last friday i upgraded my development environment at work to vs2005 with tfs... i've got to say: wow!
with tfs source control integrated into vs2005 we can now develop our asp.net web applications on our local boxes.
combine that with the new debug features and i have to say i *almost* enjoy getting errors while testing!
introverts, driven, detail-oriented and socially-challenged
Serendipity, while it is possible to have those traits and not have Asperger Syndrome, it's a good working definition, a strong indicator if you will. Autism is much more than rocking in a corner and flapping one's arms, though that is the often-publicised image of it.
last friday i upgraded my development environment at work to vs2005 with tfs... i've got to say: wow!
with tfs source control integrated into vs2005 we can now develop our asp.net web applications on our local boxes.
combine that with the new debug features and i have to say i *almost* enjoy getting errors while testing!
Being a developer has less to do with intelligence and more to do with having a very specific, narrow set of obsessive interests. Well, at least that describes most good developers I know. They're not necessarily smarter, just more focused on... well... on business requirements, and coding.
Many (certainly not all) developers have Asperger Syndrome or some other form of high-functioning autism.
i think you'll find the social kind in every church, club, or organization on earth.
you know...it's the kind where people try to project themselves to be something that they really don't live up to when nobody is looking.
kinda like sunday angels and monday devils.
Do you have any point in posting here other than self-aggrandization? I was trying to reply to your post, something generally considered to be a compliment, with a little blurb thrown in about how I don't hate you.
Last time I make that mistake.
kero-kero's goodbye post brought me to mind a common complaint amongst jw apologists, that all we do is bring up the bad stuff and old history.
after all, "nobody's perfect".
well, that would be fine and dandy if the wtbts hadn't set themselves up as the sole mouthpiece for jehovah in these 'last days'.
...Nor should they try to be. It's impossible for mankind to be perfect. Nowhere does the Bible specify that we should strive for perfection, either, rather that Jesus and our faith would perfect us.
Personally, I think that the manic obsession with cleanness and perfection comes from the combination of early OCD-ridden Watchtower editors like CJ Woodworth and the true OCD-sufferer's nightmare that is the Mosaic Law. But Jesus... the Bible says that he freed humans from that yoke, and replaced it with one that was light.
no matter what any pompass ass witness says about the religion being the "truth", they cannot refute the simple fact that nothing they have ever predicted has come true.
that's a pretty poor record for gods' chosen people.
oh sure they can point to lame obvious things such as " critical times getting harder to deal with" (even that is debatable), but no hard facts to point to that show they are right, or have ever been.
While I agree with much of what was said in this thread, I do have to point out that the United Nations really was the direct descendent of the League of Nations. This doesn't prove anything about the accuracy of the Society's predictions, as better-informed posters than I have already pointed out. But let's strive for accuracy. From Wikipedia:
The United Nations was founded as a successor to the League of Nations which was considered by many to have been ineffective in its role as an international governing body: it had been formed in response to World War I, on the premise that such wars could be prevented by such an entity, yet had failed to prevent World War II. The biggest advantage the United Nations has over the League of Nations is the ability to maintain and deploy its member nations' armed forces as peace keepers.
...and...
After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis Powers in the 1930s. The onset of the Second World War made it clear that the League had failed in its primary purpose—to avoid any future world war. The United Nations replaced it after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.
...and...
After its failure to prevent one war, it was decided to create a new body to fulfill the League's role, but to take it further. This body was to be the United Nations. Many League bodies, for instance the International Labour Organisation, continued to function and eventually became affiliated with the UN. At a meeting of the Assembly in 1946, the League dissolved itself and its services, mandates, and property were transferred to the UN.
i think you'll find the social kind in every church, club, or organization on earth.
you know...it's the kind where people try to project themselves to be something that they really don't live up to when nobody is looking.
kinda like sunday angels and monday devils.
Theocrat (of the "Shunned by the Watchtower, Hated by Apostates" class)
Don't flatter yourself. You've inspired nothing resembling hate in me, anyways.
In any case, yes... good point. The "question your beliefs" thing they encourage so much lasts exactly as long as it takes for you to get baptized, and only applies to your OLD beliefs. Your new beliefs are off-limits.
It's much like these little third-world dictators or Sharia regimes that have supposed "democratic" systems. In other words every man gets one vote, once. After the dictator or group of clerics is voted in, that's the end of voting. Cover your face filthy temptress.
there is a local brother that was appointed to eldership in january.
he was dating and was recently put on reproof...denounced his eldership and married this sister like within a month.
we all know what happened...but i think it sucks that he covered his ass in such a way.
...Though I had the opposite happen to me. In my case, I was publically reproved (ostensibly because I was an MS and a Pioneer), but the sister in question wasn't reproved at all.
We were in two different congregations and the situation was handled by two separate BOEs who disagreed on the amount of "correction" needed.
last friday i upgraded my development environment at work to vs2005 with tfs... i've got to say: wow!
with tfs source control integrated into vs2005 we can now develop our asp.net web applications on our local boxes.
combine that with the new debug features and i have to say i *almost* enjoy getting errors while testing!
I don't do web stuff, but I've been using VS2005 for a while now for client/server stuff. It's the bee's knees, though I recommend looking at the ReSharper add-in from JetBrains for additional IDE goodness.
don't know if you knew this or not - they have a new study aid called "bible teach".
and guess what they will be studying come january 2007!
the revelation book - it's grand climax at hand!
That is actively insulting to my intelligence. Thanks for the reminder, Mary.
for most of us who are going to the 'delieverance at hand' district convention we want to be low on the radar.
but wouldn't it be terrible if we missed out meeting someone else from the board while we attended the same convention?
listing what convention your going to might be to much of a give away for some people, but i really don't care.
---> Ah, I gotcha. Let me know how that goes...you know...that "being ruled by fear" thing.
Hey, thanks for the empathy.
