what is an amateur but a person who does something because they love doing it rather than a specially trained professional serious about study?.
what would you expect if you went to the emergency room at the hospital and an amateur doctor examined you and recommened surgery?.
would you trust them because they love what they are doing?
I liked Rev. Alan Watts. Now there was a real professional. He gave you a bag of snakes and a bottle of oil and let you make your own snake oil.
Martin Buber wasn't so bad nor Teil de Chardin. So, I guess there are some worthy religious professionals.
sooner or later, fanatical religions run off into all sorts of wildly contradictory behavior, as 'faithfulness' ends up, nakedly, as simple obedience to whoever is charge, without regard to principle.. so, catholics ignored free will conversion and killed anyone who wouldn't.
protestants sang 'praise the lord and pass the ammunition'.
witnesses who nearly proclaimed pacifism, were encouraged to beat catholic action disruptors by a wts president (who accused them of being "pussies"), many years ago.. currently, the governing body seems to be on a tear to establish their own arbitrary authority, by command.
Snare and a Racket: 80's fun? Ray Franz left in 1980 and they really got nutso in the 1980's. They've been crazy ever since the elder arrangement was established in 1972. The time from after WWII until about 1966 was the golden age of American JW's. Not too many rules. Still could party, neck pet, smoke and underage drinking was ignored. Everyone really believed their families would live forever. Big 8 day assemblies where young people could connect. Draft forced all young people to pioneer. Looking forward to 1975 kept everything going a little longer. But after the 1980 apostacy the shine was completely gone along with the really creative people.
what is an amateur but a person who does something because they love doing it rather than a specially trained professional serious about study?.
what would you expect if you went to the emergency room at the hospital and an amateur doctor examined you and recommened surgery?.
would you trust them because they love what they are doing?
Yeah! This is not your best Terry.
I'm better off with a Professional Snake Oil Salesman over an Amature Snake Oil Salesman?
Maybe the colored water is safer than the Snake Oil.
http://www.archive.org/details/spirituallydeadchildren.
you have to be fucking kidding me... this is mind control at it's best.
encouraging parents to ignore their kids who have left the jw's and blaming the kids themselves for the rift that's caused.
Interesting talk. Well delivered but erroneous on many levels. Authoritarian personalities love this stuff.
Adolescence is a rocket propelled by hormones to escape the gravity of the older generation and make some tiny progress for the culture and species.
Youth will abandon a dead organization like rats on a sinking ship.
The message is ancient: Please let us old folks die thinking everything will be ok.
check out #3. how much do you want to bet this won't show up in the next awake?http://lifehacker.com/5867049/nine-stubborn-brain-myths-that-just-wont-die-debunked-by-sciencenine stubborn brain myths that just wont die, debunked by sciencebrain games will make you smarter!
the internet is making you dumber!
alcohol is killing your brain cells!
One more myth. High creativity correlates with high IQ.
the first time i heard of christopher hitchens was today when his named was mentioned multiple times in the comment section of a youtube video.
after reading a brief summary of his life, it became clear that this guy was a complete douche-bag.
a very arrogant sarcastic bigoted f**k who looked down on everyone who didn't share his beliefs.
When Hannity admitted there is a God who watches everything everyone does and then punishes them Hitchins said it sounds like life in North Korea.
Hitchens has been relieved of all suffering. But apparently his critics are still "burning" with rage.
from the march 15, 2012 wt, pg 17 para 10. today there are better ways to reach not millions, but billions including those in china, india, and arabic countries where they don't even know the name jehovah.
i guess stockpiling billions in cash and property are more important than spreading the "urgent message" hypocrites!.
"the example of a small group of.
If all the time spent in field service was spent taking an extra job or working over time the donated money would more than pay for a TV sattelite that could broadcast in hundreds of languages 24/7. You could then have a few well trained people answering the phone instead of calling, writing and phoneing people.
russia is facing the same dilemma that the dictators in the middle east have been facing.. in the middle east the leaders have tried to kill or at least beat up demonstrators.
this hasn't worked.. putin has been watching this and he has been opposed to the west getting involved.
he no doubt knows what the consequences.
2057 Do you hear God's voice talking to you? It's like you're a rapper free-stylin with religious jargon.
russia is facing the same dilemma that the dictators in the middle east have been facing.. in the middle east the leaders have tried to kill or at least beat up demonstrators.
this hasn't worked.. putin has been watching this and he has been opposed to the west getting involved.
he no doubt knows what the consequences.
2057
Wasn't the original Babylon a political entity? Therefore why do you conclude that Babylon The Great is NOT a political entity? Are you using the Watchtower process of elimination argument that it has to be Religion because when Babylon the Great goes down the Kings who had illicit intercourse with her are still on the scene mourning her destruction along with the commercial world represented by the traveling merchants.
If that is your claim it can easily be disproven.
russia is facing the same dilemma that the dictators in the middle east have been facing.. in the middle east the leaders have tried to kill or at least beat up demonstrators.
this hasn't worked.. putin has been watching this and he has been opposed to the west getting involved.
he no doubt knows what the consequences.
Control is like a thermostat. When it's on it's off. When it's off it's on. That's the fallacy of conspiracy theories and mythical anthropomorphic God's that fight for control just like animals that have to eat, mate, fight for territory and defecate.
