Christian side hug."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-11-30/news/0911290214_1_hug-christian-fundamentalist

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Bart Ehrman...Jesus Existed

by XJW4EVR in

when the uber-liberal, agnostic bart ehrman says it...it must be true.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bart-d-ehrman/did-jesus-exist_b_1349544.html.

leavingwt

"The alleged parallels between Jesus and the "pagan" savior-gods in most instances reside in the modern imagination: We do not have accounts of others who were born to virgin mothers and who died as an atonement for sin and then were raised from the dead (despite what the sensationalists claim ad nauseum in their propagandized versions)."

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"Give Me That Christian Side Hug"

by leavingwt in

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_oj0-splzw&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

leavingwt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Oj0-splZw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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JUNE 2012 AWAKE!

by St George of England in

the new awake!

is up for digestion.. another 537 bce article to be shredded - see page 12. george.

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leavingwt

What's for supper? See page 26 for details.

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Once used always used........?

by Azazel in

jw
friends

well ive been df now for 15 months and not a peep from my lifelong "friends".

no hey az how ya doin still hanging in?

no but in the space of a couple of days two requests.. ask not what they can do for me but what i can do for them!.

leavingwt

Cults shoot their wounded.

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Disfellowshipped Over Celebrating Holidays?

by garbonzo in

i found this:.

worldly celebrations such as christmas - ks91-e p.95 (it appears celebrating birthdays is not a reason to be disfellowshipped.

ks91-e is the pay attention to yourselves elder's book, right?

leavingwt

You can be disfellowshipped for anything that three elders agree upon. Further, the Society can invent a new reason to disfellowship you and do so retroactively.

The game is rigged.

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Dead God

by edmond dantes in

if god decided to kill himself how would we know ?.

has god terminated his existence already and we don't realise it ?.

horrible things have been happening to the human race and other creatures for so long how can we tell the difference whether god is alive or dead?.

leavingwt

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

-- Phillip K. Dick