many ex-jw's bristle to heard the word obedience.. is obedience love or legalism ?.
websters defines "obey" as "to comply with or be submissive to authority.
" theres a definition crying to be disliked.
In marriage... do you act and obey out of love or duty?.. Or is it rather the duty that love creates ?
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. - Edmund Burke
"love does not subdue but overwhelms ! "
I believe in God but I’d much rather live with people who care about each other than those who only care about God or heaven.
Cal
many ex-jw's bristle to heard the word obedience.. is obedience love or legalism ?.
websters defines "obey" as "to comply with or be submissive to authority.
" theres a definition crying to be disliked.
I heard the story once about a professor who was leading a seminar counseling. In a room full , he wrote this on a flipchart: "I can’t do anything by myself. I can only do what my dad tells me to do." He then asked the folks in the room to analyze the man who said this.
The professor got the expected responses: "This person obviously has no willpower." "He needs to grow a spine and get a life." "I bet he still lives at home." "He needs to get out from under his dad’s shadow and become his own person." Then the professor revealed who it was
referring to ______ five letter name guess who ? (Jn5:19)
Cal
many ex-jw's bristle to heard the word obedience.. is obedience love or legalism ?.
websters defines "obey" as "to comply with or be submissive to authority.
" theres a definition crying to be disliked.
Scarred for life,
Sounds like a great answer to me.. someone you trust... and trust must be earned and deserved right ?
What would be some good guidelines to earn such trust ?
Cal
many ex-jw's bristle to heard the word obedience.. is obedience love or legalism ?.
websters defines "obey" as "to comply with or be submissive to authority.
" theres a definition crying to be disliked.
Give me some examples of whom you might and might not obey my dear !!
Cal
many ex-jw's bristle to heard the word obedience.. is obedience love or legalism ?.
websters defines "obey" as "to comply with or be submissive to authority.
" theres a definition crying to be disliked.
Many ex-Jw's bristle to heard the word obedience.. is obedience love or legalism ?
Webster’s defines "obey" as "to comply with or be submissive to authority." There’s a definition crying to be disliked. Submission? Authority
Even the old wedding vows to love , honor and obey has disappeared.
Does obedience have a place in your life ?
But we balk at the idea of this concept for one very simple, very human reason: we don’t like anyone telling us what to do, and for us, obedience has come to mean "doing what someone tells us to do." And that goes against the very essence of what it means to be an American. the USA was founded specifically because someone tried to tell us what to do. I saw a sign from the Colonial era in an antique store once, and the sign read, "We will have no King to rule over us!" In England, we were used to having a king and calling someone "Your Lordship." When we got to America, when we got on our ownturf, we bucked that oppressive trend. No one is going to tell us what to do (from an On line quote)
Caliver
2008 gets longer by one secondposted on: tuesday, 9 december 2008, 09:50 cst .
the world's timekeepers are making the year 2008 even longer by adding a leap second to the last day of the year.. the earth is slowing down, which requires timekeepers to add an extra second to their atomic clocks to keep in sync with earth's slightly slowing rotation.
so on december 31st at 6:59:59 p.m., an extra second will be added before 7:00 p.m. eastern standard time.. the extra second, plus the extra day on feb. 29, makes the year 2008 the longest year since 1992.. the decision to add the extra second was made by an international consortium of time keepers and was announced on monday.
An international storm is brewing over whether to abolish the leap second, one of which is due to be added to clocks at the end of the year.
Astronomers are alarmed at the proposal and say their clocks must be exactly synchronised with the Earth's rotation. But others say getting rid of leap seconds will make the world a safer place.
Astronomers says getting rid of leap seconds would make it hard for them to train their telescopes on distant stars and could cause problems for navigation and surveying.But some argue having to insert the occasional leap second into clocks can cause computer glitches and havoc in communications
Because the Earth's rotation is relatively imprecise, GMT can be out by several thousandths of a second, and can be affected by tides, currents in the Earth's molten core, seasonal change or major tectonic movements.
Irregularities can have implications for global positioning, high-speed computing, astronomers, security networks and electronic transaction time records.
Keep the razor and your face as warm as possible for the whole ordeal ! ... Cal
2008 gets longer by one secondposted on: tuesday, 9 december 2008, 09:50 cst .
the world's timekeepers are making the year 2008 even longer by adding a leap second to the last day of the year.. the earth is slowing down, which requires timekeepers to add an extra second to their atomic clocks to keep in sync with earth's slightly slowing rotation.
so on december 31st at 6:59:59 p.m., an extra second will be added before 7:00 p.m. eastern standard time.. the extra second, plus the extra day on feb. 29, makes the year 2008 the longest year since 1992.. the decision to add the extra second was made by an international consortium of time keepers and was announced on monday.
Posted on: Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 09:50 CST
The world's timekeepers are making the year 2008 even longer by adding a leap second to the last day of the year.
The Earth is slowing down, which requires timekeepers to add an extra second to their atomic clocks to keep in sync with Earth's slightly slowing rotation. So on December 31st at 6:59:59 p.m., an extra second will be added before 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
The extra second, plus the extra day on Feb. 29, makes the year 2008 the longest year since 1992.
The decision to add the extra second was made by an international consortium of time keepers and was announced on Monday. Digital technology and world commerce depend on accurate to-the-second timekeeping, said Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, responsible for one-third of the world's atomic clocks.
He said that most cellular phone providers and computer operating systems check with the world's atomic clock and update their time to add the leap second automatically.
Leap seconds were started in 1972, sometimes twice a year. This is the first leap second since December 31, 2005. This is the fourth year to have a leap day and a leap second.
The Naval Observatory will have a party at 6:59:60 p.m.
"We watch the clock and make sure nothing breaks," Chester said. "It's an early New Year's celebration." A brief one.
Seen on the news where ironically this one second addition caused more problems than the Y2K
one must reset some electronic equipment !
Cal
... is to not be nasty or rude to other posters in any of my posts and threads....(sarcasm is not rude or nasty.
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... is to not be nasty or rude to other posters in any of my posts and threads....(sarcasm is not rude or nasty.
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So it appears that sarcasm would be more subtle form of opposition
sarcasm..
cutting language: remarks that mean the opposite of what they seem to say and are intended to mock or deridenasty..
unpleasant: generally disagreeable, unpleasant, or causing discomfortrude ..disagreeable or discourteous in manner or action
Maybe we should just save that resolution and try again in 2010 ....... LOL
Caliber
