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  Morris Vindicated. Yoga Pants ARE Indecent

  by konceptual99 in

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  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31447905.

  even those in "the world" (tm) recognise the indecent nature of this type of apparel.

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  “DJS”: “That’s the excuse used by the Islamists. Men cannot control themselves therefore women must cover up. . . . The Islamists believe a woman showing her ankle, in a lot of countries, is indecent and makes her deserving of rape, ridicule and molesting. People like them need to leave the planet. Forever. . . . Get out more. Lose your judgmental, self-righteous, moralistic desire to impose your own religious nonsense on the rest of us.”

  Here, here! That is really the crux of it. I think that it’s not about women somehow causing men’s desire to get out of control, but, rather, it’s really all about the innate defect of human character in which people in power feel a need to control and dominate others by imposing their own superstitious/religious/socio-political wishes on others.

  And, surprise, surprise – this Sharia Montana lawmaker guy, David “Doc” Moore, is a tight-ass republican! (Yes, pun intended.)
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  Morris Vindicated. Yoga Pants ARE Indecent

  by konceptual99 in

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  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31447905.

  even those in "the world" (tm) recognise the indecent nature of this type of apparel.

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  “dugout”: “Tell me is a bathing suit indecent?”

  That’s a very good, valid question. If that Sharia Montana lawmaker wants to make it actually illegal to wear Yoga pants / leggings / stretch trousers / jogging pants / skinny jeans, etc., then the law will have to also include as a crime of “indecent exposure” even the wearing of bathing suits at the beach and ballet leotards during public stage performances. So, they will have to ban Olympic downhill and cross-country skiing, bicycle racetrack events, swimming/diving competitions, etc. They will probably end up with minimum age restrictions at such events because of what this David “Doc” Moore guy views as indecent, shocking, and adults-only. (They will probably end up requiring proof-of-age ID to attend swimming competitions or public ballet performances as a spectator.)

  I swear to God, every day I see another petty and just plain stupid thing in the wonderful world of law. And I keep on asking myself the same question: What’s going to be next?
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  Tony Morris not the only one against yoga pants

  by wannaexit in

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  tony will be happy with this piece of news:.

  http://www.mediaite.com/online/montana-pol-pushes-bill-that-would-make-it-illegal-to-wear-yoga-pants-in-public/.

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  That’s even more Orwellian than the movie “1984”! Those “indecent exposure” laws in Montana are beyond ridiculous.

  According to Rep. Virginia Court, D-Billings in the Billings Gazette (shown in the comments below the linked item), “Currently, a person convicted of indecent exposure three times could be sentenced to life in jail and up to $10,000.” Really? Wow!! How much more Draconian can you get. That’s being more picayunish and repressed than Queen Victoria herself. Aren’t there just a little more serious crimes like, oh, wife beating and armed robbery to be concerned about?

  Now, what about ballet performances. Are they going to ban that too because of the tight, stretchy pants theiy wear? And what about going to the beach or swimming? Is that going to also be illegal because of wearing Speedos or bathing suits? Where does it end? I keep asking myself every day, What are they going to ban next? Going to the barhroom? Breathing? . . . . Really, what’s next?
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  forgive not dissing

  by Becky wyse in

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  did anyone read todays daily text?

  monday 2/9/2015.says in the scriptures after elders go to sick (spir.

  or phys.

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  “Becky wyse”: “. . . if they have committed sins, Jehovah forgives them. says Nothing about disfellowshipping or anouncements or humiliations, shaming, shunning, etc.”

  Well, the governing body would say that they don’t have to rely on the Bible anyway because they have something far superior and grander: The Watchtower magazine (that is, only as it appears on their online library, covering from the year 2000 onward). And as for that Jesus guy, they would probably say that he was just the old mediator/savior (that is, before the current governing body on the block, who thinks they are everyone’s mediator/savior).
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  The rings

  by Jonathan Drake in

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  i'm sure someone somewhere has asked this question, but along with the contempt written on morris face i've also noticed the club ring.

  im sure you've all noticed it.

  does anyone have any insider information on the gold rings they where?

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  So much for the Apostle Peter’s words: “Do not let your adornment be external.” (1 Peter 3:3)
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  First brand new Kingdom Hall built

  by Kanon in

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  well if you check the new pay attention at the meeting video their hall is one of the 1st.

  flat roof, lots of glass and a jw.org logo.

  lucky them

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  “brandnew”: “If jw's actually get a chance to use them b4 they are sold!”

