i am looking for more ideas of interesting movies and gritty crime shows to watch.. .
the killings, wallander, luther, dexter, braquo (french (english subbed) german (berlin berlin), sherlock, george gently, inspector frost, inspector lewis, did i say "dexter (though the ending was a bummer :( ) "orange is the new black", "house of cards", "mad men".. .
can you add to my profile of movies and series i need to see?
Good Ideas, have any of you seen Braquo? This French Crime show is in constant flux, it's overtakes Dexter for now because they leave you hanging off a cliff constantly, thank you for all these excellent shows to watch. Gonna start Banshee tonight, thank's for that flick, did not know it existed!
JWN MEMEBERS ARE THE BEST!
they claim their schools, literature and teaching are far more superior than any "worldly" education.
how would you counter that belief?.
How come you ask so many questions but refuse to help others in their time of trial? All you do is ask questions, where are your efforts to help other JWs?
Are you a robot preprogrammed like the Jehovah's Witnesses, it's too hard to help your fellow JWN Members so you just are a "Taker'?
Please correct me and show me how you are helping other posters on JWN by your number of comforting posts, or are you a Bot?
they use poor reasoning, they wiggle around the question and ignore the fact the watchtower was affiliated with the united nations.
this website fails to ignore the facts that we were not allowed to join the ymca even though we did not follow the charter rules, the watchtower agreed to follow the un charter and did so from 1992 to 2001 when the scandal was exposed.. .
have any of you seen works to debunk their slanted arguments and dishonest play of words?.
Jeffro, that was beautiful! He is just a Troll, not a JW, not anyone somebody would notice if he died in his sleep. The World would actually turn a little greener if this troll died, really, nobody would go looking for him other than Satan the Devil to collect his soul he lost in a cheap game of Watchtower Roulette.
"It's pretty obvious that billythekid46 is just a plain old troll, but the saddest part is he's not even particularly good at that. He seems to be resorting to some kind of 'tactic' (using the term loosely) to 'challenge' me to rebut... 'something' (also using that term loosely)... except he hasn't actually provided any material, other than some entirely irrelevant copy-and-pastes on another thread that weren't remotely relevant to JW beliefs about 607 or 1914. (In fact, most of his content has been in defense of the Unification Church, about which he became particularly sensitive when I reported that others consider it a cult.) Meanwhile, he's destroyed any impression of credibility that he might have had by showing himself to be an insulting fool with no actual position.
i'm just curious speaking from a person who has stopped going to meetings.
i have heard reports from inactive ones (or from ones who the elders suspect of going to the dark side) of having so many visits from elders (cong members) that it got to the point of harassment.
surprisingly i have to say from personal experience and from numerous others that i have spoken to that the exact opposite has been the case.
FoundSheep, that's harsh after Pioneering for 13 years but it's the common issue with the Watchtower's Rules.
If anyone is doing something wrong they will spare no expense and use resources from ten different congregations to bring a person down, that's how FUCKD UP the Watchtower Religion is, "Leave No Questioner of Kooky Doctrine Behind (A Reverse Marine Mantra) In Good Standing". They won't send help to a Lost Sheep, they will let half the Congregation fall off the green grassy cliffs but if one sheep start's to hang out with a Ex-JW, We must not have that, hence The Flood Gates of Time and Resources Are Poured Out With Infinte Time and Hours To Hunt That Bad Sheep Down!
What a joke of a religon, how sick are they?
if one reads genesis from the first chapter through the end with an open mind, it is clear that not only is it not true, but that god is potrayed as a cruel, petty, childish micromanaging tyrant.
if one continues reading the ot this is just further solidified.
how do jws not see the obvious?
Why does God not have the right to delete his creation if he desires? If he created life, who are we to tell him he is wrong to eliminate what he no longer considered beneficial for his creation?
I am a Agronomist, in agriculture production, we eliminated cultivars and varieties that did not produce good fruit, had poor rootstock qualites that got infected by nematodes, Santa Rosa Borers, no draught resistant. Do we Farmers have the right to kill off fruit and veggie varities that did not produce to our specifications?
We elimanted many varites Bananas at La Lima, Honduras as we search for a new replacement for "Gros Michel", the banana we all loved to eat (1976 was the last time you saw a real banana, now it's the Cavendish) before most of it's varites were destroyed by Panana Disease and Black Sigatoka. We play god in Agri-Science, why does God not have the right to eliminate species he finds not beneficial? Were we wrong to get rid of poor plant species that were weaklings?
