When "Brother" Bob Tilton used to be on the air my friend and I used to watch for the entertainment value. We used to send stacks of play money you could buy at the dime store. Always included a little note about how the fake money was perfect for the phoney minister.
elamona
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Counterfeit Donations to Watchtower
by DevonMcBride infrom time to time a ring of counterfeiters makes their way through my area.
according to the fbi, the ring is run by columbians.
someone told me that one time counterfeit money was placed in the kingdom halls donation box.
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elamona
It also has Cajun stuffings. You can buy them over the internet. I sent one to my daughter last year. Expensive but worth it. It is a Louisiana "invention". They have been eating it for years. Am originally from there.
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Exorcist
by Okram intook me 30 years before i had the courage to watch it.
and it really wasn't even that scary.
what a disappointment.
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elamona
The most terrifying movie I have ever seen. Maybe because I do believe that devils can influence our lives if we let them. NO, SATAN CAN'T MAKE YOU DO IT. I saw it when it came out and couldn't sleep for weeks. Still sleep with a light on somewhere in the house. I've seen it @15 times but still haven't seen the whole thing. I always cover my eyes or go to the bathroom at the really scary parts. What's funny is that I read the book when it came out and it wasn't so scary so I thought I'd see the movie.
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Local child molester busted!
by Bendrr inok, so he's not a jw but this is one hell of a story.
i thought i'd share it.girl flees abductor.
by liz fabian.
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elamona
Since you can't execute someone without a trial, the cops should have knocked on 13 doors,after catching him, in the neighbor where the little girl lives,and ask those people if they want to be on a 5 minute jury. Make one of them the judge then have the little kid and the bus driver and any other witnesses ID him then shoot him and kill him on site. Justice done and a gazillion dollars saved. He should not have been released after the first time. Judges are way too lenient with child molesters.
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Did you re-evaluate who Jesus Christ is when you left?
by hooberus inmany on here left the watchtower for various reasons.
did any of you re-evaluate his deity after you left?
do you think that the watchtower has been accurate in the way they present what other's believe about jesus christ and his relationship to the father?
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elamona
Isaiah 40:26. I am not sure if Jesus has an awareness of ever being created since He technically wasn't created, being God and not God at the same time. I really don't know. Just trying to comprehend the nature of a Being or Entity that created our universe is mind numbing. I'm not sure that any human being can ever come to a full understanding of our Creator. Light travels @1.7 trillion miles a year, our universe is @15 billion miles across, so multiply 1.7x15 and you get a number that is so large that it is hard to imagine. There may be other universes, we don't know, and if so,they are all creations of God, who exists OUTSIDE of His creations. All of that matter (energy) had to come from somewhere since matter can neither be created nor can it be destroyed.
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elamona
JW's better not jump too high. Hemopure IS cow's blood so if anyone gets JCD it'll probably show up in a JW first as this is the only red blood cells that they can accept. Ther is NO, I repeat,NO way to test for the agent that csuses JCD. So all cows blood prepared for human transfusions are capable of transmitting the disease. The medical community does not know exactly how it is transmitted or how to avoid passing it on except to avoid the contaminated cows. If a cow is in the early stages of mad cow disease they may not show symptoms but are still capable of transmitting the disease.
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Did you re-evaluate who Jesus Christ is when you left?
by hooberus inmany on here left the watchtower for various reasons.
did any of you re-evaluate his deity after you left?
do you think that the watchtower has been accurate in the way they present what other's believe about jesus christ and his relationship to the father?
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elamona
I had rejected a "three faced" trinity before I became a JW but after reading a particular scripture in the NWT I began reevaluating Jesus' relation to the Father and came to the conclusion that the was and is a trinity, but not in the way most people think of it. The scripture is Isaiah 40:26. It says that God is an abundance of dynamic energy. Other bibles use other words but this one scripture in the NWT crystalized in my mind that GOD is the source of all created things as defined by E=MC squared. God, being an entity of unimaginable power, created ALL things from Himself. The first thing He created was Jesus out of Himself. I think of God as this great invisible "nebulosity" (don't know another word to use) who released a part of Himself and that part was Jesus in His prehuman form.Jesus, being of or from God in a manner like this means that He is created but is still eternal since He is still part of God. God also created the Holy Spirit this way. Now when God and Jesus began to create everything else in the universe they kept "something" out that was distinct to Them. This made Them different than ALL other things in the universe but They remain the same unique substance. As parts of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit can always "recombine" and "reemerge" with and from God but retain their distinctness and sameness at the same time. If you forget the usual depictions of God as this great human in the sky (He doesn't need a body, or anything that is relative to human existence) then it is easier to "see" Him and His relationship to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. So I do believe in a Trinity but not in the classical way of believing.
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elamona
I worked a an inner city hosp where it was NOT uncommon for 12 and 13 yr olds to come in and deliver. Also VD is not unexpected in little kids in some section of the big cities as there is an urban myth that if a man has VD he can get rid of it by having sex with a virgin. Since girls are having sex younger and younger, it's getting harder and harder to find virgins in their early teens. What shocked me even more is that the men who usually do the kinds of things are the mother's shack-up-of-the-week. Being a product of the 40's generation brought up in the "protected" environment of the lower middle class suburbs, I can tell you that I was in total shock and denial when I had my first encounter with anything like this.
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Why do the JW's not Believe in Hell?
by Tirisilex ini may have asked this question before awhile back but i was not able to find it in the search.
other than what the nwt provides for information.. how do the jw's provide proof for this no hell belief?
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elamona
I did not believe in a fiery burning place called hell before I became a JW and still don't after I have left them. I do not believe that a God who is love could possibly even think of doing somethink like that to humans. There are some scriptures in Kings that pretty much say that. God got very angry with the Jews for sacrificing their kids upon altars to some foreign god. He said how could they do something like that when nothing like that had ever entered His mind and heart. So that pretty much tells me that God thinks this is an abomination to Him as much as it is to us.
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Your Ideas On The Bible?
by shamus inso, what do you think about the bible?
is it really ispired of god?.
i am strongly believing that the bible is nothing more than folk-tales, half-truths, and suggestions by man.
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elamona
Whether you believe the Bible or not a personal decision that has to be made by every one. I do beleive that ALL human beings are born with an innate desire for religion. How they express that religion or what they choose is entirely up to the individual. There are just too many things that point to a human desire to believe in a "higher" power. I don't know a single person who doesn't have some type of faith- christianity, judism, islam, wiccan, universalists, etc. Even atheists eventually attach themselves to humanism or science as the ultimate expression of their belief system. Since the beginning of time people have worshipped trees, rocks, other people, etc. ALL cultures have worshipped something down thru the ages. I don't think that I have ever read about an ancient culture that didn't have some type of religion. Many times I have heard or read about people who have a "void" that cannot be filled and they are tortured by this. Just the fact that we are born with a need for religion tells me that "something or someone" out there wants me to know Him and that I should search for Him. I may be wrong but I don't think so. Do any of you REALLY KNOW a truly areligious person?