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  Do You Fully Support "Obamacare"?

  by minimus in

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  is it everything you thought it would be?

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  are you happy that this law is being initiated?.

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  garyneal

  I voted for Obama because I believed in his healthcare proposals. If the Republicans have something better, I am certainly willing to listen to what they have to offer. To date, they have not come up with anything of substance and they had 6 years (2000-2006) of power in the executive and legislative branches to do something. Nothing, unless you count that consumer driven health care stuff. It is not the worst plan in the world but it did little to fix the overall problems with healthcare.

  I just don't think the market is the best place for healthcare. As long as the profit motive exists for the system, it will never get any better. I can understand why the insurance companies wanted the individual mandate in exchange for providing coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. After all, how else are you going to spread the cost around? I just don't get why so many people are upset with Obama for the individual mandate when it was something the insurance companies wanted.
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  Ray "Banana man" Comfort really shows his ignorance

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  garyneal

  So did he answer the question concerning the contradiction?
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  If Jesus Could Be Ressurrected On Earth And He Went To Bethel What Would He Tell The Governing Body CEOs?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  for starter stop judging and you will not be judged..

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  garyneal

  Why don't we ask Larsinger. He claims to be the Christ after all.
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  The 144,000 and the Great Crowd of Revelation

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  8-11; ch.

  as in ch.

  like the "great crowd", they are "of every race, language, people, and nation (cf.

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  garyneal

  This major doctrine, so idiosyncratic to the JWs, results from an eisegesis methodology which imposes a conceptual frame onto a text rather than discovering from the context what concepts are expressed therein. A little reflection can show how eisegesis is the usual approach taken by the WTS in interpreting Revelation.

  Hmmm, sounds like an intellectual way of saying, "Rutherford made the sh#t up to account for the number of his flock exceeding 144,000 and imposed that on the text rather than reading the text in context."
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  So...What Are YOU Doing Tonight?

  by minimus in

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  i think i'll go to my favorite`watering hole and help "celebrate" tonight's festivities.. what are you doing this evening?.

  anyone going to the "lord's evening meal"?.

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  garyneal

  Thanks, just as I thought. That brother had no idea what he was talking about. Just the usual witness spiel about who has the heavenly hope and who does not.
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  So...What Are YOU Doing Tonight?

  by minimus in

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  i think i'll go to my favorite`watering hole and help "celebrate" tonight's festivities.. what are you doing this evening?.

  anyone going to the "lord's evening meal"?.

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  garyneal

  The brother giving the talk said that out of 19 million who attended last year, only less that 9000 partook. I thought that number was over 10,000 now.
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  So...What Are YOU Doing Tonight?

  by minimus in

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  i think i'll go to my favorite`watering hole and help "celebrate" tonight's festivities.. what are you doing this evening?.

  anyone going to the "lord's evening meal"?.

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  garyneal

  Was at the reject Jesus party tonight. What a snoozer.
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  So...What Are YOU Doing Tonight?

  by minimus in

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  i think i'll go to my favorite`watering hole and help "celebrate" tonight's festivities.. what are you doing this evening?.

  anyone going to the "lord's evening meal"?.

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  garyneal

  Going...

  I wonder too if they will caution against partaking in case someone in the audience is contemplating it. I had a dream about that where I was outraged and spoke out in the hall, pissing off my wife.

  Telling people that they cannot partake? Kind of crossed the line with me.

  We'll see...
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  Why Did Jesus Address His Apostles As A Little Flock?

  by wannabe in

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  " [luke 12:32].

  "[ephesians 2:19-22] so, from that we see, that it was only the twelve apostles that jesus referred to as a little flock, as it says about other members of the heavenly calling; 'you too have been built upon the foundation of the apostles, and prophets... together into a place for god to inhabit by spirit.

  ' [luke 22:28-30].

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  garyneal

  Augh, copy and paste. If I wanted to read the something from the WT, I would've just looked at the books and mags my wife has. Why do I have to see that here?
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  If you tried to get your doctrinal or historical questions answered by an elder in your cong...

  by NeverKnew in

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  what was the result?

  i have seen answers strewn throughout many posts but never consolidated.

  this is important.

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  garyneal

  I find that I never get more than a bunch of Watchtower double speak and slight of hand when I ask pointed questions to witnesses (including my wife when she is in cult mode). I've learned that people just want their religion and their associations. To hell with facts.