I don't ever remember having to sign/pledge anything beyond the no blood card when I went to the meetings. But that was a good 10 years or so ago, so I'm sure things have changed a lot.
Posts by Faust
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18Will the FDS start demanding a "pledge"?
by hamsterbait inremember how the bible students had to make a pledge, among other things "never to be alone in a room with a member of the opposite sex, except a sister, mother or daughter?".
do you think they will start to demand a "pledge of alliegance" to the borganisation?.
will those refusing to make it then be summaraily df, since they have shown by their refusal, that they do not believe that the gibbering buddy, is the appointed "fds" of matthew 25.. how likely is this do you think?.
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Demonized Software...
by Agent 1 of 1 inhow does the society view software or media that seems to be from the devil?
if i'm watching a satanic ritual file downloaded from a web site, is that file demonized?
if the original file is possessed and gets duplicated, are all the other duplicated files possessed as well?
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Faust
Not to de-rail the thread at all, but what server do you play on Aalena? I'm also an avid player of the game ;-).
As for the topic at hand, my parents were pretty liberal about that stuff. Only things they thought might invite demons into the house were like crosses and other religious icons.
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What kind of video games do you play?
by dustyb ini play pc games for the most part.
i'm still in the old counter-strike mode.
but i also like to play unreal tournament 2003 and 2004. i also like battlefield 1942/vietnam and farcry.. i would recommend the athlon 64 or fx(if you gots lots of cash) series from amd over a pentium, since they run 32 stuff fast now and can do 64 bit when the production version is released.
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Faust
Everquest all the way here ;-). Anyone else play it? I think I'm pretty much hooked on EQ until EverQuest 2 comes out and/or WoW (been awaiting WoW for a while).
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...and all this time I thought it was over
by arrowstar ini thought i had moved on.
put it past me.
was strong.
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Faust
((Lisa)) -- I wish our words can make your pain go away from that man's despicable actions.
You are a wonderful, caring person and we all love you very much for being so special.
I know that you will overcome this for being the strong woman that you are.
My thoughts, prayers, and heart is with you. Take good care of yourself.
((Lisa))
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Passion of the Christ...for kids
by Princess inso my favorite baptist church (in my backyard) was putting up an a-frame sign as i was walking the kids home from school yesterday.
just in time for last night's screaming kid festival, um...awana, they were advertising the passion of the christ for kids.
my son only saw that they would be giving out free popcorn.
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Faust
Here is another link to the Easter Bunny "show" or whatever, hopefully this isn't what they were going to show the children around your area Princess:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4693430
To clarify my post above, I wouldn't take my younger children if I had any. Currently don't have any children, but I know I'd feel uncomfortable taking my youngest nephews/nieces and I know I'd not feel comfortable exposing any young child to something this graphic.
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Passion of the Christ...for kids
by Princess inso my favorite baptist church (in my backyard) was putting up an a-frame sign as i was walking the kids home from school yesterday.
just in time for last night's screaming kid festival, um...awana, they were advertising the passion of the christ for kids.
my son only saw that they would be giving out free popcorn.
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Faust
I read about this "Passion of the Christ for Kids" stuff and I wouldn't want my younger kids seeing it either, sounds pretty traumatizing:
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Favorite Online Games?
by Scully in.
do you have any favorite games?.
my current favorite is adventure elf and also a few others from www.kewlbox.com
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Faust
I'm surprised more people (none in this thread ?) don't play MMORPGs, either that or I'm a complete dork .
I play EverQuest fanatically, I'm quite the addict to it. Have been playing it for 5 years now and I still enjoy logging on almost daily .
Anyone else play this game or any similar games (FFXI, DAoC, etc.)?
www.everquest.com <-- EQ link.
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Cops Are Watching Your Electric Bill
by Yizuman inlink: http://www.kfmb.com/topstory23619.htmlhigh electric bill leads to calif. police raidhomeowner demands written apology.
posted: 11:13 a.m. est march 28, 2004. .
carlsbad home power bill prompts pot probeprinter-friendly version .
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Faust
I don't find the warrant that unjustified, the family just fit a pattern of typical pot growers which (apparently) had led them to real culprits in the past. If the pattern is fairly accurate, of course they are going to apply it. It's not like they were harmed in any way, just slightly inconvenienced. I would be more "outraged" if they would have taken her to jail or whatever just because of the electric bill, but that didn't happen; they just made sure to investigate their suspicions. Besides, like they said in the article, a whole lot more small coincidences just fell into place against them. The dog reacting and trash day being on that day, etc.
It'd be interesting to see, however, how successful their pattern is in identifying actual law violations/pot growers. I'd say that if it's even a remotely positive number (ie more than half of the people ?) then it's not such a heinous thing.
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Mother reunited with 'dead' child
by Simon in.
amazing story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3545413.stm.
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Faust
They've been talking about this story for over a week in the hispanic news channels. It's fascinating indeed.
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Achieving Salvation
by desib77 inthe other night, i had a couple of pastors over to try to answer some questions i had.
they came prepared to "save me" and even tried to do so.
tonight i bought a book that mentioned being saved by accepting the work of christ and asking jesus to save me.
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Faust
I think you should follow whatever your heart tells you to do. I found my personal "salvation" by believing in a God who loves us unconditionally, just for who we are. I think everyone has their own path, however, and it is up to you to find it and find your peace in it.
May you find your way soon desib :-).