  Well, they would say that they are ‘making friends of the unrighteous riches.’ (Luke 16:9)
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  The last refuge of a cult

  by undercover in

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  the wts struggles to survive in the 21st century, what with the internet, social media, instant communication, instant video, instant music, instant porn, er, not that i'd know anything about that last one... but anyhoo.... as they struggle to keep the young ones indoctrinated, they've finally realized that sitting in wt meetings four days a week, and knocking on doors at least once a week is not appealing to millennials, and with all the new technology at their fingertips, it doesn't take but a couple of clicks of a mouse to find enough disturbing info on the wts to encourage them to fade away.. so what to do?

  well, if you can't beat em, join em.

  after years of demonizing the internet, televangelists, showboating religious leaders, and discouraging anything that could lead a person to question their authority, they finally figured out they can't beat em.

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  I think that the temptation is becoming too great for the GB to just say the heck with it and embrace the total rebranding of the religion business with a view to strengthening its niche in the lucrative new Sesame-Street-like, novelty-gift-shop cyber-evangelical market. After all, they’re all about attention getting and narcissistic glory, and they’re always up for cashing in whatever is going at the time. Blue “JW.org” fuzzy dice for the rearview mirror anyone?
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  January 15 wt 2015

  by New day in

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  apologies if something has been posted on this before but if you go to jw.org and find the jan 15 2015 wt (study edition) please read the article before the study articles.

  it is entitled "they offer themselves willingly in new york.

  " please read it and let me know what you think.

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  No, “New day,” you must certainly not be “the only one to think that this is a real piece of work.” Any thinking person, such as yourself and myself, would surely have at least some part of their brain lighting up with some kind of error messages about the idea of the WTS suggesting that people be “selling homes and possessions to work there” and then “have to find somewhere to live, work,” and even “pay for their own accommodation and living expenses and commute a day or more each week to work on the new HQ.”That reminds me about how the WTS used to strongly “suggest” that people make extreme sacrifices for the organization in anticipation of the 1975 thing by way of writing about some people who actually (apparently) sold their homes and farms! What they had so cleverly prophesied back then – about Armageddon happening in 1975 – of course never happened, but, what they’re focusing on now will happen – that is, the construction of a brand-spanking-new headquarters in Warwick by slave labor from a bunch of their willing dupes. That, unfortunately, will happen.
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  Quick introduction

  by OzGirl in

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  only have a few minutes to spare so thought i would throw this together.. been in for about 30 years.

  questions and doubts gathered over that time.

  i have a keen interest in the legal and financial matters of the watchtower.. came across this site about 5 years ago.

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  Welcome to the board, “OzGirl”! In this “time of the end,” people are always flocking to the Mountain of the House of Jehovahs-Witness.com!

  The financial/legal aspects of the WT organization are just the tip of the iceberg (or the pyramid, if you like). The more you take a peek at the whole underlying premise of the WT “religion,” the more painfully obvious it becomes that it is all based upon men’s quirky little end-of-the-world ideas that don’t even make sense let alone stand up to any genuine scrutiny. So, one wouldn’t expect that its financial and legal structures would be any more transparent and accountable.

  As far as the money goes, there doesn’t seem to be any one single account or entity holding it, but, rather, there are so many sub-corporations (like little tenticles), investment entities, and various hedge funds that it would probably make Donald Trump’s head spin!

  Legally, the show must be run by their lawyers, whose sphere of leadership takes on a life if its own. (After all, somebody has to steer the ship around obvious rocky obstacles in the real world.) The actual governing body, however, is just a figurehead. They can (and certainly do) spout out as much nonesense as they wish and there is no real accountability, because they can just claim “ecclesiastical privilege.” (You know, the separate church-and-state thing.) But the lawyers and in-house business think tanks are obviously busy seeking more ways to diversify their self-serving business model. (Did I mention it’s a “pyramid” scheme? Get it – pyramid? Russell’s gravestone?)

  So, some professional (i.e., approved “higher education” recipients) folks have to be navigating the seas of free market enterprise and structuring things so as to reap the best return on investment (i.e., fat dividends right up to the top), like any other ambitious lucrative enterprise. But as for the little “glory team” of the governing body, they’re just along for the ride in the “popemobile” – more like those funny Shriners clowns driving those comical tiny go carts around in circles. In Brooklyn, and soon Warwick, the circus is always in town!
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  Strange Webpage

  by wannaexit in

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  what do you make of this:.

  https://sandiegokingdomhall.wordpress.com/.

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  The real Jehovah’s Witness organization doesn’t need an ad like this on such a Web page – they’re already doing much more efficient begging for donations in the Watchtower magazine. (I.e., instructions on how to donate wills, trusts, real estate, insurance policies, jewellery, etc. They even have a pamphlet on how to go about “planned giving.”)