Designs, the Popes at least had a good education. Even you can concede that, I'm sure. I mean, that's at least some sort of accomplishment. The JWs are just idiots, yeah?
BoC, I'd think the easiest chair would be a Sit-z-boy. But that's a guess.
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13Another gem from The Finished Mystery (p57)
by outsmartthesystem inspeaking of ct russell - "and for 25 years had such distressing hemorrhoids that it was impossible for him to rest in the easiest chair" - the finished mystery - 1917 - page 57. wow.
remember folks.
god directed this and jesus approved it.
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Got Disfellowshipped!
by time2keepmoving inwell, i was disfellowshipped about 2 weeks ago.
i was in it for ten years and it was 9 years and 11 months too long.
i honestly don't know why it took me so long to do my research on this organization.
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Sulla
Does anybody get DFed for anything interesting anymore? Adultery and apostasy are so, I don't know, 2000-and-late. What about smoking? Has anybody gotten whacked for that lately? What about loose conduct? I'd like to hear if anybody got DFed for almost getting laid. Or how about talking about and promoting oral sex? That would be really elevating the entire DF process to an art form.
Let's go out in style, people! Make it count!
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Another gem from The Finished Mystery (p57)
by outsmartthesystem inspeaking of ct russell - "and for 25 years had such distressing hemorrhoids that it was impossible for him to rest in the easiest chair" - the finished mystery - 1917 - page 57. wow.
remember folks.
god directed this and jesus approved it.
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Sulla
The chapter is called, "Wycliff, Luther, and Russell." It says he produced more work than "any other human being"! And y'all doubt me when I say the elemental JW problem is blistering -- and unearned -- pride. God! These people have always been insufferable.
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Are Americans awakening to the difference between Religious and Spiritual?
by Fernando inwritten by by george h. gallup jr in 2003:.
as described in the next american spirituality, which tim jones and i wrote, the pendulum may be swinging away from what is beyond us to what is within us.
in the 1999 survey, we asked, "do you think of spirituality more in a personal and individual sense or more in terms of organized religion and church doctrine?
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Sulla
Could be. I'm religious, but not spiritual.
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N.T. Wright, Michael F. Byrd, Scott McKnight, E.P. Saunders, Etc.
by Aaron Eldridge inthese are some of my favorite new testament scholars.
all of these guys and many others fall within the "jesus is the restoration of israel" court of new testament studies.
obviously these are not the only ones, there are many others but these are my favorite thus far.
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Merton was at Columbia when he decided to become a monk.
Read NT Wright's book on the Resurrection: double plus good. I also read some of Pagels back in the day. I found her criticism of Irenaeus' decisions about the gnostic gospels to be very compelling in exactly the opposite direction she meant. Her book made me sure that Irenaeus was exactly right to be hatin' so much on the gnostics.
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Did Jesus sacrifice really mean anything?
by highdose insuspending for a minute the realisation that it never happened and instead looking at it as a beliver would.... jesus had to endure a painful death, yes.
but he knew that he would only be dead for three days and that afterwards he would get reserected and be able to mind f**k around with those who had put him to death.
and then he would live for ever in a brand new body!
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Sulla- Read: The Age Of Wonder, 17th and 18th century Science. If you haven't read about astronomer Caroline Herschel it is worth the time.
As soon as possible, Designs, given my intent to think only happy thoughts about The Enlightenment. I've been reading about the massacre in the Vendee perpetrated by those Sons of Enlightenment and I could use something to cleanse the palate.
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i spoke with an elder about university
by MsGrowingGirl20 inhe always tells me that i've adopted him as a father...we're pretty close.
i spoke with him asking for some advice about whether or not to pursue my degree.he, to my surprise, couldn't give me his opinion.he told me that if he tells me how he really feels (he says he has some strong views on the matter) he may be disciplined for 'promoting higher education'....in effect he was telling me to go ahead and pursue my degree but not really saying it.
he asked me to promise him that i'll speak to the presiding overseer and the circuit overseer....i haven't as yet.
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Sulla
At the last MS/Elder meeting with the CO I attended it was made clear that elders encouraging ones to pursue superior education would no longer be able to speak to the congregation with freeness of speech and would need to be removed.
I'm sorry, did they really say that, if you speak freely, you have lost your freeness of speech?
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Did Jesus sacrifice really mean anything?
by highdose insuspending for a minute the realisation that it never happened and instead looking at it as a beliver would.... jesus had to endure a painful death, yes.
but he knew that he would only be dead for three days and that afterwards he would get reserected and be able to mind f**k around with those who had put him to death.
and then he would live for ever in a brand new body!
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Sulla
Ah, maybe you're right, Designs. Let's only think happy thoughts.
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Did Jesus sacrifice really mean anything?
by highdose insuspending for a minute the realisation that it never happened and instead looking at it as a beliver would.... jesus had to endure a painful death, yes.
but he knew that he would only be dead for three days and that afterwards he would get reserected and be able to mind f**k around with those who had put him to death.
and then he would live for ever in a brand new body!
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But for the Western mind and culture now some 300 years into the Age Of Enlightenment we, in growing numbers, cannot go back to admiring or even relating to a Human Sacrifice God.
The Western mind, huh? Designs, I recommend you read something like Koba the Dread and then compare how Stalin was viewed by the Left in the US during the period. I suspect you will lose a little bit of your faith in the post-Enlightenment, Western mind. I'm afraid the Western mind is just as much in love with human sacrifice gods as any stone age tribe ever was.
Fellow Catholics and Fundamentalists dig this kind of thing, relish it, weep over its emotion but for a ever growing xJW community religion is becoming an antiquity best viewed in a museum or beating in the political arena.
I think our views of the level of sophistication of the xJW community are quite different.
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Did Jesus sacrifice really mean anything?
by highdose insuspending for a minute the realisation that it never happened and instead looking at it as a beliver would.... jesus had to endure a painful death, yes.
but he knew that he would only be dead for three days and that afterwards he would get reserected and be able to mind f**k around with those who had put him to death.
and then he would live for ever in a brand new body!
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Sulla
I would not be quite so sanguine, designs. I doubt very much that the human nature which has always required sacrifice, usually human sacrifice, has changed so much recently. In fact, events like the Cultural Revolution suggest very much the opposite.