i don't know about the rest of you, but i have seen my fair share of death.
both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, older jws that were pillars in the community.
i even knew the first missionary in missouri, a brother named gerald golf.
I know some here don't believe in an afterlife in heaven, but I just wonder about all the JDubs who have passed that are in Heaven, that has to be the biggest "Aha moment" of all time.
Since we've all seen cartoons of St Peter welcoming people at the gates, I just wonder when all the Dubs get there are they forced to wear a sheet or somethng with the word "DUPED" on it for the rest of their heavenly life.
i've been in need of a new laptop for a long time.
no, i mean it - a really long time.
the old dell that we have has a floppy lid and is woefully underpowered although it does build up my upper body strength every time i pick it up.. the last 6 months has been a bad time to buy something new though with the haswell processors on the horizon promising better battery life and also screen technology seems to have been leaping ahead recently to a new hi-dpi standard.. so apple finally released their mac book pro and at the same time dell has released an xps 15 ultrabook which looks like a pretty good alternative and probably better 'value'.. pro's and con's?
Simon I think of you as being an Uber tech guy so I'm surprised you would even consider something by Acer, unless they've totally upgraded and improved, I've always thought of Acer as being the KMart of computers.
just spotted witnesses handing out brochures like they were going out of fashion this afternoon.
this was at oxford circus in london (one of the busiest shopping areas of london).
they were actually getting in the way and had boxes of the rubbish!!.
Well, at least they were moving, here in the NYC subway system, the ones that aren't privileged enough to stand behind the table setups and display cases just stand like statues holding the magazines in front of them for hours, I guess they probably do that your subway stations as well.
i know nothing about legal matters, but there are those here who are quite keen at these things.. if they changed the no blood teaching, would this open the watchtower society up to litigation?.
Hey Crazyguy if you're still following this thread, there's something I find most interesting in your post regarding two words that follow each other . . . just sayin'.
i know nothing about legal matters, but there are those here who are quite keen at these things.. if they changed the no blood teaching, would this open the watchtower society up to litigation?.
I don't think it would be hard at all to prive the Societ's no blood issue. I'm in my mid 50's and I clearly remember it, what about the folks who were in and turned downed blood and or still alive? I'm sure they remember. Better yet ask some Drs, I'm sure they remember their wacky patients saying no blood, I went to a Dr. about two years ago and he was telling me the procedures of some surgery and although he didn't violate the HIPPA law, he randomly worked in something about one of his JW patients totally turning down blood referring to the procedures of the operation or something
One of the wackiest stories I remember is my friends sister who was in labor, she and her husband going to hospital to hospital to explain her situation about blood, one said that she would need it, they both left and drove to another, same story, finally a Dr. who complied with their opinion, but in labor and going from hospital to hspital and still follwing seven old men in Bklyn's rules who have you believing it's straight from Jah, that really sad.
i know nothing about legal matters, but there are those here who are quite keen at these things.. if they changed the no blood teaching, would this open the watchtower society up to litigation?.
I agree with you Wasblind on the "no one held a gun to their head" issue, think of all the children who have died because of the beliefs of their crazy JDub parents, children and babies have no say if they wanted to die or not.
Technically they have changed their attitude on blood since they now accept "blood fragments", which if not synthetic blood is taken from actually blood, that's why it's called a fragment, it was taken from the original. I hope they received a lot of lawsuits after they started the fragment issue
started one thread serious, so thought i'd go light and easy on this one.
so what say yee to this?
here are mr. flippers, about in this order, but not necessarily.
The Party with Peter Sellers is one of my faves too, but reading the other listings here, I'll just say there's a major generation gap between me and the other folks here.
didn't know if this has been addressed before , but it's kinda interesting.
when we were witnesses we were always told,oh!
don't look at horoscopes or read anything about your sign because it's demonized !
Another Sagittarian here
i have put together a mash up of active and former jehovah's witnesses, including a number of interesting interviews.. http://youtu.be/ozwvh57erro.
as a side note, i hope it does not get removed for copyright violation, as software automatically scans for pieces of music and i have already received some violation messages.
the video does comply with fair usage laws, as the music is relevant to the commentary..
Ja Rule was right. his mother went to my Cong. before she got married and had him, so I know the folks that are responsible for his mom getting DFd, one of them is still a Dub according to her FB page, the others I think they're still in, but not 100 per cent sure
is it really true that jw children get gifts 'all through the year', not just for christmas and birthdays like non- jw kids?
as stingy as most jws are, i find that very hard to believe.
plus the childhood magic of christmas and birthdays is totally absent in jw households.
That line about JDubs giving their kids presents throughout the year is just their comeback line when folks ask them about not celebrating Christmas. I'm just glad my dad wasn't in while I was growing up, I have fond memories of going to friends and relatives houses for dinner for the holidays and I did get gifts. I guess I'm one of the lucky born-ins.
