police send valentine's to crooks.
persistent criminals will receive valentine's day greeting from an obvious suitor this year - as a county's police are sending cards to their most-watched thieves.. more on this story.
send a 'text flirt' for valentine's!.
"In addition to these cards we regularly visit our targets and disrupt their criminality."
Does criminality include family dinners? It's fine to keep a tab on known crooks and to 'visit' them when they are suspected of a specific crime, but this sounds like harrassment. Hey, isn't that a crime? Price you pay for not having a written legal foundation, a la a Constitution. Just ask the Lords how much better they've been treated since that Magnetic Carter thing.
Bodhisattva
what is your favorite movie line?
please mention the movie line and why it is the best.. my favorite movie line:.
"ever since i was a kid...i always wanted to be a gangster.".
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around and what do you see? Businessmen, Teachers, Lawyers, Carpenters...the very minds of the people we're trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so innerred, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will that they will fight to protect it." - Morpheus
im confused would i take blood if i was about to die and had no other alternative treatment well to me thats allways been a hard one one to answer and people have allways hated witnesses for refusing it or not giving blood to there own kids.you see my mothers due in to hospital on tuesday and having a major operation the problem for her is she is inactive as a jw and has no blood card which is upto date what do you think she should do 1.phone elders 2.trust in jehovah and refuse blood.3if it comes to the worst take blood and live.
I saw that AIDS by transfusion article and was going to post it. How many U.S. Witnesses have died in the last three years, during which time ONE person has gotten infected in the U.S.? Mind you, while his life is much less pleasant, he is still alive and thanks to modern medicine may live for many years.
Isn't it interesting that we know about this event, even the location and name of the individual. We don't even get statistics from the Watchtower about how many people they needlessly kill by their deception.
Bodhisattva
P.S. No. 6 - Haven't seen you before, so welcome to the forum. I recently got The Prisoner DVD mega set and will probably watch the last episode tonight. No. 2 is unmutual!
Near Lansdale. Trying not to be too specific.
Count me in. Montgomery County, PA, just up the road from badwillie and DIM.
Bodhisattva
i don't know about the rest of you here, although i have a fairly good idea, but the idea that the wtbts can crawl it's way out of paying any taxes really makes me feel .
articles of amendment of.
witnesses, tucson, az, inc.. 1. the name of the corporation is pantano congregation of jehovah's witnesses, tucson, az, inc.. 2. attached hereto as exhibit a is the text of each amendment adopted.. 3. the amendment was adopted the 22 day of november, 2001.. 4. the amendment was duly adopted by act () of the members (x) board of directors.
Upon the winding up and dissolution of this Corporation, after paying or adequately providing for any debts and obligations of the Corporation, the remaining assets shall be distributed to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. No assets will be deemed to be received by Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., until such acceptance is evidenced in writing. If Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., is not then in existence and exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States tax code), then said assets shall be distributed to any organization designated by the ecclesiastical Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses that is organized and operated for religious purposes and is a corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding section of any future United States tax code).
Let's not miss the point. 1) The Watchtower / Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses / Vinnie's QuikPropecy Corp. effectively owns tens of thousands of Kingdom Halls without any of the burdens of upkeep; 2) The Governing Body is not really separated from running the corporation. So with a few dozen of these corporate charters, even without the template that they so obviously come from, there is enough evidence to tie the Society and its GB into any lawsuits that they try to force down to the congregation level, IMO.
Bodhisattva
part 7: resignation into the void .
the memorial was now past ... and the moment of final decision arrived.
i could no longer continue on being a jw, or at least serving in an appointed position of any kind.
Amazing -
Thanks for the series. I was reminded of an experience I had when playing hooky from the District Convention of 2000, my last year as a Witness (since Paul started a work to be completed in the 20th Century, per the 1989 'Tower, no sense continuing after, heh?). I had just spent the first two days of the District Convention in another state where, unlike Philly, it took place in an air-conditioned convention center. I was assigned to review Saturday's program the following Thursday, and after enduring two days, I gave up and drove home. But I then drove down to the final day, Sunday, at Philadelphia's Vet Stadium. I got there during lunchtime, spent about ten minutes walking around, then drove home with a young friend who was also on the way out and who I ran into. Arriving home, I saw that a new family was moving into another apartment at the other end of my building. At that point I walked into my apartment to get some disposable cups, then went over to them and offered the cups and the full water cooler that I had taken for my own use at the convention, and offered to help carry boxes. True, if they didn't have cups they could have gotten some at the convenience store around the corner, and tap water wouldn't be too warm to drink. But somehow the act of handing over what I had packed solely for my own use - the Philly conventions don't lead to a lot of woman-at-the-well situations, because everyone desparately needs to keep themselves cool - and spontaneously offering to help in a situation that had not involved a brother assigned to be group captain, was so refreshing. At the moment I thought, now this is what it means to act like a Christian. Or a humanist.
