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Megachusen
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IF it is NOT wise for a man to be ALONE with a woman he's NOT married to
by Spike Tassel insola scriptura answered andersonsinfo:.
the wt leadership has hammered into all of it's elders and rank & file's heads, that it is not wise for a man to be alone with a woman he is not married too (adult or young woman... ie 14).
even in congregation sanctioned duties.. so, why, then, do so many service pairings involve just that: a brother alone in the territory (even if it's to make a call) with a sister he's not married to?.
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Megachusen
"I'm not familiar with Batman."
Warning: This may or may not offend you
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IF it is NOT wise for a man to be ALONE with a woman he's NOT married to
by Spike Tassel insola scriptura answered andersonsinfo:.
the wt leadership has hammered into all of it's elders and rank & file's heads, that it is not wise for a man to be alone with a woman he is not married too (adult or young woman... ie 14).
even in congregation sanctioned duties.. so, why, then, do so many service pairings involve just that: a brother alone in the territory (even if it's to make a call) with a sister he's not married to?.
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Megachusen
Questionable sanity?Check.
A love for riddles and melodrama?Check.
Sexual repression?Check.
Evil sounding name that he gave himself to express his innermost feelings?Check.
Spike has all the main characteristics of a Batman villian.
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Apostle Paul as Roman Soldier
by hamsterbait init was brought up in another thread that paul got his roman citizenship by serving as a soldier for at least 20 years.
this was the only way a non-italian non-roman born could do it.. i remember an illustration - in one of the big books, like "things in which it is impossible for god to lie" or "life everlasting" where saul of tarsus is pictured holding the robes of those who are stoning christians to death.. he is dressed as a roman soldier with a metal breast plate.
anybody have a scan of this?.
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Megachusen
Just some speculation here, but I imagine that the name change from the Hebrew "Saul" to the latin "Paullus" might have been an attempt to appear less Jewish to the non-Jewish people he preached to.
It wouldn't surprise me if Paul faked his citizenship so that he could move about Rome and its provinces preaching unhindered.
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Apostle Paul as Roman Soldier
by hamsterbait init was brought up in another thread that paul got his roman citizenship by serving as a soldier for at least 20 years.
this was the only way a non-italian non-roman born could do it.. i remember an illustration - in one of the big books, like "things in which it is impossible for god to lie" or "life everlasting" where saul of tarsus is pictured holding the robes of those who are stoning christians to death.. he is dressed as a roman soldier with a metal breast plate.
anybody have a scan of this?.
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Megachusen
I'm fairly certain that buying your citizenship was only open to those who were apart of nations who were incredebly loyal to Rome. A pure blood Jew becoming a citizen is unlikely.
Also, since the Jews were famous for their hatred of Rome, it would be odd for any Jewish person to attempt to join the Auxilium(even if they were allowed to do so).
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WTS attends as a NGO to OSCE in July- 4 branches present!
by yknot inso i was just cruising www.extj.com/foro.
mary received a interesting bit of osce information via a brother (peter) from germany....... http://www.extj.com/foro/showthread.php?t=14643.
here is the pdf she has uploaded..... http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2009/07/38763_en.pdf.
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Megachusen
"I believe one of Paul's parents was a Roman citizen (father?)"
Evidence?
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WTS attends as a NGO to OSCE in July- 4 branches present!
by yknot inso i was just cruising www.extj.com/foro.
mary received a interesting bit of osce information via a brother (peter) from germany....... http://www.extj.com/foro/showthread.php?t=14643.
here is the pdf she has uploaded..... http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2009/07/38763_en.pdf.
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Megachusen
If the WTS actually said that he was a member of the Roman legion then we'd have something to go on.
Though the idea of a Jewish Pharisee joining sounds incredibly absurd.
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WTS attends as a NGO to OSCE in July- 4 branches present!
by yknot inso i was just cruising www.extj.com/foro.
mary received a interesting bit of osce information via a brother (peter) from germany....... http://www.extj.com/foro/showthread.php?t=14643.
here is the pdf she has uploaded..... http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2009/07/38763_en.pdf.
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Megachusen
I'm sorry, but I've got to call bullshit on the whole "Paul appealed the Romans because he was a citizen" thing.
Citizenship wasn't fucking handed out like candy to non-romans. You had to earn it by at least 20 years of military service.
If Paul wasn't a citizen (and spoiler alert: he wasn't) then how could he have even appealed anything to the Roman government?
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Do You Believe In "God"?
by minimus ini know many people simply think that believing in a "god" is simply ridiculous.
i don't.
i can't necessarily "prove" that god cares, or that god exists but i'll tell you what---when something awful happens i do pray to god and hope for the best..
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Megachusen
If by "God" you mean an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent intelligence that created the universe and still exists now, then no. I don't.
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Do you think it merely odd or impossible for a person to profess to be a Christian Agnostic?
by gubberningbody inthink it through..
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Megachusen
It's possible to be a cultural Christian who's also an Agnostic.