Required by IRS to take charitable tax deduction on personal income tax.
I didn't know that!
That's crazy! The americans are really crazy! Deduct from tax the religious contribution!
Impossible in France that! And that's fine!
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Local Elders whip the Congregation into a frenzy about donating to the Organization
by James Jack inbecause of the may broadcast about how funds are down, our elders have been in their talks "encouraging" or pressuring everyone to donate more to the world wide work.. it freaks me out how we already give them a set amount of $600 a month, plus what is contributed by the congregation(usually $400 to $500 a month).
heck, our local congregation bank account even got below $500 for the first time this past may since i have been doing the accounts(4 years now).
for june, we raised a whopping $2400 to send into the branch.. the most amazing part, is that only a select few contribute on a regular basis every month.
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry inchild murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
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God is shown to be a total twot as a result. Good job!
Yep, God is shown how it is really : the product of the imagination of mad people!
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It is just the opinion of men, not a religion...
by punkofnice inan elder in my congo gave a talk.
he was always interesting to listen to and one of the nice guys.
(the nice elders are always targets of the bully elders, no?).
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In the same time, all religions are human buildings ;)
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"Deep Down , He Knows That It is The Truth"
by BluesBrother inthis phrase i heard again at the weekend when a diehard dub was discussing his non believing, but much loved son.
"it is just that..... [insert any excuse here].
it is something that they all say about us, yet nothing could be further from the truth.
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However deep down you go in me, the only think you will find, it's my prostate! -
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry inchild murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
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I do not understand why people care about others' sexual preferences
I'm pretty sure you know ;)
The main reason is, I think, that when someone accept other way of sexuality, other way of gender feelings and the fact that sexuality and gender are fluid, it tends to stop to consider that his way of living his sexuality and his feelings about gender is a standard or a norm.
And a lot of people, especially religious, can't accept that fact! They consider their are normal, in conformity. At the image of God (who is not heterosexual for one penny, anyway, but, they are to narrow-minded to understand that)
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Manicheism of the WTBTS
by coalize ini think one of the more evil trick of the wtbts is their manicheism!.
on a large bunch of subjects, they wants the fellow followers to believe that in a given situation, it is only possible to take two choice, of course, diametrically opposite.
and of course, you have the good choice and the bad choice.. of course, nothing is more wrong than that!
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Manicheism of the WTBTS
by coalize ini think one of the more evil trick of the wtbts is their manicheism!.
on a large bunch of subjects, they wants the fellow followers to believe that in a given situation, it is only possible to take two choice, of course, diametrically opposite.
and of course, you have the good choice and the bad choice.. of course, nothing is more wrong than that!
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I think one of the more evil trick of the WTBTS is their manicheism!
On a large bunch of subjects, they wants the fellow followers to believe that in a given situation, it is only possible to take two choice, of course, diametrically opposite. And of course, you have the good choice and the bad choice.
Of course, nothing is more wrong than that!
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry inchild murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
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Fink, I wouldn't say its a genetic defect, but a genetic variance. Like blue eyes.
Which brings me to a question, have they found the 'gay' gene? I don't recall a news story about this, but it seems probable they will if they haven't already.No! Studies tends to prove that's nothing to see with genetic .
You doesn't have a "gay" gene. You doesn't have an "hetero" gene neither!
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Massive Growth in Dub Numbers???
by 1rebelheart inso, i left about 5 years ago and at that time, the official ruling on number of members was a little over 6 million.
i google jw out of boredom the other day and find they are now claiming 8 million members.
sooooo.... hold on 2 million increase in 5 years?
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Ws are still growing, primarily as a result of aggressive recruiting of immigrants in the wealthier western countries where those immigrants flee to,
Especially, a result of aggressive recruiting of CHRISTIAN immigrants in the wealthier western countries where those immigrants flee to.
Because, here, in France, the immigrants are at 99% muslims. And it don't work at all when JWs try to recruiting them. At a point, they don't really try!
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On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin
by Perry inchild murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.
what is new is their institutionalization.
but even that isn't totally new.
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No one will be able to stop being aware, ever.
That's funny to ear that form the mouth of a guy who is proud to share its narrow-minded shitty stuff!!!