mobs in india attack jehovah's witnesses with impunity.. http://devon-www.blogspot.com/2011/06/mobs-in-india-attack-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
bangalore.
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Looks that way Mad . . . well spotted . . . perhaps we should ring the official contacts to check their sources LOL
Contacts:
Belgium: European Association of Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses, tel. +32 2 782 0015; mobile +32 475 58 10 36
Britain: European Association of Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses, tel. +44 208 906 2211
United States: J. R. Brown, tel. +1 718 560 5600
mobs in india attack jehovah's witnesses with impunity.. http://devon-www.blogspot.com/2011/06/mobs-in-india-attack-jehovahs-witnesses.html.
bangalore.
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Not good . . .
It would be interesting to know what the motivation is . . . whether straight out religious bigotry, or based on some knowledge of their cultish practises.
tonight i was invited out by some jw friends.
i dont mind hanging out every now and then with them at all as long as they dont start bugging me about why im no longer going to meetings or on the the ministry.
anyway... guess what one of them started to do???.
Anyway, i wasnt prepared to open my heart at all with regards to my feelings. I dont see why i should.
There is no reason why you should either Tim . . . it's not unusual for JW friends to feel you OWE them an explanation . . . but you're right . . . you don't. And while it may be asked in the context of friendship . . . anything you reveal would get straight back to the congregation. I've known very few JW's who can keep a confidence.
You're enjoying the feelings of liberation . . . now you can spend the rest of your life enjoying the fruitage of it.
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often times, i read in the magazines that only among jehovahs people will you find true friendship.
True Friendship Only Found In the Organization?
Pffft
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wow, havent been around here in a while and it's nice to see some familiar names as well as new ones.. .
well, its that time of year again when some members of my family decide that they need to go preach where the need is great.
I'm sure I've read somewhere some time back, that as much as 2 thirds of the worlds population have NEVER EVEN HEARD of Jehovah's Witnesses. The "worldwide" work is an illusion.
Down here in New Zealand families would "serve where the need is greater" around mid-summer. It usually involved an area where the beaches were great and the fishing was even greater. It became a joke even among the publishers . . . being referred to as "Surfing where the need is greater"
i cant wait!
ive bought him lots of pressies, we collect his cake on saturday, and are having a big family gathering.. i havent actively celebrated his birthday for the 6 years i was studying.
i need to make it up to him.
Yeah . . . all my three son's were "born in" and never celebrated a Birthday until the oldest was 18. I still guilt trip about it frequently. Birthdays are important occasions now . . . but the childhood celebrations will never be a memory for my kids. I breathe a sigh of satisfaction to hear that Paula . . . make it a real hum-dinga!
for those who may be interested in things geological .
just an update on seismic activity here in christchurch.
what's below is the seismometer drum for the last 24 hrs .
seismic events and examiones them to see if there's any correlation with asteroid movements.
Fascinating isn't it chariklo . . . thanks for the link
There is a new but growing interest in this correlation. Unfortunately it tends to be the preserve of the more sensationalist "fringe" scientists at present. Recently a man called Ken Ring (aka the moon man), made some specific earthquake predictions for Christchurch, based on lunar phases . . . and was widely debunked by mainstream geologists. Unfortunately his specific predictions failed, but a small upswing in seismic activity did occur around the time of his prediction.
When we consider the moon's effect on the oceans, it's not entirely without science. Crustal distortion owing to the moons effect is a real phenomenon and is measureable. There is little overlap between astro-physics and geology however, and scientists within each field tend to confine themselves to their respective fields and so little interactive study has been done.
Another phenomenon new to research is the occurrance of "Earthquake lights" . . . an aurora type occurrance that can sometimes appear prior to or during a major Quake . . .
http://geology.about.com/od/earthquakes/a/EQlights.htm
Identifying the energies involved here could be the most promising discovery in predicting or providing early warnings for Earthquake occurrance. The lack of warning is what makes Earthquakes as dangerous as they are.
In all new sciences I like to keep an open mind. I like the philosophical approach of Albert Einstein in this respect . . .
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Albert Einstein
growing up as a jw, you see the world differently than most everyone else.
you see the world as something that is going to end very soon.
all that we know will be gone by the time we're adults.. when we were young, we were living in the last days and were expecting armageddon before we grew old.
They feel sorry for us, we feel sorry for them.
A true double perspective BluesBrother . . .
When we were in . . . we believed we were going to live forever and believed we were the lucky ones.
Now that were out . . . we know we're going to get old and die and we know we are the lucky ones.
Strange isn't it.
in the past, you were told that you have the opportunity to prove the devil a liar.
this is a nonsensical claim, given that about 2000 years of martyrdom by christians has already passed.
there's nothing left to prove or disprove.. however, you have the opportunity to prove that the watchtower society is lying: that their organization is unclean and overrun with corruption - as proven by an endless stream of elders/ms's and publishers who come here, wishing that they could leave.. you also have the opportunity to prove that their published statistics are false - by reporting fake hours and placements.. if they don't like it, too bad.
Did he ever get to tell his side of the story?
Only if the book of Job is to be believed . . . and in that context he accused men of being self-interested and without genuine altruistic love for God . . . and my JW experience tells me he may well be right . . . take away the "paradise earth" and "everlasting life" and how many JW's would there be "suffering for the sake of righteousness"?
in the past, you were told that you have the opportunity to prove the devil a liar.
this is a nonsensical claim, given that about 2000 years of martyrdom by christians has already passed.
there's nothing left to prove or disprove.. however, you have the opportunity to prove that the watchtower society is lying: that their organization is unclean and overrun with corruption - as proven by an endless stream of elders/ms's and publishers who come here, wishing that they could leave.. you also have the opportunity to prove that their published statistics are false - by reporting fake hours and placements.. if they don't like it, too bad.
Maybe we'll end up proving that Satan was telling the truth after all?
