1.there are times when a doctor decides that the only life saving medical treatment -short of a miracle- is a blood transfusion.
in such a case, what should be done when a person refuses treatment on religious grounds and why?.
2. should a person be allowed to "mutilate" his body and why?.
Fisherman.
Wanna play a game? If you can prove to me through the bible that the blood ban is scriptural, I will return to the witnesses immediately. If I can prove to you that Jewish people were allowed to eat blood (animals that were not bleed) you have to leave this webpage never to return.
i thought i would talk about one of my personal heroes.
yesterday in the usa, we celebrated mlk day.
i was in the 7th grade and we were studying american civics.
I thought I would talk about one of my personal heroes. Yesterday in the USA, we celebrated MLK day. I was in the 7th grade and we were studying American Civics. I never really cared for school very much, or anything else for that matter. One day, we are studying the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Being white and from the South, this part of history can be uncomfortable.
I'll set the scene. I am a 12 year old white redneck in a class with a bunch of people just like me except one Black kid. I am not to interested in this subject. To be honest, I was not interested in any subjects at this time. Our teacher Mr. Patterson announces to the class he would be playing a recording today. He plays the "I Have a Dream" speech and for the first time ever he has my undivided attention. I listen to the whole speech and I am blown away with the commanding orator I had just heard. I raise my hand to ask a question after the speech. Mr. Patterson looks at me with trepidation. I have been nothing but trouble in his class all year. He hesitated to call on me, but reluctantly did so. For the first time ever in his class, I asked an honest question, "Mr. Patterson, Where did he learn to speak like that?"
Like a skilled boxer he had been dodging my childish, ignorant blows for months. He waited for me to lower my guard and this tiny man delivered the one, two punch of my adolescent academic career. He knew the time to strike was then and he knew the perfect thing to say. He called all of us Mr. and Mrs.
"Mr. Defiant, He speaks in the manner he does because he is educated, well read, a student of both academia and life, and if anyone ever wants to be able to speak like he does that individual should study and read anything and everything he or she can."
TKO. I knew then if I ever wanted to really leave this godforsaken one horse town, my abusive father, and the cult I was a captive of Mr. Patterson and Dr. King just showed me the way out. The rest was History.
Thank you Mr. Patterson and Dr. King.
Regards,
Dr. D
i got out detecting for an hour this evening.
the field just two minutes from my house has been harrowed but not seeded which makes it perfect for me.
hopefully it will stay that way until it is seeded in the spring.
I love walking over freshly harrowed fields looking for arrow heads here in the colonies.
this video showed a married brother with three children living in a nice domicile and working full time.
his employer demands that he change his working pattern such that it conflicts with his being able to attend wt meetings at the weekend.
the brother decides not to yield to his employer’s demand and is thus dismissed.. the brother seeks for work very actively over a significant period but without any alternative being found.
So Brother Walkswithalimp has ALS. He has been a faithful pioneer for 20 years. He has brought many people into the truth and is loved by his congregation. He was diagnosed with ALS 3 years ago. He has pioneered his entire adult life, but is now having to slow down due to his ALS. Will Jehovah miraculously change Brother Walkswithalimp's situation as he did for Brother Linecook? No of course not. Jehovah doesn't preform miracles that can be proven beyond a doubt. He only preforms vague miracles no one can prove directly he did, but with enough conjecture and believe it could be possible to credit him with a blessing someone has received.
If you are an honest person this little scenario should show you all the times they claim such miracles it is all lies and broken promises. Imagine the heartache the poor pioneer brother with ALS feels when he watches this video and he knows Jehovah won't help him, but he may help some idiot get a job.
very strange behavior by the attendants and elders after the duluth, ga, rc.
on the first link the attendants start to exit the arena, then line up and turn their backs on the street preachers.
(around the 6:00 mark).. elders and attendants after duluth rc.
Stupid on all accounts!!!! Anyone else notice almost all in attendance are obese?
i’m a pioneer in city of brotherly love.
