i'll be back later to take care of brother larc and others.
for now, i want to share a brief quote taken from albert einstein.
if the doctor fouls up the quote, he takes full responsibility for any legal ramifications that may append thereto.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
Albert Einstein
Don't worry, I don't think his family will sue you.
I just read a clever one that I believe was attributed to Einstein, "What time does Manchester stop at this train?" Haven't been able to verify it.
Hmmm
many who join the jws are running away from something.
nothing unusual about that, it happens in relationships.
but i didn;t know about that in 1987.. it was one field service weekday, as a fresh faced, new convert on the doors.
Then she wound up the conversation by telling me... that I would leave the JWs after a few years....Now I realise that she probably had either some history as a JW herself, or some relevant education. But I carried her words around with me for the whole time I was a dub, 14 years.
Hmmm, she prophesied that you'd be out in "a few years" and you stayed for 14? Sounds like her history as a JW might have been on the Writing committee. Just kidding.
I remember running into a guy in service who was a satan worshipper. He had the whole Goth outfit and showed me his satanist's bible. I was with another young brother and I think we were both excited by doing battle with the Dark Side, so we stayed there for over an hour and a half. The guy was disappointingly mild-mannered and polite, and nothing started floating around the room, so we never went back.
Hmmm, I wonder how many ex-JWs get into Wicca or satanism after they leave? I was kind of taught that it was just something teenagers did to be rebellious--that they didn't really "mean" it--and I haven't really reconsidered it since leaving.
Hmmm
maybe it will interest some.... "microsoft corporation supports its employees philanthropy by matching employee donations up to $12,000 per employee per year to eligible 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
through its matching gifts program, microsoft donated at least $5,000 in cash and/or $25,000 in software (retail value) to the following organizations.
(donations to religious organizations are restricted to secular community service programs.
I hope Microsoft sends them 10,000 copies of Windows ME. That'll set the WTS back 100 years!
Hmmm
to carry the island thing further, if you were stuck on an island what 10 movies would you have?.
1. superman.
2. airplane!.
Top Ten Movies? "As you wish."
With my ultra-busy schedule, I guess my test of a good movie is if I'll sacrifice the time to watch it more than once. For this reason, only a couple comedies make the list.
Casablanca (Bogey defined cool. Ingrid Bergman stops my heart. Probably the movie with the most quotable lines)
Ladyhawke (Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeifer uber-romance. They're cursed. By day he's a man and she's a hawk, by night she's a woman and he's a wolf. At sunrise/sunset when they almost meet it's heart-wrenching.)
Braveheart ("Why are you helping me?" "Because of the way you are looking at me right now." I fell in love with Sophie Marceau.)
Gone With The Wind (I don't know nothing 'bout birthin' no babies!)
It's A Wonderful Life (All-time feel-good movie. Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.)
The Shawshank Redemption (I stopped in the restroom at the theater after watching this. A 50-yr-old white man and 50-yr-old black man looked at each other, paused, said "that was a great movie,” and shook hands. Hard to believe Stephen King wrote this)
The Princess Bride ("Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." The book is even better.)
The Sixth Sense (Halley Joel Osment: A star is born. Bruce Willis: A leopard changes his spots. The ending hit me like a freight train.)
Star Wars (Studio let Lucas make this only because American Graffiti was successful)
The Godfather (Part I, though part II was great also)
…And tied for 11th place. I just couldn’t leave these unmentioned:
The Matrix (Great action sequences, innovative cinematography, and thought-provoking story)
Die Hard (Pure, unadulterated action)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Three hours, two love stories, one great movie.)
Groundhog Day (It's a romance. No, it's a comedy! Andie MacDowell is a sophisticated beauty)
The Usual Suspects (Surprise ending that isn’t cheap or contrived)
The Seven Samurai (The original Crouching Tiger… karate flick with a story)
Notorious (Carey Grant and Ingrid Bergman!)
To Catch a Thief (Carey Grant and Grace Kelly!)
Se7en (“Be my wrath!” Very disturbing movie. I walked out of the theater in a fog.)
Citizen Kane (Took me a while to appreciate this movie)
Sense and Sensibility (I was in a “sensitive” mood when I first saw this movie. So sue me.)
TR's mention reminded me of the war movies and westerns that I left off:
Tora Tora Tora
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Outlaw Josie Wales
Unforgiven
So I listed 25 movies for a top ten list. What're you gonna do, DF me?
how many jws does it take to change a lightbulb?
one, but mature christians will wait for the new system .
how many elders...?.
Four: One to change the lightbulb, and three to proclaim the New Light!
