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gitasatsangha
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How do you relax ?
by blobby ini'm just listening to my deep purple album - made in japan...drinking a beer after i've just made the evening meal ....ah !
.......life is good.....how do you relax ..?
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Banned From the Bible
by Sweetp0985 ini may be late in seeing this special on the history channel, but did anyone else see this show.
it was about books being banned from the bible that further explains events that may or may not have happened the way it is written in the bible.
this show peaked my curiousity and i went to the library and found the book who wrote the bible?
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gitasatsangha
I haven't read the show but as a Witness, the apocrypha was pretty interesting to me. I think the Gospel of St. Thomas is particuarly interesting, since it seems to predate the gospels in Jerome's canon.
Its just my opinion as an outsider looking in at the Christian religion, but I tihnk that "All Scripture Is Inspired" comment by Paul really caused a great deal of damage to Christianity. It started to become book-centric after that, but the question had to be which books, so rather then having an open view to various texts, the Church felt the need to have one agreed upon series of books (a similar thing had happened in Buddhism a few centuries prior with the development of the Pali and Sanskrit Canons, and there the resemblence ends abruptly). After the Reformation it only got worse, to the point that now the bible itself seems to be something of an idol among many protestants.
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I'm in Red China!
by Leolaia inwell, i've been in beijing for a good while already, and tomorrow i leave for xian.
it was quite an adventure getting here.
we flew out of tokyo/narita bound for beijing on ana airlines, and after 20 minutes in the air, i finally caught a glimpse of mt.
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gitasatsangha
JH, that was really funny.
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Seeking clarity regarding Bethel Ministries...
by SwampThing ingood day everyone,.
i have been reading a number of articles over the weekend from the freeminds website, and have a question regarding bethel ministries.
i seem to remember a number of posts on this forum which led me to believe that bethel was some sort of jw institue of higher learning, saved for the ultra touched anointed.. please help me clear up my misunderstanding.. thanks,.
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gitasatsangha
It certainly helped me, Randy.
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gitasatsangha
Brummie, you and I arent even real countries. We're (shudder) ORGANIZATIONS! And the Watchtower Societies were (double shudder) SECRETLY IN US (why didn't it hurt).
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gitasatsangha
God, what a buzzkill:
You're the United Nations!
Most people think you're ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there's always going to be a long way to go. You're always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you get very schizophrenic as a result. But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York.
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Favorite Kung Fu Movie?
by Valis ini think this one has to be my all time fave.
sincerely,.
district overbeer
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gitasatsangha
That Return of the Dragon movie where Bruce Lee kick's Chuck Norris's ass. The fight at the end is some amazing stuff.
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WT expansion and enslavement of the 3rd world...
by cyber-sista inas some of you know i still receive some of those dopey jw forwards from those who are trying to encourage me to come back to the organization.
this recent one i received was a bit more informative as to the workings of the organization.
i don't think this sister knows who passed this one on to her and i'm sure it wasn't meant to go out over the whole internet.
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gitasatsangha
Undaunted,
Not to daunt you or anything, but why is every one of your replies some sort of blistering multi-fonted rant?
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WT expansion and enslavement of the 3rd world...
by cyber-sista inas some of you know i still receive some of those dopey jw forwards from those who are trying to encourage me to come back to the organization.
this recent one i received was a bit more informative as to the workings of the organization.
i don't think this sister knows who passed this one on to her and i'm sure it wasn't meant to go out over the whole internet.
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gitasatsangha
That could be it, and that is what I would expect it to be, Elsewhere, or it could be the opposite extreme. In the case of Episcopalians, the African Episcopalians, clergy have objected to American Episcopalians's liberalization and have been invited to America by some schismatic Episcopalians, congregations that likewise reject the liberlized church.
(Hard to imagine the current JW's in Patterson/Brooklyn becoming too liberal for anyone though)
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WT expansion and enslavement of the 3rd world...
by cyber-sista inas some of you know i still receive some of those dopey jw forwards from those who are trying to encourage me to come back to the organization.
this recent one i received was a bit more informative as to the workings of the organization.
i don't think this sister knows who passed this one on to her and i'm sure it wasn't meant to go out over the whole internet.
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gitasatsangha
Watchtower putting all its eggs in an African basket will eventually bite it in the ass. As other missionar denominations have discovered, the Africans are not stupid, and they are not expecting to be spiritually colonized. If they follow the pattern of the Anglican church in Africa and certain other sects, they will eventually develop their own theological and real-life concerns which dying old white men in Patterson will neither be able to, nor concerned enough, to address, and that point they will probably break free. Anyone can print the cheap crap coming out of Walkhill and Bethel.