(yeah i said my city.
don’t give a fuck) most pioneers who need extra money, get a part gig working as a security guard, barista, or making sandwiches for a few bucks an hour.
All of my pretty red corrections disappeared. Shucks!!!!!!
i’m a pioneer in city of brotherly love.
(yeah i said my city.
don’t give a fuck) most pioneers who need extra money, get a part gig working as a security guard, barista, or making sandwiches for a few bucks an hour.
I’m a pioneer in The City of Brotherly Love. (Yeah, I said my city. I Don’t give a fuck) Most pioneers who need extra money(,) get a part time gig working as a security guard, barista, or making sandwiches for a few bucks an hour. Well, I found myself in need of some extra cash and was damned if I was going to some fucking sandwich shop, or slinging overpriced coffee. I mean I’ve got a degree in English lit, with a concentration in creative writing, so I should be able to use the skills that I developed at the overpriced Ivy League University that I secretly attended. The previous sentence is an abortion of grammar.(Shh, don’t tell anyone) Right? Here’s the thing, I get bored very easy, so a job blogging, or aggregating the news, or doing some kind of journalistic writing wasn’t really for either. Quit (okay you need to stop this dilemma. It’s quite) a dilemma. Anyway, long story short, I started dabbling in erotica, to blow off steam, and got pretty good at it, so one day I trolled Craigslist and came across the ad; Can you write porn? I’m like, maybe. Another abortion you realize I have no means to properly correct this sentence so from here forth I shall underline in red all abortions. So, I sent in a few samples of my past writing and a week later I got an e-mail saying that my erotic writing was exceptional. I find it hard to believe anyone would reference your writing as “exceptional” Never in a million years did I think I’d get a complement on my creatively using the words, fuck, suck, cunt, cock and pussy. So, I was like,”Hell yeah”! I signed a contract,and was told that I’d get .01 a word up to 5k words. Ok, so that’s zero(why the thirty) to fifty bucks a day. Cool, so how to start creatively writing sex?
I did not graduate from an Ivy League School. I did want to go to one. Alas, I was not accepted. I did attend three major universities, and worked at two. I can say with no uncertainty, "You did not attend an Ivy League School." You are not a student of English Literature. If you are, you need to work hard and practice more. I literally could not finish reading another paragraph your first one was so horrible. Everyone else reading this can see through your falsities too. As you can see from the red, your paragraph looks like a murder scene.
Why am I being mean? Simple, I want to help you. If you wish to be a porn writer, I think that is great. You need to go to the library and check out a grammar text book. Writers can spell and use grammar. You're the only person who can accomplish your goals. I think you need to ask yourself the question, "Why am I lying to total strangers on an internet forum page?" I hope you are not going through a hard time. If you are, I hope you can look to someone to help you through whatever it is you are going through. Here's some free advice. It takes about 20,000 hours to master a skill. If you want to be a writer start learning to write, and write every moment you have available. I hope you keep trying to write. I enjoy writers who are not afraid to use words like "fuck, suck, cunt, cock and pussy." One should write them with class. Try Henry Millers The Tropic of Cancer.
one of the things i could never understand is people handing over absolute control to these charlatans.
i know over the years they have bashed owning pets for various reasons.
complete stupidity.
One of the things I could never understand is people handing over absolute control to these charlatans. I know over the years they have bashed owning pets for various reasons. Complete Stupidity. So if you're a lurker and decided not to get a pet because some old men in Brooklyn "told you so" this is what you are missing.
I have been into winged shooting for many years. It may seem barbaric to you, but it helps to balance my soul. I had been hunting on private "pay to use" places for years, when I decided to buy a place and manage it the way I wanted to. It would be nice because I could use it when ever I want. When I got my place and got it up off the ground, I grew tired of losing birds or having to wade through sloughs and ponds to retrieve them. So the obvious answer was to purchase a bird dog.
