I think she is really on to something in this one:
Posts by Terry
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43Apostate with the HIGHEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE has to be this lady
by Terry inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgzcvh3rns&feature=youtu.be.
she is magnificent!
katie kitten.
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Apostate with the HIGHEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE has to be this lady
by Terry inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swgzcvh3rns&feature=youtu.be.
she is magnificent!
katie kitten.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGZCvH3rNs&feature=youtu.be
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She is magnificent! Katie Kitten
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I AGREE WITH THE JWs: THE 'SOUL' DOESN'T EXIST
by NAVYTOWN ini agree with the witnesses about almost nothing, but i do think they have the right idea when it concerns the 'soul'.
it is my belief that there is no such entity as a 'soul' that resides in a human being.
the idea originated in ancient, pre-scientific eras.
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I think of the soul as an existential OPINION.
We can prove consciousness by thinking about consciousness.
We can't prove the soul by dying because it is the end of consciousness.
The alternative is soul consciousness. But, not being dead--we can't know what that might entail.
I have abandoned ABSOLUTES whether skeptical or belief-oriented.
Why? I am finite. Absolutes are infinite.
I must logically posit the possibility of states of existence beyond the current one.
It terrifies me to think there would ever be a time in which I could no longer escape through death because
of already being dead.
What a nightmare that would be!
I can escape consciousness now because I am alive. What greater horror to imagine than inescapable consciousness
once dea!
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Watchtower LIGHT is the ABSENCE OF IGNORANCE
by Terry inknowing is good.. not knowing is bad.. knowing that you don't know leads to inquiry, research and education.
that is good.. assuming you know the validity of your research material is bad.. sometimes you are stumped but you don't know that you are stumped.
you proceed anyway.. .
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Knowing is good.
Not knowing is bad.
Knowing that you don't know leads to inquiry, research and education. That is good.
Assuming you know the validity of your research material is bad.
Sometimes you are stumped but you don't KNOW that you are stumped. You proceed anyway.
Charles Taze Russell began an almost tragically laughable project that carried him into international awareness and fame.
Russell, the expert in men's clothing business--EXPLAINED the MEANING of the Bible!! Divine Plan of the Ages.
Russell was not stumped--he was UNstumpable.
There was no field of ignorance to be found in his writings.
Largely, it is to be admitted, Russell "borrowed" ideas left and right from various Adventists. But, the good Pastor innovated his own spin.
With the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society from that time forward nobody was ever STUMPED!
As long as Russell's TRUE expertise: Business was followed--the movement grew. The ideas, however, were soon proved bad guesses!
The absence of Ignorance of one's LIMITS always leads to many errors and---worse still----HUBRIS!
The attitude of PRESUMPTIVE ARROGANCE.
Leadership in the Watchtower religion is eaten up with the presumption they are not only filled with knowledge--oh no--not enough----they are filled with the hilariously redundant: ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE. As though knowledge isn't good enough for them!
The lack of ignorance awareness in the Governing Body inflates their arrogance into unusual displays of the presumptious use of power.
Not only is it great for THEM to know the mysterious purposes of Almighty God---these arrogant braying asses insist the rest of the world AGREE WITH THEM---or DIE!
In fact, they've invented their religion around that very idea!
1.We know---and you Don't know.
2.Listen to us and agree---or die.
Slowly, for over a century, the Society has been an anaconda tightening around its membership. The very purpose of the religion has become THEMSELVES: their own authority.
What is their authority? THEY FORCE MEMBERS TO ACCEPT IGNORANCE AS TRUTH.
The failure to recognize the limits of their expertise has rendered them utterly incapable of seeing their own failure or admitting it!
The Governing Body not only insists what they say is TRUE--they claim all authority on earth for regulating and administering it.
No counter-argument is tolerated.
No dialogue is permitted by the knowledgeable---only those admitting ignorance are allowed to question them.
Evidence is only evidence when THEY say it is evidence. All falsifying facts are ignored or damned without a hearing.
For 133 years the pattern has not changed of avoiding responsibility for their failures. How? It is the trick of a rascal: we are only humans transmitting
the Truth of Jehovah. Does that not sound humble?
Hardly!
What is left unsaid in public is this: you must treat our errors with the same all-accepting faith or die!
Leadership at gunpoint is tyranny. Armageddon is the engraved manufacturer on the rifle butt of Watchtower doctrinal authority.
What would honesty sound like?
"We are only guessing."
