unbelievable news: they've actually built a kingdom hall, and it was thanks to jehovah!!!!.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/canada/kingdom-hall-completed-in-canadas-place-of-many-fish/.
“from the logistics of getting the construction materials to the far north, to navigating how to solve unexpected supply problems, nothing could stand in jehovah’s way.
Don't worry, it'll get drearier with each meeting.
I love how they always make sure to tell you that unpaid volunteers worked to build it. As if the WTS was planning to pay a crew to build it until the locals insisted on doing it for free. And now that they chipped in and built it, they need to start donating so that they can pay for the materials, too.
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Who selected that thumbnail for the video? It's pretty funny, it looks like he's crying out and she's cringing.
atlantis, do you have the v.d.m.
questionnaire?.
hi betty:.
Atlantis: Mr. Magoo! ( Well, that is what Petra calls me sometimes! )
Well, in that spirit, I must say... Magoo, you've done it again!
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ForeverAlone: If she took it down after finding out about him, I'm going to have to say guys that is funny as hell!!!
I agree. I was wondering what might happen if she learned more about him and had to make a statement or remove the video. Well, I was not really wondering, as I am sure that Evans, after his effusive gratitude, will now go scorched earth and attack her for empowering his bullies, etc.
for those of you not up to speed on the latest jw trends, one of the key scriptures the jws are using in field serve-us lately is job 26:7, wherein the writer describes the earth as “hanging upon nothing”.. this text is used to indicate the bible’s “reliability”.
the reasoning goes something like this:.
“see, centuries ago, people thought the world was flat, or was resting on elephants or turtles, or some such nonsense.
If I understand it correctly, doesn't the Earth actually move upon the fabric of spacetime, instead of hanging? The idea of an object hanging somewhere does not give the impression that it is actually rotating around another object, which would imply that the Biblical writer believed that the sun rotated around the Earth. I like the poetry of the line, but it's too vague to be of practical use in determining how scientifically accurate it is.
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I don't take issue with his desire to make it so long, but a first-time author will have trouble finding a publisher who is willing to offer an advance for such a large book. I think most agents would see the size of it and drop it in the recycle bin without reading past the title. If he was an established author with a following, he'd get some consideration, sure. I almost wish he'd managed to reach an agreement with a publisher. Imagine what a horror show that would've been!
But that's why I'm glad that there are options for self-publishing now. Everything from a massive memoir to a short booklet can be put up for sale. And if you are savvy enough at marketing, you can do quite well even without massive sales, since most of the earnings go to the author and not to a publishing company. If his books are making money, good for him! And if it saved a publisher, editor, or agent the grief of having to deal with him, the world is a slightly better place overall.
........cheat when playing against others at computer games?
are they really such losers in life?.
Are you sure they are adults? There are a lot of young kids playing online these days, and a surprising number of them see no issue with using cheats to gain an advantage (though they seem to recognize how wrong it is when someone else does it against them).
there seems to be no end to the many jw's who sexually abused minors.
here is another story:.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pa-jehovahs-witnesses-sex-assault-attorney-general-shapiro-20221027.html.
Vintage posted a different link, which had this line:
Eleam is accused of sexually abusing his daughter and using sexual molestation as a form of punishment when she was a child.
Eleam killed himself when police attempted to take him into custody. On the one hand, I wish he'd had to face the court and his victims. On the other hand, it's not possible for him to have suffered enough for being such an awful person. Good riddance, and I hope his end won't be seen as a way to cheat justice, but as a form of closure for his victims.
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200,000 words is insane. If I am remembering correctly, most genres are expected to come in at somewhere between 60,000 and 120,000 words, and it's generally more towards the former than the latter. Any publisher who would be willing to advance him a payment would almost certainly have assigned him an editor and made it clear that the manuscript would need to be pared down significantly before the editor took a look. Wasting their time with a massive eruption of text is a non-starter.
Self-publishing was his only realistic option anyway. He would not have worked well with an editor.
this has been weighing on my mind all day,.
i just have to vent and get this off my chest.. the latest jw brainwashing, indoctrination session i think it was a broadcast.
toward the end where the speaker was spouting-off about being in a 'race' again and 'enduring until the end',.
It's like being in a dream, where no matter how much you run you never get any closer to your destination. Treadmill and hamster wheel are the proper analogies for it.
