i think the problems the us and russia face are mainly ideological.
the cold war these two countries have been in needs to be stopped and common sense needs to be applied i hope trump can push thing in the right direction and that he has good advisors.
i'm all for these two major world military powers to put away their differences and find way to work together on common problems they face.. they need to cooperate with each other even in their cyber warfare.
Russia/ USA have many common, but also opposing goals. Trump is for supporting Nato/ Poland Baltics, against further Crimea type crimes, but is with Russia/ Poland, Hungary, Austria to stop encroachment by foreign ideologies, civilisations, cultures coming from invaders, migrants, militants.
Putin is in line with Trump to maintaining the existing identity of distinct civilisations, whether that is right or not. it is definitely not "left".
due to family reasons gorby was present today.. the watchtower study was about refugee's.. how to treat refugee's, jw and non believers, and help them spiritual, not financial.
nothing new.. what i mentioned is the juridical message underneath the whole story.
don't talk politics, listen to government regulations etc.. most bizar is that a whole congregation that normaly avoid giving any aid to people in need, this morning gave the best practice in word about what to do with refugee's.. if the subject was not that serious, this hypocracy could be funny.
The relevant scripture missing from today's wt "study"?? sheep & goats, least of my brothers . because
Jesus taught that you do not know, who you help, if you look after the needy. Wt of course has appropriated that scripture for their sole benefit, all good works should go the WTBTS Inc. ...beneficial refugees? if they become volunteers for WTBTS.
so i went to visit my jw aging mother this week (i've been df'd for 40 years) and she told me she needs to give the people who are taking her to the convention $10 each day of the convention to cover gas?
my uber elder cousin told her she needs to do this!!!
wtf?
she's not even suppose to speak to you unless its for very important matters.
Money for wt is the most important matter, yes, cars are expensive: share the load.
i thought this would be a good time to pose some questions based on the series so far.. if creationism is true these should be easy.
answers that don't involve copy-paste would be really interesting to read.. ... .
1. since some proteins can be assembled in more ways than there are atoms in the universe why do the sequences of amino acids and bases vary between species in exactly the way evolution predicts?
There is no question that these things happened and that we are here.
The more we learn through our ingenuity, the more it should be evident that it all had the right start. imo. and
ps: if it did not have a start, that would even be more startling.
plenty of priests been killed , but i wonder if big tony and his smiley mate would sign the paper work..
Leaders already see their new ideas coming to reality in the future. To renounce their current status has already happened, is happening all the time. They do not want to be punished for the past, but will embrace the future, whatever it will take. some will imo.
many of the recent changes in the jehovah's witness organization are a clear sign of a cult that is struggling for survival.
the internet has change the scenario in a very dramatic way.
many of us who for years struggled alone with doubts and cognitive dissonance thinking that we were the only ones, that we, as individuals were the issue, now know that there is a large community of individuals who see the organization as what it is, a mind controlling cult that is not only false, but also dangerous.. the governing body clearly understands the consequences of this awakening.
bumped for relevance.
"keep alive until 1925" - j.f.
rutherford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhjnywjhh8.
that is why the the " Proclaimers" book is a treasure, it has the imprimatur. and "Faith on the March " by MacMillan.
Wt is constantly stumbling ahead. WT Stumbling, fumbling, but not enough being stumbled. 2075 coming up soon, endorsed by David Splane's timeline of the older the Franz anointed overlapping.
it is quite a step to register, still in.
old family in, good marriage in.
i dont know exactly how much to say and not let too much out to get caught.
welcome! are you talking about your children?, they need friends, but not the program, they need education and critical thinking, wt program is starving them mentally thankfully. bible reading ad nauseum. be supportive!
“more than material assistance, refugees need spiritual and emotional support.
(matt.
4:4) elders can help by obtaining literature in the language of the refugees and by helping them contact brothers who speak their language.
Help the migrants so they can serve better, even pioneer.
yes god directs our writings but they're not inspired, so gods directions are staggered and overlapping , so the genuine innocent believing jw has a wonderful life of overlapping bullshit.
so next time you meet a jw priest ask them what is the difference between being directed and inspired, then i promise you will hear first hand an example of overlapping bull..
For those that accept the bible as inerrant, which is it is not !! and the scriptures are inspired by "god", writing as the spirit moved, [directed] them?
wt almost claims equal authority.
