i am not sure if this has been discussed but last night mid week meeting about organisational accomplishments really got my goat as the example of the temple was used.
people contributed to the building of the jewish temple and now the museum and bethel in warwick.
this supposed .be evidence of god s guidance.
You can almost certainly guarantee that the Org will have donation boxes all over the exhibits with reminders that this is all .."possible because of your donations..." yadda yadda.
Keep in mind that Bethel has a good amount of steady visitors, and they want to have something to show.
Sadly even my family is profiting from this. They opened a hotel close to Bethel that relies on about 80% of Bethel visitors to stay in business.
wtc has become adept at using tragedy as a means of raising cash.
for example, when puerto rico was devastated by a hurricane, wtc directed a large number of congregations to donate $1500 each in supplies that would be used for relief purposes.
it is not known how many congregations took part in this effort but the feedback suggests it was in the hundreds.
However, the majority of those provisions were never used. What happened to the many pallets of supplies that were purchased and shipped to central locations waiting to be shipped to the poor JW’s in Puerto Rico? Eventually it was liquidated and the proceeds were absorbed by WTC.
I'll play the devil's advocate here, but how do you know this is what happened?
In any case, i'm sure all the prayers from JWs around the world will include requests for Jellohoba to "help the brothers and sisters in the Bahamas". And of course screw everybody else
i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.
i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.
it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.
The answer to the riddle is not binary. This is not a decision between mental illness or guns. The answer is obviously both.
Let's assume that there is a small percentage of people in the country who are crazy enough to want to kill dozens of people. The question then becomes how easy should it be for them to have access to a gun.
If you have a mentally unstable person living with you, and you leave a gun on the kitchen table and go to work, only to come home and realize this person went out and killed 25 people, you can't just shrug your shoulders and say ... " well it's not the gun's fault, it's the mental disease". Of course it's the mental disease, but you made it incredible easy for this to happen and that's part of question.
No, it's all a hoax.
The science community is conspiring against humanity. Also scientists who study these things all their lives, know much less than you and me about Global warming.
Bring back "clean coal" jobs, since evidently that is the future. Also there is no evidence that carbon increases the temperature of the planet. It's a Chinese hoax, and the Chinese are paying off all scientists in the world about this.
Also Trump never lies, and Putin is a great leader.
Happy now?
staff in a takeaway were offended by two lesbians' full-on kissing and expressed their opinion about the behaviour.
the lesbians complained to police that a "hate crime" was committed.. homosexual or heterosexual - do it in private, it's not a spectator sport or a public statement.. minority groups can invoke police action if they are "offended," but society in general cannot do likewise.. why has "being offended" been turned into a hate crime in the uk?
who is pushing this agenda?.
Minority groups can invoke police action if they are "offended," but society in general cannot do likewise.
Anybody can invoke police action. It's up to the police to determine if action is warranted.
evolution is how we got here.. demonstrate that you believe that all species evolved from a single cell over/within 3.5 billion years by tapping "like" below.. demonstrate that you believe in special creation by tapping "unlike" below..
roughly a third of Americans reject microbe to man evolution as well.
No doubt. This is one of the reasons we know that a good chunk of Americans are morons.
Once you establish that the United States is probably the most religious of all the developed countries, it then follows that a good portion of the population is bound to believe in the fairy tales that religion teaches.
alice laughed: "there's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.".
"i daresay you haven't had much practice," said the queen.
"when i was younger, i always did it for half an hour a day.
Isn't it funny how after months of drifting in a massive rain storm, the Ark somehow ends up again in the middle east on top of mt Ararat.
How could it be different? The peasants that made up that story didn't even know there were other lands in the world.
remember top shelf tony da turd broadcasting that world wide 2 years ago at the end of the convention?
well 2 years later do we see the slightest hint of the nation's declaring peace and security or going after religion?
so how was it imminent?
It's really too bad that the Org doesn't commit to a date like they used to do. They can just play this game of hanging the carrot in front of JWs with this endless notion of the big A being just around the corner.
In my last discussion with my JW sister, i asked what she thought a reasonable amount of time is for the big A to happen and after some pressure, she said that 10 years is a reasonable amount of time. The problem is that 10 years go by and people barely realize time flying by. Before they know it, they will be 80 years old and their entire life was spent waiting. How sad.
alice laughed: "there's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.".
"i daresay you haven't had much practice," said the queen.
"when i was younger, i always did it for half an hour a day.
Since only a handful of fish are euryhaline, it would seem that the majority of the fish species would have died off in the flood.
So what? God was totally fine with killing 99.99 percent of all land animals. I'm sure he would be ok with doing the same with the fish.
the donald has recently suggested that he would like to look into buying greenland from denmark in the same manner that alaska was purchased from the russians.
i think the danes would be smart to look into selling it as it is costing them money every year with very little returns for their investments so far.. the alternative might well be that donald declares greenland a national security threat and invades them so that the world remains safe for democracy.
i would suggest to the danes that as any other real estate transaction that they put it on the open market and see how much russia or china are willing to offer .
I suspect the buffoon-in-chief is not only helping to destroy our planet by denying climate change, but is actually going a step further by trying to profit from it, by trying to purchase a land mass that would eventually be devoid of the ice mass that is in the way of reaping its resources.
