from frankiespeakin: "we may get there one of these days."
Hope you are right, frankie.
poppers
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Beards....Do What Your Told! The WT Owns You, You Disobedient, Spiritually Immature, Publisher!
by allyouneedislove inwas talking to an elder about beards.
he said that at bethel, only black and hispanic brothers can have mustaches (any actual facts supporting this decision?).
he mentioned that we don't want to stumble anyone so that they won't hear our message.
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Beards....Do What Your Told! The WT Owns You, You Disobedient, Spiritually Immature, Publisher!
by allyouneedislove inwas talking to an elder about beards.
he said that at bethel, only black and hispanic brothers can have mustaches (any actual facts supporting this decision?).
he mentioned that we don't want to stumble anyone so that they won't hear our message.
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"@poppers: Too bad the US government doesn't view the Marines as precious lives. The government acts like they respect military, but in reality anyone in the military is viewed as just another tank or gun owned by the government."
It's always been that way no matter whose government it is. All soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines worldwide are considered expendable so long as they serve to maintain their government's agenda. It's a worldwide con game perpetrated upon each nation's citizens, and until every nation's people collectively do something about it war will never end. Think that will happen? Not anytime soon, if ever, because that will necessitate a complete change in the consciousness of humanity. In the meantime we will continue to kill eachother so that a few can benefit from it and continue the con. And who benefits? It's not just governments but the military industrial complex.
"Don't believe me? Google experiments by the government where military were used as guinea pigs, without even informed consent. Just another collective if you ask me, where the individual means nothing."
Yes, it's sad but true.
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Beards....Do What Your Told! The WT Owns You, You Disobedient, Spiritually Immature, Publisher!
by allyouneedislove inwas talking to an elder about beards.
he said that at bethel, only black and hispanic brothers can have mustaches (any actual facts supporting this decision?).
he mentioned that we don't want to stumble anyone so that they won't hear our message.
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"I was told that in Marine boot camp (60's and 70's), soldiers were told to do bizarre things, like sleep with their rifle and recite strange lines. They do it because they are told to do it. It is part of breaking down the individual and introducing the collective. The things they are asked to do don't have to make sense."
Yup, very common back then in the Corps; I don't really know how things have changed in today's Marine Corps, but that's the way it was back then. It was part of the process to break us down and out of our independent ways of thinking and doing things so we could be built back into members of an effective fighting force, a force that would follow orders while under the extreme stress of combat. And if we didn't do it there were consequences. For the most part it worked. It is a kind of brainwashing that was necessary.
Notably, it's the young people that are most suseptable to this tactic. As people age and mature they see the manipulation that is being used, but young people are eager to please, and the desire to be viewed by others as strong and competent reinforced the tactic. The worse thing was to fail your fellow Marine and comrade in arms. And by the way, never call a Marine a soldier - he is a MARINE. Soldiers are Army. Marines are instilled with a lot of pride for being part of an elite branch of service, and to be called a soldier is almost an insult. That's part of the brainwashing that sticks with you, even after more than 40 years. There is a saying, Once a Marine always a Marine (there are no ex-Marines).
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How to embed Youtube videos
by leaving_quietly init's simple, once you know how.. paste your youtube link into the editor.. highlight the entire link, then click the chain icon (in the middle, just below "font family").
paste the link into the link url field, then click insert.
this turns the the link into a clickable link.
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poppers
Sammie - post the url here and let me see if it works for me.
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How to embed Youtube videos
by leaving_quietly init's simple, once you know how.. paste your youtube link into the editor.. highlight the entire link, then click the chain icon (in the middle, just below "font family").
paste the link into the link url field, then click insert.
this turns the the link into a clickable link.
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poppers
It's not showing, sammielee.
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Shocking talk from 2013 District Convention urges parents to shun disfellowshipped children
by cedars inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yldwe_6jsu.
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The more time I spend with "worldly people" the more I realize...
by confusedandalone in... that they actually have more of a desire to get to knoww you then jehovah's witnesses.
for years at the kingdom hall although i was an elder everyone "knew of me" but no one knew me.
i realized that i never really had a friend who knew anything about me as a person or my background.
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Channeling
by sarahsmile inlast night thought i would do some channeling to you!.
what is your divine insight?.
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If you're channeling to me you aren't getting through. Better work on your skills.
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FB message from a "true" friend
by losingit ini thought i would share this fb message from someone who considers himself to be a "true" friend of mine.
after learning from my former husband tha i am disfellowshipped, he writes the following: .
fb true friend: "xxxxx with tears in my eyes i will be deleting you but i want you as my sister again.
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True friend, indeed. What a skewed concept of friendship.
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The Life Of The Buddha: BBC Documentary
by frankiespeakin inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqoenh70fk.
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