maputo95
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Jw No Shows
by maputo95 inwhy is it that jw officials always refuse to take part in religious discussion shows like that presented by john ankerberg?
ia it because they lack deep knowledge of biblical interpretation?.
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DATELINE PROG. Pope to be arrested. .......
by iknowall558 injehovah's witnesses: pope to be arrested - bbc dateline
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Birthday the big 50
by chicken little inwell i am hitting the big one on friday and i am happy it will soon be over.
it is lovely that all my new friends are excited for me, its just a little hard to get into it wholeheartedly when i am still nervous to get our son home.. .
still i did buy 6 bottles of champagne...so there must be a party feeling coming up in me!.
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Who is "the man of lawlessness"?
by maputo95 inmy jw friend who despices priests calls them "men of lawlessness".
what does this mean?.
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Legal action against the Pope?
by behemot inrichard dawkins planning to have pope benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity'richard dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have pope benedict xvi arrested when he comes to britain later this year for "crimes against humanity".dawkins and christopher hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the catholic church.. it emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the good of the universal church should be considered against the defrocking of an american priest who committed sex offences against two boys.. dawkin and hitchens believe he should face criminal proceedings because his "first instinct" was to protect the church rather than the children in its care.. they are hoping to exploit the same legal principle used to arrest augusto pinochet, the late chilean dictator, on a spanish warrant when he visited britain in 1998.. the pope will be visit london, glasgow and coventry, during his time in the uk between september 16 and 19.. this is a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence," dawkins, who wrote the god delusion, said.. this man is not above or outside the law.
the institutionalised concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment," hitchens, author of god is not great, said.. their lawyers, barrister geoffrey robertson and mark stephens, a solicitor, believe they can ask the crown prosecution service and that pope benedict will not be able to claim diplomatic immunity since he is not the head of a state recognised by the united nations.. there is every possibility of legal action against the pope occurring, said stephens.
geoffrey and i have both come to the view that the vatican is not actually a state in international law.
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Hypochondria
by maputo95 inis there a link to jw involvement and hypochondria?
are people made mentally ill from their involvement in a cult?
i mean all those gory pictures of people being destroyed at armageddon must impinge on impressionable child-like minds.
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What's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?
by A.Fenderson inwhat's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?.
my personal recommendation: synecdoche, new york.
it's one of those movies that words fail utterly to capture--which really is the hallmark of a good movie, i suppose.
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The Watchtower and Alcoholics Anonymous
by maputo95 inmany people have stopped drinking through the 12 steps of the programme of recovery of alcoholics anonymous.
can active 'jdubs' join aa to get over their addiction?.
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Why Don't They Study the " Revelation..." Book at Universities
by maputo95 ini'm ploughing through "religion and the growth of western culture" by christopher dawson which is the classical study of medieval civilization and lord clark's "civilisation".
i am amazed that the wt can survey the same period of history in 26 pages in "mankind's search for god".
they are masters of precis, them bible students !