Hmmm,
Who was deeply offended the first time he heard that. Now it cracks me up.
a question that comes up a lot on the exmormon bb is: "what movie reminds you the most about the church?
" i would put that question here, what movies remind you the most of the watchtower society?
i think i know most of the answer, just interested.. dana.
My tongue-in-cheek answer would have been "The Jim Jones Story" (Don't remember if that's the actual name. It starred Powers Booth as the legendary cult leader.)
After considering the blood issue and protection of pedophiles, my tongue isn't in my cheek any longer.
Hmmm
just a couple of quick questions, the first directed at exjws - could you ever see any reason for you to return to the organisation?
what would have to happen for you to return?
under what circumstances would you ever go back?
When I was a young zealous JW, a friend and I asked ourselves that question a few times. The answer for both of us was, "I would NEVER leave The Truth. But IF I were to do so, it would be because I found incontrovertible proof that this wasn't God's Organization."
We're both out.
Now, the answer to going back is almost identical. "I would only go back if I found incontrovertible proof that it WAS God's Organization." My baptism wasn't made after such undeniable proof, but my return would require it, and at this point, nothing short of direct Divine Communication would suffice.
Hmmm
just pondering over a few things i have been reading.. 1.annual corporate meeting oct 6, 2001. with all the weird changes in the last year...red light alert!.
2. since it was the 337 voting members who had the biggest say so as to the changes last year in removing the gb...... (and they are non jws)....what else will they or have they done?.
the only reason they don't send the gb home, and it's not because they care about their elderly, is the fact without them as puppets up there, most jws might wake up and smell the kool-aid!.
Justamom,
I am gloriously ignorant of these things.
the 337 voting members who had the BIGGEST say so as to the changes last year in removing the GB.....(And they are NON JWS)....
I thought the official "voting" members were the 8000 some-odd anointed. Of course they have no real input, and vote-through what the GB tells them to, but I could have sworn they were the "board"
If they're non-JWs, just who are they?
Every day there's something else to make me say,
Hmmm
does freedom of thought really obtain in this forum?
are those who have left god's organization and jehovah god himself actually now more open-minded and unbiased?
if those who espouse atheistic thoughts or those who believe every vile utterance spoken against jehovah's people think they are now speaking from some olympian perspective, i beg to differ.
Since I couldn't possibly reason with Dunsscot any better than many who already have, I'll play to my strenghts: wit and sarcasm, your individual appreciation of which may vary.
Furthermore, Kant suggests that we are locked up in our minds. Thus, we can only deal with phenomena, not noumena.
I think that no matter what religious organization one chooses to commune with, he or she has to exercise his or her critical thinking abilities.
Read GWF Hegel and you will get my drift.
Introspection said:
You seem like a well educated fellow,
Secondly, part of Spirit's unfoldment involves (in this case) believing that the part equals the whole at times.
Our cognitive powers do not function as they should in our infralapsarian state.
We must deal with a form of inertia that affects our very being or existence.
Thus the imperfect men of the GB may stress conformity to certain ideas that are not in fact fully formed. But we must not be hindered by such small details. The whole is more important than its constituent parts: I look at what the JWs teach as whole.
Each autonomous subject IS an end in itself"
Descartes aptly writes that I cannot establish with any certainty that I am either awake or asleep.
My thoughts on blood transfusion are as follows. There is no explicit command to abstain from blood transfusions, but there seems to be a Bible principle that suggests one should not ingest blood in any way. Should taking blood thus be a matter of conscience? I personally think it should. And by this statement, I do not mean that we should consider those who take blood transfusions to be our former brothers, who have shown they did not want the truth. A matter of conscience should be a matter of conscience.
maybe you should rename yourself after the person who REALLY inspires your writing style:
"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Hmmm
PS If you're having trouble pasting quotes into text, I can't help you other than ctl+c and ctl+v. To make it LOOK LIKE a quote, click on the link below your message window when posting: "Use Forum Code in your message"
i just saw this show on the scifi channel for the first time on monday night.
how entertaining!
if this guy is for real, i'm amazed.
Someday, maybe someone will teach me how they can transfer what someone wrote previously in the small form. Right now I just copy and paste.
Tweetiebird,
When you post a reply to a message, you'll see the following two lines directly under the frame where you type your message:
Add emotions to your message and Use Forum Code in your message
These are links to little windows that will help you format your text with boldface, italics, (for posters born in Italy) underlining, different colors etc... The one you want is "Use Forum Code in your message." "Add emotions to your message" tells you how to put smilies in your posts.
Just click on one (it's not underlined like a hyperlink in a web page would be, but it's still a link) and you're on your way.
Hmmm,
Who is a computer geek by trade, but still has to edit every post a few times to get the coding right
