...and further to what Brother Minimus just said, I believe that mosquitos only suck fractions of blood out of us. And that's approved by Jehover.
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21Just why did He create Mosquitoes?
by jean-luc picard inso if blood is so precious in gods sight, just why did he create mosquitoes?.
or did they used to drink orange juice in the past?.
and if you feel up to it, here's a load of other blood sucking creatures that are living on you, every day.. .
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So What Would You Do If You Won $550,000,000?
by Mary inok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.
if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?
other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........
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Mary
OK, so the Mega Millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars. Well, it's not really. If you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.
What would you do if you won that kind of money? Other than donate a chunk to the World-Wide-Wit-lessing-Work.........
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BANNED words in the Education System (eye opening!)
by Terry innew york (cbsnewyork) george carlin is rolling over in his grave.. the new york city department of education is waging a war on words of sorts, and is seeking to have words they deem upsetting removed from standardized tests.. marla diamond talks to walcott, student about banned words.
fearing that certain words and topics can make students feel unpleasant, officials are requesting 50 or so words be removed from city-issued tests.. the word dinosaur made the hit list because dinosaurs suggest evolution which creationists might not like, wcbs 880s marla diamond reported.
halloween is targeted because it suggests paganism; a birthday might not be happy to all because it isnt celebrated by jehovahs witnesses.. julie lewis family celebrates christmas and kwanzaa, but she told cbs 2s emily smith she wants her children to appreciate and learn about other holidays and celebrations.. theyre going to meet people from all walks of life and theyre going to have to learn to adjust, lewis said.. words that suggest wealth are excluded because they could make kids jealous.
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Mary
I'm not sure which is more bizarre: The list of everyday words they want to ban, or WTWizard's anti-Semetic rant. Did you forget to take your meds today WT?
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FUN WITH COVERS!
by Mary inthere's alot of newbies on here who i thought might get a kick out of this.
we used to do these "fun with covers" where we would take the issue of the wt or awake magazines, delete their captions and put our own in.
wasanelder would then upload them to youtube.
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Mary
There's alot of newbies on here who I thought might get a kick out of this. We used to do these "fun with covers" where we would take the issue of the WT or Awake magazines, delete their captions and put our own in. Wasanelder would then upload them to youtube. We haven't done this in a long time, but I managed to find them and if you need a good laugh, check them out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNsqiP0eJs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDHBW6NENw8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBafZZSaDdM&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMANLlbYCvU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-zrT3tnMKs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fwND3uf3Ks&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZELRq3zIIk&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHarqlK_FZs&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXawbEZ-vts&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXawbEZ-vts&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFI7K2vYRZU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFFzrAXs9D0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRegtfN7QU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHWAFlWhDoU&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAPZ8B57cto&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFn5lvAVY14&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siRPvV-6-pk&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tNU5iw8QqM&feature=relmfu
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Article: Emailed thank-you note from woman in need of blood gives Pensacola lawyer a blast from past.
by AndersonsInfo inhttp://www.pnj.com/article/20120327/news01/203270323/emailed-thank-you-note-gives-pensacola-lawyer-blast-from-past .
emailed thank-you note gives pensacola lawyer a blast from past.
attorney joel cohen talks about his experience.
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Mary
What a wonderful story. Thanks so much for sharing that Barb......
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Do demons really exist?
by Inisc ini mean, is there really any scientific evidence to support their existence?.
is it used as a scare tactic of thewts?.
and i suppose if one doesn't believe in god, a belief in satan and demons and angels for that matter would be contradictory... im not sure what i believe now but would love to hear everyone's thoughts..
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unshackled said: No, they don't, because they don't exist. But my older brother does. That sumbitch.
Oh lordie, unshackled. That brings back a memory or 2. When I was about 15, and my younger brothers about 9 and 11, I thought I'd scare the be-jezus out of them one night. They had gone to bed (they had bunk beds) but naturally were talking, talking talking. We lived by the railroad, so I decided to crawl into their bedroom, but I could only do it when the trains went by, so that my brothers couldn't hear me. Took about 15 minutes. Anyway, I get to the end of the bed and I pull the covers a bit. I hear my youngest brother say "Get lost Tom!" thinking it was his brother doing it. He hears Tommy from above say "What?" I then yanked the covers hard and my youngest brother went flying out of bed and went tearing into the living room where he started yelling "mom, the demons are pulling my covers off!"
