John,
Ouch! That had to leave a mark. But you are strong and wise and like the Terminator you will rise to future occasions.
there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.
i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.
i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.
John,
Ouch! That had to leave a mark. But you are strong and wise and like the Terminator you will rise to future occasions.
first off, i'd like to state that i currently have "privileges" in the congregation and volunteer at bethel on and off throughout the year.
that's as much information as i will currently give about myself.. starting off, i think something big is coming in the form of lawsuits and bad pr.
they seem to be batting down the hatches in preparation for something the last few years and even more so the last few months.
thedepressed soul,
Thank you. This encapsulates what a lot of posters have suggested the past couple of years. Having someone with inside insight confirming it confirms us. Karma is a bitch sometimes.
A question (and you may have already addressed this in another OP, if so ignore) - how can you stand to stay inside this hate filled, vile cult?
i'm just watching this video.
now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.
i'm just watching this video.
now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.
You started the GMO nonsense. Own it. The far better question is why you felt the compulsion to spread your infection. And bully your erroneous opinion onto others. Keep it to yourself.
Stop playing the victim and re writing history. It is transparent, as is your failed attempt to confuse metaphors. It hurts to be punched in the nose, doesnt it?
i'm just watching this video.
now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.
Cappy "DJS: you might as well try to wake up a fully active elder than change the minds of the anti-GMO cult."
Once again you are correct. Or any conspiracy theorist, really. But my objectives are noble. I would prefer that the furry little varmints become empiricists. Short of that happening, getting them to STFU is a close second. Either way is ok with me, as long as we stop their infection from spreading. This site is fu:*ing full of conspiracy theorists. That shouldn't surprise me, as researchers have pointed out a strong correlation between fundie theism and theorism.. They left one cult for another one.
Sadly, Devo was right. We are de-evolving. Nothing says herd mentality quite like the conspiracy theorist mentality. They are a pox on humanity. A disease. An infection. De-evolution in real time. They have proliferated because of the world wide web. I pine for the good old days, when conspiracy theorists only left their trailer parks to go to church, comic book stores and all you can eat buffets, where we could effectively contain the infection. (sorry Bonsai, but come on, a man's got to do what a man's got to do).
i'm just watching this video.
now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.
umbertoecho,
There is a lot of very bad science regarding GMOs. I have read a lot of it, and it has ALL been trashed and exposed by real scientists. The Universities of CA, GA and FLA have been conducting extensive research into GMOs for several years. The U of GA has a website that identifies all of the bad science to which you refer. Echo, if you are interested in learning something other than hysteria, the U of GA link regarding GMO Misinformation is: http://parrottlab.uga.edu/parrottlab/forum2.htm.
We have about 2 dozen hard core conspiracy theorists on this site, and an equal number of those carrying the infection and another equal number of hysterical housewives. I'm expecting about 40 or 50 dislikes. As Cofty states, the "Dislike" button is below. Use it.
Your hysteria and your Dislike change nothing. GMOs have never been found to be unsafe, by any real science. But continue being hysterical; it is what I expected.
i'm just watching this video.
now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.
DD,
Excellent comment. I agree. That's why there is an intensive governmental approval process before GMOs can come to market and one of the reasons why there are numerous independent studies that have been and are being conducted by prestigious universities.
i'm just watching this video.
now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.
Some countries ban GMOs as a political reactionary move or one taken to protect existing agricultural industries - these bans are not based on whether GMOs produced by Monsanto or other US companies are dangerous. They are not.
Many countries are moving forward with GMOs; whether they all have the appropriate policies and tests in place is something neither you nor I know, and it would certainly be prudent to ensure they do. GMOs from Monsanto have been proven safe and as nutritious as regular foods, based on real science. Your rant that Monsanto, those bastards, are trying to kill us was a hysterical, dangerous and erroneous opinion.
i'm just watching this video.
now bare in mind this guy has never been a jehovah's witness so he has no investment in this cult.. https://youtu.be/_ry-onhbkya.
In my continuing quest, a noble one, to counter conspiracy theorists, here is the latest information regarding GMOs from Forbes. Yes, Username, this is for you and those like you. Since you chose to interject your dangerous hysteria into an OP that hasn't anything to do with GMOs, I fell it is only fair that I respond. Please keep your hysteria and your dangerous infection to yourself.
i haven't posted for quite awhile, just usually lurk, but thought surely someone would have noticed this on jw.org.
this was under the article about distractions.
i clicked on the article and below is the "accurate" prediction that the wt made back in 1958. this has to prove they have jehovah's backing, don't you think?
We have had the 'luxury' of even having distractions for a very short period of time. For most of the 100,000 years humans have existed in our current form, daily life revolved around finding enough food to make it through the night, the week, the winter, keeping warm and fending off those human and non-human life forms that would take it from you by killing you.
Focusing on the distractions brought about by prosperity, leisure time, sufficient calories and much longer lives is such a bull shit argument. Which one of the GB, which one of us, would trade today - or even 1958 - for most of the previous 100,000 years of our existence.