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biblical scholar's date for rapture: may 21, 2011theologyjanuary 01, 2010|by justin berton, chronicle staff writerformer civil engineer harold camping of oakland, who runs family radio, has studied the bible for almost 70 years.credit: lance iversen / the chronicleharold camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.. "that date has not one stitch of biblical authority," camping says from the oakland office where he runs family radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world.

"it's like a fairy tale.".

VIII

cough, cough, I must have missed this due to the hockey game in Vancouver:

We now predict a terrorist attack using a form of fire from the heaven that we cannot conclusively determine, but we think may be nuclear. The US will be hit with a with a weapon producing a mushroom cloud rising from the sea (1Kings18), hitting midtown Westside Manhattan, near the Hudson river on 2009Adar8 (2010February27-28).

http://www.truebiblecode.com/#33

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Five Things You May Know About Marijuana That Arent True

by Elsewhere in

five things you may know about marijuana that arent true.

posted by guest columnist on february 27, 2010 @ 2:19 am in us news | 35 comments.

by steve elliott.

VIII

Now we know why some are afraid of flouride, hmmm?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100228/hl_hsn/marijuanausecanuppsychosisrisk

Marijuana Use Can Up Psychosis Risk

SATURDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term use of marijuana can lead to increased risk of developing hallucinations, delusions and psychosis, a new study shows.

Australian researchers asked nearly 3,100 young adults averaging about 20 years of age about marijuana use. They found that almost 18 percent reported using the drug for three or fewer years, about 16 percent for four to five years, and just over 14 percent for six or more years.

Among the participants, 65 had been diagnosed with a "non-affective psychosis" such as schizophrenia , and 233 had at least one positive item for hallucination on a diagnostic interview conducted for the study.

The researchers found there was an association between length of marijuana use and mental health.

"Compared with those who had never used cannabis, young adults who had six or more years since first use of cannabis [i.e., who commenced use when around 15 years or younger] were twice as likely to develop a non-affective psychosis and were four times as likely to have high scores on the Peters et al Delusions Inventory [a measure of delusion]," wrote Dr. John McGrath, of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Park Centre for Mental Health in Wacol, and colleagues. "There was a ' dose-response' relationship between the variables of interest: the longer the duration since the first cannabis use, the higher the risk of psychosis-related outcomes."

The study appears online March 1 and in the May print issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

But the association between psychosis and marijuana use is not simple, the researchers noted. They found that people who'd experienced hallucinations earlier in life were also more likely to have used marijuana longer and to use it more frequently.

"This demonstrates the complexity of the relationship: those individuals who were vulnerable to psychosis [i.e., those who had isolated psychotic symptoms] were more likely to commence cannabis use, which could then subsequently contribute to an increased risk of conversion to a non-affective psychotic disorder," wrote the study authors.

Further research is needed to learn more about the mechanisms underlying the association between psychosis and marijuana use, they concluded.

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a BIG shoutout to jwfacts

by poopsiecakes in

im sure this has been mentioned many times on this site but i wanted to express my personal feelings of gratitude to paul at jwfacts.com.

paul, your site changed my life.

even though i discovered it when i was already disfellowshipped and really didnt have the intention of going back, i was still a fierce jw apologist.

VIII

Thanks for your site. It is very useful!

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by robertchantry1 in

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$300 usd .

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VIII

I wonder if he knows of any good Nigerian bank loans?

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Story on ABC news program 20/20 tonight could have very far reaching effects and ramifications for JW's/ Ex- Jw's in regards to family relations in USA.

by StoneWall in

saw some snippets from the show earlier on gma (good morning america) and i was surprised at.

what a judge had already ordered in regards to a child of a divorcing couple, the husband is.

catholic and the wife is a jew.. the wife was able to get a decree from the judge, prohibiting the husband from taking the child to.

VIII

This has been in the local Chicago news the last few weeks. He converted to Judaism for the wife. Now he wants to take the 3-year old daughter to a Catholic church.

Rebecca said that Joseph is entitled to be Catholic and Ela can choose Catholicism when she is older, but they "had pledged in the marriage contract to raise Jewish children, and so we had a Jewish home." Joseph had converted to Judaism, complete with a ritualized circumcision.

Above all, Rebecca adamantly maintained that Joseph put Ela at risk when he called a local television station to document his defiant church visit and that it was him, not her, who thrust their story into the media.

"Good parents do not exploit their children for their own financial or personal gain," she said.

This storybook romance, which began when the couple met in a boxing ring, has turned into a sort of holy war with a little girl caught in the middle.

Here is a link to GMA:

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/rebecca-reyes-speaks-estranged-husband-joseph-jail-taking/story?id=9924374

Very sad for the little girl caught in the middle.

Why, oh, Why, do parents use religion as a means to hurt the ex-spouse?

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Surgery was a success

by babygirl30 in

jw
friends

hey everyone!

sorry it took me awhile to follow-up, but the pain was more then i bargained for!!!

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/188970/1/urgent-advice-needed.

VIII

I am so glad you are OK babygirl!! I hope your recovery goes well and you feel better. Hugs!

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The end is nigh!

by highdose in

jw
friends

after a year of having been out and 7 months on jwn, i like to think that i'm pretty well deprogrammed.. one thing i still have trouble with though is the mental attitude of thinking that the end is coming soon.

difficult to explain this, but its like a mental awareness that is always there no matter what.. and of course the end is not coming, i just don't know how to get my brain to realise this?!?

!.

VIII

Yeah, 1975 came and went too. I got baptized and was all set. I waited and waited for the Great Tribulation to start and for all the bad people to start dying and nothing. No Armageddon. No buildings collasped. No birds plucking eyeballs out of all those bullies in grade school. No babies falling into craters (like the Paradise Book).

Nothing.

I waited and waited. And waited.

And suddenly I was watching Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve and it was 1976.

I want to pet my Lion goddammit!!! They promised.

So, how many more generations will swallow their Jim Jones/Scientologist BS?

Yeah, probably more.

Aren't you glad you're out?

Me too.

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My Uber-Dub sister is depressed !

by wobble in

despite being in what she insisted to me was "the best way of life" my oldest sister has a bad case of depression.. i know on here, jwn, we tend to almost laugh at the number of dubs who suffer from depression, and blame the cult , which attitude may have a good deal of truth in it, i still feel that i would like to help her in some way and do not know for sure how to.. getting her out of the cult is not going to happen, and any lessening of her blind faith i feel would be dangerous for her.. can any of you good folk on here offer any advice.

the trigger for her problem is the fact that her husband is seriously ill, and may not pull through, but i believe she must have an underlying problem that the present circumstance has brought to the surface.

and she needs to be a positive support for him at this time, and cannot be.. here in the u.k the family doctor tends to prescribe some pills and see how you get on, if you don't top yourself, you can go back and he might try some more or different pills,beyond that not much is offered.. ideas?.

VIII

Uber=The best, nothing is better than, the top

Anti-Depressants work as well as sugar pills and are a lot more expensive. Perhaps not in the UK, but, here in the States, they are. :-0

I'll find a link.

As noted, trying to get someone depressed to get up and exercise is like getting a potato up and baking itself. Ain't gonna happen.

So, you might as well get her some drugs.

Just being there for her to talk to could really help her also. Her being a dub, she might not talk much, however, being a woman, that could change everything.

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/home/content/article/10Just168/1520550?verify=0

Wishing you and she the best. And your BIL also.