They use projection and transference. They prey on the weak, largely otherwise normal people who have become temporarily adrift financially or socially, people with emotional handicaps, histories of neglect, abuse. The children of JWs, perfectly poised to otherwise have a normal human experience, fall as much into this category of the sick, the weak, the old, the cullable, as do the JW's primary target market of the low-income. The main currency in their belief system is not cash, which would be a cynical observation from an external reference, but insight. Insight is, in their world, better than cash. It exceeds all worldly goods in value. Nevermind that this insight is a completely manufactured product from start to finish. If anyone has played Second Life, there is a virtual currency called "Linden". It is bought with real cash and has value primarily within that particular virtual world in which people have invested their limited resources of time. JW insights are the currency within their virtual world and have no value outside of that world. (By insights I am talking about things they uniquely claim to be theirs (blood, flag, holidays), and not common religious sentiment.) The main thing these lions look for is signs of helplessness, a broken wing, flailing, signs of struggle. When they spot this behavior they set up an encirclement by bringing additional "new faces" to the bible study so that the prey feels they have additional escape routes from their struggle. I'll stop blending this metaphor here by admitting that there is no one point where the lion "pounces" for the kill, except that they will compel you to "take a stand" against some stupid thing or other as a test of your investment in their currency of insights. Reduce the factors and deduce their motivation: They do not *care* about your money. The production values of their products are bargain. If they wanted money they'd go work harder or educate themselves. No. They want your emotional investment in their currency of insights to bolster the worth of their own investment in that currency. It's a pyramid. They vampirize others because their self-doubt about being in the organization motivates a flight response but doesn't know how to flee. The flight response is turned inward by having the drones/rank-and-file chase people who are "fleeing to God's kingdom".
Posts by rmt1
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119Could U Please Cite Some Personal Interesting Observations About The Truth?
by minimus infor anyone that looks at this thread, could you write something either profound or simply interesting so as to make the reader see the truth about "the truth"?
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Relative to the Population at large on a 1-10 how do you rate.....
by new boy in1.your physical attractiveness.. 2.your intelligence.. 3.your personality.. with 5 being average.. i don't think many will answer these tough questions.
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Pi^2
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Planck's Constant
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Does 100% Pollution Free electricity cost less than fossil fuel now???
by Elsewhere ini'm a bit skeptical, but i thought i would give it a shot.. i've been watching my electric bill with reliant electricity and over the last year it has gone from $0.09 per kwh to about $0.15 per kw.
i looked around and discovered that green mountain, which provides 100% wind and water electricity, is charging about $0.13 per kwh.. could it be true???
could 100% renewable and pollution free energy actually cost less than fossil fuels and nuclear energy now???
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You also need to compare the pollution required during manufacture with the time required to pay for itself (before it is free and clear "non-poluting"). As far as I've read, they pay for their dirty manufacture rather quickly, at least on the massive scale in Netherlands etc.
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ANOTHER 200 Scientists Document Global Climate Change - Yo Deniers!
by Seeker4 inhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/science/earth/07climate.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin.
another international slate of scientists have released their findings regarding global climate change and human's effect on that (see the above link).. after the last major study released by several hundred scientists a few months ago, it does seem there is a serious concensus here among the leading thinkers and scientists on this issue.
i know i've banged heads with a few who disagree with this, but it does seem as though that handful of folks who disagree with the science are looking more and more like deniers, as in holocaust deniers, moon landing deniers, etc.. in other words, out there on the lunatic fringe.. so, do you folks think it might be time to reconsider?.
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Egypt was a sand lot before 8500BP, at which point there was a sudden onset of humid conditions which lasted for 3000 years until 5500BP, at which point residents of the gamey Sahara had to withdraw to the Nile valley, an ecological exodus to a land of milk and honey which the Bible writer Moses sublimates. The Sahara is right under the latitude of the high pressure component of the Hadley cell, just like the Gobi, Sonoran and Arabian deserts. Wet conditions were an exception. Ah, the Argumentum ad Crichtum. Michael Crichton was a physician and has been an entertainer. To the best of my knowledge, he has never been a meteorologist or a climatologist. While chaos theory was a useful plot driver in Jurassic Park; he redeploys it in State of Fear to obfuscate and exonerate. If he applied it in the same manner as he did in Jurassic Park, chaos theory would address unforeseen or chance runaway effects in climate change. (I also don't throw Al Gore any farther, as he carries the aroma of sensationalism.)