I did 6 months worth of research before I found the breeder and trainer, I would finally chose. This is a top notch facility. He will not just sell to anyone. You must first finish a training program before he will sell you a dog. That's right the dog trainer wants to train the human before he will give you a dog. (I know what you're thinking just get a rescue dog and all that. We already have one of those and he is my wife's dog.) After several trips to finish my human training part of the equation, I was getting impatient. I was making trips and spending time here and we hadn't even talked about which dog would be mine. So basically I would spend a whole day working with his dogs and other peoples dogs to get me trained. What I didn't know was the trainer was also evaluating which dog I had the best chemistry with. There was this one dog ,who during our breaks, would come around and hang out with me, His name was Rocket.
Rocket would seek me out and I would seek him out during the breaks to play. I thought Rocket was another customers dog. Then one day, I asked the trainer when would I get to decide which dog is mine. He said in his thick southern drawl with his Yoda like mastery of his craft, "Well son, I think ole Rocket has chosen you. I don't think you have a choice in this anymore." I was super stoked because he was the dog I wanted and now he would be mine.
Rocket is a Black Lab. He got is name because when he is released on a retrieve, he launches at his target like a meat missile. He's fast, focused and fun to work. Some dogs like to retrieve and hunt. Some dogs do it because they have been forced to do it. Not Rocket. He loves it. You have never seen joy like this dog getting up to go hunting. Everyday It is Christmas morning. When he sees the shotgun his tail wags so hard, his hind paws slide back and forth across the tile in our house.
Our day starts with him making long growling, yawning ooooooos. He sleeps in a bed on the floor on my side of the room. The next thing I here is the smack smack of him flapping his jaws for the first time of the day. I then brace for it because I know its coming. Bam!!! wet nose to the face. "Okay I am up." We meander to the kitchen for breakfast rituals. Next, we run. We love this time together. The fresh new day just the two of us out for a jog. It is like we were designed to run together. It helps to clear our heads. Then I get ready and we are off to work.
Yes, Rocket goes to work with me. My assistant's office is next to mine. She likes to make fun of us because I talk to Rocket all day. I ask him questions and we have complete conversations about work, family, and everything else. In between our conversations, Rocket's naps, and his trips to My Assistant's office for treats (Rocket knows he's not supposed to have and Madonna knows she's not supposed to dole out) we work our day away. Clients, employees, and visitors come and go, but Rocket is there.
I can't explain it. This little black dog and I are a team. We have a bond. My life is better because he is in it. My life would be really sad if I would have listened to old men in Brooklyn.
i've been confronting my mother with her dubious parenting skills (abuse) of me as a child.
particularly the beatings i would get with the wooden spoon.
not a light smack but hitting me as hard as she could for as long as she could.
I've tried to post on this for 2 days now. I will type and erase, and type and erase............................
Tortured is the only thing I can come up with. I don't like the details of it. It makes me sick. I never had a choice to be a JW. I was forced to become one. I was regularly whipped, not beaten. I stress this when I talk to people about it. There is a huge difference between a beating and a whipping. I would take a beating any day of the week. I was tortured by a father who was in good standing by his multinational, multimillion dollar religious organization when I was a kid. I was then forced to become a member only to be tortured again for the rest of my life by being cut off from my family. I remember talking to an elder about it. I had to tread carefully as to not attract the wrath of my father. When I told him about it, he laughed and remarked,"boys can be a tough lot to straighten out".
https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/family/children/become-jehovahs-friend/videos/one-man-one-woman-marriage/.
disgusting!.
Poor Children. Both of the children in the video have it tough. The girl with the two mom's has to live with being the "not normal" child, and the other child has to deal with being raised a Jehovah's Witness. Essentially, WTBS is encouraging a little girl to go to school and disrespect the beliefs of others constitutionally given rights. Can you imagine the damage that could be done to this sweet child with two momma's. Hey your mommas are going to roast like bbq on armageddon.
