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  What's a sin?

  by JH in

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  since god forgives continuously, what's a sin?

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  Sin= Self Imposed Nonsense

  Sin is that which separates us from God. Since nothing can ever do that, there can be no such thing as sin. Mistakes Yes! Sin No.
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  Is anyone here fluent in German?

  by Mulan in

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  i got an email today, all in german.

  i need it translated for business purposes.

  it isn't confidential, so if you can translate this, please do so.

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  Country Woman has translated it well.
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  Millions now dying will never have lived.

  by Fleur in

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  this phrase has been going through my mind over and over for the past few days and finally made its way out onto paper, and then here.

  as my beloved grandmother, a "faithful witness of jehovah" has hovered between living and dying for the past few weeks now, i have asked myself again and again what is the justice in her surviving all the things that she has in her 80+ years to come to the end of her faithful service only to be another casualty of the jw policy on blood.

  i think about the fact that for almost sixty of those 80+ years she has lived and would have died at any point for her faith in the "faithful and discreet slave.

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  Good post Esmerelda! How awful to come to the end of your life and realize that you haven't really lived. Even worse is to come to realization that what you have lived for is false. Not to worry however, if we don't get it right this time we get to come back and do it again. I don't believe in death and I don't expect that armageddon will ever come. A Course in Miracles has a line which goes: "The end of the world will not be its destruction, but its translation into heaven." Although most of what happens here is illusion, there is nothing unreal about the love you feel for your grandmother. She is bound to feel it and benefit from it. Perhaps you just happen to be on the "fast track" for waking up.
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  You are God looking for God with God's eyes that's what you are.

  by frankiespeakin in

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  i have been reading that most physists now know that the universe is non-local.

  the principle of uncertainty found in quantum machanics and the debates between niels borh and the einstien epr camp.

  they say that john bells theorem alongwith test that were conducted in the 80's and especially in 1997 prove the universe is not what we see it to be in time.

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  This point is made pretty well in the movie (documentary format, but not really documentary) circulating right now in the local art houses, "What the #&*(bleep) Do We Know". We may have to revise our definitions of what "reality" is. Mystics have long testified that we are dreaming that we are actually here. Our Hindu bretheren refer to this experience on earth as "maya" (illusion).
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  Lots of things are going wrong...

  by Sirona in

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  i'm going through a time when so many things seem to be going wrong.. doesn't it seem as though it never rains, it pours?.

  i know the skeptics will roll their eyes at this suggestion: i think that sometimes things happen this way for a reason, and that when we successfully get through it, we are so much stronger.. what do you think about the idea that trials sometimes come along for a reason?.

  sirona (of the "searching for a reason" class)

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  Sirona- Sorry that you are having a bad time. It will pass. There is a line in the Messiah's Handbook which is contained within Richard Bach's Illusions that goes

  "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts."

  There is another line in that same source that speaks to your relationship with the folks who post here.

  "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof".

  I'm confident that many here will be praying for you.
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  Could use some advice

  by missy04 in

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  could you guys give me some advice?...

  i may or may not vote..i was wondering if it really would be "being part of the world" to vote??.

  i know what the witnesses' take on it is, but i won't base my decision on that.

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  If you have not already registered, you are unlikely to be allowed to vote. I would think this falls under the "render into Caeser the things that are Caeser's." I refuse to listen to those who complain about the government if they declined to vote.
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  Wild Turkey or Jim Beam?

  by under74 in

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  i think i'm partial to wild turkey but i do like jim beam (black label).

  i used to like jack daniels but they've lowered the proof so i refuse to buy it now.

  one of my friends is convinced they both taste like piss...i don't quite understand that...i mean they both do what they're supposed and they don't taste bad to me....any preferences out there?

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  I was living in an RAF Mess back in the 60's and made the mistake of complaining to the bar tender that you couldn't get bourbon in the UK. He began to rumage through his cabinets and came up with a very dusty bottle of Four Roses that hadn't seen the light of day since WW II. He had gone to so much trouble that I didn't have the heart to tell him that Four Roses is about the worst bourbon ever made (except for Old Methusala) so I had him pour us both one. I never did learn to drink Scotch whiskey but the Vodka and Gin were plentiful so I managed to survive. The ale was really good.
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  Raymond Franz

  by FieryIce in

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  does anyone know raymond franz's mailing address?

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  Good Post Ross! There is a line in A Course in Miracles who goes, "The end of the world will not be its destruction but its translation into heaven." We do need to focus on how we are living now. Living in the future is a distraction that prevents us from living fully in the now.
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  Can the "Annoited JW" lose their position if their kids are DF'd or Reprove

  by booker-t in

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  i remember a sister that held book study in her house and she was very devout as a jw.

  she claimed to be of the annoited class and would partake of the wine and unleaven bread.

  i looked up to her as some sort of saint.

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  I surely hope not. My wife is one of the "annointed" .Four of my six kids are DF'd and one is DA'd. I was counting on her to get me in. LOL.
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  I need some answers. Had talk with mother but feeling extremely frustrated

  by azaria in

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  a couple of weeks ago i posted: www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/78808/1278659/post.ashx#1278659 .

  for those who don?t want to read the whole post i bolded the part that i would like answers to.

  at the moment i?m feeling totally drained and upset.

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  I think that Brenda Cloutier raised some very good points. Your mother may very well be in the early stages of senility. It can happen fairly early in some people. I'm not sure that my wife could maintain her sanity if she had to face the fact that everything she has believed for so long and has sacrificed so much for was false. Be very careful of removing the foundation that your mother's faith is built on, crumbly though it is.