by odd coincidence, the following groups of people.
are stranded on separate desert islands:.
2 italian men and 1 italian woman.
yeah, but thats cuz you're HERE expat. its like superman. hes just a regular joe on krypton. but get him around that yellow sun and then hes all the rage.
perhaps i could add canadians. the men would be too caught up in futile attempts to be the peace-keepers between all the groups to notice that the canadian woman had taken up with the french. and when they did notice theyd be too polite too complain.
mox
once again people were either to tired or to ummm preoccupied to post after the gathering today.. it was a great event for me since i saw an old friend from 7 years ago..another former bethelite who left the org before me.
we were good friends at bethel and it was great to re-aquaint ourselves as free persons!!!.
got a chance to get to know others much better.
hi all - sounds like you all had a good time. i couldnt make it. unfortunately saturday evenings are not good for me. next month i will hopefully be able to swing by for a bit maybe, just until 5 or 6 or so tho. so if tracy wants to stroke my fur at all, the wrong way or otherwise, she will have to try and be there before then.
mox
it's called:-.
'everything is complete bullshit'.
you can do what the fuck you like, when you like, how you like.. the only rule is that you have to say 'i'm a fucking wanker' to yourself every morning.. .
rotfl at chuckd!
this one and the 'keeping planck constant'
youre in rare form today.
mox
i recieved this email and thought i'd share:.
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i heard a piece of gossip the other day from a friend in california that i thought was outrageous and right on par for the borg.... it seems a 20-something sister in a southern calafornia congregation has dedided she is one of the annointed much to the chagrin of her elder body.they have tried everything to disuade her from this path.in a last ditch effort to come up with arguments against her, the elders'wives were sic'd on her and they came up with a piece of information that they felt would be useful...it seems this sister is also pregnant with her first child and is very much looking forward to breast-feeding.so the brothers told her that if she wants to partake at the next memorial she can't breastfeed---because the wine would transfer to the milk and the baby is not annointed!this sister is heart-broken,she feels she must choose between her motherly obligation and her spiritual one!.the advice i passed on to her via my grape-vine was to think long and hard what decision she might make if for some reason her baby needed a life-saving blood transfusion...if the borg won't let her take a sip of wine it will surely not let her save her childs life with a transfusion!.
this does sound a bit unbelievable at first. how reliable is the source?
another dissuading tactic that i have honestly heard a _few_ times is this:
according to revelation, satan and his demons are waging a ware with all lovers of righteousness but particularly with the remaining ones of christs brothers. so satan is concentrating his attacks on the anointed, and the anointed only manage to weather this vicious assault because they come under the direct protection of christ and jehovah. but if someone were to claim wrongly to be of the anointed, they wouldnt come under protection from christ but they WOULD come under attack from the demons, cuz remember they cant read hearts, and they aint too bright. so they figure, what the hell, we better attack'em anyways.
mox
many have pondered the question.... "does the watchtower bible and tract society read what they themselves have labeled "apostate", whether it be books, or web sites?
the answer to this question could be verified by a future "whistleblower", who perhaps worked in the watchtower's basement, but there is already enough proof for a definitive answer.. we will examine the question regarding the watchtower's "surfing habits" by means of proof as found in the awake of august 8, 2001. this article is currently being "placed" (sold) from door to door this month.
i know, i 'sold' some.. on page 7 we find these paragraphs beneath a picture of a miserable looking guy surfing the inet in ramshackle surroundings... (the watchtower's basement no doubt).
the quote is attributed to the Economist just before the 2 paragraphs quoted by BE. it is not clear whether the substance of these 2 paragraphs are taken from the Economist or not. In fact, it is not absolutely clear whether the quote at the end is too but as is pointed out, this information is readily available from lots of sources.
even your conclusions about what happens at the Reading Dept stretch the imagination a tad.
mox
what is the origen,(fact, theory or speculation) of the infinitly small point of energy that started it all?.
later,.
chappy
besides seeming absurd to the layperson, the infinities of the big bang singularity have always made physicists and cosmologists a bit uncomfortable. infinities in physical calculations have always tended to be indications that we've been doing something wrong.
string theorists explain that we can avoid the infinities using superstring theory which posits than nothing can be smaller than the planck length, or more correctly, if anything WERE smaller than the planck length in the familiar visible dimensions, it would stretch out in all those other invisible dimensions they love to talk about, such that the physical properties of the pre-planck universe would kind of flip over such that you couldnt tell them apart from the universe we have now.
classical physicists think string theorists have just been playing too much Quake but this is kind of a compelling idea because it eliminates the infinities, the infinitely small, infinitely hot. kind of the way special relativity eliminated the infinity of speed. not by putting a speed limit at light exactly, but rather showing that anything that WAS going faster than light would really be going slower than light, but backwards in time. its the same kind of cyclical pattern
anyways string theory is all a bit esoterical. if you want to take a crack at trying to understand this better than myself, try brian greene's The Elegant Universe.
Personally i think all such beginning of the universe discussions are so theoretical and speculative that, while fascinating, they are not really useful for questions of philosophy or theology.
mox
today i noticed on television via 'entertainment tonight' how that supposed, self-proclaiming jehovah's witness 'sister' and top rating professional tennis player, venus williams, is back in the news again.. this time she was shown cuddling up to her italian bodyguard.
she had quite a loving expression on her face, while he had a glint in his eyes which seemed to say he'd like to do more things with venus' well toned body than just protect it from intruders or perceived danger.. last year, i posted on h 20 how appalled i was on viewing sr venus running around courtside with an american flag after she won wimbledon in england.
then there were those stationary tv close-ups while she stood reverently at attention as they played the u.s. national anthem.. my gripe in all this blatant display of double standards not so much concerns ms. williams' antics, but rather how they continue to be tolerated by her religion's governing body of jehovah's witnesses.
with all due respect aguest, it seems you didnt read uncanny's post beyond the subject line and a glance to note venus williams was the topic.
mox
i can't tell you how many times while out in service i would have these disturbing feelings:"this is such a waist of time.
""we are just driving our life away from nh to nh!
" and"i'm acompolishing absolutly nothing!
ah whoops. i mistakenly thought you said the Creation book. the Creator book is at least a little more believable, the physics book is less of a non-sequitor then. and northern poland, the teacher was probably just hoping to save a zloty or two.
mox
tomorrow, i will be posting my own style-version of an account built upon a similar premise as that of job and his struggle with satan, and so-called friends, and god's will in his life.. between now and then, would you think of the story of job, how it relates to humans in our struggles in life, and our relationship with god?
then comment back to me on this thread about your views.
be as painfully honest and crusty as you wish, or as thoughtful and polite as you like.
i was always amazed that job, suffering as bad as he was, in all that pain, with all that death in his family, still bothered to talk in poetic meter. but it was sure nice of his friends and the almighty sovereign to humour him by all talking in meter too.
mox
i've just been back from a months holiday.
nice to see that this site is still very active!.
a jw friend would like to read tha actual wts press release where it says that don adams is tha naw wts president.. i searched jw-media.org for her but did not find it.
"You think you've got us JWs beat, but we are surrounded by 12 legions of Jehovah's angelic warriors, ready to smite you good."
"We don't believe you."
"Would you believe one legion of cranky Bethelites?"
"No."
"How about Milton Henschell with a baseball bat?"
mox
I asked you not to tell me that.
