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  Ass(Mule) Worshipping Hebrews

  by Ravyn in

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  ass(mule) worshipping hebrews (highlighting mine).

  "the womens encyclopedia of myths and secrets" by barbara g. walker, 1983, harper-collins publishing: .

  the ass-god pales had an extensive cult throughout the ancient world.

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  smart-asses!

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  Why I hate The Tooth Fairy

  by Valis in

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  guess the tooth fairy is mad at me or something...it may be that she wanted the whole tooth and not just the part that broke off.

  the last time i went to the dentist it was bad...the dentist was trying to take out my wisdom tooth, she eventually had to break it to get it out...i'm thinking she cracked the one next to it...ugh...well, she's torturing me as it is hard to drink beer or eat any of my favorite crunchy foods like chicken tacos...i'm hoping to make it to the dentist very soon, as i have signed up for the baylor school of dentistry here in dallas.

  excellent care, at a reduced price because they are a teaching institution.

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  Hey Valis!

  sweetie get yourself some Clove Oil. It is an anesthetic, and an antiseptic. Dilute it tho or it can burn your gums. It will numb your whole mouth if you use too much. But what I do is dip a piece of floss in it and use it up under the gum where the pain is. If you can't get the oil--usually at a Health Food Store, altho I have seen food-grade at some 'mom-and-pop-ish' drug stores-- you can suck on a whole clove. I have packed the cavity of an extraction with it and prevented dry socket and infection. Really works. Everyone should have clove oil in their medicine chest.

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  Ass(Mule) Worshipping Hebrews

  by Ravyn in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  ass(mule) worshipping hebrews (highlighting mine).

  "the womens encyclopedia of myths and secrets" by barbara g. walker, 1983, harper-collins publishing: .

  the ass-god pales had an extensive cult throughout the ancient world.

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  Ass(Mule) Worshipping Hebrews (highlighting mine)

  "The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets" by Barbara G. Walker, 1983, Harper-Collins publishing:

  Ass-

  The ass-god Pales had an extensive cult throughout the ancient world. Palestine, Philistia and Palantine Hill in Rome were named for Pales, who was both male and female-1.

  The old Norse word ass meant both "Asian" and "deity", possibly indicating that the divine ass originated in Asia-2. The pre-Vedic sacred king Ravana sported ten crowned human heads surmounted by one ass head, symbolizing the spirit of the ass-god incarnate in ten kings-3. The long ears of the ass seem to have had the same significance of virility in ancient India as the horns of the sacred bull or stag-4.

  Tacitus said the Jews worshipped the ass because wild asses were responsible for their survival in the desert-5. According to Genesis 36:24, it was the tribal matriarch Anah, or Hannah, who first found asses in the wilderness. Balaam’s oracular she-ass may have been the manifestation of the spirit of Anah, as Balaam himself was another name for Baal.

  Samson slew the Philistines with an ass’s jawbone, the same bone still regarded as the seat of the soul by some African tribes-6. Jesus entered Jerusalem on an ass’s colt, symbol of the New Year. The lilim or Children of Lilith were ass-haunched, for they were spirits left over from the real source of the Jewish ass-cult: Egypt, home of the ass-headed god Set, or Seth.

  Set once ruled the dynastic gods, and in token of his sovereignty displayed a pair of ass’s ears at the tip of a reed sceptor. The Hyksos Kings of Egypt revived Set’s cult in the second millennium BC, perhaps because their own ass-eared Midas was a similar god-king. The annual alternation of Set and his brother Osiris(or Horus), who murdered each other in perpetual rivalry for the favors of Isis, reflected constant replacement of sacred kings in pre-dynastic times-7.

  Ass-eared King Midas, a son of Cybele, died of drinking bull’s blood. In other words he was connected with the Taurobolium or bull-sacrifice made in honor of both Cybele and Isis. Midas has been identified with Mita("Seed"), a king of the Moschians or "calf-men", who invaded the country of the Hittites from Thrace during the second millennium BC. Midas’ Golden Touch and ass’s ears link him with the cult of Set and the Golden Calf(Horus), whose image was worshipped by the Israelites(Exodus 32:2-4).

  Under Egypt’s Hyksos kings, Set was a god of the hot desert wind, known as the Breath of the Ass. He was "Lord of the Chambers of the South", whence storm winds came-8. His wind from the desert was supposed to bring pestilence, ie, typhus, derived from Set’s Greek name, Typhon. This name was interlingual and worldwide. It meant both the ass-god and the wind called tufan in Arabic and Hindustani; t’ai fung in Chinese; and tuffoon or Typhoon in the South Pacific-9.

