Posts by oppostate

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Britain Branch Relocation Project - 7 BOE's

by wifibandit in

2016-08-16 branch relocation project - key events.

2016-08-17 branch relocation project - personnel needs.

2016 key events programme.

New York 1963

by Lincoln in

dear friends, "my story"?

i lost touch with jw 1991 (i was declared "not to be associated with") and shortly after became a "born again christian".

i was recovering a difficult divorce (my love for 10 years / we were both jw) and was recovering myself.

oppostate

"Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'!"

No prob, Lincoln. I am a Christian, I do feel the gentle strength of the Holy Spirit guiding my life away from the JW cult. I started partaking almost ten years ago at the Memorial and been persecuted by the local elders for witnessing about Jesus mediatorship and being adopted as God's sons and daughters through faith in Christ Jesus.

What you are describing is a feeling of euphoria due to a heightened emotional climax, it is sort of a trance state. It can be found in many other religions and especially so animistic religions where shamans put themselves in such states as part of their rituals.

Babbling at the top of your voice and saying hah-hah-hah-hah sounds more like a shaman's trance incantation to the demons.

Remember what the fruit of the Spirit entails: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control. Those are the things that should evidence a Christian's faith in reliance of anointing by the Holy Spirit, are they not?

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Bunker elder Meme

by aintenoughwiskey in

i noticed this on reddit.

they shouldn't have all the fun.

ill get it started.

oppostate

The riot gear clad police found a sizable stash of older Playboy magazines behind a false wall in the Bunker Elder's basement along with a box of sex toys for males.

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Egyptian Judoka Refuses Handshake After Losing to Israeli

by oppostate in

wow!

talk about shunning...egyptian judoka refuses handshake after losing to israeli.

“that is extremely rare in judo,” the american coach jimmy pedro said.

oppostate

It wasn't just being a sore loser. In the rest of the article there are several other examples of this ethnic hatred based unsportsmanlike behavior.

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Your thoughts on the Libertarian party

by James Mixon in

jw
friends

i really like what governors w.weld and g. johnson bring to the table.. not familiar with the libertarian party and will do some investigation,.

but any thoughts on this party..

oppostate

Both Hillary and Trump could really mess up free trade this time around. I don't trust either of them. They are both crooked and triggerhappy. Vote for the Gary Johnson the pothead, because character matters.

@ SonoftheTrinity

I agree I can see either Hillary or Trump tanking the U.S. economy and affecting the global markets big time. I don't trust either of them, either :-(

And about pot? I like pot. I haven't done pot since college, but I don't think it should be criminalized as it currently is.

Libertarians aren't all alike, and there's a big left to right spectrum from anarcho-syndicalists like Chomsky to anarcho-capitalists like the Tea(bagging) Partiers.

I believe a large part of the current political arena problem is that the majority of the U.S. electorate is largely suffering from global illiteracy--they are globally myopic. They have little clue what is really going on around the world, and even less interest in finding out.

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Other Religions use the Name JEHOVAH too

by UnDisfellowshipped in

are jehovah's witnesses really the only religion that promotes and preaches the name of jehovah?.

jw's are always claiming that they are the only religion that preaches and uses the name jehovah, and that is why only they will be saved.

for example, look at this quote from the watchtower:.

oppostate

But as it is not the real spelling of Gods name in hebrew anyway (as it was spelled by the Highpriest)

What the F*** are you talking about! The "Highpriest" would pronounce it outloud once a year in public, it has nothing to do with him spelling it out. The four Hebrew letters are Yod-He-Waw-He. Most of the time in the early copies now extant the Masoretes pointed it with the Eh and Ah, as in the vowels of Shema, not Adonay.

These four consonants are "matres lectionis" (mothers of reading) and can act as vowels sounds "Yod" for EE or EH, "He" for EH or AH, and "Waw" for Oh or OO.

As Josephus (who was writing in Greek) said the name is pronounced according to its vowels.
= Ee, Eh, Oh, Ah.
Hebrew has breathing sounds, like our H, the Greeks thought of that as an accent.

From Hebrew "YeHoWaH" we get the Latin "IeHoUaH" which with the later consonant script form of the letter I, and the U/V split, became "JeHoVaH" in more modern ecclesiastical Latin.

The later pointing that appears in the Tetragram isn't what Martin, the Catholic Monk, used, because the vowels aren't the same in YeHoWaH and aDoNai, not even eLoHiM.

BTW, I have an Ed.D. in Literacy. I have studied Hebrew and Greek in post-grad studies, and I'm a polyglot to boot.

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American democracy in crisis

by slimboyfat in

okay cut to the chase.

the united states has got a problem.

hillary clinton is so unpopular that practically any republican who ran against her would probably have beaten her.

oppostate

Eegads! Yes. I'm for real. Kinda leaning anarcho-syndicalist at the moment.

Clinton or Trump are going to ruin the economy. Printing more dollar bills isn't going to solve the problems.

I've just about thrown my hands up in the air on this one. If these are the choices the majority wants then let the ballots fall where they may.

There comes a time when you get fed up with the political machine!

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Signs That Armageddon is "Any Day Now"

by Nevuela in

my "anointed" roommate told me a good one today.

as we were discussing psychotropic medications, she brought up a friend of hers who was recently forced off of "benzodiazepine" (there is no one drug by this name; rather, it is a specific classification of drug).

she claimed that many people are being forced off of the medication(s) due to "concerns over side effects," and that her friend is suffering from withdrawal on top of whatever symptoms the drug was previously helping to control (she didn't elaborate and i didn't feel comfortable asking, sorry).. my roommate then went on record to say (i'm paraphrasing here) "this is why armageddon has to happen very soon, because satan is using this system to make all these people suffer psychologically to drive them into the streets and go crazy.