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  Bitter!!

  by Gill in

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  2. friends

  during many of my discussions with my parents about the wt and what i feel about their book publishing company, my mother loves to hurl the word 'bitter!

  ' you're bitter!

  you're bitter because you know we're right!

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  LittleToe

  Brilliant
  In
  Telling
  "Truth"
  Exemplifies
  Ridiculousness
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  Here's a classic.....

  by Stealth453 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  my kid-brother, da'd for 6 years, came here to the philippines to marry the love of his life.

  we invited our parents, both hard-core, active, fire and brimstone, book selling, family hating, rubba-flubs, and they came up with some cock-and-bull ($hit) story about how poor they were (gave it all to the watchliars, 1 million $+), and "would love to attend but couldn't afford it", and then announced that they were going to florida for a 3 week vacation.

  useless freaking religious crackpots.. thanks for listening to me rant.

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  LittleToe

  Its strange how lies aren't lies when its following the dictates of "mother". Good becomes bad and bad becomes good (Mal.2:17)

  They should thank their lucky stars that you still offered to have anything to do with them.. You aren't delinquent children, but it appears that they are being delinquent parents! I'm glad you have each other, though
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  Lithium?

  by spoils_useful_habits in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently one of my brothers was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder by a psychiatrist.

  this has hit me hard emotionally because out of the whole bunch we are the closest.

  i've always suspected something was up.

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  LittleToe

  For some people it is pretty much the only thing that can keep them on an even keel. We prescribe quite a bit of it for our patients. Overdosing on it can be dangerous, though, for all the reasons already mentioned; hence the close monitoring and regular blood tests.
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  "Watchtower" is a term from witchcraft NOT Scripture

  by FuzzyPaul in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  has anyone else ever noticed that there is no watchtower in scripture as part of any particular teaching but there is prominent use of watchtower in dungeons and dragons type games and forms of witchcraft including spells involving watchtower?

  see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/watchtower_%28magic%29.

  and msn search for watchtower alone & with magic spell or occult or witchcraft.. ct russell was a 33rd degree freemason ( illuminati) nutcase who read books by guys that measured the lengths of the halls in pyramids to foretell the future by.

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  LittleToe

  IPSEC / Greendawn:

  Its a made up word based on 3 different ancient gods.

  Allegedly. But besides, how would this reflect on the exclusive worship of "Jehovah" as found in the WTS? Which came first, the invention of the name "Jehovah" or the establishment of the Freemasons? And further still, how is this evidence of worship of Satan? There's would be more evidence of worship of Satan in "Saturnalia", but that's also just taking a few letters from the name of an ancient god and applying it to Satan. You can do amazing things with anagrams, but it doesn't mean squat...

  But be careful... someone might be listening...
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  When

  by fullofdoubtnow in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm not much of a poet, trev is the writer in this house, but i wrote a few lines earlier today about my feelings for him and my friends on the board, and he is encouraging me to post them, so here goes.

  when i was lost, you helped me find myself.

  when i was in chains, you helped me to break free.

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  LittleToe

  Wonderful. I'm glad you shared it. While its good to get the heart's expression out in art, there's also an added dimension in sharing it
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  "Watchtower" is a term from witchcraft NOT Scripture

  by FuzzyPaul in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  has anyone else ever noticed that there is no watchtower in scripture as part of any particular teaching but there is prominent use of watchtower in dungeons and dragons type games and forms of witchcraft including spells involving watchtower?

  see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/watchtower_%28magic%29.

  and msn search for watchtower alone & with magic spell or occult or witchcraft.. ct russell was a 33rd degree freemason ( illuminati) nutcase who read books by guys that measured the lengths of the halls in pyramids to foretell the future by.

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  LittleToe

  I understand that a Masonic group later bought the Pennsylvanian burial ground and adjacent land to build a Lodge. It was not owned by them when Russell was interred. The Pyramid was erected a few years after his burial, as a "fitting" testimony to his beliefs.

  As has been stated, the pyramid is not actually a Masonic symbol, neither is the Cross and Crown uniquely Knights Templar (a number of Christian groups use it). Though at this point I should state for the record that there are also a number of Knights Templar groups, many of which have nothing to do with Freemasonry.

  Greendawn:

  The name jehovah i sa very powerful word in some occultic realms and to them t means in fact satan.

  Sources, please.
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  Doctors Should Not Be Forced To Artificially Inseminate Lesbians

  by Sam Beli in

  1. social
  2. current

  ann arbor, mi the thomas more law center, a national public interest law firm based .

  in ann arbor, michigan, has submitted a friend of the court brief supporting the right of .

  physicians to refuse to perform medical procedures that violate their sincerely held religious .

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  Didier:

  The big background theoretical issue, imo, is whether medicine is to be regarded as a private or a public service.

  I disagree

  Doctors (as any other employee) are not merely a commodity. To play the "you're employed in public service, so you'll do as you're told" card would be similar to the way we mistreat the members of our armed forces when we send them out to do dirty jobs and then release them back into our communities without proper reintegration/counselling.

  There's something about tolerating conscience (especially in non-emergency treatments) that sets apart the medical world as something reasonably humane, IMHO. Of course such policies are open to abuse, but rarely does this occur in emergency situations.
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  "Watchtower" is a term from witchcraft NOT Scripture

  by FuzzyPaul in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  has anyone else ever noticed that there is no watchtower in scripture as part of any particular teaching but there is prominent use of watchtower in dungeons and dragons type games and forms of witchcraft including spells involving watchtower?

  see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/watchtower_%28magic%29.

  and msn search for watchtower alone & with magic spell or occult or witchcraft.. ct russell was a 33rd degree freemason ( illuminati) nutcase who read books by guys that measured the lengths of the halls in pyramids to foretell the future by.

