Oroborus21
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howdy
by Oroborus21 ini know i'm not jwd's most popular participant but even i look at this place as a means of support sometimes.
i just wanted to say that this morning my father died of a heart attack while in field service.. i am on my way to new mexico with my daughter.
as some of you know i am df'd so you know how that goes when attending a jw funeral.
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Calabasas Smoking Ban
by Oroborus21 intonight the city council of calabasas, calif. banned smoking in all public places.
this includes outside areas including parks, sidewalks, camping areas, etc.. the only areas one can now smoke is in their private residence, on their private balcony but not in a common area, or in their car (so long as they don't exhale out the window).
(there are other areas but not sure of the full ins and outs of the ordinance).
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Martin's Method of Giving a Testimony to JWs: Would this really work?
by Oroborus21 inok so i read in walter martin's the kingdom of the cults how he claims to use the following method to give a testimony to jehovah's witnesses who come to his door periodically, and frankly i find it a bit dubious, despite his claims that he has successfully done it many times.
he calls this method "subliminal seeding" (pg.
487-8) [a dubious title already]:.
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Nation of Islam 1914 belief
by Oroborus21 in.
i did not know before that the nation of islam had a 1914 belief that was akin to that of jws.. i thought this was interesting is all.. does anyone know whether this is a current teaching of theirs?
(googling it myself now...) but just thought i would throw it out to the knowledgeable crowd here..... -eduardo
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Are Winter Olympics Boring?
by Oroborus21 inis it just me or are the winter olympics boring?.
i dunno, maybe ice hockey sometimes is interesting and a few of the short speed skating events...but ice skating, all the skiing events, even snowboarding....it all seems pretty boring to me.
and i like to ski but watching it on tv - boring.. the summer games are so much more interesting.. -eduardo
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Getting Dooced -- Is it Right?
by Oroborus21 inso i was reading an article tonight about getting dooced which is apparently happening a lot these days... getting dooced is when someone is fired for what they post on their personal blog (you could probably expand it to any only forum).
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dooced).
i know that it isn't a constitutional issue but still it seems like the spirit of the freedom of speech should be preserved.
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The Rapture Movie
by Oroborus21 injust happened to catch this movie on tv, from 1991, the rapture, starring mimi rogers.. has anyone else seen it and have any comments regarding it?.
i found the movie to be an interesting mishmash of various concepts.
i know it isn't an accurate portrayal of fundamentalism or born-again christian faith but i found some of the bits amusing in how it displayed how sometimes these persons can be just as judgmental and self-righteous as anyone - not too mention mentally disturbed.
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St. George and the Dragon
by Oroborus21 inlike many people, i have been a littlle puzzled by the actions and rhetoric of iran's president, president mahmoud ahmadinejad, in the face of what is beginning to seem an inevitable outcome of a u.s. led military intervention in iran's sovereign intention to develop nuclear technology.. at first, i figured his comments regarding israel, etc.
could be dismissed along the lines of president reagan's calling the soviet union an "evil empire" but then recently i learned that president ahmadinejad actually holds very strong messianic beliefs which might explain why he seems eager or at least willing to allow the present crisis to develop to that point.
for those who have not famialiarized yourself with his beliefs regarding the return of the twelfth imam, this article seems to be a good summary: http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/guest/05/vonheyking/twelfthimam.html.
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Whoah and I thought some JW tracts were silly
by Oroborus21 in.
but these on this site are hilarious - "let's scare them out of hell" seems to be their theme:.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp?wpc=0001_01.asp&wpp=b.
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The Lion and the Cricket
by Oroborus21 inthe lion and the cricket.
there is a story that goes something like this.
one day a powerful lion was walking upon the savannah and surveying his entire domain.