jehovah's witnesses to settle sex-abuse case - san diego reader (california, us), friday, january 12, 2018.
. @Bobby
"What they possibly could pay out in settlements, they receive 100 fold in donations, so that’s not going to drain them in and of itself."
You have a point. However the bigger drain comes from membership losses resulting from the negative exposure. The financial troubles for the WT are just beginning, but it will be a decades long process before they can even think about folding. Their portfolio of real estate is still quite healthy.
i have been meeting with member's of the kingdom hall, and i have attended a few times now on sundays.
i'd like to discuss experiences with this group since i'm new.
so far, i love it.
ex-Mormon?
next ex-JW,
next ex-Scientologist?,
next a member of Heaven's Gate type of religion
next ashes
You may want a make a correction to this path. Make a U turn ASAP
loyalty appears to be the buzzword constantly promoted by the gb at the moment.
we hear it at conventions, assemblies, and meetings.. let's face it loyalty covers so much.
shunning of family, friends etc.
Micah 6:8 revised version NWT 2013): He has told you, O man, what is good.And what is Jehovah requiring of you? Only to exercise justice, to cherish loyalty, And to walk in modesty with your God
Micah 6:8 Jewish Publication Society (JPS) Tanakh: It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, And what the LORD doth require of thee: Only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
I think Jews know Hebrew better than the anonymous translators of the NWT 2013
all creationist arguments follow an identical pattern.. first a quick way to remember the format - 'complexity, complexity, complexity; therefore god'.. now a more detailed guide to formulating an argument.. identify some complex feature of the natural world.
a quick google search or nature documentary will quickly provide inspiration.
creationist websites have hundreds of them you can copy-paste without attribution.. do no research at all on what is currently known about the evolutionary history of this feature.
Venus:"No, evolution and creation both are a matter of faith"
Two things couldn't be farther apart. It's sad the state of things today; people still believe the myths and fables of 3,000 years ago were facts. Never mind that those myths are from the same book that requires stoning women who were not virgin at wedding day.
all creationist arguments follow an identical pattern.. first a quick way to remember the format - 'complexity, complexity, complexity; therefore god'.. now a more detailed guide to formulating an argument.. identify some complex feature of the natural world.
a quick google search or nature documentary will quickly provide inspiration.
creationist websites have hundreds of them you can copy-paste without attribution.. do no research at all on what is currently known about the evolutionary history of this feature.
Old Navy
"As in Mathematics, where certain relationships and identities are "obvious,""
as in 2+2=5.
That's not the Mathematics of Newton or Einstein. That's the math from .. what is it?... almost there...yes... from Oceania.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhq5viughny&feature=youtu.be.
quite frankly im disturbed at the lack of love and compassion.
especially for the first sister they talk about!.
i hope hollywood helps make her the democratic nominee.
she sounds like she’s testing out the waters.
good luck ms. winfrey.
If we survive 4 years of Trump, then Oprah should be an improvement.
Just like Trump, she is also a very successful business woman, far more popular TV celebrity and far more stable genius than Trump. She is also a self made millionaire who didn't inherit a penny, as Trump did. However, she is not qualified for the office of POTUS... but now that the standards are so low, why not? Imagine, a black woman president. Even after Obama (half black man), that's a big jump. She has my vote just for the novelty of being a first in two categories (black and woman) and overall a very likeable person
it's a cold 13 degrees fahrenheit in tennessee this morning where i live.
glad i'm retired and don't have to work outside today.
what about where you live.
Live in southern California, where this time of year temperatures are generally mildly cold (45-75F), but real estate prices are brutally high...why that is you may ask.
In any given weekend, if I want the beach I only have to drive for 30 minutes. If I want the mountains and snow, I only have to drive for 50 minutes. If I want the desert, I just walk to it. If I want the forest, I just drive for 60 minutes. If I want to see Mickey Mouse, just drive for an hour.
It all sounds good... doesn't it?... until you have to go to work 20 miles away and takes you 90 minutes to get there, and ninety minutes to come back... five days a week.
so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.
i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.
i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.
dubstepped: "Why only those things and not something else?"
Natural selection is the answer. There has been many, many "something elses", they are only good enough to last one or few generations.
I will give you my understanding in a nutshell. For me evolution is essentially constant change, especially In our DNA (mutations). It's almost like dropping a bunch of coins on the floor repeatedly. You are bound to see every time a different distribution of coins. That's because it's practically impossible to replicate the conditions of the event every time. In the case of evolution also every time that there's a new generation is bound to be different from the previous one, but it becomes increasingly noticeable because, unlike coins, life multiplies. So from this practical observation, it's rather easy for to accept, even be fascinated, by a simple fact of life; the only constant is change itself.
i have lived in sedona arizona for over five years.
we own the largest wine tour company here and take out more people to the vineyards in this area then anyone less.
so my new years present to anyone (governing body members excluded) here that reads this thread is 2 free wine tours if you visit sedona.
Thanks a lot Keith. I will be in beautiful Sedona again sometime in the future. I hope this offer has no expiration date.
Highly recommend visiting Sedona to anyone who hasn't been there yet. Get some pictures from Google. My favorite landscape
