i loved the recent topic asking what each of our screen names means.
great question as i have always wondered about quite a few of our screen names.
as i was reading the responses, i looked at holey cheeses - king of the juice's avitar and thought about how i have been wondering for the past three years, what the hell that is a picture of.
My avatar is a pic of Elton John, the original Rocket Man. But I use the avatar here for another reason - it has much to do with Jehovah's Witnesses!
The picture is from the cover of Elton John's Rock Of The Westies album, which was released on October 1, 1975. As most of us know, that was the "appropriate time for God to act" according to the WTS in their book Life Everlasting In The Freedom Of The Sons Of God and subsequent publications as well.
i loved the recent topic asking what each of our screen names means.
great question as i have always wondered about quite a few of our screen names.
as i was reading the responses, i looked at holey cheeses - king of the juice's avitar and thought about how i have been wondering for the past three years, what the hell that is a picture of.
xLaurax, that's a very sexy avatar!
Cheeses, it's fun reading about your avatar!
Blondie - Ms. Harry looks quite good in that pic.
Hapgood - I love Porthos, he's so cute! Beagles are my favorite dog.
i noticed that july 10th was my 3rd anniversary on this board.
time flies when you're having fun!
Way to go Tres.
all things being being equal, is the feminine gender endowed with more trancendent beauty than the masculine?
before sending any stock replies like, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," let me just say that i acknowledge some degree of relative beauty insofar as man and woman bear their own distinctive perfections.
but consider specifically which sex seems to bear more inherent grace to the end that it inspires our sense of harmony and desire to be more perfect ourselves.
I think women are the pinnacle of beauty - the highest standard of beauty in all creation.
since the demons can't multiply and produce baby demons, my theory is that if the earth's population increases, then there is less likelyhood that the demons and a singular devil will get to us.....whaddya think?
One thing that does come to mind is that, unlike in Jesus' day when 'Legion' affected one poor soul, the deemies would need to spread out more in the 'last days'. No more ganging up, I guess.
I also have it from a good source that they are very handy with cellphones. Helps alot.
i have a post from another forum that i am very interested in, but, i would love to hear a few of your views on the subject.. i am now going to dig into my bible to have a look to see what he is talking about, but i know that the view of jehovah's witnesses is about as close to the best intereptation of the bible there is...this is the post..... "-the eastern or golden gate, which was sealed for almost a 1200 years is a key part to bible prophecy.
ezekiel recorded the prophecy about the closing of this gate.
he told how the lord brought him to the eastern gate.. .
Yes, JWs do go and research your questions. Do you know how they do it? Do you think they go home and use Strong's Concordance, or any theological reference work? No, they go home and look in the Watchtower Society's unreferenced materials, written by men who are neither trained, nor scholars, nor objective. If the JW looking for this answer cannot find it within the pages of books and magazines published by the Watchtower Society Corporation, do you think they turn to their bibles themselves and consider the text, context and history to arrive at an interpretation? No, they call someone who is a better searcher through the Watchtower's books and magazines. If they still hit a dead end, do they go to the nearest Theology Library and do a little digging? Well, most likely at that point they would give up and conveniently "forget" to return to speak with you.
Odrade, that's the best summary I've read on jw "research" techniques in quite some time.
strawpuppy, welcome to the board. Though this seems a bit of a rough start, hang in and you'll find that the people here do a lot of thorough research and can provide another side to some of the things that jws tell you. Then, make your choices as to which explanations you want to accept.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/3879495.stm
This constitutes France's first decisive military victory since the early Napoleanic Wars.
LOL!
since the demons can't multiply and produce baby demons, my theory is that if the earth's population increases, then there is less likelyhood that the demons and a singular devil will get to us.....whaddya think?
The answer is technology - it allows S.T. Debbil and the Deeminz to do more with less.
last week, my girlfriend wrote an email that she intended to send to my mom.
my jw parents have never spoken to jessica in the 3 years that we?ve been together (my loooooong story was on the board last week?don?t worry, i refuse to write anymore details than i have to in this post?my fingers are still cramped up?).
anyway, the email was to be their first (and last, probably) communication.
Well said by Jessica.
it struck me that, for all the emphasis they put on evangelism and public preaching, the borg's leaders are actually a reclusive, shadowy lot.
the only large audiences they will address are their own members, they rarely grant interviews and never seek opportunities to lead by preaching their message in a public or media forum.
quite the contrary; in the one instance where jaracz made an appearanace (cornered by a bbc reporter), he came across as combative, and mean-spirited hardly as a spiritual leader of six million-plus.
Jesus and his followers were very public and accessible.
