steve2: is there some way this can be presented so that it is crystal clear what was actually in the demonstrations and what was added?
i guess some will think it should be obvious - but this is where misunderstandings arise because we end up wrongly attributing something to jw organization that was never said.. circuit assembly theme: maintain love for jehovah!.
note to speaker: warmly encourage young ones to prove their friendship with jehovah by observing his commandments and defending his standards.
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me." (Batman)
You can't say you love the person and hate the sin, and then also say a person is defined and qualified by their actions.
Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man. (Numbers 31:17-18, NIV)
Wow, such a moral standard to live by, and to wish upon others as well.
someone recommended "the santa clarita diet" to me at work, and when i got home and watched the trailer, my wife and i both sat down and binged through the whole thing.... https://youtu.be/xjrnbogoauq.
thematically, the show is all about rebirth.
sprinkled throughout is the idea that when something changes in your life, you just have to be bold and run with it.
@Simon, I will say that the season finale left me disappointed a little bit, because I really want a show to just conclude. Seriously, especially if it's built on themes of death and rebirth... But the business requires a long series, so it goes.
someone recommended "the santa clarita diet" to me at work, and when i got home and watched the trailer, my wife and i both sat down and binged through the whole thing.... https://youtu.be/xjrnbogoauq.
thematically, the show is all about rebirth.
sprinkled throughout is the idea that when something changes in your life, you just have to be bold and run with it.
Someone recommended "The Santa Clarita Diet" to me at work, and when I got home and watched the trailer, my wife and I both sat down and binged through the whole thing...
Thematically, the show is all about rebirth. Sprinkled throughout is the idea that when something changes in your life, you just have to be bold and run with it. You went years with life going a certain way, everything all planned out, and suddenly it's all out the window.
Also, it's gruesome and loaded with bad language. So keep the little kids away and maybe don't watch while eating dinner.
The whole first season runs about 5 hours, and it's highly recommended. Enjoy. :)
Here's a list of things the WT is asking you to give up:
Here's why they say, "Don't give up":
And that's just not a fair shake. No thanks.
When I was in Prepaid Legal, an MLM pyramid scheme that sells a service that should be called legal insurance but isn't, my upline said something interesting. "If you don't make it to the annual seminar, the chances are you're going to quit the program." Of course, I agree with him.
The regional convention is just such a seminar.
...would you choose to ban the jw religion?.
if you wouldn't ban them what, if any, changes would you force upon them?.
at the meeting today, we were reading the watchtower and this elder apologetically said to such a degree in regards to romans 5:12 that "we humans are not worthy of any mercy from jehovah.
we shouldn't even have free will because we can't possibly do anything good enough to please jehovah.
we don't even deserve life because of sin.
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.
No that's what a rational person does.
I'm not so sure a rational person would believe someone lived for 930 years.
If Adam's a metaphor how do you know that the numbers associated with him are literal, metaphorical or just made up by some person 2,000 years ago and repeatedly changed in later translations?
It is made up. I'm not sure you quite get it, that is part of my point.
So this is just playing with numbers.
*golf clap*
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 am going through a course that includes an introduction to programing language and one thing I had to learn was to convert numbers from decimal our normal metric system to binary code, to octal, to hexadecimal. and they are all a way of keeping track but they do not convert evenly at all base 10 base 2,8, and 16.
Terrific! I'm a hobbyist programmer as well. Yeah, we use a base 10 system today, the Babylonians used base 60, and the Hebrews apparently used a kind of base 10 system with other characters for 10s and 100s.
So what if possibly some scribe somewhere along the way just didn't convert his numbers correctly, when he was translating these fables.
Dunno. For sure, there were previous characters and actual kings who were attributed or had attributed to themselves very long lives. There certainly are entire doctrines built around scribal errors.
My contention is that to attempt to calculate "the real lifetimes" from those listed in Genesis is to mistake these characters for historical people. That goes for dividing them by 10 or 12 as well. Human beings are not 6000 years old or borne of a golem spell, and Genesis is myth rather than history.
simply disgusted with that double standard by our system at times.
cutting ads that question trumps bigoted wall, yet allowing a cult ad in.
wtf..
Imagine one day, you flip through the channels, and Fox News has an ad for JWorg...
...Followed immediately by a report about JW child abuse.
