in the last six months i have learned so much about jw's from the "apostate" books and web sites such as jwfacts and this great site.
ever since i started my research on jw's three adjectives to describe the wts leadership came to mind: deceptive, arrogant and manipulative.
i just noticed today that the first letters create the acronym dam.
How about NOXIOUS for your one word for DAMN? It brings up all the meaning of totally harmful and bad, which they are.
Negligent, noxious, notorious naysayers naughtily nosing out negative nuances to nullify what is good.
I ran out of N words to complete that sentence, but you get the drift!
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
New Chapter! Really! I was just attacking atheists???!!!! LOL!
Nonsense! You don't believe that aguest's visions come from God?
Fine! no problem! Who cares what you believe? Not me! Can't you read? Not only can you believe or not as you fancy, but we'll support you in that right!
No believer is attacking you. I am just surprised that a meaningless thread, meaningless because its very title posits a theory that wil not stand up to scientific or logical proof, is still running to the tune of fourteen pages.
However, I'm going to leave you to play amongst yourselves in this meaningless activity, where the atheists are saying "we want to fight" and "you believers are trying to fight" and the non atheists merely have raised eyebrows in surprise that is. Rather ill-judged, because continuous evidence is that however patiently and in whatever words those who have a belief are saying "you can believe what you like, we don't mind what you believe", you don't hear, and you won't hear, whatever we say.
Thus, the silly thread is meaningless, and a waste of time.
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
Lack of belief? Surely not?
Didn't you read what I wrote? If you don't have a belief, that is your own affair.
In one sense, I don't care. In another, I find it sad...and actually Cofty, since it's you, and as far as I'm concerned we've always been friends, you've shown clearly in the past when you've been exploring your faith that deep down you DO have an awareness of the divine...but while I do find it sad, in the sense that I am sorry that things are currently so with you, it really is entirely YOUR affair, Cofty.
I am not obliged to play the game of "give us scientific fact" or respond to being told as one atheist, scornfully, and amusingly ignorant of my background, told me that I was incapable of understanding science! LOL!
So, give you a reason to reconsider?...no, I think on balance that I won't. You can do this yourself, or not, as you choose.
Entirely up to you.
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
Again, reconsider what, Cofty?
Wrong about.... Raising the rafters?
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
Reconsider what, Cofty?
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
Q, quote marks are also normally used to accentuate the fact that a word is being used in a specific, perhaps unusual way, or as a wordless synonym for "so to speak"... Note the entirely normal and appropriate use of quotation marks there.
And in many other ways, often for emphasis or as "tongue in cheek". Marks appropriately used again there, too.
i am sure that when you've thought about it you'll be able to come up with further examples for yourself.
there is an article today in daily mail one of the largest uk newspapers about the plymouth brethren that should worry every thinking jehovah's witness.. the charities commision in britain is threatening the charitable status of a small offshoot of the aglican church the plymouth brethren .the reason ?
they don't perform enough charitable work for their local community .
at a time where the tax avoidance of large businesses such as google ,ebay,amazon and starbucks is under serious question in britain ,the charities commision's investigation into this little church's charitable status comes as no surprise .the 2006 charities act forced charities, often at high cost, to 'demonstrate' value to society .so far being a christian church automatically exempt you off taxes ,this is not the case anymore .
Remember that this covers all charities, whatever their origin and purpose. It is nothing to do with religious or secularist.
While our own local battle was at its height the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 covered a not dissimilar case to ours, a small charity caring for injured animals or some such, I forget its exact remit. The CC treated them in the same way, totally failing to support the original terms of the charity and allowing a third party to get away with what sounded on the radio very much like misappropriation and diversion of funds, eg embezzlement and fraud. In both cases, theirs and ours the police were involved but because the CC stood with their head firmly down in the sand the police decided in each case that it wouldn't succeed in court.
One suspects wheels within wheels and corruption at the heart of it all.
ricky gervais tweeted this 11/14/12 and i totally agree with it:.
"there are good atheists and bad atheists.
there are good believers and bad believers.. no god has ever changed that.".
A truce between atheists and non atheists?
How can there be a truce when there is no war?
Atheists on this board appear to have, as their primary means of entertainment, the pastime of attacking the beliefs of others while demanding (as if they didn't already have it) the freedom to believe what they want.
I've got good news for the atheists on this board.
You are free! You can believe what you want! We don't care! No-one cares what you believe! And what's more, we'll defend your right to believe what you want.
But you're not happy with that, are you? We've told you that till you're blue in the face. You just derive pleasure in attacking the beliefs of those who believe in the divine, and attacking any who stand up for their beliefs.
So you get a kick out of jeering at other people's faith. We understand that. Even though you'd be raising the rafters with your protests if anyone attacked your lack of belief (which they don't) it suits you to try to tear down the beliefs of others.
Seems a poor sort of entertainment to me.
there is an article today in daily mail one of the largest uk newspapers about the plymouth brethren that should worry every thinking jehovah's witness.. the charities commision in britain is threatening the charitable status of a small offshoot of the aglican church the plymouth brethren .the reason ?
they don't perform enough charitable work for their local community .
at a time where the tax avoidance of large businesses such as google ,ebay,amazon and starbucks is under serious question in britain ,the charities commision's investigation into this little church's charitable status comes as no surprise .the 2006 charities act forced charities, often at high cost, to 'demonstrate' value to society .so far being a christian church automatically exempt you off taxes ,this is not the case anymore .
It's very good that 50 Members of Parliament have signed a motion calling on the Charity Commission to think again, and are asking for them to be investigated. One says "there is something rotten in the Charity Commission.
People here could have told them that. We've known for some time that the CC is either a wimpy bulldog with no teeth, or...I hesitate to say it and am choosing my words carefully...there is something very very wrong with them.
Two and a half years ago, upon the death of the founders of a charity that cared for the elderly and vulnerable locally, the trustees a rbitrarily and without good cause closed the care facility that had been founded nearly forty years a go and diverted the money to another local charity. A local petition signed my a good percentage of the population here was submitted to them, and a strong documented case was made for its immediate re-opening. Money was found to support and maintain the facility. However, the trustees refused to change their mind and...most significantly...the Charity Commissioners turned a deaf ear and a blind eye despite the strong active support of the local MP, the local BBC and the local press.
Because this part of the country is a long way from the centre the issue never made the national press though it did get into the regional press. The campaign continued for two and a half years and is not over but realistically there is no chance now of saving the facility, or really the original charity, and the fault lies with the CC who ignored representations by very senior figures including public and household names. It needs a judicial review but this would have to be paid for by those requesting it.
Everyone in the country thinks that the CC is the last resort of protection against fraud within charities. I am here to tell you this is emphatically not the case. There is indeed, as MP Robert Halfon says, "something rotten in the Charity Commission."
i'm a nature photographer and like most always seeking better, longer glass.. i'm most attracted to the 600mm f4 is canon lens though some have suggested dropping down to a 500mm due to the weight issue.
both these lenses are heavy and i can't see myself lugging either one long distances without my modified baby stroller.. any experiences with either lens?
what tripod head are you using?.
Bookmarking. This is something I'm beginning to get into, but know next to nothing about, though I want to shoot birds, photographically speaking!
So I'm just going to sit quietly here and learn.