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  LittleToe

  Does Russell have links to the elusive Norman invasion of Britain?!!! OMG, He may even have had British ancestry and/or a Celtic bloodline!

  
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  "Watchtower" is a term from witchcraft NOT Scripture

  by FuzzyPaul in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  has anyone else ever noticed that there is no watchtower in scripture as part of any particular teaching but there is prominent use of watchtower in dungeons and dragons type games and forms of witchcraft including spells involving watchtower?

  see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/watchtower_%28magic%29.

  and msn search for watchtower alone & with magic spell or occult or witchcraft.. ct russell was a 33rd degree freemason ( illuminati) nutcase who read books by guys that measured the lengths of the halls in pyramids to foretell the future by.

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  LittleToe

  Yawn
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/11/101470/1.ashx

  I specifically refer you to the following work, to help clarify Russell's own opinion on the subject:
  http://www.exjws.net/museum/russell_freemason.htm

  And for those who can't be bothered letting fact prevail over fiction to the point of clicking a link, the following extract from that page:

  ---

  Wt June 15, 1895

  To a question of a reader who asks :

  DEAR BROTHER:--I would like to have your opinion on the subject of life insurance. They are organizing lodges all around here--United Workmen, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, Masons, Odd Fellows, etc. They are working it just about like sectarianism in the churches. Would like to see an article in the TOWER on the subject. Yours in the love of the truth, W. E. KILLAM. OUR REPLY TO THE QUERY.

  Russell answers :

  " We notice as well as the order of Freemasonry, if he is judged by his past history, has some secret object or schema, other than brotherhood and grant in the times of diseases or death. And as far as we can judge it, there is certain degree of profane worship or of mumeries connected to the rites of this order and of some the others, as far as members do not understand, but which, in a lot of case, serve for satisfying the tendency of the natural spirit, for the worship, and consequently prevents them from looking for God's worship in spirit and really - through Christ, the only authorized Intermediary and Grand Master. In this measure, such societies waste a precious time in madnesses, rites and ceremonies divested of sense, and by substituting the worship of their officers, and the use of words and symbols which have no sense for them, in the worship of God, of a way suited through Christ and according to the spiritual knowledge of the Spirit of a healthy spirit. In this measure, these societies are cruelly bad, without taking into account earnings or financial losses in connection with the membership to one of them "

  Russell criticizes austerely Freemasonry in this Watchtower. He didn't put it any more in the category of a simple brotherhood of mutual aid as he seemed to perceive it in 1877, and as his reader seemed to perceive it. But what was interesting in this message, is that Russell made a mistake in this statement about Freemasonry and that a former freemason pointed out him its errors in the Watchtower of the 1 er in August, 1895 :

  “A BROTHER, once very deep in Secretism, and who knows that the Editor has had no such experience, writes as follows:--

  DEAR BROTHER RUSSELL:--Your remarks under caption of Secret and Beneficial Societies in TOWER, of June 15, '95, seem rather funny to me. You hit the nail very fairly considering that you were hammering so much in the dark. I am glad that you defend the principle of protection as afforded by legitimate or old line companies, life, fire and accident. With you, however, I think their days are numbered. No human business was ever organized with broader and more philanthropic intentions than Insurance, and no business has been so abused and diverted from its real purposes. When Insurance fails (as it has failed) from the effect of selfishness, we can not hope that any human work will succeed. As to the secret societies, they use a ritual applicable to each different degree, which is fully as reasonable as that of many of the churches, and like those of the churches, it is usually of heathen origin. The worship of the Sun appears prominently in Masonry, and so it does in the service of the Catholic and Episcopal churches. The term "Worshipful," as used in masonry, is now practically obsolete, but was formerly and generally used as a term of respect. I occupied the station of "Worshipful Master" for three years, but I never received the adoration of my fellow mortals, and I certainly never gave it to others. Your suggestion, that it is done ignorantly, is a good suggestion, but it does not apply in that case. Perhaps no man in my state, during the twenty odd years I was a member of the fraternity, gave more careful study to the symbolism of Masonry, its moral teaching, and its jurisprudence.
  While masonry does not inculcate the worship of its officers, it does what is worse; for in its essence the symbolism used in the ceremonies are derived from devil worship. Although no longer unequally yoked with those unbelievers (2 Cor. 6:14-17), I do want to say for those who are still in the bondage that they have much excuse. Masonry consists very largely in a series of moral instructions, taught agreeably to ancient usage, by types, symbols and allegorical figures. It is a system, and a very beautiful system--as is very much of Satan's work--when seen from the worldly standpoint. Your fellow-worker in the best (not the worst) of bonds.”
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  Anybody here ever FASTED before?

  by avidbiblereader in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i usually fast three to four times a year, i am going on my third day now.

  i get tremendous health benefits from it as i purge my body of impurities that we eat, drink and otherwise.

  i feel much clearer mentally and physically.. has anybody else ever fasted, for how long, how did it help you and what did you do?.

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  LittleToe

  Six:
  I saw a recent program on calorie restriction that also seemed to indicate that it reduced libido.

  Hmmm - 120 celibate years on short rations, or fifty self indulgent years of fast food and monkey sex - which should I go for? Anyone got a coin?