Posts by robhic

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"seven times" in Daniel applied to whom?

this is something of intrest to all.so far many have learned that the "seven times" in dan 4:25 had seemed to apply that the 2520 yrs from the date 607bc took us to the date 1914. seeing now that conclusive evidence that the 607bc date is wrong and the date 587 or 586bc is the correct date, this puts the calulations out of wack.

so who did the "seven times"apply to?

well, if the whole chapter 4 and verses 20+21 of chapter 5 is read, we can see that the "seven times" only applied to nebuchadnezzar himself- and no one else.

robhic

In order to have complete sovereignty, ONE has to have dominion over ALL. This only occurrs when JAH proves that HE exists and removes all other leaders.......

I think that would make most people's day. It's like "put up or shut up." Let him come back and prove that he exists in some way other than a rust-stain on some poor Mexican's water heater. C'mon, let's see some proof. Just a small thing that is truly verifiable and not just someone's interpretation. That would have impact.

So far, his record is a big, fat 0. What will it be and when can we expect it? We're all waiting...

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Is is possible.. to lose a "disagreement"?

by DavidChristopher in

would it be safe to point out, if someone digrees with what you say,"challenging" you on something you have considered "truth" to you.

how can you lose the challenge?

you either "win" or "learn".

robhic

Or am i rambling....I am on Bud light #3 so beware....Don't let "bud light" be teaching you. Could I be "drinking and driving"? or "partaking from one of our Fathers creations in celebration of HIS victory"? I am not sure which it is.....Am I really dumb or what???????

Seriously. Read the above. Do you really have to ask...?

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Hula-False Worship

by XBEHERE in

when i was at bethel i had a co-worker who was from hawaii and we got into an argument once because i thought hula was false worship and he argued it was part of his culture.

i know i know.. i was mr. sr 15+ yrs ago.

anyway what do you think of this awake article, try to think like a jw while you read and note the highlighted areas.

robhic

Christians should be very selective in dancing or in viewing certain hulas. They need to be sure that they are not unknowingly paying homage to a god or a goddess.

Now wait just a minute. If you unknowingly do something, wouldn't that kinda cancel out any importance of what you are doing? If you go to Hawaii (or wherever) and at some point do a hula dance, yet you are not doing it as worship -- how could it still be a worship?

This is so excruciatingly petty!

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This could my last post for a little while.........

by DavidChristopher in

let me tell you about my day today..i went to my friends bodyshop to do a tune up on a 98 z28.

we were talking, and he taught me something really cool!

it makes sense to me too.

robhic

By the way does anyone what 100 mg of Seroquel is?

I am not sure of the dosage, but Seroquel is one powerful med! I have a JW friend (my reason for visiting this board) that had a seizure last year (2004) and was hospitalized. She was very psychotic, hallucinating, talking to non-existent people, talking on the phone (that wasn't there...) and such. It was freaky and really scary. She has Multiple Sclerosis and no one at the hospital ever said whether this was a symptom of her MS or what but all the tests (MRI, EEG, EKG, CAT scan, etc.) showed nothing!

They prescribed Seroquel. It reduced her hallucinatiuons and psychotic episodes quite a bit. I (we) thought she was OK. She was very sleepy from the med and her left arm kept jumping but she was 100% better than 2 days eariler. They sent her home.

At home she was subdued and more-or-less lucid. She was still sleeping a lot. I watched her sleep for 45 minutes one evening without realizing she had just "dropped off" with company in the room. But the arm / shoulder jerking was a matter of concern. It would jump -- not painful or anything -- just jerky for a couple of minutes at a time. She couldn't control it.

About 4 days after returning from the hospital, the left arm started jerking but this time it didn't stop after a long while. 45 minutes into this event her father called 911 and had her -- still jerking uncontollably -- taken back to the hospital. They gave her an injection of Ativan for the jerking and stopped the Seroquel.

She hasn't jerked since but her left arm has never moved on its own again, either. She has a useless left arm, but what caused it? The Seroquel (my guess) or the Ativan? In any case I don't think I'd ever allow myself to be prescribed Seroquel. It is just too pwerful an anti-psychotic medication.

