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  World Wide Construction comes to a Shuddering Halt - Jehovah's Blessing has Evidently been Suspended!

  by Slidin Fast in

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  the chelmsford project in the uk has already come to a halt and every one has been sent home.

  the bethel family in london is to be cut by several hundred.

  my impression is that most ambitious youngster in the org dream of being involved with the building program.

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  Do you think that Yahweh is teaching them something ???? ROTFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
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  Christian Life and Ministry

  by Gorbatchov in

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  of course we were all surprised by the new wts move with the christian life and ministry meeting.. today i googled the term christian life and ministry and got a direct link to evangelical churches.. so, does this mean anything?.

  gorby.

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  Are we seeing a re-run of the spiritual earthquakes in the Worldwide Church of God, after founder Herbert W. Armstrong died?

  Christianity is a joke, is it not?:
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  Child care and abortion - two examples of the complexity of the issue

  by fulltimestudent in

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  in a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion.

  there is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world.

  so consider .... 1. a child rape case in paraguay.. ... but the plot unfolding in paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the south american country apart.it began on april 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital.

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  talesin: Is this the photo you were posting, FTS? : )

  That's the one, Talesin. and thank you for teaching me something I've sometimes struggled with.

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  azor: Dammit you made me cry. My daughter is 6.

  Not sure which segment of my post brought you to tears? Possibly both.

  But, since putting the information (for this thread) together. I think that the image of the two young girls may be a greater cause of sadness. I (because I'm continually dealing with different cultures in my studies) know better than to impose my cultural constraints on to other people's cultures. And, I also appreciate that visual aids (photographs and film) can misinform as well as inform, but those two little girls will have a lifetime in front of them, tied to a decision that their families have made for them.

  At some point they will reach puberty and likely fall pregnant, their still immature (physically) bodies will have to bear the physical strain of the pregnancy and giving birth, bringing the likelihood of physical damage and bladder incontinence, all without the medical assistance taht was likely available to the first girl in Paraguay It is reported that as a consequence, the Ethiopian girls will probably stink of urine and be rejected by their husbands (unless, somehow surgical assistance becomes available), and spend the remainder of their lives in a socially unacceptable situation.

  A hopeless, depressing problem for them and for those of us who understand what is happening. The Yahweh/Jesus combo god has afflicted so much sadness on his poor bloody creation, has he not?
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  Child care and abortion - two examples of the complexity of the issue

  by fulltimestudent in

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  in a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion.

  there is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world.

  so consider .... 1. a child rape case in paraguay.. ... but the plot unfolding in paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the south american country apart.it began on april 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital.

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  Duplicated. cannot access the image- apologies.
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  Child care and abortion - two examples of the complexity of the issue

  by fulltimestudent in

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  in a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion.

  there is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world.

  so consider .... 1. a child rape case in paraguay.. ... but the plot unfolding in paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the south american country apart.it began on april 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital.

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  Now think about another face to the same problem. With the young Paraguayan girl in mind ...

  Photographer Guy Calan starkly illustrates what child marriage means in Ethiopia, another strongly religious nation with about 43% of the population Orthodox Christian and 33% Muslim.

  He describes his image:

  Ambaun, 9 years old, on left and Deghe, 7 years old, on right sit in their matrimonial tent before their wedding celebration commence in a village in Northern Amhara region on February 16, 2009 in Ethiopia..While in decline, early child marriage is still widely spread in rural areas of Ethiopia where families sell their daughters into marriage at ages as young as 5 years old...Names of subjects have been fictionalized and specific locations have been omitted to protect the identities of the children portrayed in the story.

  and his photograph: click http://guycalaf.photoshelter.com/img/pixel.gif
  
  
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  Child care and abortion - two examples of the complexity of the issue

  by fulltimestudent in

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  in a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion.

  there is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world.

  so consider .... 1. a child rape case in paraguay.. ... but the plot unfolding in paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the south american country apart.it began on april 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital.

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  The child in the first post has given birth, and a Sydney newspaper states that:

  In Paraguay, two girls aged 10 to 14 give birth every day. The cases are often linked to sexual violence.

