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  The END did NOT come in their lifetime!!

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't know about the rest of you, but i have seen my fair share of death.

  both sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, older jws that were pillars in the community.

  i even knew the first missionary in missouri, a brother named gerald golf.

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  "The Witness doctrine does not prepare people for maturity."
  
  Well stated, jgnat, well stated...
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  NPR interview with young ex-JW singer/songwriter...SHUNNED

  by humbled in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  young and shunned xjw singer/songwriter and wife interview.. "blessed feathers:nomadic and loving it" is featured story on national public radio.

  (someone make it clickable?.

  amazingly open about what happens if you don't follow the leader as a jw--yet without bitterness--this young man tells his story.

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  http://www.npr.org/2013/12/31/258379763/blessed-feathers-nomadic-and-loving-it

  The two members of Blessed Feathers started off as an unlikely pair. Donivan Berube moved to West Bend, Wisc., and got a job at a pizzeria; that's where he met Jacquelyn Beaupre. Both singers and songwriters, the two were brought together by music — first as friends, then as musical partners, then as a romantic couple.

  During a recent conversation on Morning Edition, Berube talks about how what he found in Wisconsin and with Beaupre would challenge his faith as a Jehovah's Witness — and change the course of his life. The two now live a nomadic lifestyle and say they're excited about their chosen homelessness. Click the audio link to hear more of the discussion.
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  This is why you can't post on the Borg's .org website:

  by CaptainSchmideo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you get hilarious headaches like this:.

  http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-pulls-mcresources-website-2013-12.

  mcdonald's pulls mcresources website after telling employees fast food is unhealthy katie little, cnbc .

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  You get hilarious headaches like this:
  
  http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-pulls-mcresources-website-2013-12

  McDonald's Pulls McResources Website After Telling Employees Fast Food Is Unhealthy

  KATIE LITTLE, CNBC
  DEC. 25, 2013, 1:08 PM 3,022

  

  Reuters

  After yet another PR headache, McDonald's has taken down its employee resources website following what it deemed "unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary."

  On Thursday, CNBC reported the McResource Line site included multiple posts bashing fast food, the industry that McDonald's has spent decades spreading throughout the world.

  (Read more: Posts on McDonald's employee site bash fast food)

  Several excerpts from the posts, which were created from a third-party vendor, warned against the negative effects of fast food, even going so far as labeling a cheeseburger and fries, core items on its menu, as an "unhealthy choice."

  After news of these posts went viral, the fast-food giant told its vendor to remove the site, said Lisa McComb, a spokeswoman for McDonald's USA. The company will still offer employees help via phone.

  "We have offered the McResource program to help our valued McDonald's employees with work and life guidance created by independent third party experts. A combination of factors has led us to re-evaluate, and we've directed the vendor to take down the website. Between links to irrelevant or outdated information, along with outside groups taking elements out of context, this created unwarranted scrutiny and inappropriate commentary," McComb said in a statement.

  "None of this helps our McDonald's team members. We'll continue to provide service to them through an internal telephone help line, which is how the majority of employees access the McResource services."

  The site now reads:

  "We'll Be Back Soon!

  "We are temporarily performing some maintenance in order to provide you with the best experience possible. Please excuse us while these upgrades are being made."

  The fast-food advice is the latest blunder involving the site during the last few months.

  In November, the company detailed tipping advice for workers, many of whom make around minimum wage. It listed pricey suggestions for tipping au pairs, personal fitness trainers and pool cleaners from etiquette maven Emily Post—advice it removed after a CNBC inquiry.

  (Read more: McDonald's out-of-touch tipping advice)

  McDonald's also received negative media coverage after it advised employees to get out of holiday debt by returning unopened purchases and after it published a budget guide that included no money for heat and $20 a month for health care.

  Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-pulls-mcresources-website-2013-12#ixzz2oWxoq1x4
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  Saving Mr. Banks is not a typical Disney film. Seen it? Tell us what you think.!

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  saving mr. banks is not about mary poppins exactly, not the one we know.

  in this movie we come to see who she was to the author through flashbacks that become so entwined with the adult author, a bitter and negative woman, that mary p.'s purpose becomes clear at last and not the disney factory model.

  if you haven't seen it, a speech disney gives to her is phenominal in my opinion.

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  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/18/harlan-ellison-calls-saving-mr-banks-a-disney-fraud-in-video-rant/

  On Tuesday, writer Harlan Ellison posted to his YouTube channel a 10-minute video of himself talking about Disney’s new film that opens wide Friday, Saving Mr. Banks.

  Ellison explains that he got a chance to see the movie because he was invited to a party at the home of some very wealthy friends, and other guests at the event included people who had acted in or worked on the film, as well as representatives of the Disney corporation.

