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  Addictions,, are they caused by a deep unfulfilled need for Spirtuality??

  by frankiespeakin in

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  i was watching a video "the wisdom of the dream" volume 3 it's all about carl jung.

  in one part of the video it talks about addictions and brings up the fact that one of the men that started aa, was a man who was told by c. jung that the only way for him to cure his addiction to alcohol was for him to have a religious experience,, he was also warn by jung that if he didn't have a religios experience he would never cure his addiction.

  jungs notes about this subject says: "spiritus contra spiritum" .

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  A spirituality is good but by taking up a religion you are only replacing one addiction with another.

  Will
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  Schwarzenegger won't "be back"....betcha!

  by Frannie Banannie in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050222/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_women_1

  u.s. national - ap

  schwarzenegger remarks on women anger many .

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  You maybe right I don't think I would put money against the terminator, considering there is enough, small minded, biggoted people around that would vote him back in. Although I think he is smart enough if he thinks he would not get back in to run a second term.

  Will
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  da vinci code??

  by myvalk in

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  anyone know what it is about?

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  as there is not one shred of evidence of a divine Jesus, savior, redeemer, dying on a cross and being resurrected three days later and going to "Heaven" in the flesh....

  I have read a number of books on the topic including the Jesus Mysteries. Your correct the Gospel accounts were written years after Jesus had died based on oral stories. They mixed up the pagan mythologies with the Jesus stories to make Jesus devine.

  Will
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  Catholic bishops: Over 1,000 new claims of abuse

  by Dogpatch in

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  from http://www.cnn.com/2005/us/02/18/church.abuse.ap/index.html

  this is the headlines that should ber facing the wt organization!

  - randy

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  They are competing with JW for being a pedophile paradise. If it wasn't so tragic that so many young lives have been ruined it would be funny. This brought to you by the same people that gave us the bloody crusades and Inquisitions.

  Will
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  "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

  by William Penwell in

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  with all the controversy lately about the book.

  "the da vinci code" by dan brown, who here has read it?

  i just bought a copy of it the other day.

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  Oops sorry people looks like there is another thread going about this topic. The reason why I asked was a friend of mine took me down to a seminar on the book the other day. She says it was advertised in the paper and made out that it was put on by the author Dan Brown. What it was all about and we sat through 1 1/2 hours, was a scholar from the Catholic Church pointing out all the errors in the book. It was kind of a misleading add according to my friend. She claims it made out it was presented by the author. We were not too overly impressed by being mislead like that.

  Will
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  "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

  by William Penwell in

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  with all the controversy lately about the book.

  "the da vinci code" by dan brown, who here has read it?

  i just bought a copy of it the other day.

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  With all the controversy lately about the book. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, who here has read it? What did you think of it? I just bought a copy of it the other day.
  
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  It is official-Awake to be monthly-PDF scan of KM for your review....

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  i will post this as a link for download, it's about 3.5 meg (searchable!).

  http://members.cox.net/captainschmideo/km-e_us_3-05-march%202005.pdf.

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  Typical WT BS. They take a whole page to say what they could have said in about 2 sentences. "Dear borthers and sisters, as of January 1, 2006 the Awake will now be a monthly issue." I sure am glad I don't have to sit thorugh all those boring service meetings anymore.

  Will
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  Trying to find an old picture

  by stevenyc in

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  i wonder if anyone can remember a drawing, i think it was in the old children book (pink/orange hard cover if i remember correctly), of babies being offered up as sacrifies to a false god.

  the god looked like a huge chair/alter with flames ( i think) and horns.. .

  steve.

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  I bought a copy of the Paradise book at a used book sale in the mall. I wanted a copy for reference. I recall studying that when I was small but don't recall having any adverse night mares over it. Also I think that was one book that was reedited over the years. Someone else might know but it seems like they took put some objectionable material out of the later issues.

  Will
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  Ref of a SONG ... Help please

  by frenchbabyface in

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  ok i can say that much about it but it's a dance music.

  actually it says what you have to do (to dance on it - i like those songs ... yes) - .

  and all i catch and remember is : jump to the left !

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  All I did was put the key words in a Google search tried different combinations and finally made a hit.

  Your welcome French, my pleasure.

  Will
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  861,000 Left WT since 2000

  by Bluegrass Tom in

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  2. bible

  the following is a summary of peak publishers vs. amount of people baptized since the 6 million mark was hit.. peak publishers.

  here is what the average publisher numbers look like.. average publishers.

  something happened to 526,989 avg.

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  William Penwell

  Before the internet I thought I was the only one that had these feelings and doubts. The last 5 to 10 years after reading ex-JW sites I have come to realize I was not alone in my thinking. Before the internet that was the big thing that the WT had over any ex-JW was the fear of being alone and not having a support network to fall back on.

  Will