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  Black cop kills unarmed white male DillonTaylor in Utah

  by moomanchu in

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  golly gee wiz only local media cover for this.. i like the way the media describes it.. mr. taylor wasnt black hes been described as white and hispanic and the .

  officer who shot him aug. 11 outside a 7-eleven in south salt lake wasnt white.. race bias ???.

  naaaaaah can't be !!!!!.

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  Details matter. I know few whites who would include Latinos as white. The entire point of using Latino is to signal the native American blood. We don't have a history of Latino slavery in this country. Why certain events make the news and others are ignored is beyond me. When you consider the size of this country, such encounters must be routine. Details matter.
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  My summer camp job experience

  by d in

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  this summer i met a russian women i worked at a summer camp for people with developmental disabilities and she is going back to russia in september.

  i grew to really like her as a person.

  i just feel empty that she is now gone to new york heading beck to moscow we hung out on three seperate occasions and i enjoyed myself and her company .

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  I had an internship for the U.S. Senate and lived in a college dormitory. The college kid was a big mistake. When people left DC from the dorm, a couple parted. Her father loaded her belongings into the family car. The couple was in anguish. As luck would have it, they lived on opposite coasts. There was no privacy. I had an ache in my tummy watching them say goodbye. Once she left, he shrugged his shoulder as if "who cares? Not me. I am a sophisticated." It was so postured that all the older man laughed.

  I've always wanted to see Moscow and St. Petersburg-in the summer.
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  Anointedjw.org Is An Interesting Site

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this 'everybody partakes' or is anointed is an interesting idea.

  i do wonder if this clandestine effort is having an effect.. i was unable to find any explicit testimonies on the site - that is, naming names , as long as they have already exposed themselves to wts retribution.

  they claim elders, co's and a do now follow them.

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  The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. There are countless stories that bolster the idea that the enemy of your enemy has nothing to do with you. I don't know if this will be censored but Shelby drove me nuts. It wasn't so much hearing voices from Christ not called Christ. She had bona fide followers. Some atheists invited me to visit their site. I knew none of the rules here. What a relief! Within a few days, I found that the enemy of my enemy (not that I am saying Shelby was an enemy) was even more my enemy. Human decency was out the window. I begged to come back here. Shelby and I had a conversation.

  Nothing is like a bunch of barely educated atheists who believe the world turns around them. Don't toot your own horn.

  The WTs main theme is high control and overreaching. Doctrine is secondary. My present church has a main doctrine of everyone being welcome for communion. It is none of our business. The churches that get a lot of tourist/UN diplomat trade have many nonChristians receive communion. The emblems making the rounds with everyone fixated on them was bizarre. My heart would beat so hard in fear of an unworthy or young person touching them. Armageddon might start.
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  Where was the dead body of Jesus? Did the disciples disappear it?

  by opusdei1972 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am currently an skeptic, but i have to admit that i can't assure that all the stuff of early christianity was false.. for instance, we know that the genuine letters of paul were written before the destruction of jerusalem.

  so, paul affirmed that jesus resurrected, though he was not there when it supposedly happened.

  but, if jesus did not resurrect, why didn't the jews expose this falsehood?.

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  Believers can be rational. Paul most certqinly taught a physical resurrection. There are immense differences in theology between a physical resurrection and a spiritual/mystical one. He opposed the gnostics whose resurrection would be mystical/an illusion. Bart Ehrman's latest book concerning how Jesus became God is not being summarized accurately. He talks about the synoptics and John teaching very different views of Jesus. John is the only gospel that clearly elevates Jesus to God.

  What the main body of the text addresses is a series of steps in Judaism towards a man becoming God. I never thought of it as a Jewish idea. He mentions angels as a middle ground. I might call a prof in the fall and ask if there is any consensus in the field. I was always taught at college and church (but not KH) that YHWH was monotheistic. Ehrman comes up with a long list of steps toward Godhood. A few references were actually human. Was it Elijah who disappeared? Someone else, too.

  I don't want to parrot names as in the Witnesses and pretend that I know more than anyone else in the world. People don't like evangelicals of any sort. Atheists are included. I did not know Jesus on a personal basis. My mindset is not first century B.C. Middle Eastern. I've lived under the American empire not the Roman one.

  I've always viewed Ehrman as a populizer of other more academic work. This work should reach the masses. I have a feeling that temperament plays a major role in how comfortable we are with any belief. Friends who attend a wedding in Episcopal churches freak out b/c the fit is so good for me. It is possible to step back and view the material for what it says. I purposely never wrote about anything Witnessy b/c I wanted a good grade. A law degree is good for such work. We tend to focus on the text and acknowledge problematic issues.
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

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  2. experiences

  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  Welcome back. Did you graduate seminary?
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  Is Faith Immoral?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
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  when people willfully believe something without evidence, or contrary to evidence, are they neglecting thier moral responsibility?

  so many people say faith is a virtue but i just can't comprehend why anyone would think that.

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  I doubt I will murder anyone. Who determines what is right? C.S. Lewis pointed to a set of rules that religions impose around the world.
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  A new member

  by LP97 in

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  i'm a 17 year old from scotland.

  can i just say this site is absolutely brilliant.

  finally found people with open minds and free thought that doesn't just consist of "well the wt told me this so it must be right".. my story is that i'm just like any other child of a jw...brought up into a life of indoctrination where "the world's" thinking is automatically wrong.. that is until i was 14 - a light turned on in my head.

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  Welcome. I refused to attend KH when I was sixteen. Told my mom she would have to have the police arrest me and take me in chains. She allowed me to stay home. It was the last meeting my family attended. I don't know what happened to this day. It sounds as tho you will love college. Think of everything the WT asserts and imagine the opposite. It is what a good school is like.
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  Is Faith Immoral?

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when people willfully believe something without evidence, or contrary to evidence, are they neglecting thier moral responsibility?

  so many people say faith is a virtue but i just can't comprehend why anyone would think that.

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  The scariest part of 9/11 for me was how nice everyone was. I suppose the worst thing that happened before that was John Lennon's assasination. There was a sense of community for a certain age. 9/11 everyplace you went, every person you saw was so wounded. There was no place to escape. The streets were so quiet. People wanted to help but there was little we could do. I decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the weekend. There must have been about fifteen people in the whole museum. I walked and walked before I saw another person.
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  My summer camp job experience

  by d in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  this summer i met a russian women i worked at a summer camp for people with developmental disabilities and she is going back to russia in september.

  i grew to really like her as a person.

  i just feel empty that she is now gone to new york heading beck to moscow we hung out on three seperate occasions and i enjoyed myself and her company .

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  She needs to earn credit for courses in the US. When I was a student, we had exchange programs with certain schools. If the school was not on the list, no credit. It would be best for both of you to finish your degrees. You have to know what she is like on a daily basis.

  May I ask what your experience was like? One of the many things I missed in my youth b/c of the Witnesses was camp. It sounds as though it would be exhausting.
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  A QUESTION I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANSWERED BY JWs

  by NAVYTOWN in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the jws make such a big deal about not taking (eating) blood in any form.

  that being the case, shouldn't they avoid eating steaks?

  even a well- done steak still contains the animals blood.

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  Too much info. about meat. I will become a vegetarian.