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  Do you have a favourite scripture?

  by Ucantnome in

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  i have two.. luke 4.

  16 he went to nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.

  he stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet isaiah was handed to him.

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  Shador

  While I consider myself a pagan, I still find some neat stuff in the Bible.

  Ecclesiastes 1:4 - "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever."

  Ecclesiastes 2:24 - "There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour."

  Ecclesiastes 7:10 - "Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this."

  Ecclesiastes 7:20 - "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not."

  (Ok, I really like Ecclesiastes - probably my favorite book).

  Now one for the lulz:

  Ezekiel 23:19, 20 - "She began whoring worse than ever, remembering her girlhood, when she had played the whore in the land of Egypt, when she had been infatuated by profligates big-membered as donkeys, ejaculating as violently as stallions." (switched to the Jerusalem Bible here, cause KJV were too prudish to translate so explicitly)
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  Utah man goes on hunger strike to the death to protest same-sex marriages

  by adamah in

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  you can't make up this kind of religious nut-job fanaticism:.

  http://www.4utah.com/story/utah-man-fasting-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/d/story/k9sjvlgmmeuberqg9aeobq.

  although in retrospect, it's no more extreme than those jws who die refusing blood.... adam.

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  Shador

  Good riddance, I say. Hope he goes through with it.
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  glaring daggers.... If looks could shave.

  by Captain Blithering in

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  cowabunga dudes!

  sat on tge platform reading the scriptures for some bullpoop q and a parroting session..

  my po once said he felt physically ill seeing me give talks on the platform.

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  Shador

  Have some fun with the field circus repor. Just go to a gaming store and buy some dice. Mayby a d20 or two for the hours and a d10 for the various pieces of litter-trash.
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  Is God Cruel mat wt 2013

  by bobld in

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  2. bible

  my opinion.

  divine judgements-were they cruel.flood of noah-destruction of the wicked.tell me how are animals wicked.drowning them is cruel.babies are not wicked.

  and drowning them is cruel.. sodom and gomarrah-burning homosexuals is cruel.today there are many countries(with wicked rulers) that are anti-homosexual and have laws resulting.

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  Shador

  Time for my favorite quote again:

  “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” - Richard Dawkins
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  33 percent of Americans reject evolution

  by Simon in

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  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57616373-71/33-percent-of-americans-reject-evolution/.

  that seems to be a disturbingly high number for a western / educated / developed nation.. does this have anything at all to do with america slipping behind in the sciences?

  it seems hard to imagine they could not not be linked somehow.. no surprise that the jesus party (republicans) reject evolution the most.

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  Shador

  Only 1/3? Lower than I expected from the United (Fundamentalist) States of (Jesus) America. Things are looking up. Perhaps one day, this country will catch up to the rest of the world in intelligence.
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  Dateline Special On JW Sexual Abuse (2002 Video)

  by Brother Mike in

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  2. child-abuse

  i was just surfing youtube and found this video on jw sexual abuse.

  it's a full dateline episode made in 2002. .

  http://youtu.be/kjwolgmiqp4.

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  Shador

  I remember that.

  Downloaded and saved now. Thanks.
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  This weeks LIE in the brochure

  by DS211 in

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  2. experiences

  this week in the brochure for the "bible reading" it states on subject 24. that jehovahs witnesses wrote a century ago that jehovahs bacjs us and we do t take donations "and we never have!!!!

  ".....please someone post the information to prove this as a lie as we all know they used to charge for literature.

  this is an outright lie lol ridiculous..

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  Shador

  Then there's the 2-3 page spread they do in the ragazines every few months about ways to contribute. Shameless, pathetic begging if I've ever seen it.
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  Congregation By Laws?

  by tootired2care in

  1. watchtower
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  perhaps this was already discussed in another thread, if so i apologize in advance; but i was visiting some family several months back and we get into a conversation about their local congregation.

  one of my family members helps with some of the book keeping in that congregation.

  after a while he started talking about how the elders received some wierd letter from the society stating something to the effect that the congregation must put together or enforcing something for "corporate by laws" or "congregation by laws" - i'm not sure which.

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  Shador

  Anyone have a PDF or photocopy of the "by laws" BOBCAT cites in this thread?

  Just curious. . . . .

  I have access to get them. What state would you like?
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  Congregation By Laws?

  by tootired2care in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  perhaps this was already discussed in another thread, if so i apologize in advance; but i was visiting some family several months back and we get into a conversation about their local congregation.

  one of my family members helps with some of the book keeping in that congregation.

  after a while he started talking about how the elders received some wierd letter from the society stating something to the effect that the congregation must put together or enforcing something for "corporate by laws" or "congregation by laws" - i'm not sure which.

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  Shador

  Yea, they had some announcement about that at our hall a week or 2 ago. Posted the by-laws on the board. I actually went up and read the whole thing, much to the surprise of our COBE, who "figured nobody would wanna read that stuff". Looks like standard legal stuff about the congregation having a board of directors, how they are elected, procedure for replacements, how expenses are handled, voting on expenses/procedureal changes, etc.
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  What would happen if a jw decided to marry a vicar/priest???

  by quellycatface in

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  Shador

  Kate, I believe the official word on that is that it wouldn't be an evil divorcing, since (according to JWs) a homosexual marrage is not scripturally valid to begin with.