thought there might be different ones we enjoy and we can post it all here.
i posted this one couple months ago but it's gone, hopefully this thread will stay active so it'll all be kept... the journey by mary oliver.
one day you finally knew.
My love lives far from me, 6 degrees
Divided by nation and a couple of seas
She works and laughs and bounces about
She misses me too, I never doubt
I smoke and I drink, waiting to sell
Our perfect house, now a lonely shell
And she's watching her health, and her exercise
For the sparkle in her dark, dark eyes
It's kind of sweet, isn't it?
maybe it will interest some.... "microsoft corporation supports its employees philanthropy by matching employee donations up to $12,000 per employee per year to eligible 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
through its matching gifts program, microsoft donated at least $5,000 in cash and/or $25,000 in software (retail value) to the following organizations.
(donations to religious organizations are restricted to secular community service programs.
Why did Microsoft donate to the WTBTS?
We should find out. Someone probably told them if they didn't they were going to the new beast of revelation, to replace to UN.
philo
those of us who used to be jws, i have a question for you: why would any of us think revelation has anything to say about the 21st century, or that we are in the last days period?.
when we left the jws, we did so because of their false teachings.
we saw through their faulty reasoning about why we are in the last days.
Hey Seeker,
I'm thinking now that the JW bible needs another revision, particularly in the 'signs of the times' translations.
"Wars and reports of wars" was always too vague and easily applied to stir the imagination: the phrase should be replaced by "Malls and reports of malls". That would cover the spread of capitalism and media.
"Nation will rise against nation" isn't very descriptive of the world's struggles as the bigger problems are coming from within nations, civil wars, coups, the muscle of the multinational companies, and technological change: it should read, "Information will rise against information". They could also apply it to the nasty Internet if they wanted.
"Food shortages" the world is probably better fed than it ever has been through history, witness the world-wide population explosion: it should be changed to "Spiritual food shortages".
"Earthquakes in one place after another": well they are hardly going to happen all in ONE place, are they? They have proceeded in cycles through the ages, and we are now living in a fairly quiet period: change 'earthquakes' to 'tremors', which can be applied across the board.
And so on…
Shoot! The GB leave all the thinking to us apostates!
philo
really simple question for the fundys.
why is god invisible?
Hi Slayer, didn't Geordy do that kind of stuff by reconfiguring his visor.
I'll try reconfiguring my Visa card, that's bound to work. Hang on, I don't have one. Does God take visa anyway?
philo
leaving it to jehovah .
the car was quiet on the way home, stifling.
she dare not say what she felt about the disfellowshipping, 'seasoned with salt - yes - apples of gold...', it might make a bad situation worse.
The car was quiet on the way home, stifling. She dare not say what she felt about the disfellowshipping, 'seasoned with salt - yes - apples of gold…', it might make a bad situation worse. Was he also thinking how unjust the disfellowshipping was, or was he just sad? As a small tissue is to a heavy flu infection, she reached into her spiritual handbag for a homily:
"I suppose it's not what the elders decide that matters, its how we deal with what they decide." Dab dab, there.
"Oh, you mean with Brother…", he hesitated and said, "…I mean with Tom?" like he wasn't thinking about the same thing. At the lights he reached across to squeeze her knee,
"It could just be a test, Barb, for him and for us, y'know the whole congregation", he said, making a mental note to stop calling him Tom. What would he call him now, Pitrilschwitz?
Next day. "Uh?" said Brother Pioneer, mid-sandwich, "It very sad, but it's all done and dusted Barbara," he made firm eye contact, still chewing, "if it’s... bound on earth, its…"
"…Bound in heaven, yeah, but…"
"Holy spirit" he carried on, "doesn't always decide what's right from the human view point, there's more at stake. And Tom is Tom - Jehovah judges the heart, we should leave it with him"
Tom had fielded a volley of concerned calls in the following week. At some point he had realised that he still thought of most of his callers as 'weaker ones'. After all he was disfellowshipped now. He had been victimised, they had said, scapegoated, the CO should intervene, take them to court, even, splash it all over The Echo. He was warmed by these private, untheocratic expressions of support, but he had woodenly stated his position:
As with Job, whatever Jehovah has given he can also take away: everything, privileges, work, health, children - anything. He would do the right thing and "leave it with Jehovah."
One way or another, that is what they all did.
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philo
ask her ladyship!
here she is answering questions at last weekends barbie..... .
englishman.. ..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
Think41self,
You killed me, ROTF.
HAHAHGAAAAAAAAAGHTHYTHJKIIIIOAAAAAHA
how many jws does it take to change a lightbulb?
one, but mature christians will wait for the new system .
how many elders...?.
Why did the sister cross the road?
Never mind that, what was she doing out the kitchen.
Oh, the old ones...
You're up late, my friend. Me? I'm in a totally different timezone, I have my own, it's called RUST (recently unemployed standard time).
philo
it has oft been presented here that religion has been destructive to the utmost, an inhibiter and counter-productive in human development and civilization.
there is always the other side of the proverbial coin.
when you think about it, where would the world of science and history be if not for religious motivation?.
Your impression that pooling of creative effort happened through religious activity rather than suppression of same, what do you base this on.
philo
"Opinions not based on facts pass the time nicely, but make little impression" [philo]
really simple question for the fundys.
why is god invisible?
Gsark,
You're MARRIED! Guys like me just never get a break.
philo
how many jws does it take to change a lightbulb?
one, but mature christians will wait for the new system .
how many elders...?.
One, but mature Christians will wait for the new system
How many Elders...?
Three, but only if the lightbulb shows repentance
philo
