Do any Canadians have the issue of the Watchtower or Awake which lists the dates and locations for this year's series of dictrict conventions? I'm particularly interested in any listing for Hamilton, Ontario @ Copps.
Second question: Has anybody on this forum ever picketed a convention? What did you do? Hold picket signs? Try to hand out pamphlets?
I'd like to get a group together to picket the big assemblies that usually come through town, but am uncertain about what to do. I can't really see a dub even talking to a picketer in front of other dubs. Are there any threads about this sort of thing already? Any input would be appreciated.
(My brother suggested diguising some subversive apostate material as "$1 off from Harvey's" coupons. hehe. dubs love cheap food.)
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2006 Canadian District Conventions
by enderby indo any canadians have the issue of the watchtower or awake which lists the dates and locations for this year's series of dictrict conventions?
i'm particularly interested in any listing for hamilton, ontario @ copps.
second question: has anybody on this forum ever picketed a convention?
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Check this out........
by Chimene in.
http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=messageboard.viewthread&entryid=13387437&groupid=100654751&adtopicid=27&mytoken=b61f3057-d5e1-131e-f31abb89853f3aaa28640469
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enderby
looks like the college education he's getting from the Awakes didn't teach him the difference between "effect" & "affect".
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take patience out of the equation - a rant
by Calliope inhere's my weekly rant.
and i've concluded i'll probably never meet any of you, and those of you that i secretly know, will never realize who i am, so what is there to lose?
i've lost already.. i'm so g'damn tired.
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you should read albert camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus". he starts the book by arguing that having a reason not to kill one's self is the fundamental task of thinking because everything else presupposes that life is worthwhile. he compares our lives to Sisyphus who was sentenced to eternally rolling rocks up a hill, and analyzes several archetypes for a quantitative ethics.
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how do i get free stuff from the WTBTS . . .
by enderby indoes anybody know a way to get publications from the society w/o having to go to a church or having a dub stop by my apartment?
i would like one of those fancy interlineary bibles of the greek scriptures.
help me take advantage of brooklyn!
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does anybody know a way to get publications from the society w/o having to go to a church or having a dub stop by my apartment? i would like one of those fancy interlineary bibles of the greek scriptures. help me take advantage of brooklyn!
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Living
by joelbear inthere is only one law, love your neighbor as yourself.. very simple words that get buried under lots of gobbledegook.
we strain to rid ourselves of the guilt of the shoulds that were cast upon us throughout our life.. we run our lives based on these shoulds and apply these shoulds to others.. there are two parts to the law.
love your neighbor gets most of the attention.
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also . . . why does jebus get all the credit for the 'golden rule'? one can find a clearly articulated and rationally defended version of this moral principle attributed to confucius (who lived approx 500 BC) in part 5 of The Great Learning. there, he explains that it is meant to bring together chung (conscientiousness) and shu (altruism). and! . . . confucius did it all w/o invoking vague meaningless christian concepts like 'love' or 'self'.
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Living
by joelbear inthere is only one law, love your neighbor as yourself.. very simple words that get buried under lots of gobbledegook.
we strain to rid ourselves of the guilt of the shoulds that were cast upon us throughout our life.. we run our lives based on these shoulds and apply these shoulds to others.. there are two parts to the law.
love your neighbor gets most of the attention.
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i believe that it is impossible to exist without 'harming' others in an unqualified sense. i take the moral of the golden rule to be a point about motivation and intention, not perfect consequences. afterall, in trying to help my neighbours and friends i have sometimes caused them more 'harm' than good. but, my motivation was one of sincere altruism.
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by joelbear inthere is only one law, love your neighbor as yourself.. very simple words that get buried under lots of gobbledegook.
we strain to rid ourselves of the guilt of the shoulds that were cast upon us throughout our life.. we run our lives based on these shoulds and apply these shoulds to others.. there are two parts to the law.
love your neighbor gets most of the attention.
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what if i am masochistic? . . . and i love being so.
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money will destroy us all
by joelbear init takes the place of natural resources.
it allows natural resources to be allocated lopsidedly.
it is destroying more and more of the natural world every day.
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money does nothing in itself. recall the proverb, "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil." besides, if it wasn't for the invention of a common commodity, we'd all be walking around with the goods we produce looking for someone to trade a pair of shoes for all these potatoes i grew. i find that rather cumbersome.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Are Awaiting Persecution!
by minimus inif jws "suffer" persecution it will make them feel as if they are fulfilling bible prophecy.
they like thinking and believing that they are chosen to be abused and persecuted.
if any political upheavals occur, they look at it as a sign to say that the end is near.
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the religious persecution complex has been well analyzed by nietzsche. according to him, viewing one's group as persecuted draws the herds together in their resentment. it provides weak people with an outlet for their will to power. persecution gives meaning to a christian life: it's a cut that gives a christian reason to live. the absence of suffering is an absence of a reason for the christian to live.
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fallacies are a rather controversial notion in the field of argumentation. they have their roots back aristotle's 'sophistic refutations'. but, generally, in our time, academics agree that fallacies are mistakes in reasoning, which occur with some frequency in real arguments and which are characteristically deceptive (Govier, 1995).
the best thing i've ever seen written on argumentation and the WTBS is a chapter called "Argumentation & Manipulation" in ray franz's book "In Search of Christian Freedom".
a more controversial analysis of christian reasoning as a whole can be found in nietzsche's Geneology of Morals. there, he focuses on the psychological motivation behind the way Christians go about justifying their beliefs.