That would be honest ignorance.
Instead, they are "chosen by Jehovah as the mouthpiece of the Truth".
So, the facts become like crushed cigarette butts stamped out in the dust by the boot heel of false dates gone wrong.
The are so full of themselves!
They are never stumped.
The Watchtower religion is like the guy who gets lost driving in unfamiliar territory who refuses to stop and ask for directions!
He not only wastes his own time--but, everybody held captive in the family car along with him has their time wasted too.
If they complain they are scolded--or sadistically threatened with being abandoned on the roadside.
Why not admit to being stumped?
What not begin with ignorance?
You can't recognize what is true unless you admit your limits first.
There is an old saying among professional writers that you can't write smarter than you yourself already are. That is why writers are
instructed to "write what you know" or risk being laughed at.
Pity that the Watchtower writers don't follow this advice.
They have been writing out of their depth from the very first issue.
Watchtower LIGHT is the attitude of ABSENCE of IGNORANCE rather than actual knowledge.
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A QUESTION FOR JW'S who say, "The brothers were overly zealous" about 1975
by Terry in"what was the actual significance of that year, then?".
if jw's were overly zealous, what was the exact amount of zeal encouraged by the wts for a non-event which took up.
over 7 years of every jw's time?.
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Terry
The one thing JW's have never been able to do (because of the over-anxious GB) is "Wait" on Jehovah.
The persistent urge has been rabid date-setting, over-promising, goading, fear-mongering, leveraging the doomsday clock.
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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I worked with a wonderful gallery owner, a Native American, named Rising Fawn. She was approached by reps
from Thomas Kinkaide's corporation after she made inquiries about becoming an "official" Kinkaide dealer."
You see, the Kinkaide group wouldn't let just anybody sell Thom's artwork. Why? Because it was sort of, well, holy.
At least that's what the rep seemed to think.
Anyway . . .
Rising Fawn had to pass inspection and have her business scrutinized first.
She had to agree to sell at a certain dollar level each month. She was not allowed to frame any of Kinkaid's canvases herself.
She was required to sell ONLY official Kinkaide frames selected by THE MAN himself.
(In an art gallery, about 60% or more of profit comes from custom framing, you see.)
She was required to sell for THE EXACT PRICE selected by the Kinkaide corporation. She was not allowed to discount.
Every buyer of a Kinkaide canvas was to fill out a special form which was to be mailed in to the Kinkaide corporation. (They would use it
to steal the client out from under!)
Blah blah blah and so on and so forth.
THE DEAL WAS DONE.
Why?
The company represented itself as benevolent, gracious, godly, family-oriented and offered the prospect of high-sales for small gallery owners.
Every six months a rep would appear and inspect the gallery and scrutinize the sales receipts like an Inspector General.
Kinkaide's work sold very well because the gallery was in a shopping Mall and foot traffic was high.
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Fast forward . . . (tick tock . . . tick tock)
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When Rising Fawn's Kinkaide sales were at an all time high, guess what happened?
Quite suddenly, an official Thomas Kinkaide art gallery miraculously appeared within 20 feet of Rising Fawn's gallery!
IN DIRECT COMPETITION:
Kinkaide's art was sold AT A DISCOUNT beating Rising Fawn's prices!
When she complained to corporate headquarters, the rep REMINDED HER she could be sued if she was caught DISCOUNTING.
In other words--Thomas Kinkaide cut his franchise contract partners off at the knees.
He did it to his own brother and plenty of others.
Rising Fawn went bankrupt within 5 months because all her money had been tied up with inventory (Kinkaide's higher priced canvases)
which she couldn't get rid of at a price higher than what it was being sold 20 feet away!
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one last step..Is being mentally out the same as being emotionally out?
by MissFit inwe talk here about the importance of being mentally and physically out to be really free.. what about being emotionally free?.
i realized for me, i had to be emotionally awake first.
i had been yo-young back and forth for years.
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The language a Jehovah's Witness speaks is the same language he uses to think.
When an EX-JW moves on with life leaving the Kingdom Hall in the rearview mirror, guess what he
takes with him wherever he goes?
THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESS MIND SET.
If you are a French person and you move to Germany you will experience the same disorientation.
EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE for anything to change.
You must begin with an education in the real world and proceed with your vocabulary and then your basic values.
Otherwise, you are simply a Jehovah's Witness without a nest.
