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   > > or performing any other sort of “trick” before collecting a "treat" of   
   > > fruit, nuts, or coins. Another possible origin story traces back to   
   > > 15th-century Christianity. At that time, Christians would partake in the   
   > > act of souling, which meant they'd go from door to door and ask for   
   > > "treats," otherwise known as "soul cakes." They would take these   
   > > pastries in exchange for a promise to pray for the souls of the   
   > > homeowner’s dead relatives.   
   > >   
   > > As for candy corn, the tri-colored sweet is a well-known symbol of   
   > > Halloween today, but it hasn't always been that way. The birth of candy   
   > > corn can be traced back to Philadelphia in the 1880s, which is when a   
   > > candy-maker at the Wunderle Candy Company allegedly invented it. In   
   > > 1898, the Goelitz Company began to mass-produce candy corn, dubbing it   
   > > "Chicken Feed," which led to an increase in its popularity. The craze   
   > > reached its peak in the 1950s, and candy corn's identity as a Halloween   
   > > staple became solidified in the U.S.   
   > > ********************************   
   > > The Puritans who came to America were opposed to those who made it a   
   > > pagan type celebration.   
   >   
   > Thanks for the info.   
      
   Then why contest it? Why make an issue out of it when the whole understanding   
   of the background varies all over the place?   
      
   Most of the people that are JW’s now are people who celebrate the “Day of   
   the dead”.   
   Why don’t you rail against them every year on their appointed time?   
   Also why do you now consider that you are equally yoked with ’christians’   
   yet consider yourself above reproach while quoting Paul saying that you are   
   to have nothing to do with them, yet here you are, hanging in so-called   
   christian and religious NG’s?   
      
   And on that point, why are the JW NG’s dead?   
   >   
   >   
   > >   
   > > >   
   > > > Yes, millions of people celebrate Satan's holiday. Do you?   
   > >   
   > > Many JW's let their kids celebrate it,   
   >   
   > If they do, they are former JW's, or non-active ones.   
      
   There are active JW’s around here that do just what I said they do, and   
   that is why I posted the comment.   
   > > and or feed the kids treats lest   
   > > their homes be egged.   
   >   
   > Yes, the trick part of Halloween can be rowdy and highly unscriptural.   
   > ("love your neighbor..."- Mt 19:19)   
      
   Why the quoted scripture? Are you inferring that trick or treaters are all   
   christians?   
   Typically it is the Karen type homes that are egged.   
      
   > >   
   > > What day of the week do Jehovah Witnesses go to church?   
   >   
   > Days of the week. It can vary congregation to congregation. Our   
   > congregation holds the mid-weak meeting on Wed evening. Then, since   
   > most people don't work on Sunday, we hold the public meeting then.   
      
   Interesting, So you have private/closed meetings, and Public meetings?   
   Seems that they are imitating the days that typical protestant churches hold   
   their services.   
      
   >   
   > >   
   > > The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute   
   > > public talk by a congregation elder or ministerial servant and a   
   > > one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from The   
   > > Watchtower magazine, with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society   
   > > and the answers provided in the magazine.   
   > >   
   > > That is called indoctrination. Not a question and answer by the people,   
   > > but a following of a script to brainwash people and teach them to parrot   
   > > answers given by the magazine, not the Word of God.   
   >   
   > The Watchtower magazine is a Bible-aid magazine. Yes, it follows Bible   
   > guidelines in those articles, but many of the JW's when answering, add   
   > their own ideas or facts. All JW's are encouraged to research the   
   > various Bible subjects listed in the Watchtower.   
      
   The Book of Mormons is also a Bible-aid book. Except thy don’t modify it   
   anywhere as frequently as the JW does.   
   >   
   >   
   > There is a big difference between indoctrination and brainwashing.   
   > Notice AI again:   
      
   I snipped the AI trash. It is a complier of Human info, has no thought, no   
   wisdom and is nothing but a program. It takes its source information from   
   anywhere it can get it, and does not discriminate in whether the info is   
   good, evil, Truth, or lies.   
      
   Yet you use it as a source of proof and a justifier for your thoughts. Like a   
   child who says, But mommy, Charles, Joe and Stanley do it.   
      
   You are hypocritical to your statement above that Paul said not to be   
   unequally yoked together, yet you accept its thoughts.   
      
   Remember when Satan quoted the scripture to Jesus in order to tempt him? No   
   it is that your lazy mind has yielded its skill, no matter what level you   
   think at, to a program.   
      
   AI has already cost many people their lives. Here you are slowly yielding   
   your very soul to it.   
      
   There is another person here who used it a lot. For self justification as   
   well, and their defense was that it quoted scripture and said stuff that   
   he/she agreed with and that justified its use, not even realizing the points   
   it made were often erroneous, even if it was slight. Like a little white lie   
   is acceptable in the grander scheme of things. Plus the ends justified the   
   means, type thinking.   
      
   God gives the Born Again believer His Holy Sprit to lead them into all truth.   
   To aid, assist, and comfort us, also to pray through the heart of a Born   
   Again believer the desires of their hearts, their questions, needs, etc. And   
   the Heavenly Father speaks to us by His Holy Spirit, for all who have the   
   ears to hear, and do not quench the Holy Spirit. This is what scripture   
   speaks to man. And is only the tip of an iceberg in learning and   
   understanding.   
      
   It is also for those that are spiritual.   
      
   Gal 6:1-10   
      
   1 Brothers, if a man is overtaken in some deviation, you, the spiritual ones,   
   restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself, that you   
   not also be tempted.   
      
   2 Bear one another's burdens, and so you will fulfill the law of Christ.   
      
   3 For if anyone thinks to be something, he deceives himself, being nothing.   
      
   4 But let each one prove his work, and then he alone will have a boast in   
   himself and not as to another.   
      
   5 For each one will bear his own load.   
      
   6 But let the one being taught in the Word share with the one teaching, in   
   all good things.   
      
   7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he   
   also will reap.   
      
   8 For the one sowing to his flesh will reap corruption of the flesh. But   
   theone sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life from the Spirit.   
      
   9 But we should not weaken in doing good, for in due time we shall reap, if   
   we do not faint.   
      
   10 So then, as we have time, let us work good toward all, and especially   
   toward the household of the faith.   
      
   These scriptures are deep, and to those that are strong in the Lord, even   
   deeper.   
      
   None of them are to be taken lightly.   
      
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   >   
   > Sincerely James   
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