i came across this local guys photo albums on flickr while searching for someone i know.
found them, and then this guys albums.
apparently he's a "pro" if you can call taking photos of local girls' sports teams, witness weddings, dc's, and bethel photography.
he seems like a nice enough guy.
the jehovah's witnesses he's taken pictures of (and posted them on the internet for the world to see) look nice & typical.
http://whois.domaintools.com/sjhfoto.com Never judge someone by how "nice" they look:
Green River Killer
Richard Ramirez (The Night Staulker) 
Robledo Puch- The Black Angel
i came across this local guys photo albums on flickr while searching for someone i know.
found them, and then this guys albums.
apparently he's a "pro" if you can call taking photos of local girls' sports teams, witness weddings, dc's, and bethel photography.
I wonder if his kingdom hall, and all of the young girl's families would mind if this young black jehovah's witness man put their under-aged (mostly white) daughters on "Sexy Girls Galleries" and "Sexy Woman Collection" and "Beautifull Girls Galleries." Sexy Girls Galleries: Beautifull Girls Gallaries http://girlsgalleries.blogspot.com/2008/10/beautifull-girls-galleries_22.html
i haven't been here for a while, and i'm out of the loop as far as what is happening on this board...not sure why it's closing, or when.
since, it seems like the end of the world as we know it, is anyone up for a good pairing off before we go?
how about writing a personal ad?
I haven't been here for a while, and I'm out of the loop as far as what is happening on this board...not sure why it's closing, or when. Since, it seems like the end of the world as we know it, is anyone up for a good pairing off before we go? How about writing a personal ad? Tell us a little bit about yourself, and who you are looking for? I'll start. :) I'm a Woman Looking for a Man Between the ages of 35 and 50 Hopefully in the U.S. I've wanted to play this game on here for a while. lol But, I was sure it wasn't allowed; Now that the ship is sinking...I hope Simon won't mind. :p
hey all,.
just checkin' in.
been here since '01, but don't even have 500 posts.
i have intermittent amnesia; sometimes, I forget to post.
i don't know if anyone has already posted this; but when i logged on to msn today, it was the top story..
http://www.slate.com/id/2194321/>1=39001.
why don't jehovah's witnesses vote?because they're representatives of god's heavenly kingdom.. by jacob leibenluft.
I don't know if anyone has already posted this; but when I logged on to msn today, it was the top story.
http://www.slate.com/id/2194321/>1=39001
Why Don't Jehovah's Witnesses Vote?Because they're representatives of God's heavenly kingdom.
By Jacob Leibenluft
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008, at 6:39 PM ET
Serena Williams.
Serena Williams told reporters at Wimbledon on Wednesday that she's excited about Barack Obama's candidacy but won't vote for him because Jehovah's Witnesses "don't get involved in politics." Her sister Venus—who is also a Jehovah's Witness—wouldn't even comment on the presidential election. Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses vote?
Because of John 17:14 and other passages in the Bible. In that verse, Jesus says of his followers: "They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world." Jehovah's Witnesses have interpreted that statement as a call to remain neutral in all political matters. (In some of the sect's literature, members are described as "representatives of God's heavenly kingdom"; they are thus obligated to stay out of local political affairs in keeping with the behavior of ambassadors.) Witnesses also refrain from serving in the military, running for public office, and pledging allegiance to the flag.
Voting is not expressly prohibited, but it is discouraged. The Watchtower, the official publication of the Jehovah's Witnesses, ran an article in 1999 suggesting that the decision whether to vote was one of personal conscience, although it carefully laid out reasons for staying out of the voting booth. In reference to countries that require all citizens to show up at the ballot box, the Watchtower has explained that "[w]here Caesar makes it compulsory for citizens to vote … [Jehovah's Witnesses] can go to the polls and enter the voting booths," but the Watchtower did not specify what Witnesses should do with the ballot itself. According to some, the requirement for political neutrality led to the violent persecution of Witnesses in Malawi during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when adherents refused to register with the ruling Congress Party.
Most Jehovah's Witnesses in America do, in fact, abstain from voting. According to a survey released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the religious group is far more likely than any other to believe that there is only one true way to interpret religious teachings. In keeping with that adherence, just 13 percent reported they were registered to vote.
