the united nations warned yesterday that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay..... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/26/food.unitednations.
this is a changed world.
we are living in very historic times.
The United Nations warned yesterday that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/26/food.unitednations
This is a changed world. We are living in very historic times. We all need to slow down and pay attention to what is going on. If this is not sending a chill up your spine you need to sit up and pay attention.
Cheers (as cheery as that can be under the circumstances),
Alex
thanks you all for the great info you posted for me yesterday.
it has been very helpful.
i will not talk to my parents right now.
Hi Philosopher,
I did not read all of the replies on your other thread so I don't know if someone suggested what I am going to suggest.
I am 51 and just finishing two advanced degrees (in fact studying for my last finals right now). The education I've undertaken over the last 9 years has been fantastic-- just wish I had done it earlier (when I was in my 20s and 30s the Dub prohibition on education was pretty intense). As soon as I bailed from the BORG I went back to school. Take full advantage of your youth and get as much education as you possibly can.
All the best and good luck,
Alex
oh lord (or whoever).
please help me pay attention to the newbies and concentrate on the ones who are genuine.
please in your infinite wisdom give me relief from add to pay attention to ip addresses and match up the ones who seem to piss me off with the poster who did such deed.. in the name of whatever is holy at the time,.
Aw come on Dinah .... you know you love it. Even the posters who piss us off are good for some fun!!!!
Cheers,
Alex
prompted by the thread about jwd v wts i wondered how many of you found jwd via the internet or friends/partners?
what were your first impressions?
i found this site through besty (husband) once my faith had crumbled after reading www.jwfacts.com.
I don't actually remember for sure, but it may have been through BeliefNet - which is a very interesting site.
oh lord (or whoever).
please help me pay attention to the newbies and concentrate on the ones who are genuine.
please in your infinite wisdom give me relief from add to pay attention to ip addresses and match up the ones who seem to piss me off with the poster who did such deed.. in the name of whatever is holy at the time,.
Dinah, get outta town, you LOVE IT...
Chill and enjoy the ride.
Alex
my name is chief waneta ('the charger') of the sioux nation.
since the leaving of the seven falcons when i was a child, my family joined the jw cult.
chief waneta wanted to do a rain dance.
Welcome, Chief.
Thank you for dropping by. I have great reverance for the wisdom of the Natives of this continent.
All the best,
Alex
i know we all have issues with the borg, but really i think there are far more despicable religions on the go, namely american style evangelical christianity.
i'm watching a film called 'jesus camp' as i type and all i can say is any of you idiots who post on here who say you left the jw's and have now found jesus are totally retarded.
you really need to get a grip on reality and stop needing religion as a crutch.
Yeah, it is!!!
and i wonder, where could god be now?
) either god wanted to eliminate evil and could not.
if option number two is the case, god is evil.
Rapunzel,
Thanks for clarifying your thoughts. I think I understand what you are saying. Unfortunately, what is, IS and what ain't, AIN'T. The world we would like to see, or can imagine, without pain and suffering, will remain an elusive dream. It is disappointing at a certain level, because humans have so much potential to change the world for the better, but we apparently lack the collective wisdom to actually effect that change.
We are a very young species and at the rate we are going it doesn't look like we are laying the foundation to eventually be an older, more mature species. For what it is worth, my thinking is very much shaped by my geology education. We geologists take a very distinctive look at time. Geologists and astronomers are the two groups of scientists who regularly consider the world in the context of "deep time" -- periods of millions, 100s of millions, and billions of years. The earth and all of the life on it has been rolling along (rather violently as you have so correctly pointed out) for a very long time and there is no reason to think things will not continue to roll along in a similar way (with or without humans or some other intelligent form of life), well into the distant future. It's just how it is. I don't think that there is a god or gods who have anything to do with anything that goes on here.
It doesn't mean that we shouldn't do our best to create a better, more just and fair world. I think that is the moral imperative that our big brains have imposed on us. Animals do what they do because they have to. Humans should be at a point in their development that they do what they do simply because they choose to. Humans should have already reached a point of cognition well beyond that of mere animals. But, chronic, global starvation and privation do not promote the higher powers of reason.
Here's a perfect example of what I am talking about. Several weeks ago I came across a Buddhist proverb that says something like, "When we feed grain to the animals and let the children starve, we surrender that which makes us human." So think about this... with ethanol being touted as a fuel alternative, we are not feeding grain to the animals, we are feeding it to the machines. It is insane. I started a thread about this a few weeks ago but it went nowhere.
All the best Rapunzel,
Alex
i just got back from a vacation, and i had to share this one with all of those who aren't getting the kool-aid washtowels any more.. .
scriptural questions answered:.
1:35 - did mary's egg cell, or ovum, have any part in her pregnancy?
Actually, I think the GB and the other Dubbies who contribute to the writing in the publications are a bunch of perverts.
They fixate their attention on the most bizarre stuff. A perfect example of that is the study article from last year that discussed explicit sexual matters. A bunch of posters on JWD raised hell about how the article was considered in the presence of little kids in attendance at the KHs (I have to agree with them). The writers obviously like to delve into things that should just simply be left alone.
Cheers,
Alex
i wil never forget how when i graduated from high school in 1988 i had the opportnity to go to college.
all expenses paid.
my dad didnt approve of it and he was so emotionally abusive that i didnt go because i was told that i had to pioneer.
Because reason, logic, and critical thinking found at the tree of knowledge are to be feared by those who cannot defend what they teach.
