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"WT & Awake" Song
by patio34 ini received this song by randy baker via jan groenveld and would ike to post it here for the benefit of ones who have missed it.. the 2nd and 4th line of ea stanza have an implied rhyme, indicated by the ( ), that goes with the last word on the 1st and 3rd lines.. watchtower and awke (sing to the tune of 'sweet violets'--let me know if you know that tune!).
there once was an elder who stood at my door,.
he said i was wicked, my wife was a-( ).
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Whimsy
by patio34 ini didn't know where to post this--it's just a funny experience i had today.. i planted two new rose bushes and went out to put the hose on them this morning before work.
a medium-sized bird swooped down and hit me lightly in the back.
later at noon i went out to change the hose and the bird swooped at me twice--i didn't think i'd make it out of the yard!
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Atheists/Agnostics/Prayer
by patio34 inon the subject of prayer: this is addressed to the more atheistic or agnostic ones amongst us.. now, all those years i prayed really hard when times were tough, and then things worked out.
i now believe it was my own hard work that gave the solutions.
prayer was helpful in that i felt i had help.
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Amateur Counselors & Nice "Wicked"...
by patio34 intwo observations since leaving the jws:.
1. are the elders really 'teachers'?
in the public talk they have to follow the outline provided by the wt.
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Origin of Baptisms
by patio34 inquestion to throw out on the table:.
where did baptisms originate?
it doesn't seem to be part of the hebrew scriptures (the ot), so why did john the baptist start baptising folks?.
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JW Practices
by patio34 inmaybe this irked you in the past?
i had a hard time convincing--nay, believing--that we lived in such baaaad times.
jws have the belief that times are bad, so we had the task of convincing the householders of that.
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Mark Twain "Letters from the Earth"
by patio34 ina few excerpts from twain's book:.
on angels observing the animals on earth: .
"busy, all busy--mainly in persecuting each other...here are countless multitudes of creatures, and they all kill, kill, kill, they are all murderers...(says the) divine one: they are not to blame.
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Demons & Possession--New Teaching?
by patio34 inwhilst reading the bible straight thru this last time (& probably is the last time) i noticed an odd thing.
i'll just throw it out on the table and see what it brings.. starting in the gospels, demons and demon-possession seem to be very common and no one seems shocked.
in fact, casting out demons is a definite part of the disciples'and jesus' work.. but, in the ot, there is nary a mention of demon possession, nor rarely a word about demons at all.
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Dinasours & the Bible
by patio34 inwhat has precipitated my pulling back from the org is the understanding of dinasours.
now gen. 1:30 says all vegetation was given to man and beast.
isa.
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Abraham & Sumerians
by patio34 ini have been reading some on sumerian mythology.
now, it's said the sumerians predated hebrew writings by several centuries or longer.
the sumerians are the first writers.