You know what? I think elders might agree with you that your parents are being unreasonable, BU2B. Sorry I'm not familiar with your situation w.r.t. the religion, but could you get an elder or two to talk to your parents? They can show some scriptures to your parents (like the one about 'counting the cost') that will encourage them to be more balanced. Coming from the elders, this advice might turn the mentality of "Satan wants me to go back to work" over to "Jehovah is telling me to go back to work". Your dad isn't going to get work offers for much longer if he's in his late 50s.
Apognophos
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My Parents have gone FULL CULT MODE! Having a job is SATANIC!
by BU2B into give a little background, my parents are in their late 50s.
around a year ago, my elder dad got laid off from his job.
he worked as a auto mechanic making ok money.
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Facial Expressions And The Future Of The US Empire
by metatron inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829642/cold-war-shoulder-vladimir-putin-gives-barack-obama-cool-glare-beijing-summit-offering-friendly-pat-back.html.
putin is smirking as if to say, "you're just not in on the joke".
take note of the other facial expressions as well.. i can can speculate at length but i see a man who 'plays checkers' surrounded by chess masters.
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That's interesting about the flight test. Some people also thought that the date of Russia's FOAB test in 2007 was interesting (9/11).
As far as the U.S. focus on Russia rather than China, could it be that they don't think China is as likely to become an aggressor as Russia? That being said, I think we can be confident that they are keeping a close eye on China even if they don't talk about China a lot. But China is not making actual threatening moves like taking over the Ukraine.
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900 Top Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Macro-Evolution
by Perry inwe are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural .
selection to account for the complexity of life.
careful examination of the .
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Here's another way to answer the question of where the information in DNA came from: the environment. Most people would agree that the Grand Canyon wasn't created directly by an intelligence, even if they believe in God; rather they would agree that it was carved out by water over a long period of time.
The information in DNA is a set of blueprints which were refined in a sequence of organisms living over billions of years. As those organisms reproduced, generational mutations in their genetic code were shaped by the environment in the direction of what helped those organisms survive. The ones whose mutations were not beneficial died out.
So rather than it being an amazing thing that all this "carefully designed" data exists in the form of DNA, it's actually a natural result of the way our universe is built, every bit as natural as the way the Grand Canyon formed. The information, the complexity of that data, is just the result of long years of interaction with the outside world, much like the steady accumulation of wrinkles on our face as we age.
That's not to say that it isn't amazing that the universe accumulates order and assembles information like it does. I do think that's pretty amazing. But if it didn't, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. So if there have been a billion universes before this one, or if they exist alongside us, but they do not tend towards order like ours does, then they're just a whole bunch of non-living noise.
There's no one alive in those chaotic universes to propose that they must have been created because "Look at all this complex stuff, it must have been designed". Our universe has just enough order to allow us to exist and contemplate ourselves, but just enough disorder to show that this is not a carefully-designed universe made by a loving, attentive God.
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Facial Expressions And The Future Of The US Empire
by metatron inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829642/cold-war-shoulder-vladimir-putin-gives-barack-obama-cool-glare-beijing-summit-offering-friendly-pat-back.html.
putin is smirking as if to say, "you're just not in on the joke".
take note of the other facial expressions as well.. i can can speculate at length but i see a man who 'plays checkers' surrounded by chess masters.
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Well, I don't mean to suggest that one can't read something into the way that world leaders choose to interact during an official function, e.g., where they sit and who they talk to. What I'm objecting to is the idea that one can tell anything at all from a photo like the one of Putin side-eying Obama. Caught by a camera at the right awkward moment, anyone can be interpreted to be thinking anything. Windows are not the eyes to the soul and people cannot read each others' minds from a distance.
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Facial Expressions And The Future Of The US Empire
by metatron inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829642/cold-war-shoulder-vladimir-putin-gives-barack-obama-cool-glare-beijing-summit-offering-friendly-pat-back.html.
putin is smirking as if to say, "you're just not in on the joke".
take note of the other facial expressions as well.. i can can speculate at length but i see a man who 'plays checkers' surrounded by chess masters.
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Putin is that guy who slept with everyone else's girlfriend in college. From his standpoint, giving a coat to a lady is just "what a real man does". He doesn't do anything unless it's macho.
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Governing Body sick of waiting! They want the paradise they were promised!
by donuthole inthis post is going to suggest that the governing body remains, as ray franz wrote, "captives of a concept".
like every jehovah's witness they were raised with the belief that the the paradise would be here by now.
unlike others, they are in a position to do something about.. why wait to rule over the earth?
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I agree with your overall premise, donuthole. I think the reason for the extra emphasis on translation is that they think God is waiting for them to reach every last corner of the world with the message before the end can come (Matt. 24:14). It's basically an attitude of, "What do we have to do to get Armageddon to come already, Lord?!"
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Facial Expressions And The Future Of The US Empire
by metatron inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829642/cold-war-shoulder-vladimir-putin-gives-barack-obama-cool-glare-beijing-summit-offering-friendly-pat-back.html.
putin is smirking as if to say, "you're just not in on the joke".
take note of the other facial expressions as well.. i can can speculate at length but i see a man who 'plays checkers' surrounded by chess masters.
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I'm very skeptical that anything meaningful can be read from the public interactions of world leaders. Everyone is going to have a guarded expression in this setting, and the smiles will be fake. Even the widely-discussed handshake between Abe and Jinping the other day was much ado about nothing. Jinping was aloof because he was feeling great pressure to come across as the superior leader for the sake of China's reputation. The same pressure is felt by these leaders; they are being photographed thousands of times and are not going to act in a way that is natural, or even self-consistent, under these conditions.
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I don't try to follow them much...but...if you are looking for the one with the most power, look for the quiet one.
I think that would be Loesch. He has a quiet aura of authority around him.
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Is Anthony Morris III gay?
by Calebs Airplane inwhy else would he constantly bring up "gay-inspired" clothing when speaking to such large audiences?.
nothing wrong with being gay.
but he should just come out of the closet already and stop all this stupidity... just saying.. .
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He also criticized women for wearing tight pants, so he must secretly be straight as well.
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Over 1,000,000 in attendance and you are worried about tight pants?
by Separation of Powers inyou know, rarely in the history of the org has a group this large congregated to hear from "mother.
" they incessantly speak of the huge group that met at yankee stadium in 1958...the over 250,000 that congregated to be instructed by jehovah.
but over the weekend, there were over 1,000,000 people excited to hear some type of direction, some type of encouragement, something to help them hang on "just a little longer.".
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Oubliette: Ah, thanks for pointing that out.
Awake at last: Yep, he mentioned his wife's name, Sue, in the talk.