Pudgy

Protests are useless …. The WTB&Ts is now TOTALLY controlled by their accountants and lawyers.
Nothing new …. This ALWAYS, without exception occurs when any religion starts accumulating Real Estate.

Sometimes, people do the best they know how to do under very difficult circumstances and technically they’re doing everything wrong and in the wrong way. However, the fact remains that they are doing the best they know how to do and I suspect Jehovah God gives them credit for that.
Whether God does or he does not is often a matter of perception on our part and that in itself can be subject to great error.
I saw a movie last night that perfectly exemplifies a righteously inclined person doing the very best he knew how to do under impossible circumstances.
It was called “The Book Of Eli“ starring Denzel Washington, and although you may have some serious objections about the movie, no people or animals were harmed in the production of the movie . 
None.
For that perspective, I highly recommend seeing the movie. I deliberately avoided it for many years, but the ending makes the movie worthwhile.

I wonder if the Wt ever intends on refunding donations used for the building of branch facilities, that are later sold.  I’m sure we are talking about millions of dollars needed to build them.  We know they were sold at a profit; so by all rights, JWs who donated, could at least get their initial investment returned to them.  
I don’t see any difference in Osteen stealing money from his members and investing it wherever he chooses, than the Wt. coercing their members into donating everything from pennies to estates that translates into cash, and investing it in whatever they choose.   They are both worldly "organizations" under the guise of religion.  Although Watchtower does a better job of hiding the raw truth behind its existence.
 

The topic (of the judiciary) is more complex than what I commented on and what you are commenting on. 
Moral principles, God’s commandments, tribal customs, the influence of surrounding tribes and nations and their systems of “legislation” should also be considered.
We have patriarchal, tribal, national and other factors that have contributed to the development of the legislature and the judiciary (prior to Exile time to Moses to Judges to Kings to Sanhedrin to Jesus Church etc).
We have the power of one person to decide (the head of a family or tribe, nation, a patriarch or a king, for example) to a group of people at lower and higher levels of the judiciary (Lesser Sanhedrin and Great Sanhedrin, for example)."
 

As far as I can remember, the publications of WTJWorg, ie the authors of the articles, have confirmed literally that some things said in the literature are nothing but dogmatism. How is the state of dogma confirmed? By imposing a teaching, the construction of which is later changed or completely rejected. While the dogma is in force there are dire consequences for those who oppose it.
WTJWorg is full of dogmatic approaches. Older members should be more aware of this than those who have only recently joined JWorg.

Ah yes …… Canada.
America’s Hat.
Where they build homes out of blocks of ice ….. carved from pack snow with a flat bone from a harpooned whale …. to keep warm!
Where three generations overlap only because they are sleeping in an ice dome the size of a hippie VW Microbus, under 400 pounds of assorted seal and bear skins pulled on a sled also made of animal bones and sinew, by dogs as powerful as the Incredible Hulk.

This is nothing new in the evolution of civilizations. It ALWAYS HAPPENS when the willfully stupid get control. 
 
….. and they Always do.
when you are unfortunate enough to live through that time, your life is usually harder, and shorter.

I almost dropped my teeth in my coffee when I saw that @Pudgyhad cited a Doonebury strip (which means he read it). Isn’t its cartoonist the same surname as that tough guy in Canada?

If memory serves, I bought five copies of “Dissent on the Margins” from Amazon.com. 
A “PayPal” account makes impulse purchases easy.
I would suggest to Dmitar that he go to Amazon and read the book reviews …. There are 15 of them, and hope that “someday”, there will be a cure for high functioning total cluelessness.

Since that bad actor retrieves information from apostate sites, maybe he can direct you to a site that still has it.

As an experience to the fall of man or the conditions that the chosen people were subjected to by their oath of worshiping the one and only true God? 
You continue to confuse man's history. Being up voted by unhealthy spiritually ignorant people, doesn't help your cause.

The specificity of the Jewish judicial system should be recognized in its public process, not the chamber one where there are three who decide the guilt or innocence of one. Whether such a way is good or bad, I leave to the discussion. But if WTJWorg boasts of its authenticity and originality stemming from the Judeo-Christian milieu, then it is seen that in this matter they do not imitate the workings of the 1st century church.