  
  Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/11yearold-paraguay-rape-victim-has-baby-stokes-abortion-debate-20150814-giyzkm.html#ixzz3mb5KVLou

  
  The population of Paraguay is about 6.7 million.
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  Child care and abortion - two examples of the complexity of the issue

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
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  in a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion.

  there is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world.

  so consider .... 1. a child rape case in paraguay.. ... but the plot unfolding in paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the south american country apart.it began on april 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital.

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  2. American Presidential candidate at Liberty University (An ultra Christian education facility).

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_nTe7LCYYI
  
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  Child care and abortion - two examples of the complexity of the issue

  by fulltimestudent in

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  in a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion.

  there is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world.

  so consider .... 1. a child rape case in paraguay.. ... but the plot unfolding in paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the south american country apart.it began on april 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital.

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  In a perfect world, one would hope that no woman would need to consider an abortion. There is unfortunately, no perfect world and there does not seem there will ever be a perfect world. So consider ...

  1. A child rape case in Paraguay.

  ... But the plot unfolding in Paraguay is so dark and twisted that it is currently tearing the South American country apart.
  It began on April 21 when a mother brought her 10-year-old daughter to a public hospital. The girl was complaining of abdominal pains, and her mother feared she had a tumor. When doctors examined the girl, however, they determined she was 22 weeks pregnant.
  The mother told authorities her daughter must have been raped and singled out a prime suspect: her own husband, the girl’s stepfather.
  By then, however, 42-year-old Gilberto Benitez had gone into hiding. While authorities launched a manhunt for Benitez, his wife demanded her daughter receive an abortion. But Paraguay, a devoutly Catholic country, allows abortion only in cases where the mother’s life is at risk.
  A fierce public debate ensued. Amnesty International called on the government to allow an abortion, arguing that it was dangerous for a 75-pound girl to give birth. “The physical and psychological impact of forcing this young girl to continue with an unwanted pregnancy is tantamount to torture,” said Amnesty International’s Guadalupe Marengo in news release. “The Paraguayan authorities cannot sit idly by while this young rape-survivor is forced to endure more agony and torment.”
  But Paraguayan Health Minister Antonio Barrios insisted that the girl was in good health and that a late-term abortion would be risky.

  Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/11/the-horrific-child-rape-case-that-is-tearing-paraguay-apart/

  No further comment is neccessary.
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  Independent living for Senior facilities are thru the roof here. What about your area??

  by James Mixon in

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  we checked on a new senior facility, just to get in your must shell out $200.000.00 and.

  don't get that back.

  two hundred thousand up front and payments from $2500.00-$5000.00.

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  The Malaysian government is rumoured to be planning to build retirement resorts for well-off Australians to attract them there.

  Not for me, though. I don't think I'm a well off Aussie.

  My plan is (when i eventually get doddery) is to rent a room in a Buddhist temple (with meals) on a mountain that overlooks the sea, somewhere near Fuzhou, and wait patiently until my last breath.
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  What language was Jesus most at home with?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  our former loving brothers and sisters have been instructed to think that, jesus likely spoke a form of hebrew and a form of aramaic.

  (aid to bible understanding-103-105).

  of course, there is no way to demonstrate the truth of that assertion or any other assertion about the languages that the common people of the land spoke.

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  My comment on the Coptic language?

  Coptic was/is the last flowering of the ancient Egyptian language.

  Here's the British Library defining Coptic:

  What is Coptic?
  No longer used as an everyday language, Coptic was a descendant of ancient Egyptian, spoken from about 200-1100. It was written using an alphabet slightly modified from Greek. The Bible was translated into Coptic by the second half of the third century, from Greek. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/gospelsarabic.html

  Greek and Egyptian cultures were part of the early Mediterranean culture, as were the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean coast (West Asia). The Mediterranean peoples fought each other, raided each other, took slaves from each other, traded with each other and therefore had to learn each other's languages and ways.

  But eventually when west Asia was unified by Hellenic culture, the languages were influenced by Greek.