What beautiful sentiments... You're right. If the Witnesses really had the sort of love they so talk about, would the religion look the way it does? I think not.
lovesdubs
Well after 52 years of looking for that person to "complete me"...I have finally figured out I need to complete MYSELF and love MYSELF and then any love I get after that from others is gravy. But I wont live my life waiting for confirmation that Im "lovable" from other people. I am and thats that. Screw em if they cant take a joke :)
Makes perfect sense now, doesn't it? I didn't come to that realization, in my heart, very easily either.
just wanted to run an informal poll to see how "effective" or hopelessly "ineffective" the borg tract assimilation drive has been.. i for one, have not received the tract, and i live in densely populated development.
did anybody get it left in their doors/mailboxes?.
You know... this made me think. How do you think Witnesses would appreciate having Satanist tracts left on their doors about the good news of his kingdom?
I think they may already subscribe to their local newspapers ...
Cathy
Oooh... good point, from the JW perspective... No Witness should read any news since they'll read reading literature about Satan's Kingdom. How about that...
I still have a mind to make up some sort of "Devil's Tract" to pass out.
just wanted to run an informal poll to see how "effective" or hopelessly "ineffective" the borg tract assimilation drive has been.. i for one, have not received the tract, and i live in densely populated development.
did anybody get it left in their doors/mailboxes?.
I came home from shopping last week to find that one had been folded up and stuck in my door.
Cathy
You know... this made me think. How do you think Witnesses would appreciate having Satanist tracts left on their doors about the good news of his kingdom?
just wanted to run an informal poll to see how "effective" or hopelessly "ineffective" the borg tract assimilation drive has been.. i for one, have not received the tract, and i live in densely populated development.
did anybody get it left in their doors/mailboxes?.
But then again, I haven't seen a Witness out in service in years and years. I see Mormons all the time though. Hmm... now, who is it that is most effective at the "worldwide preaching work" again?
George Carlin the commedian says that you have a 50/50 chance of getting your prayers answered. What are you praying for a million dollars to fall out of the sky?
Well, if I were, by Carlin's guess, I should at least get half a million dropped into my lap, right?
beijing (reuters) - humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the wwf conservation group said on tuesday.
populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.. "for more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," wwf director-general james leape said, launching the wwf's 2006 living planet report.. "if everyone around the world lived as those in america, we would need five planets to support us," leape, an american, said in beijing.. people in the united arab emirates were placing most stress per capita on the planet ahead of those in the united states, finland and canada, the report said.. australia was also living well beyond its means.. the average australian used 6.6 "global" hectares to support their developed lifestyle, ranking behind the united states and canada, but ahead of the united kingdom, russia, china and japan.. "if the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in australia, we would require three-and-a-half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste," said greg bourne, wwf-australia chief executive officer.. everyone would have to change lifestyles -- cutting use of fossil fuels and improving management of everything from farming to fisheries.. "as countries work to improve the well-being of their people, they risk bypassing the goal of sustainability," said leape, speaking in an energy-efficient building at beijing's prestigous tsinghua university.. "it is inevitable that this disconnect will eventually limit the abilities of poor countries to develop and rich countries to maintain their prosperity," he added.. the report said humans' "ecological footprint" -- the demand people place on the natural world -- was 25 percent greater than the planet's annual ability to provide everything from food to energy and recycle all human waste in 2003.. in the previous report, the 2001 overshoot was 21 percent.. "on current projections humanity, will be using two planets' worth of natural resources by 2050 -- if those resources have not run out by then," the latest report said.. "people are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.".
Guys, I think it's pretty much inevitable no matter what we do, ultimately. Mother will correct things at some point, either by some worldwide disease or some other natural disaster. It's happened before, it will happen again.
We like to think we humans are above naturally occuring herd culling, but we're not.
