uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
LOL. Lloyd couldn't pull off any other writing style aside from his own. Not a lick of imagination.
This is just a reminder that there are still die-hard Evans supporters out there, who bristle at the thought that others have seen through him and are not quiet about it. You will notice that there are fewer and fewer of them around.
beninu andersen.
denmark.
i am not aware of how many of you are familiar with the danish case of a jehovah's witness who was hospitalized after a tragic accident where he fell several floors from a scaffolding where he was working.. the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and was conscious (albeit somewhat confused) for the first three weeks.
I mean, it is an attempt to save a life. What is the issue? Do they think that Jehovah will turn them away from paradise because they were given a transfusion when they were unable to communicate? Under those circumstances, the lawsuit reads like "how dare you try to save a life! Who do you think you are???"
The WTS thinks that you should not sue a JW who defrauds you. Did they speak to the persons responsible for this lawsuit, or did they quietly approve of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umnhg0a9dlu.
evolutionists can change their model, and invent stories whenever they want to accomodate data.
biblical literalists are stuck with just one model, one account, and are unable to change it.
The "one model" creationists are "stuck with" is one where a being of infinite power and unlimited magical energy is able to create anything that anyone can imagine and make it work regardless of how impossible it might seem.
It has no explanatory power and no predictive power, since it cannot be explained except in the broadest and simplest terms. It relies on actual science to fuel its own interpretations of how things work, because without actual science, there is no understanding of how things work. It has changed many times, not because we learned anything about God, but because we learned something about the universe.
This renders the model useless. Without it, we would still know everything we know about the universe and our world, because we learned those through the application of the Scientific Method. Indeed, we could use any of the ancient creative tales to explain the universe under these circumstances. Why isn't the universe actually the carcass of a massive dragon that was slain by a god?
uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.
I think this is the X thread that is being referred to:
i am non political and have never voted but nonetheless i have been keenly watching to see how the trump presidential race unfolds.
i believe that his involvement in propelling or influencing a leaning toward bible prophecy will unfold.
how, i can’t say but something tells me that this anomaly and outlier being trump is highly signifiant!
That billion dollars was spent in 107 days, if I am not mistaken. A staggering waste of money, and the impression I get is that it was mostly due to mismanagement and/or poor oversight and control. As unpopular as Harris is within the party, I would not be surprised if the next few months are filled with leaks about how the money was misspent.
It had to be humiliating to send out fundraising emails after the election was lost. "Sorry, dear supporter. We blew through the billion you already donated and find ourselves $20 million in debt. Can you help us cover the shortfall?"
a comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???
potus pappy joe to the rescue!!
he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .
There was a video of Biden walking on the beach, and he seemed to struggle with maintaining his balance. Jill grabbed his arm at one point, but it seems like they wanted to show that he was okay by letting him go on his own. He almost fell once or twice. And his face tends to be expressionless more often than not; he seems to always be miles away.
Still more popular than Harris, though.
i am non political and have never voted but nonetheless i have been keenly watching to see how the trump presidential race unfolds.
i believe that his involvement in propelling or influencing a leaning toward bible prophecy will unfold.
how, i can’t say but something tells me that this anomaly and outlier being trump is highly signifiant!
The Republican majority in the house will be small, anywhere from 218-217 to 220-215 or thereabouts. They have a 53-45-2 majority in the Senate (plus the VP, who votes whenever there is a tie). There will be Republicans who will need to be convinced on some votes, especially in the Senate where Collins, Murkowski, and Romney are not Trump supporters.
I think this allows us to dismiss the hysteria around Trump running roughshod over the country. His majorities are slim and will require some give-and-take on occasion. The most likely strategy by the Democrats will be to delay and impede anything he tries to do for two years and hope that they take back congress in the midterms. I think they probably will make gains in 2026, as that is usually the case whenever an election ends in one party having control of the White House and congress.
I can't help but get the impression that Trump learned a LOT of lessons from his first term, and appears to be focused on getting his team in place and avoiding the mess from 2017, where he struggled to get his administration staffed. He is prepared to hit the ground running with a set of plans that he intends to try and get done as soon as he is in office. I am hopeful that this new and focused version will make things better. But four years is at once a very long time and a very short time.
watchtower put out some highlights for the 2024 service year:.
average publishers: 8,828,124. peak publishers: 9,043,460. a 43.2 percent increase in "those who returned to jehovah", meaning 65,816 were reinstated.
baptized: 296,267. memorial attendance: 21,119,442. missing stat: number of partakers .. womp womp.
Do these numbers reflect the recent change to witnessing? Or did they hit the 9 million before those went into effect?
If I squint, I just end up falling asleep at my desk.
i would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.
surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.
my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.
I think the constant "end is THIS close" talk is the one that comes to mind the most. In part because of the way they try to rationalize the fact that the end still has not come. They talk as if the end will happen within months, if not weeks or days. If you wonder why it's taking so long, they say that it isn't taking long, not from Jehovah's point-of-view.
Of course, if you are taking that approach, then the end might not be for hundreds --or even thousands-- of years. After all, a day is as a thousand years for God! Oh, what's that? We're almost at the end of the sixth creative day? So it has to be any second now? Then why are you telling me about how patient Jehovah is, if that has nothing to do with when the end will happen???
