i am leaving now to see christina aguilera tonite.
great voice, great performance.
(i hope so.
Was this the comment you posted on YouTube, GXJW?
that was so funny! i was there too !! "can anybody bring me a towel, something?" ooh i love her for my life !! i was standing like... 4th row! AAAAAWWWWW I LOVE CHRISTINAAGUILERA FOR MY LIFE MY EVERTHYING MY HEART TO DEATH FOR EVER !!!
LOL!
i'm very much a home-body, so i don't go out much and meet a lot of people.
in recent months i've been trying to reverse that and meet more people.. so far the pattern is this:.
meet someone.start chatting and talking.notice a distinct chemistry.attempt to move things to the next level.now this is where things get frustrating.
"I just want to be..." and then the dreaded "F" word: Friends.
To me, that sounds like a person is trying to keep their "options" open. The type that is always on the lookout for someone hotter, wealthier, etc.
i have spent some time puzzling over this every so often.
of course, i have to admit i was affected more, as i was draft age in the vietnam era.
i barely escaped going to prison over this issue, and had numerous friends who were not so lucky.. on a fundamental viewpoint - what exactly is the "biblical" standpoint for absolute abstention from military service?
Here is what Ray had to say:
The official position of the Watch Tower Society, developed during the Second, World War, is that if one of Jehovah's Witnesses accepts such alternative service he has "compromised", has broken integrity with God. ...Since it [alternative service] is offered in place of military service and since military service involves (potentially at least) the shedding of blood, then anyone accepting the substitute becomes "bloodguilty"... In obedience to this policy over the years literally thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses in different countries around the world have gone to prison rather than accept provisions for alternative service. There are Witnesses in prison right now in for this reason. Failure to adhere to the Society's policy would mean being viewed automatically as "disassociated" and being treated the same as being disfellowshiped...
From...November 1977 until February 1980 the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses had tried on six separate occasions to resolve the issue without success...the inability of the Governing Body to achieve that indispensable two-thirds majority meant that male Jehovah's Witnesses in any country who acted according to their conscience and accepted alternate service as a proper government requirement, could still do so only at the cost of being viewed as outside the organization, equivalent to expelled persons.
(pp. 101, 102, 131)
i have spent some time puzzling over this every so often.
of course, i have to admit i was affected more, as i was draft age in the vietnam era.
i barely escaped going to prison over this issue, and had numerous friends who were not so lucky.. on a fundamental viewpoint - what exactly is the "biblical" standpoint for absolute abstention from military service?
I was also kind of hoping on some comment on the biblical basis for outlawing military service completely in the first place?
That depends on if you want to support the military or refuse to enter into service. Refer to the Old Testament for pro-military arguments, and for the hippie types, brush up on the "turn the other cheek" Jesus quotes. Jehovah was a big-time God-of-War back in the glory days. Jesus' apostles ran from every little skirmish they happened to be in.(OK, maybe the severed ear could count as being pro-war)
But for the best "scriptural" reference, I'm sure Blondie has plenty of solid Watchtower material she can dig up.
someone told me that the wtbts has software for witnesses that blocks out "apostate" sites and enables them to track sites their children visit.
this somehow does not ring true to me and i have dismissed it as rumor.
i know there is software out there like that but is the watchtower publishing a version of their own and making it available to the publishers as this person said?.
The other whack cult uses that software - Church of Scientology.
i have spent some time puzzling over this every so often.
of course, i have to admit i was affected more, as i was draft age in the vietnam era.
i barely escaped going to prison over this issue, and had numerous friends who were not so lucky.. on a fundamental viewpoint - what exactly is the "biblical" standpoint for absolute abstention from military service?
forcing "persecution" to get notoriety?
This was probably the primary motive from the beginning. Even Ray Franz wrote about a time where a 2/3's vote was achieved, but soon after, a GB member changed his vote which allowed the decades old policy to stand. I believe 1995 was the year of the alternative service "180."
I still remember being at one of my mom's best friends house in Kingman, AZ during the first gulf war(this sister also happened to be one of the GB's secretary back in the 70's/80's). We were watching CNN or some other news station and the sister asked me what would I do if the USA instituted the draft. As a teenager at the time, I said, "I would probably go work in a hospital instead." You should have seen their eyes widen right up. It was as if I just said Satan was my best pal. I honestly didn't know that alternative service, such as working in a hospital, was against the "rules" of the WTS at that time. They both went on to lecture me that any service that was merely a substitute of military duty was WRONG WRONG WRONG. Funny, 3-4 years later, I wonder if they recalled our little conversation? I sure did, and always will.
post here, what you would love to say in front of all the congregation.
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Brian, Adrian, and Dave -- Are you still satisfied that you made the right decision to df me two years ago at the request of the service department? Or would you have still allowed me to be an active 'fader?' Because to tell you the truth, I am much more vocal now than I was after I was "busted." If you would have left me alone, I would probably have kept my mouth shut so as to keep my family. But hey, I understand that you have no say in the matter and are simply reacting to the tugging of strings which are attached to your body.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=a042812e-492c-4f07-8245-8a598ab5d1bf&k=63970diabetes breakthrough.
toronto scientists cure disease in mice.
tom blackwellnational postfriday, december 15, 2006in a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a toronto hospital say they have proof the body's nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential near-cure of the disease that affects millions of canadians.. diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas.. "i couldn't believe it," said dr. michael salter, a pain expert at the hospital for sick children and one of the scientists.
Suspecting a link between the nerves and diabetes, he and Dr. Salter used an old experimental trick -- injecting capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot chili peppers, to kill the pancreatic sensory nerves in mice that had an equivalent of Type 1 diabetes.
I've always said that people need to eat more spicy food! (now if there is any relevance between getting an injection and ingesting it...)
But this is great news. Hopefully they can find a way to make this work in humans.
i wouldn't be surprised if hillary makes it.
i hope not, though..
my dearest daughter-in-law, whyamihere (brookie), just had four of her wisdom teeth yanked out this morning.
she is heavily sedated (as usual) and is thrilled to have legal narcotics available to her every 4-6 hours.
she even looks cute with wads of cotton stuck in her cheeks.. please send her some love!.
Vicodin and booze. That'll ease the pain.
Although Vicodin didn't do much for my wisdom teeth... Damn infection!
