Posts by Island Man

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Gross! Grooming of young brothers in the KH to do more for Jehobadahhh and his organ-nigh-say-shun! I saw it myself.

by macys in

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so there is this young brother probably 14 or 15 and the elders are already grooming him to do more for jehobadahhh.

most of the elders in this kh are old like 60+ and sometimes there are not enough brothers to do the mics or sound so you will see a 70 year old elder forced into action.

almost comical to see a brother who thinks instagram is an email service try to operate the sound system and projector as he plays the wrong song or brings the screen down during a prayer.

Island Man

It's pronunciated Je-Ho-Ber !!

Yeah, Macys! And for your information it's not "organ-nigh-say-shun". It's "organized-to-shun"!

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Wt encouraging people to completely forgive but they dont

by poopie in

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but they don't forgive because they still shun people.

who they feel are not worthy of forgivenes.

Also, they don't forget. The bible says God throws sinners sins behind his back when they repent. Not so, Watchtower. Watchtower holds the sinners past sins on record and use it against him to determine whether or not he qualifies for certain "privileges".

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todays wt

by bobld in

q10..they forgot one question.. would you let a 30 year old man in diapers inspect your ward robe?.

see opening picture..

Island Man

Please disregard my post above. It is entirely unwarranted!

I just realized that there is a little indicator next to each post that tells you how long ago it was made. And when you mouse over it a little pop-up tells you the exact date and time of the post. So readers can use that info. to determine or calculate what "today" and other relative time references mean.

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Simon: Last month when I wrote about today, was I really talking about today? ... wait, was that really last month?

by Island Man in

i have noticed that there are posts that use relative time terms like "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", "last month", "next week", etc but give no dates.

these relative time terms are only useful for identifying the referenced time, if the post is being read on the day it's posted.

but posts remain indefinitely and months or years down the road these terms would only be useful to professional forensic investigators.. it would be good if posters remember to provide a date when referencing information that is specific to a particular day.

Island Man

Simon, sorry for wasting your time. I just noticed that when I point my mouse over the little indicator that tells you how long ago a post was made, it give you the actual date of the post. Sorry, my bad for asking you to reinvent a wheel that already exists.

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Simon: Last month when I wrote about today, was I really talking about today? ... wait, was that really last month?

by Island Man in

i have noticed that there are posts that use relative time terms like "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", "last month", "next week", etc but give no dates.

these relative time terms are only useful for identifying the referenced time, if the post is being read on the day it's posted.

but posts remain indefinitely and months or years down the road these terms would only be useful to professional forensic investigators.. it would be good if posters remember to provide a date when referencing information that is specific to a particular day.

Island Man

I have noticed that there are posts that use relative time terms like "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", "last month", "next week", etc but give no dates. These relative time terms are only useful for identifying the referenced time, if the post is being read on the day it's posted. But posts remain indefinitely and months or years down the road these terms would only be useful to professional forensic investigators.

It would be good if posters remember to provide a date when referencing information that is specific to a particular day. In some cases the particular day being referenced isn't really important. But in other cases it is. For example, imagine there is a post referencing "today's watchtower study" and which does not mention the date of the session nor the date of the magazine. How is a future reader, 5 years down the road, intent on finding that particular study article, going to find it?

I was wondering if it's possible to create a special script that would read an OP, scanning it for relative time references like "today", "next month", "yesterday", etc and variations thereof ("todays", "today's",...), and automatically append the appropriate date or insert a caption-thingy so when you point at the reference the appropriate date, month or year is displayed based on the specific time reference given and the date of the post. So for example an OP is uploaded today (March 14, 2016) that reads:

"Next week's CLAM meeting is going to be full on cult mode!"

During processing the script searches the text for relative time references and sees "Next week's" (which is listed in its "database" of relative time terms). It then looks to see how that term is to be treated and sees that the date of the week after the upload has to be inserted. So it then inserts an html tag on the term "Next week's" such that when a user points at it a yellow tool tip or caption pops up displaying the date of the week being referenced "March 21-27, 2016"

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todays wt

by bobld in

q10..they forgot one question.. would you let a 30 year old man in diapers inspect your ward robe?.

see opening picture..