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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SOLD AT AUCTION FOR $84.2 MILLION DOLLARS
Barnett Newman,Black Fire I, 1961http://nypost.com/2013/11/13/the-10-most-expensive-art-works-ever-sold-so-far/
One New York dealer sounded a more pessimistic note.
"The speculators have finally succeeded in commodifying art," Frances Beatty, of Richard Feigen & Co., told A.i.A. after the sale, "which is a triumph for them and a disaster for the artists and for the culture, because it has made the speculators the leaders rather than the artists."
The postwar and contemporary art sales continue tonight at Sotheby's New York, which is estimated to ring up as much as $450 million, and Phillips New York Thursday, estimated to tally up to $185 million._________________________________________
The ROYAL FAMILY of Qatar bought THE SCREAM for $119.9 MILLION DOLLARS
Here is the story which goes with the creation of this piece of artwork.
The scene of The Scream was based on a real, actual place located on the hill of Ekeberg, Norway, on a path with a safety railing. The faint city and landscape represent the view of Oslo and the Oslo Fjord. At the bottom of the Ekeberg hill was the madhouse where Edvard Munch’s sister was kept, and nearby was also a slaughterhouse. Some accounts describe that in those times you could actually hear the cries of animals being killed, as well as the cries of the mentally disturbed patients in the distance. In this setting, Edvard Munch was likely inspired by screams that he actually heard in this area, combined with his personal inner turmoil. Edvard Munch wrote in his diary that his inspiration for The Scream came from a memory of when he was walking at sunset with two friends, when he began to feel deeply tired. He stopped to rest, leaning against the railing. He felt anxious and experienced a scream that seemed to pass through all of nature. The rest is left up to an endless range of interpretations, all expressed from this one, provocative image.
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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I see a big cross-over between RELIGION and ART as to the "mind" of the believer/collector/afficianado.
On one level, Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting in his life and it was to his brother, Theo. He was
a commercial flop. (He was also a religious fanatic, but that's irrelevent here.)
His art did not communicate in the time in which he lived. However . . . his personal story is so tragic and so
romantic--it pumps an emotional fire into the imagination of those who view his work "knowingly."
The film with Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn was quite extraordinary and did a lot to embolden the Van Gogh charisma
in international art sales.
STARRY STARRY NIGHT (VINCENT) went a long way toward building a popular mindset of romantic tragedy about the man himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
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WHAT THE BUYER FEELS has much to do with inflating/deflating the so-called "value" of art.
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Here is a side bar:
Did you know that the phrase, FINE ART, really means a work which is "finished" and complete in itself, of itself and for its own sake?
It is not intended to DECORATE something functionally. It serves no utility. Its value is inborn or intrinsic.
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This painting was painted by Claude Monet in 1883.
A Japanese insurance company won it at auction for $38 million.
Do you know why the Japanese company bid that much?
Their company was founded in 1883.
Fact: the company was not able to finish paying off the bid and it went into default!
However . . .
The news story caused the price of ALL oil paintings to GO UP at subsequent auctions!
The sense of ART as possessing VALUE based on a defaulted bid is crazy isn't it?
That's how it works in the minds of people who are swayed by PUBLICITY and MONEY.
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HOW A JEHOVAH'S WITNESS participated in one of the great art FRAUDS of the 20th century
by Terry inhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic.
excerpt:.
"theres a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of napa, northern california.
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Hey, Terry, question for you!
Let's talk about those print run numbers: 1/250, 2/250, 250/250...Does having 1/250 make it "worth more" than 2/250? Just curious.
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In the mind of collectors (some collectors) it does. It could in some instances have instantiation in reality.
I'll give you an example.
Etchings at one time were made using non-durable (soft metal) copper plates.
As the plates were inked, wiped, pressed on to paper over and over, the lines tended to to shallow out and the perceptible printed line became
thinner and thinner. In such an instance, the BEST LOOKING prints would be those FIRST pressed.
Ahhhhhh, but there is a problem!
Even in that easy instance there is a fly in the ointment.
Studios don't keep CAREFUL track of what is printed first because the prints are hung up to dry, stacked, unstacked again and again
for examination, touch ups, erasing lines, numbering, signing. Pass after pass, stack and unstack shuffles the ORDER of which print was which.
As a consequence, the print which is numbered 1/250 might conceivably be the 250th one printed!
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Perception is reality, however.
If the majority of a collector market BELIEVES the early numbers are best--then, by golly it is the MARKET which will pay more for it.
So there!