Good Luck,

Robert

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QUOTES web site is off line.

by Gerard in

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is quotes web site off line temporarily or permanently shut down?

http://quotes.watchtower.ca/

robhic

Here is a mirror site that was put up after the last go 'round about Quote's site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041012012555/quotes.watchtower.ca/

Hope this is of use.

Robert

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Welcome To Paradise

by fairchild in

glen never came back after his last vacation.

however, the sign read closed until 9pm.

the waitress caught us on our way out the door.

robhic

I think a re-write, a sequel or a whole series (dependent on your time) would be wonderfully entertaining. Your original is excellent. It truly is on a par with something like the older, black & white (the good ones...) Twilight Zone episodes.

I can just hear Rod Serling now: "Imagine, if you will, a couple of folks -- they could be your neighbors -- going down a dark tunnel of fear and deceit as they try to get away from a life-stealing dark force. This is something you will only find in .... the Twilight Zone." [cue Twlight Zone music]

Robert

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Welcome To Paradise

by fairchild in

glen never came back after his last vacation.

however, the sign read closed until 9pm.

the waitress caught us on our way out the door.

robhic

Intersting, well written story. I found it chilling and I am not even a JW. My only comment, and I hate to do this and sound nit-picking, is that it is "duct" and not "duck" tape. A very good read ... but not for late at night! I also like the "Twilight Zone" episode idea.

Robert

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BeepBeep Needs to Know About 1975!!!

by SWALKER in

i know that many of you have the information discussing the watchtower's view on this and why so many thought it was going to be the beginning of armageddon and the mass exodus from the org when nothing happened.

i remember it very well and my mom telling me not to get my hopes up because she had been looking for the ancient worthies to appear for years at the assemblies and that never happened.

then they changed their prophesy on that too!!!

robhic

You left off this gem from one paragraph above what you posted:

29 After much of the mathematics and genealogies, really, of what benefit is this information to us today? Is it not all dead history, as uninteresting and profitless as walking through a cemetery copying old dates off tombstones? After all, why should we be any more interested in the date of Adam's creation than in the birth of King Tut? Well, for one thing, if 4,026 is added to 1,968 (allowing for the lack of a zero year between C.E. and B.C.E.) one gets a total of 5,993 years, come this autumn, since Adam's creation. That means, in the fall of the year 1975, a little over seven years from now (and not in 1997 as would be the case if Ussher's figures were correct), it will be 6,000 years since the creation of Adam, the father of all mankind!

What unbridled arrogance!

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Help the Newbie

by confused_101 in

hey all i'm sure that this is probably a silly question and maybe i'm just a bit slow (no, not a blonde...lol) but could y'all let me know what all the abreviations mean.

i get some of them...jw, dw but like dub, what is that one and any others that are used on a regular basis.

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robhic

Hey Confused:

Try this Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox

It lets you open a page in IE while using Firefox. You can even put a little icon in the toolbar so you can open pages using IE without going thru all the BS to go to IE, enter the address, etc. It's quick and fast.

Robert

P.S. You sure look a lot like Jodie Foster!

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Rebellious angels.....why were they men and not women?

by gumby in

when jehovahs angels went ballistic before the flood.....for some reason these angels were only males who wanted all the hot babes on earth.

none of the angels decided to become a girl that went after all the dudes with nice fannys on earth.

how was it that every angel who went bad became a male?.

robhic

I didn't think the angels were supposed to be "up to the task" regardless.

Matthew 22:29-30 (NWT):
"In reply Jesus said to them: "You are mistaken, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God; for in the resurrection neither do men marry nor are women given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven."

Did that mean the angels didn't marry and therefore didn't do the nasty or that the angels in heaven just didn't marry? Now I've confused myself but when you think about it, who'd want to be "doing it" with their special person in a place ruled by some guy reported to be able to see everything?

Plus, I also thought I remember seeing that the angels were sexless (as in gender). My head hurts...

Robert