Posts by Merry Magdalene

Dearest Big,
Darling, I long for your return. Why did you leave, taking billions of dollars and millions of jobs with you? Is it simply because I helped you?
I thought we had the perfect relationship, even if you were high maintenance, demanding all the goodies and giving as little as possible in return. At only 1.2 percent of the economy over the past two fiscal years, corporate taxes are at their lowest level since the 1930s, except for that one year during Ronald Reagan's first term.
Even after you left, I let you defer taxes on the earnings of your foreign subsidiaries unless you brought the money back. I was so sure you would want to come home....
-- http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/mcgreevy/2003/11/03/love_letter/index.html

~Merry

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70 year old doesn't "wait on Jehovah"

by Nathan Natas in

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/23/international/i134208s12.dtl

Rutherford's Beth-Sarim and Beth-Shan

by Hangin_on in

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friends

anybody have any pictures or info on rutherford's beth-shan or beth-sarim?

?

Merry Magdalene

You might find some interesting info here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/32/77958/1.ashx

~Merry

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Watchtower Now Allows Gay Marriage!

by AlmostAtheist in

the lead article on the watchtower home page is about gay marriage and how to make it acceptable to jehovah: http://www.watchtower.org.

but unfortunately, they still aren't handing out tickets to the corporate jet.

ah well, "glass half-full" i suppose... .

Merry Magdalene

LOL

I'm Not a Doctor but I Play One at Bethel

The Amazing Incense Tree

too funny!!!

~Merry

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Religion! Is it the Opium of the masses?

by DJK in

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why do you feel you need religion?

sorry, i am an atheist and i had to ask this question..

Merry Magdalene

Good questions.

First, some more context for answering the opium question:

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

I have found from my time as a Pagan, as a Christian, and now a Muslim, that more often than not the individuals and groups with which I have had involvement did not use their religious faith, hope or beliefs as an opiate leading them to live in fantasy and avoid the challenges of the real world. Rather, faith gave them hope and comfort of a better world hereafter while at the same time encouraging them to do their utmost to make this world a better place and to always do their best to alleviate oppression and suffering.

The only exception to this, in my personal experience, was my time as a JW.

~Merry

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WTF weird JW videos on YouTube

by under_believer in

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i can't even explain it.

this first one involves superman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxcbcwad6k8.

Merry Magdalene

DUCKA?!?

~Merry ("ducka ducka ducka")

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Is the USA Government Imperialistic? Is this what leads the invasion of Ira

by frankiespeakin in

is the us government imperialistic?

is this why they have invaded iraq?

who will be the next victim nation?.

Merry Magdalene

We we start executing people simply for their religion, and cutting peoples heads off on TV, be sure to get back to me.

Yikes. I really hope that's not what it's going to take to wake people up to what is going wrong here.

And I think what is happening is quite intentional.

It is pretended that, as in the Preamble to the Constitution, it is "we the people" who wrote that document, rather than fifty-five privileged white males whose class interest required a strong central government. That use of government for class purposes, to serve the needs of the wealthy and powerful, has continued throughout American history, down to the present day. --Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism....Instead of sending our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs so we can have the oil under their sand, we should send them to rebuild their infrastructure, supply clean water, and feed starving children....In short, we should do good instead of evil. Who would try to stop us? Who would hate us? Who would want to bomb us? That is the truth the American people need to hear. --Robert Bowman, Catholic bishop, former lieutenant colonel USAF

~Merry

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