And I just wanted to know if I am the only one that felt that 'spirit' led them into the JW and the same 'spirit' led them out of JWs???
Does the 'spirit' you refer to come in 1 liter bottles purchased at a store with a red dot out front?
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Spirit Directed
by Smiles_Smiles in.
and i just wanted to know if i am the only one that felt that 'spirit' led them into the jw and the same 'spirit' led them out of jws???
a bit confused but loveing every minute of the peace,.
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A good sign of a crackpot religion
by IronGland inis using old bible terms for modern day activities.
im thinking about nethinem (jw's), gentiles (mormons use this).
naming your kid abraham or isaiah and the like.. add some others here.
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There are two main things I use to identify "crackpot" or "high control" religions:
I look for social isolation and intolerance of criticism.
I know. Those groups also seems to do the ' pull a word from the bible and assign it to some bureacratic group in the organization'. "Nethinim" instead of male secretary or admin assistant.
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A good sign of a crackpot religion
by IronGland inis using old bible terms for modern day activities.
im thinking about nethinem (jw's), gentiles (mormons use this).
naming your kid abraham or isaiah and the like.. add some others here.
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'Apostles' in mormonism. Modern term 'Boards of Directors' Theres even 12 of them.
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A good sign of a crackpot religion
by IronGland inis using old bible terms for modern day activities.
im thinking about nethinem (jw's), gentiles (mormons use this).
naming your kid abraham or isaiah and the like.. add some others here.
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"Zerubabel class"
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A good sign of a crackpot religion
by IronGland inis using old bible terms for modern day activities.
im thinking about nethinem (jw's), gentiles (mormons use this).
naming your kid abraham or isaiah and the like.. add some others here.
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Yeah me too ritchie, but im specifically thinking about taking terms from the bible and using them to identify some modern day group or activity. The name 'Bethel' is another I just thought of.
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A good sign of a crackpot religion
by IronGland inis using old bible terms for modern day activities.
im thinking about nethinem (jw's), gentiles (mormons use this).
naming your kid abraham or isaiah and the like.. add some others here.
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Is using old bible terms for modern day activities. Im thinking about Nethinem (JW's), Gentiles (mormons use this). naming your kid Abraham or Isaiah and the like.. Add some others here.
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Is Joseph Smiths's tophat kept in some sacred place in Salt Lake City?
by IronGland inyou know the one he dropped those rocks into then stuck his head inside and found the book of mormon?
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fair enough - you can take that idea to any religion though.
Why believe in a little blue god and a a world with milky oceans
Why believe in a small carved image of an elephant god
Why believe that your ancestors walked through a sea carrying a box of gold (which they conveniantly lost)
Why believe in a nappy wearing Elohim (I mean come on!)
Why believe in lightsabers (..but wouldn't it be cool?!!!)
Why believe in a man who dies and then comes back to life before flying off into heavenWhy indeed.
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Check out this Mormon Video! Halarious!
by inquirer inclick on the projector to watch this most hilarious video!
(right beside the joseph smith picture) .
you probably already seen this video (!!!!!!!!!!
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The social ramifications of these punishments are intense, especially in smaller, Mormon dominated communities. Once someone is viewed as "having lost the Spirit", they are avoided except for occasional "fellowshipping" to encourage the individual to "get their life in order and return to the fold." However, if the individual begins to question the authority of the church, or the theology, "active" Mormons will avoid them, and view them as being led about by the devil.
Perhaps they're just reading from a 'different tophat' so to speak.
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Is Joseph Smiths's tophat kept in some sacred place in Salt Lake City?
by IronGland inyou know the one he dropped those rocks into then stuck his head inside and found the book of mormon?
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Irongland - I've noticed your quite vitriolic against the LDS did we wrong you in a past life - ahhh bums I can't say that - er did we wrong you in the pre-earth life..?
Nah. Im just fascinated at how people can really believe some guy dropped some rocks in a tophat and got secret messages but alas lost the stones but people still believe him. I should start my own church and have my own cathedral and harem.
So, do you know what happened to the Magical Tophat? Perhaps we could use it to decipher enemy transmissions or to understand ancient languages/ -
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Was it really so peaceful prior to 1914?
by ithinkisee inwas it really so peaceful before 1914?.
the society loves to claim there was an unprecedented amount of peace prior to 1914 and that wwi was a complete shock to the world when it began.
yet history claims otherwise:.
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619,474 deaths in all wars from revolutionary till Vietnam.863,153 in Civil War
War Deaths Addendum American Revolution 25,324 Bunker Hill cost 400 American lives War of 1812 2,260 Mexican War 13,283 Civil War
Union
Confederacy498,332
364,821Antietam cost 5,000 lives on both sides: bloodiest day in American history Spanish-American War 2,446 World War I 116,516 Battle of Somme cost 19,240 British lives on a single day (total British casualties that day: 57,470) World War II 405,399 Other Losses:
Soviet: 10,000,000
German: 3,500,000
Japan: 1,500,000
British: 280,000At Dunkirk the British suffered 68,000 casualties
Korean War 54,246 Vietnam War 56,244 Panama Invasion 23 Gulf War (1991) 148