Did this group fix all their security issues and change things so your privacy is not exposed? Their idea was a sound concept in our age of instant data, people not ready for the name to get broadcast ed all over the Net was a issue everyone needed to be concerned with. Those were great areas Simon noticed and that's why we are lucky how protective Simon is of our privacy, thank you Simon!
RoyalFlushPhil
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The Advocates for Awareness of Watchtower Abuses (AAWA) [WARNING]
by Simon inuncensored discussions and information for anyone interested in the advocates for awareness of watchtower abuses or 'aawa' http://aawa.co/ (previously known as "the association of anti-watchtower activists http://jwactivists.org/) and how it's handled and responded to privacy issues and put people at risk:.
aawa is here!!
(the association of anti-watchtower activists)an invitation to a new effort- aawawhy when i logged onto aawa did it go to facebook ?in regards to aawaaawa - every generation needs a new revolution - thomas jeffersonnotice how the introduction of the aawa has brought out the loonies lately?will aawa become another cult?
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Did You Feel Bad For the JW Dishwasher-Cook Who Quit His Job (May JW Broadcasting)To Avoid Attending Later Meetings? He Pioneered on Welfare or Unemployment!
by RoyalFlushPhil indid you watch the story about the jw who was working as a burger boy at some diner and his boss wanted him to work on sunday during the time of his meeting?
this faithful jw decided he could not attend a later meeting (6 pm sunday meeting) and soon quit his job(or got fired to attend his sunday meeting) so he could attend the sunday meeting he was assigned to.
i think he was on welfare because this story states he won't work on sunday morning because that's when his meeting is!
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Only in a HIgh Group Mind Control Cult will you find people quitting jobs without a real reason only to put their family close to losing it all and getting praise from fake Apostles! -
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Newton versus Watchtower quackery
by opusdei1972 inthe following is a watchtower's criticism against newton:.
down through the ages, talented scientists have indeed made surprising breakthroughs in their search for answers to puzzling questions about nature.
some, however, have also made serious errors in the process.
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RoyalFlushPhil
Reading various magazines you learn about all the good these crazy alchemst for humans and science. Who helped create a crucible that could handle high heats melting various metals and elements?
If you've taken Chemistry Classes Gen, 134 and 135 plus Organic Chemistry all the projects done by many scientist using Alchemy were not all stupid, many were really smart! Isaac Newton spent too long and got stuck trying to use physical methods to prove the existence of a metaphysical being, don't work like that.
"If two of the greatest scientists who ever lived were dedicated alchemists, then alchemy needs a makeover, a big one, contend Principe and his colleague William Newman, a historian of science at Indiana University. Back in the day, the two argue, alchemy was not the misguided pseudoscience that most people think it was. Rather, it was a valuable and necessary phase in the development of modern chemistry. Among alchemy’s signature accomplishments: creating new alloys; manufacturing acids and pigments; inventing apparatus for distillation, the process used in making perfumes and whiskeys; conceiving of atoms centuries before modern atomic theory; and providing a template for the scientific method by running controlled experiments again and again"
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jul-aug/05-isaac-newton-worlds-most-famous-alchemist
http://www.cracked.com/article_19777_5-great-scientists-who-believed-wildly-unscientific-things.html
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How many of you went to your Class Reunion when you were a JW??
by James Mixon inhow did it go for you?
i have a 50 year reunion coming up and.
i am looking forward to it.. they all know i was a jw, it should be interesting.. i figure we won't have many more (reunions) so i must attend, the last round up..
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RoyalFlushPhil
After high school, I really never saw any of these people I thought meant so much to me, my so called friends.
When the Five Year Anniversary came I went only to see people don't change that much, they graduated from their colleges and Universities looking for a better life. That's the most exciting time I think, as time progressed many of my friends had problems with life, some ended up in jail for "life without parole" ect...
Ten Year, good looking boys and girls started putting on weight and disorders with drugs began, life has not sunken in to all my friends I did not see for close to Ten Years.
Twenty Year Anniversary, divorces, alcoholism, some hit big time with great jobs and political positions on the local front. A few members died, the Twenty Years is when things really sink in, hope you had a better time than me
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Governing Body Needs To Fight For Social JusticeCalifornia’s low-wage workers now earn less than in 1979
by RoyalFlushPhil injws with good jobs need to thank themselves for not quitting their job because the trend is things are going to get worse as wages drop and inflation eventually moves upward.
the housing market shows this mess happening right before our very eyes, think about the rental markets, their really tight because people don't have money to buy houses and they don't have the down-payment.
many have fear their investment won't grow like they did prior to the 2008 meltdown years, their lack of conviction is driving rental prices higher.
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RoyalFlushPhil
Sorry about that, when I adjusted the original post there was a spelling type I caught and when I hit "edit" and "save", it I got double the savings! Remember the old message board where people had ten posts on the same topic because they clicked it or edited them wrong? I think I have the biggest headline, sorry about that! Still, I don't have the record ten or fifteen posts or five headline topics though as big as this one was, it's as good as three.
Not sure how that got past me, sorry again!