I love it when low-IQ trolls overdrive their intellectual headlights.

Jesus was never like that ……and the Christian life back then had its problems as well…..the Corinthians cong was not all rosy……no cong even now is all rosy……we were warned  wolfs would enter in amongst us after Paul was gone…he was already dealing with superfine apostles at this time…with in the Christian congs of the time..
Facts Ditimar….deal with Facts….we are all works in progress ….
 

Yes, for both thoughts.
An empty stomach must be filled.

There is a lot that we do not know about Jesus and the apostles, I think somewhere it says something about if everything was written about Jesus the world cannot hold all the books…… Which may have been an exaggeration, an allusion,  or something.
We don’t know if Jesus was a framing carpenter, a finish carpenter, he worked on remodeling projects, or he built furniture etc., things like bookcases and chairs and sofas, and so forth.
There’s even some suggestion that the word for “carpenter” is actually technician , And not carpenter, so he may have been a technician of some sort, perhaps even a blacksmith or something.
There’s even some suggestion that even though most of the apostles were fishermen, they supplied fish to the local restaurants and these restaurants served both gentiles and Jews as well as fish and lobsters and clams.
Both gentiles and Jews as well as fish and lobsters and clams.
get it?
It’s very heartwarming to think that there was no discrimination between the five.

Reminds me of the time I came to a door that had two no soliciting signs. I rang the doorbell and asked them if they'd like to buy another no soliciting sign. The guy laughed and took the magazines.

Could be. But does that mean that it was only with the record of Moses that people in general and we came to know about that thing? Do you think that Adam, Eve and then with their children never talked about this event and came to some emotions, thoughts and conclusions?

I'll NEVER recommend that he be banned. I am more than happy to let him make his own motivations clear. If he's banned, all that evidence he provides against himself just goes away, and he just starts it all up again with one of his 40 other names.

You have zero sense of humour 

I will have to apologize for thinking of you as a mean, vindictive, miserable, unhappy and all around nasty person with delusions of grandeur.
After that nice compliment (after all, I AM a cartoon puppy and have openly acknowledged that what I do is rant …), and what I am LOOKING FOR is to be a puppy loving court jester, I have a warm fuzzy feeling about you that borderlines true affection.
Even my close relative Snoopy, from “Peanuts” does his best to happy dance across a field of sunflowers!
Some cartoon characters age, and some do not. I think Mickey Mouse is somewhere around 75 years old, and he looks as young as he did in “Steamboat Willie”. 
Have you ever noticed that no matter which way his head is turned, his two circular ears always face the camera?
….and Mickey’s dog is Pluto, which runs around on four legs, and Mickey has a friend taller than he is, who is also a dog, who walks around on TWO legs.  I think that’s just Goofy!

I always thought of Dmitar as a goateed, pointed ears evil inter-dimensional twin of SpongeBob SquarePants, in a red Star Fleet Security uniform.
Usually, not making it to the first commercial …..

I will have to apologize for thinking of you as a mean, vindictive, miserable, unhappy and all around nasty person with delusions of grandeur.
After that nice compliment (after all, I AM a cartoon puppy and have openly acknowledged that what I do is rant …), and what I am LOOKING FOR is to be a puppy loving court jester, I have a warm fuzzy feeling about you that borderlines true affection.
Even my close relative Snoopy, from “Peanuts” does his best to happy dance across a field of sunflowers!
Some cartoon characters age, and some do not. I think Mickey Mouse is somewhere around 75 years old, and he looks as young as he did in “Steamboat Willie”. 
Have you ever noticed that no matter which way his head is turned, his two circular ears always face the camera?
….and Mickey’s dog is Pluto, which runs around on four legs, and Mickey has a friend taller than he is, who is also a dog, who walks around on TWO legs.  I think that’s just Goofy!

Of course not!
It would be the ramblings of a Heretic against the Church of the Three Holy Vaccines.

….. could be worse ……
 
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