Posts by Stealth

10 pauls warning about false stories is part of his first letter to timothy, a christian overseer who was charged with preserving the purity of the congregation and helping fellow believers to remain faithful.

Stealth

One can't help but wonder what "absurd tales of magic and sorcery presented as truth" the book of Tobias contains.

Tobias contains 14 small chapters, that mostly covers the family history. The phrase 'praise god' or 'praise the lord' occurs many times in this book, so what is it exactly that the G.B. of JWs would have a problem with this book?

Tobias needed a wife, but the law said he must marry within his family, or die.

Tobias cousin wanted to hook Tobias up with his sister Sara. Sara was the only legal (family) female Tobias can marry without breaking gods law and getting put to death. She was the only available woman that met god's standard..... But Tobias cousin Sara, was already married 7 times before, and all 7 husbands were killed by an incubus, in the bed room, because the demon wanted to have sex with Tobias cousin sara.

Tobias was purplexed and afraid to marry Sara because of the previous 7 dead husband that ALL died in the marrage chamber.

Tobias catches a big ass fish, so big it could eat him. The angel Raphael appears to Tobias and tells him to cut out the heart and gall and save it, he then then ate the rest of the fish.

The angel Raphael tells Tobias that it is okay to marry Sara and that if he smokes the heart in gall in their bed room then it will drive the incubus away.

Tobias does what Rapheal tells him and it works. They are blessed have many children and live a long life together.

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Seems like good old testament material to me!

I can see why the governing body of JWs would have a problem with the superstition and absurd tales of magic and sorcery presented as truth.

Everyone knows that the demons quit having sex with women after the flood of Noah's day! Duh!

Edited to add: The fish gall can also be used to cure the blind.

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News: Tamara Coakley's life saved by cow's blood

by AndersonsInfo in

revolutionary 'blood' saves womanhttp://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/revolutionary-blood-hboc-201-saves-tamara-coakley/story-e6frf7jo-1226050068016.

herald sun - lucie van den berg - 3 hours agoa last-ditch effort to save mrs coakley's life led to 10 units of the haemoglobin-based oxygen carrier, called hboc-201 to be flown in from the us.

picture: craig borrow source: herald sun the alfred hospital trauma service director dr mark fitzgerald .... congratulations on a medical miraclehttp://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/editorials/congratulations-on-a-medical-miracle/story-e6frfhqo-1226050128973.

Stealth

Did Hemopure ever get FDA approval in the USA?

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Jewelry advice

by TD in

as every married man knows (or should know) anniversaries where the number ends in either zero or five are more special and important than all the others.

your 20th is somehow more special than the 19th) anyhow, i've got one of those "magic number" anniversaries coming up and am thinking about jewelry.

any advice for getting the most bang for your buck?

Stealth

If you are considering a diamond, buy used. Diamonds don't wear out! If you buy used you can save 80% over retail.

Meet at a public Jewlers, most will let you look at it under a scope and will verify that it is in fact real or fake. Have the used diamond re-mounted in a new custom built *new* ring.

The retail markup on diamonds is just crazy. Don't do it. If you are not familiar with how diamonds are graded by color, clarity and size, you will want to do some research on that first.

My last used diamond purchase was $900 for a 1.66 ct princes cut stone that had a very small chip on the top edge. Had the stone recut down to 1.51 ct for $300 and mounted in a new ring. It apprased for $13,000 but I only have $2,000 investment.

This approach does require a time factor that you may not have.

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That Middle Finger

by prophecor in

thru out history, has there ever been a time when throwing up that middle finger ever meant anything positive?

me thinks its been universally a bad sign from day one.

have you ever wondered?.

Stealth

History of the middle finger...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1279/whats-the-origin-of-the-finger

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Im now out...

by MrFreeze in

despite the fact that i officially left the jws last october i still had a big issue to deal with.

i was still living at home.

many of you are aware of the kind of pressure that parents can put on you.

Stealth

My advice to any on the fence is, leave now and never look back.

I know of no exJW that ever wished they spent more time staying in.

Good for you, enjoy the awesome journey of the real life.

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HELP! How do I FADE without being DF'D??

by doubtful in

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friends

i'm in a tough position.

i gave my last talk as an ms a couple of weeks ago, and i haven't been out in field service in well over a month.

i "came out" to the closest people in my life...namely my gf and mother...i was also recently asked to step down from being a servant - largely because my heart was no longer in it and i couldn't stomach going from door to door peddling magazines and other literature full of lies and logical fallacies.

Stealth

The depression will buy you some time. If you get the urge to attend a meeting, be sure to show up with a beard. This will irritate them, but there is nothing they can do to you for having a beard. They will label you one with a B.A. (Bad attitude). Then rub it in their face and go out in field service with the beard and ask to work with some of the elders or MS. That gets others in the congregation talking and asking questions like whats really wrong with beards? Jesus had one right? I had many pubs tell me that it really looked good on me and they did not understand why JWs can't have them.

This makes the elders so uncomfortable, but have no basis for it, that they will be glad to see you leave and not come back.

If you make any comments at a WT study, talk about JESUS a lot. Only comment on paragraphs where you can mention Jesus. This weirds them out too for some reason.

Then just stop coming one day, they will be so happy to see you gone.

I did this 10 years ago and no one has ever attempted to contact me since my last visit to the KH and my phone number has never changed.

Good advice from Metatron!!!!!

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Bill Bowen of Silent Lambs?

by PublishingCult in

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friends

apparently, i am so out of the loop and did not know bill bowen has been disfellowshipped from jwn.. could someone kindly give me the short version or post a link that lays out the narrative so that i can understand what happened with him .

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Stealth

I participate in a couple of other discussion forums that would never tolerate much of what is allowed here. Non JW/XJW posters get warned and/or banned all of the time, without all of the whining that goes on this forum when it happens here.

IMO the 'Your just like the elders or JW' card gets over played on this forum.