Posts by James Brown

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This ain't your grandaddy's GB.

by cappytan in

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this ain't your grandaddy's governing body!.

dubs have been saying this a lot lately in my area.

i haven't said this yet, but all i can think is, "yeah, i wonder if that's what xtians were thinking after the apostles died back in the day.

James Brown

Your grand daddy did not have a governing body.

They just had a president back in the old days.

When I was a witness back in the 50's, 60's and 70's

Brother Knorr ran everything by himself.

I never heard of a governing body.

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Can't post pictures

by StarTrekAngel in

not able to do so... the posting progress is just stuck and nothing happens.

first i thought may be the pics were too big.

re sized them and still nothing... any ideas?

Can't post pictures

by StarTrekAngel in

not able to do so... the posting progress is just stuck and nothing happens.

first i thought may be the pics were too big.

re sized them and still nothing... any ideas?

James Brown

I'll be darn.

Learn something new all the time.

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Can't post pictures

by StarTrekAngel in

not able to do so... the posting progress is just stuck and nothing happens.

first i thought may be the pics were too big.

re sized them and still nothing... any ideas?

Can't post pictures

by StarTrekAngel in

not able to do so... the posting progress is just stuck and nothing happens.

first i thought may be the pics were too big.

re sized them and still nothing... any ideas?

James Brown

I think the pictures have to come from another site not your computer.

The pictures have to be on Facebook or some other location then you right click on them and copy them to this site and then paste.

I can not post a picture from my pictures on my computer to this site.

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How did you get through mind numbing meetings?

by minimus in

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as an elder, i used to find a legitimate reason to wander.

James Brown

I was born in.

When I was a child I had to go and sit there was no choice.

Then I married a girl from the hall.

And I fell for the Armageddon bull crap.

Once 75 came and went,

I found any reason I could to not go to the meetings.

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How did you get through mind numbing meetings?

by minimus in

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as an elder, i used to find a legitimate reason to wander.

James Brown

When I was a witness, I was going to school to be a court reporter, stenographer.

I would take my machine to the meetings and practice typing every word that was said.

I was able to kill two birds with one stone.

I had to practice until I could write two people talking at 225 words a minute.

It wasn't any more boring than typing jury charges and court testimonies.

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Wow, the forum is very slow

by FlyingHighNow in

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i know that logging in has been a problem for some.

i hardly post any more.

i figured there would be more activity than this.

James Brown

I was able to get on today without any problems.

First time ever on the new site.

That is an improvement.

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Wow, the forum is very slow

by FlyingHighNow in

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i know that logging in has been a problem for some.

i hardly post any more.

i figured there would be more activity than this.

James Brown

I have to really be determined to get on,

But so far as long as I am willing to persist, I get on.

There seems to be progress being made.

Originally the site would not respond to long running scripts,

That doesn't seem to be the case recently,

I just get a notice that the site is not responding, then I click on the bubble and it restarts the program.

I never had these problems on the old site.

I think its a problem of working out the bugs with the new technology.

It reminds me a lot of the problems of surfing off of Facebook advertisements, the long running scripts and pages not responding.

I spend 4 or 5 hours a day on the computer and this site is the most difficult to get on.

But once I decide to persist and get on it seems to be alright.

I don't know how many people have the internet experience and patience that I have,

If the volume of members is low they might just be going to places that are easier to get to.

Water and most people take the course of lease resistance.

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Be nice to theists - they are victims of their genes

by cofty in

identical twin studies show there is a strong inheritable component to religiosity.

thomas bouchard studied identical and fraternal twins raised apart and tested them on religious attitudes.. the correlation for the former turned out to be 62% compared to just 2% for the latter.

his colleague.

James Brown

I can hear the eyeballs rolling as I type this.

This makes sense to me.

I start my world view with the bible and the bible supports this finding,

that people believing in God is genetic.

I have read the bible cover to cover 7 times since leaving the Watchtower and the predominant theme

I found in the bible is predestination.

I ask myself why do I believe? and why do others not believe?

If one believes in God and the bible they are destined to and if one believes in no God and that the bible is a crock of xxx that also is predestined.

Romans 9

13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated (held in [a]relative disregard in comparison with My feeling for Jacob).

14 What shall we conclude then? Is there injustice upon God’s part? Certainly not!

15 For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion (pity) on whom I will have compassion.

16 So then [God’s gift] is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God’s mercy. [It depends not on one’s own willingness nor on his strenuous exertion as in running a race, but on God’s having mercy on him.]

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, I have raised you up for this very purpose of displaying My power in [dealing with] you, so that My name may be proclaimed the whole world over.

18 So then He has mercy on whomever He wills (chooses) and He hardens (makes stubborn and unyielding the heart of) whomever He wills.

19 You will say to me, Why then does He still find fault and blame us [for sinning]? For who can resist and withstand His will?

20 But who are you, a mere man, to criticize and contradict and answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same mass (lump) one vessel for beauty and distinction and honorable use, and another for menial or ignoble and dishonorable use?

22 What if God, although fully intending to show [the awfulness of] His wrath and to make known His power and authority, has tolerated with much patience the vessels (objects) of [His] anger which are ripe for destruction?

23 And [what if] He thus purposes to make known and show the wealth of His glory in [dealing with] the vessels (objects) of His mercy which He has prepared beforehand for glory,

24 Even including ourselves whom He has called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles (heathen)?

25 Just as He says in Hosea, Those who were not My people I will call My people, and her who was not beloved [I will call] My beloved.

26 And it shall be that in the very place where it was said to them, You are not My people, they shall be called sons of the living God.

27 And Isaiah calls out (solemnly cries aloud) over Israel: Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant (a small part of them) will be saved [[b]from perdition, condemnation, judgment]!

28 For the Lord will execute His sentence upon the earth [He will conclude and close His account with men completely and without delay], rigorously cutting it short in His justice.

29 It is as Isaiah predicted, If the Lord of hosts had not left us a seed [from which to propagate descendants], we [Israel] would have fared like Sodom and have been made like Gomorrah.

30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles who did not follow after righteousness [who did not seek salvation by right relationship to God] have attained it by faith [a righteousness imputed by God, based on and produced by faith],

31 Whereas Israel, though ever in pursuit of a law [for the securing] of righteousness (right standing with God), actually did not succeed in fulfilling the Law.

32 For what reason? Because [they pursued it] not through faith, relying [instead] on the merit of their works [they did not depend on faith but on what they could do]. They have stumbled over the Stumbling Stone.

33 As it is written, Behold I am laying in Zion a Stone that will make men stumble, a Rock that will make them fall; but he who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] shall not be put to shame nor be disappointed in his expectations.

so according to the scriptures some can not help believing and some can not help unbelieving.

And now science and genetics is supporting this biblical view.