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  i have a question

  by willy_think in

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  my farther is a jw, my mother is rc i am neither.

  i have done a study of world beliefs from, atheist to zoraster.

  this includes many wtbts writings, old & new.

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  rabotnik

  Agent2863 wrote:

  "The true & living God can only be found in the Bible .... You will find Him, if you search with all your heart."

  Hmmm ... don't millions of people prayerfully read and study the bible and, yet, arrive at different conclusions as to what it says. Look at the vast number of different "Christian" religions, sects, cults -- each sincerely thinking they have the correct understanding and "God-connection." Look at how self-deceptive and self-delusional very religious bible readers can become -- the scribes and pharisees in Jesus's day and scandalous televangelists today.

  My take on the matter is that our ability to interpret our own experinces and the "realities" of the external world is incredible malleable, subject to suggestion, framed by experience, intellect, etc. So, it is wisdom to contantly challenge our beliefs. My current belief is that anyone who is "very religious" and thinks he/she has a "true" understanding of God -- is in reality worshiping their own ego. We see the world, not as it is -- but as we are. So, when you tell me you've found God or he's found you -- maybe your ego is doing a snow job on you.

  That is my belief -- but I'm constantly checkin' it out!

  r.

  "After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery." -- Chief Luther Standing Bear (I question this too! ....)
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  ARMAGEDDON (at last...sort of)

  by RedhorseWoman in

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  got this through one of my e-mail lists:.

  feared apocalypse gone with the wind .

  brooklyn -- (ap) "armageddon wasn't what it was cracked up to be," says .

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  rabotnik

  Hi RHW:

  I thought it was funny! ... before ... and again.

  r.
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  CIA - true story & just occurred

  by waiting in

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  for your web surfing information:.

  my husband ran into a good friend of his at breakfast this morning; we've known him and his family for over a decade.

  his 36 yr. old son has been semi-diagnosed as schizophrenic (sp?

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  rabotnik

  Hi waiting,

  Re: "red flags." I was thinking how scary it would be (I'd be very distrustful of the CIA) to be "invited" for a three-week stay at any facility they would take one to. Let's hope the guy is released without a lobotomy.
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  CIA - true story & just occurred

  by waiting in

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  for your web surfing information:.

  my husband ran into a good friend of his at breakfast this morning; we've known him and his family for over a decade.

  his 36 yr. old son has been semi-diagnosed as schizophrenic (sp?

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  rabotnik

  Hello waiting:

  Why do red flags go off here:

  pair of CIA agents escorted the son to a State Mental Institution for a free three-week evaluation

  First off, "free" and "American health care" is a contradiction in terms.

  r.
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  THE TEST WAS POSITIVE

  by LDH in

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  i am preggers.. just left the doctor's office and my hubby's office.

  i dropped the little plastic thing-a-ma-jig off, and he said, "what's this?

  are you pregnant?!?!?!?".

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  rabotnik

  Congratulations!

  r.
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  Armageddon is history!

  by rabotnik in

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  thought i would pass along this news item from the morning paper since fred was on the subject of armageddon.

  feared apocalypse gone with the wind.

  brooklyn -- (ap) "armageddon wasnt what it was cracked up to be," says the watchtower bible and tract society, "and, man, are we pissed.

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  rabotnik

  Congratulations Fred! I'm impressed!

  You were able to write a complete sentence using four words and ya' had only two errors! This has got to be a first! (OK, who helped ya' out?)

  r
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  Armageddon is history!

  by rabotnik in

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  thought i would pass along this news item from the morning paper since fred was on the subject of armageddon.

  feared apocalypse gone with the wind.

  brooklyn -- (ap) "armageddon wasnt what it was cracked up to be," says the watchtower bible and tract society, "and, man, are we pissed.

