TrueTomHarley

25 minutes ago, Space Merchant said:

I do operate in the manner of seeking truth and calling out what is false.

I do believe this. That’s why I will take it seriously should SM ever check me on some point I have made, rather than blow it off as fault-seeking drivel, the way I realistically must do with so many here.

I won’t go quite so far as to say it would be a Psalm 141: 5 moment…

“Should the righteous one … reprove me, it would be like oil on my head, Which my head would never refuse,”

but close.

If you hate the good news, you will do everything in your power to find fault with the imperfect vessels that carry it. It is no more complicated than that. SM is on to these malcontents.

3 hours ago, hgp said:

Feel free to build up your own organization that helps refugees better and faster and more fairly.

No really, show me how you do this better in the real world, not just in a discussion on the internet.

Exactly. Jehovah’s Witnesses are a relatively tiny group. They are not big enough to save everyone. But what they can do is set the example for others to follow. There is no excuse for others not to be so organized as they and to have such devotion to ‘their own.’ If others were, all refugees would be accommodated, not just on Day 1, which is laudable but also inadequate—their needs will stretch over for many months—but for as long as it takes. 

Just as Matthew has a problem with Jesus, (Mark 10:29-30) he also has a problem with the apostle Paul:

“So, then, as long as we have the opportunity, let us work what is good toward all, but especially toward those related to us in the faith.” Galatians 5:10

Since the unity of Jehovah’s Witnesss and the love they will show for fellow believers suffering calamity is so well-known and is so rare, almost to the point of being unique, and is so obviously a good thing, and is something you want to spread around and challenge others to do likewise, is it not almost a denial of God’s spirit to seek to undermine it?

Ones like Matthew work tirelessly to malign, discredit, and undermine the unity of God’s people. Can you not apply the verse to him about how the Kingdom of God has really overtaken the one who denies evident demonstrations of God’s spirit? (Matthew 12:28) 

Okay, okay, so it does not quite measure up to Jesus expelling demons, the subject of the verse.  But it comes close. It does amount to expelling the “demons” of self-interest and division that undermines the world in general. And all Matthew can do is condemn it.

Anything involving humans you will be able to find something human about it, and thus condemn the whole thing on that basis. This is what Matthew and his cohorts do. 

1 hour ago, Anna said:

He knows. He's just being intentionally antagonistic. He knows it's logical to let Witnesses stay with Witnesses. He doesn’t want to admit the bond those of like mind and faith have, because he doesn't have that anymore. 

Tell him to take it up with Jesus. That’s the one he seems to have a beef with:

“Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, no one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news  who will not get 100 times more now in this period of time—houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecutions—and in the coming system of things, everlasting life. “ (Mark 10:29-30)

48 minutes ago, Matthew9969 said:

This question puts me in the waiting area, not on the plane as you guys are thinking.

Okay. So you are in the waiting area. And you know among the deboarding passengers fleeing disaster are your family. Do you shower all your hugs and gifts and kisses on the first person you see, or do you wait for your family?

Why are you being so dense about this?

On 3/4/2022 at 2:33 PM, Matthew9969 said:

However if the plane was on fire I would help everyone on the plane get off the plane, not just my loved one.

On 3/4/2022 at 4:31 PM, Anna said:

Well of course. So you should. But the point is, you would help your loved ones FIRST.

44 minutes ago, Matthew9969 said:

No

Do you have any loved ones?

And if so, have you told them that they will have take a number in the event of a disaster and you’ll get to them when it’s their turn? 

5 hours ago, Thinking said:

Hahah….yes I do have trouble with it …especially when it’s written…sarcasm is another that I cannot discern ..in written form…I think I get muddy in it too…which is funny really as B Splane at our last big convention said….” You Australians need to be careful with your speech as some think you come over as harsh and sarcastic “…..I smiled as he said that..( as I know I come over as blunt..) 

 

You know, if we back up and take another look at this—I think it accounts for why much of our audio and video production comes across as so bland and plain vanilla. If you add any of the spice that makes speech and text interesting, it becomes a turn-off to someone of another culture and background. So the brothers avoid the pitfall altogether. They trowel it on unambiguous and unfettered with anything potentially off putting. It is a test for those used to fine writing and oratory to not be so full of themselves, dial back artistic considerations, and just deal with ‘just the facts, ma’am.”

Even I—I know you will not believe this—have inadvertently been misunderstood and have given offense to some, without any bad intention whatsoever! And don’t get me started on all the rest of you. 

3 minutes ago, Dmitar said:

Why would you presume to insult other nationalities just because of the poor behavior of one unhinged individual? That would be like me saying, all Jehovah’s Witnesses are bad. You know that isn't so.

You’re right. I repent.

4 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

It is a well established fact tha Texas is the center of the Universe.

