"But Hudson says the only one prospering is Dollar, who wears expensive suits, drives a Rolls Royce and owns his own Lear jet to whisk him across the country spreading his message of prosperity."
Well, he is aptly named, isn't he?
Posts by nilfun
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1Cult or Christianity?
by apple829 inhttp://www.apologeticsindex.org/d11.html
does any of this sound familiar?.
sherryl
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Sacred Site...
by one_ugly_time inthe internet sacred text archive - http://www.sacred-texts.com has tons of interesting texts on-line, covering many eras, religions, and other historical readings... .
i had never heard of some of these texts, so i started clicking away to find out what all these where about.... one that intrigued me, with possible relevancy to the times at the start of russelism, is the works of thelema... here is what the intro says -- (note the dates).
these are texts relating to the philosophy of thelema, many of them written by the occultist aleister crowley who founded the organization a.'.
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Wow, one could get lost for days on that site
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Razor Clamin
by Carmel injust finished a great diner of fresh razor clams i dug on this mornings low tide.
mmmmmm wonderful!.
carm
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nilfun
A friend of mine did that in Mexico and got squirted in the eye by a very vicious clam! Not exactly my favorite way to have them (though I do love clam chowdah).
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Mother reunited with 'dead' child
by Simon in.
amazing story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3545413.stm.
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nilfun
But how on earth did the mother "recognize" her daughter? The last time she saw the baby was just a few days old, and then 6 years?
My guess is that Delimar (a.k.a. Aaliyah) probably looks amazingly like her siblings.
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The Effeminate JW man
by Maverick intime to pick on the guys!
i was an adult when i was conned into the corporate cult known as jehovahs witnesses.
before that time i hung with a rough crowd of guys who carried guns and did bad things to people they didn't like, or who were stupid enough to let these guys know they disliked them.
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These last two are not even exclusive to men.
Just the last two?
1)Fighting men that can kick the shit out of you. And then fighting men the can kick more shit out of you next time. At the very least fighting back when someone steps to you.
Done that. Does that mean I am on the road to masculinity?
2)Hitting on girls that are out of your league but seriously hitting on them and not just as a gag.
3)Flirting with girls in general
Don't swing that way, so no further comment on those two "increments" of masculinity....
4)Doing the things that you are afraid to do but know are important to do. Or basically overcoming your fears in general.
Are you sure number four is only a guy thang? I'm just askin'....
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Farting at the Kingdom Hall.
by avishai inonce, when i was nine, i farted so loud, from the back row, that the guy giving the prayer started laughing and had to try really hard not to totally lose it.. any other stories?
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I knew I'd seen that green creature somewhere before!
At first I thought it was Sigmund The Seamonster, but then I remembered that Sigmund was way cuter.
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The Process Starts Early in Childhood.
by Blueblades inthe process starts early in childhood:.
no playing with children of other faiths.. no reading of non-watch tower books.. no birthday parties.. no holiday celebrations.. no christmas presents.. no easter egg hunts.. no halloween activity.. the list goes on and on .this ensures isolation that brings almost total separation from all others for whom christ jesus died.. the feelings of "persecution" begins early in the teen years:.
no saluting the flag or engaging in any religious activity.. no school sports, plays, or social activities.. no close association with "worldy classmates".. and before "new light", no vaccinations.. the young person stands out as "weird", "different", and this by design.. continuing in this process means rejecting of normal relations with neighbors ( fellow schoolmates ) instead of relationships, the young witness is involved in multiple indoctrination sessions and public displays of religious activity ( street corner and door to door work ), which locks him or her into the control of the watch tower system.. further, the witness must associate only with other members, date only other members ( "a chaperon" was required under fred franz ).marry only other members, ( earlier marriage was discouraged ) but if he or she does marry and has children, they must be prepared for the cycle to be repeated.. this lifestyle robs them not only of the joys and delights of childhood, but also handicaps their preparation for a normal life.. from the "four presidents", edmond c.gruss.page 71,72.. i know how true this is , having raised my children,from birth to adult-hood according to the society's process of raising families in the indoctrination of the watch tower.
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I now realize that the theft of a childhood can never be made right. Once those tender years are gone -- they are lost forever.
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I think Prince needs to tone it down even more.
I feel that his concerts would be a bit
more uplifting if he incorporated a few
Kingdom Melodies into his sets.Also, I have never seen a brother in good standing
do his hair like that. Time to go back to the
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Wheres OUTLAW ?
by OUTLAW instuck in the middle of friggin nowhere,actually 50 miles north of nowhere!(lol!
) so far i`ve survived fire storms,drought,floods,snow storms,wild animals,bin robbed and left for dead.this just isn`t any fun (lol!
).i`ll be making my way back to civilization shortly.i`ve found a public library to post from,thank god and simon,my ciber home is still here..so how`s your day been going?...outlaw
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nilfun
Welcome back, Outlaw
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Would you allow your children to see the Passion? What age?
by LyinEyes inafter reading megadudes review of what he thought of the movie, i really want to see it now.. gore doesn't really bother me in movies, like braveheart, saving private ryan etc.
i hate the slasher movies for the sake of gore thou.. i guess i am the type of person that is so curious about everything, that even if it is gorey, i would want to know what jesus went thru, as painful as it may be to watch.. but should you let your children see it........ since i havent seen it , i was wondering for those who have seen it,,,,,,,,would you let your kids see it?.
what age,,do you think is appropriate ?
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Few parents said they regretted bringing kids along. The ones who did said the vivid violence cast in the context of a religious lesson probably was beyond their children's understanding.
Such was the case with 5-year-old Romeo Dominguez's parents.
"He got jumpy a couple times when the children turned into demons," said his mother, Melody Dominguez, 22, a Catholic.
She was referring to the depiction of possessed children who torment Judas Iscariot after he betrays Jesus, eventually driving the disciple to suicide.
Like many scenes in the film, the demonic children are not found in the Bible, but are based on the reported mystic visions of Anne Emmerich, a 19th-century German nun who reportedly inspired Gibson.
"If we had it to do over, we wouldn't take him," said Romeo's father, Joseph Dominguez, 25.
Candy and Luis Cuevas had no regrets about taking their three children with them to a late afternoon showing Wednesday at Colonnade. The Cuevases have two daughters, ages 9 and 8, and a 3-year-old son.
"I want them to see why Jesus died, and it was a great movie," said Candy Cuevas, 29, a Jehovah's Witness. "They have a better perspective from seeing it, I think."
Her children, as well as many others interviewed, described being disturbed by the film but said they were happy to have seen it.
Almost all of the youngsters brought up the same images as having stuck in their minds: the devil, the demons and the unceasing drubbings of Jesus.
"It was just sad," said the Cuevas' 9-year-old daughter, Kathleen, referring to the crucifixion scenes.
Child psychiatrist Michael Brody, a professor at the University of Maryland, said both the violence and one of the themes of the film are inappropriate for such young children.