Spicy, really good pepperoni, gooey cheese, nice yeasty crust...ok now I want pizza...
millie210
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What Makes 🍕 Pizza Delicious To Tou?
by minimus ini am watching a tv show that highlights area restaurants and pizza is the subject.
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what is your favorite style and type of pizza?.
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How were God’s true worshipers to determine virginity of pagan girls?
by Ireneus inin the genocidal instructions supposedly given by god we find this interesting command: “now kill all the boys.
and kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” (numbers 31:17, 18).
in the midst of killing and plundering, how were the israelites to determine whether each girl “has slept with a man” or not?.
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millie210
Appreciate all the above comments.
One other thought...
in terms of ethnic cleansing, many tribes and cultures would keep alive "breedable" females to promote their own tribal well being by producing offspring.
A woman who already had a child or who could possibly be pregnant with one, would be more trouble and more likely to raise that child with her own heritage in mind (see Moses). If the child was male he could grow up to be trouble. Why bother?
A woman impregnated while young with a tribal child would be more cooperative, She would be less likely to buck the status quo and also less likely to run away.
The save the virgins rule had a practical aspect from the point of warring tribes and domination of your enemies.
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Watchtower Says: "Please Do Not Touch CALEB and SOPHIA" (at Warwick HQ)
by HiddlesWife inplease check out this thread from exjw reddit: .
https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/8ev6qv/watchtower_says_please_do_not_touch_caleb_and/ .
any thoughts?.
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millie210
I seem to remember a thread a few years back showing the Mormon version of Caleb and Sophia. Different names same game.
Interesting to note that the Mormons had theirs first so guess who's the proud owner of the knock offs?
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Refusing to become an elder
by ragingmad ini know someone who's family is very spiritual and says that her brother only pioneers and does not want to become an elder for various reasons, probably not wanting to deal with people's problems, and also the tremendous workload they put on them.
is this considered refusing advancement by god, or just choosing your own way?
he has not been "tapped" to become one, but he merely hasn't strived to become one..
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millie210
Wasnt there some statement about 4 years ago that "sisters" should only consider ministerial servants and elders as marriage material?
That is classic cult behavoir. Control the males by controlling access to the females.
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Family members return to the cult years after not being assoicated.
by blownaway ini have a couple of family members who not so much went back but never were associated and joined.
one is a cousin, he is about 60 now.
maybe a bit older.
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millie210
You know what blownaway? From far away (me) I see a certain perspective on your Aunts behavior.
Your (dead) uncle is now the husband she always wanted. She gets to paint the marriage as successful after the fact. She is "holding the farm for him and being devout with the JWs, what a heroine in that small little local circle - or maybe just in her own mind?
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The "Whole World" was flooded??
by stuckinarut2 inso, jehovah's witnesses and many other biblical literalists think that the "whole world" was flooded during noahs day.. they take the "accounts" in genesis literally.
so that means that areas as far away as australia, russia, argentina, greenland, antarctica were all visited by noah and his family to gather animals and preach before it happened right??
they then took everything back to the middle east to board the ark...uh huh.... yet, the same expression in the bible for the "whole world" is also used in the account about the "worldwide famine" in josephs day!
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millie210
I really liked Jordan Petersons lecture on this topic.
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Do older faders fear better than younger faders
by joe134cd ini read and replied to a post today about weather there were any benefits in been a jw.
as much as i now dislike the religion, i had to agree that there was an up side, due to their strong stance on alcohol, gambling, smoking, and sexual practice.
we would all agree that these can be terrible vices that can get out of control.. i was at one point a true believer, who believed in these rules, and to a point have benefited from abstaining from these practices.
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millie210
I think mileage may vary on this question.
An older fader would perhaps not be as tempted by the allures of society.
They might also find it harder to merge their longstanding social and lifestyle habits as a JW with a brand new life though. Making friends might be a challenge.
A younger fader might find a lot of things they have to face in a world without JW restrictions and will have to figure that out. They may have an easier time "starting over" friendship and even location wise though.
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I'm a best man to a fader and his family who are JWs are attending
by usualusername1 ini'm a best man to a fader like myself and just now i have found out that 1/3 of guests are jws.
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would love some ideas on things to say in the speech to not cause offense to them.. thx in advance.. paul.
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millie210
Dont use the word luck! They dont like that word at all.
Oh, and let me just say.....good luck with your speech.
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So What Drastic Money Change is Next?
by OnTheWayOut inokay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books.
they reduced printing of mags.
they drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.they cut d.o.
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millie210
I think they will start a university. Use the "wicked" world approach and the need to educate young people in a proper manner.
Their version of a Brigham Young Uni.
Then they can get parents to pay, kids to get 4 jobs and work their way through and most importantly, if they are accredited they can dip in to scholarships, grants and loan programs from the government and multiple private agencies.
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millie210
Since this is a thread about school shootings and not gun control I was thinking outside the "gun" box for a minute.
The what might be the weapon but the "why" does not get looked at much. Whatever is wrong inside these shooters is wrong before they pick up the gun. Trying to address that would be time well spent by us all.
I dont claim to have an answer. I suspect that kids are growing up today in a society that does not address some basic need.
What need?
I dont know. I do wonder about the lack of heros in todays world. No clear cut good guys or bad guys everyones efforts picked apart on social media. Does that play some role?
Or maybe the institutional upbringing of children? Most kids go in to daycare just after birth and then the school system. All institutional upbringing. Does this foster some elemental detachment we are unaware of?
Dont claim to have the answers, just a lot of questions like everyone else.