There's some quack-a-doodles around this part of the world also, preaching that mortgages are null and void.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/11/20131117-082734.html
Posts by jgnat
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40Stay Alive till '75
by John Chapman in"stay alive till '75.
" remember that?
note: this is the year 5774 not 2014. why didn't they tell you that in 5735 (1975 ad?
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Hubby's tempted to go back
by jgnat intoday he kept bumping in to (or rather dodging and weaving from) fellow witnesses.
he's talking about returning but can't figure out a way to do it without enduring a fair amount of humiliation.
i did not panic.
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jgnat
Here's the thing. Whether he goes back to the meetings or he doesn't, I have my natural man back, warts and all. He doesn't realize how much he has changed.
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The skinny on the Leviathan and Rahab monsters
by Leolaia inthe primeval conflict myth is a staple of greek, hittite, canaanite, babylonian, and even hindu myth, and the canaanite version appears throughout the ot and even turns up in the christian apocalypse of revelation.
this post will survey the literary evidence of the myth in the bible and in ancient literature.
in revelation, jesus is the messiah-figure whose birth is depicted in ch.
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jgnat
I think we would have to be a different population, absent of fools. I hope she is enjoying her life without us!
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Magic and Mantras
by jgnat insitting in the service of my old church, i am reminded of the power of corporate worship, the repetition of key phrases.
one reaches a peculiar estatic state, intentional i am sure.
i find myself wishing the congregation would join in a huge line dance to seal the experience.
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jgnat
I would argue that some of these gatherings are voluntary, such as football games. Manipulative, sure. The Chief of the Aseniwuche people is motivated to have a united community hopefully with him at the helm.
Is not romance a special kind of manipulative dance, with a couple of willing participants?
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The skinny on the Leviathan and Rahab monsters
by Leolaia inthe primeval conflict myth is a staple of greek, hittite, canaanite, babylonian, and even hindu myth, and the canaanite version appears throughout the ot and even turns up in the christian apocalypse of revelation.
this post will survey the literary evidence of the myth in the bible and in ancient literature.
in revelation, jesus is the messiah-figure whose birth is depicted in ch.
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jgnat
The skinny by secondary definition surely. I would always take the skinny from Leolaia.
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Magic and Mantras
by jgnat insitting in the service of my old church, i am reminded of the power of corporate worship, the repetition of key phrases.
one reaches a peculiar estatic state, intentional i am sure.
i find myself wishing the congregation would join in a huge line dance to seal the experience.
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jgnat
Sitting in the service of my old church, I am reminded of the power of corporate worship, the repetition of key phrases. One reaches a peculiar estatic state, intentional I am sure. I find myself wishing the congregation would join in a huge line dance to seal the experience. That's what the Asinewuche band would do in celebration, their traditional drummers singing in the traditional style, the same phrase repeated over and over.
But a particular sort if bible believer would find such a comparison sacrilegious. Magic and mantras are suspect, part of mysterious forces separate from God. Thus says the Bible. Yet the same believer repeats pat phrases as if they have a superior divine power, such as "Call on His name and you will be saved." What if both corporate experiences with repeated phrases sung with abandon, are tapping in to the same power?
To deny this I think is to lose something important.
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Hubby's tempted to go back
by jgnat intoday he kept bumping in to (or rather dodging and weaving from) fellow witnesses.
he's talking about returning but can't figure out a way to do it without enduring a fair amount of humiliation.
i did not panic.
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jgnat
Hey, I'm a terrific confidante. You guys all know that. A safe person. He knows no matter what I will help him.
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Father denies children inheritance unless they quit Jehovah's Witnesses
by Tiktaalik inan article in the sydney morning herald:.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/father-denies-children-inheritance-unless-they-quit-jehovahs-witnesses-and-become-catholics-20140810-102egl.html#ixzz39yziuuvf.
"from beyond the grave, father-of-four patrick carroll continued a five-decade crusade to steer his children away from being active jehovah's witnesses and into catholicism.. mr carroll wrote into his will that his adult children were not to receive any inheritance unless they met two conditions: attend his funeral and become catholics within three months of his death.. mr carroll died in april 2012. his children attended the funeral but they did not become catholics and challenged the condition in the nsw supreme court in a bid to still receive their share of his estate.. but justice francois kunc last week ruled that mr carroll was entitled to place such conditions on his will.. the court heard that mr carroll's motivation was not so much about imposing his own beliefs but rather the fact he never approved of his children becoming jehovah's witness.. the court heard that mr carroll did not raise his children as catholics, neither he or they had attended church services when they were young and he did not enroll them in catholic schools.. but when he split from their mother lillian in 1959 she became a jehovah's witness and over the next decade the couple's four children, robyn, paulene, anthony and susan, were baptised as jehovah's witnesses.. mr carroll never approved of "their adherence to that faith", the court heard.. "[lillian's] conversion to that faith enraged mr carroll, who for the rest of his life continued to express his very strong objections to lillian's and the children's member of that faith," justice kunc said in his judgement.. the court was told that all four of his children remain active members of their congregation.. in his will, written in december 2011, four months before he died, mr carroll left more than a third of his estate to his four children "dependent upon them becoming baptised into the catholic church within a period of three months from the date of my death and such gifts are also subject to and dependent my children attending my funeral.".
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jgnat
I would say such an approach does not work but I know of one baptism that was thwarted by a similar ultimatum. Let's just say this dad's wishes indeed reached past the grave.
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Everything is back on track
by sp74bb inespecially to those who know me in person, i wanted to share with you my joy today.. i spoke today very long with my jw family of my position (away from the org, separated and gay), without any criticism or attack or threat.
quite an achievement.. why about this change?
parents age is moving them to see the reality of the situation.
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jgnat
So very happy for you.
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Hubby's tempted to go back
by jgnat intoday he kept bumping in to (or rather dodging and weaving from) fellow witnesses.
he's talking about returning but can't figure out a way to do it without enduring a fair amount of humiliation.
i did not panic.
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jgnat
Paint-by-number friendships.