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WHO ARE THE FALSE PROPHETS TODAY?
by Dogpatch inwho are the false prophets today.
by barbara anderson.
in 1991, one of the watch tower societys senior writers, colin quackenbush, told me in the privacy of his office about letters which the society had received from prominent and credible elders, not apostates (thats exactly what he said), who were concerned about the increase in accusations saying that jehovahs witnesses were false prophets.
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Ann Rice and a new direction
by designs inann rice's decision to leave the catholic faith over what she saw as lapses in ethics and morality brings an interesting focus on how people conceive of a religion's leader and the message that leader tried to expound.. the humanitarian and social gospel are not new but ann saw its importance in her own spiritual journey.. during the 20 year period when i was actively writing to the society to embrace charity work and setup food banks and other social and envirnonmental networks i saw the mental roadblocks that were set up in favor of the d2d only work.
in fact most of the witnessess i talked to were surprisingly opposed to charity work unless for their own and even more surprisingly out and out opposition to environmental work.. so here is ann staying with a concept of jesus she feels is workable but leaving organized religion.. so what message do you take away from a figure like jesus or some other spiritual/philosophical leader, what is workable for you now.. .
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They have a table at the local Walmart now
by life is to short inomg i just heard this morning that they have a table set up at the local walmart, so i had to drive by.
it is huge with two huge signs one spanish and one english of blown up pictures of some of the book covers like you can live forever and young people ask, etc with a card table in the middle and two very boarded looking people just sitting there.
this morning was the spanish congo's turn but the walmart is in my halls territory so the english speaking ones from my hall will man it on the english speaking times i guess.
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Just receieved a copy of Awake August 2010-Jehova Witnesses Who Are They
by wiser init would have made great reading if awake interviewed ex jws and other non jws for an accurate view on their organization.
this is the usual propgranda!.
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What are your favorite Bible passages?
by BurnTheShips ini'll excerpt this bit from 1 samuel 7. always has given me goosebumps.
32 david said to saul, "let no one lose heart on account of this philistine; your servant will go and fight him.".
33 saul replied, "you are not able to go out against this philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth.".
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Has anyone notice all the KFC's are closing down?.... WHY??
by Darth plaugeis inin boston try to find a kfc.
is it just massachusetts?
or anyone else notice this..... cause.... i'm scared.
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Letter to Phoenix Suns owner about AZ immigration laws
by startingover indon't know if this is authentic or not, but it really doesn't matter.
it's still a great analogy.
the owner of the phoenix suns basketball team, robert sarver, opposes az's new immigration laws.
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Has anyone ever asked a Catholic if they hate us like we are told they do?
by life is to short inevery since i was a little kid all i have heard is how the catholic's hate us, how they persecute us, even beat us in some third world country's.
they insight their members to hate us and pelt us with rocks, tar and feather us, on and on.
in fact rummer has it that in one small town by us the slit the tires of all the jw's cars in the late 60 when they were holding a ca.
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As a Woman Have your Attitudes Towards Men Changed After Exiting JW's ?
by flipper inbeing raised in the jehovah's witnesses cult from birth - i saw many females mistreated, abused in a demeaning manner whether subtly or right out in the open.
before congregation meetings in the 1960's even as a boy i saw an elder talk rudely to his wife as if she was a child- and the wife put her head down in sadness.
i saw jw men take themselves way too seriously as alleged " heads of their house " - because the wt society pushed the headship issue into every witness marriage.