how do you get your grubby little apostate fingers on this wonderful award?
simple!.
just predict what you think will be the next bit of "new light" coming down the heavenly cable modem to brooklyn.
The next new light.
Trevor explained this one very well a few weeks ago. Armageddon has already arrived, but it was invisible and we are living in an invisible paradise. I don't know how to retrieve his message. Hopefully, he will be here tommorow to show us the way.
you know i have been registered here since the birth of this list.i was only a lurker from time to time, now after a recent love affair break up i have been active here.
i must say this is the most wonderful group of people i have ever seen on a db.
all respectful, and whats suprising is loving.
Lurker,
I take exception to your comment about the best and brightest here not holding a candle to the h2o crowd. I think my discussion with you regarding Descartes and Pascal and the role of theoretical and applied statistics holds a candle to anyone. I chose not to go into an insulting attack mode and you appreciated it. I am not here to show that I am an educated barbarian. Education and intelligence should be used wisely. A lesson to be learned, son, use your own intellect with great prudence.
Your post about Descartes bothered me, because you knew at the time, and I knew at the time, what you stated later, that most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. That is not a nice thing to do to people. I am not saying that I haven't done the same thing in my past. I am suggesting that you refrain from doing it to save yourself and others grief. As a teacher, the only thing I can do is help you make fewer mistakes than I did.
As I have said before, I wish you well.
did you remember this one?.
** yb91 166 sweden-1991 yearbook report ***.
in the early 1970s, a governmental committee was appointed to.
JT,
The one case I mentioned was probably a rare, local exception, because I have never heard of it before or since.
there is a phenomenon in dub dom that i have always hated.
the circuit/district convention.. people will spend hard earned money, use up any vacation they may have to travel to a city they don't really have any particular reason to see to sit for entire days and listen to the same b.s.
they could sit and listen to at the meetings in their home kingdom hall.
Ah, those prayers.
You know a 10 minute summary of a one hour talk we just heard is not my idea of a good prayer. God doesn't need to hear it and niether do we.
ive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
Hey Zev,
Maybe those attacks are nature's way of telling you to get the he!! out of there.
"You shall know the truth, and the truth will send you to the nearest exit." Larc 17:3
i found some interesting statistics, some of which you may know, that indicate that the wtbts is in decline.. 1. in the twenty years from 1970 to 1990, the rate of yearly increase dropped from 10% to 6%.
in the last 10 years it has dropped from 6% to about 2%.
since the world population growth is about 1.5% they are only growing at about 1/2 of 1% faster than the population.. 2. in 1999, there were 21 large countries that showed a decline.
TR,
That fear you are talking about goes way back. When I was a boy they were called the "evil slave class". I remember one time an "evil slave" came to the home book study. As he came up the sidewalk the older sisters recognized him and warned those of us who didn't know him. He sat through the whole study and never said a word. I was in great fear the whole time, believing that I was in the presence of demons that he brought with him.
did you remember this one?.
** yb91 166 sweden-1991 yearbook report ***.
in the early 1970s, a governmental committee was appointed to.
Back in the old days there was a loop hole that few knew about. You were not allowed to ask for alternate service, but if a judge sentenced you to it, you were allowed to accept. This only happened to one person I know of, my brother in law. He started out cleaning floors in a hospital and worked his way up into financial management. He has worked in hospital administration most of his life and is near retirement. So, his "sentence" worked out pretty well for him.
Only problem is, he and my sister never made retirement plans, because the "end is so near", so I'm afraid they are going to be in dire straits in a few years.
i wonder for whom it does apply!
w64 2/15 103 does sincerely believing change wrong into right?
gods word is truth.
Well JCM,
I think sincerity is enough. I certainly hope it's enough because that's about all we've going for us in this confusing, ambiguous, and coflict ridden area called religion.
You know a scientist might think a collegue is an idiot for not agreeing with him, but he wouldn't consider him cursed and doomed to some awful fate as a result. Is there something to be learned here?
Larc - of the sincerely ignorant class.
ive not been to a meeting in five years probably.
yet my husband still goes and i always envision him going in and the hardy handshakes he gives, greeting and being greeted, sitting there with all those suits with the secrets hidden inside, and all those pretty dresses hiding the pain.
if i wasnt disassociated, i wonder if i would be bolder, speak up, be honest with the "friends" instead of toeing the company line.
They had a convention in our town a few years back, so went to visit. I was the only one with a beard, so they had to know I was an outsider. I noticed the style of attire was neat, clean 1950's. One of the talks was on the blood and gore of Armageddon. The talk was delivered with great enthusiasm. Another was on business dealings with your brothers - it was the kind of common sense stuff that anyone with half a brain could figure out on their own. I noticed the same kinds of people in the audience as years ago. Some people taking copius notes as if this stuff was really important, some half asleep - probably the more intelligent ones who had heard it all 85 times already. There were pairs of teen aged girls walking causually around during the talk looking for guys. There was no literature stand, which surprised me. I wanted to catch up on the newest of the new light. After two talks I left. I couldn't take any more.
can someone please tell me why pro-witness posters frequently tell other posters that they are lying?
xandit has just done it to focus -who`s post was well researched and informative - friday on h20 does it for a pastime, as do most of the pro witness brigade.. i have to say that, in my experience, people who shout "liar!
" have usually turned out to be persons who`s own truthfullness can often be called into question.. calling someone a liar is, in my book, a dire insult, and will result in a challenge to pistols at dawn if that particular form of abuse is ever pointed in my direction!.
Good point Englishmen,
So far the following people have called me a liar and/or a mocker of Jehovah: MDS, Spectrum, and Logical. It is hard educate them in the fine art of rational discussion and civility. Xandit never did call me a liar, but he implied that I and others were ignorant hayseeds.
