pascal got it wrong
what if youre wrong?
one of my loyal readers (ok, my only reader) recently posed this question to me.
Hey, where's this surplus of virgins coming from?! If I have 72 virgins to dispose of as I see fit, I'm sending MYSELF to paradise!!
Hmmm...come to think of it, RunningMan could probably make one of his excellent posts about just that...multiply the number of Muslim males X 72, allowing for all of those who have lived throughout history as well as those who are currently living...I am willing to bet that the number far exceeds the number of virgin women....
i came home from work early today, and one of my wife's jw friends was visiting when i got home.
she was actually there for a social visit, not for a study or any other jw agenda, so it didn't really bother me.
it did surprise me however, that she kept calling my wife "sister".
I came home from work early today, and one of my wife's JW friends was visiting when I got home. She was actually there for a social visit, not for a study or any other JW agenda, so it didn't really bother me. It did surprise me however, that she kept calling my wife "sister". I didn't comment on it, but I thought (or maybe I just assumed) that only baptized women were called "sister". I know my wife isn't a baptized JW yet, as we had a long discussion/argument about it a couple months ago. She's been doing home bible studies since 11/04, goes to Mon Wed and Sun meetings on a regular basis now, and went to the last convention (she missed one day cause she was just too tired to go after going to the first day, then staying up late talking to her father on the phone over a family matter). That just doesn't seem long enough for the title to me, but then again, what would I know anyway? Or am I just in denial over her sliding down the "slippery slope", and don't want to see this as one more step down the wrong path?
i, damselfly, can not knowingly eat the little squiggly, umbilical cord things in eggs.
i have to very carefully separate the whites from the yolk and remove the squiggly bits with a knife.
i get gaggy just thinking about them.
Momofmany, I read somewhere that eating ice is a symptom of being anemic. I don't know for sure if this is a fact, but I believe it to be true cause my wife is anemic and she does that. You might wanna get checked for that, if you never have been. Heh...on a lighter note, I also heard that eating ice is a sign of sexual frustration...not sure if there's any validity to that, though. (I sure hope not, since my wife eats ice!)
i am asking for a simple opinion here.
according to the latest jw "laws", should and active witness, much less one serving as an elder, do any work for military institutions such as the air force, navy, and u.s. army?
i submit the following link http://besappraisals.com/john.html (please copy and paste).
I really don't give a damn what the WTS thinks about my job circumstances, but out of curiosity, what about this:
I work at a shipyard which directly builds nuclear powered aircraft carriers, in fact, we are currently building the CVN77, which will be named the George H W Bush (after the elder Bush, not the younger). So, according to them, would I be able to keep this job or not? Or would they use that cop-out blanket statement of 'you have to decide this for yourself, morally'?
Now, the reason I ask is because my wife is studying with them, and I have been searching desperately for SOMETHING, ANYTHING, which would make her see what a crock of crap this organization is. If I could absolutely show her that by the beliefs of these people, I would be required to quit my job (which is fairly well paying, and I am the sole income provider), she just might see the light.
a couple i knew (now baptized jws, i brought them in) went to a lecture in weston, mass.
they loved the lecture about life and seeking a higher spiritual plain.
right after the lecture (body guards at the doors) they were encouraged to leave their cars in the (now dark, no lighting) parking lot.
The only encounter I ever had with a Moonie was when I was about 8 or 9 years old in the late 70's. A guy who looked like a Vietnam Vet with long hair came walking through our neighborhood with bags of peanuts for sale, I went and asked my folks to buy a bag and they yelled at me and said don't go near him, or take any peanuts from him, then my dad went out to chase him off, but he was already leaving. Seems selling peanuts was a common thing for them, and according to my parents, who lectured me about it after he left, they typically laced the peanuts with drugs.
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me, 25 degrees celsius.
but usually around 24.
Wow...I must be spoiled, some of you talking about thermostat settings of 75, 78, and that one that said 25 C I think thats about 80 cause 20 = 70 if I remember right...sheesh, I couldn't take that. Mine is on about 69 or 70.
the recent 2005 "godly obedience" convention drama is an example of an anachronism!
and of propaganda!.
so why is the dram an example of anachronistic propaganda?.
Wait...the dramas are lip-synched? Always? Or just this latest one? To my cynical mind, if they are always lip-synched, that is merely another example of control by the WTS, making sure "the message" stays to its original content with no possibility of deviation by the "actors".
i, damselfly, can not knowingly eat the little squiggly, umbilical cord things in eggs.
i have to very carefully separate the whites from the yolk and remove the squiggly bits with a knife.
i get gaggy just thinking about them.
I won't tell anyone my middle name. Not that its a bad name, not that I don't like it. I simply won't tell it to anyone until they've reached my "inner circle".
Also, ever since I can remember, I've always had to do things equally. Like, if I crack one knuckle cause that knuckle feels like it needs cracking, I then have to crack all the rest too, or at least try, they don't always cooperate. When I was a kid my parents noticed that when I was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I always ate one bite, then drank one swallow of milk; repeat until done. Never 2 bites then 1 swallow or vice versa, had to be equal.
Richie: I'm not sure not using public restrooms qualifies as a quirk, more like a wise precaution. I won't either, unless there is dire need.
well, i've been waiting for a long time to post this one.
it's my personal favorite.
some angels became inflamed with lust for human women and took on human form.
I am an atheist, so I put no stock in it, but as a kid I had some children's bible books that had pictures in them, in the chapter(s) that dealt with the flood, the picture that went with the story showed not only rain, but geysers bursting forth from the ground like Old Faithful. Does anyone know if there is a biblical basis for picturing geysers, or were they just trying to make up for the inadequacies of a purely rain-based worldwide flood? (Or even more likely, simply a paid artist's rendition that had more to do with the artist's imagination than anything else.)
here is a link to an author whose books may help you:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0060762055/ref=ase_agoramedia-20/103-0623759-2877415
bishop shelby spong is of well repute in liberal theological circles.
Here's an interesting view of the bible:
