Tammy - Sorry to hear you have been feeling down. This can happen at times but I hope you are feeling brighter now.
I like the new avatar but miss that little creature you had before. Do we call you 'flower' now?
THE GLADIATOR
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Feeling down
by tec inmy son got suspended from school for fighting.
not just fighting but choking another boy during their fight.
he started it in anger over something the other boy did, but none of that actually matters.
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Christian Friend Prayed for Meal WITHOUT Invitation to do so!
by White Dove inshe was visiting for breakfast and we hadn't seen each other for over 2 years.
i have since stopped being a christian and have been exploring paganism.. i don't advertise this for fear of offending people and getting judged for it.. so, we sit down to breakfast that i cooked at my house, and she asks me to say the prayer!
i said that i'm not a christian.
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THE GLADIATOR
I bowed my head and said amen dutifully, all the while thinking, "You are NOT coming back to my house, you pushy person!"
Ah! Giving into peer pressure is a mistake. Your friend can thank her Lord for your food, if she chooses to but you have the right to plead the fifth.
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Where did England disappear to?
by dorayakii inengland is the oldest nation-state in europe.
it is a pround and historic nation that is often buried under a "british" identity by the uk government.
within the european unon, scotland and wales are treated as regional entities, yet england is broken up into 6 regions and is not acknowledged as an entity in itself.
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THE GLADIATOR
Fair point Freedom Fighter. I have known a number of Scots over the years and they always treated me well depite what we did to their industry and their queen.
I will tell my builders to stop work on Hadrian's Wall immediately.
The real threat to English identity comes from our gradual integration with Europe. We are already subject to the dictates of Brussels. But with millions of English moving to Europe and Europeans coming here, it matters less and less.
In truth I am not really a political animal - just an animal
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Jehovah Doesn't allow abortions but will kill millions of Worldly babies at Armagedon....Contradiction??
by Witness 007 inhe see's even "the embryo of us"..."and all it's parts are down in writting.." according to the bible.
yet he will destroy millions of kids and babies because their "worldly" parents closed the door on a witness one busy saturday morning..
contradiction????
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THE GLADIATOR
Witness 007 - Please try and be reasonable. As the most high, Jehovah has the right to kill anyone he wants to. Killing babies and kids before they grow into imperfect people is a kindness of the highest order.
What is the point of having all that power and not opening the throttle and showing off once in while. Anyhow Armageddon will cleanse the earth and make it a place fit for Jehovah's people.
It's all explained in the bible and makes complete sense to anyone who wants it too.
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Where did England disappear to?
by dorayakii inengland is the oldest nation-state in europe.
it is a pround and historic nation that is often buried under a "british" identity by the uk government.
within the european unon, scotland and wales are treated as regional entities, yet england is broken up into 6 regions and is not acknowledged as an entity in itself.
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THE GLADIATOR
You have conveniently missed the point I was making about Scotland's claim to independence when it suits them to be Scottish and being a part of Britain when it benefits them.
Instead you refer to the leader of the Conservative party as an 'English public schoolboy twit.' And accuse the English of having 'outdated attitudes of imperialism and xenophobia.'
Outdated? Whatever happend to Hadrian's Wall? We need it back!
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Where did England disappear to?
by dorayakii inengland is the oldest nation-state in europe.
it is a pround and historic nation that is often buried under a "british" identity by the uk government.
within the european unon, scotland and wales are treated as regional entities, yet england is broken up into 6 regions and is not acknowledged as an entity in itself.
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THE GLADIATOR
dorayakii You are absolutely right. Even the word Britain is no longer used much. When I fill out a form, I am asked if I am from the UK.
If you look at an electoral map of Britain most of of it is blue with conservative seats. All of Scotland and Wales is red and yellow. The reason that Britain has not achieved a majority conservative win is due to the fact that Scotland, Wales & Ireland vote against conservatives. They are part of Britain and stop England having the government that the majority of the English want.
Scotland has been happy to imposed its will on English people for the last eleven years. Scotland justifies this by claiming to be British, despite - amazingly having their own parliament which decides on its own affairs.
