cleveland cavaliers basketball player dion waiters stayed in the locker-room during the national anthem at a recent game.
asked why he responded 'i am rededicating myself to my muslim faith'.
another basketball player recently refused to stand for the anthem while on the court and was fined by the nba, dion chose to remain in the locker-room.. have you heard of followers of islam refusing to stand for the national anthem or to say the pledge of allegiance on religious grounds.. .
When basketball players stand they make it look like everyone else is sitting down. Perhaps they should all not be allowed to stand for the National Anthem.
Many years ago I was at Wembley stadium indoor arena to see an ice-skating show. Jehovah's Witnesses had block booked a whole section. When the National Anthem was played, no-one stood. A gasp went around the arena and the skaters looked up. Apparently they assumed we were communists.
this is the scuttlebutt in one of the "bethel congregations" by us.. no details as to exactly what this "faith-testing" announcement might be.. anyone else hear any of this pre-zone visit hype?.
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The overlapping of the 1914 generation has been replaced in a blinding flash of new light with an new revelation.
The generation that will not pass away until all these things occur, refers to those that witness the present Iraqi conflict in the Middle East. The encamped armies are fighters loyal to Islam. Simon is Gog and Magog in both a literal and symbolic sense, and the Devil is in-the-detail.
the answer to this question is not that easy or obvious as you might think.
if your answer is "creationists" you are wrong, they are evolutionists a rare breed of evolutionists, but evolutionists at last .. at this stage of my argumentation you might think i have lost my mind for stating jehovahs witnesses are evolutionists, but this might be because you are thinking as the wt has taught you to think.
the wt has presented a distorted view of the theory of evolution.
Jehovah's Witnesses are whatever they need to be in order to make sense of their contradictory, convoluted, crass, dysfunctional, deluded, destructive, egotistical, failed, god-fearing, hypocritical, incongruous, Jehovah-fearing, kingdom-on-earth, lamentable, make-believe, neurotic, obtuse, pretend, queer, reprehensible, spiritually-void, theocratic, unbelievable, vacant, witless, xenophobic, yesterday’s-story, zany USA publishing company that claims to be spirit appointed by the Hebrew desert god Jehovah to educate the world to walk in pastures of righteousness.
Phew!
every word this man preaches is official muslim doctrine.. fear of hellfire is central to the life of every muslim.
it is axiomatic that every non-muslim, all kaffir like you and i will spend eternity in hell.. just like roman catholicism and evangelical christianity it is a cult of fear and of death.
unlike christian writers mo was not coy about describing the details of hellfire.. i have just finished reading two autobiographies by ayaan hirsi ali who is a muslim "apostate" and lives under a death threat.
Western and Eastern culture are subtely different.
People in the western world are concerned about where they are headed.
People in the Eastern world are concerned about where they are beheaded.
i have all my family in the cult and was brought up in it myself.
although mentally i'm out if i leave i loose all my family and that would break my heart.
i've somehow got to fly under the radar and not be detected.
Wear a burqa. 
let's say he began ruling in 1914.. where is that rulership?.
i'm hoping this line of thought gets someone thinking.. .
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It's hard to say where Jesus is - he's difficult to nail down.
according to the letter (link below) out of 705 kingdom halls in spain, 295 are being disposed of.. if someone can translate german/spanish, it would throw some light on the specifics.. http://www.bruderinfo-aktuell.de/index.php/brief-zum-koenigreichssaalbauprogramm-in-spanien/#more-948.
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Why is the Watchtower Society making long term plans to expand real estate so close to the end of this wicked, materialistic system? Back in 1974 members were commended for selling their homes and becoming Pioneers.
Surely, with the end so close renting would be the best option. All the many years of toiling to build a property empire, is time that could be spent saving lives. Also with the Great Tribulation almost upon us, and the persecution that will bring, owning Kingdom Halls will make it impossible to 'go underground' unless they abandon the halls. Surely, with the end so close renting would be the best option.
The hypocrisy of the Watchtower Society's position is not beyond belief - it is typical.
as of now iam making an unbiased examination of evolution.
however one thing keeps me hanging on to the belief of a supreme spirit being; the existence of spirits.
i have heard countless accounts of people who have experienced frightening encounters with evil forces.
With regards to evolution and the belief in all kinds of invisible spirits, some Christians accept that humans have descended from apes but tell me only humans have souls, apes do not.
The original objection to Darwin’s findings from the established church was that if humans evolved from apes, then they cannot have a soul. They accused him of heresy.
I have put the following question to a number of Christians that believe in evolution but have never received an answer: If humans have a soul, and apes do not, at what point in evolution did God start adding souls?
i took up cycing a couple of months ago just to get fitter and lose a bit of excess weight.. i bought a second-hand hybrid bike (weighs only slightly less than a truck) and fitted road tyres.
four or five times a week i will go for a ride after work for an hour or so.
i am fortunate enough to live in rural north england surrounded by limitless quiet roads.
Some impressive photos and cycling times Cofty. You will be surprised to learn that I am not really a gladiator. I am a cyclist but mostly only to get into town and back. I live in Worthing on the south coast, West Sussex.
There are a lot of cyclist here as it is flat and easy to cycle around. Most own cars as well. We wear a rucksack for shopping. My bike is a very standard type. To walk takes 30 minutes; on the bike 6. Yes, like my post, I really am that boring.
a transcendant being resides as a glob of cellular matter in a woman's body for nine months stitching together a human without the dna of a male human being.. the being is squeezed out of the vaginal canal of his host/mother and has to poop and piss on himself for a couple of years.
what is wrong with this picture?.
the consciousness of the fetus would be what, then?.
Adam was an amoeba; a real living creature.
‘God?'
Well show me, explain, prove and define such a monster ever existed.
Maybe we have better things to do with our time.
