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  NAME JUST ONE thing....ONE THING...revealed by God....

  by Terry in

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  somebody is always insisting they have an invisible and mysterious source of divine information and selling it like hotcakes and syrup.

  but, why are you still buying?

  when will you ever learn that this is a scam among many scams.

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  Milky Way solar system? Perhaps some of us could use a refresher course in astronomy as desperately as I need to learn how to spell.

  What I continually find intriguing, is how people can so unquestionably and tenaciously attribute the Bible-deity for all existence. How pray-tell, does what is INFINITELY vast, originate from some thing so moronically human-like and small? and what is it in us that creates the illusion that it is actually honourable and wise to shrink and belittle it to such?

  If we are incapable of pondering the blatant obviousness of this absurdity through, then it's little wonder we so easily come to cherish fairy-tails and myths.

  Certainly the true source and sustenance of all universes (there may be countless universes) must be greater still than all existence and not so severely diminutive as an anthropomorphic tribal deity. If there ever was a glass-darkly we can place before our eyes, it a book we have come to know as The Holy Bible.

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  "Thy Kingdom Come..."

  by AGuest in

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  to the household of god, israel, and all who go with, may you have peace!

  i am compelled by the spirit of our lord, jaheshua mischajah, son and christ of the most holy one of israel, whose name is jah of armies, to share the following truth with you.

  true, we hate suffering and pain, but all of mankind does, whether they belong to the christ or not, whether they are righteous or unrighteous.

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  Hello, dear Shelby.

  I was thinking about you just the other day and wondering how you are doing. Seems you're well and up to speed.

  Thank you for your sincere concern. It has always shined brightly through your posts.

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  Are Jw's trained to be just plain mean spirited?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  not long ago, i would have defended them slightly with opinions about those 'under mind control' etc.

  but the further i get from jw think, the more i believe that jw's are just plain mean and hateful asses!

  two situations that i relate in my life.. 1- an elder i know works in a grocery store.

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  Totally entombed within a smothering egoic structure whose walls are built of greed for a perfect body and life, and fear of death at the hand of their murderous deity, they are driven insane.

  What else can we expect from them but pathological behavior?

  I feel the best we can do for them is show our compassion and understanding; as hatred and bitterness never heal any ones ills.

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  I Need a Sermon--I'm starving for some spiritual food!

  by journey-on in

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  just a sentence or two....something to stimulate my spiritual brain cells?

  please don't make me turn on tbs, or worse, go to the kh!!!

  something funny would be nice.

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  Be still.

  Feel what it is to breath.

  Feel the life flowing within and around you.

  Listen and hear the sounds that are near and far.

  Silently sense the cradling space in which life moves and unfolds.

  Be still. Interpret, judge and label nothing. Open to what IS, as it IS.

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  Coming to terms with your death - immortality options

  by Crumpet in

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  i must say its terribly hard to dredge up any enthusiasm for today or even this week at work, but i dont feel depressed.

  the weather has been so undecided these last few weeks, a little sun, but mostly pregnant clouds breaking water over our heads several times a day.

  its also quite warm and clammy as if we are in a limbo land between seasons and there is little in terms of beauty to redeem it.

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  Dear Crumpet,

  Are you completely clear on the fact that everything you have ever believed in, thought about and pondered, has not given you the peace you seek? If so, and if you are sincerely unwilling to put up with the confusion and lack of relief any longer, it may be time for you to radically change the direction of your quest. Ready?

  Who is it, really, that is concerned with death? Forget everything you think you know, and quietly and nonjudgmentally investigate within. Thoroughly check all the beliefs the mind presents regarding "self", and all the senses the body presents as "self", and see if you can genuinely find yourself in any of it. Such inquiry requires total honesty and an agonizing willingness to discover what is truly real, and what is not...at any cost. Thorough inner investigation can seemingly take moments or years. Don't be concerned with time. What is true??? What are you, really???

  A moment will arise, an awakening to the endless and unconditional purity of that which is closer than all phenominal experience. That, which is untouched by events in time and space. That, which silently bears witness to the universe of things. That, which looks through those eyes right now. Then, you will unequivocally know what you truly are (though the mind will never be able to grasp it), and your concerns will be over.

  Realization of your natural authentic Self, is all you need. It's here always. It just needs to be seen.

  j
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  Are YOU Being Brainwashed ? Public Talk MP3

  by AlphaOmega in

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  are you being brainwashed ?.

  that was the title of a "public talk" given by brian steinblock of brooklyn bethel(monroe cong) it is a post-2000 talk.

  this talk was e-mailed to me by a jw, and can be downloaded from here:.

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  Poppers, down at the bottom left of the page is a gold colored DOWNLOAD button.

  edited to add: However it takes 20 seconds before it appears.
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  The Root of all Evil - The God Delusion and the Virus of Faith

  by jaredg in

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  2. beliefs

  these are some very interesting documentaries.

  i wish i could get my parents to watch them.

  http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/6169

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  Part One (48 minutes) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9002284641446868316&q=the+root&total=17302&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

  Part Two (48 minutes) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8210522903232438954&q=the+root&total=17302&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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  read the Bible for yourself

  by a friend in

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  seems a lot of people are depending on everyone else to solve their problem.

  questions like who is jehovah, who is jesus, what is the truth, are some of the deep spiritual truths asked by all of us.

  however, the bible is the one to turn to when questioning.

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  a friend:

  Seems a lot of people are depending on everyone else to solve their problem. Questions like who is Jehovah, who is Jesus, what is the truth, are some of the deep spiritual truths asked by all of us. However, the Bible is the one to turn to when questioning. I know this because I questioned. Because of God's love for me, He began to give me answers when I sincerely spent time with His Word. So... the Bible, God's Word, God's speaking to me, was the only answer for me. Truth was very plain. I am very thankful for His mercy and unconditional love toward me that while I was a sinner, He offered himself to take my place of punishment. An awesome God, I must say. And the only God that is alive and well.

  I'm sure you mean well, a friend. However, guiding people to an archaic tribal story book does not give us truth, so much as blind us to it. Truth, is what IS, what is actual and real. Truth, is not in conceptual memories of past, or in make-believe fantasies of future, not in beliefs of any kind, but rather found only within the actual present moment of vibrant conscious aliveness and be-ing. Generally it is when we are so deeply asleep, so completely ignorant, blind, numb and oblivious to reality that we feel a need to identify our life with a book and its shallow and empty definitions of "significance", "meaning", and "truth". The stories and little god-images you have chiseled within the dark corners of your mind, have made you into a well-meaning peddler of sedative-hypnotics and trinkets. Sadly, some will follow you into oblivion. I wish you the best, j
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  Is Active Disbelief a New Development?

  by metatron in

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  in decades past, i can't ever recall anyone who 'left the truth' , who openly believed it was false.. i knew lots of people who drifted away but none who actively proclaimed that what the organization.

  taught was false.

  usually, you would bump into them and they would say , "i know its the truth but.

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  It seems it would be natural for us to evolve beyond archaic tribal superstition and beliefs. What's amazing is that it is taking so long.

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  Guys, do you lay your wifi laptop on your lap?

  by Elsewhere in

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  one of the things i enjoy most about wifi is the way i can sit in my favorite living room recliner and surf the web while watching spongbob.

  i was just sitting here browsing around the web when it suddenly occurred to me: am i microwaving my "boys"?

  has anyone heard if there is are, ahem, "manly" dangers to using a laptop on the lap?

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