Posts by hippikon

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Before you get baptised do you have to declare how much....

by farmer in

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money you are going to donate to jw?????

?

hippikon

If you dont give they remove brain cells

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Why JW Enemies Will Fail? - A Consultant's Analysis

by reason in

as an it business consultant, i always use michael porter's competetive forces model to assess whether a firm's e-business strategy will give them a competitive advantage against competitor's.. the competitive forces model identifies five forces in the industry that a firm needs to contend with to become successful.

these forces are the:.

1) bargaining power of customers.

hippikon

Assuming the WTS is a business and the product is the JW association and teachings. Why will apostates fail to compete with the WTS? Let us examine them one by one.

You seem to forget that Apostates are also a product of the WTS.

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Apostates are contributing to the fulfillment of a JW interpretation

by reason in

by constantly irritating the un and other government organisations about their complaints against the wts as an organised religion, do you think these men are contributing to the fulfillment of the wts 'interpretation' of the prophecy regarding the wild beast turning against organised religion?

hippikon

By constantly irritating the UN and other government organisations about their complaints against the WTS as an organised religion, do you think these men are contributing to the fulfillment of the WTS 'interpretation' of the prophecy regarding the wild beast turning against organised religion?

Bloody hope so !

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Brie, wheat crackers, and a bottle of Merlot... a simple pleasure.

by FMZ in

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.

yup... i had forgot how much i enjoyed it until last night, when i kicked back with wifey, watched a movie, and enjoyed the amazing, timeless combination of a good red wine, an amazing cheese, and the simplicity of crackers.. are there any simple pleasures of life that you just love?.

fmz

hippikon

Sitting in front of the TV in my undies watching cricked, Drinking beer, farting and eating crisps.

Life just doesn?t get any better.

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A Review By Carl Jonsson Of Rolf Furuli'sBook On Chronology.

by hillary_step in

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this may already have been posted, but if not i am sure that carl jonsson will forgive my linking his review of furuli's book from another site,.

http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/furulirev.htm .

best regards - hs.

hippikon

Pigs Fly

Hippikon ( BA, QBE, BSA, MA)

(Bullshit Artist, Qualified By Experience, Bronze Swimming Award, Meddling Armature)

Now to do something meaninfull with my life - Whats for dinner?

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What does the Convention do, when no one gets baptized?

by DaCheech in

it was communicated to me last night that an assembly in queens, ny (3 miles from headquarters in brooklyn) had no baptisms!

what does the speaker do when pronouncing the mandatory baptismal talk?

he says the questions (that have to be asnwered), and answers with a "yes" to all showing people what the due answer would have to be!

hippikon

a) Everyone gets time off to go to the library to review for the next exam (rotten review)

b) The Speaker tells dirty jokes for ½ hour

c) Swimming lessons in the baptism ~~pool pond~~ bath.

d) Drinking games in the beer tent (that actually used to happen at German conventions )

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The UFO issue is approaching official acceptance

by metatron in

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sometime ago, the government of france came closest, of any nation on earth, to official recognition of ufo reality.. they commissioned a study ( the "cometa report") by their best military and scientific people and concluded that.

the extraterrestrial explanation is the most likely.

they also complained that the us seemed to be holding the subject back.. some belgian/nato types had very vocal complaints, years back, about the "black triangle" incident being ignored,.

hippikon

a Mexican Air force flight that was on a drug surveillance mission

LOL - Perhaps they got a little to involved in their work

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The Missing Link - remains of the Nephilim?

by truthseeker in

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for those of you that have seen recent documentarys (i can't remember the program names), there seems to be a few finds of importance regarding man's earliest ancestors.. .

one documentary i watched was about the discovery of an unusual skeleton, they suggested it was a bipedal - it walked on two legs.

but, the jaw and other parts of the skeleton were not completely human like.. .

hippikon

BTW. I'm with rem

perception can easily be fooled .......... I find it highly probable that any spiritual experience we have is all in our minds

Blanke found that electrically stimulating one brain region ? the right angular gyrus ? repeatedly triggers out-of-body experiences.

http://www.barbelith.com/topic/8910

The Missing Link - remains of the Nephilim?

by truthseeker in

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for those of you that have seen recent documentarys (i can't remember the program names), there seems to be a few finds of importance regarding man's earliest ancestors.. .

one documentary i watched was about the discovery of an unusual skeleton, they suggested it was a bipedal - it walked on two legs.

but, the jaw and other parts of the skeleton were not completely human like.. .

hippikon

http://www.wynja.com/arch/gigantopithecus.html

Gigantopithecus blacki was 10 feet tall and weighed 1,200 pounds. This is speculative, since it is with some uncertainty that one reconstructs such a massive creature from a few jaw bones and teeth, however many. The way they arrived at this picture was first to estimate the size of the head from the jaw, and then to use a head/body ratio of 1:6.5 in order to determine the body size. For comparison they cite a head/body ratio of 1:8 for the Australopithecus afarensis specimen known as 'Lucy'. The more conservative ratio for Gigantopithecus was arrived at out of consideration of the massive jaw as an adaptation to the mastication of fibrous plant matter (probably bamboo). Gigantopithecus was probably proportionally a markedly big jawed creature. For the head shape they based their assumptions on the orangutan, since evolutionarily they place Gigantopithecus on the same line as the orangutan, finding a common ancestor for them both in Sivapithecus. However, the orangutan could not serve as a model for the body, since it is unlikely that a 1,200 pound ape would be as arboreal. Therefore they chose the largest primates known, the gorilla and the extinct giant baboon Theropithecus oswaldi, as their models for the body.

Read into it what you want - everyone always does.

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Call centre callers ... nice experience

by Simon in

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you've had them ... calls from companies trying to sell you something.

i just had a call from a credit card company (one we've just paid off) offering us a 1.5% interest rate for balance transfers.. normally, i hate them but this one was different.

i mentioned that we didn't have any balances to transfer 'cause we'd just managed to pay everything off and were now concentrating on saving to emigrate.. "oh, where too?

hippikon

I think it is very important to give positive feed back. Too many places are run by accountants looking for short term results and the bottom dollar. Let them know the human touch is better for the company image.