Posts by ziddina

yes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.

i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.

as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?

ziddina

Bumping this excellent thread again...

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What Makes a Person Vulnerable to Join a Cult ? By Steve Hassan

by flipper in

jw
friends

most of us often wonder with amazement how we ever got caught up in the jehovah's witnesses mind control after having been out for awhile.

and we still wonder how some of our relatives stay trapped inside it.

well, steve hassans book " releasing the bonds " explains briefly in chapter 4 how it can happen.

Post a picture of you hero(es)

by perfect1 in

jw
friends

ai weiwei.

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ziddina

Wow....

Those people are very impressive, Steve_C and perfect 1....

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Post a picture of you hero(es)

by perfect1 in

jw
friends

ai weiwei.

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ziddina

"Hey Zid, Geoffrey Rush went out with my (step) sister. He was such a shy nerd then. All he did was blush..." Doofdaddy, page #2

Damm, I envy your stepsister!!

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Where did this "God lives in the Pleiades" notion come from?

by james_woods in

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friends

the other thread with this name in the title made me think of it again.. i know the witnesses used to say this - and for sure, there are other religions that think this as well.. the fundy-baptist preacher that my sister got to do my fathers funeral made a big deal of it during the service - (why, i cannot fathom...).. so, can some kind scholar here give us a short course in why this particular star formation is so most holy?.

ziddina

Thanks for those links, mP...!

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Keeping secrets "please don't tell your father". Now this is war!!

by trailerfitter in

what detriment is there of religious study for children?

children learn religions at school and hopefully here in the uk they are taught a balanced unbias view on all religious beliefs pacticed in the world leading to a more harmonious and less separate world.. it should be safe to assume that the jw teachings wouldn't be any different...open and honest.

(okay no need to spit your coffee out onto the monitor screen in surprise!!).

ziddina

Ah, you could use the "search" function... Look up "Youth" book, for starters...

And then there's the official JW website - do you have that address?

Here 'tis if not...

http://www.jw.org/en

[Hmmm!! I just checked the site - I think they had a picture of "Crested Butte", Colorado, on their site... Weird...]

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Watchtower Corporation enters new business to help sheeples see that the end is very, very near!

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

my dad heard from the co who heard from a do that heard from his brother-in-law that heard from the friend of a governing body's wife, that the gb is getting very concerned that "the friends" are losing sight of the nearness of the panda-petting paradise.

many of these friends are also looking too critically at the "spiritual food" provided by the "faithful slave class.".

don't tell anyone else, but i hear that the gb has begun testing something new on some of the sheeple.

ziddina

That cat is thinking, "I'd better get a can of tuna out of this..."