if someone informs you that your shop caught fire, and firefighters are on the job, you will run to the spot.
however, if you had already sold that property on the previous day (which this messenger is ignorant of), you are likely to respond, saying: shop is not mine..
situation is same with god.
I stopped 2 Mormon missionaries last month- I asked them if they knew what a metaphor is? "sure"-- So, then if you knew that the book of genesis was a metaphor would the LDS religion make any sense? (eyes roll- oh-)
It's hard to have a factual religion based on a metaphor, of which Scientology comes to mind as an extreme example of human religious invention.
i saw this coming since my mother-in-law's funeral .... the congregation's "love-bombing" over my wife had its impact.
i watched her drawing closer and closer to her friends in the congregation.
then she decided she would attend the memorial.
Well, she sure told you-- it's the KH and their ilk for friends and companionship and you for material support. Technically, she has also chosen the elders to be her male head, not you. I personally wouldn't let the KH elders cuckold me, but to each his own.
As was pointed out, some people just prefer the Watchtower religion and don't care if they are being manipulated and lied to, any more than black people as a group don't care that Obama has lied to them about his muslim, marxist and gay proclivities.
It's time to tell your wife you really, really don't like the WT religion and you detest the KH fakery. Be honest to yourself about what you want out of life - stop with the forced pleasantries--and if that means a divorce, so be it- better now than 10 or 20 years down the road when you have let the best years of your life slip away.
july 28, 2012is algebra necessary?by andrew hacker .
a typical american school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra.
in both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail.
Oklahoma's Algebra exam requires a 70% to pass = a D, so a Charter school could conceivably have all it's kids average a D+ and honestly claim they had a 100% pass rate. Kids could pass the easier parts of the algebra exam and fail the more advanced sections and still pass the final exam. Nothing to brag about.
IMO, all these tests are just quasi IQ tests, which employers would love to have , but can't get. I once took a MASS test for a job at a powerplant and passed it. It's the test that subtracts wrong answers from right ones, which is the kind of feedback you get for mistakes in the real world.
The way teaching works, is my daughter has passed every math class through the 9th grade( extra credit helped)- and even algebra this year in HS, but she failed the end of course exam by 7pts, so she is in summer school and hopefully she passes the exam in 3 weeks- it's a graduation requirment. She remarked how much better this teacher is than the one she had for the course.
As I tolder her, English is more important. An employer may not now or even care that you scored poorly in algebra, but they will quickly figure out you are a doofus in English- poor English might even keep you from getting hired.
what would make a man throw away all his earthly riches to expose the cult?
what did ray franz have to gain by leaving in total poverty?
if ray franz had stayed in place, he could have lived like a god, why did he leave?
I made some money on Ray. I sold an autographed softcover CC book on ebay for $60 after he died. He wrote two books and his admirers sent him money. If memory serves me, one lady in South Africa sent him $10K after his first book was released. It seems a few people felt sorry for him and his empty bank account. He seemed like a smart man the first time I met him in 1988, in 1993 I visited him again and for some reason I didn't think he was as smart as the first time. He tried to not upset anyone with his milktoast religious ideas- and he succeeded. I believe he did have some of moral principals and no doubt his editing work on the JW Bible ecyclopedia ( the WT didn't attempt that again) opened his eyes to the fraudulent religion he was involved in and like most ex-JWs it takes a few years to act on the "new truth".
I wonder, if he had gotten the boot at a younger age, if he might have become a real activist for ex-JWs. By the time his books came out, he was focusing on trying to survive as a reitired senior citizen on the meager SS checks that WT slaves end up with after 30 years of obedient service.
as of yet, no member of the jehovah's witness faith can defend their unique beliefs.
when the dust settles, it all comes down to blind faith in men's ever-changing ideas.
this "unique belief" was not a "true teaching of the bible.
The Truth is a special blend of WT ideas that JWs love- I think their religion sucks, but JWs crave it. Frankly, it doesn't matter how the WT leadership relabels their dogmas, they will still stink.
no silly meetings.
no wasting time knocking on doors, bothering people.....life is good..
What could be more fun than wearing stilts on a KH quick build today?
the assemblies would be get better results and get more people to come and be inspired if they were more encouraging.
instead the assemblies are a giant guilt trip.
don't go to college, don't get a good job, dont buy things even if you can afford them, don't play violent games, don't flirt.
I know what drives JWs= bring back the free hoagies, burritos and shasta soda pop and the JWs will be clapping for joy at the assembly.
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we asked this person if it could be aqbout the terminology change and they said that was already read last week...... we remember the last time they did this.
got everyone all excited thinking the big "a" was coming and all it was about, was the literature would now be donated instead of charging for it.. .
Blah blah blah, more spit from the WT trumpet.
Call up the local KH and ask them about the 100 year anniversary party for the invisisble return of Jesus in 1914, who is still waiting to do, something.
there are a few people who are fb friends that constantly brag about themselves, their looks, their accomplishments, their bodies, their job---etc.. one particular person is too close to ignore but it's never ending.
i am thisclose to telling her, to please stop it.. any thoughts?.
My teenager got an F on an algebra test last week- I mockingly said, "be sure and post that grade on your Facebook page- we don't want your friends (she hasn't physically met most of them) thinking your life is perfect" . I have tried to explain that Facebook is a huge time killer and a better name for it is Fakebook.
