Well I can understand how they could copyright that bible... It's much more of a work of fiction than a translation...
mkr32208
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Unofffical Jehovah's Witness Website Censured
by Kenneson inthis poor fellow got in trouble with the watchtower society over copyright laws and got reprimanded.
instead of standing up for his rights, he just "kisses xxx.
" read his acquiescing response.. http://www.desinger.com/scriptures/conclusion.html
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Foreign aid: Is the U.S. stingy?
by mkr32208 ini cut and pasted this off msn i hope it works!
my personal take is that we as individuals should do more and the goverments should do less!
i think it's too easy to just say "i pay my taxes, let them worry about it!
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mkr32208
I cut and pasted this off msn I hope it works! My personal take is that we as individuals should do more and the goverments should do less! I think it's too easy to just say "I pay my taxes, let them worry about it!" I would be interested in seeing the numbers of not just how much each goverment gives per capita and total but how much do the citizens themselves give per cap and total... oh well I thought this was interesting and you guys might like to read it! This also goes along with my thoughts on another thread that no one cares about the people who are dieing unless they are dieing in some spectacular way...
Foreign aid: Is the U.S. stingy?
By The Christian Science Monitor
With a carrier fleet on hand off Sumatra, the United States seems likely to play its usual role of being the biggest provider of relief in a major humanitarian disaster.
American giving to help the victims of the Asian tsunamis, so sudden and captured so dramatically by television, is huge. Washington has pledged $350 million in aid. Moreover, President Bush enlisted two former presidents, Bill Clinton and his father, George H.W. Bush, to lead a nationwide campaign to raise private funds -- a move that squares with the president's preference for private economic activities.
Yet the U.S. aid pledge had been surpassed as of Thursday not only by Japan ($500 million), but by Germany ($674 million) and Australia ($764 million) as well.
Such efforts have pushed the question of American charity to the forefront. Is the United States stingy when it comes to foreign aid?Banks and insurers
check your credit.
So should you.The answer depends on how you measure.
Coming up short per capita
It's a sensitive issue to the Bush administration, which is proud of its sizable oost in foreign aid with the creation of the Millennium Challenge Account for poor countries with good economic policies and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS relief. Mr. Bush, one aid expert said, undoubtedly shares in the humanitarian concerns of the evangelical Christian community that supports him politically.
In terms of traditional foreign aid, the United States gave $16.25 billion in 2003, as measured by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of the world's rich industrial nations. That was almost double the aid by the next biggest net spender, Japan ($8.8 billion). Other big donors were France ($7.2 billion) and Germany ($6.8 billion).
But critics point out that the United States is much bigger than those individual nations. As a group, member nations of the European Union have a bit larger population than the United States and give a great deal more money in foreign aid -- $49.2 billion altogether in 2003.
In relation to affluence, the United States lies at the bottom of the list of rich donor nations. It gave 0.15% of gross national income to official development assistance in 2003. By this measure, Norway at 0.92% was the most generous, with Denmark next at 0.84%.
Bring those numbers down to an everyday level and the average American gave 13 cents a day in government aid, according to David Roodman, a researcher at the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington. Throw in another nickel a day from private giving. That private giving is high by international standards, yet not enough to close the gap with Norway, whose citizens average $1.02 per day in government aid and 24 cents per day in private aid.
There's aid, and then there's help
But the administration sees that count as too restrictive. Andrew Natsios, head of the U.S .Agency for International Development, claimed on television last week that U.S. foreign aid was $24 billion in 2003, up from $10.6 billion when President Clinton took office. Some experts say that number, bigger than the OECD count, is a bit mysterious. It probably includes some debt forgiveness, such as $1 billion for the Congo. Last month, the United States forgave $4 billion in Iraqi debt, which may get counted in 2004 numbers for foreign aid.
The purpose of much foreign aid is to reduce poverty and encourage progress in developing nations. Toward that end, Roodman's CGD has attempted to capture other policies to construct a Commitment to Development Index for 21 rich nations. Here the United States comes in much better, at No. 7. The index considers trade policy, foreign investment, immigration, environmental policy, technology, and security (some military assistance), as well as official and private aid in ranking the generosity of nations.
The United States, for instance, has relatively open borders to exports from poor countries. Its agriculture is less protected than that of Europe or Japan. It lets in 1 million or so immigrants a year, mostly from Mexico and other poor nations. They remit tens of billions home.
Moreover, the United States has a huge defense budget, some of which benefits developing countries. Making a judgment call, the CGD includes the cost of UN peacekeeping activities and other military assistance approved by a multilateral institution, such as NATO. So the United States gets credit for its spending in Kosovo, Australia for its intervention in East Timor, and Britain for military money spent to bring more stability to Sierra Leone.
Then there's the question of balance.
