I think the fundamental question is really a practical inquiry that begins with this:
WOULD YOU INVEST millions of $$ IN A BUSINESS SLATED FOR DEMOLITION?
I'd like to hear the answer to THAT one!
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26Why Does the WatchTower Society INVEST in unethical enterprises?
by Terry ininvesting in unethical enterprises.
in the ocean, big fish swallow the little fish while the big fish are swallowed by the even bigger fish.. below is an example of this principle.. .
a fellow named mccann donated 50k shares of rand cam engine corp. to the watchtower society.. rand cam engine corp. manufactures aircraft engines for commercial, recreational, and military clients.
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OPINIONS PLEASE: I propose a new strategy against the Watchtower policy of DISFELLOWSHIP
by Terry ini need your opinion and a discussion...tell me what you think, both pros and cons...the governments of norway and russia have both targeted watchtower's severely inhumane policy of disfellowship separating and isolating members by ostracizing them and labeling them as 'mentally diseased", etc.
dis fellowship.is a mushy concept unfamiliar to non-jw's.that word doesn't convey brutal, cold, and uncaring shunning and the impact on vulnerable persons cut off from family and friends.i propose swapping the phrase "religious apartheid" for the term "disfellowship" because it is significantly more impactful, familiar, and gut-wrenching.jw's teach practice and promote discrimination, opprobrium, and animus in punishing by isolation those who disagree with their doctrines.
moreover - it is a de facto death sentence both spiritually and (according to the expectation of armageddon) literally as well.
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"Weaponized expulsion"
"Doctrinal decimation""Extinction by fiat"
"Brute ostracism"
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Why Does the WatchTower Society INVEST in unethical enterprises?
by Terry ininvesting in unethical enterprises.
in the ocean, big fish swallow the little fish while the big fish are swallowed by the even bigger fish.. below is an example of this principle.. .
a fellow named mccann donated 50k shares of rand cam engine corp. to the watchtower society.. rand cam engine corp. manufactures aircraft engines for commercial, recreational, and military clients.
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Why Does the WatchTower Society INVEST in unethical enterprises?
by Terry ininvesting in unethical enterprises.
in the ocean, big fish swallow the little fish while the big fish are swallowed by the even bigger fish.. below is an example of this principle.. .
a fellow named mccann donated 50k shares of rand cam engine corp. to the watchtower society.. rand cam engine corp. manufactures aircraft engines for commercial, recreational, and military clients.
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INVESTING IN UNETHICAL ENTERPRISES
In the ocean, big fish swallow the little fish while the big fish are swallowed by the even BIGGER fish.
Below is an example of this principle.
A fellow named McCann donated 50K shares of RAND CAM Engine Corp. to the Watchtower Society.
Rand Cam Engine Corp. manufactures aircraft engines for commercial, recreational, and military clients. They provide high-performance, reliable engines for a variety of applications. The company also designs, tests, and manufactures components for military aircraft. They have supplied a number of military clients, including the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines.
Another investment includes 14 million dollars worth of DISNEY WALT CO. (100,000 shares). DISNEY is a business (big fish)
and itself invests in various entities.
Disney executives have acquired PORNHUB (an Adult Entertainment site) in Canada.
Pornhub Adult Entertainment is an online platform that provides streaming, uploading,
and sharing of adult videos. The site offers a wide range of content for adults, including videos, photos,
and live cams. It is the #1 purveyor of pornography on planet Earth.
The moral of the story is this: When you eat a fish, you are eating all the other fish it swallowed
or will swallow.
Why does the Faithful and “Discreet” Slave invest in a world about to end?
FROM JW dot ORG:
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Watchtower Accepts Money from the Norwegian gambling Authority
by Newly Enlightened ingreat find jonas!!!.
https://youtu.be/yfqffc7vczo.
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In the ocean, big fish swallow the little fish while the big fish are swallowed by the even BIGGER fish.
Below is an example of this principle.
A fellow named McCann donated 50K shares of RAND CAM Engine Corp. to the Watchtower Society.
