we were very lucky not to have another airplane blow up this past christmas.. do you think we will see this country under a systematic attack in the near future?.
Interesting how people like WAC and Simon parrot lefty myth after lefty myth while demonstrating that they actually have zero knowledge of Middle Eastern history or any history at all from what I can see. Tell me WAC do you know who Bernard Lewis is? Have you read even one of his books? Evidently not, I'd say that's Class Dismissed.
And I'm sorry, anyone that says the road to peace with terrorists is negotiation simply lives in an alternate universe fully of fluffy pink clouds.
we were very lucky not to have another airplane blow up this past christmas.. do you think we will see this country under a systematic attack in the near future?.
People like Simon live in fantasy world that denies history and denies fact. The only thing Islamic terrorists want is the end of Western civilization and the death of everyone that won't submit to them. There is only the House of Islam and the House of War as anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Islam very well knows. Good luck with negotiating when they hold you down and cut your head off.
And yes, there will be more attacks. I am concerned about the "home run" major destructive event scenario but I'm even more concerned that the terrorist will abandon that effort and decide it's more productive to start blowing up shopping malls and shooting up school buses.
for creating such a stupid unloving hateful religeon.
id do the same thing to rutheford but three times as bad!
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I actually think Russell was trying to do the right thing but I believe Rutherford was evil and well deserving of some serious smacking around.
question :.
why is 'pioneering' a 'privilege' when every jw goes out in ministry anyway.
even those who have lost privileges, or been disciplined, or been reinstated after being disfellowshipped are still expected to go out in the ministry.
Pioneering is a ploy by the organization to create a divisive class structure in the Organization and another mechanism for beating up the membership.
just wondering.
it makes me think whoever underlines the wt without going throughly is purely hypocritical.
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I never underlined, I did write the occasional note in the margin or on a separate piece of paper. I remember two things about underlining that make me laugh. I was the Watchtower Study conductor and generally considered to be quite good at it. Some dinosaur of a visiting speaker noticed during the closing prayer that my magazine wasn't underlined and tried to give me some grief about it after the meeting. I showed him my eight pages of notes and it still wasn't good enough so I told him he was a complete moron as well as being a lousy speaker he stomped off in a huff. The other was a CO blowing an hour and a half Elder's meeting teaching us how to to underline our lessons, what a condescending jackass he was. Even the worshipful Elders were hacked off about that.
why are americans so paranoid about the government?.
please understand im in no way trying to be disrespectful to your country im just trying to understand why their seams to be an outcry every time someone mentions the government legislating over something eg healthcare.
although i dont trust our pollies i would never withdraw my support without at least reading the legislation first.
The more that Government can do for you, the more they can do to you and the more they can take away from you.
The short answer is "no". It has been warmer in the past and it has been colder in the past. There has been more CO2 in the past and there has been less CO2 in the past. Climate changes, it is cyclical and the record doesn't match up to the fear mongering climate models that are being foisted on a gullible public. What kind of cretin decides that the last century or so is the perfect temperature and must be maintained for all eternity of life will end? Barnum was obviously correct.
hahahahaha!....i heard this from a jw today!
they said, "i don't know which is which, but one of them is more conservative (i said 'i think that's republicans) and tend to do things more along the lines of the bible.
and then the other party (democrats) is kind of wild and pushes for abortions and gay marriage.
Not only do they want babies to die they're going to use your tax dollars to make it happen.
i just felt the need to express my thoughts on the matter of "stumbling others" in the congregation.
they tell you that you are accountable for your own soul and responsible for your own spirituality, and then they tell you that you can't do something if its going to stumble your brother.. if a brother/sister sees me doing something not condemned in the bible but maybe is a matter of conscience and he/she is stumbled...why is that my fault?
what makes me accountable for that?
The whole "stumbling" thing has never been anything other than a mechanism for imposing on someone else's conscience.
quite recently, watchtower in sweden applied for governmental financial support, as they are entitled to as a registered religious community.
however, the government declined to accept the application, stating that the reason was that the jws do not adhere to democratic values and standards and do not support mainstream values.. the witnesses are upset, because they feel discriminated against.
they state that the financial issue is not the real issue, but to be treated in a similar way as other religious communities.. they have appealed the decision and plan to send a report explaining the witnesses views in more detail.. the branch office chose the religious, pentecostal (assembly of god) newspaper "dagen" to make an interview.. here is the photo report of the article.. .
If the Swedish government can allocate funds to Muslims to support their fine works of cutting people's heads off and blowing up buildings then I think returning a small percentage of Witness's tax dollars to the organization is probably OK.
