When I was holidaying in Asia, I saw a woman covered head to toe and with lace over her eyes, so those couldn't be seen as well. But she wanted to show her wealth. How do you do that?
By wearing a gold plate over the shape of her nose!!!
That's not to say I don't enjoy cultural difference. Like xtians, there are fanatics and there are those who toe the line in public but have more balanced personal lives.
keep it simple if possible........i like the ice core samples.........thanks, this was not my big issue but i may be able to use it.......oompa.
feel free to direct me to another thread btw...... or maybe i should read the second page of olins thread!.
Sounds crazy but what about fresh drinking water?
The water would have been filthy with rotting plants and animals and brackish from sea water.
Keeping the fresh water up to those animals would have been more than a full time job for all aboard just with the elephants.
'nuff said.. warlock .
I read his bio.
Seems he has difficulties allowing the behaviour and words of others to affect his spiritual state. He left the wts a number of times because of this.
Looks like this attitude still plagues him by the comments about jwn on his new choice of forum.
As I recall when I was in India, not all are vegetarians. Actually I went to Mc Donalds(LOL once!) in Delhi but the burgers were chicken and I think mutton, no beef.
So your friend is probably like many devotees away from home, having a more casual attitude now he has left India.
No beef "should" be eaten.
today the last surviving british soldier who fought in world war i died at the age of 111. see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32141785/ns/world_news-europe/.. prime minister gordon brown stated: "the noblest of all the generations has left us, but they will never be forgotten.
we say today with still greater force, we will remember them.".
when i bring up the "1914 generation" as an example of failed watchtower prophecy, some jws respond that the generation is not gone yet.
Also the jws (used to) say that the person had to be old enough to appreciate what 1914 meant, say 10 yrs old at least.
That's 105 now.....LOL
should scare the crap out of those religious folks still stuck in the 5th century......pregnant women are told to stay in-doors to prevent "defects" and hindu leaders predict "calamity" when the two great fighting demons "swallow the sun.".
it's 2010 soon people wake up!
and the ganges is not holy drinking water!.
in the most superstitious countries of India and Nepal!
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In America, the number 13 is considered evil even up to today as and so buildings and other landmarks are not given such a number
yes, it sounds crazy doesn't yet.
if a religion went around preaching that today no one would take them seriously, and yet that is what the watchtower used to preach.
"the "time of the end," a period of one hundred and fifteen (115) years, from a.d. 1799 to a.d. 1914, is particularly marked in the scriptures.
Being an old hippie, I have to agree with the above. Lol
But I can see that the relevence of 1914 has been watered down to the point of "so what" to any young jw. Once the generation belief became invisible, 1914 had to be on the same path e.g. less and less focus, until new light is not even seen as that but "We always taught this!"
And jw's will swallow it too...
have you ever heard a female referred to as a "pervert"?.
Trying not to catholic bash but nuns in this country have a long sordid history of abusing children. I knew one women who never got over ritual after school floggings by a nun. Pants down bend over.
My exwife's brothers also copped abuse/discipline that teetered on sexual gratification from nuns as little boys.
Many stories and thankfully lawsuits have stopped this behaviour.
it's amazing to me how many of the exjws no longer believe in god.
i know some of you have many reasons to believe in what you do now.
but this is a big testimony to what the wts does to people's concept of god.
As stated on other threads I believe that humans created gods because we were/are terrified of being alone in the Universe.
Why?
Because it puts a huge burden of responsibility on each of our shoulders. Without god, we are personally responsible for what happens on this planet.
i don't post here much but i enjoy lurking.
i thought i'd share an experience i had recently.
this may be long.
Krishnamurti (your avatar?) would be impressed with your decision to leave all to the state of love.
Me? I'd be callin'!! LOL
Nah, fine experience and who knows what the future holds.... Ain't love grand?
