years ago there was this guy ****** ******* i'll never forget him.
disfellowshipped 3 times!!!!
at the last dfing announcement the brother got up there and yelled into the mic .
Yes, in fact we once disfellowshipped a guy that was DF'ed again earlier. The first time was (I think) for smoking and maybe premarital sex; the second was for admitting having sex with his wife before they were married.
Oh god, now that I recall this stuff... What on earth was I doing, meddling with other peoples private lives?
(Everyone that has played as an elder the role of Inquisitor in a JC, will always feel a burden of guilt and sorrow upon him, even long after he wakes up.)
take five minutes to learn something new today.... here is a very brief introduction to epigenetics with an interesting practical example.. ....
Cofty, I've read that epigenetics somehow vindicates Lamarck. Of course, evolutionary textbooks referred to Lamarckism as a theory that is proved completely wrong. Could this new discovery be used by the creationists in their struggle to convince that evolutionary biologists made a mistake in their rejection of Lamarckism, and hence that Darwinian evolution is not to be considered completely stable?
P.S. Thanks for the video :)
do you ever wonder why out of all the witnesses, you are the one that woke up?
i wonder many times why me.
i know many men and women that are much, much better persons than me; either they are much smarter, more humble, kinder, more successful, or just better persons all around.
I'll tell you why: Because you're a DEVIL-DRIVEN MENTALLY DISEASED BLASPHEMOUS EVIL APOSTATE, that's why.
has anyone read the new awake ragazine??
it's a doozy!!
i thought we had a thread concerning this subject, but i can't find it.
Oh, man, not again. Not another anti-evolution loony article. I won't be able to read not even one line.
It is funny that my jw father, who is also pro-science, tries to match WT and evolution together. He hopes that WT will come in terms with the proven facts of evolution, some day. Like that's gonna happen; in 50-80 years perhaps...
sorry i have to remain completely anonymous about this but you will see why.
i have first hand knowledge that geoffrey jackson of the governing body is staying with his parents in toowoomba, queensland for the next few weeks.
he has already been in australia for a couple of weeks.
every week there is some sort of demonstration on how to offer the latest magazines or monthly offer.. will hq prepare the flock for the inevitable flood a questions about the abuse scandal or will the poor sheep be left to navigate that field on their own?.
If it becomes too widely spread, they'll have to give some instructions regarding the field work.
But, the most possible is they'll present it as a form of "prosecution", parallelizing it with Russia, Eritrea etc. The logical fallacies are at the core of this (and every) religion.
now we know why the governing body of jehovah's witnesses cancelled all the major regional conventions of jehovah's witnesses for 2015 and are only holding smaller conventions at the jw assembly halls.
"imitate jesus" convention series australia schedule .
interestingly the first round of regional conventions are due this weekend in the jw assembly halls in sydney (new south wales), melbourne (victoria), and brisbane (queensland).
my wife and i planned on fading but the elders now want a shepherding call and we are just done.
i know that many play the game to try to stay in, but i'm not a game player and neither is my wife.
our families already shun us because we reached out to a disfellowshipped family member.
@dubstepped,
I completely share your point of view.
DA instead of fading may be an extreme solution, but sometimes the extreme solution is the only solution.
The announcement of the DA will not take long, the policy says it can be done in the very next service meeting. (Only when there's a DFing decision a 7-day space is given, in case one wants to appeal, but in the DA the appeal does not apply, obviously.)
when our ancestors first migrated out of africa around 60,000 years ago, they were not alone.
at that time, at least two other species of hominid cousins walked the eurasian landmassneanderthals and denisovans.
as our modern human ancestors migrated through eurasia, they encountered the neanderthals and interbred.
I've done a DNA sequence, and I have 2.7% of Neanderthal DNA in my body, which is the average for a person of European ancestry.
Next time you see a typically white American creationist (jw or not), tell them that they carry the evidence for evolution (and for Neanderthal relation) in their own bodies, and the only way to get rid of it is, you know, get rid of their own bodies.
lets say someone has a sexual encounter and a third party video taps it.
in canada, it would be illegal for the one that taped the video to show it to the elders as this would be "invasion of privacy".
what i am wondering however is if any legal action can be done against the elders and the wt if they view this video and take it into account in a judicial comity.
