prompted by another post, i looked up 124 columbia heights in the 1940 census.
a few interesting things: all occupants are listed as having the profession of "sell- religious books," except rutherford who is listed as an "editor.
" odd that they aren't listed as ministers.. also, all the educational levels of the occupants were provided- many had not even graduated high school and some not even grammar school.
At the end of page 27, it lists Rutherford as "Head". His age as 70. M for married... "Judge" Rutherford's schooling is listed as C3. (3 years of College) At the end of his line it says "Institution". So he was Head, and Editor of an Institution.
Gotta wonder how he became a lawyer with only 3 years of college.
i know isaac asimov's answer, which makes sense to me.
anyone else have any answer to the question about what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?.
It's always seemed to me that the question is not meaningful. If a force comes against an object, one of two things happens:
1. The object moves.
2. The object does not move.
I can't think of any alternatives to these two options.
If (1) is true, then the object was never immovable.
If (2) is true, then the force was never irresistable.
Therefore, the posited interaction could never happen. You could not have both an immovable object AND an irresistable force, even in theory. One or the other, maybe (in theory), but not both.
By the way, several here have indicated that a force will cause any object to move, even if so slightly as to be undetectable. Maybe so, but I don't see that as being relevant. Either the object moves or not. The degree of movement makes no difference.
as a "therapist trainee"(still have to take my license test) i worry about all of the religious people out there who might commit suicide if the rapture/armaggeddon does not materialize.
what if the bible is proven to be "a big fairy tale" will born again christians(bac) and jws kill themself?
i worry about some of my older jw relatives that have waited for armaggeddon for 50 years and are still waiting.
They new cult compound in Warwick does give me concern for those working at HQ. I think they will become more and more detached from reality.
Why would that be any more true in Warwick than in Brooklyn? I think they are pretty detached from reality as it is.
2014-03-29 adjustment to financing kingdom hall and assembly hall construction worldwide.
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instruction: press the 'skip ad' button top right, you should then see the download screen more easily.
Stupid question: Why do they tell the elders to destroy the letter that was sent in 2009?
Orwell: Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future.
hi fellow speakers (sorry, brothers only!):.
my first public talk, given in my early 20s, was actually a twenty-minute part of a symposium talk.
my pioneer partner friend and i each had twenty minutes and a "servant" had the concluding part.
I counted an hour for a public talk, but back then they were 55 minutes long...
according to bloomberg news:.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-07/wedding-photographer-rebuffed-by-top-court-on-same-sex-ceremony.
"the u.s. supreme court turned away an appeal from a new mexico wedding photographer found to have violated a state anti-discrimination law when she refused to take pictures of a commitment ceremony for a same-sex couple.. the photographer, elaine huguenin, argued unsuccessfully that she was being unconstitutionally forced to convey a message conflicting with her religious beliefs.
1. If someone wants to hire a Muslim caterer to serve his wedding, does he have the right to demand that the Muslim caterer serve pork chops?
2. If a black man owns a print shop and a KKK member walks in and asks him to print signs that say "Kill the N------s," does he have the right to refuse the business?
Just wondering...
.... and i noticed that you can take the melody for song 135 and plug in the words to "amazing grace" and it fits perfectly.
odd..
There's no special significance to the fact that the lyrics fit, it's just that the two songs have the same meter, and the same pattern of syllables per line. The lyrics to Amazing Grace also work with the melody of the Gilligan's Island theme, for example. Hymnals take advantage of this factor all the time; indexes in some hymnals often show a named pattern that can be used with a particular hymn.
you've probably already heard that prince is calling his new album "follow the slave".
but a closer look at the track list raises even more eyebrows.
check out these song titles: "100 invisible years".
Larry Graham and George Benson are on the album?
was there a 1st century gb?
jws say, it was centralized in jerusalem, and they use acts 15 to prove it.
however, today's wt study shows something interesting.
Acts 15 describes a one-time church council to resolve a doctrinal issue. There is nothing either stated or implied indicating the existence of an ongoing "governing body"in the manner understood by JWs today. The elders and apostles came together, resolved a problem, and then went about their business again. Anyone who argues for the existence of a first-century "governing body" needs to find better evidence than Acts 15.
forgive me if someone already posted this but here ya go:.
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http://www.sendspace.com/file/udl79c.
I wonder what the reaction would be if a rank and file JWwho died had a colorful brochure giving his life story made up by his/her friends and family for the funeral? Do you suppose they would be accused of "glorifying a creature?"
