Posts by rebel8

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Breaking News: Five White NYPD Officers neck choke an African American Guy for breaking up a fight

by Scott77 in

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ae_1405660548.

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rebel8

losingit, what is the time stamp when CPR was indicated? I'm not seeing it. Thanks.

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Been over this one before? By the voice behind him, John of Patmos directed to write...

by kepler in

someone in my family many years back was pursued very intensely by jws in her neighborhood to become one of the pack.

two or three jws would meet with her each week and they would discuss the bible, with which she was well versed, and also some of their supplementary commentary material of a high ratio of drag to lift.

she became more and more enthusiastic about the bible, but did notice significant discrepancies between the text and the study material.

rebel8

Putting aside the fact that the bible is bunk, why would this question stump them? I don't get it. It could mean something like:

"Write down in a book all that you see, and send it to the seven congregations of [Pennsylvania] Eaton, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Thornbury, Sadsbury, Philadelphia, and Lancaster..."

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The Deepak Chopra Random Quote Generator

by cofty in

this computer program generates random quotes that sound just like actual chopra woo woo.... what gem do you get to guide you through life today?.

i got .... "death fascinates the progressive expansion of excellence"something to think about!.

rebel8

AWESOME. Thanks for sharing this.

Quantum physics projects onto the door of reality

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When did the line become so blur? Convention souvenirs & JW.org

by fredPotato in

i am pretty sure it has been discussed before here, but i just wanted to express how repulsive it is to me to see all that jw.org worship.. after looking at this picture, can you tell me where the jws are heading to?.

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it makes me want to vomit.. cheers..

rebel8

Ok, I'm just gonna say it. Why is this upsetting?

I'm kinda shocked that people are repulsed by what the Borg calls "idolatry" but is really just mainstream religion (and life, for that matter--we use objects to represent all sorts of ideas about ourselves and the world).

The Borg taught us Catholics and others who use objects in their faiths is repulsive--did you independently form that belief after leaving the Borg, is it a leftover, or what? I'm honestly curious.

Surely it's not the hypocrisy that prompts such a word as "repulsive"? They've done other hypocritical things in the past that caused death and torture.

Interesting news though.

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When did the line become so blur? Convention souvenirs & JW.org

by fredPotato in

i am pretty sure it has been discussed before here, but i just wanted to express how repulsive it is to me to see all that jw.org worship.. after looking at this picture, can you tell me where the jws are heading to?.

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it makes me want to vomit.. cheers..

rebel8

You mean they're headed towards being a mainstream religion?

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What was the Overall reaction from the world media ,to the Awake article ,may 22nd 1994 regarding "Youths Who Died Refusing Blood".

by smiddy in

i , and my wife had probably left about 12 months prior to this magazine coming out , and i never at that time had any knowledge of it till many years later when i joined this site.. when i did see it , i was appalled that they could put out such an article , in a magazine they would distribute throughout the world .. to me it smacked of child abuse .

these were kids , who had no life experiences , who were far too young to make life or death choices of their own , were influenced by religous leaders who had their own agenda , and sadly by family , relatives and freinds who were indoctrinated by a man made religion that has its roots in america in the late 1800`s .. so my question is , did this episode of child abuse go under the radar of mainstream media ?

did it escape child protection agencies of the time ?.

rebel8

I was already out by then and had that ragazine handed to me in a completely lame attempt to remind me of the wonderful sacrifice I had made in order to spark my dead faith.

As you can imagine, I felt sick and outrage instead of "ooooh, I wanna be one of those dead children...lemme come back right away..." (I mean, WTH kind of incentive is that?)

In the 70s and 80s there was little action on the part of Child Protective Services and its mandated reporters in regards to medical neglect for religious reasons, in my neck of the woods. That started to change in the late 90s or after. 1994, can't say.

That doesn't exactly answer your question, but that's all I got.

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Breaking News: Five White NYPD Officers neck choke an African American Guy for breaking up a fight

by Scott77 in

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ae_1405660548.

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rebel8

I hope they did not really do this the way the widow says. That would be horrible. It will be interesting to see what the investigation finds.

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Anybody can get the financial records of the WT!

by EndofMysteries in

the wt is nonprofit, if the below information is true, then any volunteers to getting it, scanning, and posting it online???

i found this when searching if nonprofits had to disclose their financial records to the public.

question: .

rebel8

Meh. I'm talking about something I did years ago. I don't remember. You can find it in my old threads--there you will get the details. Source was IRS and NYS.

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This photo woke me up

by krejames in

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i was already on my way to my second fade when i went to the wildlife photographer of the year 2012 exhibition, but this photo made me lose faith in the idea of a loving creator......(the gazelle has been injured by the mother cheetah so she can use it to train her cubs to hunt).

rebel8

With all due respect to krejames, it's not awful. It's how cheetahs, and every other large predator, lives. When large predators are exterminated, a biomes health deteriorates as the herbivores, like gazelles and deer, reproduce beyond the capacity of the land to support them, as Aldo Leopold explains so eloquently in Thinking Like a Mountain. It does, however, tend to poke holes in the whole benevolent designer theory.

How is being eaten alive, after being terrified daily by predators chasing you and your babies, not awful?

Yes it's how they live, and it's awful.

"Not awful" would be no overpopulation in the first place, and those that live get to do so in reasonable freedom from fear, torture, hunger, pain and disease.

I've had many cats over the years and none of them killed for hunger. They killed for sport, left the corpses on the doorstep and came inside to eat catfood. They cornered their prey and played for hours with them, preferring them to be half dead so they could have more fun, if I let them.

Dolphins rape, etc. The animal kingdom is brutal and there is no good creator behind any of it.

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Chautauqua Salute makes a comeback at the Indianapolis Regional convention 7/13/14

by dropoffyourkeylee in

as the regional convention ended in indianapolis, mark sanderson invited all the international delegates to come out onto the field for the final song.

as they walked out, they all held a white handkerchief aloft as they waved.

some in the audience waved a white cloth in return.

rebel8

Its like a political party, or a national identity, a brand loyalty, it needs symbols, the jw org website is a symbol for them, then the objects, the white flags, hats, pins

I wonder why they didn't select a white glove instead of a white handkerchief. I mean, that would have been really cool. They could have gone for the world record on the number of people dancing to Thriller simultaneously.

"We're Jehovah's Witnesses! We speak out in fearlessness! Just beat it, Satan. Shamone!"