Oh yeah, forgot to add homeopathic remedies. I know NUMEROUS of those sugar pill poppers in the JWs, my mom being one of them but she's not as bad as she used to be.
marmot
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get 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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get 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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marmot
Melaleuca, hah I had almost forgotten about that one! One of parents' close friends was heavily into that and trying to recruit us.
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get 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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marmot
LOL, ninja. I wasn' meaning to say window washing is a get rich quick scheme but it's one of the most common jobs for JWs next to these schemes.
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get 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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marmot
From 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
I've seen Mary Kay, Herbalife, Usana, demonstration vacuum sales, multi-level marketing schemes, you name it.
These types of thing seem to appeal to JWs because there is no education prerequisite, there is a big carrot dangled at the end of a stick that is always achievable "if you just put some effort into it" and they tend to have very cult-like practices (conventions, in-house literature, pump-you-up sales meetings, love-bombing, etc) that are familiar to witnesses. Conversely, the people selling these schemes love JWs because they come with a built-in trusting social network.
My parents were involved in a number of these and even I got sucked into the false excitement a few times.
I'm not saying every JW is susceptible to this, as there are a lot of honest hard-working people in there, but the atmosphere was favorable to these schemes. -
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NOAH's FLOOD vs Science ??
by Rabbit inok, well this formatting looks weird...it should taste the same tho'.
web address:.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/.
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marmot
JCanon, I seem to be providing you the same answers over and over again to the same erroneous statements.
Greenland and much of the polar regions were tropical at one time because they WERE in the tropics. Around 250 million years ago during the Mesozoic all the continents were part of large land mass called Pangea. You can see evidence for this by taking any world map and noting how South America dovetails perfectly with Africa. There are rock formations in Newfoundland that match up perfectly with ones in Scotland, showing that the two continents were once joined. The formation and breakup of supercontinents is a cyclical phenomenon in the earth's history and scientists have evidence of at least one previous supercontinent called Gondwana.
As for the lava flows in Hawaii, I told you before that the initial test used argon-argon dating that didn't take into account olivine inclusions. Potassium-argon dating showed the proper age.
You make blanket statements about scientists yet you do improper research. You really should because there are Christians out there who support science and are able to reconcile their faith at the same time. Young earth creationism and flood geology are not necessary for your belief system and they have been completely debunked, I don't know why you fight so hard for them. -
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Slammin heavy metal (aka screwin up the FJ) with the kids
by wanderlustguy inmy girls came in sunday, we hit the trails on the sandia mountains right away.
i no more than got into 4 low and slammed into a boulder that was over the crest of the first hill.
lesson number 1...if you can't see completely over it...get out and look.
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I heard that a number of FJ owners were experiencing cracks in front frame after taking them offroad, hope you don't run into that.
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Jehovah's Witness Tragedy: 24 dead; 13 in critical condition
by Kenneson inin nigeria, a bus carrying mostly jehovah's witness women, collided with a large truck on a return trip from a wedding ceremony.
24 died; doctors at a hospital are trying to save 13 others.
see "nigeria: road accident claims 24 in abia.".
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That's sad. One of my friends is my last cong. is Nigerian and he had a big wedding like that too.
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Those Jews were some fast travellers!!!
by oompa ini'm sure the no way no flood crowd will appreciate this too.
so many things just don't add up.
and when is the last time fds wt did a major study to check on accuracy of carbon dating anyway???...............................oompa.
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marmot
Woah there white dove, you're mixing up two vastly different time scales. The plates have been drifting ever since the earth formed a crust. Scientists talk of "geological time" because it takes millions and millions of years for these processes to take place.
Scientists theorize that the formation and breakup of supercontinents is a cyclical event that has happened many times throughout the earth's 4.6 billion-year history. The last supercontinent, Pangea, began drifting apart approximately 250 million years ago during the Mesozoic era, which is long before modern humans.
No form of hominid remains have ever been found in the Americas aside from modern humans. The jury is still out as to when or how the first humans arrived in North America but it's generally agreed that they arrived at the end of the last ice age either by boat (which is hinted at by the Cape Verde site) or along the ice-free coasts which are now submerged because of the subsequent rise in sea levels. There is also the Bering Straight land bridge theory, that suggests ice-age hunters followed their prey through a corridor in the continental ice from Asia into America.
One interesting paleo-archaeological discovery is that primates had evolved by the time South America separated from Africa and these two isolated groups have been evolving separately from each other ever since. That is why all "new world" primates have a unique dentition pattern that is found in no other "old world" primate. -
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Those Jews were some fast travellers!!!
by oompa ini'm sure the no way no flood crowd will appreciate this too.
so many things just don't add up.
and when is the last time fds wt did a major study to check on accuracy of carbon dating anyway???...............................oompa.
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marmot
If someone has access to the watchtower CD-ROM, could you look up the last reference dealing with carbon dating and tell us when it was?
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Anyone a listener of Alex Jones? ..also Loose Change Final Cut is out!
by What-A-Coincidence in.
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marmot
LMAO, totally not the response I was expecting. Did you even visit the site?