Rand Cam Engine Corp. manufactures aircraft engines for commercial, recreational, and military clients. They provide high-performance, reliable engines for a variety of applications. The company also designs, tests, and manufactures components for military aircraft. They have supplied a number of military clients, including the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines.
Another investment includes 14 million dollars worth of DISNEY WALT CO. (100,000 shares). DISNEY is a business (big fish)
and itself invests in various entities.
Disney executives have acquired PORNHUB (an Adult Entertainment site) in Canada.
Pornhub Adult Entertainment is an online platform that provides streaming, uploading,
and sharing of adult videos. The site offers a wide range of content for adults, including videos, photos,
and live cams. It is the #1 purveyor of pornography on planet Earth.
The moral of the story is this: When you eat a fish, you are eating all the other fish it swallowed
or will swallow.
Why invest in a world about to end?
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OPINIONS PLEASE: I propose a new strategy against the Watchtower policy of DISFELLOWSHIP
by Terry ini need your opinion and a discussion...tell me what you think, both pros and cons...the governments of norway and russia have both targeted watchtower's severely inhumane policy of disfellowship separating and isolating members by ostracizing them and labeling them as 'mentally diseased", etc.
dis fellowship.is a mushy concept unfamiliar to non-jw's.that word doesn't convey brutal, cold, and uncaring shunning and the impact on vulnerable persons cut off from family and friends.i propose swapping the phrase "religious apartheid" for the term "disfellowship" because it is significantly more impactful, familiar, and gut-wrenching.jw's teach practice and promote discrimination, opprobrium, and animus in punishing by isolation those who disagree with their doctrines.
moreover - it is a de facto death sentence both spiritually and (according to the expectation of armageddon) literally as well.
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To quote Frank Luntz:
"You can have the best message in the world, but the person on the receiving end will always understand it through the prism of his or her own emotions, preconceptions, prejudices, and preexisting beliefs.
It’s not enough to be correct or reasonable or even brilliant.
The key to successful communication is to take the imaginative leap of stuffing yourself right into your listener’s shoes to know what they are thinking and feeling in the deepest recesses of their mind and heart. How that person perceives what you say is even more real, at least in a practical sense, than how you perceive yourself."
Words that work, whether fiction or reality, not only explain but also motivate. They cause you to think as well as act. They trigger emotions as well as understanding.
The critical task, as I’ve suggested, is to go beyond your own understanding and to look at the world from your listener’s point of view. In essence, it is listener-centered; their perceptions trump whatever “objective” reality a given word or phrase you use might be presumed to have. Again, what matters isn’t what you say, it’s what people hear.
RELIGIOUS APARTHEID or SPIRITUAL APARTHEID has more impact on the public
than the peculiar-sounding and old-fashioned Disfellowship.
The WT video of a distraught daughter reaching out by phone to her parents as her mother
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OPINIONS PLEASE: I propose a new strategy against the Watchtower policy of DISFELLOWSHIP
by Terry ini need your opinion and a discussion...tell me what you think, both pros and cons...the governments of norway and russia have both targeted watchtower's severely inhumane policy of disfellowship separating and isolating members by ostracizing them and labeling them as 'mentally diseased", etc.
dis fellowship.is a mushy concept unfamiliar to non-jw's.that word doesn't convey brutal, cold, and uncaring shunning and the impact on vulnerable persons cut off from family and friends.i propose swapping the phrase "religious apartheid" for the term "disfellowship" because it is significantly more impactful, familiar, and gut-wrenching.jw's teach practice and promote discrimination, opprobrium, and animus in punishing by isolation those who disagree with their doctrines.
moreover - it is a de facto death sentence both spiritually and (according to the expectation of armageddon) literally as well.
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I need your opinion and a discussion...
Tell me what you think, both Pros and Cons...
The Governments of Norway and Russia have both targeted Watchtower's severely inhumane policy of Disfellowship separating and isolating members by ostracizing them and labeling them as 'mentally diseased", etc.
DIS FELLOWSHIP.is a mushy concept unfamiliar to non-JW's.
