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Gay Marriage - The War for Equality
by Inquisitor ini've just read lola28's thread "for those against gay marriage".
i thought i should present a clear message on what i think the gay marriage issue is all about.
the trouble with most discussions on this issue is that it gets clouded by a plethora of side-issues, non-issues, cave-men chest-thumping and medieval puritanism.
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Comparison between jw elders and catholic priests
by freydi inaside from their theological weirdities, i'm wondering about their function.
eg, if you had a personal problem who would you most likely trust for just resolution involving a confessional type situation?
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Ron Paul Revolution Still Very Much Alive ... lol at REPUBLICRATS
by What-A-Coincidence inhttp://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/17/ron-paul-revolution-still-very-much-alive.aspx?source=nl.
ron paul is still in the race and gaining support from delegates every day.
he came in second in pennsylvania, but amazingly, after ron paul supporters managed to get a rule changed, which positions them for more national convention delegate slots than previously expected, the nevada gop abruptly cancelled their own state convention and left.. people who had traveled from near and far, and had spent 10 hours at the convention, were prevented from casting their votes.. "after a super-majority of ron paul supporters captured control of the republican state convention saturday, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention," reported the reno gazette journal.
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Way to go, Dubya!
by nvrgnbk inbush's comments in israel fuel angerlinking of nazis, iran seen as jab at obama.play-btn-box346x270 {position:relative;width:346px;height:270px;}.play-btn-box346x270 .play-btn {position:absolute;width:78px;height:48px;top:111px;left:134px;background:url(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/images/player/play-button-med.png) no-repeat;_background:none;_filter:progid:dximagetransform.microsoft.alphaimageloader(src=http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/images/player/play-button-med.png,sizingmethod=scale);cursor:pointer;}.play-btn-box346x270 a {position:absolute;top:0;left:0;}.play-btn-box346x270 b {display:none;}videobush: america stands with israelpresident bush, in jerusalem to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the state of israel, told israeli lawmakers that the united states is firm in its commitment to the friendship between the two nations.
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friday, may 16, 2008; page a08 .
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I think I found my soon to be new "Best Friend"...
by FreedomFrog ini'm a person that it takes a while to learn...or to become close enough to consider "close" or "best" friends.
i've been going out to occasional parties, coffee, barnes and noble places and have been around this wonderful lady.
we've been invited to several places at the same party and tonight we realized that we both have many things in common.
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California Court Affirms Right To Gay Marriage
by BenV injust got this email!.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/15cnd-marriage.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.
ben (celebratin' with friends).
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Something Very Important happened in 1914
by Outaservice inyes, in 1914 president woodrow wilson declared that the 2nd sunday in may each year was to be an honor of mothers, and so we celebrate 'mother's day'!
what could be more important than that?.
the bible admonishes us to 'honor our father and mother' even if...................in some cases they do not deserve any honor!
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Our CO gave a talk to kids. Stay OUT of school!
by easyreader1970 inhe wanted to talk to the young ones in the congregation.
the main theme of the talk had to do with avoiding higher education.
basically the main idea was this: witnesses are losing alot of young people here in the last few years.
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Which is worse, Adam's sin, or God's reaction to his sin?
by Dirty Rat inwhen you look at all the pain and suffering in this world, and then wonder why god decided that mankind should pay for one man's sin, with interest on top of that, it's revolting.. no way can the added pain and suffering of billions of people equal the fault that adam did.. .
ps: this is jh .
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Diary of a thinking to return ex-Jw
by reniaa ini thought long and hard about posting this but the mis-information on this site finally persuaded me, i already accept many may not accept what i say on face value and get their appologist pens ready for making sure no pro-witness propaganda slips through the net on this site but here goes....... i've been on this forum for a few months my first post was about how i was thinking of returning to jw's and at my sisters recommendation to look at this site for both sides of the story before taking that step.. i faded from jw's 10/11 years ago now i left my hubby at the time divorced him to going on to have more relationships and kids, i was definately given the impression after asking on this site and with what i read that if i tried to return i might face df or at least a jc but definately a couple of elders questioning me over what i've been upto these last few years - none of these have happened.
i talked with an old jw friend (yes i do have then and she never shunned me quite happily accepted an offer of coffee from me and my asking for a chat) i told her i was interested in going back and was very frank about what i done in the last 10 years but not sure how returning was done now, she quite happily said she go ask for me to find out.. result!
she came back this week and said "all i had to do was goto meetings again" and an offer of a study was there for me if i wanted it to explore the open doubts that i had expressed i now had.. not quite the fire and brimstone welcome this site led me to believe would happen.. i will keep you posted with further updates if i feel the need to put them in future.. .