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  This will blow you away - if the moon were the size of a pixel.

  by poppers in

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  this shows the scale of our solar system in a way that is a little more meaningful to our puny minds.

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  http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html.

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  zebagain

  hmm...... quite a bit above me but.. er...and petrol here is $1.64 a litre
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  Amusing line in April 2014 KM

  by respectful_observer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  under "2014 convention reminders":.

  seat saving: when the doors to the facility are opened each morning, please to not rush to the seating area of your preference as if competing with fellow attenders.

  a self-sacrificing spirit that moves us to seek the good of others identifies us as true christians and moves onlookers to praise god.. ................................................................ i personally don't recall them previously making reference to the jw-version of the "running of the bulls" that takes place every morning when the doors open at 8:00 a.m. have seen it myself many times, it's always good for a laugh.

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  zebagain

  On matters of seating.

  At the Sydney conv many years ago 1973 we with pregnancy found no where to sit. I recall one kingdom matriach with dirty look at my wifes condition holding down seats "Thats for my husband" who didnt turn up. The seating was impossible the crowds immense and the Sydney weather was a sauna.The wts picked thattime of year with no regard for peoples well being.

  At my last conv a sister needed seating with some leg room and a bro with his wife and daughters held position. The sister having troubles walking wept as she said "I have just had an operation"(conventions) are "the most selfish time of the year among Jehovahs witnesses".

  The selfish family had plenty of seating to choose from behind us but they wouldnt budge. I wrote a letter of complaint never even got an acknowledgement.

  At another big conv where parking was some distance away the city b&s grabbed all the parking as close to the site as possible then grabbed all the under cover seats. I suggested to an 'attendant' that first arrivals should have been directed to the furthest parking. "That would be too hard to arrange brother" he said.

  "Because no one thought of it" i said. This was the convention where i saved a little handicapped boy from being knocked down the stairs when the drama started and a rush of Pioneer sisters came from out of the building all a gush and a flutter because "its the drama!" They burst into the landing and the stairs and if i hadnt acted quickly that little feller would have been bowled down the stairs. I told one of them off and she looked at me but was in another world and didnt even register i had spoken to her.
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  A Better World - Can it be achieved?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the hope of a better world is what attracted me (and likely many of you other loiterers (grin) on this site) into the mental mindtrap of christian thought.

  i guess its understandable, re-reading the words that the author of the matthew gospel that we know as the sermon on the mount, its easy to think, that if jesus ruled the world, everything would be ok.. i'm still interested in a better world.

  so have many other thinkers (and revolutionaries).

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  zebagain

  prof hans Rosling was just brilliant. I will post the u tube adress across my entire email book.
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  WOMEN as Deacons ? Leaders ?

  by villagegirl in

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  2. beliefs

  history of women in christianity.

  https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/women-in-the-early-church/.

  "the involvement of women continued in the first few decades of the church,.

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  zebagain

  To enable this in the wt would mean the wholesale removal of the old borg.

  It would mean respecting women as beings and encouraging the female input into the whole experience.
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  Milking the convention cash cow for all it's worth - some questions

  by Fernando in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  if memory serves there have been discussions about:.

  pressure to donate to cover convention expenses far beyond actual expenses.

  obtaining venue subsidies and or sponsorships but not passing on the savings to the flock.

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  zebagain

  incognito: At my last small conv i spoke to a young couple with little one (with stroller). They spoke of the BIG conv held in Sydney where with knots of chattering sisters blocking access ways and otherwise overloaded facilities they never got back to their accomodation until 8.30 pm. This with a little one run out of diapers food and overloaded with noise and stress.

  "Never again' he said and she agreed.
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  Statement by David Clohessy, Director of SNAP: JWs predator escapes consequences

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.snapnetwork.org/pa_jehovah_witness_predator_escapes_consequences .

  pa--jehovah witness predator escapes consequences .

  posted on snap website by barbara dorris on march 01, 2014 flag .

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  zebagain

  BOTR: I wonder what the penalty for paedophila would be in said asian country?
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  Jesus washing feet in underwear or naked?

  by John_Mann in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  john 13:4,5. got up from the evening meal and laid aside his outer garments.

  and taking a towel, he wrapped it around his waist.. after that he put water into a basin and started to wash the feet of the disciples and to dry them off with the towel that was wrapped around him.. .

  the wt "translates" himatia as outer garments but some other translations says just clothes.. if he were wearing just an underwear, why wrap a towel around the waist?

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  zebagain

  his suit was the dry-cleaners...
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  Russian Parliament Approves Military Action in the Crimea

  by ABibleStudent in

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  why did russian president vladimir putin ask the russian parliament to approve using military forces to keep the peace in the crimea, instead of asking the un?

  why did the russian parliment pass a law approving military force instead of asking for the un to send peace keeping forces to the crimea (http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-politics/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)?.

  is russia spiralling into a totalitarian dictatorship like germany in the 1930's and the soviet union from 1920's - 1990's with information control and coercive tactics?

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  zebagain

  OIL,GAS. OIL GAS $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$POWER
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  Jehovah's Witnesses Street recruiting thwarted by "Apostates"

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fylyfc_0we.

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  zebagain

  I do wish when people do the video thing they would learn to hold cameras steady.
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  Why JW assemblies NEED to change

  by kneehighmiah in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the assemblies would be get better results and get more people to come and be inspired if they were more encouraging.

  instead the assemblies are a giant guilt trip.

  don't go to college, don't get a good job, dont buy things even if you can afford them, don't play violent games, don't flirt.

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  zebagain

  and the sub purpose of the conv is to give up and coming elders/servants their moment in the sun to give a talk This has the proviso that the talk is first forced through the wt seive so they all sound exactly the same and run to fill the allocated time then stretched if it end sooner. Bad bad practise.

  The programming is bad as well.

  talk talk talk then finally the keynote address. Then another talk ? Then the final prayer which is another summing up? and of prayers: I have often thought there was a competition between the above to see who could put the name jehovah most times into a prayer.

  Do any of you Americans know the name of the Senator who droned on for apx 2 hours before the President Lincoln gave the "Gettysburg address" that took apx 20 minutes and changed the world. You dont ? No one would be surprised.

  Jesus spoke his 'sermon on the mount' apx 20 minutes that gave love to the world.

  Churchill gave his "battle of britain" speech about 15 minutes that inspired the world of free people.

  But summing up, the final prayer. The wts thinks God is a dill that having heard a convention a thousand times he has to have it summed up for him.

  Take note of the basic rules of any public speaking,

  • stand up
  • speak up
  • shut up.

  and peace to you all.