the link bellow is sort of ok. i could not find a decent article in english language about this, but russian media is exploding.
2 days ago a teenager killed 19 people and injured dozens and committed suicide.
he was raised in a jw family.
MadIrishman: This is the same people who are going around saying JW elders were found with AK-47's and bombs...
On the pain of being labelled a Russian troll...*sigh*...
Do you have a link for this?
There was a Russian JW who was found with WW 2 souvenirs - two hand grenades and a land mine that were non operational.
I have never heard of bombs and AK-47s.
Are you using hyperbole and I am just not picking up on that?
I am a big fan of accuracy
since most people in this group have been taught how to research and fact check with our jw history and getting out, this is a topic that can be constructive to check out.
i stumbled upon this and spent some time researching it, and it's quite interesting.
it's part of your immune system, gcmaf.
Further to the link that dubstepped posted, this is from Retraction Watch that lists some of the retracted studies related to gcmaf:
ok so just thinking it over here.
in the recent montana lawsuit wt had to show their net worth.
it came in at like 1.6 billion i think.
vidiot: And yet there's "more money going out than coming in"...
Of course there is. They just don't say where it is going. Somewhere nice and safe, I suspect.
A good business plan always has an escape hatch. It is called bankruptcy and most businesses plan the lead up carefully. Especially if they are facing litigation. Once a business is stripped down, they pay less in fines and settlements
Hide da dough, mama...da judge is comin...
how strict were the jehovah’s witnesses you knew about birthday cake?
i knew a girl who saw a few pieces of cake in the break room at her work, and ate a peice, then found out later that it was left over birthday cake.
she felt so guilty and was scared about a bad impression she left on her work mates.
Vidiot: It was about further socially isolating members from non-member friends and family.
Ultimately, the ban on birthdays (or whatever) was never really about that.
It was about spending money on "non-Kingdom" interests. Don't buy birthday presents (or xmas presents). Send that money to the WTS/org
It is always about the money. Always. That is how the org measures their relationship with their god.
ok so just thinking it over here.
in the recent montana lawsuit wt had to show their net worth.
it came in at like 1.6 billion i think.
Oppostate:
The CCJW was a measly 34 million
Yeah...handy that all those KH's were sold, isn't it?
*Side benefit of congs merging/closing: sort of hard to track down the records if someone is wanting to take elders/congregations to court if those entities don't exist anymore
how strict were the jehovah’s witnesses you knew about birthday cake?
i knew a girl who saw a few pieces of cake in the break room at her work, and ate a peice, then found out later that it was left over birthday cake.
she felt so guilty and was scared about a bad impression she left on her work mates.
Eating birthday cake is perfectly acceptable - as long as you don't eat the whole cake.
Just take the icing off, cut it into pieces and voila!
Birthday cake fractions.
Shouldn't be a problem whatsoever.
first i want to say that i don't know very much about the muslims, and what i am going to say is not attacking anyone, but instead, it was something that was said to me by a muslim man a few years back.. back in 2004 my husband and i found ourselves in a homeless situation.
his job had ended because the plant that he was working at, had shut down, and was sent off to china.
at the time our two sons were still very young, so we ended up staying at a couple of different homeless shelters until my husband could find another job, which took a total of three months before he found a new job, in a new state.
Tameria: He said they have more in common than most people realize
I have heard that before. Way back in the early 60s when I was pretty young. A couple showed up at our home that had been JW friends of my mom and dad. They spent an afternoon trying to convince my parents that Islam was a better religion than the JWs. They had converted because it was so much like the JW religion. But better.
They left a copy of the Koran for my parents and it always sat on the bookshelf right beside all the WT books.
I never did read that book and I suspect it got tossed when mom finally let go of the WT literature.
so canada has legalized pot / marijuana / cannabis and you can go to stores today and buy some.
the local news is covering it here in calgary with crowds of thousands expected at one of only 2 stores licensed in the city but last i saw, there were only 7 people in the line so who knows how popular it will be.
i imagine all the people who really wanted to get it could already get it easily so this is more about expanding the market to new users who will be less inclined to queue for hours on day 1.. apparently you'll also be able to purchase online with discreet delivery by canada post.
Simon, your original reply to me was in response to this statement that I had said (you copied and pasted this):
in all my years of being around many, many women and hearing their stories of abuse and such, I have never once, not once, heard a woman say "He smoked a joint and then became violent" but, I have heard (more times than I like) "He started drinking and all hell broke loose. I thought he was going to kill me."
What massive consumption levels of alcohol have to do with this...I dunno... you did a segway (or is that red herring?)
You avoided the statement that you said you were replying to and all of all sudden...the subject changed to "society conditions" and anything else you wanted to throw in there.
My statement addressed domestic violence incidents and nothing else. I don't really care if your friends drink more than they smoke, I was speaking of my experience listening to the experiences of countless women.
(mind you, maybe your drinking friends prove my point)
so canada has legalized pot / marijuana / cannabis and you can go to stores today and buy some.
the local news is covering it here in calgary with crowds of thousands expected at one of only 2 stores licensed in the city but last i saw, there were only 7 people in the line so who knows how popular it will be.
i imagine all the people who really wanted to get it could already get it easily so this is more about expanding the market to new users who will be less inclined to queue for hours on day 1.. apparently you'll also be able to purchase online with discreet delivery by canada post.
Liveuni: ...nobody believes pot makes people violent.
I was responding to Simon's comment to what I had said about violence. In that context, my reply makes sense.
Your concerns are valid but not what my comment was addressing.
so canada has legalized pot / marijuana / cannabis and you can go to stores today and buy some.
the local news is covering it here in calgary with crowds of thousands expected at one of only 2 stores licensed in the city but last i saw, there were only 7 people in the line so who knows how popular it will be.
i imagine all the people who really wanted to get it could already get it easily so this is more about expanding the market to new users who will be less inclined to queue for hours on day 1.. apparently you'll also be able to purchase online with discreet delivery by canada post.
Simon: Yes, alcohol seems like a far more dangerous drug - but that's judged on the basis of massively higher consumption levels. We don't yet know the effect pot will have on society if use becomes widespread.
You do not know that it is"judged on the basis of massively higher consumption levels". You are assuming that because it sounds good Simon.
Pot use is already widespread. I don't think you know what you are talking about. A massively high consumption of pot results in sleep, not violence.