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If every one was an atheist they would not go to war knowing when they die
by jaguarbass inhave you ever thought one of the main reasons we have religion is so people like george bush and osama bin ladin (kings) can get young men to die in battle for them.
to furhter their economic and hedonistic pursuits.. this goes all the way back to bible times, the israelites conquering the promised land for the ruling levitical priesthood.. if every one was an atheist they would not go to war knowing when they die, that is it.
at least not in a former wealthy society like the united states.. the bible& the koran are to serve the kings, rulers to further their agendas of world domination.
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I believe you are getting at one of the fundamental truths of existence: conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists perform the work of evolution better than do their liberal opposites, who outthink evolution so much that their birth rate drops. IOW, conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists harness and channel the power of matrimonial sex more directly into the breeding of future soldiers and patrician wives so as to fill the earth, subdue it, abuse it, exploit it, and exhaust it, all unbeknownst and according to the god named GENE, whom they mistake for some Mesopotamian cumulonimbus herm. Such soldiers with a clearly internalized vision of their afterlife have less problem selling their current existence than would an atheist soldier (look up Hamilton's Rule); atheists who trust to no future sentient existence have only the shaky faith that they might be carried on in public memory for having lived good and meaningful lives. Nihilist anarchist atheists, I firmly suppose, are much much rarer than conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists would have anyone believe. The average for atheists, I firmly suppose, would be people who seek solutions in the here and now, because they are quite certain, in an adult fashion, that help in not coming from anywhere or anywhen else. OOPs I must clarify that conservative Biblically-literalist sexually-abstentionist fundamentalists does nto exclusively refer to JWs but might conceivably include a certain cabal in Washington.
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I applied to a university yesterday.
by kwintestal inafter a few years of humming and hawing, i decided i would.
it was more of what i would take that held me back then if i should go.. i'm only 28, so i'm not too far behind.
we'll see how working full time and going to school will go.
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Good idea all around, no matter what your eventual goals. It is also worth going into debt for - it is not an object that can be stolen, although it can rust. It builds multifunctional skillsets and pathways. It's upgradable. Some discoveries/life lessons are backwards-compliant. Samuel Adams would say, 'Always a good decision.'
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Anyone from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area?
by AuldSoul inplease pm me if you would like to meet up.. auldsoul.
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Born and raised. Harrisburg North from 73-85. Halifax @ Elizabethville KH from 85-8?. Halifax @ Halifax KH from 8?-98. Swatara from 98-99. Graduated JWs in May 1999.
Is there a protocol for asking after someone to see if they are still in or are considering leaving?
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Evolution and Self-Sacrifice
by IW indoes the theory of evolution supply the genetic answer to the self-sacrificing nature of many animal parents as well as that of many men and women in general?
when a man or woman risks their life to help someone in danger is their response simply a response to the natural processes at work due to evolution's effect on their dna?
if so, can this self-sacrificing gene be isolated?
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Whoever wants to: Look up Reciprocal Altruism, Tit for Tat, Social Contract Theory, and Pioneer Species/Climax Species in ecosystems. Ponder: 1) The U.S. is a pioneer species. 2) Corporations are the new evolutionarily superior being. (Per nautilus growth model of neurons:brain, citizens:nation, knowledgeworkers:multinationalcorporation)
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Evolution and Self-Sacrifice
by IW indoes the theory of evolution supply the genetic answer to the self-sacrificing nature of many animal parents as well as that of many men and women in general?
when a man or woman risks their life to help someone in danger is their response simply a response to the natural processes at work due to evolution's effect on their dna?
if so, can this self-sacrificing gene be isolated?
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Look up anything with Hamilton's Rule, such as: http://www.brembs.net/hamilton/
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A Very Convenient Liar - Al Gore
by MegaDude into counteract the hysteria which i personally believe is more al gore lying.
inconvenient truths indeed by dr. robert c. balling jr. .
al gore's "an inconvenient truth" opens around the country this week.
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I don't suppose this arctic discovery causes anyone to pause and consider: If the north pole had tropical biota, then how hot must the equator have been? Does everyone want to live in the humid and malarial Congo? The north pole discovery might be just fine for whatever biota there were at that point, but humans won't stand for any nonsense: the energy output to make 6 billion humans comfortable (present a/c standard of living) in a Congo environment would be sizable.