meaning the anniversary of the day she came into the world.
would a jw typically be offended by that?
she's a convert and a true believer.
Why spend the money and time on something as trival as birthday parties?
It's illogic is why I don't celebrate.
Same with Christmas. It is as if when people are born, they inherit some responsibility to shop for others for Christmas,
by the question "have you done your Christmas shopping"? For real people.
Do people automatically believe in hellfire when they leave the faith?
i went to see it today - by myself (mr bee is on a golf junket).
i was glad that that i was by myself because i cried so much at the end, i wouldn't have wanted to be with anyone who wasn't crying - and that would not have been mr bee!.
les miserables the current film is adapted from what is considered one of the half-dozen greatest novels of the past 150 years and one of the longest novels ever written.
The signing was annoying after a while. Should have been like a Grease musical.
I saw the 1958 Version with Jean Gabin playing Jean val Jean. Neeson version is best.
I like how this is an example to people as I am so tired of the Bible. Bible principles and Bible morality. Bible, this and Bible that.
Les Miz taught mercy and kindness. And it was inspired of God. The Bishop was kind and showed mercy to Jean and he followed that, because he was inspired by Godly principles. But we learn from the story.
Javert was mercyless and when someone showed mercy to him, he couldn't compute it.
I liked how Crowe's uniforms were always perfect and clean, showing of his attention to detail and law.
It also teaches against hellfire. Just like it is illogical to punish someone 5 years for stealing a loaf of bread, then extending it for trying to escape; sending someone to hellfire for eternity for petty sins here is illogical.
how long do you think the watchtower can speak about 1914 and have followers think it relevant?
i think for people born in the 1900's, it feels like an acceptable year.
but what about those born since 2000, will 1914 seem like a year of relevance?
1914 is 2520 years after the kings in the line of David lost their sovereignty. The prophecy was that the kings would be on Jehovah's throne until Jesus. That did not happen when Jehoiakim bowed to Babylon in 607 and the prophesy was paused for 2502 years until 1914.
It will always be relevant.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174181/sales-rep-repeatedly-accused-gay-didn-t-like-football-wins-44-000-payout-harassment.html.
this story is weird on too many levels.
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And it starts with the British confusion as to what football is. We call it soccer.
i haven't been to a meeting (other than some cousins' weddings) for well over twenty years.
i've always wondered what the fds was going to do with the "generations" thing once pretty much everybody who had been alive in 1914 is gone.
i get that they've come up with some "new light" about this topic, but when i ask my mom (who's still in) i only get "well, the new understanding is complicated...".
It originally made sense. But it didn't pan out, so they had to change it. Change it to something fluid.
They and anyone has no idea what Jesus meant because it is wise to just take a phrase and make a religion out of it?
The do that with the FDS phrase.
How do we even know that we have his complete teaching on the matter?
i was scared sh*tless.
i stayed home from work for four days scared to go out of my house thinking god would strike me down by lightening if was wrong with my thoughts... i couldn't sleep at all.... but i had to take that first step... as scary as it was....
Afraid of Jehovah striking you down for posting on here? As if he even knows...
He doesn't even know that hurricanes and tornados destroy cities, how would he know what goes on here.
He doesn't know those things because if he did, he would stop them.
I was more afraid of you all.
jesus set the pattern of humility.
on earth, jehovah god exalted his.
pattern of humility?
The fact that people do not allow criticism of the elders, FDS or anything, shows that they do not allow them to be humble. They take that option away from them.
I don't see why you have to make an issue out of Jesus being Michael. That is such a non-issue.
So what if he is, so what if he isn't.
after this whole thing with him talking to this other girl on fb, now he deleted me as a friend.
i have his username and password.
it's like, he doesn't want this marriage to work at all.. i don't even have it in me to argue with him.
Did this talking with another girl on FB create problems?
"I made it clear after the time a girl sent him a message saying that she loved him that I didn't want him on facebook for awhile. He doesn't like to be controlled, so deleted me so I just wouldn't know he was on."
Maybe that is the problem. What do you have against others loving him? Do you want to be the only one to do so? That's alot of responsiblity.
Why do wives get jealous over that, rather than be happy over it since it makes him happy? Why does the husband's happiness have to center on the wife?
I say, he let's you be, you let him be. As long as it does not cost anything, what's the problem?
wednesday, 02 january 2013 08:00 .
the san antonio theater shooting the national media ignored written by bob adelmann.
font sizeprintemailat approximately 9:25 p.m. on sunday night, december 16, just two days after the horrific shootings in newtown, connecticut, jesus manuel garcia, age 19, entered the china garden restaurant across the mall from the santikos mayan palace 14 theater complex in san antonio, texas, looking for his ex-girlfriend.
You got a better way to randomly reduce the population than guns and cars?
Reminds me of the Star Trek episode TOS, where people would get into a disintegration chamber to satisfy the death count during a war so that they don't have to fire actual weapons to not have the buildings destroyed. Random reduction of the population.
Look at the bright side. IF people didn't die like that, they would have children and their children would have children and the population would be so out of control. Like we hear in talks about the evils of war and the millions who die. Well, if they didn't die, then their lives would produce evils. They would bring ruin to the earth, be a drunk driver, kill another in another way. Just a different fate.
What's the difference between people dying like this today and those 300, 600, 1000 years ago? Those ones would be dead by now already.
while i think that obamacare is bad for forcing people to get health insurance by penalizing them for not having it; it is going to hit jws hard.. so many brag on the assembly parts that they quit corporate jobs to pioneer, but they don't get insurance after that.. there are many that are pioneer couples or single pioneers that are just doing small jobs like cleaning that can't afford insurance, so they don't get it.
they will want to be obedient to caesar and have to get it next year, straining their budgets.
or if they don't get it, they will have to pay the penalty.. we will see how that plays out next year..
While I think that Obamacare is bad for forcing people to get health insurance by penalizing them for not having it; It is going to hit JWs hard.
So many brag on the assembly parts that they quit corporate jobs to pioneer, but they don't get insurance after that.
There are many that are pioneer couples or single pioneers that are just doing small jobs like cleaning that can't afford insurance, so they don't get it. They will want to be obedient to Caesar and have to get it next year, straining their budgets. Or if they don't get it, they will have to pay the penalty.
We will see how that plays out next year.
