i am jehovah's witness, despite some of the questionable teachings, crimes, and other outlandish behaviors of specific people affiliated with the religion.
i know that my relationship with jehovah is not influenced by any outside factors.
i do not condone any crime.
Jackson: "Gotta take either more of it or less of it. I can't quite figure out which one."
David Lindley : ""Well, I'll tell you what it does take. It takes a clear mind. That's what it takes."
Jackson:"You mean it takes a clear mind to take it, or a clear mind not to take it?"
David Lindley : "It takes a clear mind to make it."
it seems unbelievable but turkey (a nato member state) shooting down a russian jet fighter on their syrian border seems to be "meh" news and no one is too bothered about it too much.. the world seems a bit upside down right now.
i don't think a lot of countries really know who the hell they are fighting and who is and isn't on their side in it all and really what is going on.. smaller incidents than this have led to major conflicts in the past but hopefully calm heads will prevail.
china shot down a us spy plane years ago and the world survived and forgot about it so things will move on i'm sure.. i'm guessing the price turkey pays for their gas supply from russia will be going up soon though.. man, that republican primary is sucking all the news attention from the room.
The no fly zone has been tested many times before by Russia. In my opinion, Turkey has been tolerant and lenient. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, it is a test. A game. Yes real lives are involved. My opinion is Russia pushed the envelope too far. That airspace can be defended. And it is being argued. To what avail? To let it be traversed is akin to letting the bully take your lunch money. The US is pushing the envelope with China. The US has a good reason to do so. But when a jet gets shot down, what will it lead to? These are war games. Nobody wants to acknowledge that, but it is happening and it is a test of wills and metal. Give boys a lot of money and weapons, see what hemorrhages they can cause.
this is becoming more common.
this is from the last part of the article: .
"this was about sexual gratification and you are a hypocrite because you became an elder and you investigated a sexual matter even with this in your sexual background.".
so i'm sure a good number of us saw the chart that i believe the poster splash put on another thread of figures since 1990 regarding how many baptized and % of increase each year .
i started analyzing it ( and i know some referred to it briefly on the other thread ) and guessing of reasons the % of increase didn't match the number of newly baptized.
and of course common sense tells us that either jw's leave the cult each year through death, fading into inactivity, or getting dfed.
i apologize if this has already been posted, the search function doesn't work on my kindle tablet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/sixteen-jehovahs-witnesses-may-be-russias-most-pacifist-extremists/2015/11/20/6e046610-8898-11e5-bd91-d385b244482f_story.html.
as much as i hate this religion, i don't see that it does any good for any religion to be banned.
""propagating the exclusivity and supremacy” of their own religion"
Many even on this forum will not agree with the stance Russia has taken because it encroaches on the freedoms of religion that Western democracy holds out. But this quote stands out to me. How can anyone really argue against it. Specifically if you have inside knowledge after escaping the cult? At the same time, many religions propagate their exclusivity. That Russia categorizes Watchtower with ISIS is also curious. It will be interesting to watch how this all plays out.
ok i'm just thinking out load here so to speak.
but let say in the year 2000 the wt says they have 1 million publishers and at the end of the year they say they had 300,000 people get baptized so in the beginning of the year 2001 they show 1,300,000 publishers.
then in this new year they state another 300,000 get baptized but with 50,000 deaths and 50,000 disfellowshippings they stated at the end of year 2001 a total of 1,500,000 total members.
We talked about this a bit yesterday. Using Watchtower numbers the following chart could be built. Of course Watchtower would never present their numbers this way:
saw this video of a brave woman who gave a da letter and an elder tries to talk with her.
this guy comes across has full of shite, and you know he would be a different person if there were other elders around with him.
kangaroo court jokers is what comes to my mind.
so i'm sure a good number of us saw the chart that i believe the poster splash put on another thread of figures since 1990 regarding how many baptized and % of increase each year .
i started analyzing it ( and i know some referred to it briefly on the other thread ) and guessing of reasons the % of increase didn't match the number of newly baptized.
and of course common sense tells us that either jw's leave the cult each year through death, fading into inactivity, or getting dfed.
Watchtower would never display this info in a chart. Rather they spin "peak publishers" to make it look like amazing growth. Inactive and faders would not be counted in the "peak publisher" total. 6 months of non reporting of field service time would take you out of that column and put you into the exit column.
hi if you go onto youtube and look for goodsearch.com and see what abc news has to say about it.its a search engine and so that you use it it donates half the profits of each search to charity its raised over $11 million dollars to 1000s of charitys.local,national and international .
again if you look on youtube for freerice.com you can see what nbc news has to say about it.the united nations has a charity called the world food programe they own a website called freerice.com its a quiz with many subjects english maths spanish etc and when you get an answer right the sponsors pay for 10 grains of rice, they have got up to 30 million grains in one day and since 2007 have got over 95 billion grains for the worlds starving.if you go onto youtube the wfp have a site where you can see the work they do around the world .
just some thoughts if trump becomes president.. there are 15 cabinet positions/advisors currently.
they are the secretaries of:.
agriculture.
