Sam and I were willingly recruited into Tahitian Noni by our best friends at the KH - the same one who later testified against me to my JC - the irony....we have since left the scheme but it didn't seem to create a problem for our sponsors to be shunning us on the street and collecting money from our efforts at the same time. Makes me laugh.
I agree with all comments so far and so would Steve Hassan - MLM is a commercial cult with all the same hallmarks of religious cults, so hardly surprising they attract similar people.
'Here is something that can change your life. Now go tell all your friends and family' - should ring some bells...
Incidentally the most successful distributor in Tahitian Noni is an unassuming JW from Oklahoma - Ken Roland - I would guess he is earning in the region of $3m per annum from the scheme. Most of his downline are JW's.
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45get rich quick schemes, multilevel marketing, pyramid schemes and JWs
by marmot infrom my experience growing up in the jws there were two big recurring themes when it came to making money: .
1 - window washing or other janitorial work .
2 - cheezy "get rich quick" schemes and other cult-like sales practices .
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Watchtower website
by cooler inmy dad was looking and the official watchtower website and he said it has such a truthfull and genine look about it and how i should'nt read the forums because people's opinions on there are misguided and they dont know what their talking about.
has anyone said anything similar to you?
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Classic JW circular reasoning:
JW - We have the truth.
Study - How do you know?
JW - Because Jesus picked us as his sole channel in 1919.
Study - How do you know?
JW - It was obvious because we were the only religion that was doing xxxxxx and not doing xxxxx.
Study - I heard a lot of your beliefs had changed since 1919. I'm going to check this out.
JW - We have a lot of literature and a website that will help you.
Study - No I mean really check it out.
JW - You don't need to go beyond the things written.
Study - Why not?
JW - Because we have the truth.
Repeat until tired and confused.
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The Build Up to March 10, 2008
by sweet pea inso, everyone, do you think there's any mileage in planning a campaign leading up to the watchtower study on the faithful and discreet slave being appointed in 1919?
who's planning on doing some personal study on this one with their family?
i'm sure open mind has something up his sleeve?
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I'll have a word with my wife If I can get her off the web to do some housework :-)
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need good information about ice drillings
by the_end_of_eternity ini am in this discussion with an elderm and it is all about the age of the polar caps, coral reefs etc.
for abvious reasons this is important discussion.. anyway, what is good scientific information proving (or priving not) the age is more then a few 1000 years old.... i know there have been some drillings done etc.
most siytes just give this as a fact, which i do not doubt so much, but of course he wants more prove.. same with the age of the coral islands (atols).. thanks all.. end_of_eternity.
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besty
thought this topic was about a North Pole porn film :-) oh well...
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Recession Coming?
by new boy inevery year john mitchell (the head economist for u.s.bank) gives a talk to us realtors, in portland or.
he talks first about the world economy, then the u.s.a. and ends up with oregon's economy ....he usually is right on.
he perdicted housing prices peeking the third quarter of "06" he this came to pass.
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would stopping massive farming subsidies in the US and Europe drive down commodity prices?
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The Watchtower official website and Google
by DT init's nice to see that an internet search will bring up many more sites.
that are interested in exposing the truth about jehovah's witnesses.
than spreading their propaganda.
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Shouldn't be to difficult to bump them with a Google bomb. Their page rank is 6/10 with 1840 backward links and JWD is 0/10 with 58 backward links.
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MADELEINE MCCANN'S CASE OTHER JW CONNECTION
by badboy inthe millionaire giving them moneywas raised as a jw.
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hey ninja - I remember Stephen Kennedy - married an air hostess. He was in business with a Perth JW Ewart Corrigan - but they fell out big time.
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The necessity of failed prophetic dates
by proplog2 init is very tempting to ridicule the jw habit of setting dates for the end of the world/ armageddon/ great tribulation.
but prophecy has been a significant part of the judaeo-christian panorama.
there has also been a great deal of tension between "prophets" and "preists".. .
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You raise a very interesting point about a level of trust within the org.
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Internet TV
by AudeSapere inminimus' thread recent inspired me... to start a thread of my own~!!.
i'm working out of town and keeping unnecessary expenses to a minimum.
the problem is: i miss television.
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Aude - One is suggesting a TV Aerial for your laptop basically - irrelevant where you are so long as you can get a normal TV signal
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But WHY don't they disfellowship bloodtakers ?
by aligot ripounsous inany jw knows that one of the very bad things that a christian must not do is accepting a blood transfusion.
respect for the sanctity of blood ranks highest, in jw theology, on the scale of christian standards, along with not being a murderer, an adulterer, a robber, etc.
in fact, it is the identifying feature of jws for the onlooker.
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And then you get into the whole misuse of disfellowshipping issue...
The wrondoer in Corinth had his sin laid out for the individual congregation members to decide whether to limit their association with him, or not.
Nowadays the collective conscience has been subcontracted to Brooklyn and their local lackeys.
They will decide for you, and announce their decision so you 'know what to do' - like my Mum shunning me based on the decision of four men four hundred miles away whom she has never met.
Sad.