i'm curious, as where i reside there's about to be a major brouhaha over the tax exempt status of a major player in this area.
reading and hearing the arguments from both sides conjured thoughts about the tax exempt status of religions and the arguments associated with that issue.
a significant portion of the arguments related to that issue center around how a tax exempt organization benefits it's community.
provided the impetus for drug abusers / alcoholics to straighten out their lives...
Yes, though addicts will straighten out only if they want to be clean--otherwise, nobody and nothing will "cure" them.
...and become productive members of society
That's unlikely. What is productive about foregoing education and working dead-end, low paying jobs just so you can peddle pulp fiction door-to-door?
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we warmly invite you to attend this year's three-day convention presented by jehovah's witnesses/ 'god's word is truth'.
They're basing a talk on the words of Pontius Pilate! (John 18:38)
"Pilate said to him, 'What is truth?' "
i am 32, old enough to remember being told to refute the big bang as untrue by my parents and the religion they brought me up in.. it was a big decision for me even as a teen, i knew i was choosing a side, i remember my physics teacher laughing and mocking me and the other jw for denying the big bang.
our parents arranged that in our exams we were allowed to answer questions on the big bang in a unique manner:.
"scientists claim......... but as a jw i do not subscribe to this belief.".
Another reason WT doesn't like the Big Bang Theory is the scientist who came up with it:
Georges Lemaitre, SJ
"so they asked him, "what miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you?
31 our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: 'he gave them bread from heaven to eat.
'" 32 jesus said to them, "i tell you the truth, it is not moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
Go look at the Dionysius cult. The wine and bread is copied from that greek religion.
Go look at Genesis 14. Bread and wine was offered by Melchizadech. Who copied whom?
i am very angry, pent-up rage call it!
so you will understand why and with great ease this subject is able to flow off my tongue onto the keyboard, because this time of the year is worse than your christmas time jitters!
anxiety, stress, compulsive babbling nuts are invading our service groups!
Aunt Connie, let's make a deal: I won't go to your memorial, and you will stay away from Easter Midnight Mass. How does that sound?
the husband just gave me the new march km (im using it folded up as a coaster at the moment) and a new "blood card" to complete, along with a copy of a set of instructions for how to fill it out and a letter from wts to every baptised publisher.
i said to him "i wont be needing that" and gave it back to him, and he just said, well just throw it out then - no overreaction yay :o) without telling him, about a month ago, (i tore up my existing no blood directive.
our kids have never carried around "identity cards" we were never that diligent about it).
I've been wondering if its worthwhile carrying some sort of anti-blood directive card with me,
Perhaps a donor ID card from the blood bank?
and now for something completely nerdy,.... http://www.piday.org/.
lmao.
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Let's celebrate properly three years! from now! (3 14 16)
got this email from an elder.
makes me f*ckin sick..... .
hi jl,.
They do not do a good job of exploring why different people stop going to the meetings
First things first: gotta pump up that memorial head count for the annual report. Get more seats filled for the annual census, that's the prority this month. The shepherding calls, JCs and shunning will wait until the memorial reports are in.
Go once a year, and you contribute to their "growth".
Good story, great movie, though the facts were somewhat embellished for dramatic effect.
The chase scene on the runway was a little silly (Given that the top speed of a 60's era Mercedes Unimog was about 60 mph)
Not to mention what the blast from engines at take-off power would do to them!
so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.
i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.
'my other car is noah's ark'.