  Ass-headed Set was a sacrificial deity in the cult of Horus and Osiris. He was crucified on a furka and wounded in the side-10. He and Horus were represented as alternating year-gods who fought and castrated one another, each being baptized in the blood of the other’s "phallic eye", as the Pyramid Text said: "Horus is purified with the Eye of his brother Set; Set is purified with the Eye of his brother Horus."-11. The Eye of phallus passed from one to the other. A statue of Horus at Coptos carried Set’s severed phallus in his hand-12. After castrating Set, Horus spread his blood on the fields to render them fertile–the usual fructification-by-male-blood found in the oldest sacrificial Mysteries-13.

  Thus Set and Horus were remnants of a primitive sacred-king cult, which the Jews adopted. The story of the rival gods appeared in the Bible as Seth’s supplanting of the sacrificed shepherd Abel, evidently the same "Good Shepherd" as Osiris-Horus (Genesis 4:25). Their rivalry was resolved in Egypt by having the pharaoh unite both gods in himself. Tomb paintings of Ramses IV, showed him as both Set and Horus, two heads set upon one neck-14.

  Similarly, the Jewish God uniting both Father and Son was sometimes an ass-headed man crucified on a tree. This was one of the earliest representations of the Messiah’s crucifixion. Some said Christ was the same as the Jewish ass-god Iao, identified with Set-15. Jews in Rome were said to worship an ass’s head as their deity-16.

  The Roman cult of the ass apparently originated in Libya, home of the bisexual Pales, whose temple stood on Palantine Hill and gave rise to the word "palace"-17. Servius said Pales was a Goddess, the Diva Palatua, a disguise of Vesta. Others said Pales was either a female protectress of herd animals, or Vesta’s male consort. In the first two centuries AD, Pales was worshipped as a priapic god at the festival of the Palilia, the traditonal date of the founding of Rome, when the Palladium was brought to Vesta’s temple-18. Priests of Pales wore ass-head masks as they danced in honor of the long-eared deity. The Palilia was taken into the Christian calendar as the Feast of St. George. One of its old customs may have given rise to the Halloween game of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey", which recalls Rome’s sacrifices of equine tails triumphantly carried to the temple of Vesta-19.

  1-Larousse,209. 2-Turville-Petre, 23. 3-Norman,123. 4-Rawson, EA, 25. 5-Tacitus,658.

  6-Book of the Dead, 270-271. 7-Graves, GM 1, 283-284. 8-Graves, WG, 301. 9-Encyc. Brit.,"Typhoon". 10-Campbell, MI, 29. 11-Norman, 42. 12-Knight, SL, 124. 13-Budge, GE, 2,59. 14-Norman, 38, 48. 15-M. Smith,62. 16-Guignebert,53. 17-Briffault, 3, 18.

  18-Larousse, 209. 19-Dum`ezil,221.

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  yet another reason why I am not Christian. I don’t worship the Ass.

  Ravyn
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  IS THIS A BELIEVABLE COINCIDENCE?

  by jst2laws in

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  i had a really unique experience today that i want to share but will have to give you a little of my background first.

  i hope you find it interesting.. .

  teenage years.

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  now you guys made me cry!

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  Samurai sword-wielding man terrorizes church full of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by jgnat in

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  2. current

  this is a local news item.

  i doubt the link will last more than a day.

  it appears the man had no connection to the jw's previously, he just considered them an "easy mark".

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  this was not a Molotov Cocktail! It was some idiot dressed up like a pink mummy with a 60 inch sword!

  No one got hurt---do you know how many people it would take to wield a 5 foot long sword to any significant effect inside a building? He might have broken someones foot by dragging it over them! My husband has a claymore I got him for re-enacting...he can barely pick it up--let alone swing it around! LOL oh wait a minute let me heft my sword to smite ye.....now stand still so I can cleave you from stern to bow....can someone help me get this thing unsheathed?

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  Good Comebacks!

  by UpAndAtom in

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  i've got a great one line comeback that i would like to share... and was wondering if there are any other short but sweet ones to battle the rhetoric.. background:.

  my dub brother mentions that my sponsoring of children in 3rd world countries doesn't really save their soul, as only spiritual food can truely save them.

  to which i then reply,.

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  a come back I have not had the opportunity to apply to JWs, but to fundys that stopped them dead in their tracks is when they say Jesus died for OUR(or YOURS or MY) sins, I say:

  Well maybe he died for yours, but my people came from the Land of Nod. We didn't sin.

