for the most part, i am able to understand how my family treats me.
i was a jw for 20 years...since birth.
i used to shun people.
Wow! Congratulations. She really is beautiful. She also looks a decent weight (mine were both little 6lb-ers) - how much did she weigh?
Glad you're both well. If this experience didn't put you off too much I'm sure your 2nd will be a lot faster! I too second the idea of photographing her in the quilt and sending that to your sis.
found this wee beastie on my garden wall this evening.
i know it's a moth but what type?
i've never seen anything like it before in my life.
LOL @Sam Whiskey!
Haha shamus100!Funny to think we have such beauty and diversity in such an ecologically boring part of the UK. I didn't see anything half as visually stunning as this in the butterfly house at Bristol Zoo. It cost me £12 to get in there, whereas I found this little guy by accident when I was getting my washing in off the clothes line.
found this wee beastie on my garden wall this evening.
i know it's a moth but what type?
i've never seen anything like it before in my life.
Thanks Fortis!
I can identify a fair few butterflies but I've not come across many varieties of moth so never really learned about any of the different species.
Now I know what it is, I Googled and found out some interesting info. I now realise it was an elephant hawk caterpillar that I spotted 2 weeks back right next to some rosebay willowherb (Epilobium angustifolium), which we have in abundance here, only a few feet away from where I found this this fella. Apparently their numbers have increased over the past few years which might explain why I don't recall ever having seen one before today.
okay...so in the "revelation - its grand climax at hand!
" book, at the end of page 124 to 125...there is mention of "resurrected ones" of the annointed class/24 elders that may be the ones communicating information to the governing body.. 1. thought we were not to communicate with the spirit realm (scriptural).
2. does the "may be" mean that they don't even know, really, who's communicating with them?.
Inspired by holy spirit eh?...
Hey if it was good enough for Rutherford...!
when i was studying in the truth book i laid aside quite a few questions, feeling that i was learning something important, and that those "nagging questions" would be answered in due course.
most of those questions have gone unanswered because i was led along, like a stupid pig with a ring in his nose, by other pseudo-questions of, really, non-importance.
i've had problems with conforming, if that is the word, with "correct speak" in the organization, and it has been apparant to most of the people i've known over the years.
Dinosaurs, the flood, 607 BC, 1914, head coverings for women, aborted & miscarried babies at the resurrection (how does that one work if the mother didn't make it?), demons, the vastness of the universe - I had lots of niggly things gnawing away at my subconscious.
Ultimately, it was a few contradictions in the Bible, the issue of how the WTBTS view GLBT individuals, hypocrisy and a lack of love in my local congregation (the only love they had was a love of idle gossip) that clinched it for me.
found this wee beastie on my garden wall this evening.
i know it's a moth but what type?
i've never seen anything like it before in my life.
Found this wee beastie on my garden wall this evening. I know it's a moth but what type? I've never seen anything like it before in my life. You should get an idea of its size in relation to the brick. I love how its markings are a pinky red and khaki green, so although it photographed clearly, it was actually pretty well camouflaged - evidence of evolution maybe? Don't suppose the garden of Eden had a red brick wall..?
bible's different authors revealed by new language softwareby matti friedman 06/29/11 12:46 pm et .
jerusalem -- software developed by an israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the bible.. the new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied to the bible its algorithm teased out distinct writerly voices in the holy book.. the program, part of a sub-field of artificial intelligence studies known as authorship attribution, has a range of potential applications from helping law enforcement to developing new computer programs for writers.
but the bible provided a tempting test case for the algorithm's creators.. for millions of jews and christians, it's a tenet of their faith that god is the author of the core text of the hebrew bible the torah, also known as the pentateuch or the five books of moses.
I wonder if they can do use with software with the New World Bible and compare it with the writing style of Fred Franz
Ha! Brilliant idea dgp. Seeing as Moses penned God's words and Fred Franz allegedly translated them with help from God's own holy spirit, then the NWT should be identical in style and meaning from the original.
today i got three seperate emails stating that lady gaga has sold her soul to the devil and is using her music and videos to further satan's goals.
they then go take the various symbology and wording in her music and videos and explain what they mean/represent.
she is rather wild and out there, and yes i'll admit she does use a lot of symbolism in her music videos.
Gaga does go for shock value but that's her USP. She's a brand and she markets herself effectively but that subjects her to some very harsh critiscism. The meat outfit for example was one way of stating that people have no qualms about ripping her apart like a piece of meat. There've been lots of nasty and untrue rumours about her in the press - her 'being a hermaphrodite' being just one example. I personally think she's a good lyricist but don't like all of her music.
With the whole JW situation it probably doesn't help that she confesses in interviews that 'Poker Face' is a metaphor for her bi-sexual thoughts of being with women whilst doing it with a man.
The Society, and JWs in general, just love to vilify many aspects of pop culture. MJ, Madonna, Boy George, Marilyn Manson, Nirvana, KISS, Lou Reed, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Ricky Martin, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys - were all denounced from the platform during my time as a JW as being evil, immoral, Worldly etc, etc. They claim they don't tell you what to think but boy do they try and influence every other aspect of your life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i225vcs3x0g&feature=related.
Great! Seems even more ridiculous to me now after the comparison with the Titanic.
Haha just n from bethel, you beat me to it with the Pixies comment!
bible's different authors revealed by new language softwareby matti friedman 06/29/11 12:46 pm et .
jerusalem -- software developed by an israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the bible.. the new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied to the bible its algorithm teased out distinct writerly voices in the holy book.. the program, part of a sub-field of artificial intelligence studies known as authorship attribution, has a range of potential applications from helping law enforcement to developing new computer programs for writers.
but the bible provided a tempting test case for the algorithm's creators.. for millions of jews and christians, it's a tenet of their faith that god is the author of the core text of the hebrew bible the torah, also known as the pentateuch or the five books of moses.
Hmmm, interesting stuff. This software seems to be very similar to the academic integrity software program, 'Turnitin' used to check for plagiarism.