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Governing Body Needs To Fight For Social JusticeCalifornia’s low-wage workers now earn less than in 1979
by RoyalFlushPhil injws with good jobs need to thank themselves for not quitting their job because the trend is things are going to get worse as wages drop and inflation eventually moves upward.
the housing market shows this mess happening right before our very eyes, think about the rental markets, their really tight because people don't have money to buy houses and they don't have the down-payment.
many have fear their investment won't grow like they did prior to the 2008 meltdown years, their lack of conviction is driving rental prices higher.
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How are JWs suppose to donate their "valuable things" when their broke? When Israel left Egypt God made sure they were paid for unpaid labor for several hundred years! According the Exodus the Egyptians were told they would give Israelite gold and silver, they got their back pay and were loaded which discredits Stephen Lett's remarks saying they did not have much, the Bible state's they got paid after Plague 10 to 'get the heck out of here and leave us alone!"
The Governing Body are not speaking about the Nation of Israel, those who left with Moses, theirs is one who suits their needs, not reality.
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Governing Body Needs To Fight For Social JusticeCalifornia’s low-wage workers now earn less than in 1979
by RoyalFlushPhil injws with good jobs need to thank themselves for not quitting their job because the trend is things are going to get worse as wages drop and inflation eventually moves upward.
the housing market shows this mess happening right before our very eyes, think about the rental markets, their really tight because people don't have money to buy houses and they don't have the down-payment.
many have fear their investment won't grow like they did prior to the 2008 meltdown years, their lack of conviction is driving rental prices higher.
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JWs with good jobs need to thank themselves for not quitting their job because the trend is things are going to get worse as wages drop and inflation eventually moves upward. The Housing Market shows this mess happening right before our very eyes, think about the rental markets, their really tight because people don't have money to buy houses and they don't have the down-payment. Many have fear their investment won't grow like they did prior to the 2008 meltdown years, their lack of conviction is driving rental prices higher. You can read various reports showing there is growth in New Home Sales and I can show you House Companies taking a beating too! You've seen Countries in the News with great financial burdens, Greece is usually page one of any financial newspaper along with other Countries too.
We all have had time to digest Stephen Lett's video presentation of Burger-Dishwasher Brother's six month off working to locate jobs that respected his Meeting Attendance. California has a high pay-scale than most States, the South don't pay squat(Texas, Louis, Missi, Arkan, Florida, South Carl, ect...). Putting this information done by UC Berk's research helps everyone see how even with college wages are stagnate for hard working folks trying to get ahead in life.
A friend sent me a blog that breaks down each point of this recent Berkeley study and how it's affecting those without skills or the ability to have economic upward mobility, it's not happening to a large segment of our population my friends! Attorney and Economic writer Young pointed out in his blog how all this impacts each person trying to make a living, with rentals going up quickly because people can't afford to buy a house and have very little cash for emergencies people are getting crammed with no place to go. Below I put what Attorney Mr Young felt were things to really think about, here's a portion their study.
California’s low-wage workers now earn less than in 1979
By Thomas Levy, | April 30, 2015
BERKELEY —Over the past 35 years, California’s high-wage workers have seen steady increases in their paychecks. But low-wage workers, 4.8 million strong and about one-third of the state’s workforce, earned less in inflation-adjusted dollars in 2014 than they did in 1979, according to a new analysis from UC Berkeley.
Between 1979 and 2013, the productivity of California workers increased by 89 percent, but median hourly compensation (wages plus benefits), adjusted for inflation, increased only 3 percent.Berkeley researchers analyzing U.S. Census Bureau data at the campus’s Center for Labor Research and Education found that low-wage workers, defined as those earning hourly wages of $13.63 or less, have seen steady declines in their inflation-adjusted buying power. This low-wage workforce, nearly three-quarters nonwhite and concentrated in two industries — retail trade, and restaurants and other food services — has also become older and more highly educated.
“We found that low-wage workers in California are older and more educated than they were 30 years ago, and yet they’ve seen stagnant and even declining wages,” said Annette Bernhardt, a visiting UC Berkeley professor of sociology and a senior researcher at the center. “The story of growing inequality is not just about the top 1 percent, it is also about the millions of low-wage workers and their families who struggle with economic insecurity every day.”
In 2013, the median income of low-wage workers’ families was $29,100, compared to $63,000 for all California families, a gap that has widened since 2000. From 2007 to 2011, families of low-wage workers received $14.3 billion in annual support from public-assistance programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, Medicaid and food stamps.Bernhardt and the study’s other authors, Ian Perry and Lindsay Cattell, found that the top occupations of California’s low-wage workers are retail sales workers; cooks and food preparation workers; material-moving workers; and personal care and childcare workers. About half are in Southern California.
