I'm not a fan of that word but the WTS has been shown to employ several behavioural conditioning and thought reform techniques typically associated with "brainwashing". To what extent individuals respond and allow themselves to be conditioned though, is variable.
Midget-Sasquatch
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do you think that JW are brainwashed?
by notmyself ini'm d/f for about 2 years and my dad ( an elder ) hasn't spoke with me since, my mom sometimes talk to me , but i always have to call her , just to see how's she's doing, and guess what, when she answer her phone is : oh, i was preeching!!!.
they're always preeching, but my brother contact me today telling me that we can speak again due to the fact that i'm d/f , what do you guys think?
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Society's recall of older books
by rekless indoes anybody remember when the wtbts ask all the congregations to bring back all the old outdated books.
i think it was in the late eighties.
there was an announcement from the podium, return old books so they could be returned to new york.. i was too lazy to go through my books and take them in.
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Midget-Sasquatch
The library of the KH I'm vegging in (shared by 3 congregations), has indeed culled all the WT bound volumes older than 1950 and all the Awakes older than 1970. But on the other hand, it currently has all the Studies in the Scriptures as well as several of the Rutherford's Rainbow series of books. The local elders in charge would have surely gotten rid of them too if it was so ordered.
I think most of you are just rememberimg those announcements for library building. Heck, I even remember later announcements (sometime in the late 90s early 00's) to no longer send books back to the Bethel branches. But by that time they were probably getting books that were mostly printed from the 80's onward, so who needed them. Having most of these books around in their library can be worked to the Borg's advantage in sifting.
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Check out Billygoat!! She is a such a Diva here!
by Sparkplug ini had a chance to take a photo shoot of billygoat.
i had to show this off to you....because she is very shy about showing it.
maybe shy is the wrong word, but it is the best one i could think of.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Billygoat,
The Mark II isn't even attainable for me in my dreams :) I'm with you -- that is one wicked camera. But that D70 of yours is one sweet SLR too. .I've always heard good things about the quality/price of the Nikkor series of lenses. I look forward to some of your own compositions with that, as well as any more from you SparkPlug. You don't take nature or lanscape shots by chance?
I personally was thinking replacing my film camera with an Olympus because their 4/3 system means lighter and smaller lenses. But who knows? I've got to find some testing on it to see how it compares with other SLRs.
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Check out Billygoat!! She is a such a Diva here!
by Sparkplug ini had a chance to take a photo shoot of billygoat.
i had to show this off to you....because she is very shy about showing it.
maybe shy is the wrong word, but it is the best one i could think of.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Hi SparkPlug,
According to something I read on Kodak's professional photofraphy site, for a digital image to match the same amount of image detail as found on 35mm, it would have to be about 10 megapixels. I've seen 20 to 22 megapixel digital backs being sold for some medium format cameras. So I'd say the medium format is probably still a better choice (for the time being) if one plans on making poster size images.
But really good digital cameras (like that 8 megapixel Canon 20d of yours --- I'm oh soo drooling!) have very low noise in their images nowadays. Film still has its graininess. If we're sticking to prints of regular sizes like 6x4 or 10x8 I'd be hard pressed to subjectively see a difference between digital and medium format. Blowing them up though one would see better detail on the film but also at the same time it'll have a more grainy look to it.
Have a good night.
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Divine Comedy test
by belbab inhere is a test you may find interesting:.
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv.
i am going to go in limbo, my wife always said i was a goody-goody.. belbab
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Midget-Sasquatch
Those questions were fun. I'm thrown into the 1st level with no eventual way out.
First Level of Hell - Limbo
Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
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Check out Billygoat!! She is a such a Diva here!
by Sparkplug ini had a chance to take a photo shoot of billygoat.
i had to show this off to you....because she is very shy about showing it.
maybe shy is the wrong word, but it is the best one i could think of.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Apologies SparkPlug! Didn't realize you were waiting anxiously. Sorry. I went to bed before I read your answer and I didn't get to the computer again till a few minutes ago.
I didn't laugh at all. In fact I'm very impressed at how you know how to get awesome quality outta your digital equipment (whatever the model).
I can only imagine what you'd be capable of with some very highend stuff. Medium format cameras are nice to use because you have larger negatives with them (like 56mm x 56mm) and so when you decide to blow images up for larger portraits the images are usually sharper (than if you were blowing up from a 35mm negative). Unfortunately I only can dream about that kinda outfit. I'm still stuck with a pathetic point and shoot 35mm film camera.
Looking forward to seeing some of your other compositions. Again I'm sorry for the delay....and I'll probably be going to bed soon.
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Battleground God!
by Stealth in.
can your beliefs about religion make it across our intellectual battleground?.
take this test to find out... i took one direct hit.. .
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Midget-Sasquatch
I think I must have taken this once before --- seeing it on JWD then as well. That would explain how I didn't trip up too badly. I'm usually a mass of contradictions and there are more holes in my crude ponderings than in the clunker I drive. :)
How did you do compared to other people?
- 297608 people have completed this activity to date.
- You suffered zero direct hits and bit zero bullets.
- This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets.
- 7.62% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour.
- 45.76% of the people who have completed this activity took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
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'Karla' movie - Would you go see it?
by Lady Lee in'karla' movie shocks in ctv exclusive screening
this has on the news all day today.
it sickens me that someone is going to make money off this tragedy.
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Midget-Sasquatch
I won't and I'm glad its not (for the time being) going to air in St.Catharines where it all happened. As far as I now it'll only air in 50 theatres in Ontario and 50 in Quebec. I'm still frustrated at how that evil witch got off with only 12 years because the cops needed her help to build a case against Paul. If only his lawyer hadn't have kept those damning tapes, she would have been put away for life.
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Check out Billygoat!! She is a such a Diva here!
by Sparkplug ini had a chance to take a photo shoot of billygoat.
i had to show this off to you....because she is very shy about showing it.
maybe shy is the wrong word, but it is the best one i could think of.
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Midget-Sasquatch
Billy's hubby is one helluva lucky fella. Stunning picture. My compliments to Billy and to you SparkPlug. I love the shot you composed. Hope you don't mind me asking but do you use a medium format outfit or was that 35mm?
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Who was Jesus really?
by Spectrum in1. was he the son of god and some kind of god himself?
2. was he an extremely intelligent man that manipulated people and made himself appear to be fullfilling the prophecies about the messiah?
3. was he a dellusional nutter?
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Midget-Sasquatch
Only those 3 options?
Whatever they may have thought about the divinity of this Jesus, be they Ebionite, Marcionite, or proto-orthodox, the underlying core of piety, charity and self-sacrifice initially practiced by all these christians (and taught as being from him) don't strike me as coming from a delusional (
option #3-nutter)founding figure. Such negative cult leaders are either way too narcissitic or destructive. I don't think that a founder who consciously worked at manipulating people (option #2) would be the catalyst for a genuinely caring movement either. The way the proto-orthodox acted afterwards makes option #2 an apt description of themselves though.Option #1? Thats the big .There's so much myth that its near well impossible to get at the historical Jesus, assuming that there actually even was such a figure. Even though I can see the rationale behind several scholars' opinions of what to attribute or not attribute to him, its only conjecture.
How's about another option? That Jesus was a person like you and me, but who was so attuned to the spiritual side and to divinity, that God chose to interact with humanity through him?