Definition of FINE......
Freaking
Insane
Neurotic
Exhausted
Remember that the next time someone asks you "How are you?" and you don't feel like explaining everything. You can just tell them FINE and still be telling the truth!
Definition of FINE......
Freaking
Insane
Neurotic
Exhausted
Remember that the next time someone asks you "How are you?" and you don't feel like explaining everything. You can just tell them FINE and still be telling the truth!
did you know it is against the law to say the word prayer out loud on an airplane?
i was watching tv last night and this man was nearly arrested.
he has been a christian for over 30 years.. he was on an airplane here in the united states, with his wife and another friend.
I ment to say the word prayer, not the action of prayer.
did you know it is against the law to say the word prayer out loud on an airplane?
i was watching tv last night and this man was nearly arrested.
he has been a christian for over 30 years.. he was on an airplane here in the united states, with his wife and another friend.
Did you know it is against the law to say the word prayer out loud on an airplane?
I was watching tv last night and this man was nearly arrested. He has been a christian for over 30 years.
He was on an airplane here in the United States, with his wife and another friend. He made the comment "We need to pray for Israel.", to his wife.
He was pulled off the plane by some men and the police. They told him, that it is against the law to say the word prayer on an airplane. They went to call him a radical. He said how can I be a radical, when I obey the laws, and pay my taxes? He is just one of your every day christians.
He was not allowed to reboard the plane, he had to find another means of travel.
If you are wondering how long ago this happened, he said it happen this past week.
i am wondering , with the world situation that way it is, could we be living in the last days?
putting religion, and personal beliefs aside, are we are the brink of all of this coming to an end?
geneocide, could happen because of what mankind is doing to the earth.
Sure we are in the last days. But I really think the JWs will be in for a BIG shock on the out come.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/2220437p-2614222c.html .
five planets line up in rare celestial array .
by andrew bridges ap science writer.
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/2220437p-2614222c.html
Five planets line up in rare celestial array
By ANDREW BRIDGES AP Science Writer
Published 11:40 a.m. PDT Wednesday, April 17, 2002
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The five brightest planets visible from Earth have lined up in plain sight to form a spectacular celestial array that won't be seen again until 2040.
Through the next four weeks, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn and Venus will appear tightly clustered in the western sky, forming a knot of planets that can be viewed in the evening despite the glow of light-soaked cities.
"The five naked-eye planets are converging in one part of the sky and from now until mid-May you can see all five at one glance, which is pretty unusual," said John Mosley, an astronomer at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
Each evening, the alignment will assume different shapes, as the five planets continue on the orbital paths that take them around the sun. The planets orbit in the same plane, like grooves in a phonograph record, only at different distances.
Each planet also varies in the amount of time it takes to orbit the sun: Mercury zips around once every 88 days; Saturn takes more than 29 years; the others fall in between. At times the planets appear to cluster together.
Similar bunchings occur every 20 years or so, although they are not always visible. The last they were this visible was in 1940. In May 2000, the five planets formed a tighter bunch, but were so close to the sun that they were washed out by its glare.
In 2004, they will appear together again in the night sky, but will be spread over a much wider area, said J. Kelly Beatty, executive editor of Sky & Telescope magazine. They won't be as easy to spy at a single glance again until 2040.
"This is the nature of the clockwork of the solar system," Beatty said. "We like to think of it as a way to remind people there is a simple beauty in the heavens that doesn't require any special training to appreciate."
Astronomers stress there is no astronomical significance to the pileup. It is, Beatty said, just a "pretty coincidence."
That hasn't stopped doomsayers in the past. In the months before the May 2000 lineup, some thought it foretold widespread catastrophe.
To view the planetary alignment, find a dark area and look west as twilight ends. Binoculars or a telescope are not needed.
The planets already are appearing together nightly, although they will be at their closest on May 14, when Jupiter will be high and bright in the sky. Below it, Venus will be paired with the crescent moon. Mars will lie below it, and Saturn below it. Farther down and to the right, Mercury will hug the horizon.
it has been said that the jws hold to many beliefs that are unnsupported scripturally and inforce many 'unwritten' rules which they refer to as 'principles'.. i would like to start off the thread with what i think is the most important unbiblical teaching that they need to promote inorder to exist.. the watchtower teaches that "a prophet is able to make mistakes while he is speaking for god and still be considered as true.
mind you that these are not slips of the tounge but doctrines and predictions that have been promoted for years and have only been modified only after the watchtower had no choice but to change them.. this in my opinion is the most unscriptural teaching that the watchtower promotes.
if it werent for this teaching then the watchtower would most definately have to be marked as a false prophet!