That word doesn't convey brutal, cold, and uncaring shunning and the impact on vulnerable persons cut off from family and friends.
I propose swapping the phrase "Religious Apartheid" for the term "disfellowship" because it is
significantly more impactful, familiar, and gut-wrenching.
JW's teach practice and promote discrimination, opprobrium, and animus in punishing by isolation those who disagree with their doctrines.
Moreover - It is a de facto death sentence both spiritually and (according to the expectation of Armageddon)
literally as well.
What do you think?
Persuasive words and phrases profoundly affect how people think, feel, and behave.
A judge or other government official confronting an accusation of "fellowship" vs. "apartheid" is subjectively and objectively more attuned to the injurious fallout of such a policy.
WHAT SAY YOU - should the entire EXJW community re-label Disfellowship - replacing the terminology
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DID YOU KNOW - about Event 201? (Two months before the virus outbreak a simulation/discussion among the elite)
by Terry in(event 201).
“event 201” was an exercise organized in october 2019 to simulate what might happen if there was a severe pandemic.. it invited people from business, government, and public health to simulate coordinating a policy response to a theoretical pandemic.. .
what was the event?.
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I personally am asserting NOTHING.
What I am doing is trying to see if other people are saying SOMETHING.
I think what starts these "CONSPIRACIES" is the dodgy disposition of Bill Gates.
His interviews about Epstein, for instance. And his responses just aren't easily believable by
about half the country.
_______Conspiracies develop around a certain Billionaire named Bill Gates largely because
he plays dumb about simple questions.
For instance, when asked directly about MICROCHIP implants in vaccinations.Say what?
Let's go to the Smithsonian magazine's article in 2019.Quote:
"The tattoo technology, described today in the journal Science Translational Medicine, is still in the early stages of development and hasn’t yet been tested in humans. But the team’s experiments in rats suggest that these medical marks are both safe and long-lasting, and can be administered alongside vaccines without compromising efficacy."
Notice this next paragraph:
Quote:
"Backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, interviews in Malawi, Bangladesh, Benin,
and Kenya will begin early next year.(2020)“We want people to be comfortable,” says study author Kevin McHugh, a bioengineer at Rice University.
“The goal is widespread adoption.”_______
Okaaaaay.
Sounds like the poor people in Africa are going to be a test case.
What else should we know?
Quote in Smithsonian mag:
"From there, reading the dots becomes a lot like scanning a QR code. Though invisible to the naked eye, dots stamped onto pieces of pig and human skin lit up in clear patterns—a circle, rectangle or cross—when viewed through a smartphone fitted with an infrared filter, the team found."
The TITLE of this article has a tagline:
"But technology raises several ethical concerns that could stymie its progress".
Ya think?As a result of these "ethical concerns," a poll was published demonstrating who was concerned and how many.
Yahoo Poll in May of 2020: Are concerned about ethics
Republicans = 44%
Democrats = 19%
Independants = 24%
______________________________43% Dems + Independants
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RICE UNIVERSITY called these "Quantum Dot Tattoos"
IBM called them "Electronic Documents"
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation paid for and patented it.
So here is where the CONSPIRACY THEORIES began:
Nora O'Donnell asks Gates:
"Do you want a vaccine so you can put microchips into people?"
Triggering this response from Bill Gates:
"No - there's no connection between any of these vaccines and any
tracking type thing at all. I don't know where that came from."
Make of that what you will.
Saying "any of these vaccines" contradicts the vaccinations in Africa - doesn't it?
Or am I missing something?
I'm sure those who want to use these issues to score political points and create a
Boogeyman are thrilled by this controversy.
When asked about the claim, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told Reuters,
“The reference to “digital certificates” relates to efforts to create an
open-source digital platform with the goal of expanding access to safe, home-based testing.”
IBM describes a digital certificate as an “electronic document” used to identify an individual,
And associate the identity with a public key. Like a driver’s license or a passport, it provides proof of a person’s identity (here).
See where it says (here)?
That “link” does NOT exist.
