as a kid, my fave band was bto (bachman turner overdrive).
randy bachman (a somewhat devout mormon) was the driving force.
randy had separated from the guess who (american woman, these eyes, no sugar tonight).
Thanks for the reference, Clint (my top 2 actors - Gran Torino - powerful).
What I appreciate about Randy is that his HEART is in his music.
I have listened and watched so many musicians who have talent, but no SOUL.
Randy had/has SOUL.
(Currently listening to Kings of Leon / Temple (Seriously good album.) )
as a kid, my fave band was bto (bachman turner overdrive).
randy bachman (a somewhat devout mormon) was the driving force.
randy had separated from the guess who (american woman, these eyes, no sugar tonight).
Bad Company - That's a cassette from my youth.
one thing i've noticed growing up as a jehovah's witness is the insane amount of people that measure their worth and the worth of others according to 'spiritual' activties.
to be fair, there are some sincere people that just want to work for a good cause.
but i can't even have a conversation with some people without them talking about something religious.
Your point is well taken.
The Borg pushes all self-worth to be measured by the amount of measurable spiritual activities (Despite the seldom mentioned "Jehovah sees your effort").
It is like most orgs, "What have you done for us lately?"
1.5 months ago there was a perfectly timed reddit topic about jw false prophecies that made it on to the front page of reddit.
this certainly didn't bold so well fortheir historic campaign.
the front-page of reddit had over 135 million unique visitors last month.
That's quite a thread.
Thanks for the post.
an odd letter was read at last nights' meeting.
it was in regards to a special campaign for next year arranged by the governing body to go and preach in israel.
the call is going out to anybody that speaks hebrew and english.
Only in Canada, you say?
Pity.
just got an email from elder sharing illustration from assembly.
the holy spirit does not seem to be in control as it supposedly was in the 1st century.
it's just lube now.
And what about the writers and GB asleep at the wheel of this chariot?
i was wondering if anyone know sany statistics of the amount of born ins that actually stay in the orginization.
i think i have read it before on here but i can't really remember what it was.
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My local calculations are about 1 in 5.
(Personally I was the only one in a group of 10 to come back. Now it's zero. However, none of us were baptized. Hence, you can see why they are pushing child baptism so hard. Gotta keep a few, one way or another.)
in 1823, john aquila brown (a man who is not mentioned in any wt publication) came up with a bizarre mathematical calculation which totalled 2,520 years (in an unauthorized attempt to predict the end of the gentile times).... several religions recycled this bizarre calculation, including the adventists and the bible students... when armageddon didn't come on the variety of early 20th century dates predicted by several "dooms-day" religions of that time (including charles taze russell's bible students who predicted that the big a would start in 1914), they all finally realized that this 2,520-year calculation was nothing more than arbitrary mathematical speculation derived from erratic biblical extrapolation.... except for the bible students who continued to move up the date for armageddon 2 more times (1918, 1925) and then decided to use wwi as the starting point for the "last days".. all the while, one thing that seems to remain intact is the october 2, 1914 date.
oddly, for the watchtower bible & tract publishing cult, this particular date still marks the end of the 2,520-year period (that john aquila brown referred to in his bizarre 1823 book "the even tide")... again, no mention of this in any watchtower publication.
but, for jws, that date still remains the starting point for the period of time often referred to as the "last days" or even "the generation that shall not pass".. because of this, the governing body has been forced to change the definition of "the generation that shall not pass" countless times since the early 1970's.
Mr. Official: Can we please have just one more mulligan?
Just one more. Please.
We promise to never ask for another.
Please.
one of the most pertinent comparisons of breaking free from the borg's control.. any sci-fi fans?.
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Quote:
"A month as an individual, or a lifetime as a drone, which would you choose?"
i'm being deadly serious - many, many years ago, an english (uk) visiting speaker, giving a talk on science and the bible, made the statement:.
"as we speak, there is a probe that is nearing uranus.".
myself and one other brother were just dying trying to control an explosion of laughter.. i so desperately wanted to yell out: "and they're searching for klingons.".
I'm being deadly serious - many, many years ago, an English (UK) visiting speaker, giving a talk on science and the Bible, made the statement:
"As we speak, there is a probe that is nearing Uranus."
Myself and one other brother were just dying trying to control an explosion of laughter.
I so desperately wanted to yell out: "And they're searching for Klingons."
