winner of 10,000 ryanair scratch card eats winning ticketpassengers asked to vote for which charity should receive this 10,000 prize ryanair, the worlds favourite airline, today (26th feb) confirmed that the winner of a 10,000 ryanair scratch card, on thursdays fr1724 flight from krakow to east midlands, ate the 10,000 winning ticket after crew confirmed he had won the 10,000 prize.
when the delighted crew congratulated the winner and advised him how to claim his prize he apparently became upset that ryanairs cabin crew could not pay him the 10,000 there and then on the flight.
when the crew explained to him that these very large 10,000 prizes needed to be verified with, and collected directly from, the scratch card company the prize winner became angry and decided to digest his win literally!http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/winner-of-10000-euro-ryanair-scratch-card-eats-winning-ticket.
Lol is this for real? The poll at the end asking on what charity to spend the 10k is funny too, and fitting for the passenger:
1. An Anger Management Charity 2. An Eating Disorder Charity 3. A Gamblers Charity 4. A Disruptive Children’s Charity 5. A Mental Health Charity
why don't you have a go at an obvious prophecy!
jesus said increased wars, earthqaukes, pestilence {obvious prophecies} but here are mine.. 1. verily i say interest rates will rise and fall like "the sea of mankind.".
2. there shall be riots and turmoil after soccer matches...see that you are not terrified, for these things must take place...".
Truly I say to you, false prophets will come. And there will be scrolls written about them, not on papyrus, not on sheepskin, but on invisible paper, yet all the world will be able to read those words. And truly I tell you the pages of those scrolls will reach over 10.000, and the rejoicing will be great. And it will be known among the initiated as... JWN.
http://www.jw-media.org/rus/20100226.htm.
for immediate release.
february 25, 2010. jehovahs witnesses address their fellow citizensrussiaon february 26-28, 2010, throughout russia, from the chukchi peninsula in the east to kaliningrad in the west, a special campaign is taking place.
On page 3 of the tract there are 3 "facts" to show JWs are not extremists.
1. CLAIM: Jehovah’s Witnesses endanger the State by sowing religious discord, claiming that theirs is the only true religion.
CONSIDER: Do you know of any religion that does not claim to be the true one? After all, why would people adhere to a religion if they did not believe its tenets to be true? Really, then, all religions are equally liable to thesame charge. Perhaps it is more meaningful to ask, ‘How are the adherents of a particular religion taught to treat those with different beliefs?’
So true... so what is JWs teaching about people with different beliefs? Let's see: they're bird food, they lie, fornicate at every occasion, their love is false, etc. They also use every possible occasion to slander other faiths, generally calling them "false Christians". No, that would not cause any discord at all...
2 CLAIM: Jehovah’s Witnesses are a destructive sect because they break up families.
CONSIDER: In any family, religion can be a sensitive issue, particularly when one member adopts a different faith. Does that mean, though, that the religions involved are to blame for the discord? Or do the individuals bear responsibility for how they handle their new differences?
Right, throw the blame on the individuals you spineless *****. It isn't that the WTS is teaching followers to hate and shun disfellowshipped persons. It's the individual's responsibility.
CLAIM: Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse medical treatment.
Can you say red herring? I doubt the russian court said JWs refuse medical treatment. They are refusing BLOOD! Which choice is killing people every year, no matter how you spin it in the so called "Fact" section.
do you not know that they teach wrong doctrine?.
i hope you do i pray you do!
it's brainwash on so many lvls.
Actually Stephen (seeing this thread has no particular topic any more I don't worry about hijacking it) from your quoted passage JWs eyes will be transfixed on verse 6 - they use it as anti-trinitarian proof.
Reading the verse in an other language and other translation makes me realize it can be interpreted from a trinitarian view this way too: Jesus was God, but he didn't want to grasp to that function under all circumstances, but gave up all to become human. Amirite?
how can the greatest commandment be to love god?
why did jesus say to his disiples that he loved them for keeping his commandments?.
doesnt being commanded to do something take away our freewill?.
