it's three parts, not super-long.
i really can't believe the stuff the elders said in this case.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhgdqgtth98.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy4s1ohs9r4.
What a happyfing experience it is to hear Jehovah's appointed elders be so loving and caring to a lost sheep. It just shows close we are to the end of this Wicked System of Things. How thankful we can be to Jehovah's faithful and discreet slave for being so loving and consistent and always 100% right in everything they say and do.
Everyone on this thread is hateful and/or paranoid.
i have known many republicans who claim to be libs all the time, thinking that republicans are somehow closer to libertarians then democrats are.
i tell them, no, on social issues, dems are a lot closer.
personally, that is the important part.. .
Fiscal Policy: Very right-libertarian. The Libertarian Party opposes taxation in pretty much all forms, and deals with the revenue loss by opposing entitlement programs in pretty much all forms. This means that people keep more of what they earn, but it also means that there is no social safety net. And ambitious new proposals--such as universal pre-kindergarten and universal health care--are obviously not compatible with this objective.
Corporations: Eliminate all federal subsidies to private corporations, as well as all antitrust laws.
Public Services: Eliminate the Postal Service. Transfer all government services, from public schools to landfills, to private ownership.
Property Rights: Would restrict public domain to immediate public use, and sell or give away most public property to private owners.
Criminal Justice: Would eliminate all antidrug laws and legalize prostitution. Would end random police roadblocks.
Free Speech: Would abolish the FCC and allow private ownership of broadcast frequencies. Opposes all restriction of free speech, including free speech restricted in the name of national security.
Church and State: Calls for reduced IRS regulation and monitoring of tax-exempt churches.
Second Amendment: Strongly opposes all gun control, as well as regulation of alternative weapon technologies (mace, Tasers, and so forth).
The Draft: Calls for the abolition of the Selective Service System and amnesty for any citizen who has ever resisted the draft.
Reproductive Rights: Pro-choice, but opposes all federal funding of abortion and most federal entitlements for women who choose to carry their pregnancies to term, including the child tax credit. Opposes involuntary or fraudulent sterilization.
LGBT Rights: Opposes "don't ask, don't tell." Believes that marriage is a private contract, and should yield no government benefits regardless of the gender of the partners.
Immigrants' Rights: Argues that borders should be open but surveilled--everyone who does not pose a threat to public health or national security should be allowed to enter the country legally. Would eliminate all federal benefits to undocumented immigrants.
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/libertarianpolitics/qt/libert_platform.htm
kind of tempted to see it but.... any other recommendations?
we are ready for a movie in a theatre..
Tarantino makes those kind of films that you recognize there is something there, I mean you know it's good, but it's just not for me. Some people drink scotch and think they're drinking idodine.
I don't know, I think he's got talent and he has something to say as a filmmaker, it's just I'm not really interested in it.
when i was a dub.....and had such good friends...party friends....vacation friends.....we never even did the morning text, cause we all woke up at different times depending on how much we drank the night before.........we could be on a cruise, at a beach house, or riding board in colorado......and damm....spiritual wt conversation was not in the picture!!........
so kinda funny that they all shun me now, even though i am not dfd........so if i had them over sociall....should they even come, what are they afraid of?...........i mean back then the bible shit never ever came up anyway............oompa.
did you guys have friends who were all dubby on vaca/holiday or at parties?
Never. No one knows me as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, no one remembers me as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. At work I sing louder than anyone when there's a birthday or at Christmas. The 2 or 3 times I've ever mentioned it to a friend or a neighbor they are shocked that I ever had anything to do with that weird little sect. It's been 20 years. I've been out longer than I was in. At times I barely remember what that life was like.
I say this because I want people who are exiting to know that it does get better. There is life beyond Jehovah's Witnesses. It is a better life, one without guilt, without mindless time wasting sales meetings (otherwise known as meetings).
Life is what you make of it. Once you're free, there are so many opportunities and so much freedom. But there is also no more excuses for failures. No one is holding you back.
It's scary, but in a good way. You know?
hey!.
pastor russell was wrong about a lot of things - one could make a really long list from any 10 random pages from the finished mystery.
but for fun i want to turn it around, so my question is this:.
Was pastor Russell right about ANYTHING?
There was a book called the Bible.
the more i read the comments made by jw who still "believe" in the doctrines of the wt the more i see that they are in denial.
first off they debate on a board they are not even supposed to be on, they are going directly against the gb counsel.
when they debate they do not give the actual wt doctrine as an example they give their own personal opinion, their own interpretation a watered down version of the doctrine to make it look better, less aggressive.
BTW does anyone else find it ironic that on a thread about judgment and apologists that the ad is about Sarah Palin.
Just sayin' . . . . . .
the more i read the comments made by jw who still "believe" in the doctrines of the wt the more i see that they are in denial.
first off they debate on a board they are not even supposed to be on, they are going directly against the gb counsel.
when they debate they do not give the actual wt doctrine as an example they give their own personal opinion, their own interpretation a watered down version of the doctrine to make it look better, less aggressive.
Jehovah's Witnesses are no different than any other fundamentalist sect. The very nature of fundamentalism is the demand on members that "we" are better than "them", or for that matter, anyone else on the planet. Fundamentalists are of the opinion that their belief system, and only their belief system, is The One True Way (or whatever).
Of course Witnesses are judgmental. There is not only shunning, there is marking which is the ability to shun those one considers to be inferior to yourself. Such a system only feeds the ego of self which is diametrically opposite the philosophy of Christianity.
And it creates miserable human beings, the type you don't want anything to do with.
And in 1909, in America, anyone with dark skin, were treated horribly. Law, education, medical care and employment were not applied equally or fairly. A black man could be murdered by slow torture (lynching) and no one face prosecution.
Depends on who you are and where you live as to whether things are better now than then.
World War I set in motion events that defined the 20th century. At the risk of over simplfying history, World War I caused World War II which then created the Cold War, which then left an ancillary racial war that disintegrated Yugoslavia. Interestingly the place that began World War I.
Yeah I know there's more to it than that.
But is the world better? I guess it depends on what standard "better" is being judged? Technologically, medically and food-wise, yeah there's no doubt we're better off than the average person was in 1914. I won't argue with any positivity mentioned on this thread. Hell flush toilets and air-conditioning alone make the world a better place for this pampered little American.
On the flip side, we now have the ability to destroy all life on the planet. We may have started a process, arguably just beginning in 1914, that changes weather on this planet. If so, we do not know what impact this will have on humans, but current projections are not favorable. There is still slavery. Much of Africa and Asia face a struggle daily to find food and water. Half, or more, the planet's population lives a life of bare subsistance. This is no different than the life they faced in 1914.
In the western world, we have based our society on not just oil, but cheap oil. Those days are nearly at an end. There is no alternative in sight.
Overall I think things are better now, but I also think it depends on who you are and where you live.
Chris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_od55wvdmm.
When this DOESN'T happen, may I refer to you as False Prophets?
bird flu, Ebola, SARS, West Nile virus, and whatever other "killer" diseases that were supposed to wipe out mankind.
I caught the original swine flu in 1976. Missed 3 weeks of school (damn near failed algebra as a result). Yeah it was a bad flu, but IT WAS THE FLU! Big deal.
The media operates on fear. Fear drives ratings. So they stir things up, get folks all worked up over nothing.
DON'T PANIC. Get a grip. Somehow humanity will soldier on until the next "killer" disease.
