sammielee24
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Burning Incense might be a Sin
by sammielee24 inthe wt website now has an article on burning incense.
yes - pretty soon i'm sure they'll be telling you how to trim your toenails.
i'm surprised that they still allow dancing at weddings actually, since we know that dancing was so paganistic and led to wild, animalistic sex.
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Wedding rings and Christmas Trees
by sammielee24 inthe witnesses make a great to-do about christmas and all the trimmings, but for many, christmas has no religious meaning and instead is used to solidify family bonds by visiting one another, sharing time with friends, they use it as a time for sharing their own good fortune by volunteering time or donating money and sometimes to vacation.
many enjoy the tradition and celebration and fellowship without religion entering the picture.
knowing this, and the watchtower admits it in their website -.
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JWs and Vaccinations
by sammielee24 intaking the lead from another thread on this - i know a number of witnesses who were not vaccinated because of the jw scare - all kids of course, whose parents made the decision for them.
they are adults now, but none of them ever did get vacinnated - luckily they never got sick either.
i wonder - do you know of any witnesss that were not vaccinated and got sick?
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Was this really a smart choice of words?
by sammielee24 ini was watching pres bush in a speech telling the world that he is 'compelled' and 'driven by a higher power'.
that god wants him to give people around the world freedom.
that 'this crusade', the usa is on.............well...that was part of it and i sat there thinking.
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Blood Numbers
by sammielee24 inwe often allude to people who refuse blood transfusions but does anyone know the number of people who have died as a result of the societies no blood policy?
i realize this might be hard to prove, but using the percentages the medical profession give such as you have a 75% chance of recovery with a transfusion vs a 0% chance of recovery without, how many deaths can we attribute to the policy?
i assume countries with less available or advanced health services, may have a higher rate.
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Happy Labor Day!
by sammielee24 infor those in the usa and canada, today is labor day!
have a good one and lets not forget those who worked hard to change the laws to enable us to have this time off!
for those in most other parts of the world, this is equal to your international workers day.
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Bill Clinton on CNN
by sammielee24 inbill clinton interview on cnn about global poverty issues.
i love some of the programs he talked about and showed during the interview - and i like the way he recognizes and puts some value on helping people up - i especially liked the program for the rural farmer where he gets 5 cows to start his farm up and after a specific amount of time, he in turn gives 5 of his now growing herd, on to the next guy to start his farm.
giving people a hand is not giving them a hand out.
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Crackdown on Marriages
by sammielee24 inthe latest rumblings are that the wtbts may start coming down hard on anyone who marries outside the faith.
jw's who choose to marry a non believer will be df'd.
i would imagine those marrying unbaptized ones will be marked or told to get the spouse baptized or get df'd.
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27.5 Trillion Disappeared?
by sammielee24 inthere was some belief that portions of the social security balances were removed to fund other govt ventures - which is why there was such a push on for bush to get people to dissolve the social security.
27.5 trillion is a lot of money - the implication of what bush is doing is being talked about round the financial world and not in a good way..... greg szymanski.
16 aug 2006 .
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Walid Shoebat interview-anyone hear it?
by sammielee24 inhas anyone read this guys books or heard his radio interview?
he was a devout muslim and a member of the plo but has removed himself from all of that.
he gave a lot of very interesting insight into the thinking and growth of the islamic fundamentalist communities.