It couldn't be as bad as Matrix 3, you deserved to be nuked for producing such a fetid pile of monkey shit
At least Stillers film had Aniston's perky nips. Matrix 3 had no redeeming features at all
It couldn't be as bad as Matrix 3, you deserved to be nuked for producing such a fetid pile of monkey shit
At least Stillers film had Aniston's perky nips. Matrix 3 had no redeeming features at all
as some of you know, when cj and i were married, i adopted her daughter, and raised her as my own.
i love her so much, i never referred to her as step-daughter, and never will.
she calls me dad, even though her biological father, somehow found his way out out of the woodwork, when she turned 18.
I've been on the recieving end of this situation a couple of times with girls I have been dating.
An ex girlfriends parents (non JW's) made us sleep apart the first couple of times we stayed at their house and although we were a bit cheesed off we went with it out of respect for them with it being their house. After we had stayed at their house a couple of times they realised our relationship was a long term thing and were cool with us sleeping together under their roof.
My mother in law was cool with me and Clare sleeping together under her roof from day one. We appreciated the respect she showed us in not trying to police our relationship or try to inflict external morals on us.
Basically what I am saying is decide what you feel comfortable with, they will respect it either way. I would be totally cool with sleeping seperate if there were younger kids in the house.
now this is not a bush bashing thread, i think everyone here pretty much knows how i feel about the man, but there is quite a bit of controversy surrounding our president--just today even.
he is thinking of funding church groups that do volunteer work.
he was visiting a church in louisana today that has had a childcare program since 1941. he would like to see federal funds given to such organizations even if they are run by a church.
All of you have no idea what you are talking about. JW have always been a non-profit organization who only survive on voluntary contributions. This has been proven time and time again. Today religious organizations are taxed because they profit greatly off of the contributions that are made (sometimes mandatory contributions). JW are not taxed by the IRS because the work that they do is all voluntary and so are the contributions. The IRS has confirmed this time and time again. This also means that no one profits at all. Can you say that about other organizations? This just shows that they really are doing their work out of love for God and his word.So why would you think that they would accept money from the Devil himself? They could easily get rich like other religions. If they haven't done it yet, why would they do it now.
Don't know very much do you? They own hundreds of millions in property and are particularly wealthy. You don't think that Brooklyn addresses come cheap do you?
this may sound somewhat cynical, but i think the society has held to it's position on blood in order to create a never-ending supply of martyrs.
martyrs are needed for the society to hold up as shining examples of faith and devotion.
this sense of self-sacrifice helps them tow the line with regards to all of their insane rules.. wg
Tab, I will pray that the voices in your head will one day talk some sense
"ears that cannot hear, and eyes that cannot see"
i've already exited the jws in mind and heart, and have read many comments from everyone about the book, so didn't really see the need to buy it for myself.
however, after reading something here on the forum, i decided to order it (and the tao of pooh and siddhartha.
) a super-dub sits two desks away from (she and her husband knew ray and his wife, had tea with them in their room when he was on the gb, etc.
This is a really interesting thread and I wish I had read it before posting my "Why?" thread. I have completely rejected Xtianity as a myth and the bible as a tool of oppression, anyway that's a side issue and I won't hijack the thread ...... yet!
I've just started reading CoC and got through the first two chapters last night. Nothing I have read is particularly shocking so far as I saw plenty of hypocracy growing up as an elder's son. I'm not sure what to think of the book yet but one thing I did notice is that in the second chapter there is a section which deals with the numbers of baptisms over recent years and average publisher numbers. My only negative comment so far is that these numbers don't add up.
For instance,
X= No of publishers in 1998
Y= No of baptisms in 1999
Z= No of publishers in 1999
N= No of witnesses falling away
Chapter 2 presents the numbers thus: X+Y-Z=N
No. Sorry that's not the case.
Each year a large number of the people are baptised who were already counted as publishers the previous year - those that had been studying for over a year and also those that have grown up as witnesses.
Have I missed something? I am trying to be as open minded as possible reading the book and not just accept everything at face value as I would when I was a dub and reading the WTBTS literature.
I would wish for god (if he/she exists) to appear visibly on a nice big cloud and bitch slap the governing body into kingdom come so that all the silly little dubs were set free from silliness, I'd wish for a shed load of cash so I could be master of my own destiny rather than being owned by the bank and having to be a wage slave and I'd wish for the human life span to be increased three fold so I had plenty of time to enjoy it and my friends would all be alive to help me spend it
last year ,at about this time, the board was discussing how elders would be coming around to ask "inactive ones" if they "considered themselves to be one of jehovah's witnesses ( entrapment question).
in light of the current wt studies on apostasy and the faithful and discreet slave, does anyone know if that program is set to operate again in 2004?
last year i had my visit in march.
I moved to a new city 5 years ago and didn't know any dubs here. There's an elder that lives just down the road from me and after one ministry call to my door where I told him exactly what I thought of the JW's and why, I have never been called on since.
let's have it out - what are the all-time best band names for witnesses?
i'll start it out with a couple, the first of which really is a jw band in seattle....local needsbad associationsep2ajint.
sng.
well there is the shadows, If I remember rightly 2 or 3 of them are/were witnesses
Convention Crawlers - We're gonna bore you
Christian truth - hell aint a bad place to be
Over Zealous - 90 hours just isn't enough
Head Zepplin - stairway to heaven (sorry, couldn't resist)
Overseer - Purity by numbers
i've created this thread for all you active witnesses who still believe that you've found the "truth".
i've felt kinda sorry for all of you, so here's a thread for you to discuss field service, your bible studies, the good article you just read, and all that other crap most of us don't care about.
did you wear that yellow jacket? Maybe they were just blinded :-)
over the weekend i started a new cell phone service with a nokia 6600. this thing rocks!
it has a slick little web browser by opera, so i can browse regular web sites... not just the "wap" pages.
what it does is render the web page as if it was on a regular screen, but then gives me a little "window" the size of my cell phone screen.
yes opera can but I'm not sure about the slimmed down version in phones. We are trialling a new messaging service for Hutch 3g where we provide alot of their 3G infrastructure for multi media messaging and also the web stuff and charging software. Pretty funky stuff. Check the quick preferences if they are available and click to kill pop ups Steve