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Greetings from Snowbird
by Glander inshe is taking care of herself and is feeling better.
she said to say that she appreciates everyones well wishes (she drops in frequently) and will post when she is up to it.. .
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Awake 3/2012: YPA - Is It Wrong To Be Popular? (with running commentary)
by corpusdei inreading sizemik's post on this ypa article, i went back and actually read the article.
thought i'd actually put down the running commentary that was goung though my head with this thing.. young people ask: is it wrong to be popular?fill in the word that completes the following statement:.
it is ________ good to be popular.. a. always.
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LOL classic.
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So- Now that it's down to 4 teams- Who's your pick to win the Super Bowl ?
by flipper inactually i'm happily surprised and elated that my san francisco 49ers are still alive !
what a game for the ages, jesus.
and i must send my condolences to all of you pittsburgh , new orleans, and green bay fans out there.
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First off, Jehovah/Allah/Yahweh/The Trinity/Whoever and Whatever entity bless Tom Brady and the Pats for quieting the religious fans of Tebow. I like Tebow too, don't get me wrong, but the whole praying thing turns me off. Mofos starving and getting shot over petty situations, and yet Tebow and the other religious jackasses think God is listening to their prayers over a game? I have to say that's another thumbs up I have to give to the WT for illustrating the stupidity of such thinking. Every now and then even they get something right.
I'm picking the Pats over the Ravens. 28-17 is a pretty reasonable prediction Flip.
The Giants/49ers game is more nuanced though. That's a tough one considering both of their defenses. They both put four on the line and have confidence in their secondary and backers. To be honest with you I can't pick one or the other on that one.
Advertisers would hate a NEW ENGLAND/ NEW YORK Superbowl. An East/West game would be better for national ratings.
That may be true, but I think the plot of revenge would be enticing just as well. I love Tom Brady, and him being the competative dude that he is, I know he's salivating for a little payback. I am too, I almost cried when Burris scored that last TD.
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You have heard of Spider Man - What about Spider Goat?
by cantleave inhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/14/synthetic-biology-spider-goat-genetics?cmp=twt_gu.
freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid.
she has bright eyes, a healthy white pelt and gambols happily with pudding, sweetie and her five other siblings, exactly as you might imagine young goats do.
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"We're interested in dragline silk – the silk that spiders catch themselves with when they fall," he tells me in his midwest lilt. "It's stronger than Kevlar. It really has some amazing properties for any kind of a fibre."
In a sense, spider-goats are an extension of the farming we've been doing for 10,000 years. All livestock and arable has been carefully bred, each cross being a genetic experiment of its own. "The trouble is, you can't farm spiders," Randy says with an almost comic deadpan face. "They're very cannibalistic." He and his team took the gene that encodes dragline silk from an orb-weaver spider and placed it among the DNA that prompts milk production in the udders. This genetic circuit was then inserted in an egg and implanted into a mother goat. Now, when Freckles lactates, her milk is full of spider-silk protein.
We milk Freckles together and process it in the lab to leave only the silk proteins. With a glass rod, we delicately lift out a single fibre of what is very obviously spider silk and spool it on to a reel. It has amazing, and desirable, properties, which is why Randy's seemingly bizarre research is so robustly funded. "In the medical field, we already know that we can produce spider silk that's good enough to be used in ligament repair," he tells me. "We already know we can make it strong enough as an elastic. We've done some studies that show that you can put it in the body and you don't get inflammation and get ill. We hope within a couple of years that we're going to be testing to see exactly the best designs and the best materials we can make from it."
Wow.
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I don't believe the Bible is Inspired of god - Why do you / don't you?
by cantleave inmany of you may know that i was brought up a witness and stayed in until the age of 42, even reaching the dizzy heights of being a congregation elder.
i was unusual in that, even as a witness i studied to degree level, on a part time basis, sponsored by my employer.
my first was in chemistry and my masters is in business administration.
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My faith is pretty much bipolar nowadays, so it depends on what day of the week before I can tell you what I believe anymore. I'd say that on good days though, the Bible is STILL NOT inspired of God, however I believe you can find the word of God within the various letters, historical accounts, and the Gospels if you look hard enough all the while being genuine in your motives.
On bad days, I'd say the Bible is NOT inspired of God, and that any intelligent person who believes otherwise needs to believe that it's inspired of God so as to have a coping mechanism. Belief that the Bible is inspired of God provides comfort for those in fear, and that's not limited to those fearing their own mortality. People who fear current events, or have unease about the culture which surrounds them and question where do they fit within it, use the Bible as a sort of validation that tickles the fancy of their own egos, or reassures them of their place in society even if that means validating their wish to not see themselves as part of society.
