I'm surprised the articles didn't include exercising faith after digesting their rich food by pioneering to keep your spiritual muscles from getting flabby.
freydo
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Not doubting in private
by 5thGeneration incan anyone please help me find this wt quote.. it was from around 1999-2002.. where it says it would be wrong to have any doubts, even in private.
something to that effect.. thanks.. 5th.
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Did your Kingdom Hall have kitchen?
by asilentone insomeone told me there are few kingdom halls with kitchens, i was surprised about it.
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freydo
The last one I attended did. But the only thing ever used was the fridge, sink and microwave.
Another one even had a big fireplace and a kitchen.
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IRAN-Deja vu all over again?
by JWdaughter inany of the rhetoric, demands, conciliation, etc., etc., remind you of anything?
wasn't this all how this war started in iraq?
(or the justification for it, anyway?
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Ex-CIA Chief Hayden: Military Strike on Iran Likely
"A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program. Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, said that during his tenure "a strike was way down the list of options." But he tells CNN's State of the Union that such action now "seems inexorable." "In my personal thinking," Hayden said, "I have begun to consider that that may not be the worst of all possible outcomes."
Hayden said that the likelihood of a U.S. strike on Iran has risen in the face of Tehran's defiance to halt its contentions nuclear program, saying "We engage. They continue to move forward." "We vote for sanctions. They continue to move forward. We try to deter, to dissuade. They continue to move forward," he added. The former CIA chief predicted Iran, in defiance of the international community, planned to "get itself to that step right below a nuclear weapon, that permanent breakout stage, so the needle isn’t quite in the red for the international community."
Hayden said that reaching even that level would be "as destabilizing to the region as actually having a weapon." Hayden also called homegrown terrorism "a devil of a problem" and the most serious threat facing American citizens. "In a democracy it’s incredibly difficult,” he said. “Look, we’ve all made our compromises with al-Qaeda and the al-Qaeda kinds of attacks. "But how do you build a security structure that guards you against American citizens who are beginning to change in their thinking up to a point where they become a threat to the security of other Americans? That’s a devil of a problem." Hayden said that the next step the intelligence community would take to combat homegrown terrorists would inevitably begin to infringe on the privacy of Americans, and that was still too steep of a price to pay. "What are you or your viewers willing to pay?" he asked CNN interviewer Candy Crowley. “How much would you allow us commerce or privacy or convenience in order to get down to that level of granularity. And frankly, I think American political culture. I think you and I, as citizens, would be uncomfortable going very far in that direction. That what makes this such a devilish problem."
Hayden also emphasized that the U.S. military should stay in Afghanistan and that al-Qaeda’s influence in the country was waning becomes of the presence of U.S. armed forces. If the U.S. withdrew prematurely, it would be detrimental to American security. "I would let this go for a while longer,” he said. “With regards to the small number of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, that may be a reflection of American combat power in Afghanistan and if one were to remove that combat power, one would naturally see the number of al-Qaeda rise."
But it was the Iranian threat that most concerned Hayden, he stressed. The United States, the United Nations and the European Union have imposed new restrictions on Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities, which the West fears could lead it to make a bomb. The fourth round of U.N. sanctions calls for measures against new Iranian banks abroad if a link to the nuclear or missile programs is suspected and for vigilance on transactions with any Iranian bank, including the central bank. On Saturday, several key Iranian officials estimated that the United States and Israel would not dare attempt a military strike of Iran's nuclear sites, adding that they were confident that Iranian forces would easily repel such an attempt, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
The United States, which has ships in the Persian Gulf, has not ruled out a military strike to thwart what it suspects is an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Iran denies its atomic program is aimed at making weapons. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Israel and the United States would never strike Iran, saying that "both the U.S. and Zionist regime face internal problems and they know that we make many troubles for them if they attack Iranian territory." Yahya Rahim Safav told ISNA, Iran’s news agency, that Iran's armed forces were "fully prepared and enemies are aware of that, they do not have the power to take a political decision on the issue, because they know they can start the war but are not able to finish it." "We need to be fully vigilant of these attacks, the enemy knows that it will regret if launches a land strike against Iran." Safavi said. The commander of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad-Ali Ja'fari said that the United States would not dare to attack Iran as it is fully aware of Iran’s defense power and its nation’s determination, Haaretz reported.
Ja'fari also said, according to the IRNA report, that he considered his forces' preparedness as being at their "highest level," adding that recent sanctions imposed on Iran in view of its contentious nuclear program would have no impact on Iran's potency. Also Saturday, a former naval chief in Iran's Revolutionary Guard said his country has set aside 100 military vessels to confront each U.S. warship that poses a threat. General Morteza Saffari is quoted by the conservative weekly Panjereh Saturday as saying that troops aboard U.S. warships "are morsels for Iran to target in the event of any American threat against Iran." In 2008, Iran put its most powerful military force, the Revolutionary Guard, in charge of defending the country's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, a vital oil route. Speaking with the semi-official Fars news agency, Iran's Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said that the increased U.S. pressure on Iran were prompted by Washington's desire to advance its "propaganda campaign "and gain control of the region."............." -
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3 Things You Should Know About Islam
by onemore in....watch the video, what if we were to substitute the word islam (in the video) for watchtowerism.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcbptzalqfy.
