everyone here has read mt.
25 and knows the illustration of the virgins with the lamps.
i have mentioned this illustration in conversation with several dubbies, to draw attention to their foolishness in following watchtower's false reasoning.. in the illustration, there are two kinds of virgins, or people.
very interesting application of that parable to the wt rubber generation with it's peaks.
particularly since the "establishment of the kingdom" 1914? question in Acts 1:7 prompted Jesus to retort, that it would not be given to the future GB members (apostles to Herd) to understand time and seasons.
WT of course has put self-replicating oil in it's canister by inventing the ever overlapping generation. but will it still shed light when the members suffer the burn-out? in 2075?
just saw this commercial and was very impressed.
hoping more companies start doing the same.
most of us are immigrants.
Normalizing illegal aliens' entry will create a society of scofflaws, like the countries they come from. Why is it that these countries are basket cases.? because of the people that live there, mostly. exporting these conditions will not enhance the quality of life of the unfortunate recipients of this overflow, particularly if the migrants will end up setting the tone (language) of the resulting brew.
Many immigrants came to the US to quickly assimilate, to create a unique society. Learn the common language. The current wave , including those from the proud near orient traditions and the south, see themselves as conquistadors, with the entitlement and mission to right past and future wrongs at the expense of the creators of the good thing that the Usof A is.
PS: as to the hiring practises of 84 Lumber, or Lowe's, or your friendly neighbourhood government agency, the Spanish speaker will displace the native English only citizen. sooner or later.( thanks for the hospitality)
just saw this commercial and was very impressed.
hoping more companies start doing the same.
most of us are immigrants.
speaking spanish would be a plus for being hired by 84 lumber I suppose.
awake!
1 2017 says on its back page.
the saharan silver ant (cataglyphis bombycina) is one of the most heat-tolerant land animals known.
Perry, the bible implies that the creator handcrafted each species and then perhaps did a quick remodel to account for the fall, and again after the flood.
creation, origins are more subtle than that. Bible writers underestimated the ingenuity displayed in nature. how about a build-in automatic development process that has the potential to produce life to most efficiently fit into any opening niche? Nietzsche?
from nothing? balanced potential energy, time might be fundamental.
this link http://beroeans.net/2017/01/30/by-undeserved-kindness-you-were-set-free/.
has a great discussion about today's wt study, the difference and reasons for translating grace as undeserved kindness.
this has been discussed here before but i've just discovered the website.
why would you put blondie through the agony to have to read the articles? for those still toddling along with family to the meetings, just listening to the stuff once is more than enough to pick out the brain washing. But it was great to have had the digest. thanks blondie.
awake!
1 2017 says on its back page.
the saharan silver ant (cataglyphis bombycina) is one of the most heat-tolerant land animals known.
the design process involved a "family dinner"***. The not so well shielded ants died, were eaten by their siblings. Nature's outworkings were determined in the original beginning, creation event.
*** catchy term quoted from a recent science story on the benefit of cannibalism.
out of morbid curiosity, i would like to here reduce the digits of the lifetimes stated in genesis chapter 5. it is clear that no human being has ever lived that long, and perhaps there is some numerological meaning to these numbers rather than literal history.
7 after he became the father of enosh, seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
10 after he became the father of kenan, enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
I hate my own life span subject to the needs to fit, to satisfy such schemes;-- bacteria, viruses are bad enough.
I am fascinated with numerology written in the planets (wandering stars). in the Bode sequence the Earth is 10. count it on your fingers.
it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?
the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.
the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.
walking slowly down the halls in bedroom slippers shuffling his feet. He's gone now. magnum:
The generation was supposed to go out with a bang, the second big one, but is going out with a whimper, not even an axe like rev 20 has it.
it has been 21 years since the 1995 article that pretty much buried the idea of the '1914 generation'.. remember those guys?
the ones born in 1914 that would still be alive when the end of the system arrived.. i'm glad i'm old enough to remember going from door to door, preaching this belief.
the reason i say that is because i have a lot of 'still in' jw friends and family.
In the last 2 wt studies, the GB has repudiated what they taught about the first 4 years of that generation; the anointed one, remember?
Prologos above is wrong, according to the GB at least, : it will not be an endless generation, the anointed will end before the end.
The "millions will never die" of 1918, the endless generation (non anointed) , is almost gone, unless the GB starts overlapping them too.
talking snakes were a short-lived phenomenon too.
this is utterly ridiculous.... .
the more i research this particular subject, the more flip-flops i uncover.
it seems the fds cant even make up their minds regarding what happened in 1918 (or should i say 1919?).
Inspected in 1918, failed, disciplined , went to prison,
inspected for sincerity, 1919, approved, became F&DS. it could not have been content: "Millions now living will never---"
