I wanna be a fish

Is this like a waiting room? Do you teach that the dead person is aware that they are waiting on something to happen? Who has the power to get the person out of purgatory? How do they do it?

Serious question, I'm not trying to be snippy or rude.

What length example 3/8" ? Do you think surgical steel is the best?

I make crystal jewelry and have a request for belly bars, not sure what the best guage to buy is.

Well, "Let God be found true though every man be found a liar".

Watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptRya2-ihg

The armed forces now want to learn bloodless surgery from Jehovah's Witnesses.

This is a real concern for my family. My daughter is 16, she is baptized. she has graduated high school. She does not have a job yet and is too young to start college, that will be in another 6 months or so. She attends all meetings and goes out in service (not as much as she could).

She started talking with a boy that she went through elementary school with. They were both advanced in their studies and competed, to a degree, on their performance. She scored 1/2 pt higher on an evaluation test and that became a joke between them. They lost touch for several years and he moved about an hour away. Due to cell phones and internet it was easy for them to "catch up" again. He seems to be a decent guy. He expresses an interest in studying with JW, his mother will not allow it. She has placed several publication with him and his mother. He's a junior in high school, sorta nerdy and a band geek :). He came to her graduation party and we could all see that he was crushing on her.

She understands she is not old enough to date. And that when she is old enough, she should only consider someone that has her love for Jehovah.

As a group event, we went to see some of the high school band competitions. She met many of the other band members and they began to form friendships (online & phone).

Recently she wanted to know if it would be ok to go bowling with them and get something to eat and just "hang out". It would have been her, the guy, and another couple. "We're just friends!, it's a bowling alley, it's not romantic"...

I have reasoned with her until I'm exhausted. Why can't she see that this is a decision that she should be clear on. That she would be the only witness in the group. Eventually your heart will trick you. You can only remain strong for so long under satans attacks and satan knows this is her weakness...

She said he wants to talk with me about it, in a nice respectful way. He has read most of the Bible Teach book and he agrees with the issues on immortality of the soul, hell fire, the trinity and so on,

I know that this is a deeper topic, it is "meat" not "milk" that we do not date until we are old enough to be considering a marriage mate and that means no "hanging out" with worldly friends of the opposite sex, without supervision.

This is completely foreign for him. I think he respects us but also makes comments and has attitude that we are "too extreme".

These high school teenage years are tough! They get bored so easy.

Most of this was an answer that I posted on a different question, but I would really like some other imput so I wanted to make it a question on it's own.

We have the Adobe Photoshop 7.0 CD and I was wondering if you can download it onto another computer as many times as you need, or if it's only a certain amount of times. I know some CDs will only let you download the program off of it like 3 or 4 times, and then you can't anymore. Does anyone know if the Photoshop CD is this way?

How can you explain these scriptures. Psalms 103:8-10

"(8) Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness.

(9) He will not for all time keep finding fault, Neither will he to time indefinite keep resentful.

(10) He has not done to us even according to our sins, Nor according to our errors has he brought upon us what we deserve."

How in the world could we ever do something in our short 70 or 80 years that would justify our loving Father burning us for an eternity? He just said he will not for all time keep finding fault.

The price that sin pays is death. The dead are conscious of nothing at all. Ecc 9:5

He may choose to not bring you back in the resurrection for everlasting life, he may leave you in the ground as the dust you were created from. He will not torture you forever.

I have a bible study that ask me to explain this for him. I would love to hear others thoughts.

We sold our business 10/08 and held paper on it, now the new owner is behind in payments. What type of lawyer should I call? Any advice?

Here is a more complete report on the situation from Jeopardy game show..

Recently on Jeopardy, one of the answers was, " It's the most

accurate translation of the Holy Scriptures? "

No one got the correct question, so Alex Trebek said, "What is the: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, printed by the

Watchtower Bible & Tract Society." ...as per the Source (book): "TRUTH IN TRANSLATION: ACCURACY AND BIAS IN ENGLISH

TRANSLATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT"

by author, Jason David BeDuhn. Apparently, BeDuhn is the Associate Professor of

Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University in

Flagstaff . He holds a B.A. In Religious Studies from the

University of Illinois, Urbana, an M.T..S.

In New Testament and Christian Origins from Harvard Divinity

School, and a Ph.D. In

Comparative Study of Religions form Indiana University,

Bloomington

The Nine English Translations Compared in BeDuhn's book are

> > * The King James Version (KJV)

> > * The Amplified Bible (AB)

> > * The Living Bible (LB)

> > * The New American Bible (NAB)

> > * The New American Standard Bible (NASB)

> > * The New International Version (NIV)

> > * The New World Translation (NW)

> > * The (New) Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

> > * Today's English Version (TEV)

EXCERPTS FROM HIS BOOK:

> > Chapter Four : Examples of translation of the Greek word

> > "proskuneo", used 58 times in the New Testament. The word is

> > translated various ways as worship, do obeisance, fall down

> > on one's knees, bow before. Scriptures discussed include

> > Matt. 18:26; Rev. 3:9; Mark 15:18,19; Matt 2:1, 2, 8,11;

> > Matt 14:33; Matt 28:9, "... In our exploration of this

> > issue, we can see how theological bias has been the

> > determining context for the choices made by all of the

> > translations except the NAB and NW ... Translators seem to

> > feel the need to add to the New Testament support for the

> > idea that Jesus was recognized to be God." Regarding Matt.

