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  Has anybody seen this yet ? Goliaths skull with a stone embedded in it ? LOL

  by smiddy in

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  my son posted this on facebook,it looks like a newspaper article of an archaelogical find of a skull with a stone embedded in the skull.i`m sorry i dont know how to show it here .. smiddy.

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  garyneal

  Just seeing what magazine it is in tells me it's bullshit.

  Those are the hot sheets! What the dickens you say?
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  Believers' Thread!!!

  by snowbird in

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  peace, and love to you.

  we are all in this together,to some, we're birds of a featherhowever, no matter what they say,we'll continue to watch, fight, and pray.

  sylvia.

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  I still count myself as a believer, even if I find myself to be skeptical.
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  It took me a long time to write this...i'm staying.

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

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  2. experiences

  it took me a long time to write this....i'm being brutally honest...i am still a reg pioneer...three sundays ago,i was praying and asking god for a sign or something because i was so confused...i told him exactly what i needed to see for me to believe.i was feeling terrible--crying and feeling sick because i was so confused.ten minutes after, i walked into the kingdom hall and to my surprise--my prayer was answered!

  i soooo wasn't expecting it, even though i prayed.

  so this is where almighty god wants me to be,ii've reasoned.

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  garyneal

  Didn't you say that you were marked for pursuing a higher education?

  Well, good luck to you.
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  Sparlock Drives My Wife to the Brink of Apostasy

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. jw
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  i reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.

  it disturbed her deeply:.

  "this is ridiculous.

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  garyneal

  SHAMUS100 - actually, most people in our Kingdom hall are apostates! Apostate Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Mormons. . .

  I recall telling Brother Hero during our 'Bible Study' that our JW babysitter is an apostate of the Catholic church. He naturally dismissed it because she is such a nice person, but never-the-less, it is true.
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  Sparlock Drives My Wife to the Brink of Apostasy

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.

  it disturbed her deeply:.

  "this is ridiculous.

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  garyneal

  For HERS, maybe go with Tinkerbell. What could a JW say to that?

  Now my wife loves Tinkerbell. It became a problem for her later on when she at first tried to defend our JW babysitter's view on Super Why.
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  Sparlock Drives My Wife to the Brink of Apostasy

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i reported the other night that we sat down to watch the new video, and while my wife was smiling and laughing while watching the first part, she stiffened and became quiet during part two.

  it disturbed her deeply:.

  "this is ridiculous.

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  garyneal

  I am not sure how my wife is going to react to this when she sees it. Back when our JW babysitter told my oldest daughter that she did not like Super-Why because they use magic, it caused a bit of a dispute between my wife and I. Like my wife, I too came from a church that saw Satan in just about anything and I told her how those comments reminded me of that church and their apprenhension to things like the Smurfs and Captain Planet.

  Mr. askduane:

  Since you are a relatively newbie to this religion, I wonder how much do you really know about other churches and their beliefs. As I just got finished saying, my old church (an Independent Fundamental Baptist church) was equally paranoid about Satan and saw him in just about everything. They too believed that they have the correct interpretations of the Bible and their favorite translation is the King James because they believe all other translations are not correct. When I was studying with the witnesses, I remember seeing these obvious parallels between them and the IFB's. Since I was burned once by a cult (that I did not view as a cult at the time), I was not about to do it again.
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  Conflicting Advices for Married Couples

  by FlierMate in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.

  the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.

  henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.

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  garyneal

  The beauty of giving contradictory directives is that if they want they can reprove or DF you no matter what you do.

  Yep, sounds almost like a good ole boys club.
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  Conflicting Advices for Married Couples

  by FlierMate in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.

  the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.

  henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.

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  garyneal

  My head exploded garyneal, so well done.

  There you go, confuse the flock to the point that they say, "Uh huh, OHHHH, OKAY!" They walk away no better off than before but at least the dissonance was eased.
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  Conflicting Advices for Married Couples

  by FlierMate in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.

  the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.

  henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.

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  garyneal

  This is not much different than what I experienced in my old IFB church when the pastor proclaimed that anyone who is a member of his church but goes and visits another church has committed adultery against his home church. So I left and joined another church and sometime after that, he and I were on the phone talking. He asked if I was going to church and I told him that I was and told him that I joined that church. Then we talked some more and as the conversation was about to end he asked me to visit his church. I asked him what about when he said that that would be the same as committing adultery against the home church he said, "Weeeellll, ..." and backpedaled big time.

  Double standards.
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  Conflicting Advices for Married Couples

  by FlierMate in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  below are two excerpts from the same publications.. you can remain chaste in an immoral world.

  the watchtower - july 15, 2000. to married christians, the apostle paul gives this counsel: "this i say, brothers, the time left is reduced.

  henceforth let those who have wives be as though they had none.

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  garyneal

  Weeeeellllll, the work in the congregation should never be more important than your mate. Remember men, love your wives as Christ loved the congregation and you wives, be in submission to your husbands for you must remember that Christ is the head of the man and man is the head of the woman. We just must keep in mind that with the time left reduced, we must also not forsake the kingdom work. A loving husband would remember to follow his head and would never tell his wife to work against Jehovah because He is his head over Christ.

  How did I do?