so this jw friend that got in touch out of the blue a few months ago after 24 years of shunning us agrees that the borg is not keen on university.
it is so difficult to keep to your principles because of all the immorality there according to her.
yes same old story we have been hearing for years.. if that is the case they should be fine with distance learning.
fulltimestudent,
Very interesting - yet no surprise.
As an aside, I was taught to drink by that same elder who persuaded my father not to send me to university. This fellow certainly knew what beer was for, and sad to say, I was an excellent student! Later on he was accepted for Gilead. By the sound of things, he was well qualified.
Bill.
so this jw friend that got in touch out of the blue a few months ago after 24 years of shunning us agrees that the borg is not keen on university.
it is so difficult to keep to your principles because of all the immorality there according to her.
yes same old story we have been hearing for years.. if that is the case they should be fine with distance learning.
So, instead, a young person drops out of school and instead, gets a job:
- because sex, drugs and alcohol abuse don't exist in the workplace, do they?
In my time, I was prevented from going to university by an elder that had some sway over my non-JW father. Yet only a few months after that, I quickly discovered that these "university" things existed in great measure in the workplace, as well.
(40 years ago in our part of the world, drugs weren't a big thing - but promiscuity and heavy drinking and certainly were!)
Bill.
some 800 people in sweden and other parts of europe have developed an incurable case of narcolepsy which is being attributed to pandemrix h1n1 made by glaxosmithkline.
30,000,000 have been vaccinated with the flu shot.
europe drug regulators say those under 20 should not take the drug.
For those (like me) who don't always trust Yahoo News, that article was actually printed word for word from Reuters.
You can find exactly the same report on the Reuters website:
- Even I, who is by no means a computer geek, found it easily enough by just Googling "Kate Kelland, Reuters, UK"
While I would put little trust in the popular media (whether in the printed form, or the electronic), Reuters is almost always a reliable news source. (The writer of that article, Kate Kelland, is the Health and Science Correspondent for Reuters).
Bill.
I tried not to (but with varying results!)
While I am all for giving the WTS the proverbial "Two-fingered Salute" (or "The Finger", for those of you in the USA!), I stop short of doing anything that is going to harm my health in that same process.
As far as I am concerned, there is little point in cutting off ones nose just to spite the face!
Bill.
i know ... many mistakes and a nasty leadership ,but did jehovah's witnesses fulfill even partially matthew 24:14 :"the good news will be preached in all the inhabited earth and then the end will come "are we to expect a final or a completely different fulfilment of this verse ?
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Thank you Cedars! Notice on this map:
- China is not even listed on the WTS's annual report.
- India has a publisher ratio of less than 0.01%
Yet these two countries together represent one third of the world's population.
Furthermore, some of the other countries with weak publisher representation - such as Indonesia - are also quite populous.
When more than one in every three of the world's population has no contact with the JWs, some very clever weasel talk is going to be needed to support the claim that Matt. 24:14 has been fulfilled!
Bill.
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
Mr Arrogance Barrold Bonds,
You have accused many posters here of needing to "take some basic science and biology courses."
Yet evidently, you need to take some basic courses in reading and comprehension. Nobody else reported any difficulty understanding what I meant (thanks Caliber!), and if you were even half as clever as you believe yourself to be, you would not have had any such difficulty, either!
Next time, engage your brain before putting your mouth into gear.
Bill.
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
Were I given to sarcasm, I would probably begin with something along the lines of "Pardon me, but I thought the whole idea of being vaccinated against influenza was to prevent one from getting the flu?"
However, sarcasm has never been my scene, and I don't intend to begin now!
It does seem, though, that I have to spell it out for some people:
- what I meant was that receiving the flu shots each year during that four year period never prevented me from getting the flu.
Also, I never claimed to having been made sick from one flu shot, so kindly refrain from introducing that staw man into the discussion.
Bill.
therefore, if the 70 years period is for the destruction of jerusalem and exile at babylon:.
if zedekiah had not rebelled against babylon, had he surrendered during the final siege that lasted two and a half years, then the destruction of jerusalem and the deportation need not have happened.
then in the jubilee year, they were set free and their hereditary land was returned to them.
The institution where Scholar got his PHD from is actually not far from where I live:
- it is located in Tasmania, and called the University of Lower Crackpot!
Bill.
i try to keep my hands clean regularly and stay away from areas and people that i know are sick.. i have never gotten a flu shot and i do know that many that do get one, get the flu anyway.. still, the flu is considered very very bad this year..
I no longer get flu shots:
- not after having done so during the four years 1997- 2001 (when my then employer used to provide flu shots to any members of the work force who wished to receive these).
During those four years, I have never been so sick in my life, before or since.
So, no - these days, I don't waste my time anymore!
Bill.
for those of you who used to be jws, or who are active, if the society was in charge of the earth, how many people do you think you would have seen stoned during your lifetimes?
i realize some elders can be zealous about their work, but if they'd actually had administrative authority to have kh members stoned to death, how many elders did you know who would have been zealous enough to really order them?.
did you know any elders who would have ordered stonings, even if the condemned people had been willing to repent?.
Cold Steel,
The trouble with a "Theocracy" is that they all think that this is what they have got - they and nobody else. Once convinced of that, it is then just a short step to being able to justify such atrocities as stoning to death, burning at the stake and similar.
Bill.