Island Man

I just want to make a quick suggestion about posting time-sensitive information. Please don't take it harshly because I know it's just an oversight. And I see it often on other posts.

The post talks about today's Watchtower. Yesterday (March 13, 2016) the use of the word "today" enabled one to know exactly which day was being referenced. But a reader reading this post 6 months in the future, would not know exactly what day is being referenced because no date is mentioned.

Since posts remain on the site indefinitely, we all have to try to remember to post a date whenever we refer to events that relate to a particular day. That way future readers can, for example, read this post and go look for the specific Watchtower article that was being referenced, based on the date provided.

It's easy to forget to do this because we live in the now and we generally don't think about the fact that posted information isn't just being read now, but also being read in the future.

What would be good is if there was some special automated script that would automatically tag on the date a post was made, at the end of the first occurrence of the word "today" in a post. So for example a poster writes:

"The congregation bible study today was crazy!".

But when the post is being processed the script runs and adds in the date and final post that's uploaded reads:

"The congregation bible study today [March 14, 2016] was crazy!"

Or maybe the script can insert a tool tip on time words like yesterday, today, this month, etc so that when you point at them with your mouse a little pop up or tool tip displays the date.

Knowing the exact date being referenced can be helpful for future readers.

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Whats it like being an atheist and still going to meetings?

by Crazyguy in

anyone fall into this category?

Island Man

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Whats it like being an atheist and still going to meetings?

by Crazyguy in

anyone fall into this category?

Island Man

It's the intellectual equivalent of having to endure skin crawlingly obnoxious sounds like nails scraping on a chalk board.

It's like attending a gathering filled with smiling people who are adamantly convinced that puppies are evil demons, and you have to sit quietly and watch as they cruelly torture them to death, while convinced that they're doing the right thing, and anyone who questions them is of the devil and needs to be dealt with.

Sometimes you can feel the frustration welling up inside you and you feel strongly tempted to just drop a TTATT bomb on them! But you have to exercise great self-control and bottle it all up. Sometimes it gets to the point that you actually feel physically sick!

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The people are mobilizing Mr Drumpf

by Simon in

protesters shut down a trump rally.

massive numbers of people are out in chicago and have shut his event down.

there were scuffles inside the event.. despite his lame attempt to pretend the violence he instigates is nothing to do with him it's clear that it is as the cnn quotes during the last event showed only too well.. this doesn't happen at anyone else's events - candidates have even given up the stage to protesters, not called for them to be beaten and punched.. trump is an ugly person and this is just a small taste of what a future under his rule would be like.. shame on the gop for not kicking his ass out.

Island Man

Racism against blacks is because blacks have made the news more for crimes and violence and wearing their pants on the ground, etc.

You have that all wrong. The disproportionate amount of black Americans being in the news for crimes and the wearing of their pants on the ground, etc are all symptomatic of problems in the American black community that are the result of them being subjected to decades - centuries - of racism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJS3gvuY94

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Why Faith is Self-Defeating

by cofty in

the god of christian theism values faith.. "without faith it is impossible to please god, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists" - heb.11.

faith and evidence are inversely proportional - the more evidence there is that god exists the less faith you need in that proposition and vice-versa.. so how can a christian criticise any other faith-based belief?

for example they can protest that all the evidence is against the claims of scientology, but that just means that scientologists require more faith than christians.

Island Man

Here's a real life example from the news, highlighting the folly of faith.

Another thread by Cofty? Dang bro/sis. You are getting out there and living a full life, right?

I don't know JACOB Meza but I hope he is not one of those theists that attempt to shame voices of reason into silence by saying things like he said. No fuller life can be led than making intellectual contributions aimed at transforming human society for the better, in this case, by exposing the folly of faith.