my daughters were at a club the other evening ( saturday) and ran into 5 witnesses they knew as younger children, they had all been married and were in the process of getting divorced.
four were men, 1 woman, two of the men we had known literally for years and i had liked them all.
i had told my children when they got married that it wouldn't be long before they were married.
I said they mostly got married because they were horny and being in the cult there isn't much they can do about it without suffering disfellowshipping etc. So they get married and end up ruining thier lives for a few years and the lives of their mates.
Been there, done that. Throw on top of it the pressue to be "good JWs" (instead of working on your marriage at such a critical time) it's a recipe for disaster.
yeah i know it's the beginning of the season, but i'm siked!
the bears are kicking azz right now.
our defense is the shitznit and our offense is finally coming along!
Kicked the Packers' a**,NOOOOOO ---- need I say more?
I'm a Packer Fan of course!!!!
I..have a difficult time admitting this but.....((sniff)) both my kids are Packer fans. Hmmm....can they be df'd for this? And no sympathy for Farve. Payback time for the 13 years of hell he made us Bear fans go through!
yeah i know it's the beginning of the season, but i'm siked!
the bears are kicking azz right now.
our defense is the shitznit and our offense is finally coming along!
Kicked the Packers' a**, stomped the Lions,.....ahhh...life is good.
bill clinton interview on cnn about global poverty issues.
i love some of the programs he talked about and showed during the interview - and i like the way he recognizes and puts some value on helping people up - i especially liked the program for the rural farmer where he gets 5 cows to start his farm up and after a specific amount of time, he in turn gives 5 of his now growing herd, on to the next guy to start his farm.
giving people a hand is not giving them a hand out.
Bush's blunder in Iraq will make him one of the worst presidents in history but Clinton will the most disappointing. Eight years of Clinton and Gore led to what for the "average man"? Decline of American industry and massive export of jobs to Mexico and China.
i guess since leaving the witnesses, i have become willing to listen to more things.
mainly because i learned in life, that if the religion you were raised to live and die for is wrong, and deceptive, then couldn't that be said of government and science?
so with this in mind, of the ones i am going to list below.
No. I have great faith (based on evidence) in human beings' inability to keep secrets.
Exactly. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people would have to been involved and kept silent. For over 40 years? I don't think so.
the global islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.. they have received the following nobel prizes: .
literature:.
1988 - najib mahfooz.
That because more people of Jewish descent won more Nobel prizes than those of Arabic that it implies some deficiency on the part of Arabic people?
To me it isn't a reflection of Arabic or Persian or any Islamic people but rather a sad commentary of the leaders of these countries. With the amount of wealth they are pumping out of the ground, Arabs and Persians should have the best of everything. Instead you either find a brutal dictator or super wealthy monarchy. Either way, a privledged few with all the goods and a large population of suppressed people, thus the lack of accolades.
i realize that threads like this have been done before, but i don't think that it hurts to do one again.. i personally appreciate this website so much.
it has been an absolute treasure-trove of information, research material, emotional support, and simple enjoyment.
and, it's free of charge!
Give 'em thanks and send a few coins from time time.
a thought i had daydreaming while at the recent convention .
old timers in the organization often reminisce about the way the wts was many years ago.
attending a convention meant (a) getting hot meals, (b) orchestra music before and during sessions, and (c) two, three, or even four dramas.
As time passed, though, and simplification sucked the life out of Witness activities, there was nothing else to do but sit and listen to the program. Witnesses who had been used to using their talents, at least to some extent, to serve their religion, now had nothing else to do but sit down, go out in service, listen to the canned music, eat the canned food, watch the canned dramas, and read the paperback novels.I think much of this ‘simplification’, whether the WTS believed it or not, led to the malaise now glaringly obvious in the org.
Excellent post. I couldn't agree more.
i know that there are a lot of nfl football fans year and i'm looking forward to another year of the bears beating up on the ol' packers but even more exciting to me is watching my son play high school football.
any other proud parents here doing the friday night thing?
this past friday was especially exciting.
I know that there are a lot of NFL football fans year and I'm looking forward to another year of the Bears beating up on the ol' Packers but even more exciting to me is watching my son play high school football. Any other proud parents here doing the Friday night thing?
This past Friday was especially exciting. My son's team played the number two ranked team in the state, a team they haven't beaten in a long time. A team that beat them 48 to zip last year. On top of it, it was an away game. Earlier in the week, their opponets were so cocky they were heard on the radio saying that this was basically a "warm up game for them." I have to say, driving down to the game I thinking what to say to my son in order to encourage him because I was expecting another beating. Him and his team have gotten better but the team they were going up against was a football factory. I think they assemble super players from the parts of lesser ones.
My son and his teammates have been working there butts off during the off season and it paid off. They beat the crap out those guys! Un-freakin-believeable! It wasn't a fluke or a last-minute-hail-mary-pass. They took the ball and rammed it down their throats play after play. And after the game they showed a lot of class. Instead of going to the 50-yard line and celibrating (something the other team does) they did the "good game" handshake and followed their coach to the end zone.
Yeah, I know it's just high school football but this will be something that they will remember for the rest of their lives.
Anyway, just wanted to share a proud parents moment.
washington (afp) - for the first time since it began, a majority of americans believe the iraq war is not part of the war on terrorism, as us president george w. bush keeps insisting it is, according to a poll.. fifty-one percent of the 1,206 adults surveyed in the august 17-21 new york times/cbs news poll believed the two wars were separate, while 44 percent saw a link between them.
in june, opinion was split evenly at 41 percent..
rest of the story here.
Roy,This is a serious question as I have not followed your posts, but were you not once a fierce defender of the Bush Administration and its Iraqi adventure, or am I getting you mixed up with someone else?
Best regards - HS
From day one I was / am a supporter of the war but not solely based on the WMD search. UN mandates, shooting at US war planes, bringing stability to the region, threats of developing WMD, etc.. I also believed that the people of Iraq would move toward a democratic government and I believe the high voter turnout is evidence that they would have. However, thanks to a poorly planned occupation and influence of Iran, this will not come about.
From the beginning I stated that a military cannot build a nation. They're not police officers, they're not diplomates. US forces should have been in and out within a year. I also said from the beginning that a huge military presense was / is needed. Basically, Iraq needed to be on lockdown. Its too late now. Just as Israel learned the hard way in south Lebannon, a small group of determined people can hold off a larger military force when things are poorly planned. At this point it doesn't seem to me that anyone in Iraq is willing to stand up and lead. The people of Iraq don't seem to want what we're willing to offer them. Iraq should be divded up into three sections, oil revenue split among them. Violence will drop and we can make plans to bring troops home. Option two, put a Saddam clone in charge,
Impeach Bush? Put him on trial? Sure but next to him I want to see Bill Clinton and his cabinet for stating over and over again that Saddam had WMD. I also want to see all the congressmen who voted for the war also on trial esp. the members of the Senate Intelligence comittee. But seriously, Bush will go down in history as making the biggest military blunders in US history.
And if anyone does want to see an investigation, I'd like to see the big companies making billions on thiswar investigated.
One last point. I do agree with Simon and his comment about Amercians not conserving gas. One has to imagine if we spent the billions on conservation technology and tax incentives, instead of a war, we'd probably do more to damage those who finance terrorism.
