after a conversation with my dad last night, i realized that it is fairly.
easy for jws to weasel out of issues involving the fossil record because.
a) the wt has very little to say on the subject and b) witnesses are.
Sylvia,
When I deem the "evidence" as incontrovertible, then I will politely remove myself without further ado.
When you deem that the earth is not flat, then that makes it so?
In my noted experience, delusions of grandeur are often tied in with religious certainty, and your comment is a perfect example of such a delusion.
HS
i am one who believes strongly in the spirit realm, paranormal activity, etc.
even with such a strong belief, i am often told by skeptics that such things are foolish and nonsense.
while i accept people have the right to feel however they want, i have often shared stories with people that are hard to explain with logic and find others have events like this too.
Why do these spirits just move around making errie footstep sounds, glowing orb like in the air, walking through walls, floating wild eyed into eternity etc. Why do they not do something useful?
If they are clever enough to walk through walls, why don't they do my taxes for me?
They are all a bunch of lazy sods imo.
HS
i am one who believes strongly in the spirit realm, paranormal activity, etc.
even with such a strong belief, i am often told by skeptics that such things are foolish and nonsense.
while i accept people have the right to feel however they want, i have often shared stories with people that are hard to explain with logic and find others have events like this too.
So was it coincidence or paranormal?
It was neither. It was a dream.
HS
june 30, 1908. at around 7:17 a.m. local time, tungus natives and russian settlers in the hills northwest of lake baikal observed a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the sun, moving across the sky.
about 10 minutes later, there was a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire.
eyewitnesses closer to the explosion reported the sound source moving east to north.
"And the third angel sounded....."
Yes, I bet he did. A flatulent angel decides to have an 'air burst' over Russia and kills 18 million trees! There should be a law against it, or at least from Jehovah having those curry parties in higher places.
HS
i think i heard the word "intellectual" for the first time when i was less than ten years old.. my grandmother said to me that the presidential candidate for the democratic party (adalai stevenson) was an "intellectual".. the way she said the word...the timbre of her voice...the look of admiration on her face...led me to believe this was a good thing indeed!.
i think i may have asked her what the word meant, but, i don't recall exactly what she told me.
perhaps enough to confirm that this fellow stevenson was a "thinker" of admirable stature.. fast forward.. by the time my teen years came along there was a kind of dichotomy in society between so-called "eggheads" and common folk.
Terry,
ARE YOU AN INTELLECTUAL? Why not?
Labeling is a useful social vehicle for measurement, but it is something I leave to others, as I am just me. Clever about some things, stupid about many others, inspiring about some matters, capable of boring the arse off Gordon Brown on others.
I spent decades of my life wrestling in the razor wire of questions for which answers will never be forthcoming. These days I am content to 'Golliard' myself into eternity, which I suppose answers your question, albeit ambiguously, as to whether I view myself as an intellectual.
...My intention is to die
In the tavern drinking:
Wine must be at hand, for I
Want it while I am sinking.
Angels when they come shall cry,
At my frailities winking:
'Spare this drunkard, God, he's high'
Absolutely stinking'.
HS
as it was just memorial day, let's try to remember what our troops are fighting and dying for - oil.
but not oil itself; they are fighting and dying for oil profits and that is not the same thing at all!.
the first gulf war was clearly about oil, saddam invaded kuwait because he wanted their oil and we went to war and pushed him back.
Burn,
You reek sympathy for those who may have chosen poorly.
Is this unworthy? HS
the topic on assembly meals hot food at the dcs past...what was it like?
made me think of the days sat on the terraces at district conventions.
they were originally 4 day affairs but ended up just friday and the weekend (maybe they are just the weekend now?)..
Simon,
A few months in Canada and you are already getting nostaligic. Get a grip man! Pretty soon you will be Chair of the Alberta Expatriate British Union Club. ;)
HS
campbell states: "my favorite definition of religion is 'a misinterpretation of mythology.
' and the misinterpretation consists precisely in attributing historical references to symbols which are properly spiritual in their reference.
what a mythic talks about is not something that happened somewhere or will happen somewhere at some time or another; it refers to what is now, and was yesterday, and will be tomorrow, and his forever.
Where did I read, "when two or more are gathered together in my name, we shall call it a religion".
HS
as it was just memorial day, let's try to remember what our troops are fighting and dying for - oil.
but not oil itself; they are fighting and dying for oil profits and that is not the same thing at all!.
the first gulf war was clearly about oil, saddam invaded kuwait because he wanted their oil and we went to war and pushed him back.
What is often hard to grasp is that the oil market is not about oil, it is about the movement of money. The oil industry is about oil.
Both these forces interplay continously, and always have, as does any other commodity.
HS
as it was just memorial day, let's try to remember what our troops are fighting and dying for - oil.
but not oil itself; they are fighting and dying for oil profits and that is not the same thing at all!.
the first gulf war was clearly about oil, saddam invaded kuwait because he wanted their oil and we went to war and pushed him back.
Burn,
No person, not even you it seems, doubts that manipulation is taking place. The commonly touted figure in Wall Street is that 30% of the price of oil is being manipulated by the commodities dealers etc.
The reality is though that even given this, oil has prices would be at $90.00 a barrel, for the reasons that the sensible part of your post outlines.
Get used to it folks, the era of cheap gas has gone for ever. It will never return and this better become a financial reality in our lives sooner rather than later.
HS
