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Category Archives: Adventist
The Puritans Were Forerunners Of The Seventh-Day Adventists
When I read up on the Puritans, it reminds me of how I was raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist in Australia and California. I think I have a fair idea of the strengths and weaknesses of Anglos vs Jews. Both … Continue reading
The SDA VS Jewish Worldviews
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. My memories may not be clear or accurate, but as an SDA, I never had the sense that my group was particularly powerful (though we were God’s chosen people). We seemed to me small … Continue reading
A Pragmatic vs an Absolute Commitment to Truth
In this lecture, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff says: “My wife was on a bus in Jerusalem and struck up a conversation with a woman writing in Arabic, who says, I owe my life to the Jewish Agency. The Mossad set up … Continue reading
Blasting The Car Horn
So when a car pulls up next door in 90035 and starts blaring the horn, is this person disrupting the peace of the community most likely: * Seventh-Day Adventist * WASP * Mormon * Buddhist * Middle-Eastern In my experience, … Continue reading
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Seventh-Day Adventists Who Know How To Negotiate
* So the building took away the hot chocolate mixes because I was drinking too many of them. I would ask for their return but I was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist. Jews told me to email the building and ask … Continue reading
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The Jewish Story Of New York Marathon Director Fred Lebow
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist in Australia. In May of 1977, when I was turning 11, I moved with my parents to Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley (where I lived for the next three years and returned … Continue reading
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America, Australia & The Jews
I’ve been talking to Hasidic Jews who’ve lived in Australia. One told me that he could never walk home from shul on a Friday night in Sydney’s posh East side without having some white Australian hurling curses at him. It’s … Continue reading
Blacks Protest Whites Moving Into Harlem
Are whites allowed to protest when blacks move into their historic neighborhoods? Do only blacks have legitimate interests? Do only whites not have legitimate interests as a group? Notice that as whites move into Harlem, Harlem gets safer. Who would … Continue reading
The Seventh-Day Adventist Ray & Janay
So these two brothers are talking after church. They spot a hot black slut walking by in a little outfit. One punches the other and rushes over to her but realizing that sluts don’t make good wives, the brothers knock … Continue reading
Growing Up Adventist
Growing up a Seventh-Day Adventist, I never drank coffee. My first cup was on a movie shoot in late 1994. It was ok when mixed with lots of milk and sweetener. For only the second time in my life, I … Continue reading
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