the jw use of this word gets my knickers in a right twist!
when someone is impaled, it means he is run through with something.
the thing he is run through with is the thing he is impaled on or by.
1: to join (coats of arms) on a heraldic shield divided vertically by a pale2 a: to pierce with or as if with something pointed; especially: to torture or kill by fixing on a sharp stakeb: to fix in an inescapable or helpless position
This seems to only support impale to mean pierced. To torture or kill by fixing on a sharp stake b: to fix in an inescapable or helpless position
It's just cult loaded language to be different.
it has always puzzled me why abel, a herder of sheep, would want to kill his own animals to offer them up to god.. prior to the flood, it would be fair to say that no one ate meat.
maybe they did, maybe they didn't, but assuming that meat.
was not eaten, why would abel's offering be better than cain's offering?.
where did they get the idea of a burnt offering?
Adam's family was killing animals all along, and using everything and anything from them to survive.
Killing animals wouldn't have been anything new to them, God showed them how to kill animals for clothing.
My thinking : Cain and Abel know God is up in the sky, mom and dad pissed him off, how to please him?
We will show God that we are not like mom and dad.
We will use this new thing we discovered called fire it gives off stuff that reaches right up to
the sky where God lives.We will burn our most valuable possesions
and send the smoke to him then he will know we are willing to sacrifice our best to him.
why would Abel's offering be better than Cain's offering?
No one gets upset when a cornfield is harvested,
but let a dog fall into a hole and the fire company comes.
I think God had issues with cain before these sacrifices took place.
God knew Cain and Abel well He read their hearts and had been observing them for some time.
This was just an opportune time to bring those issues up.
these two opportunists (there is no other word) have set race relations in the us back 100 years.
if only they had teamed up to encourage and facilitate education and job opportunities for their constituents as vigorously as they have advocated on behalf of casual and career criminals - we'd have a better outcome for all concerned.
bizzy bee I 100% aggree with you.
encourage and facilitate education and job opportunities
No money or noteriety in doing the above vs. what they do now.
I like to think of what would be happening right now if the roles were reversed in Jena. ha
to all,.
i wish a thread would start where in everyone would explain why they picked the avatar they have.
i have not found one, yet..... v.
metaspy,
good message.
My avatar is a picture of the star of Bethlehem that sits on South Mountain that overlooks Bethlehem PA where I live.
i'm donating blood tommorrow.
there is a blood drive at my job.. i just started this new job, and no one knows that i am a jw.. it's my first time... and i dont feel guilty about or afraid of getting df'd for it either.. i like that idea that my blood can help save a life... it is a new experience, and i'm getting all nervous, like i won some prize, and tommorrow i will recieve it.
is that weird or what?.
It's weird but in a good way.
It's cool to think someone else is being helped by your blood.
My first time I almost fainted.
They tell you to let them know if you are feeling dizzy which I did after my pint was almost done.
Within 10 seconds I had ice around my neck, legs elevated wet towel on my forehead and people
massaging me, they don't mess around. Then I looked to my left and see an older lady
smiling and finshing donating blood like it was nothing.
I felt like a wimp.
I actually think it was a minor panick attack for breaking JAH's law,
also it was in a Catholic school gym for a girl scout thing for a friend to get merit points or something.
Overall it was a good experience.
I'm sure you'll do better than me.
i know the wts wants to hit 7 million jw publishers and i think that it will go over 7 million but how much beyond 7 million will it go?
we see a slow down in the preaching work and the innoculating effect that the internet has.
the jw virus is not as potent as it used to be.
7,777,777 publshers and then the end will come.
i don't know if that's good or not...... for companies in canada exporting to the us, it means less profits, so possible layoffs.. for those travelling to the us, it's good news, cause it costs less to buy us money now.. what's your take on this?.
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I will not be visiting and fishing the Riduea(spelling?) canal lakes.
there are so many jehovah' s witnesses elder pedophile cases,that i now must collate by case dates this is case 9-18-07 http://www.newstalk980.com/index.php?p=ntnews&action=view_story&id=9906 just up!
prominently placed on the jehovah's witnesses news wire church elder pleads guilty in sex court case.
980 cjme news talk radio, canada -7 hours ago.
All I want to know is how much $$$$$ will this cost the WT ???
That is the WT 's only concern.
a train hits a bus load of catholic school girls and they all perish.. they are all in heaven trying to enter the pearly gates past st. .
peter.....st. peter asks the first girl, "tiffany, have you ever had any .
contact with a penis?
A train hits a bus load of Catholic school girls and they all perish.
They are all in heaven trying to enter the pearly gates past St.
Peter.....St. Peter asks the first girl, "Tiffany, have you ever had any
contact with a penis?"She giggles and shyly replies,"Well I once
touched the head of one with the tip of my finger." St. Peter
says, "Ok, dip the tip of your finger in The Holy Water and pass through
the gate."
St. Peter asks the next girl the same question, "Jennifer have
you ever had any contact with a penis?" The girl is a little reluctant
but replies, "Well, once I fondled and stroked one." St. Peter
says, "OK, dip your whole hand in The Holy Water and pass through the
gate." All of a sudden there is a lot of commotion in the line of
girls; one girl is pushing her way to the front of the line. When she
reaches the front of the line St. Peter says, "Lisa! What seems to be the
rush?" The girl replies, "If I'm going to have to gargle that Holy
Water, I want to do it before Jessica sticks her ass in it."
i'm at the special assambly day entitled, jehovah is our potter we are the clay.
interesting day.
there was a talk in the morning session which included the news media as one of the tools that satan uses to mislead us.
A little girl wanted to get baptized. Her father objected due to her young age. The little girl asked her Dad, "If armagedon comes and I am not baptised will I be saved?" The father upon hearing the girls reasoning decided to let her get baptised. And she will be doing that today.
lovely guilt induced coercion for the adolescents
