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Movie coming out for Easter 2014 release: "Heaven Is For Real"
by adamah inwith a release date of easter 2014, coming soon to a theatre near you: hollywood (tristar pictures) is capitalizing on the near-death-experience theme with a movie starring greg kinnear.
here's a hd trailer:.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih8hmfinsbg.
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Countering JW shunning: How a social psychologist's work from 50 yrs ago points to a new approach
by adamah ini've written a blog article on the topic of jw practice of shunning, inspired by a few recent threads on jwn where the results of social psychologist stanley milgram's work on authority figures came into the discussion:.
http://awgue.weebly.com/countering-jw-shunning-how-the-implications-of-stanley-milgrams-work-may-suggest-using-a-different-approach.html.
as usual, the article will be available for reading there, but please discuss over here in this thread.. .
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22 questions from creationists to evolutionists, taken from the Nye/Ham debate
by adamah inhere's 22 questions asked by creationists of evolutionists, on the night of the nye/ham debate: we've got alot of people who can help these creationists out, right here on jwn, so it seems the neighborly thing to do, right?.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/messages-from-creationists-to-people-who-believe-in-evolutio.
i'll take the easy one..... #22: if we come from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?".
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Petition to deport Bieber on White House website gets 100k signatures in 6 days
by adamah inand the white house administration will be forced to deliver an official response:.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-deport-justin-bieber-petition-20140129,0,394182.story#axzz2roy3bgrj.
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Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law
by adamah inthere's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.
code ann.
166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.
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ALL FAITHFUL are gare-run-teed (sic) to pass!
by adamah inso, let's say you accept jesus as your personal savior, and even prayed to god for the gift of faith, needed to obtain salvation.. but per 1 cor 10:13:.
"no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind.
and god is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.
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What is wrong with this headline?
by adamah incan anyone spot the basic problem with the question asked on the cover of la weekly, for an article on alien encounters?.
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Utah man goes on hunger strike to the death to protest same-sex marriages
by adamah inyou can't make up this kind of religious nut-job fanaticism:.
http://www.4utah.com/story/utah-man-fasting-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/d/story/k9sjvlgmmeuberqg9aeobq.
although in retrospect, it's no more extreme than those jws who die refusing blood.... adam.
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NY Times article: Defrocking of Methodist Minister Widens Split Over Gays
by adamah ininteresting article today over the growing schism within the methodist church due to ministers officiating gay marriages:.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/us/methodist-pastor-defrocked-over-gay-marriage-service.html?_r=0.
defrocking of minister widens split over gaysby laurie goodsteinpublished: december 19, 2013the rev.
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Update on Ark Encounter (YEC theme park): creationist Ken Ham offering junk bonds
by adamah inseems the ark encounter project is having a hard time raising funds, but ken ham doesn't miss a chance to bash obamacare to help raise funds.
ham is pushing junk bonds to help finance the project:.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/ark_encounter_finances_obamacare_sank_ken_ham_s_creationist_theme_park.html.