...Yes. On that note.....
Posts by TD
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88Contributions? Wait On Jehovah!
by metatron inclearly, there is every earmark of financial worries within the watchtower society.. even governing body members have expressed concern about falling contribution levels.
within congregations.
yet, for the faithful, the answer is simple: wait on jehovah.. .
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For anyone else who may be interested:
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Contributions? Wait On Jehovah!
by metatron inclearly, there is every earmark of financial worries within the watchtower society.. even governing body members have expressed concern about falling contribution levels.
within congregations.
yet, for the faithful, the answer is simple: wait on jehovah.. .
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Even if Metatron doesn't have the appropriate phrase quite correct, (e.g. Wait on Jehovah, Jehovah will provide, Put the Kingdom first, whatever----) he's made a valid point.
The JW's have often used Jesus' admonition not to be anxious about your material needs as an oxgoad. Just to cite one relavant example, I have personally heard the JW's present as worthy of imitation, cases where individuals took time off to attend the district convention even though it meant displeasing their employer.
Apparently, the idea is that even if you are terminated from your employment you will be rewarded by Jehovah for putting the interestests of the kingdom (i.e. The interests of the WTB&TS) first.
Well Metatron is right. If the material needs of the flock can be dismissed this casually by its leaders, then its leaders have nothing to complain about when the flock reciprocates.
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Tough Cop
by Yerusalyim inpersonally, i love this guy...this is how a jail should be run...what say you?
http://www.snopes.com/crime/deserts/pink.htm.
claim: arizona sheriff dismisses prisoners' bellyaching about the heat by pointing out that soldiers serving in iraq cope with similar conditions.
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Sheriff Joe was wildly popular here a few years ago. Local polls showed voter approval in the 90th percentile, which is amazing given the fact that Arizona is almost a dead 50/50 liberal/conservative split anymore. I voted for him myself. (Not the last election, but the one before)
What changed? For me, it's not the fact that he's a grandstanding buffoon. All elected officials fit that discription to varying degrees and I can overlook that in a Sheriff that is tough on crime. It's not the string of deaths in his jail, but that's part of it. It wasn't the investigation over his alleged wiretapping of the attorney general, but that's part of it. It's not his harrasment of every libreal journalist and conservative talk radio host that has said anything negative about him, but that's part of it.
I think the main thing for myself and others here, is the gradual realization that being tough on crime is not quite the same thing as making a public spectacle of being tough on the inmates themselves to further one's political career. Tent city is not analogous to the Iraq theater. There are dozens of legitimate medical reasons why some people should not be exposed to the summer heat here for extended periods of time ranging from things as common as hypertension and advancing age to things as exotic as ectodermal dysplasia. These conditions would disqualify you for service in the armed forces but obviously can't apply to incarceration because people of all ages and physical conditions get arrested.
County jails also house a fair amount of pretrial detainees. Not all of these people will be found guilty of any crime. While Sheriff Joe has succesfully peddled the idea that convicted criminals deserve no better than to be housed in temperatures that sometimes exceed 120 degrees and fed for 22 cents a day on rotten food, the idea that people should be "punished" prior to their conviction flies in the face of the basic principles upon which our judicial system was founded. This was one of colonial America's orignal quibbles with England for Christ's sake.
Still and all, it's fair to point out that we here in Maricopa county elected him. We have what we deserve. The fact that you guys seem to like him makes our embarassment more perceived than real I suppose
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Tough Cop
by Yerusalyim inpersonally, i love this guy...this is how a jail should be run...what say you?
http://www.snopes.com/crime/deserts/pink.htm.
claim: arizona sheriff dismisses prisoners' bellyaching about the heat by pointing out that soldiers serving in iraq cope with similar conditions.
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It's funny how much more enamored people in other parts of the country are with Arpaio than those of us that reside in Maricopa county.
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The only situation in which abortion is permissible to a JW is in cases of ectopic pregnancy. In this event, they reason that the embryo would not have survived anyway.
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For JimTX: Arcosanti Project
by Valis inhi jim!
i thought you might like this if you already didn't know about it.
i found out about it in the july 2004 smithsonian magazine.
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Hey Valis,
I've been visiting Arcosanti since I was a teenager. The project hasn't come anywhere near Soleri's original grandiose vision, but it's still very interesting
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Satan's Organization -- Who -- Evidence of Identity?
by Marvin Shilmer insatan's organization -- who -- evidence of identity
w30 10/1 p. 301 millions of prisoners to hear the gospel***:
"satans organization claims to be gods organization, and persecutes those who are actually members of gods organization.
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Heathen,
TD -- I have never heard of any law that forbids the wearing of beards...
I was talking about corporate dress codes, not actual laws. Disney is one company that has attempted to enforce a strict no beard dress code in the past.
.....but am aware that some companies want to present a certain image and will have policies regaurding atire or acceptable appearance , but again if a person wants to comply or not is their decision .
Again, the question is not about your freedom of choice. The question is about your ability to freely exercise it.
Under what circumstances is it permissible to restrict somebody's ability to exercise their freedom of choice? You seem to think it's pretty much OK as long as the person agrees to it beforehand and that's not always true.
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Satan's Organization -- Who -- Evidence of Identity?
by Marvin Shilmer insatan's organization -- who -- evidence of identity
w30 10/1 p. 301 millions of prisoners to hear the gospel***:
"satans organization claims to be gods organization, and persecutes those who are actually members of gods organization.
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Heathen,
Through the courts, the government actually does interfere with dress codes when and if they violate what are considered to be basic human rights. For example, a strict no beard rule in the workplace could discriminate on the basis of religion since certain religious groups such as Orthodox Jews and Muslims wear beards for religious reasons. Therefore, a lawful no beard rule must make exceptions for religious (and medical) reasons.
The point here is that a dress code policy may be either lawful or unlawful depending on how a particular requirement is observed and enforced. This may seem like a fine distinction, but it?s really not.
Although religions are afforded broader protection than employers, the principle is the same. Teachings that are not necessarily wrong in and of themselves may be observed and enforced in a morally objectionable manner. You mention Jewish observance of Kashrut and Catholic avoidance of contraception and these are both good examples to illustrate this.
Judaism holds pikauch nefesh (preserving life) as the very highest of all mitzvoth. Simply stated, this means is that when human life is in jeopardy, most of the rules don?t apply. Kashrut can be suspended to save human life and this is one of the reasons that the Jews regard the JW transfusion medicine taboo as absurd.
Although Catholicism does suffer from the inflexibility of Christianity in genreal (e.g. There is no such thing as a ?minor? sin) the encyclical of Humanae Vitae is not observed and enforced in anything resembling the approach JW?s have taken with blood. The Church does not crush all plurality of thought as an official policy, it does make certain exceptions (e.g. Treatment of ovarian, uterine, testicular & prostate cancers even when the treatment results in sterilization) and it doesn?t attempt to directly police the lives of its members. (Can anyone imagine NFP committees?)
I agree with you that the government should not step in and tell people what to believe and how religion should be organized but I also agree with HS. A religion can?t take this as carte blanche to trample all over the rights and welfare of its members. Once this starts to happen, who else but the government can put an end to it?
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Oops, is that WMD we just Found in Iraq????????
by Leolaia inhttp://www.reuters.com/newsarticle.jhtml?type=topnews&storyid=5166415
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Does anyone know at what point prior to use CM shells are typically charged? From what I understand, methylphosphonofluoridic acid and it's close cousins attack most metals with the exception of 1020 steels, Inconel & K-monel.