There's always field service.
Judge Dread
Ah yes. Nothing more fulfilling than stuffing wacky tracts into door jams and acting like people aren't at home when they most certainly are, all in the name of serving the Most High.
daniel-p
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Will Michael Jacksons Mom be DF'd ???
by tresdecu injackson family to host first christmasmichael jackson's family is to hold christmas celebrations for the first time this year (09) - putting their own religious beliefs aside for the superstar's three children.. the jacksons were all brought up as jehovah's witnesses, a christian-based religion which does not recognise birthdays or christmas.
but the thriller hitmaker deviated from his family's belief system and always enjoyed the holiday season with prince michael, 12, paris, 11, and seven-year-old prince michael ii.
and family matriarch katherine jackson, who has full custody of the kids, is determined to put their former traditions aside in december (09) to keep the youngsters' lives as normal as possible.
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Hah, no way. She has way too much potential estate money for the WTS to ignore. She could sell her soul to Satan and throw feces at the GB and they'd find some way to keep her in.
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Is it worth upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7?
by nicolaou ini'm running vista home premium on my dell inspiron.
dell custom build to your requirements and i went for 4gb of ram from the start (almost 2 years ago).
i know vista has been much maligned but honestly, i've had no problems with it.
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daniel-p
Great... this is what we call "planned obsolescense"... when a company has to figure out how to sell the same thing over and over again to the same consumers.
I know that this industry has rapid technological advancement, but I'd venture to guess that things aren't always getting better. Case in point: when the newest MS cash-cow works like shit.
It just goes to show that planned obsolescense is built into nealry every layer of the computer and software industry, not because they're always making better products (arguable), but because they need to keep making money and dipshits like us can't do anything about it even if we wanted to.
What would it be like if we had to pay for another set of furniture every 3 years? The old stuff works fine, it does what we want it to, but for some reason, society and business forces everyone to switch over and buy new furniture. It may not work any better (after all, we only use it for a few basic purposes [hint hint]), and it might only be distinguished by a few little things that are different. But we, like the tools we are, continue to fork over the cash to stay up on the changes.
The government sometimes forces technological change in order to meet stipulations of public policy, like health and safety, or environmental considerations... or oftentimes to satisfy lobbyists. In this case, we have a company (MS) that runs one of the most blatant monopolies in the history of business forcing technological change, not because anything is really any better, but because they need to make money. The fact that the old product (Vista) was a pile of shit only adds further (planned) impetus to shift over to the new product.
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Are you getting your H1N1 shot?
by AwSnap ini'm not, and i thought this was interesting:.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcadkv_8_5q&feature=player_embedded.
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daniel-p
The science on vaccines is clear cut and there is nothing to worry about. I will get it if I'm able.
Yes, the science on vaccines is clear-cut. For many other vaccines, they have been successful in eradicating many illnesses. But the flu vaccine is simply not effective. But, it's the only thing public health officials have to offer, so they continue to push it on everyone.
I urge you to read the article by The Atlantic magazine: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200911/brownlee-h1n1
This is not quackery. Rather, after reading that article, and reading the studies the CDC has on its OWN website, the flu vaccine itself is borderline quackery.
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Proof Jehovah's Witnesses have been declining for nearly 20 years? (At least in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
by slimboyfat insee the tables on pages 124 and 125 of this book:.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mtw90ykkb3gc&oi=fnd&pg=pa117&dq=scientology+jehovah%27s+stark&ots=0-yvd6jk_o&sig=vualoe-l3bxezaqktnbfhpsdj8u#v=onepage&q=scientology%20jehovah's%20stark&f=false.
admittedly these statistics don't measure the same thing official watchtower statistics do (i.e.
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No huge figures, a per cent or two per year - but a long shot from the decrease some of you seem to see.
Wishfull thinking, anyone?
i don't think so. Some people speak only anecdotally, and that's plain to see. What a 1-2% decline shows, however, is the begining of a drastic fall off in growth, and a declining base. If anything, it's wishful thinking to think that this fringe religion will outlive another 20-30 years in any familiar form.
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Proof Jehovah's Witnesses have been declining for nearly 20 years? (At least in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
by slimboyfat insee the tables on pages 124 and 125 of this book:.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mtw90ykkb3gc&oi=fnd&pg=pa117&dq=scientology+jehovah%27s+stark&ots=0-yvd6jk_o&sig=vualoe-l3bxezaqktnbfhpsdj8u#v=onepage&q=scientology%20jehovah's%20stark&f=false.
admittedly these statistics don't measure the same thing official watchtower statistics do (i.e.
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daniel-p
The numbers show the religion is in decline. A percent or two each year is big, and tells of further declines in the future. of course, if its God's sole channel on earth, none of this matters, and only serves to tell the end is near, right? GET BACK TO THE MEETINGS BROTHERS!!!111
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Is it worth upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7?
by nicolaou ini'm running vista home premium on my dell inspiron.
dell custom build to your requirements and i went for 4gb of ram from the start (almost 2 years ago).
i know vista has been much maligned but honestly, i've had no problems with it.
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I'll just stick with old XP, thanks.
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Are you getting your H1N1 shot?
by AwSnap ini'm not, and i thought this was interesting:.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcadkv_8_5q&feature=player_embedded.
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WHY DO ELDERS LABEL THOSE EXPOSING ERROR AS APOSTATES?
by Fernando infirst topic posted - sorry if it is a bit too long.. why do elders accept this absurd teaching of demons: "anyone rejecting what is not of god, is rejecting god"???.
evidence that these elders - not their victims - are apostates (wolves, weeds, the man of lawlessness, the antichrist, practicers of spiritism).
having gone through extreme adversity and consequently deep spiritual waters our family has come to understand apostasy to fundamentally mean the following:.
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daniel-p
Welcome Fernando.
It's a war of words. The Society labels whistleblowers as apostates in the same way as the Religious Right labels any dark skinned muslim a terrorist.
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Proof Jehovah's Witnesses have been declining for nearly 20 years? (At least in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
by slimboyfat insee the tables on pages 124 and 125 of this book:.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mtw90ykkb3gc&oi=fnd&pg=pa117&dq=scientology+jehovah%27s+stark&ots=0-yvd6jk_o&sig=vualoe-l3bxezaqktnbfhpsdj8u#v=onepage&q=scientology%20jehovah's%20stark&f=false.
admittedly these statistics don't measure the same thing official watchtower statistics do (i.e.
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daniel-p
The more that info. gets out about DF'ing and other looney stuff the harder it will be to find a convert.
And I think this is one oftheir greatest conundrums. To get new converts they need to not look so wacky and irrelevant. But in stripping away their stricter doctrines and policies, they alienate long-timers.
Basically, if they do it this way, they will be in a state of transition for a long time, where their old adherents die off and new ones redifine the religion itself. Of course, we don't know what Governing Body 2.0 will do... as others have mentioned, some of them are just as strict as the old timers.