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  Gotta be one of the scariest mug shots ever!!

  by serenitynow! in

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  this is from a hilarious "what goes around, come around" story on yahoo about 2 thieves who got robbed!

  http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/shoplifters-robbed-while-stealing-grocery-store-192530012.html.

  one of the ugliest pics i have ever seen!.

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  I'm going to go out on a limb and say that is what drinking during pregnancy gets you..
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  How Dangerous Is Putin?

  by scotoma in

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  russia is facing the same dilemma that the dictators in the middle east have been facing.. in the middle east the leaders have tried to kill or at least beat up demonstrators.

  this hasn't worked.. putin has been watching this and he has been opposed to the west getting involved.

  he no doubt knows what the consequences.

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  I think Putin is the sort to hang onto power, at any cost imaginable. He'll take your billions, throw you in jail for eternity and that's it. Or he'll just outright have the KGB assassinate you. He simply won't mess around. Rigging elections wouldn't even cross his mind as being unnatural.
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  The US Will Become a Police State (not a joke)

  by metatron in

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  http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/behind-closed-doors-congress-trying-force-indefinite-detention-bill-americans.

  this is not some made up, exaggerated joke.

  the bill of rights may be effectively canceled in the next few months.. metatron.

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  After Obama approved the assassination of that US citizen in Yemen, I fear it's all downhill from here. Yes, he was probably a terrorist, but he was a US citizen, and governments that follow their own consitution just don't go around killing their own citizens.
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  The US Will Become a Police State (not a joke)

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/behind-closed-doors-congress-trying-force-indefinite-detention-bill-americans.

  this is not some made up, exaggerated joke.

  the bill of rights may be effectively canceled in the next few months.. metatron.

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  I'm scared just living next door to you guys.. and I feel terrible for you yanks.. mostly because I personally feel the US will invade Canada at some point of time in the next 7-10 years. Why buy the oil, when you can just take it?
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  A Smurfy Tale: Papa Smurf Meets the Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

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  brother and sister bishop had to be the most annoying witnesses in our congregation.

  sister bishop was a shrill overweight busybody who had nothing else better to do than spread rumors about both people and inanimate objects.

  on the other hand, brother bishop was a rail thin cuckold of a man nearly 20 years younger than his wife.

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  thanks.. I lol'd
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  Christopher Hitchens: Trial of the Will

  by leavingwt in

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  not an easy read.

  reviewing familiar principles and maxims in the face of mortal illness, christopher hitchens has found one of them increasingly ridiculous: whatever doesnt kill me makes me stronger.

  "i am typing this having just had an injection to try to reduce the pain in my arms, hands, and fingers.

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  @PSac - how's his new writing any different from his pre-death-sentence writing? It's always been bitter, hurt, spiteful and like Dawkins, hateful.
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  Proof of Jesus' Deity using the NWT - One Simple Scripture

  by GOrwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  now, this topic is not about providing proof of the trinity using the nwt, but is instead about the deity of jesus.

  yes, they are similar, but different, topics.. specifically, we can use the nwt to show the deity of jesus and how the people/authors of his day viewed who he was.

  this bible quotation won't even come from the fallback jesus-is-god book of john, but instead comes from the book of luke.

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  Is it that much of a stretch PS?

  That verse says he did as he was told.
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  Proof of Jesus' Deity using the NWT - One Simple Scripture

  by GOrwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  now, this topic is not about providing proof of the trinity using the nwt, but is instead about the deity of jesus.

  yes, they are similar, but different, topics.. specifically, we can use the nwt to show the deity of jesus and how the people/authors of his day viewed who he was.

  this bible quotation won't even come from the fallback jesus-is-god book of john, but instead comes from the book of luke.

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  Agreed - it is pretty difficult to discuss the divinity/deity of Jesus without the Trinity, and I assume once you accept the deity, it would follow you would accept the Trinity (for the vast majority of people; there are some who accept Jesus' deity without accepting the Trinity).

  Since there's always been I've always been curious of who the earliest of Christians believed Jesus to be. Outside of the Book of John, which was written 60+ years (much more time for a proper mythology to develop) after Jesus' death, this example from the book of Luke is a pretty strong indication of who the 'common' person believed Jesus to be.

  It is interesting that Freddy never caught this link. You're right Ding, not much slipped by him, but this sure seemed to. As mentioned, other translations simply use the word "So," instead of accordingly. But accordingly has such a stronger connotation to it - the man was asked to do A, and he did exactly as he was told by doing B.

  This scripture is also a great one to use if a JW comes to your door, as 99% of them are not going to be familiar with it, and they will do a double, or maybe even a triple take. If you're lucky, it might even stun them into silence. The key is to focus on the word accordingly.
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  Proof of Jesus' Deity using the NWT - One Simple Scripture

  by GOrwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  now, this topic is not about providing proof of the trinity using the nwt, but is instead about the deity of jesus.

  yes, they are similar, but different, topics.. specifically, we can use the nwt to show the deity of jesus and how the people/authors of his day viewed who he was.

  this bible quotation won't even come from the fallback jesus-is-god book of john, but instead comes from the book of luke.

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  Well, that that one word was put into a translation made by a cult that doesn't believe (and miltantly so) in the Trinity or the deity of Jesus really says something. Most other translations say something along the lines that the man did just "so," or that "so" he went did and did as he was told. However, the word "accordingly" really gives more meaning into the man's actions. He did just as he was told, and equated Jesus directly with God.
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  Proof of Jesus' Deity using the NWT - One Simple Scripture

  by GOrwell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  now, this topic is not about providing proof of the trinity using the nwt, but is instead about the deity of jesus.

  yes, they are similar, but different, topics.. specifically, we can use the nwt to show the deity of jesus and how the people/authors of his day viewed who he was.

  this bible quotation won't even come from the fallback jesus-is-god book of john, but instead comes from the book of luke.

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  Now, this topic is NOT about providing proof of the Trinity using the NWT, but is instead about the deity of Jesus. Yes, they are similar, but different, topics.

  Specifically, we can use the NWT to show the deity of Jesus and how the people/authors of his day viewed who he was. This Bible quotation won't even come from the fallback Jesus-is-God Book of John, but instead comes from the Book of Luke. Now, some translations (naturally) translate this verse differently, but the NWT translates it in a very interesting manner, using a very telling word.

  The quote comes from Luke 8:26-39. This well-known story is about Jesus' expelling demons from a man into a herd of swine, which then proceed off a cliff. Now, the morals of killing an entire herd of swine aside, let's read Luke 8:39, 39, which occurs just after the man is exorcised of the demons:

  "However, the man from whom the demons had gone out kept begging to continue with him; but he dismissed the man, saying: 39 “Be on your way back home, and keep on relating what things God did for you.” Accordingly he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what things Jesus did for him."

  Now, other translations have the same idea of the previously possessed man associating the miracle to God, and by extension Jesus. However, the NWT uses a very specific word here : Accordingly, which I haven't found in another translation, although the idea is there.

  This word is very important. It's important in my mind, because it insinuates that the man did exactly what he was told. Jesus said to the man to tell his friends and his hometown and every one he met to credit the exorcism to God. What did the man do? "Accordingly" he credited the exorcism to Jesus.

  He credited the exorcism to Jesus, although he was told to credit it to God, and he was doing exactly what he was told to do. It seems to me that this man viewed Jesus as God.

  Interesting, no? All just because of one little word - accordingly.