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damn... never mind... just read something that disproves my idea.
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Lost is great - though deeply frustrating as well.
Definately a major Egyptian influence - the great statue is almost certainly the Egyptian god Anubis - the ankh in the hand represents Eternal Life.
Also Anubus has 4 toes - as does the statue in Lost.
Like I say - I enjoy Lost but, my goodness, its weird.......
The ending of the last series better not disappoint......
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it's been snowing heavily since last night and i'm unable to leave my driveway.. http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/national_weather_service_upgra.html.
roads were closed because it was so slippery.
that never happens--this is the tundra!
The snow in Scotland this winter has been much worse than usual - plenty of snow everywhere.
So much in fact they have had to close some of the ski slopes - 2 people died yesterday in Glencoe in an avalanche.
I blame global warming myself..........
answer..... all of them!.
they pride themselves on being "the truth" ( which belongs only to the christ.
they pride themselves on being part of a covenant that will destroy everyone else at armageddon and only they will "live forever" in paradise!.
An increase is inevitable - a huge jump would be nice.
Out of interest - when is the memorial this year - I am totally out of touch with the whole thing.
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hey everyone!.
) did you feel the religion was a cult before leaving?:.
) do you feel the religion is a cult now after leaving?:.
You have a PM.
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do i have to love god to get into the good place?
let's assume i believe and follow all of the rules out of obligation and not love, is that enough?.
Jesus died for all mankind - not just for christians.
the cover article is "the bible-is it really god's inspired word?"..
this has got to be a new low in watchtower superficiality.
how do we know that isaiah and daniel were authentic despite the claims of critics?.
This is not circular reasoning - your viewing the bible as 1 book
The 66 books of the bible are from different times, different writers and different locations - so using 1 of these to confirm another is fine by me.
Though not to say that WT do not use circular reasoning - of course they do - just not this time, in my opinion.
last night, author and ex-christian, john w. loftus debated dinesh d'souza on the topic, "does the christian god exist?".
below is loftus' opening statement.. .
in every single case dineshs response will be pretty much the same.
I believe in God - but not sure if I would describe him as only the christian God though.
Its a good question....
do you ever post without quoting the bible?
why do you feel a compulsive need to quote scriptures in all your posts?
were you once a bible-thumping jw or are you just a born-again bible thumper who never was a jw and just happens to dislike jws?.
I am with wobble on this - I enjoy Chalam's scriptural comments.
Chalam - don't you stop.........
so when we moved here from maine to okc, six years ago this coming april, my daughter was 7. the military moved us so it brings a big moving truck to your house and unloads all of your stuff etc.
we had been settling in for a few months and my daughter starting telling me that she was hearing things in her room.
small things at first, just enough to prick up her ears.
Are there demons? Is there really evil?
No doubt demons exist - whether they would come to your house and make a child say "I want to have sex with Satan" is another thing!!!
I used to have demonic dreams quite frequently until I stopped believing in demons.
I do not accept that all such experiences can be catagorized as dreams - I have heard about far to many that are way way beyond the dream state.
maybe arrogance is not the right word but i can find no other that describes what i see.
the idea expressed by some christians on this board is that somehow god specifically chose them.
i'll quote perry as an example as his post inspired this thread.
A short time later,and I mean frighteningly short, a JW called on me, with the specific purpose of getting me back in it. Nobody else called,not even a still small voice inside me.
What do all yous'e make of that. Especially you Christians.
A test?
Coincidence?
Maybe being a JW would be good for you?
Maybe its the truth? - OK - strike that one .
I don't know - I do not fully understand prayer, the essence of God, purpose of life etc. All I know is that people, some people, seem to get very precise answers to prayers.
Because a prayer, perhaps many prayers, do not get answered does not mean that all prayers never get answered.
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