the idea: create a crank-powered laptop that children can use to learn and communicate even in remote areas, and give one laptop to every child.. a one-minute cranking session powers the laptop for 10 minutes.
the laptops are outfitted with a wi-fi radio transmitted that allows multiple machines to become a communications mesh that can share internet connections of any member who happens to have one.
at $100, and with assistance from donors, real diffusion into poor and developing nations is made possible.
Why bother??
I'm depressed today because I read how China is burning more greenhouse gasses that the entire world combined. The Lungs of the world (Amazon rainforest) is vanishing by millions of acres every day.
I give up.
The world can't be saved.
HB ( of the "Hopeless Buggers" class) Not that it does any good.
One day I (we) will be dead. But we'll all be dead together.
ok, i'm new here, so please be gentle.
maybe the advice i need is somewhere else in this forum, but i really don't want to have to search for it, i really need some advice now and i don't have the time to sift through all of the other entries here.
so please bear with me and share any and all advice you have, even if you think it's not what i want to hear.
Get some photocopies of old WTS literature, the ones predicting ooh-
1914 will see the END of the Great Tribulation, that by 1917 the members of the churches will "be slaughtered in thier millions" , that "we may confidently expect that 1925 will see the resurrection of Abraham Isaac Jacob and the prophets of old" , that (p 35 of "Life Everlasting in the Freedom of the Sons of God") Christs millennial reign will end in 2975 (so when must Armageddy come for this to be true?) That the end will come within months of Pearl harbour.
Ask him in view of the scripture about false prophets in Deut, why does he still believe this stuff?
But like Cupid - love is blind. for now you WANT ONLY HIM. nature's way is to let things turn sour after the babies are made.
HB
does anyone have any information on the origins of the book of job?.
i have a few questions.... 1) how old is this book?.
2) did moses write the book?.
The WTS says that Moses in the wilderness, would have been able to meet Job and get the story.
That the book as we have it cannot have been written ca. 1513 BC is proved by the large number of aramaic phrases and words which could not have existed in hebrew prior to the babylonian exile.
Certain textual corruptions can only have happened if the copyist was acquainted with later biblical languages and got confused.
HB
ok, i'm new here, so please be gentle.
maybe the advice i need is somewhere else in this forum, but i really don't want to have to search for it, i really need some advice now and i don't have the time to sift through all of the other entries here.
so please bear with me and share any and all advice you have, even if you think it's not what i want to hear.
Like most normal horny men, his hormones will be dictating (no pun intended) his behavior.
He will be soo nice soo tolerant of your cutely eccentric beliefs and ideas. Once the ring is on your finger, and his penis inside your body a few times, he will revert to type.
JW males expect to be treated like a king by their wife (he is her "Lord")
RUN RUN RUN.
There are plenty of well adjusted happifying fish in the sea. Don't let his gonads get to you.
HB
i'm rather conflicted on this.
what do you guys think?
does this qualify as psychological abuse?
Public shaming is very effective in controlling behavior - WTS does it.
The kid only has one chance to learn in school. Bad decisions at that age can ruin an entire life. She is not a mental defective so she can get over the short term pain. The good results last a life time.
If you still think what the Mom did is horrible, let's say her daughter was hanging out with heroin addicts and doing drugs. I would do what she did to stop that!!
HB
2 chronicles, chapters 1-5.
2 chronicles 1 1and sol omon the son of david continued to get strength in his kingship, and jehovah his god was with him and kept making him surpassingly great 2 and sol omon proceeded to say the word to all israel, to the chiefs of the thousands and of the hundreds and to the judges and to all the chieftains of all israel, the heads of the paternal houses.
3 then sol omon and all the congregation with him went to the high place that was at gib eon; for there was where the tent of meeting of the [true] god, which moses the servant of jehovah had made in the wilderness, happened to be.
What about the CENSUS David did?
God sent a plague to kill thousands because he had not commanded David to take a census. And here is the usurper of the first born using unrighteous intelligence to build the temple....
And why was Saul condemned for offering up sacrifices, yet David does it (at the threashing floor) and Solomon does it (among more than one) and that is okay?? Sorry - forget it - it's the St Paul potter argument again. HB
how does the wts deal with the fact that christ preached the gospel to the dead in 1 peter 3:19 and 4:6?
they claim the dead cannot be conscious of anything.
According to Dante in the Divine Comedy, the scripture about the dead being conscious of nothing means that they are unable to be aware of contemporary events.
The scripture says they have no part with anything taking place under the sun. They can however remember the past, and in a limited way foretell the future, as did Samuel when he was invoked by the witch of Endor.
At this time of night I cannot be bothered scrabbling through a book!! Find your own Canto. Christ descended into Hell to declare the triumph of Gods judgement, and to take to heaven the jewish faithful, Abraham, Ruth, etc.
OH!! For a Roman Catholic Blondie...
HB
hi everyone, totally new here.
and still associating with jws... have been baptised 23 years, that was at the tender age of 13 when i had absolutely no idea what i was doing.
i have always been considered a rebel...brought up in a family by a single parent, my two brothers are both elders, the younger being a regular pioneer, my sister a regular pioneer and serving in a foreign language congregation.
POP ((((()))))))
I went through the same "hell". So many here know exactly what you are going through and what you feel - 'cause we did it too!!!!!!
There is a similar story that ends happily. Can't 'member the name. It will come to me...
... oh yes! "BEING REAL".
HB
for about a week or so now!
it all started one day when i was in the laundy room and i heard my husband pull up in the driveway, shut his door, unlock the door to the house, shut the house door, so i go down to greet him ( with a big kiss and hug, as i always do
anyway i get down stairs and he is not there so i assumed that he was already out feeding comet!
If ghosts of dead people do exist they are nothing to be scared of.
Like most living people they are basically nice, and maybe feeling lonesome, and don't want to move on right now.
Just say "HI" and go make some cocoa.
HB
for about a week or so now!
it all started one day when i was in the laundy room and i heard my husband pull up in the driveway, shut his door, unlock the door to the house, shut the house door, so i go down to greet him ( with a big kiss and hug, as i always do
anyway i get down stairs and he is not there so i assumed that he was already out feeding comet!
It is an event governed by as yet undiscovered or unexplained quantum phenomena which cause short circuiting of the time space continuum.
You know - nothingness doubling up upon itself to create somethingness that you never saw or heard before. Like energies from roman times making people see marching legions in the cellar.
HB (of the "wHoly Bullshit" class)
just because you have a secret boytoy doesn't mean you have to demonize him, or blank out the juicy bits from your memory. TELL ALL.