  Ellison says he was treated like royalty. But that isn’t stopping him from denouncing the film as a fraud.

  The famously cantankerous short story writer, now 79, is not known for holding back on his opinions, and doesn’t here, accusing the Disney studio of perpetuating “bullshit” in order to burnish Walt Disney’s image.

  Ellison says that he decided to make the video because Variety, he claims, turned down his offer to write about the movie, even though the publication has printed his reviews in the past.

  And he starts out by praising Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson for their performances. But that doesn’t last long.

  “This film is a refurbishing of Walt Disney’s godlike image, which he spent his entire life creating. and it is so f*cking manipulative,” Ellison says. “There is a scene near the end that is pivotal to this movie…the movie could not exist without this scene. Never happened. Bogus. Made up. The Walt Disney company made up the scene…It’s bullshit. The movie is bullshit from one end to the other.”

  He’s talking about the basic premise, that after 20 years of asking, Walt Disney not only convinced P.L. Travers to sign over the rights to her creation, Mary Poppins, but that she was happy with the result after the 1964 film debuted. Travers, an actress and writer who had been born in Australia under the name Helen Lyndon Goff, published four books about the magical nanny, the first in 1933.

  “P.L. Travers…went to her grave despising the movie Mary Poppins. P.L. Travers, who created and tried to protect Mary Poppins from Walt Disney, has now been reviled by this movie to the extent that halfway through you’re going to say, what a distasteful woman,” Ellison says. “No one else may tell you this”

  Ellison is notorious for his rants against producers and publishers who treat writers shabbily. (One of our favorites — the saga of what happened to his version of “City on the Edge of Forever,” which is usually considered the best episode of Star Trek, ever.)

  Reactions at his YouTube channel have been interesting (and far more intelligent than the usual YT fare).

  One respondent pointed out that it wasn’t unusual to see Ellison sticking up for a writer, but if Disney was complex, Travers had her own past.

  “Please, let’s not deify Travers. She was by all accounts a rather nasty piece of work, and the story about how she adopted one twin but not the other on the advice of her astrologer — and then kept it a secret from the boy — is appalling. (And for those reading this, that story isn’t in the film either.)”

  Other commenters point out that it’s pretty standard for a biopic to change the facts, and if any film is going to have a happy ending, it’s one from Disney.

  Another fun footnote from Ellison’s monologue: he mentions that at the party, some Disney employees asked him about the legend of his single day working for the company. Actually, he says, it was only for three or four hours. As Rob Hunter points out, Ellison has told that story before, and it’s a wild one.

  For some reason, Ellison got the idea that he’d been hired to create a Disney porno, and so at lunch — just hours after his first day at the studio had started — he began telling other writers his idea for an orgy featuring Disney characters.

  “What he didn’t realize, and what nobody at his table told him, was that Roy Disney (Walt’s nephew) was sitting right behind him. Lunch ended, and he went back to find his secretary, office, and parking space were no more,” Hunter writes.

  Well, that’s Ellison. Never appropriate, but always sure he’s right.
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  Anybody have ideas about the double slit experiement with particles, how they react based on a human mind observing them?

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfpeprq7ogc.

  that's just crazy, that if the particles are being monitored and data recorded, they act exactly as we 'think' they should act.

  however if they are not being monitored and no way to watch them, then they act completely different and more random.

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  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/113/the-story-of-schroedingers-cat-an-epic-poem

  The story of Schroedinger's cat (an epic poem)

  May 7, 1982

  Dear Cecil:

  Cecil, you're my final hope
  Of finding out the true Straight Dope
  For I have been reading of Schroedinger's cat
  But none of my cats are at all like that.
  This unusual animal (so it is said)
  Is simultaneously live and dead!
  What I don't understand is just why he
  Can't be one or other, unquestionably.
  My future now hangs in between eigenstates.
  In one I'm enlightened, the other I ain't.
  If you understand, Cecil, then show me the way
  And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.
  But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,
  Then I will and won't see you in Schroedinger's zoo.

  — Randy F. , Chicago

  Cecil replies:

