been meaning to do that for a while - and just saw an article in bar (see below) and thought - that's how i feel today (grin) i've had the flu for 2 weeks and feel really pissed off.. sunday before last, my friend visiting from china, calls up and says come to dinner tonite, meet me at darling harbour.
so did that, and even though we could've walked to the restaurant he'd selected in about 15 minutes, he decides (he's rather wealthy) we should take a water taxi to circular quay (for those who know sydney).
i protested, as i knew it was expensive - $70 for a 10 minute ride.we're no sooner in the boat, than it starts to rain like hell, and before the boatmaster could get the curtains down, i was soaked on one side.
The Wikipedia article on the matter has a lot of source material you can find out more about It. Suffice to say that it is likely Jesus died with his arms outstretched (IF he existed in the first place) or at least the story would be told like that due to the symbolism.
It seems the practice evolved over time and also based on what was expedient and available.
there is a trial currently starting - even funnier than the baldwin nonsense.. yes, everyone's favorite actor, singer and hate crime victim is going on trial.. i am, of course, talking about jussie smollett.
he's going on trial for lying to chicago police and wasting their time.. he's obviously as guilty as hell, but i just can't wait for this to unfold.. it's gonna be hilarious ....
Jussie Smollett will now have to share a cell with both his attacker and his victim. I can hear the leftists complaining now that this is somehow unfair. Don Lemon himself assisted in this hoax, after the Cuomo comedy duo left the building there at CNN and yesterday another child molester (a CNN producer) was fired, I’m wondering if CNN will start cleaning house.
hello to all you good people.
an elder who i knew in my jw days has just been employed at my place of work.
now i want to be prepared for him when he encourages me to return to jehovah.
You really think you can convince him?
Here is what you do, you start talking to your boss: I used to belong to a cult, I left a long time ago, but this guy is a leader there, I just want you to be aware, because they’re really insistent about me going back and they spend their time proselytizing even at work.
Then if he starts, you say, I really don’t want to talk about this, this is a place of business and you have no right to use your paid hours proselytizing here. If he insists or repeats, you file a complaint to your boss. You keep doing that every time, until he gets fired.
Or he is aware of the risk and doesn’t want to get fired, he keeps his mouth shut.
as the title says, we are nearly at the end of the 2nd year of the 2020’s, and already jw org is not only a car crash, but an absolute train wreck.. i’ve watched the annual meeting 2021 already, and it seems the gb are in fighting, morris openly disagreeing with lett, that is massive, and it’s something that has largely not been commented on by this community.
covid-19 is not going anywhere, any trial meetings will surely be shut down, now omicron is doing the rounds.. it looks highly likely we will see a second negative growth year.
“young ones” are waking up by the masses.
I haven’t heard about the disagreement, can someone do a quick side-by-side comparison so I don’t have to sit through hours of boring talks.
The question is whether anyone in the cult even picks up on some of these things. The majority of people couldn’t even remember the noo light that was announced every year just a week after the large meetings, they had to be repeated several times in the publications before people slowly adapted to new ways of thinking.
The mind-numbing nature of the meetings just has the majority of people on auto-pilot, and after a while they start parroting entirely new viewpoints without ever acknowledging they’ve changed what they are talking about radically, with some swearing they’ve believed the same since the 70s
i`ll go first ,i have my vaccinated 2 jabs for the elderly.. if i`m not around in the next 3 months you will know why ..
I had 2 shots of a vaccine, because where I work we do high-risk COVID-19 research on animals (sheep, mice, primates etc) and thus being in contact with those could potentially become fatal (we do mutation or “gain of function”)
the liberal idiots and useful fools who follow are going and going and going.
now they are trying to make masks permanent.
at some point people are going to revolt.
@disillusioned: if you isolate yourself from people and diseases like that, you have a much greater chance of getting long-term allergies and other sensitivities. You also tend to get more serious cases of disease when (not if) you eventually catch something.
If you’re that worried of a cold or flu, then you shouldn’t drive a car or eat most foods available, cancer and heart disease are more likely to do you in. Once vaccinated or if you’re young there is a greater chance of you dying in a car accident than from COVID. If you’re under 40, better not go outside at all, the chance of a lightning strike or drowning is greater.
you order something online, and get the notification it's been shipped.. "ooh look, it's only coming from 500 miles away and there's a major route from there to here.
i bet it'll be put on a truck or maybe a train and here in a day or two.
great!".
@darkknight: add insurance for a value of $100 or more, you’ll practically have full streaming video from the entire trip the package took. You do it with USPS and you get a personal call from the postmaster that they found your package on the floor of the sorting center.
Even better when you declare it as being alcohol, a firearm or ammo. You’ll have the FBI and ATF assisting in the search.
Where I used to work we used to ship medical and slightly radioactive samples. The cost wasn’t outrageous but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had armed guards looking at your package the whole way, they call you at customs, call you when it arrives at every point. I’m getting woken up at 4am asking if we can receive them that day. I think it was only $25 fee for that, but it’s guaranteed to arrive on your schedule.
you order something online, and get the notification it's been shipped.. "ooh look, it's only coming from 500 miles away and there's a major route from there to here.
i bet it'll be put on a truck or maybe a train and here in a day or two.
great!".
Agree, it takes the equivalent of 10,000 disposable plastic bags to make 1 reusable bag. That’s a ton of plastic and energy that is eventually going to end up in the same place. Same goes for those stupid paper straws, between the weight and the extra plastic and paper, it takes about 120 plastic straws to break even on a single paper one and the paper ones need special disposal for recycling.
Greenpeace and co is largely responsible for all the coal plants still in operation and about 50% of carbon emissions today could’ve been cut by going all in on nuclear in the 80s and 90s.
you order something online, and get the notification it's been shipped.. "ooh look, it's only coming from 500 miles away and there's a major route from there to here.
i bet it'll be put on a truck or maybe a train and here in a day or two.
great!".
ya right because we all know if you let a gun sit on a table long enough it will get up and kill people on its own.
lmao what a total idiot douche nozzle liberal but i repeat myself.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/entertainment/alec-baldwin-interview/index.html.
It’s CNN so I would expect nothing less than propaganda like that. These people do indeed believe that guns go off without pulling the trigger or SUVs run into crowds and murder people all on their own.
It’s impossible for a gun to go off without someone pulling the trigger. The only place where it is possible to have accidental discharge is a very old mechanisms without safety that may go off if you drop them very hard, the hammer may strike the cartridge. Some rifles have this issue, handguns less so.
