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once each year, the governing body writes a direct letter to the congregation members included in the yearbook.
in his annual message to the catholic faithful (urbi et orbi) delivered on christmas day, the pope spoke about world peace, terrorism, and the refugee crisis.
Anyone read the book 1984 ? Bust be required reading for all GB Candidates.
This sound familiar????
The bad news is that the chocolate ration is being cut from 30 grams to 20 grams.
But the interesting thing about this announcement is that the very next day (in chapter four) the government is praised for raising the chocolate ration to 20 grams. No one seems to question this incongruity. Winston thinks about it, but no one says a word.
jehovah's witnesses are purportedly 'active' in 240 'lands', quite a remarkable feat for a planet with only about 200 sovereign states (206 if you count all that are recognised by at least one un member, of which jws are present in 166).
more than half of all jws worldwide are in just 10 countries.
over 90% are in 45 countries.. to achieve this mathematical miracle, various places that are not separate countries are counted as 'lands'.. tahiti is counted as a separate 'land' though it is part of the society islands, which is part of french polynesia, which is part of... france.
[note: copy/pasted this with permission from reddit.].
once each year, the governing body writes a direct letter to the congregation members included in the yearbook.
in his annual message to the catholic faithful (urbi et orbi) delivered on christmas day, the pope spoke about world peace, terrorism, and the refugee crisis.
WHAT A JOKE!!!!
a) its great that the website is in languages of countries that dont have internet! That works well.
b) YES 1 Family!!!! WOW
c) One of the big reasons people are starting to slow down! You watch buffoons like Morris and Lett and you know exactly how Dorothy felt when she met the REAL Oz.
d) I guess the brother mentioned was sitting in the front row and never left his seat? If you walked around the corridors or hall, there were always people walking around aimlessly. Especially during the stupid videos of Salt and the one about Flowers. Are they nuts???
e) Yea the music. Wow! It has made almost as much of a difference as the NEW IMPROVED SILVER BIBLE!
f) Booths! HAAAA! Again 1 person. WOW!
COMPLETELY DELUSIONAL!
Capitan Smith of the Titanic. "Passengers, you may be experiancing a little bit of a tilting floor. Dont worry, thats so you can get a better view of the iceberg we just skillfully hit on the starboard side. p.s. Free Ice, compliments of the house!"
if you believe humans evolved, and were not created, why would having a hymen help, especially as no other mammal has one?
if you believe humans were created by {a} god, or intelligent beings with advanced technology, what was the reason for a hymen?
i'm interested to hear your thoughts on this unusual subject, not many people talk about..
1: where the "f" are you, since there are no signs of your existence?.
2: why did you "create" life forms that by default hate to follow what your rules.. 3:.
from what i read in the bible, why are you such a petulant, vengeful, bi-polar nut who seems to only look for flesh and spirit to kiss you enormous godly ass?.
according to jw beliefs the anointed / 144000 are going to rule with jc for a thousand years .as kings rev:20;4 .
i think they , the anointed , would be more important in the scheme of things than an elder or a ministerial servant in any congregation.. yet for the most part , they have no say or any position in any of the congregations in the world , and certainly not if they are female , however heaven accepts female anointed ones.. yet here on earth ,along with there service , elders and ministerial servants , with the holy spirits blessing , are appointed to there position in the congregation.. apparently there is no such scrutiny , guidelines or procedures in place , no holy spirit , or performance of service to determine who is an anointed person , so that any tom dick or harry ,mary jane or joan can claim to be an anointed person and it is accepted by the watchtower organization .. .
can you imagine every male claiming to be an elder in a congregation if you use the same guideline/ leeway that is given to the anointed ?.
So if its just 144K - how did that number not get filled up in the 1st Century? I mean - the bible says the world was filled with these teachings? There were 2 Million Jews in Jerusalem alone? Then you got Paul all preaching to the rest of the world? Did you message suck so bad even then that only a small fraction of lunatics would accept it?
Splain Lucy!
1: where the "f" are you, since there are no signs of your existence?.
2: why did you "create" life forms that by default hate to follow what your rules.. 3:.
from what i read in the bible, why are you such a petulant, vengeful, bi-polar nut who seems to only look for flesh and spirit to kiss you enormous godly ass?.
1: So god, if you really love everyone and dont want to kill just about the whole world, why not a Booming voice in the sky in all languages at the same time. That would kinda let everyone know your for real. Why use a book that can be interpreted a million ways, and then use uneducated, untrained people (JWs) to tell people kinda what you think? You know these people could not sell water in the desert, for the most part? Hey also in your "book" it would have been really cool if you had like mentioned something about quantum physics, or the speed of light, or something that could only have been discovered in our time? I think you just phoned it in this time man, you could have done much better if you just put your gigantic mind to it.
2: So god, if you created man out of love, and not because you were not already perfectly happy and fulfilled, why did you do that only 6K years ago? I mean why not a billion years ago, or 10 trillion years ago? So what changed? Did you get lonely? If you were totally cool alone forever, why did you start making things?
3: So god can you make a Rock so big you can't lift it?
4. So god, can you remember ALL THE WAY BACK?
any body know?
They have kinda backed away from that, admitting the creative days may have been "many thousands" of years long.
Kinda.
science.. landed a probe on a comet, found liquid water on mars and successfully completed a ten year mission to pluto.. developed the first successful vaccine against ebola, discovered another human species in homo naledi, developed cancer killing molecules and high intensity ultrasound therapies which avoid surgery and leave healthy cells alone.
successfully mapped the human epigenome and developed the gene editing tool crispr, it's potential for medical and agricultural advance is staggering!.
found a way to produce graphene for a 1000th of the previous cost, developed cheap and sustainable methods to supply clean drinking water where water borne infections have been killing thousands, scaled up production of clean, renewable energy.. there's loads more, please feel free to add to the list.. .
Listen, when someone thinks everything is made by god, it kills interest in curiosity.
"why is the sky blue dad." "cuz god made it that way" "oh, ok"
i was perusing the internet not long ago and came upon this series of videos by a guy calling himself xendrius.
it declares that many of today's best magicians are in league with the devil.
his claims are based on his observation that the tricks would be impossible to do unless the magicians had made unholy pacts with the devil.. so what's the take of the wtbts?
News flash - there is no such thing as Magic.
You never see this as a Headline.
Psychic wins lottery, again!
Magician walks into back and out with a million dollars, makes police disapear.
