okay, tonight someone told me that one of the elders actually addressed the child sex abuse cases at the weeknight meeting this past week.
she said the speaker said that accusations are being made against the truth but that they should stand firm in the truth and that they are going to continue fighting these allegations and that all should stand firm for jehovah or some similar comments.... did anyone else hear this from the stage?.
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@cofty
I agree with your comments but still disagree with BOTR's words - the public has never condoned paedophilic behaviour. I would have to be shown hard evidence to change that view.
'The Watchtower arrogantly thinks it is above the law' - absolutely spot on, IMO. Hopefully negative publicity, huge cash payouts and JWs discovering TTATT will have WTS in serious trouble for the foreseeable future.
okay, tonight someone told me that one of the elders actually addressed the child sex abuse cases at the weeknight meeting this past week.
she said the speaker said that accusations are being made against the truth but that they should stand firm in the truth and that they are going to continue fighting these allegations and that all should stand firm for jehovah or some similar comments.... did anyone else hear this from the stage?.
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'liability standards have changed since the public will no longer condone pedophiles' - surely the public has never condoned paedophilic behaviour.
The age of consent in the UK has been 16 since 1885.
in my intimate conversations with many of my atheists friends i have found that their real problem is the human rights abuse of the religious fanaticssomething which god hates (not the lack of proof for gods existence) (means when the religions went to one extreme, their opponents go to another extremethus god is not at all an element in religious fanaticism and atheism alike) atheists shun, belittle or resist proofs for the existence of god, because they fear it will only further strengthen the religion from which the fanaticism arisethus object of atheists attack is fanaticism (not god) .
hence what atheists do is really a service to the humanity (while fanaticism is a crime against humanity).
hence when the atheists ask for proof for the existence of god, one need not take it seriously.
Kalos - trees don't produce fruit to do good for its own sake. It may seem that way but it is actually a seed-dispersal strategy.
Other plants encase their seeds in burrs that attach to animals and are dispersed that way. Other plants employ dispersal by wind.
Lower plants such as mosses and liverworts have motile sperm! It's about methods of reproduction - the passing on of genetic material.
If you choose to see 'God' in all this, fine. But expect your opinions to be challenged on a public forum.
in my intimate conversations with many of my atheists friends i have found that their real problem is the human rights abuse of the religious fanaticssomething which god hates (not the lack of proof for gods existence) (means when the religions went to one extreme, their opponents go to another extremethus god is not at all an element in religious fanaticism and atheism alike) atheists shun, belittle or resist proofs for the existence of god, because they fear it will only further strengthen the religion from which the fanaticism arisethus object of atheists attack is fanaticism (not god) .
hence what atheists do is really a service to the humanity (while fanaticism is a crime against humanity).
hence when the atheists ask for proof for the existence of god, one need not take it seriously.
Kalos - I'm no expert on Kingdom: Plantae or the processes of photosynthesis.
However, I've learnt a little bit about plant tissues, organs and processes from two excellent lecturers. One specialises in the microphytobenthos of lakes and estuaries, the other in florigenic/antiflorigenic signalling in Arabidopsis.
Plants have physical and chemical defence mechanisms against grazers - clear evidence that they were not put on earth by God for 'our enjoyment'.
Also, photosynthesis is no miracle - miracles are events which do not obey scientific laws!
the meeting this week is mind-blowing in the way it fuels the crippling "persecution complex" of witnesses!.
paragraph 1 set the theme with this gem:.
does it shock you that you can expect to face many tribulations before you gain the prize of everlasting life?
'Blaming satan for being discouraged when the real culprit is the toxic culture of the Jehovah's Witness religion'
Hoser has beaten me to it and put it more succintly than I would. Excellent!
large groups are being gathered to video screens to blatantly worship the governing body.
this self-proclaimed faithful slave show no signs of softening their treatment of the flock.
their backs are against the wall and the legal world is turning against them in a big way.
Good OP.
I tend to agree with punkofnice. Like a nasty virus, WTS will continue to mutate and survive - all so that GB-worship and donations can continue.
Hopefully the recent and future paedo lawsuits will bleed them dry and lead to lots of JWs waking up.
i must be mad for starting this thread, but here goes: i quite like vic reeves and bob mortimer.
before you all jump on me, i realise that their humour is often childish and very hit-or-miss, to say the least.. however, when i'm in the right mood, some of their sketches are simply hilarious.. i was also wondering how british humour is received in other countries, particularly the us.. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oizyptckdz8.
Thanks for all the responses. I was expecting a bit of a kicking but I think I've avoided it.
Yes, Red Dwarf and Only Fools were good.
I also like Extras by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. I love the dynamic between Andy Millman (Gervais), his incompetent agent (Merchant) and Shawn 'Barry from East Enders' Williamson. Millman's the only one who calls him Shawn.
Sex.
Being themselves.
Sammy Jenkins - what on earth was wrong with The Ketchup Song?
did you catch it.. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-prformance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759.
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I gotta admit, Prince is one cool dude.
Talented too - I like his songs so much I tape them off the radio ...
part 2. .
she was suspecting me that i'm no longer interested in the borg, and she was trying to get a confession.
names replaced with xxxx and yyyy.. .
'Science apart from the Bible cannot be true science...' leapt out at me and shows just how brainwashed your poor friend is.
