january 8, 1947 awake!:.
excommunication is "altogether foreign to biblical teachings.".
it's an unbiblical roman catholic teaching by which "you are looked upon with the blackest contempt... being cursed and damned with the devil and his angels.".
Wow, that is very interesting!
I am personally convinced that disfellowshipping is biblically prophetic and that it can only be Jehovah's Witnesses who are fulfilling that prophecy.
Here is a two part video which elucidates my own conviction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaOIl44pQn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36ufdkZfJfA
abe
hello gang!
didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?
this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!
I love Kenny Wayne Shepherd Ledbetter. I've seen many concerts, including George Harrison. No one compared to Kenny in energy, power, charisma and pure joy in performing. Amazing.
I never saw him in concert.
I do agree though, every single track on that Ledbetter CD is absolutely amazing!
In my opinion Kenny Wayne took Stevie Ray Vaughans style to another level.
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hello gang!
didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?
this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!
Yes, I like all the Rock Metal and Pop stuff but now I listen mostly to blues.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Greatest Hits
Duke Robillard - Dukes Blues
Muddy Waters Johhny Winter - Hard Again
Charles Ford Band - Charles Ford Band
Rory Block - When a woman gets the blues
Albert King - Live Wire Blues Power
Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
Colin James - National Steel
T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Ledbetter Heights
genesis3:3-5. at this the serpent said to the woman: "you positively will not die.
5 for god knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like god, knowing good and bad.".
consider just the title of the book; "knowledge that leads to everlasting life".
Good illustration. I never really thought about it like that.
Nobody wants to die, it will be the one thing humans will always try to escape.
That is why the same lie works so well today. The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society have taken that same lie and delivered it in a different package. Different words which mean the same thing. I personally believe that the Apostle Paul was making reference to that SAME lie in 2nd Thessalonians Chapter 2.
. 9 But the lawless one’s presence is according to the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and portents 10 and with every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth that they might be saved. 11 So that is why God lets an operation of error go to them, that they may get to believing the lie, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness.
I am therefore convinced that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is indeed fulfillling bible prophecy!
abe
genesis3:3-5. at this the serpent said to the woman: "you positively will not die.
5 for god knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like god, knowing good and bad.".
consider just the title of the book; "knowledge that leads to everlasting life".
Ge nesis 3:3-5
At this the serpent said to the woman: "YOU positively will not die. 5 For God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad."
Consider just the title of the book; "Knowledge that leads to everlasting life"
hello gang!
didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?
this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!
Wishbone Ash Argus deserves to be on my list as well and Edgar Winter's White Trash.
Wore out my 8 track playing "Rock N Roll Hoochie Koo", "Free Ride" and "Frankenstein"
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what is the good news of the kingdom?.
for me, the real good news of the kingdom was finding out that all of this wt propaganda is lies and that i never have to go back.
that was the best news about a kingdom that i have ever heard.
If the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society IS the Kingdom then the real GOOD NEWS is this:
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Matthew13:39-43. The harvest is a conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are angels. 40 Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be in the conclusion of the system of things. 41 The Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will collect out from his kingdomall things that cause stumbling and persons who are doing lawlessness, 42 and they will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where [their] weeping and the gnashing of [their] teeth will be. 43 At that time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him that has ears listen.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-rpt-fspg.
Thats a good question.
The earliest mention I can find of an Invisable Presence on the CD Library is 1950.
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MESSIAH’SPRESENCE"TESTIMONY
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April closes the 1950 campaign of taking subscriptions for the Watchtower magazine. This final month has been set aside as "Announcing Messiah’s Presence" Testimony Period and will be a month of special effort and activity world-wide in this behalf. When first published in July, 1879, our magazine was called "Zion’s Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence". It is still a herald of the invisible presence of Christ or Messiah, with more proof of this now than ever before since 1914. Very fittingly, then, subscriptions for TheWatchtower are to be taken during the Testimony Period thus designated. For each subscription for a year at the regular rate of $1.00 a set of 8 booklets is to be given as a premium.
hello gang!
didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?
this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!
No one mentioned Supertramp?
Iron Butterfly
Deep Purple
Steppenwolf
Frank Zappa
Tommy James and the Shondells
Lovin Spoonfull
so i wrote an email to my brother to tell him that i love him and that it's sad that a religion has come between us.
this is the reply i got:.
stupid and ignorant.
Hotchocolate,
You have already told him that you love him.
Sure you could send some stuff to scold him for not loving you in return however, that might undermine the fact that you love him (you do don't you?)
If you feel compelled to answer then I recommend that you reassure him that you do indeed love him and if he ever wants to get in touch you will be there for him.
Thats the true Christian way isn't it?
abe
