i say take care of the needy ones first like our veterans and homeless and mentally ill, and then....take care of those not from this country.
What's More Important...Taking care of immigrants or the needy in your country?Why can't one do both? Love the one you with and so on.
(2. after offering prayer without the disfellow-shipped person present, invite him into the room.
) i needed answers to as why the elders would not pray when they talked to me in the room.
3 letters have been sent to get reinstated and all denied and forgotten!
Hey Pandx,
Sorry to hear you got the boot. On the other hand, welcome to your brand new life, the one in which you get to decide for yourself what makes sense and what is true.
It may seem daunting, but just relaaaaax. Take your your time, heal up, and when you're good and ready start your search for truth.
in this age of violence with the san bernardino and france massacres sometimes it's good to reflect on the wise words of the peace advocates among us who proposed a better solution in bringing a more civil society to our universe.
john lennon, martin luther king jr. - people who stood up for equal rights and world peace and denounced violence and war - no matter how that violence occurs.
please feel free to comment on stories of john lennon on this thread and feel free to post any you tubes of his music that you may have enjoyed through the years.
I read Catcher in the Rye a few years back, curious about the novel that Chapman had so readily and obsessively identified with.
Catcher in the Rye seems a bit tame by today's standards.
I can understand why it was so controversial though.
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General note: It seems as if activism for universal peace can elicit some violent responses. Some examples:
Martin Luther King
Mahatma Gandhi
John Lennon
Perhaps its because the idea of humanity at peace with itself is such a powerful concept.
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Many people posted Lennon songs, so I thought I'd post one written by Lennon but redone by someone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8s15Zt1S30
From: Make Some Noise (The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur) Disc 2
one of my kids got me hooked on this.
it's incredibly simple but also kind of fun and addictive.. you start as a small cell and need to eat things to grow.
that's pretty much the game.. of course as you get bigger you can eat smaller cells too ... and bigger ones can eat you.. as you get bigger you get slower but you can "eject mass" to shrink and speed you up (w key).
Oh its a dog eat dog world... or in this case some circles.
Good fun.
the usa is undoubtedly the strongest military power in the world, and has often been willing to use that power against other nations, some historians count 187 foreign wars in 200 years, and this youtube video lists the wars the us has fought in the twentieth century, most of which, (in the earliest part of the 20th c) it can be argued, were won by the usa.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51nfakme-g. this is not an argument about the rightness or wrongness of any war.
the argument is why the mightiest ever military power, a political power that controls overwhelming destructive forces, a power that claims to stand on the side of its god, does not win wars?
have you thought about this question?
For interest sake:
it appears diogenesister feels a need for a proper ass-kicking.. ok, if you insist.
i'm a dub proctologist.... attempting to hijack greatteacher's thread "jw parents in severe car accident,".
diogenesister seized my observation that "bloodless surgery is the standard today, not because of the wtb&ts but because of medical progress" with he carefully-crafted argument "bull crap.".
I'm a Dub proctologist...
Soooooo.... you check the kingdom's prostate? Not too swollen I hope?
as a good jw i never smoked a joint or nibbled on some brownies.
Emergency rooms full of teenagers who are in urgent need of medical treatment lest they die. Don't do it kids..... ONE puff is all it takes.
I agree the situation is totally out of control. In the US alone there was over 100 000 marijuana related fatalities last year.
When will humanity learn?
as a good jw i never smoked a joint or nibbled on some brownies.
just astonishing.. when i was a child we were taught that fossils were nothing more than mineral ghosts of ancient bones.
even the protein structures can be studied using high resolution mass spectrometry.
this will allow researchers to study the evolution of proteins.
Amazing stuff. Have you read Jack Horner's "How to build a dinosaur"?
There's a lot of info on this topic within the book, although it was still pretty nascent.
i dressed up in a hoodie, double layer so that the cameras at the kingdom hall couldn't recognize me.
i looked in the mirror up and down so i knew that the cameras, at least at the angle that i knew couldn't see my face.
i took this disassociation letter, stuck it in the envelope, labeled it, "(congregation's name...boe" by hand and sealed it.
I was baptized as a Witness in 1987 in what is known as now as the Douglas Park congregation of Chicago.
Aren't you busted now?
