what the hell is this guy thinking!?.
(reuters) - citing a classified pentagon report, the los angeles times reported on saturday that the bush administration has told the defense department to prepare, on a contingency basis, plans to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries.
the military was also directed to build smaller nuclear weapons for use in certain battlefield situations, the newspaper reported.
Every sufficiently large military force in the world with nuclear weapons has plans like this. Why single out the Americans? France, Russia, China, Pakistan, India - they ALL have similiar plans.
To sum it up, we're all screwed if somebody accidently pressed the BIG RED BUTTON.
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
i'm not planning anything..... but when they all pop off, what are the rest going to do?they think the ns will come before they all die, so how the heck will they cope with it ,scriptually speaking/ surely cause a few to 'desert'?
there was a thread a few days ago about elders being up graded to fds status by some out of context crappily applied scripture;do you think they'll explain the absence of god's action with' the fds is still here!.
or will they work everyone up into a horribly humiliating fever pitch of protelisizing ,the like of which we have yet to see?
Wow, you people are optimistic! It doesn't matter what the hell Brooklyn cooks up, the R&F will just be forced to eat it up. Think about it - a very large fraction of the Dubs have most of their family in the religion too. They can't just LEAVE. There is no escape for these ones, and as such they are forced to give lip-service to an organization which owns the minds of their family members.
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
okay, all you crazied men in love w/ britney spears, be careful surfing the web for pics of her, or you might get caught in a trojan virus trap.
i'm serious--she's contagious--stay away.
Viral site? Huh? What do you mean, Butalbee? I don't understand...
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
i hated growing up as a witness.
i hated the boring ass meetings where you could hear a pin drop on the floor, i hated going door to door and i hated not being normal like the other kids.. but the one thing i liked was going to the assemlies at the oakland coliseum.
i would wander around and find other kids to goof around with.
Holy Sh*t! An 8 day assembly! I thought the 3 day ones were bad...and I only ever attended 2 days of THEM! Good Lordie..that must have been terrible! By the end of those 8 days you must've felt like you'd been released from prison or something!
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
wow, i just had one heck of a dream (or was it a vision?).
imagine this folks...the wts as an ocean going vessal.
the captain of this ship is the governing body, the crew are the bethelites and all those overseers, and the passengers are the congregations of jw's.. ok, this ship has been sailing calmy for many years, but lately it has taken on a pretty hefty cargo.
No, Apostates are like the super-advanced nuclear-powered stealth submarines trailing immediately behind the ship, just waiting for the correct moment to expose themselves and destroy it's keel.
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
do you need to read coc or look on the interthingynet to know the "truth" is bull?.
i think not, but it will make it easier.. having more facts at your fingertips will help you make up your mind about the society , but really from reading the publictions yourself and looking at the congregations at what goes on should tell you its wrong.. i think theres a problem that a lot of people don't meditate enought and don't give themselves a well rounded knowledge of the world in general.. its understandable given that so much time is taken up with other things, many people are too tired to read alot or think deeply.. yet if you don't you are missing out.. you learn so much by reading rather than whatching tv or playing computer games.. reading a wide variety of books and meditating on things can help exercise you mind , helping it sort dodgy ideas from more sound ones.. i think we should learn from our time as witnesses and try to read more, and meditate on things, become a more rounded person.. it would be a shame if we had to rely soley on other people to mold the way we lead our lives.
I've read bits of it, but I found that the online resources of today are also an excellent way to mentally (and perhaps physically?) distance oneself from the BOrg. If you need a BOOK to see the real tR0oF, then something's not right! That said, it is a good book, and I hope to buy it soon!
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
personnally, i thing that the movie "the matrix" and the movie "the truman show" really describe my experience in the wbts.
when i discovered the truth about the "truth", my perception of the reality became really different.
all that i have been taught was just a big lie.
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
*LOL* this thread is hilarious!
For me it wasn't so traumatic being a Dub (compared to some of the 'experiences' I've read about here and elsewhere), so it could pretty much just be a film like 'Vanilla Sky' where ole Tom Cruise discovers his entire life is a lie, a simulation. Although the WTBTS isn't intelligent enough to simulate anything, I was still living a big old LIE!
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
about three weeks ago i told a friend about the un thing, no-one else, i had known for months but didn't tell her till she brought up a similar subject.
i gave her a printout from a guardian article, i have only had a short terse text message since.
i know she has a lot more to lose than i did, and i stopped going to meetings last year.
It wouldn't work to nail anything to the KH door, trust me, it's been tried before. The first of the faithful who sees it will just tear it up straight away.
So tell me, those Elders who were following you around for the last few weeks in order to gain information about your activities, have you spotted them yet? You know, those guys who sit outside your bedroom window every night armed with a telescope so they can see you posting here?
I say, good riddance!
BTW, you shouldn't have given that woman those doccies, now she'll be forced to turn your ass in. (For her 'conscience', you know!)
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
remember when: .
mom was at home when the kids got home from school.
when nobody owned a purebred dog.
OK, this one'll be for my kids (*cough*):
Remember the old days when:
* You could still buy computer operating systems?
* There was no War On Terrorism, only a War On Drugs?
* When Angel Dust was the worst hallucinogenic substance available?
* When you could get onto an airliner with your Swiss Army Knife in your pocket?
* When dissident speech against the US Government's Isreal/Palestine policy wasn't censored by all the major news sites as being 'unpatriotic'?
* When Usenet still ran on dedicated servers, and wasn't owned by Google?
* When Geocities didn't have bandwidth caps on their free sites?
* When dot-coms gave away $100 free offers?
* When you could draw up a business plan involving 'increasing the synergistic work-flow management efficiency between diverse corporate interests' and get a billion dollars of venture capital for it?
* When Al-Quaeda prisoners weren't strapped into chairs for twenty hours on a trans-Atlantic flight with their heads hooded in black cloth bags, and weren't left there to piss themselves during the flight without food?
* When you could ask your 7 year old daughter to open your mail for you without worrying about her getting Anthrax?
* When AOLTimeWarnerMicrosoft didn't own the entire entertainment industry? (OK, that was over the top, but goodness grief...)
* When the worst thing you could do in school was hire yourself out as an underaged male hooker?
* When nobody did Citizen's Arrests if you talked too loudly in Arabic while wearing a turban in a large convenience store?
* When you could still discuss specific details about terrorism on a website's forum and not have the FBI visit your home the next day?
* When you could still REMOVE Internet Explorer from Windows and expect it to function properly?
* When governments didn't use the same planes in the same country to both bomb and drop food packets?
* When fighters were still flown by pilots?
* When Congress actually debated bills that would severaly limit freedom of speech and infringe several other Amended rights?
My rant of the week!
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
i just had a scary thought.
the wt could predict something, and because of the size of their organization, actually make it come true.
lets say they had "new light" and every jw would be taken to heaven on a certain date.
I wouldn't be surprised if a large fraction of the Dubs would go along with something like that. But wouldn't that be self-defeating?
More realistic I think is a scenario where the BOrganization demands that the Dubs give up as many of their Earthly possessions as they can to help further the 'preaching work' or possibly to build an 'Armaggedon shelter' for the Dubs, and then the top guys run off with the booty. This is much more likely!
In fact, it's not like they're not doing it already...
The earlier in the forenoon you take the sun bath, the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing. - The Golden Age
