Posts by garyneal

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Scary Stuff

by Farkel in

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today's high school students in the usa:.

less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.

she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.

garyneal

I could give you numerous examples of what I mean, but with your likely inferior education you would merely dismiss it and say, "that stuff is not relevant today and is worthless." You would say that because you haven't read nor been taught what I read and was taught in just High School. You simply have no personal frame of reference.

Considering that I too am younger than your oldest daughter, I too do not have a frame of reference. Can you provide some examples on how education is much better 50 years ago than it is today?

Run away little boy and pat yourself on the back and tell yourself how well educated you are. Damn the facts, just do it.

What facts?

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A Great rebuttal to the likes of Ray Comfort

by cantleave in

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i was going to add this to the common ancestry thread but it covers much more.

i love this woman....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=uuravycv6c0copl2ukvzhznw&v=i0k9nyhh7tq.

garyneal

It's SPARLOCK, the Warrior Wizard!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sSV2Nh0rc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUravYcv6C0CopL2ukVzhzNw

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My doubting friend came by and left the letter...

by confusedandalone in

i hope that i am not eating up alot of bandwidth and annoying anyone.

however as i make my exit i want to reveal as many things as possible.

i have a friend who had doubts about the latest change and wrote a letter.

garyneal

What a convoluted mess. So I guess the 1919 selection is now mute?

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After 2000 years since JC was executed ,why have we heard not a whisper from GOD ALMIGHTY ?

by smiddy in

he/she had no problem talking to adam and eve ,though they were sinners in his/her sight .throughout the hebrew sriptures, ot, he /she had no problem communicating with fallen man ,imperfect humans , to dictate his will to his subjects by means of prophets , male and female ,according to the bible , the old testament ,the hebrew scriptures , god communicated not once ,not twice ,not even thrice ,but dozens of times during the first 4000 years of human history according to the bible.. why has this god been so silent these past 2000 years ,when their have been atrocities above the scale of anything that has ever been seen these past 6000 years of human existence .. oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by god they were committed by man.

fair enough .but god intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements.

with prophets or so the bible says.. the so called apostacy after the last of the apostles , the influence of satan in the world ,( or was that after 1914 ,) and the 2000 year gap when christ was supposed to return ,never mind about all the crap that went before it .. the fact remains we have never heard from god ,any god, or even" a " god, with either his/her approval or disapproval of events good or bad these past 2000 years... smiddy.

garyneal

God clearly spoke and told William Miller Jonas Wendell C.T. Russell Joseph Rutherford Freddy Franz The Governing Body that Jesus' Second Coming Armageddon was happening in 1844 1873 1874 1914 1915 1917 1925 1942 1975 within one generation of 1914 the 20th Century within one overlapping generation of 1914.

That's precisely the point I was making to my wife when I told her about the Klines and why my BS meter was pegging big time when I heard them three preach. Let's not forget that God was also speaking to Harold Camping when he made (and revised) his end of the world predictions. Yet, if you question them, you can be labeled as guilty of committing the unpardonable sin for after all who are you to question Holy Spirit?

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People that believe in the hell fire doctrine, do the believe in cremation?

by jam in

nothing like getting an early start if one believe in the hell.

fire doctrine.. seriously, what are jw's view on cremation?

can not recall but.

garyneal

My wife wants to be cremated when she dies. But in regards to hellfire believers, my wife's grandmother use to say before her death that she did not want to be cremated. Why? Because she did not want to be burned twice.

I think this is why her mom became so enamored with the witness belief. She commented in one of the meetings that her main thing she liked was that they did not have the hellfire doctrine.

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After 2000 years since JC was executed ,why have we heard not a whisper from GOD ALMIGHTY ?

by smiddy in

he/she had no problem talking to adam and eve ,though they were sinners in his/her sight .throughout the hebrew sriptures, ot, he /she had no problem communicating with fallen man ,imperfect humans , to dictate his will to his subjects by means of prophets , male and female ,according to the bible , the old testament ,the hebrew scriptures , god communicated not once ,not twice ,not even thrice ,but dozens of times during the first 4000 years of human history according to the bible.. why has this god been so silent these past 2000 years ,when their have been atrocities above the scale of anything that has ever been seen these past 6000 years of human existence .. oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by god they were committed by man.

fair enough .but god intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements.

with prophets or so the bible says.. the so called apostacy after the last of the apostles , the influence of satan in the world ,( or was that after 1914 ,) and the 2000 year gap when christ was supposed to return ,never mind about all the crap that went before it .. the fact remains we have never heard from god ,any god, or even" a " god, with either his/her approval or disapproval of events good or bad these past 2000 years... smiddy.

garyneal

has he ever restored arms to amputees ?

