Posts by gitasatsangha

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Would You Have Ever Let Your Child Die & Refuse A Blood Transfusion?

by minimus in

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i'm sure that i would've, believing that jehovah god would be proud of me.

gitasatsangha

Gita, if you ever were a true believer, you know that shouldn't be so harsh. If you doubted that it was the "truth", then--good for you. You were smarter than a lot of us..

I'm not being harsh, I'm just telling it like it is. We were all Jdubs and to some degree we were all idiots, but blaming our idiocy competely on the Society is pedantic. To quote Ben Kenobi "Who is more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him." And yes I know the old blah blah blah about "What if it was YOUR baby back then?" Well it wasn't and I never had to deal with that situation. But for those who did and who did let their children die from a lack of blood transfusion, they are as guilty for their deaths as would a person who willingly through their baby in a garbage disposal. Yes the garbage disposal did the dirty work, but the parent facilitated it. Gita of the "Sick of Victimization Mentaility" Class.

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A great speech on the signers of the Declaration of Independence

by L_A_Big_Dawg in

rush limbaugh's father wrote this speech.

it was a glorious morning.

the sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast.

gitasatsangha

Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold had captured the place, shouting that they were taking it "in the name if the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!"

My college American History book had the sly footnote to the taking of Ft. Ticonderoga. "It does not appear that Ethan Allen had authority from either." You gotta love them Vermont hillbillies :-D

Happy Birthday USA

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Would You Have Ever Let Your Child Die & Refuse A Blood Transfusion?

by minimus in

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friends

i'm sure that i would've, believing that jehovah god would be proud of me.

gitasatsangha

My heart goes out to those who have lost a child due to the blood policy. I cannot think of any greater torment for a parent

Mine doesn't. They're murderers, and they deserve to live with the fact that their decision took the life of someone who hadn't even had a chance, yet. The buck stopped with them.

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Belief-O-Matic says I'm a Mormon

by rocketman in

i took the "belief-o-matic" survey at beliefnet yesterday, and it looks like i am a mormon.

the survey matches your beliefs on various matters to the creeds of the world's religions and assigns a percentage.

i was 100% church of jesus christ of latter-day saints.

gitasatsangha

The Mahayana Buddhist thing didnt suprise me, obviously, but the NeoPagan thing kinda did, and the Sikhism thing really did.

1.	Neo-Pagan (100%)

2. Sikhism (91%) 3. Mahayana Buddhism (90%) 4. Theravada Buddhism (88%) 5. Unitarian Universalism (88%) 6. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%) 7. New Age (85%) 8. Hinduism (80%) 9. Liberal Quakers (80%) 10. Jainism (72%) 11. Taoism (65%) 12. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (60%) 13. New Thought (60%) 14. Reform Judaism (59%) 15. Bahá'í Faith (57%) 16. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (57%) 17. Secular Humanism (55%) 18. Scientology (47%) 19. Jehovah's Witness (46%) 20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (45%) 21. Orthodox Judaism (41%) 22. Orthodox Quaker (41%) 23. Nontheist (34%) 24. Seventh Day Adventist (29%) 25. Eastern Orthodox (25%) 26. Islam (25%) 27. Roman Catholic (25%)

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Go Get Em COSBY!!!

by Flash in

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cosby has harsh words for black community

by don babwin, associated press writer

chicago - bill cosby (news) went off on another tirade against the black community thursday, telling a room full of activists that black children are running around not knowing how to read or write and "going nowhere.

gitasatsangha

It is good to have SP back!

I know I should care about this issue because my kids are of mixed ethnicity, but truth to tell, I will raise them the best I can, and not worry a whole lot about society's problems at large. Frankly I can't conceptualize large groups of people very well, so I really don't give a rat's ass. Bill may be right, Bill may be wrong, but it doesn't affect me, so I haven't chimed in with an opinion on this.

I find it interesting though, that some of the biggest supporters of Bill Cosby on this issue don't have a dog on the race, and seem glad to just be able to vent their frustrations about blacks.

-Gita

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10,000 Witnesses in Moscow now have nothing to do...

by TresHappy in

putin pressed over jehovah's witnessescombined reports .

a leading human rights organization has appealed to president vladimir putin over a court's decision to ban the activities of jehovah's witnesses in moscow, calling it a serious failure of the judicial system that could increase harassment of believers, mosnews.com reported.. the international helsinki federation for human rights urged putin in an open letter to meet his "international obligations" and set the record straight by addressing the issue publicly.. the ban came into force on june 16, when the moscow city court upheld a district court decision prohibiting jehovah's witnesses from engaging in religious activity under a provision that allows courts to ban religious groups that are considered to incite hatred or intolerant behavior.

jehovah's witnesses spokesman christian presber said at the time that the ruling would prevent the group from renting premises for worship, holding bank accounts, or otherwise supporting their religious activities.. there are about 10,000 jehovah's witnesses in moscow and 133,000 nationwide, according to the group.

gitasatsangha

They will try to cajole the witnesses in moscow to go out anyway, and some of them that do will get arrested.

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RE: What Bible to use?

by TallTexan in

which bible have y'all found to be the best in replacing the nwt?

gitasatsangha

The Brick Testament. It's translation, by Rev. Brendan Smith, is refreshingly vibrant, keeping much of the feeling of reverence of the past, while also keeping the language easy to understand. The illustrations are amazing.

www.thebricktestament.com

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Counting Time Question

by robhic in

i am a non-jw and have a jw girlfriend (strange as this situation can be).

since the end of 2002 she has essentially been confined to her house and mostly to her bed due to illness.

she has attended 2 memorials and maybe 2-3 meetings in the last 2 years but nothing further.

gitasatsangha

1) She can count all the time she wants and call it informal or phone witnesseing. No one will double check.

2) If she's baptized, no one is supposed to be counting time on her. But it hardly matters. No one will double check. God will still hand out the Merit Bonus at the end of this Pay Period.

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How Do JW's View Capital Punishment?

by Englishman in

how do jehovah?s witnesses view capital punishment??u.s.a..

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>jehovah?s christian witnesses adhere to what the holy scriptures present as god?s view of capital punishment.

they recognize that jehovah god, as the creator of man, has the absolute right to set forth laws that must be obeyed if one is to continue enjoying life.

gitasatsangha

The Org waffled on that issue for awhile and finally did a 180 degree turnaround. At a Questions session at a convention (can't remember which but I think it began with "Kingdom" something or others), it was stated that the governments of the world were perfectly within their rights to execute criminals, as this authority had been given to them by Jehovah.

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What do you think of this??? 666

by Confucious in

the number "666" is hidden in every upc bar code!

(if you don't believe it, get a bar code and look at it!.

in the last few years, some upc codes have appeared with additional boxes underneath the bar code.

gitasatsangha

The number has a certain gerimatric meaning in Qaballa, but this barcode nonsense is just a more loonies at work playing the conspiracy game. I sometimes wish people who believe this crap would drink the JimJones Koolaid and remove themselves from the gene pool.