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  I just watched the final video from this years convention. OMG!!!

  by NikL in

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  i am shaking all over right now.

  i think it's worse that the bunker video.. i used to think there was no way that these people would actually "drink the cool aid" if you get my drift, but seeing this video i am now not sure it could never happen.. having a wife who i love dearly trapped in this cult is really freaking me out right now...

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  zeb: Are the bad guys in a national uniform and thereby doing the will of a government? or are they a 'supremacist' mob of some sort. So national attack or criminal attack? and why are jw wandering about in a forrest?

  I think it is direct reference to Russia. Several Russian congregations have recently been subjected to a sweep that included raids and armed searches with assault rifles etc. (http://forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2381)

  And about that forest...again, Russia. That is how a lot of people envision that huge expansive country - miles and miles of Siberian forests. Which you need a parka to wander around in. 'Cause Russia is cold, you know.

  All stereotypical cultural visual clues that have been inserted into the video by those astute org film makers. It is sort of like Disney on steroids.
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

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  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

  biggest changes:.

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  Berry Jerry: There isn't an investor anywhere that would put a dime into a corporation with those numbers

  ....and, a little difficult for a court to access significant payouts to victims when the books show less and less.

  It could be the org is doing asset control in preparation for upcoming legal battles

  Maybe
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  Public Talk invitations ....Next to .Zero Attendees

  by smiddy3 in

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  from my conversion at the end of 1959 to my leaving the j.w`s about early 1993 i remember especially in the first 20 -30 years or so giving out invitations to public talks that were to be given at our local k.h.

  every time i went out in the service witnessing from door to door week in week out i would leave these tracts at not at homes or whoever would accept them .. and in my personal experience i cannot recall more than five worldly / non j.w.

  people , if that , who came to a public talk as a result of the invitations given at the doors in our witnessing work in the 33 years of my being an active jehovah`s witness .. and none of them ever became a jehovah`s witness .. was it just me ?

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  Eyeusedtobadub: Noah AND his 7 FAMILY members preached for 100 or so years and couldn't even convince one, not EVEN ONE person to get into the mythical Ark!

  Can you please show me the Bibble verses that say that? I think I missed that part...
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  Scary Effectiveness of Assembly Videos

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  well, i got to see the final day of this years regional convention.and i saw something that disturbs me.. the final, "summing up review" video.

  it disturbs me because it was so well done.

  (i wish i could remember the title of the song), to the strains of a solo vocalist singing in a fine "irish tenor", we see the actors from the previous videos of the last few days all assembling together in a clearing.

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  Zeb: Children and others sensitive will have nightmares for months after that.

  Years, not months

  Maybe for the rest of their lives

  Hell, all I had to deal with was the earth opening up and swallowing me and my bike. In a bad black and white still illustration.

  What has been described by the OP takes moving technicolor to a high pitched scream
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  Scary Effectiveness of Assembly Videos

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  well, i got to see the final day of this years regional convention.and i saw something that disturbs me.. the final, "summing up review" video.

  it disturbs me because it was so well done.

  (i wish i could remember the title of the song), to the strains of a solo vocalist singing in a fine "irish tenor", we see the actors from the previous videos of the last few days all assembling together in a clearing.

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  Holy fuck
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  murders at school

  by zeb in

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  at a school in santa fe in the us.

  many people killed and wounded.

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  The media needs to stop making these incidents into living room entertainment

  The young people who are susceptible to suicidal and murderous thoughts are only being encouraged to join the celebrity status of those they are imitating

  The less attention these shootings get, the less likelihood of copycat behavior. Attention is attention whether negative or positive and that is what these kids are seeking. They want to be heard and the media is feeding their desire

  Forget gun control. The media needs to put a stop to making these horrific events into a circus. They are responsible for spreading this contagious disease. That is the first thing that needs to happen
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  Cults and extreme belief

  by Butyoucanneverleave in

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  a&e has a new show this season called cults and extreme belief.

  the second episode will air on 5/29 at 9:00 pm and jehovah's witnesses will be featured.

  hopefully they do a good job exposing them for what they really are.

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  Wakemeup: Who's the poster on here that says 'Let's review. It's a cult.'"
  That would be the illustrious @jp1692

  Actually, that would be Oubilette that used to post here. He is the original poster who coined that phrase, I believe.
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  Judgment Day in Russia

  by Tahoe in

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  http://www.newsweek.com/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-are-having-their-homes-raided-even-remote-towns-934734.

  law enforcement officials in birobidzhan, russia, a small town close to the border with china, raided 20 homes belonging to jehovah’s witnesses, according to members of the religious organization.. the raids were conducted by around 150 police officers, who nicknamed their operation “judgement day,” jarrod lopes, a member of the jehovah’s witnesses, told newsweek.

  police confiscated photographs, bank cards, money and electronic devices from the houses they searched, said lopes.. a criminal case was opened against a man named alam aliev, who will be kept in pretrial detention until july, members of the religious group said.

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  Carla: are calling on the international community to help them protect their right to worship freely"-
  They ask the help of the same international community that they hope is destroyed at the big A? They dare to come to satans domain for help?
  They wish to worship freely yet deny the same freedom to members who wish worship differently or not at all and to leave with intact families?

  Exactly.

  And you just gotta love it when a Christian Scientist journalist is the one to write up the org's whining for those horrible worldly people to read.
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  Paranormal stuff: is it a cultural thing? Rant ahead

  by Whynot in

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  paranormal stuff is common where my family is from it's almost expected.

  native american background, my great grandmother was a witch doctor a damn good one too, my non witness relatives dabble in it.

  so i have seen stuff and experienced stuff.

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  Mental clarity:
  what was really interesting for me to discover was that there used to be a group of scholars who were doing these experiments on university campuses which would be completely impossible to do now because of changed attitudes and perceptions regarding was is considered "science"

  Parapsychology was never really accepted in the scientific community. Parapsychology never did meet the requirements of basic scientific methodology.

  Science has always been science. Nothing changes that method. Validity and reproducibility is essential to science and it is on the first requirement - validity - that parapsychology fails miserably.

  Validity means that the means of measurement is valid - in other words, does the measurement actually measure what the scientist says it does. In parapsychology, that is not possible. It never has been possible and it likely never will be. That is why parapsychology fell out of favor. It cannot claim validity and therefore cannot be science.

  Ideas about what science is hasn't changed. But people continue to try to change it to something it isn't.

  Parapsychology tried and failed the fundamental test to qualify it as science.

  By the way, the class you took sounds interesting. But it isn't science. It is anthropology.
  
  
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  Paranormal stuff: is it a cultural thing? Rant ahead

  by Whynot in

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  paranormal stuff is common where my family is from it's almost expected.

  native american background, my great grandmother was a witch doctor a damn good one too, my non witness relatives dabble in it.

  so i have seen stuff and experienced stuff.

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  Why not: I don't have the funds to publish scientific research or get it peer reviewed. Although, I know there are researchers on such cases but their research, even though professionally done, keeps getting rejected

  Not only are you lacking the funds, but you are also lacking the fundamental knowledge of how scientific research is conducted or even what it is.

  Professionally done? I highly doubt that. Correctly done scientific research that passes the scientific requirements does not get rejected .

  Rejection means that the research has not been done correctly.

  Science is a term and discipline that is used incorrectly by people who are not scientists and who don't know anything about the scientific method. Just calling yourself a scientist doesn't cut it.