Now because Conservatives have won more seats they are complaining. Scotland has said Conservatives have no mandate to govern the Scottish people because they did not vote for them. Suddenly Scotland is no longer British and objects to sharing a government, despite the last two Prime ministers, Blair & Brown being Scottish. They are British when it benefits them to be and Scottish when it suits them.
We should separate England and Scotland. We can have the government we want and Scotland can manage on their own. Of course the millions of pounds that England subsidises Scotland with would have to stop too. It can go towards clearing our national debt, or do they view it as English debt?
Didn't we get all this from the JWs? No part of the world when it suits them but very much a part of it when benefits are available.
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How Do People Like Sir 82 & Others Who Are Active JWs Do It ???
by minimus ini appreciate any who tell us what the latest co's talk is about or what was said at the meetings.
i just don't know how you can do it.
knowing that the "truth" is false and even laughable, it boggles my mind that you can still go, listen to the spiritual bullshit and maintain.. how do you do it?.
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THE GLADIATOR
Jehovah's Winesses in kingdom halls do it
And that's why birds do it, bees do itUn-educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
Cold Cape pioneers, 'gainst their wish, do itI've heard that elders and their wives do it
Layin' on a rock reading Watchtowers frogs do itThey say that roosters do it
With a doodle and cock
Some pioneers, without means do itI hear even Boston brothers do it
Let's do it, let's fall in loveThe most refined lady bugs do it
When a Jehovah's Witness calls
Moths in your rugs they do itWhat's the use of moth balls
The brothers in their cars do it,
Some courageous sisters do it
Let's do it, let's fall in loveI'm sure sometimes on the sly you do it
Maybe even you and I might do itWe did do it - Lets go to a kingdom hall
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Jehovah and the Munchausen Syndrome
by Terry inwhat is munchausen by proxy syndrome?.
one of the most harmful forms of child abuse, munchausen by proxy syndrome was named after baron von munchausen, an eighteenth-century german dignitary known for telling outlandish stories.
a parent will induce illness or injury in their own child and then take the victim in to the hospital to be seen as the heroic savior.. typically, the perpetrator feels satisfied when he or she has the attention and sympathy of doctors, nurses, and others who come into contact with him or her and the child.. because the parent or caregiver appears to be so caring and attentive, often no one suspects any wrongdoing.. .
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THE GLADIATOR
So true Terry - Then there were the Israelites who God arranged to be taken into slavery for two hundred years and then rescued them, killing many Egyptians in the process. He then made them wander in the wilderness for forty years and claimed that he owned them because he had rescued them from the captivity he arranged for them to be in!
There are many more accounts of the God of the bible's dubious deeds and they all seemed to involve retribution, revenge, death and duplicity.
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How dangers is field service really, has anyone ever heard of someone being hurt or killed while doing some form of witnessing
by life is to short inok my other thread was not totally what i was after.
after thinking it through i was wondering if any of you have ever heard of someone being hurt by a householder in field service.. .
like i mentioned in my latest thread about the sister who was murdered and then her death was blamed on her.. i know in the hall i grew up in there were many sex offenders living in the area.
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THE GLADIATOR
Some the original witnesses, Jesus' apostles were killed for preaching. Jesus showed that this was the quickest way to heaven. Even before this Jehovah's loyal servants were persecuted for having the truth.
In the 1942 book entitled entitled “The New World,” Abel, Noah and Moses are named in person and claimed as Jehovah's Witnesses, also Job:
“It is the proper time, therefore, to consider carefully the life history of Job, who was a Witness for Jehovah God. His true life experience was a prophetic drama which exposes the war hotly waged by religion against Jehovah's Witnesses from and after Abel, the first martyr slain by a religionist.” ( Page 130)
Please be mindful of these things brothers & sisters.
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Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian
by thetrueone intop ten signs you're a fundamentalist christian.
1 - you vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.. .
2 - you feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the biblical claim that we were created from dirt.. .
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THE GLADIATOR
You walk around with a parrot on your shoulder?