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Minara Nex
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.01.26 10:55:00 -
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Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are! |
Culmen
Caldari
Blood Phage Syndicate
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Posted - 2009.01.26 10:58:00 -
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Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
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Malcanis
R.E.C.O.N.
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:00:00 -
[3]
 Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
Unless they can, you know, distinguish a game from reality. |
AkRoYeR
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:01:00 -
[4]
Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
Is playing a game on a computer in a virtual world a violent thing? I think your confusing reality with fantasy. |
Minara Nex
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:07:00 -
[5]
Quite true about the pacifist thing, tho I'd like to hope most of us can tell the difference between RL and a game...
... hmm, tho there are some REAL weirdos out there. |
SentryRaven
KIA Corp
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:08:00 -
[6]
Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
Friend of mine is a JW. Frequently owns at Counterstrike. Pacifist my a... bottom.... |
MHayes
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:09:00 -
[7]
No they are all out knocking on my door.  |
Minara Nex
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:11:00 -
[8]
Originally by: MHayes
No they are all out knocking on my door.
Well be glad to know that ever though Eve is set 27,000 years in the future, and far from Earth, there will still be Jehovah's Witnesses around to knock on your door.
Why do you think CCP are releasing Ambulation? |
Ocih
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:14:00 -
[9]
My brother is a witness convert. ... .. I don't have to buy him an x mas presents...
No, he doesn't play EvE. But don't let it stop you from forming a corp, Min.
We have a gay rights corp in EvE. Why not a Witness corp  |
TimMc
Gallente
Brutal Deliverance
OWN Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:15:00 -
[10]
Originally by: Minara Nex
Originally by: MHayes
No they are all out knocking on my door.
Well be glad to know that ever though Eve is set 27,000 years in the future, and far from Earth, there will still be Jehovah's Witnesses around to knock on your door.
Why do you think CCP are releasing Ambulation?
lmao JW's crashing a bar... |
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Lefevre
Caldari
The Glenn Quagmire Finishing School for Young Ladies
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:16:00 -
[11]
Keep religion out of eve.
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Kjellerup
Minmatar
The Qing Dynasty
Lux Caelestia
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:17:00 -
[12]
Edited by: Kjellerup on 26/01/2009 11:18:17
Originally by: Minara Nex
Well be glad to know that ever though Eve is set 27,000 years in the future, and far from Earth, there will still be Jehovah's Witnesses around to knock on your door.
Why do you think CCP are releasing Ambulation?
ROFL, you win this thread! |
SentryRaven
KIA Corp
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:18:00 -
[13]
Originally by: Lefevre
Keep religion out of eve.
Preaching to the Amarrians.... |
VicturusTeSaluto
Metafarmers
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:21:00 -
[14]
Originally by: Lefevre
Keep religion out of eve.
*paging garmon alts to this thread* |
Element 22
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:22:00 -
[15]
Yes, there are. I can only take their word for it, but there are JW in this game.
And to one of the JWs who knows who you are: I hope you get better soon and aren't in too much pain. I may not be in the scope, but I still wish you well. |
Ocih
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:27:00 -
[16]
Originally by: SentryRaven
Originally by: Lefevre
Keep religion out of eve.
Preaching to the Amarrians....
Amarrians are not preachers of religion.
We open the eyes of the unwashed masses to the divine truth.
And close the eyes of the ones who don't get it the first time. |
Andrue
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:28:00 -
[17]
It's possible but no-one has come knocking at my hangar door yet 
Uh oh. I just had this premonition about an unpleasant feature of Walking in Stations  |
Lefevre
Caldari
The Glenn Quagmire Finishing School for Young Ladies
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:33:00 -
[18]
Originally by: Andrue
It's possible but no-one has come knocking at my hangar door yet
Uh oh. I just had this premonition about an unpleasant feature of Walking in Stations
haha i serious just got the chills, and then a light laugh |
Locus Bey
Gallente
The Graduates
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:43:00 -
[19]
Luckily for you EVE isn't a fantasy game with magic or witchcraft, or we wouldn't be seeing you in these parts would we  Read a Harry Potter novel lately?
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Malephar
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:50:00 -
[20]
Hello...
I was wondering if you could spare a few minute to talk about Jesus. |
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Jack Thurner
SPECTRE Ops
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2009.01.26 11:54:00 -
[21]
Originally by: Malephar
Hello...
I was wondering if you could spare a few minute to talk about Jesus.
GAaahhhh! *runs away in panic and yells "They're everywhere!!" * |
Alexi Borizkova
Caldari
New Age Solutions
New Age Solutions Amalgamated
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Posted - 2009.01.26 12:01:00 -
[22]
Where I'm from, we refer to them as "porch hoppers".
And that's by a JW friend of mine, too. At least they have a good sense of humor about the whole being a punchline for Christendom thing.
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Reven Cordelle
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.01.26 12:07:00 -
[23]
Any fellow Coyotians that play?
You know - The belief that the universe and everything in it was created by a Giant Orange Space Coyote.
Apparently he made it for the lulz.
Theres rumour he's chilling in Jove space too, so who knows. Maybe if we ever get to Jove space - we'll be able to touch the face.. of GOD. (Giant Orange Dog)
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Nebulous
Minmatar
Thukker Zoku
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Posted - 2009.01.26 12:19:00 -
[24]
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL? |
Tzar'rim
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Posted - 2009.01.26 12:28:00 -
[25]
Originally by: Nebulous
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL?
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA!!
You win several internets.
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Super Whopper
I can Has Cheeseburger
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Posted - 2009.01.26 13:10:00 -
[26]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA god this is so funny!
First OP trolls EVE and then Nebulous trolls all of Jehovahdom.
Don't ever let this thread die! |
Andrue
Amarr
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Posted - 2009.01.26 14:06:00 -
[27]
Will they rename their magazine "Control Tower"?
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Captain Pompous
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:07:00 -
[28]
How about cloning, and jumpclones?? Does that somehow violate your scriptures? :)
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Yes, my name is Pompous. Yes, this has been designed for maximum deliberate effect. Well done for pointing that out. Well done you. |
Reikazenzero
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:22:00 -
[29]
well im a christian and im on the soul suvvior team in the uk this year
so i guess you could say im a close relation to you. =p
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Bellum Eternus
Gallente
Death of Virtue
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:24:00 -
[30]
Originally by: VicturusTeSaluto
Originally by: Lefevre
Keep religion out of eve.
*paging garmon alts to this thread*
Lol Vic... 
Bellum Eternus
Inveniam viam aut faciam.
Death of Virtue is Recruiting
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Reikazenzero
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:28:00 -
[31]
keeping religon out of eve is impossible because humen beings are behind the screens , well most people that play are
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Nebulous
Minmatar
Thukker Zoku
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:39:00 -
[32]
Originally by: Reikazenzero
keeping religon out of eve is impossible because humen beings are behind the screens , well most people that play are
Yes but not everyone of them believes in fairy's.
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:46:00 -
[33]
Originally by: Andrue
It's possible but no-one has come knocking at my hangar door yet
Uh oh. I just had this premonition about an unpleasant feature of Walking in Stations
Hangar door, eh?
Maybe I will Andrue, maybe I will...
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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Minara Nex
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:57:00 -
[34]
Originally by: Locus Bey
Luckily for you EVE isn't a fantasy game with magic or witchcraft, or we wouldn't be seeing you in these parts would we Read a Harry Potter novel lately?
Quite true! Not a great fan of Harry Potter, i did see the first two films, and whilst i did have the major hots for Hermionee (SP?) i thought the rest of the films were a load of balls.
To be honest, if you like Harry Potter, you suck balls. |
Minara Nex
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.01.26 15:59:00 -
[35]
Originally by: Nebulous
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL?
Not bad not bad... Although to be realistic, remote rep should give you a 20% of catching a disease... And maybe turn you into an ugly SOB like an Amarr or something. |
Gneeznow
Minmatar
Goo Spew
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Posted - 2009.01.26 16:02:00 -
[36]
counter the trolls minara! |
Polkageist
Minmatar
Accelerating Nanomechanical Industries
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Posted - 2009.01.26 16:34:00 -
[37]
afaik Jehovas Witness as well as the Mormon faith is founded by Freemasons...
Linkage
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Pan Crastus
Anti-Metagaming League
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Posted - 2009.01.26 17:02:00 -
[38]
Keep your Jesus off my spaceships!
How to PVP: 1. buy ISK with GTCs, 2. fit cloak, learn aggro mechanics, 3. buy second account for metagaming
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7shining7one7
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.01.26 17:27:00 -
[39]
Originally by: Minara Nex
Originally by: Nebulous
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL?
Not bad not bad... Although to be realistic, remote rep should give you a 20% of catching a disease... And maybe turn you into an ugly SOB like an Amarr or something.
you are aware of the function of the kidney and your immune system, aswell as your bodys ability to regenerate blood?
what you are, is afraid of other peoples biology due to lack of understanding, and where does that lead? to biological discrimination..
but oh wait, in idiot land people living with transplanted organs or having their lives saved by blood transfusions after sustaining massive injury turn into rabid zerglings..
go sell crazy somewhere else. |
Viceroy Cole
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.01.26 17:45:00 -
[40]
Originally by: 7shining7one7
go sell crazy somewhere else.
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EnslaverOfMinmatar
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Posted - 2009.01.26 18:05:00 -
[41]
-->Jehova Witlesses<--
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JordanParey
Minmatar
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.01.26 18:35:00 -
[42]
Originally by: 7shining7one7
Originally by: Minara Nex
Originally by: Nebulous
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL?
Not bad not bad... Although to be realistic, remote rep should give you a 20% of catching a disease... And maybe turn you into an ugly SOB like an Amarr or something.
you are aware of the function of the kidney and your immune system, aswell as your bodys ability to regenerate blood?
what you are, is afraid of other peoples biology due to lack of understanding, and where does that lead? to biological discrimination..
but oh wait, in idiot land people living with transplanted organs or having their lives saved by blood transfusions after sustaining massive injury turn into rabid zerglings..
go sell crazy somewhere else.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
That is ****in awesome, 7s7 telling someone to go sell crazy somewhere else (no off 7s7, that was funny)
Ontopic: the last time I got any religious visitors at my house on Sunday(read: Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses) I started blasting Atreyu right as they got to the door. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else run faster while wearing a business suit.
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Karrade Krise
Galatic P0RN Starz
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Posted - 2009.01.26 18:47:00 -
[43]
Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
If they were TRULY pacifist...they wouldn't go door to door soliciting their religion like Door-To-Door Salesmen...
If they were truly pacifist, they would just let everyone to their own.
CCP Atlas - The Short Story - "With Quantum Rise, we kind of messed up the performance of the EVE client."
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Gneeznow
Minmatar
Goo Spew
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Posted - 2009.01.26 19:14:00 -
[44]
Originally by: JordanParey
Ontopic: the last time I got any religious visitors at my house on Sunday(read: Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses) I started blasting Atreyu right as they got to the door. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else run faster while wearing a business suit.
happened to me about 6 weeks ago, it was 2 russian speaking chicks called to my apartment at 11am (probably orthodox christian, or mormon) they woke me up so i came out to the door in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts (think bigfoot crossed with a gorilla in boxer shorts) and stood there with a big dirty grin and one of those early morning lazy horn's .... didnt take them long to leave hell yea
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Gloria Stitz
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Posted - 2009.01.26 21:36:00 -
[45]
So blood transfusions for children is a really bad idea, but clones are ok?
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'Don't try to learn Eve all at once, otherwise your brain will explode' - Albert Einstein
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loony thezoon
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Posted - 2009.01.26 21:37:00 -
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Keep mindless superstition out of eve!!!
well, apart from the amarr i suppose
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JordanParey
Minmatar
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.01.26 22:09:00 -
[47]
Originally by: Gneeznow
Originally by: JordanParey
Ontopic: the last time I got any religious visitors at my house on Sunday(read: Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses) I started blasting Atreyu right as they got to the door. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else run faster while wearing a business suit.
happened to me about 6 weeks ago, it was 2 russian speaking chicks called to my apartment at 11am (probably orthodox christian, or mormon) they woke me up so i came out to the door in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts (think bigfoot crossed with a gorilla in boxer shorts) and stood there with a big dirty grin and one of those early morning lazy horn's .... didnt take them long to leave hell yea
morning wood ftw?
For some reason the idea of a Sasquatch wearing boxer shorts, walking around with a big boner, is absolutely hilarious. Bet those chicks "sized you up" before leaving
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Lord Windu
Echelon Holdings
Echelon.
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Posted - 2009.01.26 22:13:00 -
[48]
Originally by: loony thezoon
Keep mindless superstition out of eve!!!
well, apart from the amarr i suppose
Nah, get rid of them aswell.
Oh wait...
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Aricaan
Gallente
Playboy Enterprises
Dark Taboo
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Posted - 2009.01.26 22:39:00 -
[49]
Im a non beleiver,
But I heard Prince and K-os are Witnesses.
They are okay in my book.
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Alex Raptos
Caldari
The Firestorm Millennium
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Posted - 2009.01.26 22:47:00 -
[50]
Originally by: 7shining7one7
go sell crazy somewhere else.
My Irony senses are Tingling.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2009.01.26 22:58:00 -
[51]
Originally by: Alex Raptos
Originally by: 7shining7one7
go sell crazy somewhere else.
My Irony senses are Tingling.
This.
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Kyden
Gallente
Foundation
Sons of Tangra
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Posted - 2009.01.27 04:51:00 -
[52]
Edited by: Kyden on 27/01/2009 04:56:25
Originally by: Reikazenzero
well im a christian and im on the soul suvvior team in the uk this year
so i guess you could say im a close relation to you. =p
Christians and JW's have no close relation at all. Christianity being a religion and JW being a colt.
Try reading up on the rules you have to follow to be a JW. Can't even be patriotic for your country, if your family isn't JW, your JW associates/friends come first, just to name 2.
Not to mention the fact that your so-called religion has predicted The Son of God's return more times in the past century than Paris Hilton has made sex tapes. Only her's wasn't a total failure! Think the last prediction JW's made was for him return in the 80's. What happened? |
Viceroy Cole
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.01.27 05:08:00 -
[53]
Originally by: Kyden
and JW being a colt.
All said and given they have been known to be fast on the draw |
Mithfindel
Gallente
Zenko Group
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Posted - 2009.01.27 11:16:00 -
[54]
Originally by: Pan Crastus
Keep your Jesus off my spaceships!
Would you like a little talk about Ishtar Jesus?
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jason hill
Caldari
Clan Shadow Wolf
Sylph Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.27 14:08:00 -
[55]
Originally by: 7shining7one7
Originally by: Minara Nex
Originally by: Nebulous
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL?
Not bad not bad... Although to be realistic, remote rep should give you a 20% of catching a disease... And maybe turn you into an ugly SOB like an Amarr or something.
you are aware of the function of the kidney and your immune system, aswell as your bodys ability to regenerate blood?
what you are, is afraid of other peoples biology due to lack of understanding, and where does that lead? to biological discrimination..
but oh wait, in idiot land people living with transplanted organs or having their lives saved by blood transfusions after sustaining massive injury turn into rabid zerglings..
go sell crazy somewhere else.
I lold and lold and lold  |
TimMc
Gallente
Brutal Deliverance
OWN Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.27 14:32:00 -
[56]
Originally by: Kyden
Christians and JW's have no close relation at all. Christianity being a religion and JW being a cult. (lol) thanx Vic
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baltec1
R.U.S.T.
Minor Threat.
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Posted - 2009.01.27 14:39:00 -
[57]
Stop knocking on my door and stop setting traps for me when I go shopping! Using great looking cheerleaders to snare me should be against the law |
Luirich
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Posted - 2009.01.27 14:44:00 -
[58]
Does it count that I was one for 20 or so years? |
Viceroy Cole
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.01.27 14:58:00 -
[59]
Originally by: Luirich
Does it count that I was one for 20 or so years?
What made you quit? (honest question, I'm curious)
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Luirich
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Posted - 2009.01.27 15:14:00 -
[60]
Edited by: Luirich on 27/01/2009 15:20:32
Originally by: Viceroy Cole
What made you quit? (honest question, I'm curious)
Started to question whether a "loving" God would really require and request some of the things he did in the bible.
Then also started wondering why God would require something as silly as religion to begin with, surely he's waaaay beyond that.
Let me tell you how it started.
A JW learns that everyone else will be destroyed who isn't part of their faith(as do many other religions) and I met the woman who is now my wife and she was Hindu. This was while I was still a JW. Anyway, herself and her sisters are such amazing people and I wondered how a God could destroy someone simply because they were raised in a different culture than my own and taught Hindu propaganda because their parents parents were taught it and so on and so forth goes the vicious circle.
Add also a loving God wouldn't let things carry on the way they are in the world, I don't care what excuse there is. And I don't really care about people(except murderers and rapists who really need to die a very slow and painful death) because they bring this all upon themselves. I feel sorry for abused animals, those that are skinned alive, beaten and so on.
Now I just live life, still trying to live as moral a life as an imperfect person can.
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Karrade Krise
Galatic P0RN Starz
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Posted - 2009.01.27 17:40:00 -
[61]
Edited by: Karrade Krise on 27/01/2009 17:40:15
Originally by: Luirich
Add also a loving God wouldn't let things carry on the way they are in the world, I don't care what excuse there is. And I don't really care about people(except murderers and rapists who really need to die a very slow and painful death) because they bring this all upon themselves. I feel sorry for abused animals, those that are skinned alive, beaten and so on.
Maybe God is just an a$$hole.
<_< >_> WUT?!
Crap, I'm going to Hell if he exists huh? Maybe I should convert to Christianity...at least I'll have a chance of forgivness...
CCP Atlas - The Short Story - "With Quantum Rise, we kind of messed up the performance of the EVE client."
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Wendat Huron
Stellar Solutions
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Posted - 2009.01.27 18:25:00 -
[62]
Jesus don't believe in spaceships!
Delenda est achura. |
Elora Danzik
Caldari
Ward-Tech Industries
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Posted - 2009.01.27 20:28:00 -
[63]
Originally by: Andrue
It's possible but no-one has come knocking at my hangar door yet
Uh oh. I just had this premonition about an unpleasant feature of Walking in Stations
that and the amway guy your friend refered. |
Kyden
Gallente
Foundation
Sons of Tangra
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Posted - 2009.01.28 21:03:00 -
[64]
Originally by: Luirich
Edited by: Luirich on 27/01/2009 15:20:32
Originally by: Viceroy Cole
What made you quit? (honest question, I'm curious)
Started to question whether a "loving" God would really require and request some of the things he did in the bible.
Read other translations of the bible, KJV not recommended unless you like Shakespeare type writing. You will then see that JW's have changed there NWV to their liking. If there was something in the original text that they didn't like. They either removed it or replaced it with their own words. They have seriously added more **** into their version than any other translated version.
They tell you how and what to think. They even have rules against arguing with people like me, in fear that their members might get an effing clue to how brainwashed they really are. That's why I would bet 1 billion ISK that the op will not respond to anything I have mentioned here. And if he does, he better hope The Watchtower Society doesn't find out, he may get shunned... |
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CCP Mitnal
C C P
CCP
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Posted - 2009.01.29 06:05:00 -
[65]
Moved to Events & Gatherings. |
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Taradis
Amarr
The Imperial Assassins
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Posted - 2009.01.29 09:29:00 -
[66]
Originally by: MHayes
No they are all out knocking on my door.
Mine too plz tell em to stop |
Taradis
Amarr
The Imperial Assassins
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Posted - 2009.01.29 09:30:00 -
[67]
Originally by: SentryRaven
Originally by: Lefevre
Keep religion out of eve.
Preaching to the Amarrians....
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Taradis
Amarr
The Imperial Assassins
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Posted - 2009.01.29 09:32:00 -
[68]
Originally by: Jack Thurner
Originally by: Malephar
Hello...
I was wondering if you could spare a few minute to talk about Jesus.
GAaahhhh! *runs away in panic and yells "They're everywhere!!" *
*knock knock* Hi their would you like to purchase my religion? |
Taradis
Amarr
The Imperial Assassins
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Originally by: Nebulous
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL?
burnnnneddddddd ouch ftw |
Taradis
Amarr
The Imperial Assassins
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Posted - 2009.01.29 09:36:00 -
[70]
Originally by: Minara Nex
Originally by: Nebulous
Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
Are you allowed to use remote rep or remote shield boosting to heal in game? Or do you have to let them die like in RL?
Not bad not bad... Although to be realistic, remote rep should give you a 20% of catching a disease... And maybe turn you into an ugly SOB like an Amarr or something.
I resent the whole ugly amarr thing you must be thinkin of the flat reared achura I at least have junk in the trunk  |
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Taradis
Amarr
The Imperial Assassins
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Posted - 2009.01.29 09:41:00 -
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Originally by: Karrade Krise
Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
If they were TRULY pacifist...they wouldn't go door to door soliciting their religion like Door-To-Door Salesmen...
If they were truly pacifist, they would just let everyone to their own.
This as I have no interest in converting to such a relgion if it even is that. /me thinks it a cult kinda like scientology |
Taradis
Amarr
The Imperial Assassins
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Posted - 2009.01.29 09:42:00 -
[72]
Originally by: loony thezoon
Keep mindless superstition out of eve!!!
well, apart from the amarr i suppose
Yeesh flamin amarr in a JW thread thats just mean.... |
Minara Nex
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.01.29 11:45:00 -
[73]
Originally by: Kyden
Originally by: Luirich
Edited by: Luirich on 27/01/2009 15:20:32
Originally by: Viceroy Cole
What made you quit? (honest question, I'm curious)
Started to question whether a "loving" God would really require and request some of the things he did in the bible.
Read other translations of the bible, KJV not recommended unless you like Shakespeare type writing. You will then see that JW's have changed there NWV to their liking. If there was something in the original text that they didn't like. They either removed it or replaced it with their own words. They have seriously added more **** into their version than any other translated version.
They tell you how and what to think. They even have rules against arguing with people like me, in fear that their members might get an effing clue to how brainwashed they really are. That's why I would bet 1 billion ISK that the op will not respond to anything I have mentioned here. And if he does, he better hope The Watchtower Society doesn't find out, he may get shunned...
1 Billion ISK!!! Sweet!
Most JWs do actually regularly read other versions of the Bible, I myself certainly do, and in many of our talks (sermons) other versions of the Bible are regularly quoted. The JWs use the New World Translation as a point of reference mainly and so we are all reading from the same book. It is a bible useful for study as it has cross references and an index, features that many bibles don't.
If you check out the Wikipedia page, you'll find many people comending the accuracy of it (and a few disagreeing, gotta love the internet) but, in contrast to the KJV which has been written through many versions and has changed over time, the witnesses went back to the original scrolls and tablets (many of which can be found in the British Museum) from which to do the translation.
As for brainwashed... I'd like to think that i'm open to other opinions and trains of thought. I agree that there are definatly some crazy JWs out there who will stick their fingers in their ears and hum tunes if you try to talk to them, but you'll find the majority of us are actually pretty normal people.
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Minara Nex
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.01.29 11:47:00 -
[74]
Edited by: Minara Nex on 29/01/2009 11:47:45
Originally by: Taradis
Originally by: Karrade Krise
Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
If they were TRULY pacifist...they wouldn't go door to door soliciting their religion like Door-To-Door Salesmen...
If they were truly pacifist, they would just let everyone to their own.
This as I have no interest in converting to such a relgion if it even is that. /me thinks it a cult kinda like scientology
I think you've misunderstood the term pacifist...
Wikipedia describes it as:
"Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism
Which definatly describes the witnesses. As for door to door, i understand it is annoying.. but did you know if you ask them to list you as a 'Do Not Call' they'll stop calling for about 3 years? Thats all it takes...
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Thyestean23
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Posted - 2009.01.29 16:46:00 -
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Originally by: Minara NexQuite true! Not a great fan of Harry Potter, i did see the first two films, and whilst i did have the major hots for Hermionee (SP?) i thought the rest of the films were a load of balls.
To be honest, if you like Harry Potter, you suck balls.[/quote
I didnt know you were allowed to have the 'hots' for anything you werent already married too. I know the elders frown on sucking balls and what ever happened to the whole "bad associations thing?". You guys changed things up or what?
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Tractus Vesica
Caldari
Atrum Flamma
Order of the Black Dragons
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Posted - 2009.01.30 04:12:00 -
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I'm Roman Catholic. |
Kung Foolio
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Posted - 2009.01.30 17:17:00 -
[77]
Originally by: Minara Nex
Originally by: Kyden
Originally by: Luirich
Edited by: Luirich on 27/01/2009 15:20:32
Originally by: Viceroy Cole
What made you quit? (honest question, I'm curious)
Started to question whether a "loving" God would really require and request some of the things he did in the bible.
Read other translations of the bible, KJV not recommended unless you like Shakespeare type writing. You will then see that JW's have changed there NWV to their liking. If there was something in the original text that they didn't like. They either removed it or replaced it with their own words. They have seriously added more **** into their version than any other translated version.
They tell you how and what to think. They even have rules against arguing with people like me, in fear that their members might get an effing clue to how brainwashed they really are. That's why I would bet 1 billion ISK that the op will not respond to anything I have mentioned here. And if he does, he better hope The Watchtower Society doesn't find out, he may get shunned...
1 Billion ISK!!! Sweet!
Most JWs do actually regularly read other versions of the Bible, I myself certainly do, and in many of our talks (sermons) other versions of the Bible are regularly quoted. The JWs use the New World Translation as a point of reference mainly and so we are all reading from the same book. It is a bible useful for study as it has cross references and an index, features that many bibles don't.
If you check out the Wikipedia page, you'll find many people comending the accuracy of it (and a few disagreeing, gotta love the internet) but, in contrast to the KJV which has been written through many versions and has changed over time, the witnesses went back to the original scrolls and tablets (many of which can be found in the British Museum) from which to do the translation.
As for brainwashed... I'd like to think that i'm open to other opinions and trains of thought. I agree that there are definatly some crazy JWs out there who will stick their fingers in their ears and hum tunes if you try to talk to them, but you'll find the majority of us are actually pretty normal people.
I would just like to add about the bible part. There are no original scrolls left that were written by the original authors that were 'inspired' by God. All that were around at the time of King James were copies of copies as well. So copies of copies of an 'original' word were translated and copied. If you think that the people doing the copying/translating didn't change it to their own benefit (usually royalty and the like) then I would bet you are a little delusional. This information is usually available in the first pages of whatever bible you read, and you can easily fact check. While I do have JW's acquaintances and wish no ill feelings to them. A religion that basically ended thousands of peoples lives by the WTS (Watch Tower Society) predicting the end of the world in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975, and 1994. Their believers traveled the country after quitting their jobs and telling people of this craziness. Any religion that would do that will never have my vote. Here is some documented proof so as to not put this information out on my own laurels.
"The year 1925 is a date definitely and clearly marked in the Scriptures, even more clearly than that of 1914; but it would be presumptuous on the part of any faithful follower of the Lord to assume just what the Lord is going to do during that year." - Watchtower magazine, 1924-JUL-15, Page 211.
Thank you for your time, and please think me not someone who hates, but I do believe religious people should study what they are getting into. |
Hack Causality
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Posted - 2009.02.03 23:23:00 -
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So, ah, when's the next end of the world coming up? |
Ebon Rue
1st Steps Academy
Tread Alliance
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Posted - 2009.02.05 07:49:00 -
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2012 is what I've been hearing.
And to be fair, members of the Christian camp have attempted to predict the end of the world too. There was this guy in the 80's who wrote this book titled "88 reasons Jesus is coming back in 1988." It was sad, loads of people believed him, racked up all their credit cards, took out loans, got 2nd or 3rd mortgages, and partied like it was the end of the world. "Leave the devil with the bill!"
(This website was set up to counter the book, it's introduction has a couple of examples of other predictionists. Read or skim if you're interested. http://www.tscpulpitseries.org/english/1980s/ts880905.html)
*Shrugs* Predicting the religious end of the world is sort've useless, it says right in the bible that nobody knows the day or the hour, all a person can ever honestly say is that "It's getting closer." ...It'll probably be getting closer for a long time to come. |
Karrade Krise
Galatic P0RN Starz
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Posted - 2009.02.05 20:52:00 -
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I swear the mods are very double standard...
I'm trying to understand it. "Don't talk about religion" yet this thread still exists. Why can't we talk about other religions and such? Or even politics as long as it's in good taste? Double Standards p*ss me off...
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Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.02.05 23:30:00 -
[81]
Originally by: Minara Nex
Edited by: Minara Nex on 29/01/2009 11:47:45
Originally by: Taradis
Originally by: Karrade Krise
Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
Then again they could also simply not bother in the first place and let me play eve. 
If they were TRULY pacifist...they wouldn't go door to door soliciting their religion like Door-To-Door Salesmen...
If they were truly pacifist, they would just let everyone to their own.
This as I have no interest in converting to such a relgion if it even is that. /me thinks it a cult kinda like scientology
I think you've misunderstood the term pacifist...
Wikipedia describes it as:
"Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism
Which definatly describes the witnesses. As for door to door, i understand it is annoying.. but did you know if you ask them to list you as a 'Do Not Call' they'll stop calling for about 3 years? Thats all it takes...
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Silverburne
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Posted - 2009.02.06 00:16:00 -
[82]
Originally by: Luirich
Now I just live life, still trying to live as moral a life as an imperfect person can.
Now that is a sentiment I can relate too. You dont need religion to be a good person - and being religious doesnt make you a good person. I live by "Do unto others ..." |
Shirley Estyre
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Posted - 2009.02.06 04:35:00 -
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Quote:
ost JWs do actually regularly read other versions of the Bible, I myself certainly do
They weren't intrested when i showed them the satanic bible and my beatiful pentagram
In fact i never saw JW remove themselves so fast from my house. |
Tiber Vayal
Gallente
Elemental Purifyance and Assembling Consortium
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Posted - 2009.02.06 20:57:00 -
[84]
Uhm... did Jesus lose skillpoints when he revived? O_o
Anyway, quite interesting thread... I'm interested too, if JWs are playing EVE. I knew some JWs and heard about opinions about scifi. A friend of mine was a big scifi fan, he was even a quite active scifi artist writing cool novels, drawing very nice pictures and even worked with Perry Rhodan and Lucas Films (a bit). He sometimes was attackt by the elders (how do the call them in english?) for several reasons. They said scifi is no good for JW, because it's projecting a future which can't happen due to armageddon and the other jehova-stuff. Additionally most scifi scenarios have something to do with violence, lasers and aliens (god created heaven and the earth... but nowhere is written about slimey creatures with antennas on their heads), which are "bad thoughts" which direct to other bad thoughs (eg some kind of utopia _without_ killing all infidels).
Originally by: Luirich
A JW learns that everyone else will be destroyed who isn't part of their faith(as do many other religions) ... I wondered how a God could destroy someone simply because they were raised in a different culture than my own and taught Hindu propaganda because their parents parents were taught it and so on and so forth goes the vicious circle.
That's exactly the point which is very difficult for many JW. For example my mother (who is with them for about 55 years) had huge problems with the fact, that her beloved childs and her husband (we are normal people ;)) are doomed in the faith of the JW. After decades of failure to interest us for the JW, I think she just tries to ignore it and says to herself, that God will know that we are good people and save uf bla bla. It just became a part of her own point of view, which is FAR away from reality. It often was very difficult to live with her (so I started to really HATE this thing), but on the other hand it's her way to deal with her expiriences in the great big ****ing war.
If JW are a religion, depends on the definition of religion. For me, christianity is a religion and JW are an institution based on this religions basic philosophy; while the same goes for catholics, protestants, mormons and all the other strange stuff. Why should there be a difference, apart the size? Each of this institutions was founded somewhen by a group of somehow. Each makes its own thing with the bible.
About their bible I think it is neither better nor badder than any other. I've read the whole thing and enough of other editions and overall they are quite the same, which maybe is because they are all based on the same old transcripts (Luthers bible, Elberfelder aso). The main difference is the excessive use of gods name (relies on the verse like "they will bear my name or sth), what may be right or may be wrong, as no one knows how to spell the tetragrammaton correctly. It's the interpretation which differs heavily, but this is just default for every religious institution.
As for the annoying missionary at the doors... curiously enough this is part of their believes, they really _want_ to save those peoples lifes or at least honestly think the want it. I think even the uberbosses think it is their godly duty to do this, what in fact differences them from sects like Scientology, which primarily want to get money and power.
And for the end:
Originally by: Shirley Estyre
They weren't intrested when i showed them the satanic bible and my beatiful pentagram Sad
In fact i never saw JW remove themselves so fast from my house.
Hehe yes, this is in the fact the best to deal with annoying visits. I NEVER saw them again, after they stood before my door at a saturday morning after party, me wearing my then-believed-to-be-cool very-evil-ubergoth-starter-kit, smelling like a barrel of wodka, midst of a cloud of pot and with evil batcavish sounds about werewolfes coming out the black box that was my appartment. ;) |
XwRExile
Minmatar
The Order of Chivalry
Nex Eternus
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Posted - 2009.02.08 17:40:00 -
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lol no fairy tales please its bad for my image. btw tell me what system your in so i can gank you |
Max Seymour
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Posted - 2009.02.08 22:33:00 -
[86]
Originally by: Luirich
Edited by: Luirich on 27/01/2009 15:20:32
Originally by: Viceroy Cole
What made you quit? (honest question, I'm curious)
Started to question whether a "loving" God would really require and request some of the things he did in the bible.
Then also started wondering why God would require something as silly as religion to begin with, surely he's waaaay beyond that.
Let me tell you how it started.
A JW learns that everyone else will be destroyed who isn't part of their faith(as do many other religions) and I met the woman who is now my wife and she was Hindu. This was while I was still a JW. Anyway, herself and her sisters are such amazing people and I wondered how a God could destroy someone simply because they were raised in a different culture than my own and taught Hindu propaganda because their parents parents were taught it and so on and so forth goes the vicious circle.
Add also a loving God wouldn't let things carry on the way they are in the world, I don't care what excuse there is. And I don't really care about people(except murderers and rapists who really need to die a very slow and painful death) because they bring this all upon themselves. I feel sorry for abused animals, those that are skinned alive, beaten and so on.
Now I just live life, still trying to live as moral a life as an imperfect person can.
So in other words Luirich, you started thinking for yourself? Is that allowed??
Actually I'm a former J-Dub myself and I have to say that my situation sounds similar to Luirich. It's really an amazing feeling when you start to think of things from an outside perspective and see things in a new light.
The witnesses power over their people is FEAR. Fear of losing everything you have. That's what kept me in for so long. If you leave you will lose all your friends, sometimes family...not to mention fear of the things that have been drilled into your head. Armageddon is coming!! Ummm...yeah, no it's not. Also, if you question anything or read anything questioning the witnesses you could be shunned...Pretty good system they have worked out.
It took me years to get past a lot of things tho, and losing all your friends isn't easy...luckily I had siblings in the same situation and that helped a TON.
Good luck to anyone in this situation, I wish you the best.
"Think For Yourself, Question Authority"
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Sade Onyx
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Posted - 2009.02.09 15:50:00 -
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Grew up with half my family witness's and the other not.
Being of a scientific mind and with proper research I cant fail the bibles authenticity, given the choice creation always made more sense to me than evoloution.
As for the JW society, of course its flawed.. its run by humans, they make mistakes big and small, and yes! growing up as a JW is a nightmare. But on so many things they are correct and I still beleive it today. Unfortunatly I fell victim of temptation and practise many of the things which JW's (indeed jehovah) would frown upon. So my quitting was more about not wanted to be seen as hypocrytical.
One of those things would be playing violent games! Im fairly certain the Society would activly discourage playing games such as Eve. So I would be very suprised to see any strong community of Baptised JW's. Maybe unbaptised publishers still living with their parents. |
Ashen Brarn
More-Cowbell
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Posted - 2009.02.11 12:07:00 -
[88]
Originally by: Sade Onyx
Grew up with half my family witness's and the other not.
Being of a scientific mind and with proper research I cant fail the bibles authenticity, given the choice creation always made more sense to me than evoloution.
I would really like to see you explain how your scientific mind rationalises creation in favour of evolution.
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Chips nBeans
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Posted - 2009.02.19 16:26:00 -
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Originally by: Ashen Brarn
Originally by: Sade Onyx
Grew up with half my family witness's and the other not.
Being of a scientific mind and with proper research I cant fail the bibles authenticity, given the choice creation always made more sense to me than evoloution.
I would really like to see you explain how your scientific mind rationalises creation in favour of evolution.
No need, evolution is a theory created by man, his name was Charles Darwin, he spent his entire life looking for scientific evidence to backup his theory. At the end of his life he admited to not having found such evidence and that his theory was most probably incorrect.
Also, Creation vs Evoloution is a subject I studied and research for many years, What, you think Darwin came up with the 'theory' of evoloution by posting on forums and making wild guesses?... no, Darwins theory was based on long research and study. so I am not about to explain to you on a forum. If you really want to see the evidence then I suggest you offer a cup of tea to the next JW that knocks on your door. and be prepared to STUDY.
posting with other alt XD
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Synex
Gallente
Oursulaert Industries
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Posted - 2009.02.20 11:16:00 -
[90]
Originally by: Ashen Brarn
Originally by: Sade Onyx
Grew up with half my family witness's and the other not.
Being of a scientific mind and with proper research I cant fail the bibles authenticity, given the choice creation always made more sense to me than evoloution.
I would really like to see you explain how your scientific mind rationalises creation in favour of evolution.
The way I always looked at it was...
Imagine they found a house on Mars, with plumbing, electric etc. Would you believe that it all came about by chance, or that aliens built it? Because there is honestly a greater chance of there being a house built from the deposits of sediments etc that just happened to turn into bricks and cement than there is of intelligent life coming about by chance.
Synex
Oursulaert Industries
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Emmum
Gay Love
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Posted - 2009.02.21 01:26:00 -
[91]
Originally by: Synex
Originally by: Ashen Brarn
Originally by: Sade Onyx
Grew up with half my family witness's and the other not.
Being of a scientific mind and with proper research I cant fail the bibles authenticity, given the choice creation always made more sense to me than evoloution.
I would really like to see you explain how your scientific mind rationalises creation in favour of evolution.
The way I always looked at it was...
Imagine they found a house on Mars, with plumbing, electric etc. Would you believe that it all came about by chance, or that aliens built it? Because there is honestly a greater chance of there being a house built from the deposits of sediments etc that just happened to turn into bricks and cement than there is of intelligent life coming about by chance.
If this is some sort of anti-evolution statement, I assume you don't work in microbiology...you can see bacteria evolve against the antibiotics we make against them - in your own lifetime, in fact, sometimes in as little as two weeks, bacteria become resistant to new drugs.
That's why anti-evolution sentiment is actually a public health risk.
It's kind of laughable how people argue against evolution when it's happening in their own bodies and in labs across the world.
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Asmodeaus
Gallente
APOCALYPSE LEGION
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Posted - 2009.02.21 13:47:00 -
[92]
Originally by: Chips nBeans
Originally by: Ashen Brarn
Originally by: Sade Onyx
Grew up with half my family witness's and the other not.
Being of a scientific mind and with proper research I cant fail the bibles authenticity, given the choice creation always made more sense to me than evoloution.
I would really like to see you explain how your scientific mind rationalises creation in favour of evolution.
No need, evolution is a theory created by man, his name was Charles Darwin, he spent his entire life looking for scientific evidence to backup his theory. At the end of his life he admited to not having found such evidence and that his theory was most probably incorrect.
Also, Creation vs Evoloution is a subject I studied and research for many years, What, you think Darwin came up with the 'theory' of evoloution by posting on forums and making wild guesses?... no, Darwins theory was based on long research and study. so I am not about to explain to you on a forum. If you really want to see the evidence then I suggest you offer a cup of tea to the next JW that knocks on your door. and be prepared to STUDY.
posting with other alt XD
Darwin never recanted his theory. This is fundie propaganda thats gone all over the world thanks to dogmatic people using the intarwebs. At most he may have said something over the course of his life implying that it wasn't perfect, and because all the religious opposition seems to know how to do is quote mine, its taken way out of context.
Gravity is only an imperfect theory too.
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K1RTH G3RS3N
Haunted House
BROTHERS GRIM.
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Posted - 2009.02.23 11:38:00 -
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how can you be a witness to Jehovah?
pics or gtfo
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Pilk
Blade.
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Posted - 2009.03.17 12:36:00 -
[94]
Originally by: Chips nBeans
No need, evolution is a theory created by man, his name was Charles Darwin, he spent his entire life looking for scientific evidence to backup his theory. At the end of his life he admited to not having found such evidence and that his theory was most probably incorrect.
Also, Creation vs Evoloution is a subject I studied and research for many years, What, you think Darwin came up with the 'theory' of evoloution by posting on forums and making wild guesses?... no, Darwins theory was based on long research and study. so I am not about to explain to you on a forum. If you really want to see the evidence then I suggest you offer a cup of tea to the next JW that knocks on your door. and be prepared to STUDY.
First, if you aren't willing to actually read what I'm about to post, stop here and save us both a lot of time.
Still here? Good.
Darwin never recanted. He openly admitted his occasional belief that a benevolent power may have shaped evolution, or provided the "original materials", so to speak, but this was more the fair-mindedness of an agnostic than the sudden uncertainty of a true believer--proving the absence of external forces in this situation would be impossible. Instead, his goal was to prove that evolution did not need such an external factor.
The canonical Watchtower anti-evolution text, handed to me by a JW on many occasions, is "Life: How Did It Get Here?" This book is replete with misquotations and outright lies, and has been in continuous publication since the late 80's. They don't even fix the incorrect page-number citations. There are far more damning reviews of that work here; I encourage you to print out a few and ask why the Watchtower Society hasn't corrected the errors in the book. Perhaps not entirely relevant, but my favorite quote from this essay is: "[Check out] p.34, with a depiction of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Note the makeup on Eve. I guess God created her with lipstick and eyeliner, eh?"
Here's the real crux of the argument, though--everything written above is just a distraction. Darwin could have recanted, and it wouldn't matter. The Watchtower people could have written a flawless critique of evolution that merely ignored facts, instead of distorting them wildly. Evolution would still be correct. You see, in the scientific world, nothing is proven. Opponents of evolution love to point out that it's a "theory". So is gravity. Here's how a theory works:
Theory proposes fundamental law: Objects attract one another according to their mass and their relative distance.
Theory generates hypothesis: If I drop this rock, it will hit the ground.
Hypothesis suggests experiment: Ooh, I'll try dropping this rock.
Experiment produces result: I dropped this rock, and it hit the ground.
Result produces conclusion: I cannot, with this experiment, disprove the theory of gravity.
So here's the real power of the scientific method. One result--just one!--completely disproves the theory, as long as it's repeatable. If I drop the rock and it doesn't hit the ground, at a very minimum, an exception must now be added to the theory. Now, given the power to destroy a theory like evolution, here's the great part: EVERYONE, even the most ardent supporters of evolution, would LOVE to disprove it. Science is driven by fame. Every schoolchild alive knows the name "Charles Darwin". Do you know the name "Johann Joachim Becher"? That's because phlogiston is no longer an active component of the scientific worldview. And sure enough, Lavoisier, who disproved it, gets around 500,000 Google hits to Becher's 50,000 or so. No scientist would pass up the chance to be in every science textbook in the world. There's no conspiracy to keep evolution at the forefront, because there can't be.
--P
Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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Tallaran Kouros
Caldari
Arcane Alliance
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Posted - 2009.03.18 14:12:00 -
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Originally by: K1RTH G3RS3N
how can you be a witness to Jehovah?
pics or gtfo
I think it's something to do with turning beer into **** or feeding lots of people with a Tesco tuna sandwich.
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Jago Kain
Amarr
Pan Galactic Traders
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Posted - 2009.03.19 12:05:00 -
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Originally by: 7shining7one7
...go sell crazy somewhere else.
Praise from Caesar is praise indeed.
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Shan'Talasha Mea'Questa
Minmatar
The Perfect Harvesting Experience
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Posted - 2009.03.19 14:13:00 -
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We're still waiting for the Amish to start playing.
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Originally by: Paper
Rock's fine, nerf Scissors
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SFX Bladerunner
Minmatar
Black Serpent Technologies
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Posted - 2009.03.20 14:57:00 -
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Originally by: Minara Nex
Quite true about the pacifist thing, tho I'd like to hope most of us can tell the difference between RL and a game...
... hmm, tho there are some REAL weirdos out there.
You are incorrect. The matter of whether 'violence' is done in RL or in game is irrelevant.
Pacifism isn't about not participating in violent acts, it is about the belief that violence is not the answer.
Thus your statement that computergame violence isn't 'real' violence is faulty due to the fact that in order to commit this 'unreal' violence you must still hold the belief that said 'unreal' violence serves a (certain) goal within that 'unreal' world.
This principally goes against all true pacifistic believes and thus this leads me to my conclusion, which I shall now state:
You, dear sir, are a hypocrit.
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SFX Bladerunner
Minmatar
Black Serpent Technologies
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Posted - 2009.03.20 15:40:00 -
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Edited by: SFX Bladerunner on 20/03/2009 15:41:21
Originally by: Minara Nex
Originally by: Locus Bey
Luckily for you EVE isn't a fantasy game with magic or witchcraft, or we wouldn't be seeing you in these parts would we Read a Harry Potter novel lately?
Quite true! Not a great fan of Harry Potter, i did see the first two films, and whilst i did have the major hots for Hermionee (SP?) i thought the rest of the films were a load of balls.
To be honest, if you like Harry Potter, you suck balls.
You are allowed to believe in an imaginary invisible omnipotent man that supposedly created life and the universe itself but if we enjoy watching/reading a story about wizardry that we know and accept to be fake for entertainment we 'suck balls' ?
oh my... oh my indeed
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Melor Rend
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Posted - 2009.03.31 15:27:00 -
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Edited by: Melor Rend on 31/03/2009 15:30:05
Originally by: Luirich
(except murderers and rapists who really need to die a very slow and painful death)
Would be funny if it were not so sad. "Hey he killed someone and killing is wrong so lets kill him slowly and painfully" ... wait what?
Teh dark ages be that way -->
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Father Goose
Amarr
Order of the Lamp
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Posted - 2009.04.02 04:56:00 -
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Originally by: Minara Nex
Before anyone asks, no this isn't flamebait.
I'm looking to find out whether there are any fellow Witnesses playing?
Post if you are!
I was born and raised as a Jehovah's Witness.
At 15, my parents divorced and I was excommunicated along with my entire family. I guess I was tainted by association.
The excommunication cost me most of my friends, as Kingdom Hall rules require no contact with the likes of me and mine.
32 years later, your ilk has learned not to knock at my door. I ate most of them raw, not sparing the children they had in tow. I was once one of them, and haven't forgotten how they want children treated.
Those same silly rules requiring no contact forbid you to associate with me, so you should stop reading now.
I play a priest in Eve and have become a minister in real life. You could say I have lots of issues. Lots and lots of them.
I like my hobby!
Serving the Spiritual needs of the Matari, and all Children of Eve, by the Grace of God
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Tallaran Kouros
Caldari
Arcane Alliance
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Posted - 2009.04.02 08:55:00 -
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Originally by: Father Goose
I was born and raised as a Jehovah's Witness.
At 15, my parents divorced and I was excommunicated along with my entire family. I guess I was tainted by association.
The excommunication cost me most of my friends, as Kingdom Hall rules require no contact with the likes of me and mine.
So your parents divorce through no fault of your own and your "friends" are forced to disown you - an innocent person - for the "sins" of others?
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Venetiyan'Hel
Minmatar
Violation of Freedom
Kraftwerk.
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Posted - 2009.04.02 19:36:00 -
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I'll sell you my religion for the measly sum of 3billion ISK.
ISK goes to me.
ON another note, do JW's tell knock knock jokes?
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Darathor Omegie
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Posted - 2009.04.05 05:02:00 -
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Originally by: Malcanis
Originally by: Culmen
Edited by: Culmen on 26/01/2009 10:58:38
I don't think many EvE players can be Jehovah's Witnesses
After all, how many people saw Jehovah's Accident?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought Jehovah's Witnesses were pacifist.
Not very popular folks for a PvP centric game
Unless they can, you know, distinguish a game from reality.
Then they no not of there own beliefs. In most christian beliefs and in even some cult adaptations of christianity it is "not what goes in that is a sin" but rather "what comes out".
Meaning thought=action. If you steal in real life or in a game it is still a sin. If you murder someone(kill for no reason) it is still a sin as if you actually murdered a person because the thought alone is equal to it.
A wicked person's only limitation is how much do they think they can get away with. In online games wicked people will be wicked while good people will be "good".
Because of the low risk factors involved in games it allows a person's true personality to show.
But to say "it is only a game" is an attempt at self delusion. Because if life is clearly finite and we are merely passing through it would life seem as a "game" in the grand design of things?
Everything we do in life matters, just because it is a "game" doesn't change anything. Because it is still apart of our existence here, something we do to pass the time.
But by the OP logic it is OK to cheat in a poker game.. because it is only a "game" after all.
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Alva Noto
the united
Negative Ten.
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Posted - 2009.04.06 10:30:00 -
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The next one who says jehovah...
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JordanParey
Minmatar
Suddenly Ninjas
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Posted - 2009.04.06 13:14:00 -
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Originally by: Alva Noto
The next one who says jehovah...
Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah.
There.
Yahweh works too I suppose.
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Colonel Xaven
Decadence.
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2009.04.06 17:14:00 -
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We once saw him in ROIR. He tried to hide. We killed him.
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