I have interest in various facilities, I have grown wine grapes, grafted every fruit tree you can imagine, grown the most diffucult plants and trees, grew from cuttings Oak Trees, we have a right to eliminate poor cultivars that do not improve the plant's chance at survival during harsh times. When my cousin who works for Monsanto discovered the weeds growing in Round-UP, instead of killing these weeds they took the genes and added them to the Round-UP Corn. It's actually ingenious how the genetics experts work with plants and RNAi tampering.
Marina Genetics (My buddy works there) has a patent, they created a translucent Rose, if this company on the edge of financial ruin can apply their modifications to human beings, what if we can shut off certain receptors for Cancer? It's the whole paradigm Marina is going after, all from playing with the RNAi of a Rose. Those Dutch Botanist create and delete many species of plants, so I think Jehovah can delete what he pleases if I feel I can eliminate Banana Cultivars or decide I don't want a Yuzu-Genoa hybrid.
i've been busy with with being busy after knowing ttatt.
after this sunday's meeting i was invited over by one congregation elder's wife to an afternoon coffee.
we're not very close because of the age gap but we've "known" each other for so many years now, being in the same congregation.. she is like the anchor of the group.
Wing, there's a strangeness with the kids of this generation, one mate will decide if they are going to have kids or not. If not for the normal accidents, I think the JW child population would be extremely low. If everyone followed the Watchtower's advice of "Not having kids" this religion would fade not nothing in fifty years, their population would drop off a cliff and end up like the Shakers (Final Member died in 1865?) a once vibrant religion in Early Pilgrim America.
comments you will not hear at the 02-16-2014 wt study (december 15, 2013, pages 11-15 (make sacrifices).
review comments will be in black.
wt material from today's wt will be in a quote box.
Why is the Watchtower so fascinated with Ancient Israel’s examples of unfaithfulness? Does this mean they feel that Jehovah’s Witnesses have much to learn from their counterparts of old? Is this the type of Service Witnesses offer to God the Father? Instead of being emotionally motivated with great love to God and his Son Jesus Christ, they give God worthless offerings because of the way they treat their own people and the downtrodden of Society and Culture. JWs have no reverence for their Heavenly Father, it’s all a sham, that’s why the Watchtower misses these key points and focuses on the Jews, and they want Service, not Love or True Worship to God! By Malachi's Time, Israel is considered worse than a Whore because she give's away for free what a Whore would charge for, God was so sick of how Israel treated him, he was ready to cast them aside until Jesus Christ would come to Earth to show people how to worship God with truth, love and joy, not perfunctionary service! I heard Ravi Zacharias give this excellent talk.
http://www.rzim.org/let-my-people-think-broadcasts/the-foundation-of-contemporary-discipleship/
790 BC Jehovah likens Israel to a Whore who sells herself to anyone willing to take her, making God sad.
“795 BC Hosea’s Reconciliation with His Wife
Hosea 3: NIV (Israel was a Whore to Jehovah, she betrayed him and her worship and faithfulness was useless. They may have offered up money to Jehovah but he hated them for their harlotry!”
3 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels[a] of silver and about a homer and a lethek[b] of barley. 3 Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
4 For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. 5 Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days.
Footnotes:
Hosea 3:2 That is, about 6 ounces or about 170 grams
Hosea 3:2 A homer and a lethek possibly weighed about 430 pounds or about 195 kilograms
530 BC?
Ezk:8-12 Examples of Worthless Service, Fake Service with a Gross Lack of Love for the Poor, DownTrodden, Elderly, Sick and Infirm.
“2 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’” 13 Again, he said, “You will see them doing things that are even more detestable.”
14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and I saw women sitting there, mourning the god Tammuz. 15 He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.”
16 He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.
17 He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose! 18 Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.”
Ezekiel 13: 8 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because of your false words and lying visions, I am against you, declares the Sovereign Lord. 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.
10 “‘Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash, 11 therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth. 12 When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, “Where is the whitewash you covered it with?”
13 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury. 14 I will tear down the wall you have covered with whitewash and will level it to the ground so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it[b] falls, you will be destroyed in it; and you will know that I am the Lord. 15 So I will pour out my wrath against the wall and against those who covered it with whitewash. I will say to you, “The wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it, 16 those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Sovereign Lord.”’
17 “Now, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them 18 and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own? 19 You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.
20 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against your magic charms with which you ensnare people like birds and I will tear them from your arms; I will set free the people that you ensnare like birds. 21 I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands, and they will no longer fall prey to your power. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives, 23 therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will save my people from your hands. And then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
450 BC? Malachi “Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices
Malachi 1:
6 “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty.
“It is you priests who show contempt for my name.
