well early yesterday am i rented the cutest house, i am going to make it look like an adorable english cottage.
so later in the am i went back, aroun 10:30 to view again.
and i noticed a man in a suit walking out of the house next door with a big brown book that immediately to me looked like the nwt in large print.
Well if you spent much time out in field service I'm sure you can remember numerous occasions when you'd leave a copy of the Awake or Watchtower in the door of a return call if they weren't home. So, my suggestion to you is wait until your neighbors aren't home and leave a copy of Crisis of Conscious in their door.
Either that or ignore them completely.
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hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents.it pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his well-being and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking.he becomes an anonymous particle quivering with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass.. the history of such men as, hitler, chiang kai-sheck, stalin, etc.demonstrates that this is true.. it is understandable that we should look for others to side with us when we have a just grievance and crave to retaliate against those who have wronged us.the puzzling thing is that when our hatred does not spring from a visible grievance and does not seem justified, the desire for allies becomes more pressing.it is chiefly the unreasonable hatreds that drive us to merge with those who hate as we do, and it is this kind of hatred that serves as one of the most effective cementing agents.. passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.a mass movement offers them unlimited opportunies for both.. from eric hoffer, the true believer.. i'm trying to make sense out of all this hatred going on around the world, where the innocent ones are trapped in the middle and suffering great pain and loss of lives because of hatred.. can you make any sense out of all this hatred?.
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I think I largly argee with SS here. We're a species that evolved quicker than any other and has thought up all these "fantastically horrible" ways of dispatching each other for land or oil or some other resource.
Maybe if our species can survive a few hundred years more we'll have moved past all this idiocy; but I doubt it.
israel has long been able to arrest or kill the leader of hamas, why now?
especially with the u.s. being at this time more politically cripled and hated in the middle east than ever?
the u.s. has little good will in the middle east to help broker a peace or to politically come to the defense of israel.
Let's get this out of the way right up front, Sheik Ahmed Yassin was a piece of human vermin, a low-life, death dealing scum bag. I personally think he got exactly what he deserved.
As that guy Newton taught us, however, every action has a reaction. And the reaction to this is going to be horrific. I can't think of a better way to inflame hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and derail the peace process than to do what Israel has done in killing this man.
Hezbollah is already shelling the Israeli-Lebanese front and the Israelis are doing air raides. The killing of this Sheik is going to result in nothing but more deaths, more murders, more suicide bombers, more bombings, more shellings -- more death.
It's time for the Israeli's and Palestinians to figure out the killing each other is not the way to bring peace to the region! This makes me so angry.
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wanted to pop in and say hi, and also to ask if anyone is saddened by "the vet"'s dimise?
it was nothing more than a sweltering cesspool in which the jw's had their yearly conventions.
I couldn't agree more! I attended the 1994 District Convention at Veterans' Stadium and let me tell you it was awful! I was up in the second deck. The temp was easily 110F. I hear down on the field the temp was somewhere around 135F. I believe one of the older brothers actually collapsed on the platform from the heat while giving a talk. It was an awful three days.
Digression time: The next year, 1995, I went up to the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY, and it was much better: no insane heat, no sweating through your clothes, no brothers collapsing on the platform. I was also baptized at that convention. (Why did I ever do that?)
Anyway...my thoughts on the demolishing of the Vet is good riddance!
i was raised as a jw.
didn't leave until i was around 19 years old.
i've found that i know nothing about politics because of my upbringing.
I had a professor when I was in college tell me in much more eloquent terms than I can presently relate that the government we have is the government we allow -- that in essence the people are the government.
I was raised as a JW and hence and had an unhealthy skepticism of all things "worldly." (I left the witnesses at 18; unbeknownst to me this attitude didn't leave me for many years until I finally became cognizant of it and worked to bring it from my subconscious mind into my conscious realm of thought or view of the world.)
That being said, I have been very politically active since leaving the JW's. I left in 1996 and have voted in ever election since then. I've contributed to election campaigns, local and national, both with time and money. I too opposed the war in Iraq and took part in organizing and carrying out quite a few anti-war protests.
This is a bit off subject but this discussion reminds me of an old Beatles song the words to which are: "in the end the love you give is equal to the love you get." I think that same principle applies to politics. The political system or change that you try to work to get is the political system or change you'll eventually get -- but change is usually incremental and I think that's all we can really hope for. I know I'm not trying to save the word, just make it a little better.
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www.autismsos.com.
its still in the making,but it is just about done.. its a db for people who have autism in their life,in any way.also just for people who want to learn.any one welcome!.
Wow, the website really looks fantastic! Kudos to your webdesigner. I hope it all the success in the world!
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i just heard that the actress from the film "legally blond" has been stabbed, is it reece something or other?.
pope
Pope, you truly are Primate of JWD, the Supreme Pontiff of imbecility. Can I be a bishop? Or do I have to pay a papal indulgence for that?
C'mon at least make me Bishop of Antioch or something.
see the article " 'sweet lou' is back.
former 2nd baseman is in a tigers uniform for the 1st time in 9 years.
lou whitaker says jehovah god is no.
I never knew this about Lou Whitaker. What I do remember is him being a fantastic second baseman. IMO if Tinkers, Ever and Chance are in the Hall of Fame, so should be Trammell, Whitaker and Parrish!
Of course this will never happen, just like all those prophecies Sweet Lou believes in.
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how do you like your toilet paper?
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when i left the witnesses, i decided it was time to vote.
so i registered republican and went to voting all republican and conservative.
i figured, they might not be perfect, but unlike the democrats that i have seen.
Carmel, I agree completely about most voters being uninformed. And I think most of the problem lies with human nature. A lot of people want to blame the media for not covering "boring" but extremely important events like meetings of the IMF or the WTF, immigration reform, fair-trade reform, trade treaties and tariffs, monetary policy. But let's face it, if that's what was on the news, nobody would watch. All most people want is the latest on Martha Steward or Scott Peterson.
And so political parties trot out abortion and gay-rights and other polarizing issues -- people have strong feelings toward those issues and that makes for better news copy (ratings, circulation, page hits). The media covers the highly emotional but vastly less important issues, and many people vote on the basis of that coverage (whether it be from Fox News, CNN, CNBC, ABC News is only relevant to the individual voter).
My solution: more political parties, more diverse media outlets, less corporate media ownership; then again you can't change human nature and just like the great political mind and historian Juvenal said almost 2,000 years ago, "the public has long since cast off its cares; the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things -- bread and circuses."
I?m afraid he was right.
P.S. Sorry this is in red, computer glitch.