“Just dig a toe in Dallas And there's oil all over your address”

2 minutes ago, Dmitar said:

In this case, I find @Witness more compelling to Christ message, Only if she would remove herself some disparaging and slandering her former institution, she would be a better Christian than these Jehovah's Witnesses here.

Oh yeah, if only the cupbearer would stop poisoning the king he’d be a good ‘ol boy.

3 hours ago, Thinking said:

You Australians need to be careful with your speech as some think you come over as harsh and sarcastic “

That’s the trouble with you Australians. You Georgian and Albanians too. And you Spanish. And you Texans. And you….well pretty much everyone not in the non-Texas USA

1 hour ago, JW Insider said:

. The US has always been careful, I'm sure, to keep military uses of bio-weapons hidden, but a surprise visit by Russian military forces could catch the paper-trail destroyers off-guard.

 As long as it is not such a surprise that a rocket attack blows it to smithereens and spreads the pathogens around the globe.

57 minutes ago, Space Merchant said:

since he truly wanted to commit sin via adultery willfully, what hurts one's yoke with their mate even harder is with a Prostitute, his brazen fun and games until he was caught (for if he wasn't caught, he would be remorseless),

I’ll concede that some of the artwork in JW publications is ridiculed. But sometimes it is spot-on. Those pics of the people of God surrounded by frothing, raging, and undisciplined hooligans, shaking their fists in the air—promising freedom but being slaves themselves to corruption—Those pics could not fit anyone more closely. I mean, the guy was the public face of anti-Witness “activism.”

54 minutes ago, Space Merchant said:

he was essentially the voice of the Warwick protest and a legitimate rival to one of @Srecko Sostar's following, John Cedar (who is now known to be immoral)

Chasing after the prostitutes in Thailand, he was, on his donor’s dime. It happens to all of them sooner or later.

(How’s that for a salvo?)

I’ve had it in for him ever since he kicked me off his website and then let the impression stand that my people “ordered” me off when in fact it was his doing.  

https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2019/01/banned-at-the-apostate-website.html

Alas for the scripture that “commands” me not to rejoice over my enemy’s downfall. And the one that “orders” me not to bear grudges. Pesky also is the one that “orders” me to put coals on his fat head and means some mushy thing about kindness. But I take it all to heart. Nothing but love and kisses here.

4 hours ago, Pudgy said:

… Concerning Dmitar’s compulsion to lie, denegrate, and slander, I am reminded of the words of Abraham Lincoln “Trolls on the Internet are trying to save face, without regard to which one they save.”

 

He never said that! What a bunch of rubbish!

What he said was, “You can lead a horse to drink but you can’t make him water.”

1 minute ago, JW Insider said:

Yes. I believe the US funded bio-labs in Ukraine were openly admitted in 2016. They didn't become an "accusation" until just now.

You almost would think it would make more sense for Russia to raise this admission before invasion, not after. Get a few more people to see their point of view that way. 

Let’s feed this one to @JW Insiderfor his inspection. Will he believe it? It’s from the same people who said there’s not a chance they would invade when they were quite obviously amassing for invasion. On the other hand, we all know about the love affair with gain-of-function research.

https://youtu.be/YdGsVXMdbxs

13 minutes ago, Arauna said:

I did not - so do not talk for me.

Nor did I.

22 minutes ago, JW Insider said:

About three days ago, my son was here and I had just shown my wife a nearly sure-fire way to make phone scammers angry, and while I was explaining the method, I got the same kind of scammer, and I tried it, and this time I let the scammer go on screaming (FOR 25 MINUTES!!!)

Make these guys mad enough and they’ll call in the SWAT to your house on some phony pretext. Not that it is a frequent occurrence but it has happened. 

Haven’t watched your video’s yet. I mean to, but wanted to throw in that bit of caution before everyone is goading these liars.

7 hours ago, Pudgy said:

I think I am the only one I could probably get away with it, and they would probably scratch my ears with appreciation.

And he is good for searching out drugs

9 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

The villain got off but Perry impaled him on the fins of his Cadillac.

A downvote for a 59 Caddy? Are you nuts?

Downvote it at your own peril, Dimitar. I happen to know that tail fins are chief among the perilous weapons in the arsenal of both north and south. kings. Mark my words, they will be game-changers.

6 hours ago, Anna said:

it won't let me quote from more than one post. It used to be possible.....what happened? @The Librarian)

that old hen

59 minutes ago, Dmitar said:

Please explain this, too @TrueTomHarley. He made a dark remark about it to me,

Oh for crying out loud! 

Not everything is about you.

6 hours ago, JW Insider said:

because I am now old enough to watch two episodes of Perry Mason back-to-back, and then I'll already forget how the first one ended before second one is finished.

The villain got off but Perry impaled him on the fins of his Cadillac.