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Yup. It's time to divest my tabs of all their trimmings.
MPs to vote on future of gay marriage law: "Harper promised the free vote after coming under pressure from socially conservative and religious elements inside his party, who oppose the law and say it could lead to polygamy." Oh nooooes! If people can be gay and get married, soon that will mean that multiple people will marry each other in a big old Gordian knot of wedded bliss! What's the problem with group marriages, anyhow, as long as everyone in the group's cool with it? It's not like there isn't an old Biblical precedent for it either, fundies (thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
balthcat)!
Charmed woman marries cobra in India: At least she only married one snake. Marrying two would be immoral.
Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane: Yup. Snake on a plane.
Grandparents ordered hit on family: "Police said they initially offered $100 to an undercover sheriff's deputy to kill their son's wife, their 10-year-old granddaughter, two step-grandchildren, ages 14 and 16, and the family dog." Only $100? And for their little dog, too? Oh my.
The Synthetic Dream Foundation: I rather like their free industrial mp3. I'll have to check out more of their stuff.
The Purpose Driven Life Takers: "Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life."
Chocolate generates electrical power: Putting waste to use sounds good to me.
Would-be robber asks bank how to do it: Bathos! Yay!
Killer Workout: Are gyms, not mosques, the main breeding ground for Islamic terrorists?: Look out. I'm on my way to being a terrorist. And on that note, I'm getting ready to do my daily workout.
MPs to vote on future of gay marriage law: "Harper promised the free vote after coming under pressure from socially conservative and religious elements inside his party, who oppose the law and say it could lead to polygamy." Oh nooooes! If people can be gay and get married, soon that will mean that multiple people will marry each other in a big old Gordian knot of wedded bliss! What's the problem with group marriages, anyhow, as long as everyone in the group's cool with it? It's not like there isn't an old Biblical precedent for it either, fundies (thanks,
balthcat)!Charmed woman marries cobra in India: At least she only married one snake. Marrying two would be immoral.
Pilot Fights Black Snake Stowaway on Plane: Yup. Snake on a plane.
Grandparents ordered hit on family: "Police said they initially offered $100 to an undercover sheriff's deputy to kill their son's wife, their 10-year-old granddaughter, two step-grandchildren, ages 14 and 16, and the family dog." Only $100? And for their little dog, too? Oh my.
The Synthetic Dream Foundation: I rather like their free industrial mp3. I'll have to check out more of their stuff.
The Purpose Driven Life Takers: "Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life."
Chocolate generates electrical power: Putting waste to use sounds good to me.
Would-be robber asks bank how to do it: Bathos! Yay!
Killer Workout: Are gyms, not mosques, the main breeding ground for Islamic terrorists?: Look out. I'm on my way to being a terrorist. And on that note, I'm getting ready to do my daily workout.
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Date: 2006-06-03 05:32 pm (UTC)From:the 100 bucks was a down payment.
The Synthetic Dream Foundation: I'd be interested to know
your verdict if you hear more. I thought the free mp3s were
pretty decent.
The Purpose Driven Life Takers: I really want to play this
game. It sounds like GTA, or the old Syndicate game. But I
do not want my money going to those people. And, after the
Rapture, what the heck is the point of gaining converts? The
game is already over. There's no more getting into Heaven,
is there?
A friend of mine told me the other night that the Jehovah's
Witnesses believe they're the 144,000 Jews who are going to
be let into Heaven, so they have to keep their numbers down.
Is this what they believe?
Chocolate generates electrical power: Is there nothing choco-
late can't do?!
Are gyms, not mosques, the main breeding ground for Islamic
terrorists?: I thought it was MySpace!
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Date: 2006-06-03 05:41 pm (UTC)From:Witnesses believe they're the 144,000 Jews who are going to
be let into Heaven, so they have to keep their numbers down.
Is this what they believe?"
Not exactly.
JWs believe that only 144,000 will go to heaven, but their heaven isn't quite the same as the heaven of other religions. The remainder of "good folk" stay on earth, which, post-Armageddon, will be turned into Paradise. The 144,000 in heaven are just the government who rule over the earth people.
That is, unless the JWs have changed their minds on this, which wouldn't surprise me, considering the significant changes in central beliefs since I left in the early nineties.
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Date: 2006-06-03 05:44 pm (UTC)From:worshippers after the Rapture would still be
a worthwhile endeavour, as those recruits
will allowed into Paradise on Earth?
It's nice to see there will be a government,
and that even Paradise will still have a caste
system and a hierarchy, with some people obviously
better than others.
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Date: 2006-06-03 05:54 pm (UTC)From:However, there is a way for someone to convert after Armageddon.
JWs believe that when Armageddon comes, the only survivors will be JWs, or people on their way to becoming JWs. The only exception to this would be people who never had the opportunity to hear the "good news" ("good news" being JW-speak for "only JWs will live through Armageddon"). So lets say you're a hermit on a desert island who's never heard of JWs, or maybe a newborn baby or something. You'll get to live through Armageddon.
Here's the other possibility.
After Armageddon, the resurrections begin. This is when all good people (ie. dead JWs) are brought back to life. People who didn't get the opportunity to learn the "good news" will also be resurrected.
Now here's where it gets fancy.
Immediately after (or during, I can't remember) Armageddon, Satan and his demons are all being thrown into a prison of sorts for one thousand years.
During this 1,000-year period, everything on Paradise Earth is hunky dory. This is when all those people who never had the chance to hear the "good news" get preached at good and proper.
At the end of that thousand-year period, Satan and his demons are set loose one last time, for just a little while (how long this little while is has never been defined, to the best of my knowledge). This is Satan's last chance to win people over to his side.
Once he's had his last opportunity, anyone who takes his side is then put to death. Permanent death, this time. Really. And so are Satan and his demons.
And then everyone will live forever in Paradise on Earth.
Now that you've heard the "good news," if you don't convert, you've just been officially doomed. Have a nice day!
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Date: 2006-06-03 07:59 pm (UTC)From:Thank you so much for adding to my daily angst. >_<
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Date: 2006-06-03 06:00 pm (UTC)From:The 144,000 don't ascend to heaven in a Rapture.
Instead, as they die, their souls are transformed into spiritual beings in heaven. Their bodies remain cremated/buried/whatever.
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Date: 2006-06-05 03:08 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-06-05 03:40 pm (UTC)From: