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Tom -- great link. Thanks! I was expecting a "joke" when I clicked on it, but it was really interesting.

uh -oh. Don't think I have early enough issues, but will go over them all again.

And all assembled at the roa said WOW

What happened to the "old" Exie?? --> Time for a new avatar?? Hard to imagine "LOVE" in a heart coming from hell&backtwice, but stranger things have happened. :)-->

That is the $65,000 dollar question!! :)-->

To PT someone, click on their name, then click on their public profile, and you'll see some "options" once you get to their profile. "Send a private message to ..." is one of those options. That is (probably) a round-about-way of doing it, but it works for me. (as I said -- I'm learning too!) Also -- if you click on someone's name (from their post), it will also say "invite so and so to a private topic". Why didn't I see that one before?? Shorter and more direct! -->

Bob -- hey bro. Relax, it's ok. (I think!) :)--> I've made the same mistake several times, and I don't suffer from that short term whatcha-ma-callit!! (or do I?) --> I'm still learning the rules. As Man of 1,000 Names says --- "The lessons repeat, until they are learned".

Not in so many words, but I think the Pentecostals follow the same precepts. At least the ones I knew (when I was jest a little red-neck) would always say "God told me to tell you ------ blah blah blah." Same thing, right? :D--> :D-->

From the Catholic Encyclopedia, and their definition of trinity. Sounds pretty ambiguous to me, and I was raised Catholic. It admits to "difference of origin", yet turns around to claim all are one co-eternal, etc. How can you be eternal, yet have an origin as the Son did? And this is their definition, not mine. And then they state that there is as yet scripturally "no single term ------------ " and so on. If it isn't scriptural, where did they get it from? I went to Google to find the Catholic take on this, and when I entered "trinity", I got several Catholic sites, but off to the right was a box labeled "Research the Trinity" www.truthortradition.com :D--> :D-->

Whackableness???? Ya hooked me!! :D--> Headed there now. ;)-->

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Except -- perhaps -- the ACS!!

Everything is bigger in Texas! :P-->

WhiteDove -- Where do you find this stuff? :D--> (they look so, uhhm, er, well, you know ... familiar!!)

Just read this!!!!!!!!! I am humbled. Thank you! What a fine gift!

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I guess some are more spiritual than others, and can "handle it".

Yea -- I never understood the "dis-fellowshipped" thing the JW's have going on. A very good friend of mine was "dis-fellowshipped" for smoking cigarettes, and the ones doing the "dis-fellowshipping" were drunk when they did so. Go figure. -->

Probably plenty, but (sadly) I think the "works" of vpw would command a higher price.

"On Guard" -- Been reading "The Three Musketeers" lately?

:D--> :D--> :D--> :D--> :D--> :D--> :D--> HA!! ;)-->

Excie -- the only "advice" from me is that if he has reached his desired conclusions -- ie. - establishing the similarities -- why continue? But --- that is me, and my take on it. Once I find an answer to a question I have, I let it go. Others wish to keep on discussing, re-hashing all that has been said. My "advice" was only "PI" -- (Gawd -- how long has it been since I used that phrase!!), and that is why I concluded saying "t'is your thread." :)--> Was just putting in my 2 cents worth about leaving it alone (because that is what I would do), yet also saying to refiner, that as the author of this thread, "please continue if it pleases you". Nothing more, nothing less. :)-->

WG -- Thanks! I figured it was a sandwich, but had never heard the term. :)-->

Not meaning to derail, but what is a "grinder"? -->

Def -- Great point, and I agree completely! Refiner -- if you're wishing to correlate similarities between twi, JW, and your Mr. Stone group, it seems like that has been accomplished. :)--> I'd leave it alone too, once correlations were established, but that is me. Further discussion would only be repetitively redundant. But hey -- t'is your thread!