http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/16/1285080/-amazing-photos-show-us-why-the-american-transportation-network-has-fallen-off-the-rails.
just another example of this world power fading away.
while the us desperately tries to start wars in syria, iran and the ukraine, china ignores it all and keeps getting stronger.
Yeah, clearly I'm the one who's "biased" and "hysterical"
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-russian-diplomacy-in-one-photo-2014-3
LOL
Can I post President Eisenhower's speech on the "unwarranted influence" of the "military-industrial complex" ? How about his speech about "humanity crucified" as the military takes away resources from those 'who need to be fed or clothed'?
metatron
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/16/1285080/-amazing-photos-show-us-why-the-american-transportation-network-has-fallen-off-the-rails.
just another example of this world power fading away.
while the us desperately tries to start wars in syria, iran and the ukraine, china ignores it all and keeps getting stronger.
The drop in military spending is minimal - with the US still having a bigger military than most of the world (or all?) combined. The US wastes more money on the F-35 fighter while China steals the plans and builds high speed rail.
You are free to point out exactly where I "have little knowledge" in this matter - but you have not done so. "They don't deserve my attention"? Really? And yet you then post anyway?
IMO, most people have become so accustomed to extreme or radical situations in the world at large, that they accept them as normal - such as the US having an elite class (major bankers) who are protected from prosecution or jail ( as exposed on Public TV's Frontline) or the sudden abundance of state legislatures NULLIFYING Federal laws on guns, hemp production, marijuana or the NDAA. And then there's the persistent talk about secession movements in Maryland, California, New York, Vermont, Colorado, or Texas.
Am I naive to think that the war in Iraq was an enormous waste of lives and treasure based on fraud? Does much of the US public now agree?
The end of an empire is a messy thing.
metatron
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/16/1285080/-amazing-photos-show-us-why-the-american-transportation-network-has-fallen-off-the-rails.
just another example of this world power fading away.
while the us desperately tries to start wars in syria, iran and the ukraine, china ignores it all and keeps getting stronger.
Just another example of this world power fading away. While the US desperately tries to start wars in Syria, Iran and the Ukraine, China ignores it all and keeps getting stronger. Sad to watch the end of an empire.
The citizens of countries such as Austria, Hungary and others have a better standard of living as individual nations rather than empires that waste resources on war and maintenance of the elite.
Oh, and Venice is having a vote on independence apparently.
metatron
http://download.jw.org/files/media_books/b8/co-pgm14_e.pdf.
i think i will want to kill myself during the friday afternoon symposium.
it should be called "how to not enjoy life or have fun.".
"Public Bible Discourse"? In years past, they used to announce attendance numbers morning and afternoon on Sunday. Often, it would show a small decrease - which tells you that there is no public in attendance especially if a convention is held in a cult-compound assembly hall, isolated from the surrounding community.
In decades past, there were placards in store windows and actual advertising of the public talk.
The Public Discourse is a fantasy. It tells you that the GB live in a world of fiction.
In addition, I don't think highlighting the fact that their "Kingdom" has been around for 100 years is a positive idea. If your flock is feeling malaise already being reminded of how interminable the whole thing is hardly makes sense.
metatron
http://download.jw.org/files/media_books/b8/co-pgm14_e.pdf.
i think i will want to kill myself during the friday afternoon symposium.
it should be called "how to not enjoy life or have fun.".
and the program has a part in which they beg for more elders and MS's.
metatron
the recent letter being us to come to detroit shows that jws are beginning not to take the gb seriously anymore.
the buzz following the meeting was that the letter was unprecedented in its tone.
this coming from long time jws of 30 years plus.
To make my point a little clearer, I think there is a difference between an ill-defined, nebulous group and 8 old guys in common perceptions.
With only 8 guys being the FDS, if they are eccentric, pompous dolts, then a distinctly negative opinion is more readily obtained. Unlike a big mostly faceless group, the Organization is stuck with these guys being seen and heard as the entire Faithful Slave.
metatron
hey everyone!
i haven't posted here in a while, over a year i think.
just goes to show where i'm at in the recovery stage.
I'm going purely from memory here, so forgive me if I'm wrong:
A long time ago, somebody made the claim that certain areas (British Columbia?) might have an obscure law mandating a church trial by ALL CONGREGANTS as a condition of being legally established. I don't know what ever became of this.
The only major successful legal battle against shunning I know of involved a slander suit in which a lady got denounced by her rabid born again church for adultery. After this case, the Society got very strict about NOT announcing the specific cause of being Df'd.
There was some legal move to hit Df'ing in Brazil but I don't know how it turned out. Not much hope for hitting them in the US but you never know about a different legal system.
In the US, the way to hit them on Df'ing is indirect: child custody cases and attacking them in other venues whenever they come up with some 'poor us' persecution claim. Let everyone know how they break up families deliberately with Df'ing.
Unless they made some change (I don't have a Bible Teach book) the informed consent claim by the WTS is crap. It appeared possible to me to get officially baptised without any clear explanation of Df'ing.
IMO, the blood transfusion thing in Bulgaria ( "sans sanction") was the most blatant, deliberate and crafted lie the WTS has ever told to a governmental agency. And don't doubt that they were very embarrassed to talk about it.
metatron
the recent letter being us to come to detroit shows that jws are beginning not to take the gb seriously anymore.
the buzz following the meeting was that the letter was unprecedented in its tone.
this coming from long time jws of 30 years plus.
Rock on, Magnum. A great many Witnesses used to follow current events in the world and actually knew the Bible pretty well. They could have interesting conversations about doctrine within a context of loyalty. And they used a variety of Bibles.
Not anymore. A stroll thru the ocean of these souls would scarcely get your feet wet.
Here's a question: does the Faithful Slave change to 8 old guys cause particular problems?
It seems to me that the Faithful Slave used to be nebulous and now, it specifically focuses on 8 old guys. They're it. The whole thing. I wonder if that changes the dynamics.
metatron
i was watching this q & a by peter boghossian (autor of the book a manual for creating atheists) on youtube:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zksbmdcczvu .
around 17:15 min, he explains that there are difficulty levels when it comes to religions in aplying these techniques.
The basic question here needs an answer but I have never found a well articulated one. It is kind of bizarre.
metatron
if karl marx, sigmund freud, and friedrich nietzsche had a game of monopoly....
Kafka joined the game and used a cockroach as a game piece.
Wittgenstein thought the game was the world, as far as his vision permitted.
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