will any other governing body member - present or future - ever have as much impact as he did.
will anyone else have enough strength of character, personal integrity and balls to step down and speak out?.
nic'
Love of God. Yes, believe it or not, there are still some brothers in charge at Bethel who love God.
No doubt. There were doubtless many clerics in the office of Inquisition who loved god too. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see things change. I just don't think real reform is possible anymore. The more they speak of the Organization as being divine, the less that chance becomes.
will any other governing body member - present or future - ever have as much impact as he did.
will anyone else have enough strength of character, personal integrity and balls to step down and speak out?.
nic'
How so?
this is a vent -- you have been warned!!.
i am so sick to death of the idiot.
i have three daughters (13, 11, 11).
Let me see.. a person posts their situation on the board. Fine, poster assumes everyone wants to look at their dirty laundery. Someone resonds with a responce poster did not want to hear. Poster slams responder. 2nd Responder responds to the slamming of 1st responder. 2nd Responder is likewise slammed by poster. Both responders, whose responces were not liked by posters, reply to poster.
Poster calls them elders and other childish nonsense.
If you just wanted a hug, why not ask for it?
will any other governing body member - present or future - ever have as much impact as he did.
will anyone else have enough strength of character, personal integrity and balls to step down and speak out?.
nic'
AFAIK he is alive. I got an email from him some months ago.
I dont think there would be a GB defection again. Maybe someone high up in one of the soviets commitees.
splunge
the link is too long and impossible to post but at yahoo news - health there is an article taken from new scientist.
that analyses brain states during meditation.
they might be able to measure happiness objectively, with appropriate sensors.. .
There are various buddhist meditational techniques. The simplest one would be zazen, which is basically means sitting. Theravada Buddhism employees vippasanna. Vippasanna involves a lot of breath control and mindfulness. Mindfulness is often the key. Simplifying actions to be mindful of those that are going on. Your thought processes and so forth.
Meditation is often done in one of two ways in the eastern methods. (and by this I mean Buddhist and Hindu meditation, which are strikingly similar) One is to stop thinking. The idea is to loose the idea, and the ego. Easier said then done. One buddhist teacher said he liked what White Rabbit told Alice, "Don't just do something, stand there!"
The other thing would be to meditate on a specific thing. Some concept, some idea, a holy word, a mantra, maybe even an object.
wait for knee-jerk reply ( "no, it's serving jehovah").
" this is especially powerful amidst witnesses who take.
anti-depressants - but i don't advise oneupmanship here - just encourage them to think.. .
have them come in and sit down for a study, then offer drinks, and return with glasses of V8 juice, explaining that you are on "the Blood Diet" and its really working for you.
when it comes to tv, every generation since the fifties thinks theirs had the best tv shows.
while america has fallen in love with "reality" tv shows like survivor and american idol, i've been thinking about how much better the shows were when i was coming up....
classic westerns like rawhide, gunsmoke, guns of will sonnet, bonanza, have gun will travel, the big valley, high chapparral, and wagon train.
"Fiftyseven channels and nothing on." -Bruce Springstein.
according to the jws, in paradise erf, we will all be perfect, always smiling, and petting lions.
what other fables have you heard about paradise besides petting the damn lions?
unless they find a way to build nonpolluting rockets to take them off earth.
according to the jws, in paradise erf, we will all be perfect, always smiling, and petting lions.
what other fables have you heard about paradise besides petting the damn lions?
unless they find a way to build nonpolluting rockets to take them off earth.
