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  One more ASS embly under my belt

  by hoser in

  1. jw
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  thank the almighty god jehovah for smart phones.

  helps get me through the day.

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  Village Idiot

  hoser:

  The only oddity was that they didnt read the accounts report

  Bore us anyway.
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  Kingdom Hall Attenders: Consider Stopping the Use of Loaded Language

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  2. beliefs

  it's been a long time since i attended, but i understand that many of you still go to the kingdom hall for your various reasons.. a huge thing that helped me in my mentally breaking from their beliefs was to stop using their terms that put you, virtually automatically, into their thought mode.. using terms like "the truth," jw's feel special about themselves and this helps them separate themselves from "the world.

  " by incorporating loaded language, jw's learn not to think, but merely to memorize words and phrases instead of analyzing a situation.. the reasons someone misses meetings is because they are "spiritually weak.

  " they might be involved in "worldly thinking.".

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  Prologos: Instead of "God" say " the creator", or "Our father"

  I think "our father" would be more appropriate. "the creator" sounds a bit distant.
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  One more ASS embly under my belt

  by hoser in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thank the almighty god jehovah for smart phones.

  helps get me through the day.

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  Village Idiot

  Any highlights?
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

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  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  Some more information on Publix, the worker owned business I mentioned above and since Perrry is a shameless cut and paster I've taken the liberty of doing so myself.

  From Daily Finance:

  Investors Should Watch This Trend-Setting Grocery Chain

  Unless you live in the Southeast, you may be unfamiliar with Publix Supermarkets. Yet some of the innovations we take for granted when shopping for groceries -- such as "electric eye" sliding doors and parking lots with angled spaces -- were developed by this grocery chain.
  
  The 85-year-old firm, based in Lakeland, Florida, is also notable for its profits. At a nearly 8 percent operating margin and 5.7 percent profit margin, Publix is more profitable than Walmart (WMT), Kroger (KR) and even tiny natural grocer Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM). The company's annual profit margin also exceeds that of Whole Foods Market (WFM) by roughly 1.5 percentage points, even though, at $27 billion in annual revenue, it's nearly twice Whole Foods' size.
  
  Publix is a quiet force in American retail. It's No. 104 on the Fortune 500 list, it falls between Dow Jones Industrial components McDonald's (MCD) (No. 106) and 3M Corp (MMM) (No. 101). Unfortunately, however, you and I can't buy Publix stock on the open markets. The company is employee-owned through its Employee Stock Ownership Plan. According to the National Center for Employee Ownership, Publix is by far the country's largest majority employee-owned company.

  And this article from aboutmoney:

  In 2013 Publix delighted its customers better than publicly-traded customer service superstars like Amazon.com (AMZN), Costco (COST) Starbucks (SBUX), and Staples (SPLS) according to the Temkin 2013 Best Retail Customer Experience rankings. Publix is also more of a grocery customer favorite than the largest U.S. supermarket chain, Kroger (KR), and the world's largest discount department store chain, Wal-Mart (WMT). Much like the pharmacy rankings, Publix isn't just beating out Kroger and Wal-Mart in the minds of grocery customers by a little. Publix is a favorite grocery store destination by a lot.
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

  1. social
  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  The basic socialist cycle goes something like this:

  1. Convince the populace that the government can solve their problems of inequality with cradle to grave govt. programs

  Once again, workers capitalism. Direct ownership of businesses and increased standard of living by paying themselves out of the company's profits.

  2. Get the population dependent on govt. programs

  If they pay for it with their taxpayers money then it's their programs.

  3. Take away their guns

  I'm pro-gun all the way to semiautomatics with gazillion round magazines.

  4. Increase taxes

  And get their value back when ill or unemployed.

  5. Blame the scapegoat for the inability to deliver on promises

  Where are the scapegoats in Western Europe? And you do find economic scapegoats by conservatives here in the United States. They're called Mexicans.

  6. Have the national police round up the protesters

  Western Europe again. Is it happening there?

  We're responding to you Perry but you're not reciprocating.
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

  1. social
  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  Perry:

  The capitalist must perform to market standards. Competition will put him out of business if he provides an inferior product or service. He is furthermore constrained by his customers, stockholders, board of directors, lending institutions, as well as numerous laws, and, if all else fails, product liability statutes.

  What competition is there between monopolies? They can afford to give shoddy services to their customers because there is nowhere for them to go to that doesn't treat them the same.

  And what about constrainment by their workers to alleviate themselves from exploitation?

  Yes, I know. You despise the workers considering them sub-human.

  As for product liability statutes would you find it OK for them to sell poison as food? Like China did when several infants died from contaminated infant formulas (Never buy any food from China!)?

  
  
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

  1. social
  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  Perry, you might be away from your PC but it would be nice if you interacted on your own threads responding to those who post on them. And I mean interacting not just cut, pasting and hurling other people's articles at our faces.

  Update: I see that you're back but it would be nice if you took the rest of what I said to heart. Nothing in your posts is a direct response to us.

  For example, what do you think of the example that I gave of Publix supermarkets?
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  What Are the Top JW Issues That Just Burn Your Buns the Most?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  which ones make you the maddest?

  covering up of abuse, shunning, failed end of world predictions?.

  my list is long and heavy, but the top 3 that set me off the most are:.

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  Village Idiot

  Self worship.
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

  1. social
  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  VI : of course! But because the OP is clearly an oriented, dishonest and fallacious caricatur of socialism, I played his game too

  Yes, coalize, I knew it was snark on your part.
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

  1. social
  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  Publix, a highly successful supermarket chain in the south eastern United States, is owned by its employees. From their website:

  "Being devoted to our company is our job. Company ownership makes Publix unique. As company owners, our associates hold themselves accountable for Publix’s success by identifying opportunities to reduce waste and looking for new products to offer. Our associates are invested in improving our company because we own it — it’s our reputation on the line! And that’s why this point on the mission statement is so important to us"

  Compare that with the OP's statement:

  "Coming up with new products is often time consuming, expensive and hit or miss. Nine ideas may fail before that tenth one takes off. The less the creative people behind these ideas are allowed to benefit, the less time, money and effort they'll put into developing new concepts and inventions."

  It is under such a structure that the employees benefit the good of the company without the avarice of Darwinian competition. Perry, learn the meaning of the word altruism. And no, I'm not referring to simple pure sacrifice as you imply but to worker/owners benefitting directly from their own innovations.

  That is how Publix grew to have 1,077 supermarkets bringing in $28.9 billion in sales last year.

  Workers social/capitalism at its finest