Topics Started by lurk
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big brother
by lurk inyears a go i used peak at big brother with some sisters we all felt a tiny bit guilty but did it anyway cause it was fun and the objectors were always older people who thought that watching tv soaps was a sin.. anyway i was watching this year and just wanted to say .now i watch with out condeming or slating the individuals i feel for the first time in years im feeling empathy with and for poeple i would previously have looked down my nose at.. im actually able to look at them and say .thats who jesus came for not for ..not christians who are to good to eat with them and speak about these falible humans as dirt.. i can dislike what the bb contestants do or say and it not be about how they are to disgusting to understand about the truth.
or how they are knowingly siding with satan.
now there just people try to live thier lives making mistakes like the rest fo us ,messing up or trying to be true to themselves etc.
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WTS law and oral law
by lurk inhas the wts commited the same folly as the writers of the oral law?
in a magazine some years ago there was an article on the oral law.
it discribed how the oral law was developed to be like a fence around the writen law to prevent ppl from breaking the writen law.the article showed how the priests, who invented the law ,were laying a burden on jehovahs ppl that the didnt need ,sort of saying how wrong and misdirected the priests were.
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intersex
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watching a prog on ppl who are neither one sex or the other but are called intersex (wildew hermaphrodite etc) all sorts of conditions that resulted in them being both sexes in one body .it was facinating there were also a couple of men who had found that the reason they felt like women was because they had an extra x chromosone, they d spent all there lives feeling like weirdo's.. iw as wondering if anything liek this had ever come up in the org?
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Blood issue and discipline
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i'm interested in hearing if any of you have been made to leave the wts or been discipline (sp!!
) as a result of blood transfusion.. there are lots of posts on blood that im trawling through .....but im in such a hurry as this is part of a question ive been asked by an interested party ....i fear i may miss what im looking for so would greatly appreciate your help on this .. would really appreaciate anyone who can say if this has happened to them.and briefly how.
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beware : evil cushions
by lurk inwas reading a post by cruithnelaluna in it she said her music was viewed as wrong because of its roots .
indian classical music (ravi shankar and the like) - philosophical rooted in, and inseparable from, hinduism .
made me think about a book of design history which explains the progression from arachic to modern design .i amazed to see all the designs we use today rooted in ancient design.
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new video release ,moses WTS comparision,.... and a bit of a rant
by lurk inim not sure what its called..but the newest video release really did it for me.. its about moses and those who rebeled and how they were destroyed.
its was not as subtle as others before that ive seen .they make no bones about it ,your not left to come to conclutions, the discussion bit at the end makes it quite clear that in dealing with wts your dealing with the eqivalent of moses and shows a lovely destruction sequence of how your gonna die if you ever question the wts authority in any way .. which is amazing since moses never once made a prophecy or promise without it happening he made prophecys that all came true ....showed amazing power via god ...had visions of god and met god himself on a mountain (glowy face etc).most imporatantly god didnt do these thinsg in secret he did them infrount of the isrealites so they had proof for themselves the moses was right.
wts failed prophecys , no visions ,no word form god,everything invisible not seen so no one a can see proof the wts is right .
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things that make you go AGGGGGGGGGH!!!!!!!!!!
by lurk inkingdom melodies did it for me everytime.. i tired so hard not to have uncharitable thoughts about the ppl who wrote the tunes and words to the kingdom melodies.
there were about 2 that i could stomach.. the rest were so totally uninspiring and mechanical.. .i can say that apart from maybe 2 i didnt get any up lifting joy from them.. elders complained that ppl wern't learning the tunes and singing properly.they got realy irritated over it .but i really really hate the dam songs .
eveyone sounded totally joyless