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  Come home Cardinal Pell (song)

  by zound in

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  enjoy a catchy protest song imploring catholic cardinal george pell to return to australia to face the royal commission for years of covering up child abuse.

  just as the royal commission began uncovering dirt, george pell got 'promoted' and moved from australia to the vatican.

  now he is coincidently too 'unwell' to return to australia to face the commission.

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  CT Russell popped up in a weird place..

  by zound in

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  researching something and was surprised to find charles taze russel's name pop up on the wikepedia page "globalization" - refering to the 1897 book "the battle of armageddon".. it's a few paragraphs down under the heading etomology and usage.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/globalization.

  quote: "a related term, corporate giants, was coined by charles taze russellin 1897 [12]".

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  Books wanting to get rid of

  by zound in

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  i have "crisis of conscious" & "in search of christian freedom" by raymond franz, and "releasing the bonds" by steve hassan.

  all virtually brand new.

  anyone who wants these books in australia can either pick them up in brisbane, or i can post them to you if you pay for the postage.

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  Tony Abbott

  by zound in

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  just thought this was interesting - people in positions of power have the same insincere don't give a **** attitude no matter what organisation - religious or otherwise.. this letter of a young boy to australian pm tony abbott about gay marriage and the response reminded me so much of my letters to bethel and many other people's.

  the response has the same tone as watchtower responses.. https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/marie-claire/news-and-views/latest/a/24221581/tony-abbott-responds-to-11-year-olds-letter-on-marriage-equality/.

  it's not as sensational as his other antics that have been in the news lately, but that formulatic don't give a shit letter reminded me of wt..

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  Was Hitler atheist?

  by zound in

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  i've heard that hitler did what he did in the name of atheism from various theists - or at least that he was an atheist.

  i wasn't sure about it, but found this quote today.

  thoughts?.

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  Our throw-away society

  by zound in

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  check out this video if you have 20 minutes to spare - it really is awesome.

  anyone want to add their thoughts on how to change societys throwaway mentality?.

  the story of stuff.

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  Proposed Apostate takeover campaign

  by zound in

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  fictional apostate takeover campaign.

  stage #1.. what if in a town that had a particularly large amount of apostates and ex-jw's, over a period of a few months, they started going to a small congregation.

  either pretending they were bible studies or just returning jw's, they got good standing in the congregation, priveleges etc.

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  Fred Phelps is dead

  by zound in

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  two cults leaders in two days..

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  Story of a GB ass-kisser

  by zound in

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  i was reading a life story article in the latest watchtower and had a few thoughts about it i thought i'd share here.

  these life story things are always so depressing to me - this one is slightly interesting because it is told by a current "governing body helper".. it's called "full time ministry - where it has led me.

  " reading it i just got the impression that this guy (robert) was aiming to be a gb member but fell short and ended up being a gb "helper".

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  Christ the redeemer

  by zound in

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  are christians offended by this statue?

  is it the sin of idolatry?.

  you shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth..

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