The researchers
What does this mean in short, a legal friend wrote what he felt were the most important 'key takeaways" and here's how he put them:
-real wages for the bottom 50% (those earning less than $13.63 per hour in 2014) have declined since 1979 when adjusted for inflation
-33% of California workers earn less than $13.63 an hour (4.7 million workers)
-surprisingly, of those low wage workers 45% have some college or more education
-40% of the low wage workers are foreign born
-adjusted for inflation, low wage workers have seen their family income decline by 12% since 2000
-almost 60% of low wage workers live in families under 200% of Federal Poverty level
-median earnings for low wage workers is $20,400
-low wage workers are twice as likely to have involuntary part time work
-only 54% of low wage workers have full time, full year jobs
-low wage workers often struggle due to unpaid sick leave, wage theft, and unpredictable “on call” schedules
-specific employment sectors have a high proportion of low wage workers (documented in various charts)
-many of the jobs for which future employment growth is predicted are low-wage jobs
-low wage workers score high on various indices of economic insecurity (i.e. % of children on lunch programs, proportion of households paying more than 30% of their income in rent, proportion of workers with a family member enrolled in Medi-Cal etc)
-low wage workers rely on a mix of public assistance programs
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A Toast to All the Brave Kids Who Broke Up with Their Toxic Moms
by rebel8 insometimes holidays can be hard on us.
some of us deserve a little toast today.. a toast to all the brave kids who broke up with their toxic moms.
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There were four sisters whose mother allowed their father to molested them out of fear for her financial well being. The Elders of my friend in Tennessee were terrified of the giant stature the girls father, they refused to do anything while he raped and sexually assaulted all his girl. Crazy thing is all four are still Jehovah's Witnesses trying to get me to go back to the Kingdom Hall, how messed up those poor girls are! He was removed as a Elder but never disfellowshiped because only two of the sisters would testify against their Dad and this did not go so well for the JW daughters wanting justice while the others wanted this topic never brought up again. When asked by her mother why, she said "I did not like having relations with your father, i was afraid of him but needed the financial support he provided. Did you expect me to go out and get a job an lose everything we had, it happened to me as a girl, things like this have been going on forever."
The other sisters felt dirty and refused to relive the horrors, did not want their husbands to know this occurred and they too never had anything to do with their father again. The two daughters who did not go forward still talked to their mother, the other two disowned her and the Elders tried to get them all to take care of their mother when the Father died! The incompetent Elders did not think it fair the Congregation should bare the burden of this mother's financial problems and threatened to take the two daughter's husbands MS titles away if they did not help. The CO got involved, what a tweaked religion this is, making victims help the one person who was suppose to protect them from evil and wickedness, not hand them over to their cruel father to do as he pleased. The JWs are really messed up in the head, I wish she and her sister would go public with their story as it would shed much needed light how perverted the Watchtower is!
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Did You Feel Bad For the JW Dishwasher-Cook Who Quit His Job (May JW Broadcasting)To Avoid Attending Later Meetings? He Pioneered on Welfare or Unemployment!
by RoyalFlushPhil indid you watch the story about the jw who was working as a burger boy at some diner and his boss wanted him to work on sunday during the time of his meeting?
this faithful jw decided he could not attend a later meeting (6 pm sunday meeting) and soon quit his job(or got fired to attend his sunday meeting) so he could attend the sunday meeting he was assigned to.
i think he was on welfare because this story states he won't work on sunday morning because that's when his meeting is!
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I caught that prayer remark too, you think all the new Jews in Daniels time had their prayers lined up before his? Saying God hear's the prayers of the "newly baptized people first" was pulling that out of his doctrinal anus library. There is no place in the Old and New Testament that backs what Slurpee-French Fry Boy's Bible-study Conductor told him, once again they go beyond what is written and turn "Commandments of men in to doctrine making the Word of God Invalid!
Yes and all the Elders and Appointed Men are hand picked by the Un-Holy Spirt governing the Watchtower Organization, another factoid.
The emphasis on this video was money, making the poorest of the poor donate when many don't have food poses no moral issues to the Governing Body as long as they can eat, drink and travel like little gods and play TV Star. When you were a kid did you know all the names of the Governing Body, did the Governing Body under Rutherford, Knorr, Franz allow all of these guys to get all this TV Time so everyone things their Movie Stars, I only knew a couple and now their trying to make each one more special than Jesus Christ.
What was the count of "Organization" and "Governing Body" over the name Jesus Christ? I counted this GB Member say it twice, I might have heard only one time but to be safe.
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My "Leaving" Letter
by lambsbottom inthrough what i have learned from reading bro.
russell's writings about the ransom for all, coupled with the blood issue, i feel the need to let my friends know that i am making a stand for truth.
i could have lost my wife to the blood issue during pregnancy.
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There are people who left in a Blaze of Glory who regret how they left because others who faded are allowed to share all the wonderful things they learn with witnesses. It's working out well with many who are trying to help draw out witnesses who notice some type of glitch in the Watchtower's Matrix, who knows you might end up being a Trinity or Neo to people coming by your house or ones you see around town. Once they put their tag on you, any chance you have for saving people from their cult is gone!
Paul said 'he became all things to all people trying to help each group get the needed truth", if you want your minute of time read by the Elders, that's all your going to get. They don't read your letters from the podium and JWs are programmed for the hair on their back to raise up when they see words that are not part of the program their use to. It's not dishonest fading away from this religion if your telling everyone you meet all you learned, it's great Reverse Witnessing and helping their Bible Studies get doubts by realizing they don't read the Bible, only their books.