A prophet from God will not make a mistake, because the words he speaks are not his own. But are God's words through the Holy Spirit.
Since I stopped being a JW, I have lost all interest on searching my family genealogy. I guess it is because a certain % are JWs. Any way I was going through my files this evening and came across some papers. This particular branch of the family was the ones who brought my mom into the the JW cult. Now I have had not contact with my mom since she learned of my dissociation (8 months ago). Tonight I was going to send her those papers. I had got them in an envelope, addressed, and stamped. The envelope sat on my desk less than 1/2 hour. Then this anger just started boiling inside. I took the envelope and tore it to shreds. I am still aggravated, but I am calming down some. I don't know if I am angry at my mom, or that cousin who got my mom to be a JW.
just a small request to you all.. britian is not england.. england is a part of britian, as is wales, scotland .a lot of what you may think is english is in fact welsh or scotish.. it is like me refering to the usa as new york .. if this carries on i'll have no other choice but to call the usa canada.
The Europeans are just as bad. I have heard you all call us Americans, Yanks. As my daddy always says "I ain't no dam yankie, I'm a Texan."
i don't know where to start.
around the late 80's or early 90's i can't remember exactly.
my family and i (mom and sisters) went to a congregation get together.
I don't know where to start. Around the late 80's or early 90's I can't remember exactly. My family and I (mom and sisters) went to a congregation get together. There we played games, ate, and well you get the general idea. Then we came to the part where we was starting a volley ball game. Two persons became captains, and they picked people to play on their teams. The last two people standing there was a girl named Peggy and myself. After she was picked. They just stood there and looked at me. No one had picked me. So I left. I was so hurt not being included on a team to play. I left and went home, crying.
Mom asked why I was leaving. I told her that I wanted to get on with my job. At the time I cleaned offices. The was a Saturday. I was hurt and angry.
Now I must tell you all that I can not stay mad or angry very long at any one person. At the most, about an hour or less.
(Now there are some exceptions. But I am not going to talk about that.)
Now lets fast forward to 4 days later (Wednesday). At the time Wed. was one of my biggest cleaning days. I had 4 places to clean (aprox. 8 hours of work- usually got done around 2 am Thursday morning)
I had only gotten started about 1/2 way through cleaning a bank. When mom called. She said that "Peggy, was killed in an auto accident." So I stopped what I was doing and went straight home. We went up to Kansas City, to a hospital. Her brother was in the same accident. He had been life flighted to the hospital. They did not know if he would survive.
He had just bought his first car earlier that day. His parents told him not to take the car out until they could make the car legal to drive (tags and insurance). He waited until after his mom and dad left home and asked his sister if she would like to take a ride. He was only going to drive it down their dirt road and bring the car right back. They would be gone only a few minutes. They got about 5 minutes from their house when he lost control of his car (dirt road), and it rolled. In the process his sister was thrown out of the car, and the car rolled right over her. She was killed instantly. She was only 12 years old at the time. (She was also the same age as my sister.)
Now this family was also very important to my family. I had baby sat for them, and her mom was one of my closest friends.
On Friday, they had the visitation. To make matters worse I had a talk to give at the kingdom hall afterwards. I did not want to do my part. But mom said that I had to full fill my responsibilities. It was the worst talk I ever gave. I was crying during the whole part. Let's just say I was given very bad marks from the elder. He had told me, during the meeting. That the death of Peggy should not be an excuse for being so sloppy in handling our parts for the meetings. That was the last talk I was ever assigned to do.
ok, i have a hipothectical question.
i have had this thought going through my head for some time now.. now i know some beleive in armageddon and others well they don't.
but let's take this route just for the heck of it.
Ok, I have a hipothectical question.
I have had this thought going through my head for some time now.
Now I know some beleive in Armageddon and others well they don't.
But let's take this route just for the heck of it.
Some time down the road, Armageddon does actually take place. And
the Jehovah's Witnesses do survive it. But to their surprise there are other people of other faiths who have also survied it also. And yes, even those who have left the orgization (including known apostates). Now my question is, what kind of reaction do you think they would have seeing people who they have shunned standing right there beside them?