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So, the Womens March ... What Is It For?
by Simon in
1. social
2. current
it seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.

i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?

... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
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What Music have you Been Listening to this Last Year ? Post You tubes if you Like !
by flipper in
1. social
2. entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktxjuyiat4.

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Reading the book of Enoch found some gems.
by Crazyguy in
1. watchtower
2. bible
first off the book of enoch or at least some of it's writings we're found among the dead sea scrolls.

this to me proves that this book was as important to the jews back then as any other.

in the book a few things i noticed.
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Movie coming out for Easter 2014 release: "Heaven Is For Real"
by adamah in
1. social
2. entertainment
with a release date of easter 2014, coming soon to a theatre near you: hollywood (tristar pictures) is capitalizing on the near-death-experience theme with a movie starring greg kinnear.

here's a hd trailer:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih8hmfinsbg.
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The true meaning of "Jehovah" and the "overlapping generation" REVEALED!
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
there has been some renewed interest in the meaning of the name jehovah on the forum in recent weeks.

combined with the ongoing discussion about the new "overlapping generation" teaching, speculation among the friends and among the ex-friends has been reaching something of a frenzy.

so it's perhaps appropriate that a little more should be revealed now about the meaning behind some of the perplexing events that have been taking place.
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Why the Memorial Is Held on the Wrong Day
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. bible
tonight on the evening of april 18, 2011, observant jews worldwide will celebrate passover seder, a night "different from all other nights".

the watchtower society annually schedules the memorial for jehovah's witnesses on a date that is supposed to coincide with the jewish observance of passover, as it would have been reckoned during second temple times (in particular, in the first century ad during the life of jesus).

this year the memorial was observed last night, the evening of april 17. the two religious observances are thus a day out of synth, at least this year.
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Do JWs eat shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, and mussels?
by sacolton in
1. jw
2. friends
i'll play devil's advocate.... true, the mosaic law code prohibited the eating of blood.

but jesus fulfilled the law covenant thus wiping out all the laws previously set.

but then later, (through god's spirit, of course wink wink) the abstaining of blood was again brought to followers of christ.
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what as your first jolt that started your wake up process?
by yourmomma in
1. jw
2. friends
you know when you are in a deep sleep and something happens that may put you on a different level of sleeping, not as deep.

anyway, then i thought, 90 minutes for lunch?

so, there is a group waiting to cross the street.
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Blood of the horseshoe crab helps save humans
by M.J. in
1. watchtower
2. medical
archived story from http://www.detnews.com

wednesday, june 15, 2005

blood of the lowly horseshoe crab helps save humans
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Gehenna
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. bible
as john day discusses in his book on the god moloch, it is well known that in jewish literature and in the nt, gehenna is a term for the fiery portion of the underworld where the resurrected dead are destined to be punished (e.g.

4 ezra 7:36; 2 baruch 59:10, 85:13; mark 9:43, 45, 47), and gehenna itself derives from the aramaic name for the valley of hinnom, gehinnam, the valley to the southeast of jerusalem.

as an eschatological term, gehenna is constantly associated with fires that bring punishment to the wicked.