dear jw,.
i have some questions.
as i understand it, if armageddon came tomorrow, those that never heard the truth, in such places as india or china would either live through armageddon or die and be resurrected.
Good points Larc, the preaching is ultimately for the furtherance of the WTBTS, or rather for the furtherance of the preaching. Telling the 'good' news 'for the sake of the good news', a typically circular process; it's not about people at all. Individual JWs preach for their own salvation.
philo
i've been interested in the discussion on the 'for those of us who believe in god' thread and aguest wrote this:.
"we have been misled into understand what 'faith' really is.".
if we have all been misled, then can someone explain what exactly faith really is?
Faith: the intellectual suspension of disbelief. The final expression of defeated reasoning. The assured expectation of things hoped for, that one does not intend to work for. The blindfold of the subjective to the objective. philo
the next town over from me was kind enough to send their sister city in the uk a very thoughtful gift, and this is the thanks they get!.
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http://news.excite.com/news/r/010820/08/odd-potato-dc
Ha ha ha
If the town can have a MacDonalds why not a freeking Mr Pothead, I say?
Besides I'd be proud to have it grace our Elizabethan market square with cobbled paving. It could even go outside 'Ye Olde Tea-room for Nibbles' (once frequented by Oliver Cromwell). Or if it's a pedestrian hazzard, we could put it in our 9th century cathedral, sacked and rebuilt in the Norman conquest, to remind us that the American cultural conquest is merely a favour returned.
philo
hello,.
any chess players in here, and if so how about a match on yahoo?.
jelly
Julien
Yup, I have turbogo and it sucks. Have to play blindfolded and drunk to get a game out of it. You won play? I'm philov666 at Yahoo.
philo
hello,.
any chess players in here, and if so how about a match on yahoo?.
jelly
Does anybody here play the Chinese/Japanese boardgame GO?
It has a 19*19 grid and you play the intersections with 'stones' that are placed or removed, hence there are no 'moves' just plays.
philo
hello,.
any chess players in here, and if so how about a match on yahoo?.
jelly
I haven't played for a couple of years. One christmas I got a chess set and my father taught me tha game , and soon regretted it! He was an extraordinarily bad player. Me? Just moderately bad. I do best in defence - boring.
philov
hello britains .
i am trying to get as many uk posters to sign in.
so post up please, whether you love the queen's corgis or think they should be nationalised!.
'Cousin' Skimmer,
I'm sure I'm not alone in appreciating your kind comments. I love America, though I realise such a remark is stupid without saying the reasons why; but it's really not for this thread, and 'America' deserves books of praise.
Just two points: 1.the UK benefits more from US tourists than the other way around, and 2. I think too much of an American virtue is made of the WW2 intervention, when the distinct possibility of a Nazi world empire made such US intervention a necessity of self-interest.
philo
anyone notice the milestone tonight - we've just passed the amazing total of 100,000 posts on this board!!!!
thought we all needed a pat on the back and three cheers for all our effort!!!.
what a lot we've got to say!!
Thanks Simon, you're doing something worthwhile with this place.
philo
the local branch office coordinator, mr. kankaanpaa, delivered the final speech in the summer convention held in tampere, the third largest city here in finland, and demanded all the ex-jw's to return back to the org.
suddenly he began to weep.
when he got his emotions under control, he instantly returned to the tradiotional wt phraseology: threats, intimitation and almost name calling (you know, that apostate stuff).
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growing up in the borg we were always told that we are decendants of adam and eve and because they fu**ed up we have to pay the price and accept jebus as redemption for our sins.
.. the analogy that comes to mind (surprisingly) after all these years, was that of a baker with a dented pan- anything baked in that would mold to that shape.
.. i have a retort for such a train of thought, if you cut the tails off of 2 mice and let them mate, will their offspring be born with a tail?.
Did every speaker give the illustration of the "dented pan"?
Feck me sideways. Yes they did!
philo
