there,s a civil war in that country.
why don,t the.
un get involve.
Question. Is anyone even thinking of sending American soldiers "north of the border"? Would Canadians agree to that?
I'm afraid your comparison of the situations in Mexico and Canada is a little spurious, dgp. Where is the violence? Not here. It's all right there in Mexico.
there,s a civil war in that country.
why don,t the.
un get involve.
Yes. You have the solution, dgp. All you have to do is stop Americans from doing drugs. Why didn't anyone think of that before?
i thought i would never get my college degree from a university in this century at the age of 48 but i did it and graduated with an "a-" average.
i did this all the while working a full time job and going to school full time.
it can be done and now i love school to death.
Congratulations. It's a wonderful feeling. And you're 100% on the money.
the lady i studied with asked if it would be okay if she still brought the magazines by.
i said of course because i do love the awake and watchtower.
well, when she came by last week, she gave me the mags and then as we stood around chit-chatting, i realized we were basically still having the study, only we were standing up instead of sitting in the living room.
To flipper's excellent point (something we are all aware of but whose nuance might be a little too subtle to grasp at first) this in a business vernacular is called "keeping two sets of books". These are intended for consumption by different audiences. One set of books is as accurate a representation of reality as possible, used internally to actually run the business, while the other is intended to deceive and/or assure an external audience. The editions of the magazines you receive are the PR versions, designed to paint the Watchtower in benign if not benevolent pastel shades of colour. The editions of the magazines you will receive if you "progress" will be the so-called Kool-aid versions, which incorporate more Watchtower dogma and employ deliberate psychological control mechanisms. Now, ask yourself, Penelope, what legitimate business has two sets of books and what legitimate religious organisation has two printed versions of how it represents itself?
marrying out of the truth !!.
(author's name removed to protect privacy).
he or she-- doesn't love jehovah .
Heh. Shakespeare you guys ain't, but I applaud you anyway.
i thought this was so insanely stupid that it made it funny, so i had to share.
living in "the bible belt", i meet people with this sort of mentality all the time but this guy takes the cake!
let's all applaud this guy for reaching new lows in his preachy narrow-mindedness that it was barely interesting enough that a reporter was desperate enough for a story wrote about it.. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/florida_pastor_asks_why_atheis.html.
I've stumbled upon this guy and his blog before. He's a Class-A nutcase who also happens to be a fundamentalist Christian.
marrying out of the truth !!.
(author's name removed to protect privacy).
he or she-- doesn't love jehovah .
here's my poem:
what
a
big
steaming
pile
of
happy
horseshit.
there,s a civil war in that country.
why don,t the.
un get involve.
A well trained, elite squadron of ruthless men made up of the best the US and Mexico has to offer, commanded by the finest military and strategy brains of each country and under the joint direction of the presidents of both countries who are advised by intelligence operations dedicated 100% to the objective. These men would be exhaustively trained in covert operations, would have limited family associations (and would be unidentifiable in any case) and would be paid like football stars (no plato o plomo exposure). They would play by no rules and they would take no prisoners except those they wish to waterboard for information. They would systematically kill every individual identified as associated with the drug cartels, focusing on enforcers, strategists and leadership. Cooperation with the drug cartels either side of the border would be harshly punished (Plata? Luego de plomo!) . There would be great upheaval and collateral damage but ultimately it would become a question of resources. The country would continue to bleed for years but it would also be reborn. If it maintains its current direction it will die anyway.
In order to distill the effort down to the hardcore elements driving the situation in Mexico, I expect the US will also indeed need to decriminalise cannabis, if not make it legal. The US will need to tax and regulate it and control it like it did alcohol after the failed experiment of prohibition. But there are too many rich and influential people in the US who live in a sort of la-la-land who will do their utmost and make absolutely certain that decriminalisation or legalisation does not happen. Their reasons may be noble or they may be selfish, because it is hard to imagine how the widespread use of a psychoactive substance by its poplulation would improve the country's prospects of maintaining its position in the world, particularly against rapidly emerging countries in which the recreational use of drugs is not as prevalent. But there will be solutions to this, too, and those who cannot or will not see them are as much to blame for the violence in Mexico as the cartels themselves.
there was an error on the latest awake!
cover.
here is the correct version.. .
*click*
at the end of today's meeting, some over-righteous friends were discussing the various possibilities of armaggeddon occuring invisibly, considering the explanation given within the "parousia" domain on the invisible presence of christ in 1914. they reffered to some articles which i am presently looking through.. .
while he was sitting upon the mount of olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence [pa?rou?sia, greek] and of the conclusion of the system of things?.
"in our day, then, what is meant by the biblical expression the presence of our lord jesus christ?
In 1975, people threw invisible gold into the streets, the UN invisibly destroyed false religion, and invisible rocks fell from the sky invisibly killing all wicked people. Like charlie brown jr., survivors were issued invisible pet tigers, and invisible homes with invisible vines and fig trees. Millions of invisible people have been resurrected on earth and are walking around naked and invisible.
What would a person need to smoke to believe that scene?
Sometimes, Billy, you crack me up ... shit, but that's funny.