I had planned to get up and go in the bathroom, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't move. Mom and my brother come back in the bedroom, mom puts the light on and there is me at the end of the bed laughing my bloody head off.
So, no. No demons in that scenario. But I belive there is the possibility that they do exist.
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Why Elders leave the Organization and why their Wives stay.
by stuckinamovement ini have talked to quite a few brothers who have served as elders and servants and left the organization.
in most cases their wives have remained in despite the husbands best efforts to persuade his wife that the organization is wrong.
even though the wife can see problems within they continue to press on in service to the society.
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Blondie said: Maybe a woman's social life in the Borg keeps her there. I may have a prejudice but I find that many men in the Borg, don't care as much and readily find new friends.
Bingo. The vast majority of sisters have never worked outside the home and women are generally far more concerned with the social aspect of the congregation then what their hubbies are. Therefore if the husband tries talking to them about some of the doctrines, the wife might initially listen but as soon as it contradicts what she's read in the WT, the warning signs go off because she does not want anything as threatening as 'apostasy' penetrating her social life so she declares "I don't want to talk about that." She's got her parents, her siblings, her children and alot of life-long friends in this religion. If she were to leave, she's have nothing except being labelled as an "apostate" and she's not prepared to do that.
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DISCUSSION WITH A JW; YOUR INPUT PLEASE...
by Mary ini'm 'talking' with a jw on another site who of course, does not believe that they are 'false prophets' and says that:.
"...prophetic inspiration and being filled with the spirit ( to use a common expression) do not mean the same thing.".
"...again the wts is using the term "prophet" in the basic sense of a spokesman.
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Mary
Apparently he didn't like what I said because his response to me was deleted by Amazon. Tsk, tsk, tsk......That's certainly not showing the Christian spirit......
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DISCUSSION WITH A JW; YOUR INPUT PLEASE...
by Mary ini'm 'talking' with a jw on another site who of course, does not believe that they are 'false prophets' and says that:.
"...prophetic inspiration and being filled with the spirit ( to use a common expression) do not mean the same thing.".
"...again the wts is using the term "prophet" in the basic sense of a spokesman.
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Mary
Ok, here is the latest conversation we've had. I took some of your suggestions and incorporated them into my reply. His comments are in the boxes:
"....Again the WTS is using the term "prophet" in the basic sense of a spokesman. ALL Christians when they speak or share from God's word are "prophets" in that basic sense...."
Sorry Paul, but the WTS does NOT get to pick and choose how they want to use a word, apply it to themselves without using the full meaning. A "prophet" is someone "...gifted at expositing divine truth" (Stongs) or "..an interpreter or forth-teller of the divine will" (NAS Exhaustive Concordance). Jehovah's Witnesses (most notably the leaders) have done this very thing from it's inception in the 1870's.
The Organization most definitely has said they were told directly from Jehovah, they HAVE said they speak for Jehovah, they HAVE claimed inspiration. They call themselves the Ezekiel class, the Jeremiah class etc. over the years, paralleling themselves with the prophets mentioned in the bible.
I'm not sure how old you are, but you should try checking the inside cover of the Awake! magazines before they changed the "Generation of 1914" doctrine in November 1995. Before that it specifically stated that:
"...Most important, this magazine builds confidence in the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure world before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away."
Who did they say made this promise? It says right there in black and white that Jehovah made the promise. If that's not 'speaking for God', I don't know what is. And after that infamous WT article that wiped out a decades old belief with the stroke of a pen, they went and replaced it (apparently hoping noone would notice) with the following:
"...Most important, this magazine builds confidence in the Creator's promise of a peaceful and secure world that is about to replace the present wicked, lawless system of things."
That says it all.
"...The term is NOT being used to describe a "Prophet" who has direct inspiration to reveal NEW things directly from God. This is consistently taught and we, Jehovah's Witnesses, know this and do NOT look at any man as a "Prophet" in the sense Mr Rhodes used it and you are seeing it...."
Surely you jest. Witnesses MUST view the 'Faithful and Discreet Slave' as getting all their info directly from Jehovah and Jesus. They teach that to question anything they say is paramount to "apostasy". I'm sure you are aware of this, but if you are not, please let me know and I will provide you with countless quotes from their literature showing that what I say is true.
