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Posts by Sirona
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106MOUTHY'S 81st Birthday
by BenV inmouthy, is today your 81st birthday?
i saw on a post you wrote -- and it said birthday!
(don't know how these things work?).
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One Reason Why I Worship the God of the Bible
by snowbird inwhile this may be construed as a rebuttal to nvr's thread re: why i post about atheism, that is not my intent.. it is my intent, however, to show how i developed a belief in and love for the god of the bible.. my paternal grandfather, who died before i was born, was a baptist preacher, so you could say i cut my teeth on the bible.
i loved having it read to me, and once i learned how, reading it for myself.
i'm convinced that spirituality runs deep in my blood.. i've always had such a strong sense of right and wrong that injustices make me literally sick.
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Sirona
Others on this thread have adequately pointed out that other gods also claim they have created, in other religious texts. Therefore the god of the bible can't be said to be "the one" just because he claims it.
Of course, its a choice of yours to believe the bible and use it as a basis for your faith and that is of course OK. The problem arises when you make claims which don't hold water.
Sirona
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One Reason Why I Worship the God of the Bible
by snowbird inwhile this may be construed as a rebuttal to nvr's thread re: why i post about atheism, that is not my intent.. it is my intent, however, to show how i developed a belief in and love for the god of the bible.. my paternal grandfather, who died before i was born, was a baptist preacher, so you could say i cut my teeth on the bible.
i loved having it read to me, and once i learned how, reading it for myself.
i'm convinced that spirituality runs deep in my blood.. i've always had such a strong sense of right and wrong that injustices make me literally sick.
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One Reason Why I Worship the God of the Bible
by snowbird inwhile this may be construed as a rebuttal to nvr's thread re: why i post about atheism, that is not my intent.. it is my intent, however, to show how i developed a belief in and love for the god of the bible.. my paternal grandfather, who died before i was born, was a baptist preacher, so you could say i cut my teeth on the bible.
i loved having it read to me, and once i learned how, reading it for myself.
i'm convinced that spirituality runs deep in my blood.. i've always had such a strong sense of right and wrong that injustices make me literally sick.
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Sirona
That is ONE of the reasons why I'm so impressed with the God of the Bible. He states what is going to happen - and it happens.
WE ALL DIE.
You chose to ignore my question. I asked what make the bible, or the God of the bible so special when there are LOTS of other religious writings which state the surety of death for all.
Am I to assume that the Egyptian deities are on the same level as your god? They inspired the "book of the dead" as its commonly known.
The Koran also has a fair bit to say about death too. Does this mean that Allah is the true god?
etc.
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Sirona
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Do you think the Society has spies on sites like this?
by easyreader1970 innot that any of them would post, but do you think that they have people who they secretly have visit anti-jw sites and forums like this just for the purpose of seeing what people are saying about them and what their current members might stumble upon?.
if you google jws, the first couple are official, the next two are wikis, then you have an anti-jw site and then there's this one.
any current or potential member that is looking for more information than is published by the wbts will be directed to these sites.
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Sirona
Yes. PROOF:
1. when Simon first started this site he was still a JW. The elders soon were monitoring this site and they interrogated him regarding how many hits he was getting and who browsed the site (apostates?) . Simon was disassociated (despite never writing a letter) and strongly discouraged from keeping this site up
2. The U. N. scandal proves that they read these sites. Within about a day or two of it appearing here, the WTS had withdrawn their membership as an NGO of the UN.
Sirona
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What should I do with all of these books?
by Confession inwhile growing up, my dad maintained a rather huge wts library.
i liked the idea of being able to pick out one of those old books from the1940s or earlier and read what they were saying back then.
well for the first time, in september of 2006 at the age of 40, i finally became a home-owner.
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How do you confront someone abusing their daughter?
by Paralipomenon inseeing how child abuse has affected many people here, i am hoping for some advice.
we have friends of our family that have it on good authority that a father is abusing his four year old daughter.
he's always seemed rather creepy to me, which is a bit of the problem.
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Sirona
Report it to the authorities NOW
They can interview the girl before her parents get chance to scare her or shut her up...
They can medically examine the girl to see if there is physical evidence - THIS IS SO IMPORTANT because if there is evidence this guy could go to prison based upon it
If you warn them that the cops are coming then they'll make plans and stop this examination from happening.
Sirona
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Horoscopes/star signs
by HB ina friend who is an intelligent high-flying business woman is going through a relationship break-up and is also recovering from breast cancer.
she is not religious but has been turning to 'new-age' beliefs to try to help her cope, (she has visited a numerologist and had her palm read).
she has just sent me an email with a description of 12 different personalities based on star signs.
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Sirona
Since I believe that the universe is connected in ways we don't always appreciate, I do believe that the planets and stars reflect things in a spiritual sense.
In the Qaballah, each Sephirah has a planetary attribution and they shed light upon the spiritual principles of the sephirah. I personally ascribe to the hermetic qaballah.
As for newspaper astrology and "this is your type" - I think these are oversimplified and therefore largely inaccurate. Sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesn't.
I do think that we are affected as individuals (and as nations) by things like phases of the moon and eclipses. Also there appears to be a connection with the astrological "ages" and events upon earth.
Sirona
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Article on Mental Health and witnesses
by chikikie inall i can say is wow!!
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http://www.seanet.com/~raines/mental.html.
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One Reason Why I Worship the God of the Bible
by snowbird inwhile this may be construed as a rebuttal to nvr's thread re: why i post about atheism, that is not my intent.. it is my intent, however, to show how i developed a belief in and love for the god of the bible.. my paternal grandfather, who died before i was born, was a baptist preacher, so you could say i cut my teeth on the bible.
i loved having it read to me, and once i learned how, reading it for myself.
i'm convinced that spirituality runs deep in my blood.. i've always had such a strong sense of right and wrong that injustices make me literally sick.
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