QuotezeuszorFrom the article. "Only by letting go of your free will can you truly walk with the Lord." This does not sound good to me. It sounds perfectly acceptable to me. In order to believe in god, you must give yourself to him. I.E. Your will. Hence, one of the many contradictions in the bible, both new and old. Let's examine this. When something
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QuoteskepticVodnik, She doesn't think she's in hell and therefore doesn't think anyone's at fault. She thinks the lgat experience was a good one and does not think there was any mind control. I blame the lgat for her blindness, which she doesn't think she has. If that makes anything clearer, skeptic And that is why you should tell her that YOU led her astra
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Actually, my above post was wrong. I apologize to those who take the crap posted above as serious.
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QuoteEmeraldMystQuoteVodnikQuoteEmeraldMystQuoteVodnikHow about giving us some documentation that this church even exists? Until then, I say this thread is bunk. You're not into humor much, are you? Not when it comes to people's lives or well being. I'm sorry. Is this a Comedy Central forum? Sometimes humor is used as a mirror, to show people things about themselves they o
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QuoteEmeraldMystQuoteVodnikHow about giving us some documentation that this church even exists? Until then, I say this thread is bunk. You're not into humor much, are you? Not when it comes to people's lives or well being. I'm sorry. Is this a Comedy Central forum?
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Hey all, 1.) Madonna is not under the auspices of the FBI. She resides in the U.K. (although, U.S. power extends worldwide). 2.) She adopted an African national for publicity. It's evident. 3.) Let's not dwell on this. It's BS and should be regarded as such. 4.) The father realizes this and wants monetary compensation. This has nothing to do with a cult, period.
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QuoteskepticYeh, a friend recruited me, then I recruited my sister which turned her so nasty that our relationship is now over. I don't blame myself though, I blame the lgat. I was fooled by the sophisticated scam, the seductive illusion - for six years. I recruited my sister, and attempted to recruit many others, only because I was under a spell. (Thankfully, nobody else I tried to recr
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How about giving us some documentation that this church even exists? Until then, I say this thread is bunk.
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This is only one link, but there are many others: It looks like it just may be a tourist trap. Although, it seems sort of "fishy" to me and you'd have to contact the Ghana tourist board directly to find out. However, I do know Chernobyl "was" a tourist destination at one point. It failed because people were afraid of being dosed with high levels
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QuotepauliztarzaCan you please tell me the line in God's writing where he says he gave an animal a soul ? Can you please tell me a single word that god, in his own hand wrote? Hell, please tell me a single word that jesus, in his own hand wrote. Wait. You can't. Next.
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QuoteandymonkIs this symbol the complete ancient flower of life? I would appreciate any opinions. :idea: How would anyone know? Also, good way to get hits to your blog.
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While the Mormon religion is changing in a changing world, simply to get congregates, let's not forget how racist they were in the past, and how old-school Mormons still are racist. Anyone on these boards who is a Mormon knows exactly what I am talking about. I would love to post examples, but I guarantee that Rick would not want links to these sites on his forum. Just do a search for rac
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QuoterichardmgreenPeople are leaving Christianity in droves and Judaism is also experiencing similar problems. All of this opens people up to experimentation with new ideas. Often times, people leave one thing to wind up in something worse. I dialogue on this board to help people out and to gain a perspective on how to handle my own, oftentimes dysfunctional relationships with G-d and peop
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QuoterichardmgreenFriday, September 07, 2007 My contention is that cults proliferate because people who have unusual needs have to go to places that provide supports for them that they can’t find in the usual and standard religious groups and civic centers. I am a primary example of this. In my case, my family was dysfunctional when it came to religion. Only my nephew seems to ha
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QuotepauliztarzaI understand your emphatic attitude towards animals. But, nay, they were not created in the image of God. And neither were you.
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QuoteIndieQueenMy personal opinion on Fred Phelps can not be expressed in mixed company. So, I'll give you the watered down version. Mr. Phelps and his family, I won't say followers because nobody outside of his family follows him, are some of the most vile people to walk this planet. Protesting outside of gay funerals is bad enough, but protesting outside of the funerals of servicem
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This is silly! Calvary Chapel is not providing guns, ammunition or any other arms for that matter to ANYONE! They might be smuggling Bibles into one of these countries, perhaps an underground missionary here and there. Frank I think my "drive-by" proved its point, eh? You provide a much more lethal weapon. At least guns can be confiscated at the border when found. Your
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And I beg of the rest of you, don't listen to Private-Eye. It is one of them. And I stress "It".
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Quote"TMAC"Mr or Mrs. Private Eye, How do we know that we can trust you? I will give you the benefit of the doubt, but I am very suspicious about the timing of your post. The best way to get a full grasp of RLC is to attend there. You will have to experience it for yourself. On the surface the church functions pretty much like a normal church. RLC resembles Jones Temp
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Quote"Frank Sumatra"Pelicangrl, I have a couple questions if you don't mind. As his girl friend where are you in all of this? Do you ever go to church with him? When do you see him if he is always at church or working/sleeping etc? You mention AA and the Starbucks thing. Is your boyfriend in drug or alcohol rehab or is the coffee thing an afront to you? The LDS Morm
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Quote"cultreporter"I spoke to the Honolulu Advertiser today and the interest is not there in investigating Mike's devotion. The reason I was told for this was that they are not worried about asking their current govenor why she is Jewish so why would they ask him what his religion is. Evidently cult awareness is genuinely needed if the difference is not obvious. Indeed. T
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Unbelievable, although unfortunately believable in this day and age. I want to start out by mentioning angels. It seems this cult likes to incorporate angels into their doctrine. Angels are warriors of god, according to many scriptures, not just Christian scripture. From here on, we know angels DO NOT have free will, according to scripture. Let us begin. Angels are the warriors of god, h
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Josh, Although this won't get through to you, just stop it. Use your rational mind and stop arguing a moot point. Stop, now. When you want help, people will be here for you.
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Sorry to post again so soon. I viewed your forum index page source and from what I can discern you are not using indexnofollow. That may be why your forum is getting spam. <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
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It's getting worse. Hey, Ross. I guess I could examine your page source, but for your forums do you have index=nofollow? If not, that would make the forums less desirable for spammers. Also, if you use Turing for validation, you might want to rotate your Turing solution every so-many days so that spammers can't pick up the pattern. Just a suggestion.
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QuoteFishbulbI took a look at the Raelian website. I've certainly heard about them and wondered what their baseline belief system really is. Apparently it is the belief that we were "intelligently designed" by aliens. Alright, so who "designed" those aliens? What's the history? Was there a "first alien" some time, way back?
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I'm a noob, and you can take my advice as you wish. The spam is a strategy... a strategy to make you Conspiracy Theorists (CT). Think about it. They are trying to discredit you. The more you say that LGATs are spamming you for whatever effect they desire, the more they can say, "You see, they are conspiracy theorists, they have no credibility." Ignore it. The moder
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Hi. This is my first post here. Since lurking on this forum and learning about LGATs, I have been wondering if anyone can give me a name for the particular LGAT I am about to describe. I preface it with a little bit of a story, and the fact that receiving an answer is a complete shot in the dark. A long time ago (1990-92), I lived in California and had a friend whose name I will withhold. He w
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