this is an excerpt from an email i got from a friend.. what do you think is worse, muslim or pentacostal?????????
did you see obama on one of those sunday talk shows when he slipped and said "they" are attacking my muslim faith???????
me thinks me better stick to my european (england) southern roots.... did anybody else see this tv interview?
This is an excerpt from an email I got from a friend.
What do you think is worse, Muslim or Pentacostal????????? Did you see Obama on one of those Sunday talk shows when he slipped and said "they" are attacking my Muslim faith??????? Me thinks me better stick to my European (england) southern roots...
Did anybody else see this TV interview? Any clues on program, date, channel/network, etc?
Mustang
from the sunday times .
september 14, 2008 .
revealed: ukas first official sharia courts .
This needs to be kept in mind in the USA: our ESTABLISMENT CLAUSE precludes the government establishing or favoring a particular religion. Smart move: sHARIA cOURT is technically illegal here. That is the way it should be.
By contrast, Sing's MRHA goes the other way: let them have their concession. But that's it. It is also illegal to convert another there under "strained" circumstances: duress, in other words.
Conversion goes both ways: Christians are remembered for historical "gunboat" activities. But Muslims aren't allowed to jihad their way down the streets, either.
Mustang
from the sunday times .
september 14, 2008 .
revealed: ukas first official sharia courts .
Singapore has had this for ages. You can do a "payroll deduction" that goes to the Mosque Building Fund.
Mustang
for real this time, i promise!.
you may have heard of the collapse of several large us financial institutions this morning.
the fact that this event coincides with a major natural disaster hitting the us is, according to my parents, 100% conclusive proof that armaggedon has in fact begun.
putting 2 and 3 together himself...
Still getting 4... hmmmp; who was said that if you keep doing the same thing, why expect different results?
Mustang
just sent my letter to the headquarters.
what should i expect now?
They probably won't give the elders much info about the letter. In my case the elders were asking me what was in my letter- I just told them that if Brooklyn didn't want them to read my letter, then I wasn't sharing it with them either, AND I wasn't ever going to meet with them about anything. They made their decision without any knowledge about what I had told Brooklyn.
Good on you, Moshe. This strategy has some interesting points: the left hand not telling the right hand what is going on. Moshe emphasized that and reinforced it. Then NEVER meet with or tell 2 "blackbirds" anything. For that matter, don't tell one of them anything. ("blackbirds" is how I refer to a "shepherding call": 2 eLDERs in black suits, ready to pick you to pieces, with a handy witness.) This is how I would do it if I went that route. You could actually then put out a "public" notice that all was done in absentia, with no complete information. This would prove to onlookers that there is no truth or justice within a KH. Mustang
i'm reading the public edition of watchtower for september and it says that "jehovah" means "he causes to become".
i've never seen this before... is this the jw's definition of the tetragrammaton?
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This reminds me of the "becoming prayer". I saw it once, in a hymnal or such. It's based on a couple of the Psalms. Has anytbody else seen this???
Mustang .
so they say that in the "beginning of the ages" there was a lot of in-breeding because the bloodlines were 'more pure'.. when the nephilim came down and mated with the females, even after the flood, does this mean the bloodlines would have been 'more pure' as far as 50-50 nephilim dna?
or maybe even a stronger concentration of nephilim than human...maybe 80-20%?
psalms 58:3 the wicked are estranged from the womb.
Cameo-d:
What is the source of this "handbook" that you refer to? Also, the refercne to Arcadia, etc.?
Mustang
i just read another thread about the co changes and plans for upcoming persectution.
i can speak for america and say that out constitution is based on religious freedom-this is the same constitution the society hides behind in all of their 'champion' court cases where they defend their right to go in the door to door ministry.
this country is sooooo far from turning against any religion, that we are even allowing terrorist religions to remain as long as they don't act against anyone (please no thread hijacking about that : ).. how in god's name do the jw's think the government is going to turn against religion and start persecuting them, and armagedon is to follow -right 'around the corner'????.
Possibly it TAXES, they are scared they may have to pay their share and if they do, they will call it persecution.
Armageddon to the WTS, maybe?
Amplifying on buff's thought:
I recollect that Rutherford declared something on the order of "OK 2 pay them, but not one cent we don't have to" about taxes; then Knorr came in, doing a McNamara style reorg/streamlining/. I think they discovered the "non-profit org" scenario about then. They've gotten real used to it. You can make a very nice "money engine" if you qualify on that one.
Yeah, they would choke if that rug got pulled out from under them. That's why they started doing bizarre things like the amicus curiae for the California preacher getting taxed.
On that score, the late Dr. Gene Scott (Assemblies of God) had been fighting similar battles for a long time. But he took the other tack: his Dolores Press PAYS the taxes. Those books are pricey; but they are often unique intellectual items.
What about that whopping 60% tax thing in France? In the US, you couldn't pull that; but under Napoleanic Codes the state trumps whatever it likes. Don't know how that will turn out...
As some wag once said "follow the money"...
Mustang
silly speculation, but imagine if the large hadron collider opened a door to the spirit world, which would be considered another dimension.
perhaps the lhc will reveal demunz.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24525554.
"Stairway 2 Heaven or "Highway 2 Hell"
I doubt that anything will be that dramatic
Mustang
we`ve all done it..your busy on the computer....pretty soon you realize..you`ve been on the computer longer than you thought............your hungry!........so what do you do?..you go into the kitchen grab some food and get back on the computer..you go to take a bite..and..food falls onto your key board and in between the keys..........god what a mess!..same thing with beverages..sip a beer....and..some of it gets on your key board........how many meals are in your key board?!..lol!
!.......what have food or beverages,have you dropped on your keyboard?...............................outlaw
So, one day a customer brings a home 8-Track into the Stereo Shop. (This has been a while.) He says that he can't get the door to open and cannot insert a tape; I tag it and put it on the shelf.
Later I get to the 8-Track; sure enough, as advertised, I can't get the door to flap back either. Oh well, I have to disassemble these things to work on them anyway...
When the customer returns, I ask "do you have kids?"
"Sure, I've got a 5 year old son," he replies. "Why?"
"You couldn't get it open because it was packed solid with chocolate chip cookies!!!"
Mustang