Some aid experts worry that American giving to alleviate the tsunami disaster will prove out of proportion compared with other needs around the world.
For example, some 240,000 people a month (1,776 in rich countries) die of HIV/AIDS, another 136,000 a month from diarrhea in developing countries, notes Roodman. Famine kills far more people than the 150,000 plus who died in the tsunamis.
The United States often helps battle these more endemic challenges too. But politics can intrude. Motives are sometimes mixed. Assistance to famine in Ethiopia or elsewhere can be a big boost to American farmers.
"Not to belittle what we are doing, we shouldn't get too self-congratulatory," says Frederick Barton, an economist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.discuss amoungst youself!
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Cross or torture stake.....
by snakeizz inthis has always puzzled me.....can anyone shed some light as to what it really was?
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mkr32208
'cause their god is such an "ash pole"... get it? hahahaha ok I'm off to bed!
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No more meetings for me!
by cyberguy inwell, after being out-of-town for nearly 2 months, i?ve decided i can no longer go to any meetings after returning home (not that i was going to that many beforehand).
i?m not sure what is happening to me, but i?ve actually developed an aversion to anything "watchtower!
" i cannot even read the literature, including current awake and watchtower magazines, without getting extremely nauseous!
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mkr32208
Yep, Last time I stepped in a KH was for the memorial last year and I felt really ill and claustrophobic... funny I can dive into a water filled cave and jam myself into a tiny little hole with no problem and yet entering a huge building makes me phob-up... must be 'cause I am da devil bobby bushay!
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God's chosen people are always very bad...?
by Gill inif i remember the bible accounts of god's chosen people, the jews, they were always bad, disobedient and up to no good.
because of this they were alway being punished severely for their thoughts and actions.. since this is the case, could it be that the jws really are god's chosen people?
i've never met such a naughty lot!.
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mkr32208
And drunk... don't forget drunk...
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Ghostly WT Illustrations
by prophecor inis it just me, or do the illustrations in the watchtower and other related material have an eerie, almost ghostlike appearance?
especially the ones that depict the new system.
the spirit that's reflected in them is of an almost mindless, robotic stepford wives type of mentallity, or maybe irobot, i don't know.
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mkr32208
Very much like looking at the pics of heaven in other religious books do you think anyone really believes that they will ever be in such a place... it's otherworld because it's so false...
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Why do witnesses HAVE to use only hotels on the list for the conventions?
by truthseeker in.
does anyone know the answer to this?.
a while back i read that the society gets free rooms for its convention speakers if they agree to fill so many rooms in a hotel with dubs, but is there anything more involved?.
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mkr32208
I have a hard time making anything DISHONEST out of this most travel companies do the same think... What I have a hard time with is the COMPLETE and TOTAL stupidiy of the whole situation! To get their "deals" They have to commit to a certain amount of rooms to insure that the have enough people they ALWAYS underbook the rooms so there are never enough!!! never never ever enough! Stupid F*CKS how hard is it to figure "Lets see we have 9500 people coming for this assembly lets book 1200 rooms surely some of these people will have to bunk together how much money could they have being janitors..." I also love the service meeting part where they tell you not to do anything against the rules but then read between the lines its ok!
ie don't have food in your room- arrive really early to catch all the songs and crap and don't leave for lunch... so where 's lunch coming from? well make some sandwiches in your room... but you said... nevermind...
ie don't exceed the maximum occupancy for the room... but there are no rooms left... well see if you can room with ___... ok me and my wife and our two kids with that couple and their two kids... eight people in one room... well just don't tell anyone... ok yeah sure... idiots
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My husband's new blood papers are in the trash???
by wordlywife ini don't know what the new terminology is for the forms, but that paperwork, already signed by him (i refuse all blood, etc.
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i found it while looking for some schoolwork of my daughter's.
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mkr32208
my wife is fading but claims she's not... (you'd have to read other post it's complicated) but she hasn't done the new paperwork yet. If it ever comes up though she's getting the blood transfusion I'll just say "headship" juice her!!! Anytime I find paperwork on her blood stuff in the file cabinet I throw it away just in case!
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A husband can divorce his wife, but a wife can't divorce her husband?
by hubert inthis is the way i seem to understand it, in the j.w.
cult, from many posts that i've read.
am i reading this right?
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mkr32208
friend in vegas just got in "trouble" over new years her hubby won't forgive her his loss she's very very hot and he's a wimpy little dick... I hope she gets df'd so maybe I can get her on this site!
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This Is The Wife.
by Englishman inwhy do blokes say this?.
i've lost count of the number of times an aquaintance or customer introduces his partner by saying: "oh yeah, this is the wife".. .
the wife?.
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mkr32208
Next time he forgets just hall off and kick him dead in the ass! Maybe he won't forget again!