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  Who wants to come out?

  by _Atlas in

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  being watching some spiritual pornography lately?.

  thinking about some spiritual fornication?.

  booking a date with 'babylon the great harlot'?.

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  THE CELESTIAL ORGANIZATION HAS MOVED AND WE ARE BEING LEFT BEHIND…

  by _Atlas in

  1. watchtower
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  the celestial organization has moved and we are being left behind.

  first the awake was going to a monthly issue.. buildings are being sold.. then came the 2005 service report and the stagnating figures around the globe.. then we all heard about the 2,500 bethelites sent packing off brooklyn and the 1,000s on the international branches.. when i first read the news i though they were sending out 2,500+ new apostates to the street.. i started to wonder how will they both address the simplifications and cost cutting and urge the rank and file to do more without pulling the big armageddon card out, since this has backfired on multiple occasions.

  downsizing and activity were mutually exclusive imho.. well they are certainly clever.

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  Question about Hebrew...

  by _Atlas in

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  question about hebrew:.

  serendipity led me towards lamentations 3:38. the nwt renders this passage as follows:.

  38 from the mouth of the most high bad things and what is good do not go forth.. most others translations render this as what it seems like a rhetoric question along with verse 37 & 39. since this alters the understanding of the passage, when does the use of question marks is warranted in hebrew?

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  Hell - is it a biblical teaching after all?

  by Hellrider in

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  i`m rereading the nt now, for the first time in years.

  and yeah yeah, i know the jw-view and the politically correct view (which, oddly, are in agreement, for once) that there is no such thing as hell, you know, the fiery place somewhere deep down, where satan and the demons torture the souls of the wicked.

  i find the gospels intriguing, because here, jesus himself is talking about hell quite a lot:

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  Preaching at the Astrodome

  by 4JWY in

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  some evacuees see religious message in katrina .

  across three states, survivors weigh links among faith, sin and the storm

  reuters

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  Serena speaking for the Red Cross?

  by Fatfreek in

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  i'm watching the u.s. open tennis and the williams sisters are about to play each other.

  then comes the commercial.

  serena, in a simple plea, asking the viewers to make their contribution to the american red cross toward the katrina tragedy.. good for you, serena.

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  I just heard…

  by _Atlas in

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  i just heard.

  bros from new orleans were down on baton rouge for the convention.

  others were in texas over the weekend for their convetion too.

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  I Swear, The Ancient Way

  by _Atlas in

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  a little internet search revealed people acknowledging the fact that this was an ancient indo-european custom but shuffling about the latter meanings in latin of the word testis, testify, testicles.

  does the bible implies this was the case in these passages?

  was this a custom on the ancient times?.

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  Mr. P.O will it blow or not?

  by skyman in

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  how fanatic was your po i bet not as fanatic as mine.

  one night there was a fire in a petrolium storage facility one block from the kingdom hall the police had baricades up and vacated the area around the hall.

  the po called and told all us that jehovah would not let the place blow up while meeting was going on so meeting was still going to be held and he asked all of us brothers to call and inform the congregation that jehovah will protect us and to tell the congregation about an article of a hurricane that destroyed a town but jumped over the kingdom hall.

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  The Business Man Parable

  by _Atlas in

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  when the time is near to complete the deal he, instead of making the trip personally, sends his son to refine it for him.

  vicepresident jones jr. flies to asia and meets for a while with representatives from the foreign company.

  when he is done he returns to headquarters and leaves plenty of instructions.

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