Posts by StinkyPantz

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I need to pray, but this proves there's no one to pray to.

by SixofNine in

as do a hundred other images kicking my head from falluja and ramadi and cote de ivoire.

what else can you say though, but "jesus christ!"?.

http://www.chron.com/cs/cda/ssistory.mpl/front/2913542 .

StinkyPantz

Each must answer as they feel...

Honestly the concept is new to me, that's why I asked about it. Anyways, I'm not expecting an answer, some folks don't want to discuss the same things I want to discuss.

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I need to pray, but this proves there's no one to pray to.

by SixofNine in

as do a hundred other images kicking my head from falluja and ramadi and cote de ivoire.

what else can you say though, but "jesus christ!"?.

http://www.chron.com/cs/cda/ssistory.mpl/front/2913542 .

StinkyPantz

Certainly not, and that's why I would not call him/her/it "God" (capital). As I said, I don't know whom I pray to (sometimes). Probably nobody. I just notice in some situations I do feel like praying. That's all.

Am I being intrusive? It's just that I have never heard of someone praying, and it not being to a god. Prayer, as I've learned it to mean, is a petition/supplication to God.

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LittleToe's Travels - Nov 2004

by LittleToe in

jw
friends

so the prelude to this wee trip starts with work - doesn't it always.. as part of my recent job change i had to write a paper that needed agreement with most of the local authorities (health board, council - which is kinda like our version of city hall, etc.

) before it gets submitted to the ministers at the scottish parliment at the end of december.. well, after one long round of consultation (during which i produced a 39 page consultation document), another few weeks creating the first draft (another 27 pages) i was all ready to go to press the next day when i got an eleventh hour email (at 5:30pm, just before i went home).

it changed everything!

StinkyPantz

LT-

For one thing, it widens out my opportunities to tell lots of people about the JW's.
Because it's multi-denominational I can get to a wide range of church groups.
It's just my part in the war, and one that I've not told many about, because I don't tend to like to blow my own trumpet

Well I'm glad to learn this. Good for you, and good luck!

I genuinely hope that the WTS may one day come to rue the day that they taught me how to speak publically!
The Public Talk was just a beginning!

Yeah, I'm thinking about using that training in the political arena ..

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I need to pray, but this proves there's no one to pray to.

by SixofNine in

as do a hundred other images kicking my head from falluja and ramadi and cote de ivoire.

what else can you say though, but "jesus christ!"?.

http://www.chron.com/cs/cda/ssistory.mpl/front/2913542 .

StinkyPantz

I can pray. I can't help praying. Whom I pray to I don't know, but I would not call him God.

"God" is merely a title, like "pharoah" or "president". The entity that you pray too, do you see him/her/it as "almighty", "loving", "all-knowing"? If so, the same complaints can be registered regardless of title.

As humans we would be appalled if a parent allowed his child to be killed when he could easily stop it. So, yes, we have a difficult time understanding why "God" is doing that very thing. Hopefully he understands that we have nothing else to compare him/her/it to but ourselves.

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LittleToe's Travels - Nov 2004

by LittleToe in

jw
friends

so the prelude to this wee trip starts with work - doesn't it always.. as part of my recent job change i had to write a paper that needed agreement with most of the local authorities (health board, council - which is kinda like our version of city hall, etc.

) before it gets submitted to the ministers at the scottish parliment at the end of december.. well, after one long round of consultation (during which i produced a 39 page consultation document), another few weeks creating the first draft (another 27 pages) i was all ready to go to press the next day when i got an eleventh hour email (at 5:30pm, just before i went home).

it changed everything!

StinkyPantz

I graduated on Thursday, as an evangelist

Wow.. so what does this mean for you?

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There is NO annual service report in the Janaury 1st WT

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

well, i have confirmed rumors that have gone around about there being no annual service report for the january 1st, 2005 issue.. .

it seems, for reasons unknown, that the watchtower has ended another decades long tradition.

in the second study article for the january 1st, 2005 watchtower, entitled, "trained to give a thorough witness," paragraph 24 reads: .

StinkyPantz

I blame the Internets..

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Jesus Married?

by sandy in

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i am curious: any here believe that jesus could have been married to mary magdalene?

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StinkyPantz

Jesus came for one purpose only.....to sacrafice his life as an exchange for many. His time here was not for having a wife,kids, a job, or anything else but to lay down his life.

He only preached for a couple years though. During that time, he DID have a job as a carpenter. A wife seems reasonable too. If I remember right, he didn't ALWAYS know what his "purpose" was. Wasn't that revealed to him when he was baptized? If so, why would he not have married before this?

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