While Witnesses have shied away from electoral politics, they have left a strong mark on the judicial branch: The group has brought several dozen civil-liberties cases before the Supreme Court, including a famous 1943 case over whether Jehovah's Witnesses could be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in schools.
Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the largest religious group that refuses to vote, but they are not the only ones: Old Order Amish, Christadelphians, and Rastafarians have all traditionally shunned politics. (In the case of both the Amish and the Rastafarians, though, attitudes have changed a bit in the last few years.) Nationally, about 2 percent of people who don't register to vote cite religious reasons. If Jehovah's Witnesses did vote, they probably wouldn't form a large bloc anyway: the group makes up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population and is widely distributed across the country.
Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.
Explainer thanks Jim Beckford of the University of Warwick, John Green of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Bryce Hemmelgarn of the Watchtower Office of Public Information, Donald Kraybill of Elizabethtown College, and Rodney Stark of Baylor University.
as civilization has advanced, one after another areas of magic, mysticism, superstition and myth have been blown away by rational investigation, testing, measuring, reasoning and recording data.
the last stand of the "believer" is the miraculous: the as yet unexplained.. this consists of blindly insisting on the unintelligible!
the faithful and discreet slave, for example, knows what you cannot know by yourself.
yes, i said "man moons" good gawd! (she exclaims predaciously ) i need to "achieve my bliss" and hit the hay. blows *kisses* @ Terry
as civilization has advanced, one after another areas of magic, mysticism, superstition and myth have been blown away by rational investigation, testing, measuring, reasoning and recording data.
the last stand of the "believer" is the miraculous: the as yet unexplained.. this consists of blindly insisting on the unintelligible!
the faithful and discreet slave, for example, knows what you cannot know by yourself.
hmmm...I was just thinking how nice it was to have people online who have been where you've been, and love you unconditionally. It was a cozy kinda feeling. Then, I log on and read this silly dribble Terry wrote. Instead of dancing naked under the black moon, and wishing Terry's man moons turned into stone, I pull myself together.
Alas, I step back and surmise, that because Terry has pulled one sentence, one word even, from my reference, he merely wishes to play with the mouse, not kill it. Nice skill! However, I must decline your hidden "gift" of side-stepping by diversion.
QUOTE: I would humbly suggest it is the word choice which has robbed the above statement of actual
comprehensibilty. -Terry
Perhaps Terry's omission of the letter "i" in "comprehensibility" is by "nature" a Freudian slip, perhaps he subconsciously saw his penis shrink to the size of that iniquitous extra letter.
Ok, this is Terry's thread...we must only accept "the concept of nature and reject the nature of a concept.
That is the nature of these types of discussion.
QUOTE: I would submit to you that what the sentence above is really saying is something like this:
I do not think you can submit something to me that I submitted to you and try to interpret the "hidden" or "mystical" meaning behind my own plain text.
Many great thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes or Spinoza held philosophical views of the "nature" of life. Perhaps they suffered from poor word precision, or perhaps the "confusion [is] on the part of the one trying to [comprehend] the idea itself."
i ran into two of them at a (r) rated violent movie during a very boring assembly once, i knew them and they knew me i didn't give a dam and they knew it, they seen me go out and i seen them go out of the theate so we were all even and grinning all the way back to events center.
Our bookstudy group stayed after the TMS meeting one evening to clean the hall. The elders were having a meeting in the back library with the door shut. Between vacuuming, we could hear the elder's voices were louder than usual. Later, while waiting in my car, (it was dark and i wasn't noticed) i over heard a conversation (i use that term loosely) between to of the elders who had just stepped out of the library. "You're a F*cking A$$hole!" screamed Brother S, while pushing Brother E.
The argument was heated, full of explicitives and was punctuated with physical confrontation.
I just wonder which one of these "brothers" closed the elder's meeting with prayer.
i ran into two of them at a (r) rated violent movie during a very boring assembly once, i knew them and they knew me i didn't give a dam and they knew it, they seen me go out and i seen them go out of the theate so we were all even and grinning all the way back to events center.
While working for an elder and his wife, I walked in to the elder's office for a signature. He was sitting at his computer, with his back to the door, picking his nose and watching porn videos. I tiptoed out the door backwards, and made sure I put a "bucket of hand sanitizer" on my shopping list.
