Add 7 years for the tribulation period and you get an effective date of 2012. Damn those Mayans! Seems they knew a thing or two.
DonnieDarko
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The last generation ends in 2005
by cherjcd inthe generation of the anointed ends in 2005 as that will conclude 70 years since the last of that special group was chosen in 1935. for many jehovah's witnesses this may be something to look forward to, but have they really thought this through?
by logically working through their doctrine of the last generation it appears that god favors the dead.
here is my latest findings on the last generation of jehovah's witnesses and the conclusion that if the watchtower is right, then god missed the boat by sending jehovah's witnesses to start their preaching work over 100 years ago.. http://jwinfoline.com/documents/prophecy/last_generation.htm.
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Anybody ever try the Atkins Diet?
by El Kabong inok, this has probably been discussed before, but, how many here have tried the atkins diet?
did you have a good/bad experience with this diet.
the reason i ask is because i went to my doctor and my bp is way up.
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DonnieDarko
The Atkins diet works by limiting your intake of carbs. Like anything else, this plan is not for everyone. I believe this diet change works best for people who tend to be "insulin sensitive" I'm hispanic and our diets usually are very high in complex and refined carbohydrates. there is a very high rate of diabetes, type2, in all hispanics which includes my family. I started on the atkins plan many years ago which forced me to cut out many of these "high carb" foods. at 32 I'm at my ideal weight and my cholesterol is at 114. I eat almost every vegetable imaginable and only limit my intake of the higher carb fruits. Ketosis is only adviseable for the first couple of weeks on the plan. This is so you can stabilize your blood sugar levels. Then you slowly introduce complex carbs back into your diet. When you are losing only about a pound a week then you stabilize your intake. The idea here is to find out how many carbs your body can process without creating an imbalance. Unfortunately, the american diet is saturated with refined sugar which for some individuals, who cells become insulin resistant can become life threatening.
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Is SARS worse than they tell us?
by JH inpowered by
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thousands quarantined in canada over sars
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DonnieDarko
Interesting....The SARS infection rate is said to top-out at around 5%. The Spanish infuenza epidemic which killed about 20mil in 1918 had an infection rate of 1%. Something wicked this way comes..."
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by sf in~deleted by author due to severe displays of warned heart palpitations upon opening said link; dummies; i even warned you all~.
i never made any comment re: the link.
what a bunch of density!!.
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Maybe not the Nazis but certainly not just art deco....
Eagle: While America has long held the eagle to be a representation of freedom, the eagle has had a long history of occult recognition. In fact, it has been a bird with many occult connections. It was linked to psychism and was considered a deity within certain mysteryteachings, being associated with the invisible sun, sky, and etheric powers. It is also astrologi-
cally linked to Scorpio in the zodiac. In Native American beliefs, the eagle is believed to hold mystical powers, and that energy flows through it. The eagle also acts an “etheric world guide,”giving persons guidance and information as they psychically pass into the world beyond. Another use of the eagle can be found within the higher echelons of western occult secret societies. The Knights of Malta and the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry use a double-headed eagle as the emblem for their orders. According to Manly P. Hall,the double-headed eagle represented,the Master of the double Holy Empire of the superior and the inferior universes.The ancient emblem of equilibrium consisted of an androgynous body surmounted by two heads, one male and the other female, wearing a single imperial crown. Thatbeing alone is perfect in which all opposites are reconciled, and this state ofperfection is appropriately typified by the two heads of equal dignity. Hence thedouble-headed eagle is reserved as the emblem of completion, for it signifies the Philosopher’s Stone, the ultimate soul condition, and that absolute and transcendent perfection which arises only from the fullest unfoldment of the latent potentialities within the individual. -
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Donnie Darko
by Huxley inhas anyone seen this film?.
i just watched it today and was blown away!
it really has my head spinning.... .
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Donnie Darko follows a boy of superior intelligence whose emotional problems propel him on a very strange trajectory through a tangent universe. Donnie’s journey begins when he dreams about a rabbit telling him to leave the house. He follows the rabbit, and escapes being killed by a falling airplane part of unknown origin. But the rabbit tells him that the world is going to end in twenty-eight days. Donnie’s been given life and death at once.
Donnie Darko boldly attempts not only to transcend the time travel conundrum, but to link it explicitly to the biggest question of all: Does everyone die alone?
If God exists, he must by extension have a plan for the universe, a path for everyone to follow. If we are following a path that God knows from start to finish, then we should be able to jump to any point on that path because it already and always exists. Donnie is able to see these paths as Abyss-like arrows emanating from people’s chests. He tries to ask his science teacher what it all means, but his teacher can’t answer—he’ll lose his job. He can’t tell Donnie how to travel in time because it means telling Donnie that there is a sovereign God who created time and who oversees its unfolding.
Donnie’s bible is The Philosophy of Time Travel, a book written by Darko character Roberta Sparrow, a.k.a. Grandma Death. Sparrows are the birds most commonly associated with God’s providence. In the Bible, Jesus asks that we “consider the birds” to understand how God will take care of us. Shakespeare riffs on these words as Hamlet, confronted with his own mortality and understanding that he must take action, says, “There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow . . . The readiness is all.” But the dark side of God’s providence is death. Hamlet understood this—the readiness of which he speaks is the readiness to die. Throughout Jesus’ teachings, the idea is that true devotion to God will remove the fear of death because of the trust that God is sovereign and he will provide, even after death. As the existential optimist Job says, “Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him.”
