I love my husband....even w/o chocolate on top (thanks for that TM). I love my children all struggling to find ttheir joy in life. And it is hard for some.
I love the people behind these wacky, wonky avatars.
You can't disguise yourselves!
Maeve
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I Love EVERYBODY!!!!
by minimus ini love every color, every nationality, every ethnic group, every body!!!.
how about you?
let's start a love in..
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Catholic cover-up...The pope and a stench of evil.......(Hitchens says)
by Terry inthe great catholic cover-upthe pope's entire career has the stench of evil about it.by christopher hitchensposted monday, march 15, 2010, at 10:20 am et.
pope benedict xvi on march 10, the chief exorcist of the vatican, the rev.
gabriele amorth (who has held this demanding post for 25 years), was quoted as saying that "the devil is at work inside the vatican," and that "when one speaks of 'the smoke of satan' in the holy rooms, it is all trueincluding these latest stories of violence and pedophilia.
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Are you speaking ironically: "Jesus, who is running the show in oth instances, must be very pleased."?
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Are You Eccentric?
by snowbird inone of the words of today was concentric - sharing a common center.. which set me to thinking about eccentric - out of center.. i've been told that i'm eccentric.. have you ever been told that?.
thanks.. syl.
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Been missing you, Shamus, m' darlin'--------------Wonder why I'm seeing you so much on this thread?
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Are You Eccentric?
by snowbird inone of the words of today was concentric - sharing a common center.. which set me to thinking about eccentric - out of center.. i've been told that i'm eccentric.. have you ever been told that?.
thanks.. syl.
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Oh yeah!.... but when I married my husband no one noticed it any more.
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What I don't regret about my experience with JW's
by tec inthey taught me to think for myself.. yes, you read that right, and no i'm not being sarcastic.
if i had walked into the church down the street, i might not ever have walked out.
i'm sure the doctrines are easier to swallow, and the freedoms are greater.
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garyneal,
I just want to copy your post word for word. Reading through it twice, it represents my feelings and thoughts so well that anything I would say would just be repeating you.
That comment especially about mistaking the conformity that molded us in so many ways and was foisted off as "unity". So true.
I read in a book once that referenced words of Jesus from scripture that never made it to the canon. In it Jesus is looking at a dead jackal its lips in a death grimace. Instead of making a disparaging comment, he remarked "Look how bright his teeth are!"
It is okay to see the good in a thing that has harmed us.
P.S. But it's hard to bury the jackal decently in a sheep herder's camp.
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Why do all intelligent Christians disobey Jesus?
by StoneWall inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-slagzjmdu.
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PSac,
You said something that is pretty relevant, at least in my thinking. Yesterday you mentioned that even when a Christian might 'know Jesus is real', doesn't prevent keep them from having preconceived notions.
That seems confusing even to believers themselves. Which is why so much damage is done in the name of serving God. You get "saved" and start standing on Friday night street corners to damn the sinners coming out of the bars.We need to proceed with due humility of the wisdom of the ignorant.
Most, not all, realize that the OT accounts reflect what happened in the history of the Jews, not exactly what God wanted. Example: David was second in a line of kings--a kind of government that was essentially a rejection of God's direct authority and protection. Still, God dealt with this less-than-perfect situation. And in his mercy he deals with us in our delusional states--and usually he absorbes the blame for our incompetence, imo.
It looks like Paul recognized the problem of separating personal prejudice and holy spirit in many of his letters but the clearest example I know of is 1 Cor. 7. There he weighs in on SEX. God help him! he goes back and forth reasoning this way and that, saying one thing and referencing the scriptures and then another way and says that it is his own opinion. In fact he concludes the chapter saying "She would be happier, in my opinion, if she stayed as she is--and I too have the Spirit of God, I think."
And this is the same thought in all translations I have.
If our own opinions are powerful and can masquerade as truth so often, how dare we lay down the law for another? We can do as Paul does and give reasons from the scriptures and recognize there are limits to personal freedom--even as he points out in 1 Cor. 6--"You are associating with a brother who's having sex with his step-mom??!!!" ---NO WAY!
So, if we are wise Christians we should get used to being accused of vacilating. There is the holy spirit and then there is ourselves-.Sometimes they concur, even as non-christians so often do what is right without making special claims of holy spirit- Burt does it seem proper to force this on anyone , including a believer until God brings them along to it? Because how wise are we to know how God is dealing with another?
Maeve
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Intro-
by LostnFound inwell i figure since i have been posting on this site, i might as well share my little bit.
it's in no way unique or special, it just is what it is.
from the time i was a tot, my parents took us to meetings.
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Great to hear your story. Too bad it is such a struggle to grow up in that snoopy outfit. Great to be out and able to live in honesty. Hope you and you husband have a great life w/o the baby sitters watching now!
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My Daughter Just Graduated From College!
by GoingGoingGone inshe was about 13 or 14 when i first started having serious doubts about the wts.
when i informed her of my doubts a couple years later, she took the information and ran with it.... she never looked back.
i told her she could be whatever she wanted to be if she only worked hard enough.
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I am proud of both of you, all of you! Congratulations!
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Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..
by mentallyfree31 inwho were your past circuit overseers?
i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).
ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).
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Burge, Purini, Wm. Goram
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A Tribute to Ray Franz - Touching Comments on How he Helped People
by flipper ini'm sure this link has been posted already- but i wasn't sure.
but this was a well done tribute by wt comments .
in case some missed it.
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Mary, Those crazy bagpipes in this song shake my celtic soul. It is beautiful. And I felt like that when I saw a short video of Ray Franz when I was preparing my letter to DF. He was in Romania at answering questions for a group of ministers. I knew he was a truthful man. I knew that he had stood as well as a haman can. God gave me the light to see the wrongs but he gave me Ray Franz that day to begin to feel the calm comfort.
Ray had come out on the other side and he was as a Christian ought to be--simple, knd and faithful.
Thank you both for the music. It says more so often than our words. Thank you God for music and friends who make it.