i have updated the article at memorial partakers with the figures released for 2014. no surprises here, it has risen yet again, this time by 6% over last year, and is now 14,121.. .
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"For far too many centuries leaders of end-times cults have faced the same old dilemma:
How to keep the focus on the nearness of the end whilst needing to buy enough time to stretch out their credibility over the passing years to bolster their desperate claims to have the exclusively "true" interpretation about how near the end is."
Steve this is true but those end time cults didn't have the internet to deal with.
does shunning accomplish its objectives:.
make the person repent?.
deter others from committing similar offenses in the future?.
yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.
many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.
but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.
the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
LoveUniHateExams
I am glad that flag was removed. The day that flag is proudly displayed here is the last time I ever visit this site again.
the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).
before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.
first, the reason i think it should be shown:.
Simon
You could put the province and even the small city I live in Canada and it still wouldn't identify me. That's only because I was careful of the info I have posted and I really don't have that much to loose if someone where to find out who I was.
I could post some of my past history here without giving any location and people would know immediately who I was. But if the previous posters had been under the assumption that someday their location might become known they probably would have posted differently.
i've been noticing a trend recently that seems to becoming prevalent in posts which i think is a little sad and counter productive where, whatever the topic is actually about, someone will be keen to remind everyone about child abuse issues within the wts.. any sort of abuse, especially that of children, is a very serious issue but i'm not sure it's prevention is necessarily best-served by brining it up at every opportunity.
it ends up looking a little like the republican party's obsession with benghazi where they harp on about it to such an extent that people have become blind to it and it almost becomes a punchline.
people become less and less convinced of the claims because they hear them too often.. trying to turn any discussion into including comments on it, however well-intentioned, starts to look misguided at some point.
Maybe you've got something there. Good advice.
It's just that child molestation and other forms of child abuse are such heinous acts that it gets under a lot of peoples skin.
the international pink elephant committee has just awarded the 'watchtower society' the 'pink elephant' award for 2014. .
the committee's press release stated, in part;.
'... usually our ten committee members have to research a number of organizations to determine which one will receive the yearly award.
when i was in my teens i wanted a room of my own, but i lived with my grandparents whose house was very small.. my uncle had been living in a little one room bed-sitter way out in the backyard.
he married and moved away and i moved in.. it was quite isolated and the ceiling was six feet from the floor.
unfortunately, the top of my head was four inches higher than that!
I was terrified as young boy too by the witnesses's stories of demons the things they could do to you. Over hearing the conversations of seemingly intelligent people tell horrifying supernatural stories to each other and seeing everyone nodding in agreement can be terrifying to a young child.
It was about grade 5 that I read a book at the school library about Isaac Newton's laws and I asked a teacher if theses laws had ever been dis proven she said no. It was about that age when I started to feel these stories that I was hearing were all a bunch of bunk and the adults in my life were getting it wrong. At least after that I could sleep better at night LOL. I didn't have to worry anymore about the demons grabbing the steering wheel of our car and crashing it. In retrospect the biggest danger in those days was the lack of seat belts LOL.
ok, so the time has finally come to register an account on this site.
not that i think i have much to contribute to the discussions here, but more out of a desire to show that yet another person has learned ttatt.
i am a fader, not discussing ttatt with anyone as i know the inevitable outcome it would have.