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  rabotnik

  Thought I would pass along this news item from the morning paper since Fred was on the subject of Armageddon. -- r.
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  FEARED APOCALYPSE GONE WITH THE WIND

  BROOKLYN -- (AP) "Armageddon wasn’t what it was cracked up to be," says the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, "and, man, are we pissed." Much to the dismay of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide it seems the long awaited apocalypse came and went this past week without most of the world’s six billion people even noticing.

  The Brooklyn-based religious sect known as Jehovah’s Witnesses has spent over a hundred years zealously proclaiming what they call "Good News" -- that is, the violent destruction of the planet’s entire human population . Decades of speculation , hype and rumor about a fast approaching "really, really shitty day" has turned into exclamations of shock and disappointment.

  "That was it?" exclaimed a dazed Jimmy Joe Jeeter, an elder in a Queens, New York, congregation. "I was expecting something dramatic, you know, earthquakes, fire balls from heaven and billions slaughtered!"

  What Jeeter and his estimated six million fellow believers got, says Watchtower spokesman Eric Von Hussle, was "a really bad smell."

  Information referred to as "New Light" is slated to be released in an upcoming issue of the "Watchtower" magazine. The publication will explain that Armageddon occurred this past Thursday, and despite dramatic predictions, was merely an immense methane cloud issuing from a backyard in Rahway, New Jersey.

  "OK, we were expecting lots of dead bodies," Von Hussle admits, "but I heard that there were lots of people downwind who had to go to emergency rooms because their eyes hurt real bad."

  Some disgruntled members of the sect briefly picketed the Brooklyn offices this morning chanting "How come they’re not dead!" and "Where’s our free real estate?" But the demonstration quickly ended when protesters obediently headed for nearby doughnut shops after being organized into car groups.

  In a press release issued today, Von Hussle claims some sect members were over zealous in their expectations about the magnitude of Armageddon and had misread Watchtower Bible and Tract Society publications. "Sure, we said ‘Armageddon’ -- but some people wanna run ahead and think the worst," Von Hassle said. "It’s imperfect human nature -- what ya‘ gonna do?"

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  Edited by - rabotnik on 24 March 2001 3:9:41

  Edited by - rabotnik on 24 March 2001 4:58:58
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  Big Boys Don't Cry........

  by ISP in

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  big boys don't cry!

  well that's what we are told anyway!

  and i guess this convention is widespread in many cultures.

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  rabotnik

  OK, Expatbrit -- I appreciate your contribution but sense a contradiction here. The freedom to cry or not to cry is up to the individual -- but Jesus' weeping should be seen in reference to his clothing? What should he have been wearing? Capri pants?

  At the same time, I do not judge a man who does cry over extreme circumstances. His
  ideas of self esteem do not have to be the same as mine, and if they differ they are not
  inferior.... Men should not all have to conform to a current politically correct idea about weeping.

  And anyone who says something like "well Jesus wept"....Jesus wore a friggin' robe all
  day too!

  The best,
  nr
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  The "Servant" of God Speaks The &quot...

  by MDS in

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  god's "servant" speaks the "good news" to modern-day "israel" .

  -- see isaiah 53:1; john 12:38.. this is his message for israel today...his special message to be delivered to jehovah's witnesses, of our day...all jehovah's witnesses, present-day or ex-...even bible studies of jehovah's witnesses... speaks to all of them.

  also, as mentioned above in isaiah 50:10 it states,.

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  rabotnik

  For God's sake, MDS -- Lighten up! You're about as much fun as wet shoes!

  "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad." -- Euripides
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  Who wants $20?

  by mommy in

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  i just recieved this in my email today and i thought i would share.

  a well known speaker startes off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill in a room of 200 people, and asked," who would like this $20 bill?".

  hands started going up.. he said," i am going to give this $20 bill to one of you, but first let me do this..." he proceeded to crumple the $20 bill up.. he then asked," who still wants it?".

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  rabotnik

  Thanks Wendy,

  I'm sending it to a friend right now who could use it.

  Wow! People are such works of art! Priceless!

  r.

  "Peter Pan," Wendy cried, clutching him, "you don't mean to tell me that there is a fairy in this room!"