i don't get it.. a couple of months ago i saw a video (rachael maddow) with all these people in senate, or congress, or whatever they were....praying with all the whoop-tee-do hand-holding, hand waving, head nodding, foot stomping, body rocking motions of out of control pentecostals.
so it seems apparent that the "religious right" is alive and well and totally infiltrating in high government positions.. but then, at the same time, there seems to be a consensus that there is a christian militia with intention of disrupting everything and hollering about the government taking away their rights.. i have seen videos with christians wearing their guns to church.
years ago, something like this would not be allowed.
Fundie Christians, Jews, Muslims, they all have wet dreams of becoming martyrs.
You know like any day now the UN will turn against false religion and then they'll come for the JW's. It's the same mindset.
I am afraid the government
I am afraid government
See?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/26/we-dont-cause-vd-claims-facebook/?test=latestnews.
cases of syphilis have increased four-fold in britain thanks to facebook, argued a u.k. professor, as users meet up for unprotected sex.
can't wait to see this quote make the pages of the wt and the platforms of the conventions.
Practice safe internetworking, put a condom on your ethernet cable.
questions are being raised about whether pope benedict was personally involved in covering up a case of child sex abuse by a roman catholic priest.
documents seen by the new york times newspaper suggest that in the 1990s, long before he became pope, he failed to respond to letters about a us case.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8587082.stm.
that would prove the catholic church is capable of reform, no?
I believe he can abdicate, but he can't be forced out. This stuff is small potatoes compared to some of the things other Popes have done in the past.
questions are being raised about whether pope benedict was personally involved in covering up a case of child sex abuse by a roman catholic priest.
documents seen by the new york times newspaper suggest that in the 1990s, long before he became pope, he failed to respond to letters about a us case.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8587082.stm.
that would prove the catholic church is capable of reform, no?
Wouldn't that interfere with the whole "the Pope is infallible" thing though? Then they might as well hand over the Holy See to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
i was in for 30 years.....my ex was an elder...."holy spirit appointed" he tortured me....i was married 33+ years....you know,,,marriage is sacred...you can leave,,,i know,,,,if abuse is intolerable....but that starts a series of events...etc etc etc....i finally left everything...and moved far away.....people actually believe "holy spirit" appoints people,,,my ex would not pray unless there was an audience...you know,,,,people invited over for supper kind of thing,,,you get the point..... my best friend had a mental breakdown,,,,she basically became psychotic.....had to be hospitalized....she took up smoking,,,got disfellowshipped...and lost all emotional support....to this day,,,,as far as i know,,,she is still disfellowshipped...needs to be hospitialized every so often....she is on complete disability.....and still trying to get back into the org....her mother does support some what,,,,even though she is a witness herself,,,,,takes her to assemblies,,,,memorial,,,etc,,,,this has gone on for years.....she cannot mentally handle the organization,,,nor can she mentally handle not being a witness...lost everything....guilt....etc..... did not mean to ramble on so much......i have mental scars that will not go away....because i stayed in a "mess" for god,,,,i could write page after page of things like the above....as being my "last straw".......curious about you here on the board....any specific "breaking point" or a collection of many things..... thanks for your in put...peaches.
One day I found out in my congregation that someone had decided that they were part of the 144,000. I went up to and asked this brother one day after a meeting how he found out he was part of the 144,000 he said something to the effect of he prayed on it, talked with the elders, and so he was part of the last remnant. For some reason I found this answer lacking and it raised more questions about the 144,000 like how do they know when they've got 144,000? How many christians were there in the 'early church'? When was the cutoff point for christianity in general? And so on. The obvious answer was that it was all guided by holy spirit, and to "trust in Jehovah", but this time I couldn't accept that. This was the breeze that knocked the house of cards down so to speak. I became disillusioned, stopped going to meetings, and eventually moved out of state, but I hadn't quite left mentally. I would always say "Well I'm a Jehovah's Witness, but I dont go to the meetings anymore." if the topic of religion came up (how pathetic is that?). One day I did an internet search on JWs and came across all the crazy stuff about miracle wheat, Beth-Sarim, and whatnot which was the final mental straw
Then I could finally say that I was a Jehovah's Witness, but am no longer.
i'll start -.
boston red sox.
irish rock bands.
Tastykakes
Scrapple
Shoofly pie
Subarus
William Tecumseh Sherman. They did pray for him afterall.
to die
celebration for some and gnashing of teeth for others.
some are feeling angry and wounded tonight.
some are celebrating vindication after much rhetoric and inaccuracies.
Now begins the transformation! All comrades hail the motherland!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-zzmCmMVI
I just like posting that.
I hope it eventually leads to universal healthcare, but I probably wont be around long enough to see that.
energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed.. consequently, the building blocks of existence are actually finite parts.. to create things in "tomorrow" which are new, something has to be dismantled to leave spare parts for tomorrow's new thing.. the old thing deteriorates, (dies/disintegrates) and the parts become available to make the new thing.. time travel requires going to a place where today's parts are available to be rearranged.. some of today's things persist as they are, of course.
they only travel through time by persisting as they are.
(mountains, for example.).
Time travel, or perhaps more accurately time dilation is possible and must be accounted for in measurements. The GPS sattelites used to triangulate one's position must account for time dilation or the accuracy would be much less than it is. One can travel forward in time when travelling at high speed relative to those not, because time moves slower for someone moving at relativistic (really fast) speeds. So let's say you're travelling at a fraction of the speed of light, for every one second that passes by for you two seconds will have passed by for someone not moving that fast.
Here's a good bit by Carl Sagan.
it's gonna be 63 degrees tomorrow and for the rest of the week here in new england.
i'll be playing outdoor tennis pretty soon and i've got to get back into some semblance of shape.. what suggestions do you have?.
Check out a territory with lots of long driveways and Auxiliary Pioneer!!
There was this one "brother" that would (you might as well call it) power walk while out in service. I never liked being assigned to go in a group with him.