You still have free will to disobey the commandment
Yes, that's only sidestepping. Loving because you "have to" brings us to the JW version of conditional, emotionless love.
As for me personally I take that scripture rather an invite than forcing you to do something.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17466332_1_east-bay-bay-area-first-time-camping.
biblical scholar's date for rapture: may 21, 2011theologyjanuary 01, 2010|by justin berton, chronicle staff writerformer civil engineer harold camping of oakland, who runs family radio, has studied the bible for almost 70 years.credit: lance iversen / the chronicleharold camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.. "that date has not one stitch of biblical authority," camping says from the oakland office where he runs family radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world.
"it's like a fairy tale.".
Don't laugh so hard, his calculations are just as belivable as the 2520 days... and we believed that one for a while.
I wonder if he'll play the "invisible end" card after 2011 too...
an old friend who knew i had always been "searching for truth" told me to read chapter 111 if nothing else , i did , and i dont know if im more scared than when i was in the cult or feel better for reading it (the latter, i think ) he said i should read the davinci code ,angels and demons , then the lost symbol but i feel guilty for reading stuff like that (you can take the girl out the truth but not the truth out the girl ) has anyone else read these books or knows about chapter 111 when it talks of revalation in the bible ?.
I only read the Da Vinci code, so I can't discuss those views, but I see Dan Brown as a pulp fiction writer, nothing more. I find his allusions that his stories have more to them than simple fiction a distasteful sensationalist way of promotion.
If you have a mind set on conspiracies, read Umberto Eco's Foucault Pendulum, it's a slap on the wrist for all conspiracy-theorists out there. And it's a pretty good read too.
not sure if this question was addressed yet, but does anyone know what the next book is that will be studied at the congregation bible study?.
i'm pretty sure we're close to the end of keep yourselves in god's love, or maybe it's finished already, so if anyone knows what the new study aid will be please let me know.. .
thanks-dig.
"Book Study" sounded too cultish, so they changed it to "Bible Study". You can guess that the Bible is just as used as at any other "Bible study"... that is to say hardly at all. "Book study" at least was the proper name.
hi everyone ,.
there are many new folk joining here everyday , and i thought it may be interesting and fun to just see how many people have left the congregation that you have attended in the past 5 years .
i dont mean of course people who are active jw's moving to another cong , but people that have left the wt religion , faded , da'd or df'd .. so , i will start off with my own cong .there have been 9 leave , 8 completely gone , myself hardly ever there and ' inactive ' .. leo999.
bulgogiboy: not sure if that was the reason, it was just a rumor. He was DFd not long after I came to the cong, so I didn't even know him that much, but I think the boy was never baptized, so it was not a case of supporting a DFd person. The rumor said something about actively defending his son's deed - which also I don't know what it was, I even heard he killed someone, but I doubt it, I've met with him not that long ago, and he's free. The whole rumor might be the product of imagination, given the two events happened close to one another.
yknot lol your congregation is visibly falling apart.
hi everyone ,.
there are many new folk joining here everyday , and i thought it may be interesting and fun to just see how many people have left the congregation that you have attended in the past 5 years .
i dont mean of course people who are active jw's moving to another cong , but people that have left the wt religion , faded , da'd or df'd .. so , i will start off with my own cong .there have been 9 leave , 8 completely gone , myself hardly ever there and ' inactive ' .. leo999.
In my 10 active years I've seen 6 DF in the congregation, and an additional 4 who I presume are DFd, and I missed the announcement (never was too close to them, that's why I don't know details). One of the DF was our old PO... rumor has it that he chose to support his son, who was put in jail at the time. And there's also me, so that's 11
Also I have seen a grand total of 1 person (not from the above 10) "returning to Jehovah's loving care", or whatchamacallit.
Edited to add the numbers: 9 + 11
TOTAL: 20 so far.