---The requested page does not exist or might have moved.---
On that same Web Page is a link to RICE UNIVERSITY’s Web Page :
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/spiky-patch-could-invisibly-record-vaccination-history-under-skin-180973809/
There is a “There” there - but who knows how innocent? I think that margin of “WHO KNOWS?” is enough to scare certain people who don’t trust Gates for other (Epstein) reasons.
That’s my research. Draw your own conclusions.Is this an electronic SHIBBOLETH in the long run?
Stay tuned…
Conclusion?
“There are plenty of reasons why patients might hesitate to sign on to such an unusual procedure. One of the biggest issues, Lee says, involves privacy, something that’s already a hot-button topic in the realm of health records. Carrying medical information on the body—even in a form that’s “invisible” without a special filter—could invite stigma, discrimination, or worse. You want to advance science. But you also want to be mindful of the potential impact that science might have.”And Kendall Hoyt, a biosecurity expert at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine, warned that the idea of administering tattoos might not be well received. Potential patients could reject the procedure out of fear or mistrust. They may worry that authorities are using the patches to “encrypt” information onto individuals. She notes that:
“Given the nature of these issues, the team’s tattoos could end up widening the chasm between patients and health providers, both foreign and local. If communication about the product isn’t initiated early. I worry about the unintended consequences. It could make things worse than they already are.” Kendall Hoyt, PhD
In October 2019 Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who, together with his wife, runs the richest and most powerful foundation in the world, co-organized a simulation exercise on a worldwide corona epidemic. Videos were posted documenting the exercise. But intriguingly Gates now denies such an exercise ever took place.
Why? On April 12, 2020, Bill Gates said in an interview to the BBC, “Now here we are. We didn’t simulate this, we didn’t practice, so both the health policies and economic policies, we find ourselves in uncharted territory.”
This is the same person who, just six months before the outbreak of the pandemic, organized a series of four role-playing simulations of a corona pandemic with very high-ranking participants. Event 201 was a simulation of a corona pandemic conducted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, and Johns Hopkins University in October 2019.
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THAT'S ALL I HAVE MANAGED TO PULL TOGETHER.
Bread crumbs or just overlapping coincidences? Who knows? I don't.
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My favorite DEBUNKER, Jon Stewart
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DID YOU KNOW - about Event 201? (Two months before the virus outbreak a simulation/discussion among the elite)
by Terry in(event 201).
“event 201” was an exercise organized in october 2019 to simulate what might happen if there was a severe pandemic.. it invited people from business, government, and public health to simulate coordinating a policy response to a theoretical pandemic.. .
what was the event?.
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joey jojo says:
That doesn't mean it was planned, or man-made- they simply knew it was inevitable that at some point, a virus in an animal could jump to humans and cause a pandemic. That's why event 201 used a sars virus as its model.
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In October 2019, a month before the first case of the Coronavirus is believed to have been reported in China, an event was organized that facilitated a 3.5-hour “pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic.” That event, organized on October 18 that year, was called Event 201.Event 201 recorded the participation of 15 global business, government, and public health leaders in the simulation exercise “that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.”
According to its website, “The exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts, live “staff” briefings, and moderated discussions on specific topics. These issues were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience.”
The website said, “Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.”
Event 201 Scenario
The Event 201 Scenario imagines an outbreak of a novel zoonotic Coronavirus that is transmitted from bats to pigs and eventually humans.
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Latest Papers
by Doug Mason inwhile these are not specifically pointed to the watchtower, i thought that someone could be interested.
i have just completed the paper at the top of the list.. “conception of the great religions” (99+) discussion: conception of the great religions - academia.edu .
“the amazing transformation of david”.
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If you don't compile, index and publish all (and I mean ALL) of your research writings it will
be a tragedy!
You have built a super highway into the past with roadsigns, diners, gas stations, and GPS coordinates.
Don't let it all go to waste!
Plenty of people will appreciate your lucubrations.
Thanks, Doug!
Oh - and here is a tip - try the YouTube channel MYTHVISION PODCAST. It has the greatest Bible scholars in the world on there.