  Schroedinger, Erwin! Professor of physics!
  Wrote daring equations! Confounded his critics!
  (Not bad, eh? Don't worry. This part of the verse
  Starts off pretty good, but it gets a lot worse.)
  Win saw that the theory that Newton'd invented
  By Einstein's discov'ries had been badly dented.
  What now? wailed his colleagues. Said Erwin, "Don't panic,
  No grease monkey I, but a quantum mechanic.
  Consider electrons. Now, these teeny articles
  Are sometimes like waves, and then sometimes like particles.
  If that's not confusing, the nuclear dance
  Of electrons and suchlike is governed by chance!
  No sweat, though — my theory permits us to judge
  Where some of 'em is and the rest of 'em was."
  Not everyone bought this. It threatened to wreck
  The comforting linkage of cause and effect.
  E'en Einstein had doubts, and so Schroedinger tried
  To tell him what quantum mechanics implied.
  Said Win to Al, "Brother, suppose we've a cat,
  And inside a tube we have put that cat at —
  Along with a solitaire deck and some Fritos,
  A bottle of Night Train, a couple mosquitoes
  (Or something else rhyming) and, oh, if you got 'em,
  One vial prussic acid, one decaying ottom
  Or atom — whatever — but when it emits,
  A trigger device blasts the vial into bits
  Which snuffs our poor kitty. The odds of this crime
  Are 50 to 50 per hour each time.
  The cylinder's sealed. The hour's passed away. Is
  Our pussy still purring — or pushing up daisies?
  Now, you'd say the cat either lives or it don't
  But quantum mechanics is stubborn and won't.
  Statistically speaking, the cat (goes the joke),
  Is half a cat breathing and half a cat croaked.
  To some this may seem a ridiculous split,
  But quantum mechanics must answer, "Tough shit.
  We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho':
  There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
  Shine light on electrons — you'll cause them to swerve.
  The act of observing disturbs the observed —
  Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing
  To see if a particle's moving or resting
  Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor!
  We know probability — certainty, never.'
  The effect of this notion? I very much fear
  'Twill make doubtful all things that were formerly clear.
  Till soon the cat doctors will say in reports,
  "We've just flipped a coin and we've learned he's a corpse."'
  So saith Herr Erwin. Quoth Albert, "You're nuts.
  God doesn't play dice with the universe, putz.
  I'll prove it!" he said, and the Lord knows he tried —
  In vain — until fin'ly he more or less died.
  Win spoke at the funeral: "Listen, dear friends,
  Sweet Al was my buddy. I must make amends.
  Though he doubted my theory, I'll say of this saint:
  Ten-to-one he's in heaven — but five bucks says he ain't."

  — Cecil Adams

  
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  They are Definitely Attacking "Higher Education"

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend of mine recently had his co visit and in the elders meeting the co out-right asked the question: how are the friends doing in your cong.

  as regards pursuing higher education?

  the co continued...you know in view of all the counsel from the slave regarding the dangers.

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  I have been letting my kids High School teachers know what is happening. Forewarned is fore-armed.
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  Worst Ever Field Service Experiences

  by dozy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  generally i found most people were pretty apathetic and often surprisingly tolerant , but we've all had some bad ones.

  looking back , here were my worst couple of experiences - there probably were others but i've probably long forgotten them or blanked them off.. i was a kid of maybe 13 & it was bitterly cold & pouring with rain.

  i was working alone in a middle class street near my school where i knew a lot of my school teachers lived & was scared stiff at every door half the time pretending to press bells , doing the fake knock etc.

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  http://youtu.be/gOjtaXdbqfU
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  Is it true? John Denver asks any Witnesses to leave his concert!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  version 1. john denver at his concert asks "if there are any jehovah's witnesses in the audience can you please leave.".

  version 2. on the johnny carson show he said the same before singing a patriotic song.

  johnny carson told denver "see that cameraman there..and that lighting guy...there jehovahs witnesses, alot of witnesses work for me because their honest people..so now you can leave.".

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  I saw that episode too! It was the same episode where:
  Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of a bat and got rabies from it;

  Rod Stewart collapsed on stage, and when they pumped his stomach, drew out 2 gallons of semen;

  Ray Kroc announced that he gave 10 percent of his McDonalds profits to the Church of Satan;
  
  Gene Simmons stated that KISS stood for "Kids In Satan's System"

  and Tiny Tim married Miss Vickie on live TV (wait, that one actually did happen...)
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  Upcoming assembly program - child shortage

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my daughter-in-law's father has been assigned a part on the assembly where he has to interiew 3 children.

  problem is...there is only one child in his congregation.

  half of his congregation is over 60 years old.

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  Desirous of Change - Since Freddy Franz turned down a Rhodes Scholarship when he was a lad, I guess anything is possible.
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  Swimming and the gym has replaced Sunday meetings

  by KateWild in

  1. social
  2. physical

  we went swimming today, and joined up in the gym.

  we will go every week on a sunday, and i will go alone twice a week.

  i found it particularly easy to get involved with the other gym members in the suana, or playing with our kids in the pool.. we had a really great time, we even had reading time by the pool.

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  jgnat-You took the words out of my mouth. My son has no use for organized sports either, but he got involved in climbing, and he LOVES it. He is nothing but lean muscle now, can do 24 pullups, climbs like Spider-Man over some very difficult courses, and it still leaves him time for excelling in schoolwork. And instead of the danger of brain damage from contact sports, he gets to trade it off for the thrill of death by 40 foot fall! (But he is very, very careful...).