So why, then, does Roberta Sparrow say to Donnie, “Every living thing dies alone”? This question throws Catholic schoolboy Donnie into a tailspin. He thinks that the world is going to end and he’s going to die and be alone and there’s nothing he can do about it. Even as he falls in love with Gretchen and comes to know the depth of his mother’s love for him, Donnie watches his world spiral out of control. He finds destruction of his own making and destruction that is unavoidable. He can’t make heads or tails of any of it and comes to find that the world is a terrifying, dark place even as there are pockets of goodness.
Donnie is learning the meaning of what the biblical writer John calls “the now and the not yet.” The Christian believer lives in the paradox of knowing that salvation (from the eternal consequences of sin) has already arrived and that salvation (from the sorrow of living in a fallen world) is still to come. The conflict will be resolved only when the believer sees Christ face to face—that is, on the believer’s mortal death. Chiefly loving the “now” will lead the Christian to try to turn this world into heaven, to seek happiness in the temporal. Living solely for the “not yet” sends the believer into exile, devoid of intimacy with God’s much-loved children, dreaming only of an escape hatch. Choosing to (try to) love both creates a holy neurosis that might be what Paul meant when he said, “For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Or what Jesus did when he laid down his life for his friends.
As the clock runs out, Donnie makes love with Gretchen and then goes to Roberta Sparrow’s. He’s found love, and now he needs answers. If everyone dies alone, then it doesn’t matter that he loves Gretchen. What he finds is death, destruction, sorrow, and despair. The complete darkness of the fallen world is laid bare before him, and Roberta Sparrow is nowhere to be found. And then the sky starts to fall.
Donnie watches the clouds gather above his house, and then scenes from the movie run in reverse. Donnie is back in his bed on the night of his death. He laughs. He should laugh: he has time traveled, and now he will die—but Gretchen won’t be murdered. His family will weep but the world won’t come to an end at the close of twenty-eight days. He’s sacrificed himself to prove that God exists, that God is indeed sovereign over everything—and if God exists then no one dies alone, it is safe to die, and the world doesn’t have to come to an end. His death does change the future, profoundly, but he laughs because he’s learned that death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a person, not by half.
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Donnie Darko
by Huxley inhas anyone seen this film?.
i just watched it today and was blown away!
it really has my head spinning.... .
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A very fine film indeed! Happens to be MY favorite!
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Back from the Memorial
by ScoobySnax inwell like i say, just got back from the memorial, have been going most years, but this year i went by chance (knew it was roughly at 7pm at the nearest kh) to my old congregation that i grew up in.
i didn't find the "evil" people spoke of here on this forum, or those too stupid to see.
all i did see was people i hadn't seen in years, and let me tell you, what lovely people they were.
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DonnieDarko
Well scooby, you have to remember that your in a forum filled with xjw's. If they didn't leave the org, then they were booted out for one reason or another. Ifyour not an xjw with the obligatory "here's my story" then be prepared to be shunned and ridiculed here. It's all part of the game. Most here despise the jw religion and try desperately to integrate back into "normal society". That's why many begin to celebrate all the holidays and re adjust back to into "wordly-mode" Ultimately, they assume it's easier to burry the pain and then re-establish a link with the world. Reading some of the "experiences" of some of the posters on this forum you have to wonder whether they ever had any real faith in Jehovah or was it more of a faith in the org itself. When I started reading posts about being pro-war, joining the military, taking up smoking and all other forms of debauchery that's when I realised that any faith in jehovah that these people may have had all but disappeared long, long ago. I suggest you stay on this forum, scooby. It's interesting to read and understand what your NOT missing by dumping your faith in Jehovah.
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Did they really live that old?
by JH inadam lived 930 years.
(genesis 5:5) .
seth lived 912 years.
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DonnieDarko
Pre diluvian humans living extended life spans is an interesting concept. The theory is that Adam and his offspring were much less imperfect (less DNA mutation) than the post diluvian world. Also, there was a "Vapor" canopy over the earth which filtered out much of the radiation. The atmospheric pressure was double the 14.7psi that it is now. Oxygen content was also about double the ratio of the current nitrogen/oxygen mix. That's why plants and trees grew much larger. It may also explain why the Dinosaurs died after the flood since the water canopy was removed and consequently, the atmospheric pressure as well as the oxygen content fell to current levels. Thus, these dinos could not take in sufficient oxygen to stay alive for very long. Theoretically. with double the atmospheric pressure and double the oxygen you could run for hundreds of miles without running out of breath...Theoretically...
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Should SARS be getting more attention?
by Simon in.
sars, the new deadly virus that seems to be spreading quickly round the world, is very worrying but is not getting much attention i think because of the war.. scientists have been saying for some times that we are overdue for a pandemic of spanish flu proportions and this could be it !.
in just a few days / weeks it seems to have reached most major countries, infected thousands and killed more people than the iraqi's have.. should we be concerned?
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DonnieDarko
The CDC in america recently exumed some bodies that died of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. This particular virus killed about 23 million. Could there be a corollation?
Also, the doctor who first identified this SARS virus recently died himself of the virus. unlike the flu virus, this virus tends to fill the lungs with fluid. Making it very difficult to breath.
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Dear person from Wichita Kansas who decided to be a snitch.....
by pr_capone inonce again, whomever you are, you are too chicken shit to talk to me directly.
i am so angered that you once again, although i gave you my # and email address with which to contact me, have decided to take information that i have posted directly to the elders.
again, werent you supposed to come to me???
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