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  Non-profit law changes in New Zealand - anyone know what happened?

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  i'm in aussie now - but i remember a little while ago the gov in nz changed the rules for non-profits.

  i saw a programme on tv the other night that said the scientologists reported income dropped from multi-millions to about 300k after the change.. i wondered if anyone knew what happened to the watch tower society's reported income after the law change?.

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  My wife's out and we're very happy

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  i feel a bit guilty.

  people on this forum were very friendly and helpful to me when i was in the in-between phase between brainwashing and freedom.. i also got a lot of help and advice and sympathy when i was trying to get my wife out.. but when she did leave, i forgot all about you guys, and we got on with our lives, and have never been happier.

  honestly, life is soooo damn good now, i worry i might have reached the peak and things will only get worse from here.. we are amazed at how much our children enjoy birthdays and christmas - how healthy, normal and fun these things are.

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  My wife is gonna look at apostate info

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  i never thought we'd be here.

  after a long discussion last night, my wife now wants to know the 'other side of the story'.

  what made me leave.

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  I'm lucky to have my wife

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  we had a death in the family on the weekend ... not someone i was really close to, but someone one of my immediate family members was very close to ... anyway, it made me think that i needed to pluck up the courage and talk to my wife about blood transfusions.

  (the death was unrelated to xfusions, btw) .

  so i said to my wife i really wanted to talk to her about transfusions, in a calm manner.

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  If you're trying to convince someone of something ...

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  eight ways to get exactly what you want07 may 2008 from new scientist print edition.

  subscribe and get 4 free issues.

  dan jones alison motluk (image: imagebank)toolsrelated articlesdrinking coffee makes you more open-minded5 june 2006 psychology and the art of persuasion18 december 2004 search new scientistcontact usweb linkspersuasion: the art of influencing people (book)lifting the lid on the science of persuasion.

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  short conversation between two old friends

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  one of whom is an ex-elder and ex-witness, the other still an elder: .

  "could you defend your faith in a room full of popes?

  "absolutely.

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  An interesting discussion with my wife

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  last night i had an interesting talk with my wife in bed.. oprah had a show on recently about gays.

  now i don't normally watch oprah, but she was watching a taped one in the evening, so i was just overhearing stuff.

  anyway, i think my wife puts more faith in oprah than in the gb :).

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  Is Satan actually the good guy, and Jehovah the evil usurper?

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  a few years ago i read genesis again, and with a more objective mind, got the sense that satan was actually telling the truth, and that god was just trying to have humans be his slaves.

  and god's reign over humans hasn't been all that pretty, in fact, its been downright awful.. 'course, i'm atheist now, so i wouldn't believe it even that way around - not literally anyway.

  but i wondered if the writer/editors of genesis may have actually had this thought.. anyone know of any sources that explore this idea in depth?.

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  Don't bother recycling ... God will fix the earth

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  http://www.watchtower.org/e/20031122a/article_03.htm

  just browsing the site for kicks, and this annoyed me.

  typical jw attitude - with the readership they supposedly have, they could have made a real difference ... encouraged all jw's to recycle, buy carefully etc.

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  just been to memorial

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  it was pretty ho hum.

  probably the first time i've actually paid much attention to the talk (i used to be one of the puppets passing around the emblems) - it amazed me how little he talked about jesus, and how much revolved around the technicalties of the 144000. and is the number of anointed getting larger?

  i thought it was down to 8-thousand something - he said it was 9 thousand and something last year??

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