tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post831206362522660484..comments2023-11-05T20:19:44.812+13:00Comments on Ambassador Watch: Tomorrow's World - Nice cover, shame about the contentGavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03060097218905523899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-13608266418136112322016-05-02T16:57:17.207+12:002016-05-02T16:57:17.207+12:00RCM:
..corrupt governments all over the earth are ...RCM:<br /><i>..corrupt governments all over the earth are oppressing and impoverishing their peoples, it is obvious that Almighty God will soon intervene!</i><br /><br />This is a <i>Non Sequitur</i><b>!!</b><br /><br />Is this the standard of <b>Logic</b> at Living University<b>?</b>Minimalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394978086891772878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-81700575239828129362016-05-02T07:11:50.315+12:002016-05-02T07:11:50.315+12:00And so LCG continues their work of deceptively rec...And so LCG continues their work of deceptively recruiting more sources of income.<br /><br />My word! Rod McNair named his article "The Great Unraveling" after an article by Chris Hedges. Hedges is a left wing journalist. It is quite unusual for LCG to quote a person of that political persuasion. Back in January 2007 he published a book critiquing the religious right entitled American Fascism: The Christian Right and the War on America. Do LCG's leaders realize who they are quoting from?<br /><br />Hedges did not bother talking about Armstrongism in that book. Shows how (un)important Armstrongism actually is. Admittedly he did quote an article from PCG once about mass layoffs but he said absolutely nothing about any of the Armstrongite organizations.<br /><br />Douglas Winnail tries to say the Vikings are descended from Israelites by saying they had horned helmets. It is my understanding that the Vikings did not wear horned helmets. That was just a illustrated exaggeration introduced in Victorian times that has since become ubiquitous.<br /><br />This recruitment magazine contains letters from Jamaica, Pakistan, Canada and Australia. As if those countries didn't have enough problems already without dealing with LCG's attempts to get more recruits.<br /><br />The editors are listed as Roderick C. Meredith, Richard Ames, William Bowmer, John Robinson, Bruce Tyler, Stuart Wachowitz, Gerald Weston and William Williams.Redfox712https://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-399382149736474052016-05-02T07:10:13.011+12:002016-05-02T07:10:13.011+12:00This comment has been removed by the author.Redfox712https://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-41353477896790202772016-05-02T02:43:51.357+12:002016-05-02T02:43:51.357+12:00Dear Tomorrow's World,
The first 11 Chapters ...Dear Tomorrow's World,<br /><br />The first 11 Chapters of Genesis are Sumerian Creation and Flood myths with a Hebrew spin.<br /><br />The Exodus and the characters who star in it are not real history or as Israel Finkelstein of "The Bible Unearthed" told me..."We exaggerate a lot."<br /> <br />Good science done well and not from the comfort of your home tells us the earth is 4 billion years old and that all life evolved over that time. There are human beings who devote their lives to the hard work of showing this to be true and when the facts overwhelm the ideas, they change the ideas to fit the facts and not the facts to agree with the preconceived ideas as religion is wont to do.<br /><br />All humans are hairless (mostly) Apes who, through writing and language, became more conscious than our Chimp, Orang and Gorilla cousins who still exist because we share a common ancestor 5 million years ago. We did not come from them. They are less conscious than ourselves though we share 94-98% in common and even a child can look at a chimp as see we are cousins. All of us came from something else before us. <br /><br />The World Tomorrow under a "jealous God" and the Christ of Revelation with just one way of being for all would be a nightmare. <br /><br />There is really no "Lake of fire" for those who don't go along to get along. That's made up for power and control of the little people. Read your history of such things.<br /><br />There are many things you do not know or refuse to entertain in your world about history, good science done well and Biblical origins and politic, but I know you cannot bare them at this time. Nor do I blame you. Now that I am free of the mind virus of organized (oxymoron?) religion, the one acceptable way of thinking and the few telling the many how it all is, I understand the journey from myth to reality. It's not easy. It can be a real "Dark Night of the Soul" experience. But it is worth the journey I am more inspired by being the current results of evolution than I was over being made from a handful of mud and the female counterpart from a rib, which by the way was selected because no man was going to miss a rib. He had lots of them and women, because of their sin and causing men nothing but trouble were merely to have babies painfully now and say "yes Lord" to their men. It's in the Bible :)DennisCDiehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10417850852638492246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-1757137636704606022016-05-02T02:32:38.018+12:002016-05-02T02:32:38.018+12:00One more thing:
Anyone who has an online publicat...One more thing:<br /><br />Anyone who has an online publication (flipbook or not) who separates articles on to different pages and has "continued on" to take you to the rest of the article, where often or not, the end of other articles are dumped, or even worse, to have a chain of "continued on" skipping from page, let's say, 13 to 72 and from 72 to 128 and from 128 to 131, should be taken out and shot.<br /><br />People who are online, don't want to have to skip through a bunch of different pages to read an article continuously. It's a great way to lose your audience, particularly if they are under the age of 55.<br /><br />At least with AR1, AR2 and AR3, an effort was made to enable the reader to click on "continued on" and to take them immediately to the page with the rest of the article.<br /><br />In the current issue of Tomorrow's World flip book version on page 7, there's a "CONTINUES ON PAGE 26". Click on it. I dare you. If you do, it takes you exactly NOWHERE! And heaven help you if you want to pursue the "continued from". And unlike other flip book formats, you can't enter the page number in a box to take you right there.<br /><br />These days, this sort of advertisement for a cult is completely ineffective. About the only thing that would work is a blog or Youtube videos, but better make them young, energetic, lively and appealing (just the opposite of what LCG presents) or you will lose any audience you might have had.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28426681.post-36676421580660315732016-05-02T01:48:59.860+12:002016-05-02T01:48:59.860+12:00Where to begin...?
Concerning flip books, I see t...Where to begin...?<br /><br />Concerning flip books, I see them as a necessary evil... I mean necessary EVIL. They can be much easier to read than PDF and much more convenient. People are used to book form. That is changing, but for now, the flip book is sort of in the middle. epub is making strides and will probably be the new de facto standard in a few short years, but for those of us who depend upon books for technological information, Kindle is a terrible idea and has nothing but problems.<br /><br />As for problems, after actively using no fewer than 4 different purchased software packages to produce flip books, I can honestly tell you that the technology is just terrible. All of them have huge problems (as in software 'bugs'), many of them are fatal. What I've had to do for ambassador.report is to employ three different software packages because one or the other goes into a loop on pdf loading, or stalls when you 'turn' the page or puts the logo just exactly the wrong place from where you specified. In fact, often, bookmarks are confused with table of contents. Navigating the mess is a nightmare, but I do it because it does provide a useful interface for those who would, say, want to read Herbert Armstrong's Autobiography Volume 1 (with the occasional double page spread with pictures where .pdf just won't cut it. Two different software packages were used for the full color flip books of Ambassador Review, Ambassador Report 2 (AR2) and Ambassador Report 3 (AR3), because of the problems outlined above.<br /><br />For those of you who are interest, apparently LCG has chosen to have a service upload, format and display the flip book format. They are using issuu.com as the service. The good news for those of us hoping that the Armstrongists will go broke, is that Living has to be paying at least $35 a month for this service. Maybe even $279 a month. Let's hope it's the more expensive plan. The format is horrible. The 'flip' is more like moving through a slide show and you can't use the mouse wheel to flip the pages. I haven't tried it on my mobile phone so I don't know how that works, but it is likely subpar.<br /><br />Now as for the content...<br /><br />"Are We Ready for God's Intervention?" -- mixed bag. Jesus isn't coming for the third time and if he were to, he's supposed to make war and leave everything in ruins... BUT, the good news is that he'd throw Roderick Meredith into the Lake of Fire along with everybody else at the LCG Headquarters, for having a University course on British Israelism, if for nothing else.<br /><br />Gavin has covered most of the rest satisfactorily. As for "The Great Unravelling" it's inevitable. 10 million years with neutron star radiation and all life is toast. Can't be stopped. As for "our universe is a comprehensible--a lawful and orderly creation!" it's clear that Smith knows nothing at all. Has he not heard of entropy? The publication itself is a black hole.<br /><br />Rejoice brethren at the TV Log! With any luck at all it will bankrupt LCG and gain nary a new follower! "Watch us WGN America!"? Not unless they have more attractive people without double chins and seriously gray hair. It's the LCG Fuddy-Duddy Network or Networst according to your tastes.<br /><br />The magazine itself needs a new masthead. How about, "The Magazine of Empty Promises"?<br /><br />I recommend that for this 'zine, you just flip it off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com