i thought this was great.. new york times.
february 9, 2006. op-ed columnistdrafting hitler .
by david brooks.
Muslims are striving to become unquestioning, obedient robots to Allah. If they are not there already.
I am still confused why an all-powerful, all knowing God like Allah would need to threaten and kill the people He created to get them to obey Him. Why can He not convince them, if he is truly all-knowing?
I have never read the Koran...am I off base? Should I go and ask this question to theangrymuslims.com?
Or will I get a 767 in my living room as an answer????
What should I do?
i have found a couple of verses with 666 in them .
2 chronicals 9:13 and 1 kings 10:14 .
this is only other mention of 666 besides revelation i can find... .
Well that info sounds like speculation to me. They said it was the anti- christs number? Who ever said that? How does any human know for sure that number is even really bad? Oh, I am sorry...I should be leaning on my own understanding like everyone else..so I don't appear like a little child...right?
My bad.....
i have found a couple of verses with 666 in them .
2 chronicals 9:13 and 1 kings 10:14 .
this is only other mention of 666 besides revelation i can find... .
I have found a couple of verses with 666 in them . 2 chronicals 9:13 and 1 Kings 10:14 . What does it mean? This is only other mention of 666 besides revelation I can find..
Any thoughts?
god tells david, "don't count my people".
david counts the people.. god tells david, "'cos you were naughty you gotta pick your punishment, will it be 'a' 7 years of famine, 'b' 3 months of national humiliation or 'c' 3 days of pestilence?
choose davey boy!".
I am intrigued at Rapheals explanation. I think Jehovah knew how to hurt David the most, and David did "try" Jehovah. David must have cared more about his people than his own family. I like the way He questioned the decision, yet obeyed. He knew who was Boss.
I wonder if this was what happend to Satan as well. Or the serpent.. Does he bear the responsibilty for our suffering? Wonder how he would feel when he realizes that? Billions have died and suffered because he "tryed" Jehovah. Or was he doing exactly what he was supposed to do? For a reason? If you condemn God, and judge his motives and ways of doing things...it would be wise to rest on that conclusion when never gets here. He knows, and try to find out what good He seen for the future by this "sin". You may learn something, from the One who screwed up and created you.
Judge no one....not even satan...as he has not got to make his case known yet.
it would be wise to gather facts before you gather rocks this time.
Your little brother,
David
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does anyone have thoughts on this?
Does anyone have thoughts on this?
somebody was asking me about tattoos and what the biblical rules about them are.
i also remember that a magazine (an awake!?
) mentioned that getting a tattoo is a matter of conscience.
I have 2. a evil clown ripping out of my right shoulder, and a spider web on my right ankle. (prison tattoo)
I may get another one day.
i am trying to build a list of hipocrisy with in the borg.
i dont mean things like the un scandal as people in the hall wont have heard of that, but smaller stuff that goes on all the time with out the rank and file noticing.
infant baptism.
My mom burned my W.A.S.P. tape when I was a kid. Said it was demonized.
Funny....Now I think SHE is the one demonized! I wonder if Blackie Lawless can make a house call?
i really hate the secrecy in jw's ...i felt like the low man on the totem pole even though i was a pioneer.
the big important men decide things behind closed doors and you can't know anything.
i can understand why someone said it was a pediphile's paradise, or anyone's who done really bad things.
Funny...I guess you are saying that really they don't want you to know the "truth" about what is going on around you. What "truth" were they supposed to have to give out? I don't remember Jesus having any secrets, or shrinking from any questions.
Is it just me?
wt january 1, 2006,"how firm is your trust in god?
an anonymous young man with a family is described as quitting a job because it interfered with meeting attendance.
can you see yourself taking a similar step if you were in circumstances like his?
Funny.....I started asking so many questions my mom begged me to go back to work full time. I was never encourged to read or study the bible. I was encouraged to work 17 hrs a day so I would not have time to think and ask questions. What is up with that ?
(My mom is devout witness too)
I guess she wants me to remain "worldly" and doomed to die by her 144,000 gods.
Can you feel the love?
i am trying to build a list of hipocrisy with in the borg.
i dont mean things like the un scandal as people in the hall wont have heard of that, but smaller stuff that goes on all the time with out the rank and file noticing.
infant baptism.
Da Cheech....That was some stong points you made!
Could you list them as new topics? I would like to see what others have to say about them , see if there is a defense for them...I cannot think of one...and you know how I love to defend people too.