> > 28:16, 17, where all versions except the NW use "worship"

> > where the NW uses "did obeisance": "Here all translations

> > except the NW have recourse to "worship"-a rendering which

> > makes no sense in this context... This contradiction seems

> > to be missed by all the translators except those who

> > prepared the NW ."

> > Chapter Five : A discussion of Philippians 2:5-11: "The NW

> > translators... Have understood "harpagmos" accurately as

> > grasping at something one does not have, that is, a

> > "seizure." The literary context supports the NW translation

> > (and refutes the KJV's "thought it not robbery to be

> > equal)..."

> > Chapter Seven : A discussion on Col. 1: 15-20: "It is a

> > tricky passage where every translation must add words." "The

> > LB translator is guilty of all the doctrinal importation

> > discussed above with reference to the NIV, NRSV, and TEV ,

> > and even surpasses them in this respect. So it is the NIV,

> > NRSV, TEV and LB-the four Bibles that make no attempt to

> > mark added words - that actually add the most significant

> > tendentious material. Yet in many public forums on Bible

> > translation, the practice of these four translations is

> > rarely if ever pointed to or criticized, while the NW is

> > attacked for adding the innocuous "other" in a way that

> > clearly indicates its character as an addition of the

> > translators... But the NW is correct. "Other" is implied in

> > "all", and the NW simply makes what is implicit explicit....

> > It is ironic that the translation of Col.. 1:15-20 that has

> > received the most criticism is the one where the "added

> > words" are fully justified by what is implied in the Greek."

> > Chapter Eight : A discussion on Titus 2:13; 2 Thess. 1:12; 2

> > Peter 1:1, 2:

> > "... The position of those who insist "God" and "Savior"

> > must refer to the same being... Is decidedly weakened."

> > Chapter Nine : A discussion of Hebrews 8:1: "so we must

> > conclude that the more probable translation is "God is your

> > throne..., "the translation found in the NW. .. It seems

> > likely that it is only because most translations were made

> > by people who already believe that Jesus is God that the

> > less probable way of translating this verse has been

> > preferred."

> > Chapter Ten : A discussion on John 8:58: "Both the LB and

> > the NW offer translations that coordinate the two verbs in

> > John 8:58 according to proper English syntax, and that

> > accurately reflect the meaning of the Greek idiom. The

> > other translations fail to do this." "There is absolutely

> > nothing in the original Greek of John 8:58 to suggest that

> > Jesus is quoting the Old Testament here, contrary to what

> > the TEV tries to suggest by putting quotations marks around

> > "I am."

> > "The majority of translations recognize these idiomatic uses

> > of "I am", and properly integrate the words into the context

> > of the

My bp is acting up. For the last week or so it keeps jumping up to 150+/100 ish. I am 48 and high bp does run in my family. It has normally been in the high 130's/high 80's.

I don't want to rush out and get on bp meds. I started walking everyday 2-3 miles, I've walked everyday for the last 2 weeks.

I'm about 50lbs overweight.

What do you think?

She enjoys comedy and mystery. She likes a little love story but no full blown romance stuff with all the explicit sex.

She is an avid reader, she just finished Atlas shrugged and Fountain head.

She likes twist and turns with humor.

Do you think the star was good or bad? Have you read the account of Jesus' birth in Matthew the 2nd chapter?

Why did the star suddenly appear and first lead the men to evil King Herod? Why did it wait while they met with the king? Why was it necessary for God to intervene and tell the men to return home a different way and not return to King Herod? Why did the angel also tell Joseph to take Mary and Jesus and flee?

Was the star good? or was it a tool being used to try and destroy Jesus? Is your heart open or will you close your eyes and be blinded to what is right there in front of you in the bible?

Do you have a star on your tree?

If you love Jesus you will read this account and pray. You will see the deception that was taking place.

Nothing violent please.

My kids want Guitar Hero. There are many versions. Which do you recommend? Which guitar? I saw one at Best Buy that had drums and guitar, it looked like a band??? Please help.

My daughter is 15 and wants to have a business. Is she old enough to have an llc (Limited Liability Corp)?

What type of business would you look for?

What do you think of direct sales or as some call it multi level marketing? I'm talking about real companies like Amway or Avon, not fake pyramids that don't have a product to offer and they just want to churn people. Have you heard of Healthy Chocolate?

Do you recognize Him alone as the Almighty God?

If not, why not?

How do you explain Psalms 83:18?

I have a business that is having a conference this weekend. It is a very important meeting that I feel I would receive wonderful training at as well as get to know people from our corporate office. The person in charge of organizing the conference booked it at a church. It is not in the main part of the church, not in the sanctuary but in a seperate building behind the church. The building is used for meetings, it has a huge room with a large cafeteria and stage with a projector. I do not know if there will be religious icons hanging up or not.

I go back and forth between should I go or not.

It is a 2 day event. Friday evening there is an executive training session and then on Sat a full day of training. People are coming in from around the country as well as from Puerto Rico.

Would you attend a meeting like this? Is there anything from the society that I can read to help me with this?