Regardless though, I still believe that much of what's in the Bible can benefit people. As the old saying goes that there's nothing new under the sun, we can learn off of other people's mistakes and sucesses by familiarizing ourselves with what's in the Bible. Ecclesiastes, Jonah, Peter's letters, James' letter, and the Gospels still remain some of my favorite reading material. Epictetus' teachings on Stoicism is probably the most brilliant bit of reading I've ever had the privilege of taking the time to do, and yet it reminds me so much of Jesus to the point I wonder how much the Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, particulary Matthew, were influenced by Stoicism, or maybe the latter was actually influenced by early Christianity, maybe both?
Another thing, a lot of people find fault with the Apostle Paul's letters, and some days I do too, however I think what gets missed often is that Paul reflected the cultural tenets of his era. While stating that women should be secondary to men, he still praised a handful of women in his journies. I don't buy that he was a misogynist, rather he was relating what he believed to be beneficial to the congregation, and was genuine in relating such. Personally, I think the biggest problem with Paul's letters, was not the man who penned them, but rather what leaders in organized religion today attempt to do with his letters. Case in point, "marry only in the Lord", which ironically enough at the beginning of that same chapter Paul explicitely states to the reader that the words are from him, not that of the Lord. It's good advice on one hand, but certainly not a command, and shouldn't be the basis for Local Needs parts, marking people, or questioning the qualifications of any Pioneer, Elder, Ministerial Servant who supports the couple in any way. Yet, that's exactly what organized religion does. The blood doctrine is another case of religion, particulary one religion, reading WAY TOO FAR into what Luke recorded Paul as relating to the Gentile brothers. I think that can sum up a lot of criticism of the Bible as it's not necessarily what was written, but rather how we read, interpret, and act upon what we've read.
edit post: Funny to me how some people view Paul as being a misogynist, however don't see anything wrong with the woman who washed Jesus feet and then dried his feet with her hair.
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Seeing Both Sides
by Flat_Accent inmy parents are sat upstairs right now going over a chapter in the jeremiah book for their family study.
while i went up briefly to get something, i overheard my dad relating a personal experience.
something about being on the ministry and getting a 'bad vibe' about a certain house.
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If I'm not mistaken, these folks were out in field service when this happened. Their vehicle went into a lake.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/accident-80138632.html
Monty Hardy, 56, of Southlake and Hadassah Vance, 35, of Euless, died at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Grapevine on Saturday.
Wendy Akion, 38, of Irving and Sharon Ransom, 56, of Grapevine, died early Sunday morning at the same hospital.
Friends said all four were Jehovah's Witnesses and attended the same church in Grapevine.
Police weren't clear on exactly what led to the tragedy. The car involved was a 2008 Toyota Avalon, among the models recalled last
month over concerns about gas pedals getting stuck on floor mats and causing sudden acceleration."It could be anything from a vehicle malfunction to a driver's error; we don't know," said Southlake police spokesman Officer Roderick Page.
There's other stories just as well. Might want to google the Lillelid murders. If memory serves me correct, they got murked right after the Sunday meeting, but I could be wrong on that one.
When things like that happen, JWs will chalk it up to "time & unforseen occurance" which is the scriptural way to say shit happens. When things go positively for them, it must be Jehovah's spirit, or the angels. Classic cases of talking out of both sides of their mouth, and their behinds.
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How well known is JEHOVAH?
by jwfacts infor anyone that has not been to www.ted.com than i strongly recommend it.
there is the most amazing range of information regarding science, religion, medicine and technology, and provides a very positive view of what the world will be like in the future.. one talk i just watched was http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html, which discusses a new ability from goole at http://books.google.com/ngrams to search on the change in how regularly words appear in book.
i thought an interesting comparison would be whether the word jehovah or yahweh is more common.
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Interesting how Jehovah had it's highest peak in recent times around what apears to be 1975. After that it dropped off and leveled out, whereas Yahweh has continued increasing.
On another note, when people think of the name of Jehovah, they think of all of us crazy ass Jehovah's Witnesses and all the strange nonsensible things we believe in and do.
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LOL Lost Generation. I bet that kind of stuff happens more than we realize.
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What happened to Milton Henschel losing presidency?
by Band on the Run inmy family often spoke well of milton henschel.
i left when knorr was still president.
looking at the flimiest of personal infos for gb members, i noticed that henschel became president and then was demoted and don adams became president.
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I don't think the Watchtower presidents ever rotated; they stayed in for life except for Henschel.
In the early '70s, when the modern elder arrangement came into effect, congregation elders would rotate their positions. After a brief few years the rotation system was abandoned. There was never a shred of scriptural support for it anyway.
What am I getting this mixed up with then? I thought Ray Franz alluded to a rotation every year or couple years? Maybe a COBOE/PO type position within the GB?