Here's a list of some of the MLM schemes I've encountered/been pressured to join during my life as a witness:
- Trimline (I'd completely forgotten about this one until reading this thread)
- Melaleuca
- Herbalife
- Mary Kay
- ACN
- Tupperware
- Usana
- Electrolux
- Tristar
- Aloette
- those stupid candle parties
- I forget the name of this next one but it had something to do with placing magnets under your mattress
and not really MLM but insidious nonetheless, homeopathic remedies. My mother got duped into this and believes 110% that it's real.
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MLM schemes @ the hall, i.e Amway, , etc...
by avishai inanyone get sucked in?
i always thought it was ironic how often they preached against this sort of thing from the platform, then were out in the parking lot trying to sell it to you.
tons of elders defrauding folks this way..
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There are way bigger problems with the biblical flood myth than just beetles. Chief among them is geographical distribution of species and the accompanying fossil records that show those species were there for a long time.
Did god cause all marsupials to traipse over to the middle east to get on an ark and then trek back to Australia after it was all said and done? What about Galapagos tortoises? Sloths?
Or how about the incredibly vast amount of geological evidence against a global flood. And let's not forget that the very laws of physics were supposedly altered 4,000 years ago when god "created" the rainbow by making water droplets refract light for the first time.
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BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?
by Black Man ini often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.
while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).
a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.
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Princess - yep, that's the one.
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BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?
by Black Man ini often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.
while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).
a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.
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Jack Jones?
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The Pastafarians Strike Again -- Florida ID proponents back down!
by parakeet inthe flying spaghetti monster forced the polk county school board members to run for cover when they attempted to introduce intelligent design into the science curriculum.
here's the link (sorry, i can't create a direct link.
maybe another poster can help.
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Yea and he sayeth unto thee "All shall find refuge in the shadow of MY holy meatballs".
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Favorite Storytelling Musicians - Harry Chapin, Jim Croce - Who's yours?
by AWAKE&WATCHING ini love john lennon, simon and garfunkle, harry chapin, jim croce and many more.
i love songs that make you imagine real people with real lives.. taxi - harry chapin(genius).
dedicated to noni1974 our forum cabbie .
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"Mind" Blowing Article on Watchtower Indoctrination! MUST READ!
by What-A-Coincidence inthe author (from australia) makes some great points.. http://www.noelbatten.com/watchtower.pdf.
46 pages long.
some excerpts:.
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The article completely lost me when he started talking about left-brain/right-brain activity. Any first-year psychology student can tell you that such theories are junk science.
True there is a form of thought control and behavior modification that takes place in the Jehovah's Witnesses cult, but the author of that article is barking up the wrong tree. -
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anyone here know about bi-polar?
by orbison11 ingreetings all.
i just learned that one of my children has bi-polar illness,,,i am so disheartened for him,,,,do any here know about this.
wendy.
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I'm bipolar II which is bipolar disorder without the extreme highs of mania, but less intense hypomania instead.
Medication made a world of difference for me, although I still have relapses. There's a lot you can do towards regulating the disease by using regular sleep patterns coupled with TOTAL darkness during the sleep period. This means no electronic lights like clock radios or even diffuse light coming through a window blind. Proper diet and avoidance of street drugs and alcohol also plays a major role. Alcohol can tip me into a low that won't let up for weeks.
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Society's latest stance on Evolution in Jan 1, 2008 WT (bonus quote mining)
by marmot inmy parents gave me the latest "public edition" watchtower and it has 4-page festival of circular logic and hypocritical quote-mining entitled "is evolution compatible with the bible?
the opening salvo is golden, because they go and shoot themselves in the foot with it later on: "is it possible that god used evolution to create men from beasts?
did god direct bacteria to develop into fish and then to continue developing through reptiles and mammals, so that finally a race of apes became humans?
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Freudian, as of January 1, 2008 there is a public edition of the Watchtower to used in the field ministry and a "members only" edition (often jokingly referred to on this board as the Kool Aid edition because that's how the rank and file will find out when it's time to lace up the Nikes and drink their cyanide Kool Aid)
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Society's latest stance on Evolution in Jan 1, 2008 WT (bonus quote mining)
by marmot inmy parents gave me the latest "public edition" watchtower and it has 4-page festival of circular logic and hypocritical quote-mining entitled "is evolution compatible with the bible?
the opening salvo is golden, because they go and shoot themselves in the foot with it later on: "is it possible that god used evolution to create men from beasts?
did god direct bacteria to develop into fish and then to continue developing through reptiles and mammals, so that finally a race of apes became humans?
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My parents gave me the latest "public edition" watchtower and it has 4-page festival of circular logic and hypocritical quote-mining entitled "Is Evolution Compatible with the Bible?"
The opening salvo is golden, because they go and shoot themselves in the foot with it later on: "Is it possible that God used evolution to create men from beasts? Did God direct bacteria to develop into fish and then to continue developing through reptiles and mammals, so that finally a race of apes became humans?"
They then go on the usual logical merry-go-round saying that humans originated from one man because the bible says so, then onto ad-hominem attacks on liberal religious types who accept both the premise of evolution AND the bible (insert scripture about ears being tickled) then out comes the gist of their whole argument: mankind must have come from one man because the concept of the fall from perfection and the ransom would be invalidated if he came from apes.
They then bring out the pick-axes and start to quote mine by bringing in "Professor of biochemistry Michael Behe" to discredit all those silly evolutionists because Behe argues against biomolecular evolution as being irreducibly complex. Ignoring for a minute the fact that Behe's arguments have been rejected by the scientific community, BEHE HIMSELF AGREES WITH THE THEORY OF COMMON DESCENT!!!!!
That's right, the entire second half of the article is constructed around Behe's attacks on biomolecular evolution AS IF he were attacking the theory of common descent.
Gah, I'm just really pissed off that this sort of crap is still being published over twenty years after that farcical Creation book. Also, you'll notice that the art department dredged up the old props from the blue book in order to make the illustrations.