I don't think so, and evidently neither did Sylvia Brown. However, according to this link some people have been cured of AIDS thanks to Russ Kline.

Deaf ears and blind eyes have been opened, cancers have disappeared, AIDS and leprosy have been healed, people have been delivered from the power of the demonic and financial miracles have been released.

I think he has something over Sylvia Brown here.

Your following post is directed to the wrong person as I did not make those statements, BTW.

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After 2000 years since JC was executed ,why have we heard not a whisper from GOD ALMIGHTY ?

by smiddy in

he/she had no problem talking to adam and eve ,though they were sinners in his/her sight .throughout the hebrew sriptures, ot, he /she had no problem communicating with fallen man ,imperfect humans , to dictate his will to his subjects by means of prophets , male and female ,according to the bible , the old testament ,the hebrew scriptures , god communicated not once ,not twice ,not even thrice ,but dozens of times during the first 4000 years of human history according to the bible.. why has this god been so silent these past 2000 years ,when their have been atrocities above the scale of anything that has ever been seen these past 6000 years of human existence .. oh you may say that the atrocities were not committed by god they were committed by man.

fair enough .but god intervened in human affairs in such smaller infringements.

with prophets or so the bible says.. the so called apostacy after the last of the apostles , the influence of satan in the world ,( or was that after 1914 ,) and the 2000 year gap when christ was supposed to return ,never mind about all the crap that went before it .. the fact remains we have never heard from god ,any god, or even" a " god, with either his/her approval or disapproval of events good or bad these past 2000 years... smiddy.

garyneal

Well, depending on who you listen to, God is speaking all the time. I was in church last Sunday where they had a guest speaker that claimed he hears God speak to his whole family and reveals a lot of intimate details about the people who he feels the Lord is leading him to help. His wife claimed direct revelation about a boy who was about to get involved in a messy drug deal and a girl who was out with a man who wanted to take advantage of her. My BS meter was pegging and I could not see how this stuff was any different than what Sylvia Brown does when she has her revelations, presumably from God. Either they are both right, or they are both charlatans.

His name is Russ Kline (http://www.dhfirstag.org/klines/) and their miracle daughter even claims to have these direct revelations.

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Joined the YMCA! Start tomorrow on getting fit.

by skeeter1 in

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i joined the ymca.

of course, i joined it for the gym.

seriously, the best deal in town for a whole family membership that the gym actually allows tweens and teens to exercise in classes and on machines.

garyneal

My wife does the Y thing without batting an eye. It also appears that the witnesses in the area don't discourage it, or they don't know that she is doing it, or they don't know that the WT discouraged it.

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JW's will foam at the mouth if you pray to Jesus? Do they try to tell you this prior to the big sting?

by Narcissistic Supply in

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it took me 7 years to figure out that jeho's are mortified to sit in the room if you pray to jesus.

i've prayed to jesus my entire life.

i tell my estranged spouse that she can pound sand if she doesn't like me praying to jesus with my two little girls.. i tell her and her mom to pound lots and lots of sand if you think i"m going to stop praying to jesus.

garyneal

Yeah, my wife is like that. "People praising Jesus, thinking so highly of Jesus. Well, they totally forget all about the Father. They're going to need more than Jesus." Amazingly, she seems to miss these verses, even when I point them out to her.

Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

1 John 2:23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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Scary Stuff

by Farkel in

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today's high school students in the usa:.

less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.

she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.

garyneal

Who is this cartoonish old man? A Neo-marxist?

Oh, I thought everyone heard of George Carlin, the self proclaimed atheist comedian who routinely jokes about society and people. A man whose comedy is so funny because it sounds so scarily close to how things really are. I posted the full unedited skit here so you can see what he is talking about.

Hard to tell if he is really right but hard to deny the coincidences in what he is saying to what is observed (at least by me) in reality. Education getting progressively worse, problem solving skills in students seldom taught these days (more teaching to the test), more and more jobs are requiring education beyond high school, and more and more students just being herded through the school system like cattle. Meanwhile, the incomes of the middle class are largely stagnate or shrinking and the greater portion of the wealth going to the wealthy. It could all just be a series of coincidences having little to do with one another or...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqJvhmD5Yg

Hard to tell.