"...Note; that is what ALL Christians do. "proclaim the divine message, urge others to believe in Christ", etc."
Um, Christians of all denominations do this and have been doing it for the past 2,000 years. Are you suggesting that all Christians of all denominations are 'prophets in the basic sense'?
"...Prophetic Inspiration and being filled with the Spirit ( to use a common expression) do NOT mean the same thing."
Then again, I ask you: If your leaders have no special "gift" of prophecy, then WHY are the rank and file Witnesses being told that they have to accept the "Slave's" version of what "truth" is, on pain of being disfellowshipped for apostasy if they state that they do not agree with what is being taught? Here's a good example:
The WTS has changed what "this generation" means several times (trying to justify it as being "new light" or "present truth"---something that is found nowhere in the bible). For decades they taught that the generation of 1914 would still be alive to see The End. It's now presently being taught that Jesus was "evidently" talking about an 'overlapping generation' (another laughable idea that is also found nowhere in the bible).
If I were a Witness and declared 20 years ago that I didn't believe the Generation of 1914 would be the ones to see The End, I would have been disfellowshipped for going against "the faithful and discreet slave", even though they were dead wrong. They change their doctrines back and forth back and forth, never with an apology to those who based many life decisions on what they were told, but with the arrogant attitude "well, we've changed it, too bad, just accept it and don't whine about it."
"...Being guided by God's spirit, which we should all pray for as we read and medicate on His word, is different than being inspired to Prophecy or foretell the future or give NEW Revelations not found in Scripture. We don't claim that."
So tell me Paul: How can someone have God's Holy Spirit on them, call themselves 'prophets' (even in the basic sense as you are trying to claim), tell people that The End is right around the corner for the past 130 years, print countless books and magazine that in fact, DO try to predict the future, but claim you don't call yourselves "prophets"? It's fairly obvious that the Organization is trying to have their cake and eat it too: 'We don't officially call ourselves prophets, but you have to treat us like we are.'
"...It is a created argument used by those who do not care what we say but wish to twist our words, so they can claim we are a false prophet."
Sorry to burst your bubble Paul, but you ARE, by biblical definition, 'false prophets'. Deuteronomy 18: 20-22 describes a false prophet this way:
"...However, the prophet who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die. And in case you should say in your heart: "How shall we know the word that Jehovah has not spoken?" when the prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah and the word does not occur or come true that is the word that Jehovah did not speak. With presumptuousness the prophet spoke it. You must not get frightened at him."
It's really quite simple: If someone predicts an event and claims that they are speaking for God, either the event will come true (proving that they are a true prophet), or it will not come true (proving that they are a false prophet), end of story. There is no allowance in the scriptures for anything else, no matter how well meaning someone may be.
Yet this is exactly what the Watchtower Society has tried to do. While admitting that they have "made mistakes" regarding future events, they gloss over what turned out to be "false predictions" by claiming `well, we've never lost faith or ceased to be watchful'----as though that some how excuses them for "speaking presumptuously". This concept is completely foreign in the scriptures as Jehovah has never said: "well, as long as you don't lose faith, I'll overlook your false prophesying". No, it simply says that if a prediction does not come true, then whoever predicted it constitutes a "false prophet."
If you like, I can provide you with countless examples of when the Organization predicted that something was going to happen and it didn't.
That's all I'm going to write tonight Paul. Tomorrow I will provide you with several quotes showing that the Organization has made specific predictions for Armageddon on certain dates.
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Tim Horton's
by Sic Semper Tyrannis ini have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
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Mary
Bottom line: We love our Timmy's coffee. I think Canadians are more dedicated to our daily cuppa java then our American cousins and if you're lucky enough to own a Tim Horton's franchise up here, you're looking at sales of well over $1,000,000/year.
I remember going over to Buffalo shopping once and we went to a Dunkin' Donuts for a coffee (as there were no Tim Horton's over there at that time). The place was filthy, the coffee tasted horrible and their donuts sucked.
wha happened said: what about that mediocre beer?
...Compared to what? That pony piss you guys call beer? Our beer rocks!
Actually, I like the Paradisio Medium brew at The Second Cup. It's even better than Timmy's. But their muffins and loafs suck....almost as bad as Dunkin' Donuts.....