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  Would You Think Twice About Talking Negatively Toward Islam, The Koran or The Prophet?

  by minimus in

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  would you fear that there might be "consequences"??

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  I find that if I parse my "negative point of view" in the form of a question, there's less chance of offending, and more opportunities for the other person to paint themselves into a corner.

  "Can you explain why a Muslim woman is expected to cover herself? I don't understand this."

  "I don't understand why Allah permits a man to have many wives, can you explain that?"

  "I don't understand why someone like me is considered an infidel, just because I believe differently than you. How does that work, exactly?"
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  Can someone tell me what this site is about? (Any French speaker please)

  by FingersCrossed in

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  http://www.nouvellevie.com/.

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  New Life Church, based near Montreal.

  Try using Google Chrome's translation option.
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  Jehovah's witnesses get HITCH Slapped!

  by clarity in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  christopher hitchens.

  i miss this man .... nobody did it better!.

  the video is mostly about the 10 or so bible commandments,.

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  I wept when he died. I can't believe it's almost been a year.
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  I totally understand why Michael Jackson took propofol

  by Hortensia in

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  i've had it a couple of times in the hospital.

  it's amazing stuff, one second you're awake, the next second you're asleep.

  they turn it off, and you immediately wake up.

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  I've had it too before each of my surgeries.

  The first time, instead of counting backward like the anaesthesiologist requested, I asked: "Can I have some of this 'to go'? zzzzzzzzzz"
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  Why President Obama Must Now Act to End Organized Child Abuse - by Gerald T. Slevin

  by Sol Reform in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  gerald t. slevin: why president obama must now act to end organized child abuse .

  another extremely important essay by harvard-trained former wall street lawyer jerry slevin.

  jerry argues that "it is the right time for president obama to act" to protect children from childhood sexual abuse, as the catholic hierarchy clearly remains intent on stonewalling, diverting, and covering up.

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  @NoStonecutters: Thanks, got it.
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  VOTE TO REVOKE UK CHARITY STATUS OF JW CHARITIES! URGENT!

  by Blablaman in

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  2. friends

  not long left... closes 20/02/2013 @ 08:01am.

  vote now!.

  http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29949 .

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  Scully

  You need to be a British citizen to vote on these petitions. I tried. Sorry it didn't work.
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  Sisters and the Double Standard in the Hall

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.

  " -- paul.

  okay, so this means that a sister has to speak to a householder when on the platform, so she isn't addressing us herself and teaching us something.

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  One of the very basic reasons why I could not, in good conscience, continue as a JW. The constant reminders that I was "just a Sister™" and therefore amounted to a worthless 'hank of hair and a bag of bones' just never sat right with me.
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  Bible Character Cards on jw.org??

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm not joking.

  this is in the family/children section on jw.org - mary - joshua - daniel - ruth - and more!.

  i'm lmao that these are so similar to hockey cards or baseball cards that my siblings and i used to get in trouble for collecting when we were kids.

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  Yes - what about Ja'el? She was another badass female Bible character.

  It doesn't get more badass than drugging an enemy general and then hammering a tent spike through his head.
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  Bible Character Cards on jw.org??

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm not joking.

  this is in the family/children section on jw.org - mary - joshua - daniel - ruth - and more!.

  i'm lmao that these are so similar to hockey cards or baseball cards that my siblings and i used to get in trouble for collecting when we were kids.

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  Even the card dedicated to Mary doesn't even hint at the WTS belief that Mary was not "forever virgin" and that she bore other children, Jesus' brothers and sisters.

  I'm thinking that these collector cards are geared to any potential visitor to the site, particularly fundamentalist Christian parents who home school their kids, looking for acceptable Ned Flanders-y type activities for their children.
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  Bible Character Cards on jw.org??

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm not joking.

  this is in the family/children section on jw.org - mary - joshua - daniel - ruth - and more!.

  i'm lmao that these are so similar to hockey cards or baseball cards that my siblings and i used to get in trouble for collecting when we were kids.

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  I think it's hilarious that on these cards they have pegged Adam's creation at 4026 BCE. So if you add 7000 years (= 1 Creative Day™) to that you get 2975 CE (no zero year). Minus 1000 years for Jesus' rule post-Armageddon™ and you can determine that 1975 is where they place 6000 years since Adam's creation.

  They are still hanging on to that old chestnut.