i work at a major airline in the in-flight training department.
i was sitting at the desk on the computer, i kid you not... writing the security (hijacking) curriculum for 2002, when someone came in and told me a plane flew into the wtc.
we all thought it was one of our planes.
I was told when taking a shower with a group of men from work after training.
I then returned to work, having more work to do... Another JW was also working overtime,
we could not concentrate too much as the news unfolded on the web....
mentally, i was on the way out, although I stepped down as an elder a year after that....
as some of you have noticed the asl video warning against masturbation (another guilt trip) is creating waves.
this is not small fry.
1. it is humorous - most topics (like other policies) are serious/depressing (blood, shunning, pedos).
it is given wide coverage at the web site pondus.no which is a comic strip web site:.
http://www.pondus.no/default.aspx?section=artikkel&id=20823.
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Vi tuller ikke med tegnspråk i denne artiklen. Bare den ekstreme motsetningen mellom det denne glattslikkede narren står for, og hvordan han han fremstiller visse aktiviteter. "
translated: We are not mocking ASL in this article. Only the extremity in the differences between what this slippery licked lunatic is representing and how he portrays certain activities.
it is given wide coverage at the web site pondus.no which is a comic strip web site:.
http://www.pondus.no/default.aspx?section=artikkel&id=20823.
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it is given wide coverage at the web site pondus.no which is a comic strip web site:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-09-02/breast-milk-bank-donors/57535706/1.
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This is an American cultural thing.... The sentiments against breast feeding are not the same everywhere... In my country of Norway public display of breast feeding is everywhere and most people accept that without any problems whatsoever.
joker10 started a thread some days ago - putatively just to "inform" us - about the growth of self-identifying jehovahs witnesses in brazil across two census periods, the year 2000 to the year 2010. this led to some enlivened discussion about growth rates, including in particular how this compared with other similar 'vintage' 'christianized' religions such as the mormons (latter-day saints of the church of jesus christ) and seventh-day adventists (sdas).
joker10 readily obliged by posting within the same day the relevant growth rates for the latter-day saints in brazil over the same census periods.
the jw growth rate easily outstripped those for the latter-day saints.
The number of languages
The 197 figure is erroneous.
On their own website, this figure is given:
«540—Languages in which we publish Bibles and Bible-based literature»
...and they're clearly in the mood for pushing it on youtube.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerx3gkthxk.
what is it with all these random youtube channels, each showing polished and highly-produced videos.
It is definitely from the society, since it is also published at the new web site....
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/world/watchtower-awake-magazine/
move to reinstate national service for jehovahs witnessesdefence committee chair jussi niinisto says the preferential treatment granted to jehovahs witnesses is difficult to rationalise to other conscientious objectors.
a kingdom hall is a place of worship used by jehovah's witnesses.
image: yle jussi niinisto, who chairs parliaments defence committee, is demanding that the military service exemption granted to the jehovahs witnesses be abolished.
It will probably make no problem whatsoever as witnesses no longer object to civilian service which is normally a duty given to those who object to compulsury military service.
interestingly, norway is an oil-producing country.
nevertheless, the price of petrol pr litre is at approx.
15 kroner, that is 2$50c a litre (roughly 10 dollars a gallon)... that is the highest price in any country... however, when estimated how much an average person has to work in order to buy the petrol, norwegians are among the 10 countries in the world that have the relatively "lowest" price.
That is my exact point. One cannot see on price of petrol isolated. One also has to take into consideration the increase of salaries and the level of income compared to prices...
interestingly, norway is an oil-producing country.
nevertheless, the price of petrol pr litre is at approx.
15 kroner, that is 2$50c a litre (roughly 10 dollars a gallon)... that is the highest price in any country... however, when estimated how much an average person has to work in order to buy the petrol, norwegians are among the 10 countries in the world that have the relatively "lowest" price.
That is my exact point. One cannot see on price of petrol isolated. One also has to take into consideration the increase of salaries and the level of income compared to prices...
