some days ago i asked you if someone wrote to prof j. buduhn who is quoted in the watchtower 1 february 1998, p. 32. here's what i received from him.
as every translation does.
jesus one can say "my god.
he sounds to me like a pretty fair guy who's just getting a bit tired of everyone hassling him about the NWT. id like to have a glance at that book he wrote sometime. also, its hard to weigh the merits of his rebuttals without seeing the statements which they address. where are these listed?
mox
those of us who are in the ranks of dedicated witnessess what are you doing or plan to do to influence the world around you spiritaully?
like swelling our ranks or being a personal demonstration of the truth?
what a bizarre question.
have any out there read the books 1984 and animal farm?
also have any watched the movies of the same same?.
or do those two stories strike a very familiar bell?
sing it once more for the fjords!
when i was first having doubts about the organization, i stumbled across the following site.... .
http://www.eliyah.com/jhovah.htm.
it really opened my eyes, because i have a mother-in-law that tells me constantly that the witnesses are the only ones that bear god's name.
well, this doesnt seem like a big deal. language is as language is used. jehovah was used for centuries. lots of foreign names have inaccurate translations. i kind of see the difference with the adonai vowels here in that this was a DELIBERATE inaccuracy but it seems like kind of a fine distinction.
mox
actually, what i should have said was: "excuse me while i kiss the sky" so my apologies to all jimmy h fans.. 'course there's always "the ants are my friends, are blowin' in the wind", or even "the dawning of the age of malaria" for us slightly middle-aged types.. how many misheard lyrics did you ever sing?.
for more inspiration click http://www.kissthisguy.com/.
..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
"happy as a rafter in the marketplace, desmond lets the children lend a hand."
another funny kingdom melodies misread for me as a kid was everyone's favourite, 'we're jehovahs witnesses' where it goes:
but it warns the wicked who gods name defame
pardon it holds out to men
if they turn to god again
as a kid not understanding the old religious hymn inverted sentence order, i thought the pardon was an 'oops. pardon.' so that the song was saying, 'all the wicked are gonna die! oooops, i mean UNLESS they come back.' like an afterthought. i still think of it that way to this day.
mox
hello,.
any chess players in here, and if so how about a match on yahoo?.
jelly
ok, so how do we meet up for games?
i have played go a bit but find it hard to get into. also tried shogi.
how bout bridge? anyone play that who would like to meet up in pogo or something?
mox
april regular pioneers 88,735. may regular pioneers 86,515 (with 939,078 publishers).
june regular pioneers 85,367 (with 925,216 publishers).
all figures u.s.a.. the km now has a front page segment "what to say about.
It is also interesting to note that a couple of years ago, the
required monthly hours for pioneers dropped by 10. The
intention was to make it easier for more people to pioneer.
Well, guess what? The numbers went down anyway. So,
the society was hit with a decrease in pioneers, and an 11%
reduction in hours per person at the same time. Nice strategy.
oops, think you meant 70 right. there was a temporary boost in RP & AP numbers at the time (jan 99) which met with much fanfare. but i think the downwards trend has evened out now. hours continued to drop at an amazingly even rate despite the change.
i think it was less of a 'strategy' than a 'quick - what the hell should we do?' the unstated buffer between the monthly quota and the yearly quota was removed (ie 1000 / 12 = 83.3 not 90) so that pioneers could no longer do the monthly numbers and end up ahead in summer for vacation time. it seemed like there might be some underlying reason for this at the time but now i think this simply didnt occur to the people making the change. same thing with the fact that the change was made in january which is the MIDDLE of the service year. so we were all like, 'well, what do we need for this year?' some elders were doing all kinds of clever math trying to figure out how to divide up the two systems over the 98-99 service year until clarification came which sounded kinda like, 'look, just do the 840.' as though again, it simply hadnt occured to anyone that there might be confusion.
mox
some people here seem pretty clued up on science, so can anyone explain:.
does the fact that disorder increases with time (the entropy thermodynamic law), contradict the fact that there is order in chaos (the fact that an underlying order can be found in seemingly chaotic systems).. what goes up must come down
i think its a little difficult to compare the 'types' of laws, like gravity and entropy. one thing with entropy i find is that it is poorly understood. what it seems to say in laymans terms is that everything gets disorganized if left alone. what it means clinically is a bit more precise than that. after all, how do you measure the 'orderliness' or 'disorganization' of a system? altho it seems like kind of a subjective measurement, it is actually very strictly defined. i wont try going into it myself here. and the idea of what is a closed system is also a very specific concept that determines how this 'law' applies.
if you read that talk.origins article you'll see how complicated the subject can be. i actually had thought of posting it too when i first read your question ballistic, but changed my mind thinking that it was probably way more technical an article than you were looking for.
mox
if i understand it, the defendant had been asked the question (words to this effect): "if you were asked in court whether you are guilty or innocent, what would be your answer?
trial including why the verdict was thrown out--if i understand it.
then erica's mother was called, and.
thanks for the well-written account of the details.
i think an important thing to note here is how the efforts of someone, (probably an xjw from the sounds of it) altho hopefully well-intentioned, actually hurt the case they were trying to help.
stay cool everyone.
mox
by odd coincidence, the following groups of people.
are stranded on separate desert islands:.
2 italian men and 1 italian woman.
yeah, but thats cuz you're HERE expat. its like superman. hes just a regular joe on krypton. but get him around that yellow sun and then hes all the rage.
perhaps i could add canadians. the men would be too caught up in futile attempts to be the peace-keepers between all the groups to notice that the canadian woman had taken up with the french. and when they did notice theyd be too polite too complain.
mox