  It could be easily adapted to JWs --the first time they mention Jehovah or Jesus, you can say:

  Oh well that is your god not mine. The Bible was not written for me, my people are the other people from the Land of Nod. We have other gods.

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  Samurai sword-wielding man terrorizes church full of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. current

  this is a local news item.

  i doubt the link will last more than a day.

  it appears the man had no connection to the jw's previously, he just considered them an "easy mark".

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  does it sound like someone who studied before and became disgruntled to you? LOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I can't breathe I am laughing so hard!

  that is the most pathetically funny thing I have ever read. He can't make it on $15 an hour? Hey bud--try doing it on $10. And he thought the JWs had money to steal? Sounds like he needs to hear about the paradise earth.....

  the costume sounds awesome. Wish I had the nerve to walk into a KH with a 60 inch sword. Hey now there's the idea for the next Memorial....

  Ravyn

  oh PS--as far as the trauma and the complaint or whatever the wife filed---that is just a ploy to get some kind of government victims fund money--I guarantee it. So she can pioneer and quit cleaning other people's toilets for $7 an hour.
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  scary

  by concerned mama in

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  i don't care what religion they are, this would have been a scary situation for those poor people.

  i noticed they said that the door had to be buzzed open.

  are kingdom halls locked during meetings?.

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  that is the most pathetically funny thing I have ever read. He can't make it on $15 an hour? Hey bud--try doing it on $10. And he thought the JWs had money to steal? Sounds like he needs to hear about the paradise earth.....

  the costume sounds awesome. Wish I had the nerve to walk into a KH with a 60 inch sword.

  Ravyn

  oh PS--as far as the trauma and the complaint or whatever the wife filed---that is just a ploy to get some kind of government victims fund money--I guarantee it. So she can pioneer and quit cleaning other people's toilets for $7 an hour.
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  I can't wait till they have these at Wal-mart!

  by meadow77 in

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  http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/photos/recip/story/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/france_britain_birdman

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  they do! see his pant leg! it is coz he drank a Red Bull! Red Bull gives you wings! I get my Red Bull at Walmart.

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  What if JWs had never been part of your life......?

  by Scully in

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  prisca's topic about personal responsibility vs blaming the jws (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/56286/824979/post.ashx#824979) got me to thinking..... where do you think you'd be if the jws and the wts had never been part of your life?how would your life be different from what it is now?what do you think you might have accomplished or done differently without the encumberances of the jws in your life?what kind of relationship would you have with your family?who would you be?.

  there are no right or wrong answers, but think about those what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up ideas you had as children and whether those dreams could have become a reality.. .

  love, scully

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  the possibilities are endless I guess. I would have hoped that my parents were the kind to encourage education and from how they treated me as a kid, I think they would have been. I would not have had the money to go to any college I wanted to, but I would have worked for a grant or scholarship, which I would have been able to get because I turned a couple of offers down as a JW. I probably would have gone to Nursing School or maybe Teaching. I wanted to be a Teacher when I was in about 4th grade, but I am not sure I would have satyed with it. I have medical talent it seems. If I had the right encouragement and the backing I may have even gone to Medical School to become a surgeon. I like that kind of thing. I used to do autopsies on my dead pet rats when the occasion arose.

  I would have been a pagan much much sooner, there would have been a chance I might have been Catholic too as my grandfather was Catholic. I would have known my mother's side of the family, cousins and aunts and uncles who I never knew as a JW. I know I would have started having sex at about age 14 or 15. Probably with my childhood sweetheart. I might have had kids, but if I had gotten pregnant and decided I did not want to be I would have gotten an abortion. I don't think I would have smoked or done drugs--that is just not me anyway. I would have been very very popular in school.

  I would have had a career for many years now instead of being an X pioneer(put that on a resume!)

  Maybe I would not have traveled so much, most of the traveling we did as a family was with the excuse of serving where the need was great(even tho now I know it was serving where my dad had not yet bonked all the other elders' wives...) but if my health would have permitted me(and who knows how much the whole JW thing has contributed to my health problems!) I think I may have even gone into the military. I would have loved to be an Air Force or Marine doctor. I kinda think I would have been good at the JAG thing too.

  There are alot of things that I take responsibility for in my life, but there is also the FACT that I was born and raised third generation JW and they ruined whatever chances I might have naturally had to succeed. I did not have the choices that someone who was not a JW did. I am 41 now and sick. I missed the window on success and no matter how hard I try to pick up the pieces and go on---it IS their fault. I am not always bitter, some days are better than others. But I have many many regrets and I know I could not have done any of it differently at the time under those circumstances.

  Ravyn