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I am not in the business of promoting Islam, or any religion.
I am in the business of fighting bigotry and ignorance.
Then you should fight islam and muslimism.What does muslimism do towards understanding other religions?
From the utube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCbPtzALqFY
"It is the duty of every Muslim to keep striving until all governments have been converted to Sharia Law.....Sharia orders death of Muslim and non-Muslim critics of Muhammad....allows husbands to HIT their wives...it is explained in the Qur'an that if you have two passages that contradict each other, the one written later SUPERSEDES the one written earlier. Most westerners are unaware that the PEACEFUL, TOLERANT passages were written early in Muhammad's prophetic career. According to the Qur'an, those passages have been abrogated."
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3 Things You Should Know About Islam
by onemore in....watch the video, what if we were to substitute the word islam (in the video) for watchtowerism.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcbptzalqfy.
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Wobble - can you think of anything good about muslimism?
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Older man marries younger woman, yes; younger man marries older woman?
by dgp ini understand that marriages between an older man and a much younger woman are a fact of jw life.
the reasons i have seen include the lack of an available prospect, of the fact that the older man has some power in the congregation and therefore marrying him is something like an advantage.
i wonder what the advantage can be, and i would appreciate any light on this (new or old).. but, how often does a younger man marry an older woman?
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freydo
What about the best birth control for women over 50?
Nudity.
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3 Things You Should Know About Islam
by onemore in....watch the video, what if we were to substitute the word islam (in the video) for watchtowerism.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcbptzalqfy.
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freydo
I think we should be doing more to understand Islam as a religion
That's a good idea. But like pedophiles and certain other creepy things, study it after it's been eradicated.
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3 Things You Should Know About Islam
by onemore in....watch the video, what if we were to substitute the word islam (in the video) for watchtowerism.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcbptzalqfy.
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Which would be worse? The world ruled by Islam or jw's? Or the pope? Or Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?
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do they now they have to collest their magazines from Assembly Halls?
by alanv inhi everyone i regularly go onto the topix website and on one thread this was said earlier today.. found on facebook this morning:.
"at our service meeting it was announced that there is a change in the manner in which magazines are now to be delivered to the congregations.. .
up until now, magazines were sent to each kingdom hall via ups.
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freydo
I don't think there's anything new about this. We always had brothers going to the assembly hall for literature. That was 5-10 years ago. UPS never delivered anything to the hall.
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Rev Jesse Jackson's comments - racist or not?
by UnConfused inhttp://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/jesse_jackson_lebron_comments.php.
reverend jesse jackson isn't taking cleveland cavalier's owner dan gilbert's comments about lebron james lightly.
gilbert recently made headlines for writing a scathing open letter to james after the star basketball player signed with the miami heat last week.
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Which side of the fence? (according to Liberal thinkers) - like I said it's like trying to reason with trinitarians, jw's, and other fanatics.
If a Democrat suggests tougher guns laws and registering guns, (the first step towards confiscation, next taxation- instead of prosecuting criminals and providing justice to victims of gun related crimes)
a Republican screams that Democrats are taking his guns away
If a Republican is told by his doctor to cut down on red meat, he blames Democrats for taking away his “freedom”
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he probably will live longer than Republicans(So what? More nursing home time)
If a Republican is homosexual, he becomes an evangelical pastor and rails against the evils of “the gay” until he is caught in an airport bathroom or a gay bar, or a gay massage parlor(if he does he deserves what he gets - for his hypocrisy)
If a Democrat is homosexual he expects equal rights under the law (thinks that perversion and degradation in any form is related to art and doesn't believe in prosecuting criminals - see above)
If a Republican is down and out, he joins a militia and doubles down on blacks and immigrants
A Democrat votes for fair wages and unions(comparing fanaticism with age old practices is a red herring)
If a Republican doesn’t like a talk show host, he shoots his TV set with a gun(I haven't heard of any reports of this)
A Democrat requests the original, undoctored video tapes
If a Republican is a non-believer, he keeps quiet and allows the Texas State Board of Education to re-write history textbooks to falsely favor Christianity,(stupid logic)
A Democrat wants history portrayed honestly and accurately and church and state kept separate as the FF favored
(The FF's wanted church and state separate - not God and state - with state in the hands of perverts and criminals)
If a Republican decides he needs health care, he doesn’t want anyone else to have it including the poor, the young, the elderly and the sick
A Democrat believes that the greatest, richest country on earth has room for the young, the poor, the elderly and the sick
(So the dem's answer is sick care which guarantees continued unlimited enrichment of doctors and drug companies)
If a Republican reads this he will forward it to his friends, his family, people he barely knows, people who don’t want it and people who have repeatedly corrected his bullshit and asked to be taken off his e-mail list,
A Democrat will shake his head in wonder at the stupidity of his fellow citizens.(won't even promote their own non-sense)