“But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’
7 “By offering defiled food on my altar.
“But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’
“By saying that the Lord’s table is contemptible. 8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.
9 “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the Lord Almighty.
10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. 11 My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty.
12 “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food is contemptible.’ 13 And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the Lord Almighty.
“When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?” says the Lord. 14 “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations.
thousands of muslims left bangui in a massive convey friday that was .
jeered by crowds of christians.
one muslim who fell off a truck was.
I can't think of the great Britsh Skeptic who said that "It would have been impossible for the Ghandhi to succeed under any other religion than the Western Consciences of Christendom". If Ghandhi had tried to liberate his people from a Islamic Regime, the same skeptic (was it Hume or?) said Mahatama's actions would have been met by a Sword instead of the peaceful liberation that allowed India to gain it's independence. Think about this, do you think a man like Ghandhi could succeed in Saudia Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan? You know the answer, the original poster to this thread is not intellectually honest, I see their biasm in Islam and wonder if they are a Muslim trying to convert the members on JWN like that poser poster who took flight after I crushed their Muslim Cheerleading and Anti-Christian rantings.
All the Arabian Pennisula philosophy that did not convert to Islam is now lost, there are stories of the Prophet killing a 80 year old female philosopher who protested the barbaric methods Islam took. We lost close to two thousand years of philosophy and culture, when all those statues of Buddism were blown to pieces by the Taliban, we got a peak of how Islamic adherents crushed all outside philosophy (590-2000 AD) and we lost much history because of their intolerance and hatred of infidels. The Jizya "Poll Tax", what about that poster, explain why we should pay a "Poll Tax" and why Atheist, Agnostic and Homosexuals should be killed under Sharia Law but Christians and Jews can live if they pay a harsh tax.
What did Ghandhi mean by "Outside the cross [of Christ], I do not know where else something so unique could be given as an answer....
my atheist, agnostic and deist family members, why don't we attack this insanity more?
dr. richard dawkins is finally calling out islam for it's true nature, i hope he is balanced because i don't want him to get killed by these whack jobs.
i enjoy listening to dr. dawkins debate and would like him to attack their false religion like he lambaste's christians, i guess it's a tight-wire act he must follow or they would kill him.
Crazyguy, when I went through a period of learning as much about Islam as I could, I came across passages that were to be interpreted as "A good Muslim would inherit dark skinned young boys with black pearl eyes", the passage of a "Eternal and every-ready, instant and fully-charged wih seed- erection" has me believing the source Islam came from was a Fertility Cult, it's nothing like the religion taught by the Early Church Fathers and their strange attitude of avoiding sex, Islam embraces sex with prostitutes (Temporary Marriages), (Polygamy), Pushtan Regional pro homosexuality but it's not homosexuality to them, it's just sex with the promised "dark skinned boys with eyes the color of the black pearls", Atheists need to understand that their enemy is not the Christian Church, it's a religion that desires to destroy all opposing views. This is a confusing concept because one Muslim leader might slaughter a adult homosexual but he will allow members of his own militia to have sex with little boys, very confusing belief system.
The odds a Christian is going to end up a suicide bomber and kill opponets of their view is limited, though a tension is starting to build up in Africa now. After two decades of getting slaughtered by Islamic Radicals Members (too many to claim Radical, too many killers to say it's just Radicals, Khomeni said "all Muslims are liars who claim they want peace with Infidels, it's their sworn duty to kill to submission all opposing religions and so went all the Jews and Christians once Khomeni came in power.) and Bombers, the Christians are now attacking the Muslims and kicking them out of their country, I don't know what to think about this. Seeing Darfur, Sudan and Nigeria, Somalia destroyed by Islamic Radicals, how am I suppose to react to the Africans figthing off a religion that will quickly kill it if it does not use self-defense. This is the first time I have ever felt a sense of "Protective Nationalism" for the Africans fighting for their lives, I hate war and I am very confused why my emotions are sympathetic to the Christians fighting for Freedom of Religon. Has Satan infilitrated my life, I need to ask Brother Perry about this weird set of feelings growing in me.
53 years ago we got married in a kh by a bro.
about 20 years ago my wife and i, and two children left the cult , and have never been happier .. wifey was happy with the flowers i gave her and this evening we will go for a quiet dinner at a restuarant with a bottle or two of champers and if i`m lucky i may even get desserts , or not.. smiddy.
Happy Big A Mr. and MRS Smiddy! What's the secret to a super long marriage? Did you have years that dragged on or was it smooth sailing all the way because of the wise counsel you heeded from the Faithful Slave and Elder Body? :) :) ) :)
