THE GLADIATOR

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  Who The Heck Is Sparlock?

  by minimus in

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  i must admit, i have no idea who sparlock is.

  can someone explain what the fuss is all about?.

  thank you..

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  THE GLADIATOR

  The video is sick! The kid was just having fun with a harmless plastic toy and exercising his imagination. Kids play with dragons, talking animals and cartoon characters. The manipulative way in which his mother pressured him in to believing that his purpose in life was to please her imaginary Jehovah is shameful.

  Did it not occur to the Watchtower Society, that talk of Jehovah and Satan is magical belief. Interestingly the mother and son in the video were also imaginary plastic toys, magical talking and appearing to be humans. The Watchtower Society should be kept away from children.
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  How the Shrinking of the Awake! has Affected Many!

  by God_Delusion in

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  the watchtower society never thinks things through.

  the halving of the awake!

  magazine has had an adverse affect on many.. http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/awake-bloopers/awake-magazine-cut-to-16-pages/.

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  James - Reading the bible from cover to cover is easy for me.

  Since I removes all the nonsense, all I am left with is Ecclesiastes and the cover.
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  What was the weirdest thing ever said to you as a JW?

  by falseprophet in

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  i was about 8-10 years old and twice i had people tell me that i should not pioneer but to go to bethel because i "was governing body material".. one was a co and another a do.. i didn't even believe in god, never have so that makes it weird!.

  what wierd things were told?.

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  I always asked too many questions and continued to ask the Elders questions about certain anomalies. They advised me that I was developing a ‘spirit of independence.’ I expected everything to add up and make sense, after all this was ‘the truth’ – wasn’t it?

  One senior brother of fifty years standing explained that the most important thing in the organization and in each congregation was unity. It did not matter whether what we believed was accurate, so long as we all believed the same.

  This was only one of the many weird things said to me. If they were all recorded, the whole world could not contain them.
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  why jesus never tempted with sex?

  by criticalwitness in

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  i mean really whats the number one reason a dub gets kicked out the org?

  one of stongest natural desires and he was supposed to be a full fledged human all desires and everything i mean satan tempted him with food but no sexual pleasure?

  and was he attracted to women?

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  THE GLADIATOR

  It's true that Jesus may well have married as was the Jewish tradition.

  On the other hand, if all things really did come into existence by Jesus and through him, he would would have been the creator of woman. Knowing the anatomy of women inside out, too much information may have caused their sex appeal to lose its flavour on the bedpost over night.
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  I miss Outlaw.

  by Chariklo in

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  someone mentioned outlaw to me the other day.. i do miss him.

  i thought he was coming back after a break.. does anyone have an update?.

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  THE GLADIATOR

  Outlaw is fun. Often people that turn everything into a joke, do so to mask a certain sadness.

  I hope this is not the case with outlaw. I miss him too.
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  What is the most ridiculous thing you've ever fought about - verbal sparring included?

  by Iamallcool in

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  THE GLADIATOR

  I entered the word ‘alumina’ as a solution in a crossword I was doing. My wife claimed I was making up words. I protested my innocence but she got very worked up, so I looked up alumina in the dictionary and it confirmed that alumina was, ‘synthetically produced aluminium oxide.’

  She said the dictionary was wrong. Such is life!
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  How the Shrinking of the Awake! has Affected Many!

  by God_Delusion in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the watchtower society never thinks things through.

  the halving of the awake!

  magazine has had an adverse affect on many.. http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/awake-bloopers/awake-magazine-cut-to-16-pages/.

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  THE GLADIATOR

  Many years ago I said that Awake! should be incorporated into Watchtower magazine. Should be printed monthly, contain each months study articles, the kingdom ministry and topical articles that would have appeared in Awake!

  It should called Watchtower - The official magazine of Jehovah's Witnesses . It should only be available to the membership. Special leaflets could be printed worded to appeal to the public.

  But what does an illiterate gladiator know?
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  What it takes to become an atheist.

  by dontplaceliterature in

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  i was pondering this today during lunch, and to me it seems that it comes down to whether or not you can accept that you will one day be permanantly gone and anyone you have lost in death will never be alive again.

  once a person becomes comfortable with these two ideas, there isn't really any incentive to believe.

  maybe it's an over simplification, but it seems to me that this is the heart of the matter.

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  THE GLADIATOR

  "Just take away faith, hope and love."

  La speranza è l'ultima a morire

  Hope is last to die.
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  Have you seen these three Italian teenaged tenors? IL Volo? Amazing.

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  right now, at least in grand rapids, they are playing il volo's concert filmed at the detroit opera house.

  i am amazed.

  these teenagers are julian's age.

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  THE GLADIATOR

  Unbelievable talent. I’m trying to work out which is my favourite and I think the one with glasses is ahead. I hope I’m not on the turn! Thanks for posting FHN.
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  What it takes to become an atheist.

  by dontplaceliterature in

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  i was pondering this today during lunch, and to me it seems that it comes down to whether or not you can accept that you will one day be permanantly gone and anyone you have lost in death will never be alive again.

  once a person becomes comfortable with these two ideas, there isn't really any incentive to believe.

  maybe it's an over simplification, but it seems to me that this is the heart of the matter.

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  THE GLADIATOR

  There are hundreds of gods, though a few successful ones have the monopoly at present. Christians reject all other gods and only believe in their god. From this point of view they are only one god away from being atheists.

  First I stopped believing in the Hebrew desert god called Jehovah. I then spent some years examining Christian sects and visiting Churches. I failed to find evidence of a personal god. Next I examined the teachings of Joseph Smith; Mormonism. I then started looking into eastern religion. This made more sense and seemed less dogmatic. I still have some sympathy with the philosophy of Buddhism and Taoism. Much of modern western psychology is based on eastern wisdom. The often misunderstood Epicurean philosophy has much appeal, and is probably where I am right now.

  I don’t like to be identified or labelled as an atheist or anything else. I am simply a seeker of truth. At present it seems the truth is that death is the end for us as individuals. I have accepted this and made peace with myself.

  If Jesus wants to email me, write, phone, text, or visit me in the night, I shall be most cordial and listen to his sales pitch.