"Civilisation will not attain to its perfection
until the last stone from the last church
falls on the last priest"
Emile Zola
I dont advocate preist squashing, but you get the idea
many posters have said that initially they had doubts and then cane to the internet to check things out.
were any of you afraid that maybe you would find that the org was the truth ?.
i was worried about that.
"Civilisation will not attain to its perfection
until the last stone from the last church
falls on the last priest"
Emile Zola
I dont advocate preist squashing, but you get the idea
but just what is soundness of mind?
how do we get soundness of mind?
once we get it ,how do we keep soundness of mind?
this is a form of hyponotic suggestion
ooooooooooohhhho....bkaaaww! Bkaaawwwww!!!
-Dan, who now thinks he is a chicken
hi, i have been following some of the discussions about the internet and jw.
some people think that it seems to make a big difference, that it will seriously reduce wts ranks because people get access to all sorts of information and because they can get in contact with people who maybe have the same doubts and thoughts as themselves.. but how big a difference do you think that the net is making?
how many people do you think have withdrawns from jw because of infomation or contact achieved over the net?.
I worked at a public library and when I was assigned the drive-thru window (yes, we have a drive-thru window) it would get really boring. So I would use the internet and surf for JW stuff. I forgot what exactly it was that made me look, I guess the #1 reason for most of us is morbid curiosity..the same compelling urge we get to look at an accident scene secretly hoping to see a body.
We do what we know we arent supposed to, especially if we havent tried it before, because we are curious. We seek, we ask why? And thats a big part of being human. The first thing that got me doubting was the 607 date versus what researchers said.
Leaving the borg was just like in the Matrix. Waking up and seeing all your friends are plugged into a giant collective, a gigantic illusion.
what things in life are the most important to you individually?.
please rank the following in order of importance to you.
i realize that several things may rank close to, or exactly the same, but please rank them in order.. if you wish to remain anonymous, please email your answers to [email protected].
[1] Other: Taking over the World/ World Domination
[2] Personal Freedom
[3] A Hobby: breakdancing
[4] High Wealth—Being a trillionaire
all the rest of them are jus mushy stuff. All that matters is world domination
I am here in the hopes that I will meet prince.
video-game character wondering why heartless god always chooses 'continue' .
orangeburg, sc--solid snake, tactical-espionage expert and star of playstation's "metal gear solid," questioned the nature of the universe monday when, moments after his 11th death in two hours, a cruel god forced him to "continue" his earthly toil and suffering.. .
" asked snake, hiding in a storage locker while two masked guards searched for him in the hold of a cargo ship.
Hey logical black and white has excellent "demo" protection so that it's very hard to make a workable "demo" although I have succeeded by using a german program called clony. It detects what kind of "demo" protection the cd has and then sets your cd burner, I mean demo creator up so it will be able to make a copy. :)
It's only $30 here in the US for the game.
-Dan
more puke!.
judging jehovah's witnesses.
religious persecution and the dawn of the rights revolution.
Our company releases press releases and articles all the time, and are structured just like this:
The Jehovah's Witnesses, a worldwide church of about 6 million believers, are holding the third of three identical district conventions in Madison this weekend at the Dane County Coliseum. About 6,000 people are expected to attend and, if the two previous Madison conventions - held in June - are indicators, about 30 people will become baptized into the faith.
Jehovah's Witnesses are among the best known and least understood religious groups in the country. They are also one of the most controversial.
Notice how it is basically an advertisement. is any of this news? Nope. And most 'Journals" accept articles for publishing for a fee from an organization. It's not any more news than an article titled Local man to hold garage sale tommorow
A local man is going to hold a garage sale tommorow. Located at 123 west street, it will feature many attractive items. Potential buyers are advised to arrive early. etc etc.
its just an advertisement meant to look like news.
The JW's payed for a FULL PAGE AD in the wall street journal recently, how much did THAT cost them? Musta been a pretty tune. I wonder how many rank and file know their contributions bought an ad in the wall street journal?
-Dan
more puke!.
judging jehovah's witnesses.
religious persecution and the dawn of the rights revolution.
No rational mind would be pro-JW without a degree of JW brainwashing, either being a member or being a study, especially a scholar who should know to research everything.
I already saw this book like last year when I was working at a library. Yeah its trash.
-Dan
video-game character wondering why heartless god always chooses 'continue' .
orangeburg, sc--solid snake, tactical-espionage expert and star of playstation's "metal gear solid," questioned the nature of the universe monday when, moments after his 11th death in two hours, a cruel god forced him to "continue" his earthly toil and suffering.. .
" asked snake, hiding in a storage locker while two masked guards searched for him in the hold of a cargo ship.
Ever made lara croft climb the tallest structure you could find and then do a majestic swan dive....right onto spikes or conrete? That was the best. I also liked having her swim underwater until she started convulsing and then floated to the top face down. Being god is cool!!
You ever played a british video game called Black and White? In that game you are god, and you are lord over a small village. You can pick up followers and heal them, or if you wish throw them a couple thousand feet into the ocean and see how many times they skip before sinking like a rock. The game is called black and white because you choose to be good or evil god by your actions. I personally chose evil. This one woman prayed for her sick brother to be returned to her because he had wandered off and become lost. So I squashed him under a rock, then showed her his broken body and she died of a heart attack, but not before calling me a cruel and evil god.
Then i destroyed her house and fed her sheep herd to my giant creature. (the game features your right hand assistant, a virtual pet who is quite cute. He can also be good or evil and he can be trained to do many wonderful things, I trained mine to set fire to rocks then throw them at villagers houses..he finds great amusement in this.)
Also my temple is cool, the more evil i become the more spikey and dark it looks, and my hand becomes red and veiny with sharp nails. To raise my evil allignment i routinley sacrifice children. A fun thing to do also is to pile up boulders and then pick up a villager and try to knock down the top boulder with his body.
My creature picks up and eats villagers whenever he is hungry. Being god is grand!
not just content with attempting to scuttle the kyoto accord by claiming it was anti-american, bush has now pulled the usa out of an international agreement on tightening up controls on chemical warfare, citing almost exactly the same concerns.
can't you blokes across the atlantic impeach this lunatic?.
..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
I think the US is seeing a threat in the unification of europe and the development of the euro. This is effect the creation of a United Countries that could viably together win a war against the US.
There is clear evidence, both in the successive European treaties themselves and in pronouncements by the would-be designers of Europe, that the European Union was intended from the outset as a gigantic confidence-trick which would eventually hurtle the nations of Europe into economic, social, political and religious union whether they liked it or not. The real nature of the final goal – a federal superstate – was deliberately concealed and distorted; it was to be released in small doses, to condition those who would never have accepted it, until it would be too late for the whole process to be reversed.
I have read things along the lines that Germany is behind the unification of europe as a new world power.
Why was Norway the only european country, except Switzerland, to not join the European Union? Well, By keeping Norway out of the union, the US still have an alliey in Europe.
Why do you think russia did not allow norway's expert divers to come in and rescue their downed sub and potentially save the lives of the crew? Because Norway would be spying for the US on russian technology.
Norway has a border towards Russia. This is one of the reasons for being heavily protected by the US.
We may be seeing the start of a new cold war between the EU and the US. THe US is increasly hostile toward europe and vice versa.
-Dan