Bodhisattva
however, there are certain evolutionary "proofs" that are somewhat questionable.
take, for example, the peppered moth story.
the story basically goes that the moths changed from generally white to mostly black due to natural selection because the tree trunks changed colors due to environmental factors.
The comparative pictures of embryos were in the past used to defend Haeckel's whacky theory that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" (individual development repeats evolutionary development). No serious scientist would defend this view today, or even in our lifetime. However, many science textbooks still include series of embryo pictures as if they are evidentiary, and this has rightly been criticized by the so-call High Priest of current evolutionary theory, Stephen Jay Gould. That's the neat thing about science - when you find a disparity you are ALLOWED to look closer, and often find out the deeper issues involved and the more complex answers. Meanwhile evolutionary theories are merely models that explain how evolution takes place, so they are subject to reinterpretation and change. Economic models are also theories, but just because a model of how inflation works might be flawed, is not evidence against inflation.
Bodhisattva
the co visiting a congregation in madison wisconsin told them that 35% are inactive.
i wonder if this is the pattern with most other congregations.
that was about what it was in the last congregation i was in.
Simon is correct they only count those who preach; specifically, they count them in the month previous to when they receive the report. The 35% who are irregular will most likely be jostled by the Congregation Secretary (or nowadays their Book Study Conductor, or whatever they are now called) until they submit a slip with a phantom hour or so for whatever months are missed. These hours - and more importantly, publishers - are counted for the monthly report that goes in after they arrive.
Now the reason this is important is that it makes a publisher appear twice or more in a given month. That is, the April peak may include Bro. Smith's time from February, March, and April, and count him as THREE PUBLISHERS! This was admitted a couple years ago during the CO visit at my old KH, I think during a regular meeting but possibly during a meeting with the Ministerial Servants and Elders. And if you know that the CO wants to see an April peak, when do you think the jostling will be the greatest?
So the Watchtower OWES its peaks to irregular publishers. But, because people are catching on to them, they are finally pushing publishers to report monthly, so that the peak months and the other months (along with the average) are not so vastly out of whack. Despite this, in recent years they have given more attention to these known faulty peaks even when everyone is starting to realize that only the averages even approach validity.
Bodhisattva
plasma) be given to me...," the june - 2001 version reads "i direct .
that no allogeneic blood transfusion (whole blood, red cells, white .
difference in the cards is the use of the word allogeneic in the june .
Can any post a scan of the new card with the word "allogeneic" on it? If so, even if you must obscure part of the card to protect your own identity, please post it. Until then critics can claim that they do not exist!
Now, since I believe these are really out there, and in case they actually get used and the borg allows autologous blood, I suspect they will do so in an obscure way. (This almost goes without saying.) Now, if they imply the allowance by using the word "allogeneic," which means genetically different, as opposed to actually using the word "autologous," which means from the same individual, then there are gaps...
The blood of identical twins is non-allogeneic!
Of course "non-allogeneic" can mean two things: Blood that is genetically identical, as one's own (autologous) or that from one's genetic twin. Or, it can mean blood that is not from the same species! This could explain the source of the new wording, since it is easier to argue that Hemopure is kosher because it is not human blood than to argue that hemoglobin, the very essence of blood, does not count as blood. If this is the case, then the focus would move to the Noachin commandment (which most Christians understand to outlaw murder) and the Apostolic decree (which most Christians understand to apply to food). The Mosaic Law references would all be dropped, which makes sense since the whole "pouring out" thing would prevent diagnosis of many diseases, much less pooling of blood to extract allowed fractions. If Noah's family was not told not to murder, will Nimrod be resurrected? This is all speculation, don't count on it too much, but it would be interesting to see how they refocus things if they all - implicitly or explicitly - autologous blood.
Bodhisattva
