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How many of you gave up a college scholarship?
by codeblue inhow many of you gave up a college scholarship to appear "spiritual"?
jt's thread about "homegrown lawyers" and the wtbs willingly sending certain ones to college started me thinking about that question.
i know i for one, relinquished that scholarship to show how "spiritual" i was at 18. .
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Are we too hard on INDIVIDUAL JW's?
by outbutnotdown ini am definitely no longer a jw (11 years).
that having been said, living in a "democratic" land, the one thing that is challenging is agreeing with freedom of religion, but also protesting when it becomes offensive.
don't get me wrong..... my family shuns me completely and i do think that it is "offensive", and against the laws of nature, which makes the point even more legitimate...... : do they really know what they are doing?
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Charles Russell Website - great information
by run dont walk in.
this guy did his homework, check out this site, has most, if not all russell's zion's watchtower mags and other info, great source for information, and history on the cult we all got out of.. www.ctrussell.us/.
hope i did the link right
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A curious similarity in the new "Chronicles of Riddick" flick...
by Michael3000 insound familiar?.
- michael.
feore suffered for riddick .
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Are you afraid?
by UnDisfellowshipped infear not:
1st john 4:18: there is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.
but he who fears has not been made perfect in love.. 2nd timothy 1:7: for god has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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what do you make of these scriptuires... (re: elijah's mantle)
by dh inas a child this was one of the first passages in the bible that made me question god, and one of the first that made me think the yhwh described in the the bible was not dissimilar to us in many ways, and clearly a being that like us, used machinery and technology to get things done... .
when i think of the mindset that wrote these scriptures, i can't help but liken it to the way native american indians would describe a locomotive train as an 'iron horse' though clearly it is not an iron horse, it's a case of using the words you know to describe a thing you do not understand.. if you believe the bible, or if you think it is an accurate teller of history... what do you think this biblical passage is descibing?.
2 kings 2.
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becoming a eunuch for the kingdom....
by zen nudist in.
here is a thought.... since eunuchs had no seed, they could not commit adultry, and were often allowed to have as much sex with the harem girls they guarded as they liked... sounds like a good deal... they also could not commit adultry in their heart (^_^).
btw, adultry means to mix alien or illegal seed in the field of another.... most feared among ancient males, to raise the child of another pretending to be his own...because of his mates unfaithfulness.
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Only one God? How many Lords are there then?
by grzesiek32 ini developped one of my articles that was presented here:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/63589/1.ashx.
to cut a long story short.... .
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The Jesus Mysteries / Jesus and The Lost Goddess by Freke and Gandy
by EyeDrEvil inhas anyone here read either of these books.
i am reading jesus and the lost goddess -- fascinating stuff!!!
pretty strong statements being made about jesus and the entire foundation of christianity... .
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It's About INVENTORY, Stupid!
by Farkel inin 1940, former zone servant harvey h. fink wrote that the wts was "set up by presumptous men whose interest in spite of their pretenses to the contray, is primarily selling books for revenue.." and that the wts demanded that books containing outdated doctrine would still "be sold to the people very definitely, because it wanted to get the revenue out of them in spite of the errors it willing admitted they contained.
strong words, indeed.
is the wts so currupt and greedy that they would knowlingly make their membership buy and sell books that contained admitted false prophecies and outdated doctrines?