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new feature
by booby in*** text for september-20-10 ***.
monday, september 20. abundant peace belongs to those loving your law, and for them there is no stumbling block.-ps.
119:165.. the conduct of others never creates an excuse for our becoming bitter toward god or for abandoning a faithful course.
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What happened with the so-called "Suicidal Cult" over the weekend?
by JWoods indid anybody else see this?
apparantly this is a small pseudo-christian (and apocalyptic) group under the leadership of a woman.. relatives found eerie left-behind notes that looked suspiciously like suicide notes when they went off for a retreat over the weekend - so the police were called and put on a full-press search in case they were about to do a jamestown.. they were found safe, praying in some wildlife park a few miles away.
their story was that they left the notes "in case the rapture came while they were gone, so their friends and family would know where they were".. does anyone know anything more about them?.
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JW sex offender can't worship with minors
by behemot inn.h. supreme court title sex offender can't worship with minors subhead religious freedom appeal rejected summary main photo/photogallery by maddie hanna / monitor staffseptember 18, 2010the state supreme court has denied the appeal of a sex offender who wanted to worship with a manchester congregation of jehovah's witnesses after he was released from prison in 2008.. in an opinion issued yesterday, the justices rejected 36-year-old jonathan perfetto's argument that the conditions of his suspended prison sentences - which require he have no contact with minors under age 17 - had violated his right to religious freedom.. "the defendant's freedom of belief has not been restricted," the justices wrote.
"he may still practice his religion in ways that do not violate the condition of his sentences," including the use of books and video and audio recordings.. perfetto could also participate in bible study sessions or meet with congregation elders when children weren't present, the justices said.. and the justices agreed with the state that restrictions prohibiting perfetto's contact with minors were justified if they were reasonable to his rehabilitation and to protecting public safety - rather than the least restrictive conditions possible, as perfetto had argued.. in perfetto's case, the restrictions were reasonable, the justices said.
perfetto pleaded guilty in 2002 to 61 counts of possessing child pornography, and "prohibiting him from having contact with children provides protection to the class of individuals exploited by him and furthers his rehabilitation by limiting the circumstances which could lead to his reoffending," the justices wrote.. the appeal marked the first time the court had considered whether restrictions barring a sex offender from attending religious meetings where children are present violated that person's constitutional rights to freedom of religion.
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If Christ was Divine, How Could He Have Been Tempted?
by leavingwt inhow did satan tempt a person who has no wrong desires?.
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OK 25 years out!!!
by Lady Lee ini'm not the longest out.
mouthy was out before i was and a handfull of others.. but this year marked 25 out for me as opposed to 22 years in.
this life is what you choose to make it.
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Why would you buy Weed?????
by Darth plaugeis inif you had the legal choice... it's friday would you buy a 20 pack of beer or a $20 bag of weed.. the topic of never got drunk!
made me think would it be better to get stoned or drunk?.
i can function 100% the next day after being stoned...... i can function ??
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Mao Zedong: Greatest Mass Murderer in World History
by leavingwt inwhen the jw armageddon happens, i guess he'll be #2. .
mao's great leap forward 'killed 45 million in four years'mao zedong, founder of the people's republic of china, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official communist party archives said yesterday.
speaking at the independent woodstock literary festival, frank dikotter, a hong kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that mao was enforcing the great leap forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with the economy of the western world, he was responsible for overseeing "one of the worst catastrophes the world has ever known".
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hi i am new here
by dawntodaylight ini had started studying with jw because i was curious about the religion because my bf then(now husband) was a witness.
i am a very open minded person and really had i known what i know now i prob would not have been baptized.
i always had my doubts but i really enjoyed the positive aspects that i was learning at the meetings...i studied with my mom in law.i prob shouldn't have done that because she has taken it very personal that we have stopped and even had the nerve to say i started studying to get in good with the fam!!
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Trouble downloading Franz-govbody1975.mp3 on freeminds
by pirata ini'm trying to download the fred franz's 1975 gilead talk from free minds, but it does not download properly (it's supposed to be a file called franz-govbody1975.mp3, with a files size of 27.44mb, but i only get a 184kb 30 second file when i download it).
is anyone able to download this succesfully from this page?.
http://www.freeminds.org/category/6-mp3s-voice-podcasts.html.
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if you only knew (1st Post here)
by lil.lady.03 ini've been in pain too long.
i have this whole entry i want to post but i don't know if it is too long to read.
i'll post it in parts.