is living a simple life without debt or very little better than trying to have it all and having it now?.
i see this all the time in my line of work and the toll it takes on people, marriages and families.
abr.
Somedays I think the Amish have the right idea.
Everyone should do their best to live within their means. Debt is a terrible thing and just makes you poorer than when you started borrowing. Some debt is good like student loans or a mortgage, but even then people can buy houses they can't afford. It's best to work with what you've got, because if you borrow money they'll just take more of that money you don't have away.
ok i have listed all the intresting and thought provoking things.
hear they are from a to z.
<----------- yep nothing.. .
Can they run? I'd think it'd be more like ambling or shuffling scared. :)
I'd have to wonder about the inactive thing concerning my family that's still in since I never formally DA'd myself.
it's not even april yet, and the watchtower society is revving up it's change at an alarming pace.. this year, the changes have all been big.. first, they announce that there will be two editions of the watchtower - a private edition for members only with only the study articles in and a public edition with no articles.
the 24 elders may be involved in communicating divine truths to the governing body.
the long held teaching that 1935 is the cutoff date for selection and gathering of the anointed has gone the way of the 1914 generation change in a convenient "questions from readers" article.. you cannot wear casual clothes after the convention, even if going out to eat.. .
I remember as a kid going to the district conventions getting out of our stuffy dress clothes was one of the first things we did once we got back to the hotel room.
After sitting in 90+ degree heat for 8 hours I'm sure rank rank and file will give a fine witness at the restaraunts, pit stains and all.
a child died in the past week of a tooth that got infected.
on his school bus coming home from school.
another child died from an infection that started from a tooth.......the mother needed $80 to get the tooth pulled.
You have to be 35 years old to be president, and a natural born citizen.
Edit: Argh, beaten by a couple minutes. :)
i don't know if this test has been posted here before or not, but anyway here it is:.
http://www.flashbynight.com/test/.
it said that i was smart can you believe that?
26 on the first try, and 28 on the second.
been off-air mopping up since last night.
the mother of all storms hit us and quite suddenly - one minute it was hot (as usual lately), the next all went dark and the most violent of thunderstorms hit us.
in a time of drought this was some reversal!
I don't think it's Armageddon, because I don't see people in their Sunday best with cheesy smiles on their faces in the foreground.
Cool pictures nonetheless. :)
a comment by rubadub in the thread about learning new things at the meetings made me remember something, and gave me a chuckle.. i would always see how fast i could look up the scriptures during the talks, and race to beat most everyone else.
of course everyone else didn't realize i was racing them, but i'd always feel a smug (and perhaps a bit self-righteous) satisfaction at having the scripture looked up and ready to follow along while from the sights and sounds around me most everyone else was still looking it up.
being able to look up jehovah's word with such speed would surely earn me spiritual brownie points.
A comment by Rubadub in the thread about learning new things at the meetings made me remember something, and gave me a chuckle.
I would always see how fast I could look up the scriptures during the talks, and race to beat most everyone else. Of course everyone else didn't realize I was racing them, but I'd always feel a smug (and perhaps a bit self-righteous) satisfaction at having the scripture looked up and ready to follow along while from the sights and sounds around me most everyone else was still looking it up. Being able to look up Jehovah's word with such speed would surely earn me spiritual brownie points.
Oh, and woe to the person still looking up the scripture when the reader started, for they would get a withering barrage of mental tsks from me! Unless they were sitting beside me then I'd have to show them the page number... while still getting a barrage of mental tsks.
Did anyone else have a silly pride in being able to look up scriptures with alacrity?
one of the more shocking things i've come across on this forum is that supposedly it'll be our responsibility to clean up the mess armagedon made and make the world a paradise during the 1000 year reign (jw's belive in the 1000 year reign, then the final judgement and destruction of satan right?
my doctrine is a little fuzzy).
this is new to me, has it appeared anywhere in the literature, talks, or the bible?
I recall that the thinking was we'd have to do a lot of the clean up. I remember this coming up while studying the Revelation book, although I no longer have one so I don't know if this was actually in the book, or something the study conductor mentioned.
i posted a similar topic a year and a half ago.
i thought with all the new people it would be interesting to ask it again.
so i began to research ... and here i am.
Going out in service as a kid, excuse me, I mean youth , I remember one door we went to the person gave us a pamphlet, and tried to explain to us why Witnesses were wrong. We left, and in the car I asked something to the effect of "Since we have the truth why didn't you just prove him wrong?" I was brushed off with something about apostate material. That never sat well with me.
Later, shortly after I was baptized I remember a person who became one of the anointed class. I had asked how he became one and they had said it was through prayer and guidance from the holy spirit, or something like that. That didn't answer my question, and it just led to more questions like how do they know when they had 144,000? Shouldn't there have already been 144,000 early Christians long ago? These questions begat more questions, and so on until I became disillusioned with the faith, and stopped going out in service then the meetings. For the longest time though I still didn't do a lot of "worldly" things.
i love inspirational quotes.
i read through them from time to time and i always feel better after sharing the thoughts of yesterday and today's greatest minds.
"if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours - Stephen Roberts
