Posts by Jazzbo

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Memorial - How many on here went and how many didn't?

by IMHO in

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feel free to add why/why not?.

Jazzbo

I had occasion to listen in on a telephone connection because I was caring for an aged parent. I must say that like the last two time I attended the talk was pretty mediocre. I used to give the Memorial talk and I spent considerable effort to make the talk special and the occassion solemn. Now it seems like the guys are reading a laundry list. Don't know if it's because the speakers are not very good, are just lazy, or if it's because the Organization seems to have sucked the life out of most meetings.

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Jehovahs Witnesses have a lot more mental problems and much higher suicide rate

by TastingFreedom in

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jerry bergman, ph.d. .

the first american study.

the watchtower influence was often not positive, and there was no evidence that it had in the long run helped those who had emotional problems when they joined.

Jazzbo

Bergman is a joke. He's been repeatedly discredited so don't hitch your wagon to his work. He used to have a pretty good gig as an expert witness but he was so lousy that no one will use him any more. His Ph. D is in biology has nothing to do with this subject plus it's from a non acredited diploma mill.

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A Seattle Police Officer Is Caught On Tape Hitting a 17-year An African American Teenager Girl

by Scott77 in

based on this video shot from seattle, i think this 17-year african american teenage girl acted beyond normal expectation.

she is seen threatening or attempting to hit a law enforcement officer who was doing his duty.

the officer had to hit her face.

Jazzbo

Good for him. People need to learn that actions have consequences and she earned what she got.

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Say NO to a mosque at Ground Zero!!

by Scully in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.

Jazzbo

I'm all for building the mosque, just as soon as Christian churches are built in Mecca and Medina.

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District Assembly Dramas - where the heck do they come from?

by babygirl30 in

despite growing up a jw i was always curious where this corny plays came from?

my best memories of them were when they used to turn the lights out in the convention center - cause that meant i could sleep!!!

but seriously, who writes them?

Jazzbo

The historical fabrications and inaccuracies that have shown up in some dramas the last few years just drive me nuts. The projection of 21st century situations on to the 1st or even earlier centuries to try to make some point reaches the point of being ludicrous.

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Would Witnesses REALLY drink the "Kool-aid" if the faithful slave told them to? Yes or no?

by Witness 007 in

a "spiritual leader" tells his followers the must put on rebok running shoes and "drink the cool-aid" to join a ufo in the tail of a comet and "go to a better world" so, afew dozen young people do just that to get "beamed up" to the mothership.

heavens gate cult 1990's.. my mother says "she is faithful to the organisation till her death" which makes me wonder if they ordered a mass suicide like the reverend jim jones did to escape a "great tribulation"....how many witnesses would really drink the cool-aid?...

without a gun pointed at their head of course!.

Jazzbo

I've read quite a lot about Jones and Jamestown and my conclusion is that there really aren't many similarities between the People's Temple and the Wt Organization. The level of physical, emotional and sexual abuse was much higher with Jones and people were conditioned to a level of unthinking obedience that is not equaled in the Organization. I think a handful would be prepared to drink but the vast majority would not. It's like when they said homosexuality did not break the marriage bond. Witnesses were outraged and pretty vocal about it and as a consequence the Organization backed off.

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Is God Punishing the Tea Party?

by Elsewhere in

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i've noticed that when something bad happens, the religious right tends to have a knee jerk reaction of saying that god is punishing a certain group because that group did something that god doesn't like.. .

on april 15th (tax day), all of the tea party people got together and had rallies in a lot of the major cities.. on april 17th & 18th, the days that the nascar was supposed to happen, it rained... and rained... and rained... and the races had to be canceled.. .

now, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to conclude that a disproportionately large number of nascar fans are affiliated with the tea party movement.

Jazzbo

Let's see, Tea Partiers are better educated, wealthier, more likely to be married and older than the general population. How does that equate to NASCAR?

Another lefty, poorly conceived sneer shown to be so much brainless hot air.

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Since millions now living will sometime retire.....

by YoursChelbie in

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if you bought into the lie that "millions now living will never die," has the.

realization that you will very likely reach retirement age, settled in your mind just yet?.

for instance, i never looked to see if there was a 401k plan when i was in the jw cult.

Jazzbo

I know lots of Witnesses that have made provisions for retirement. I'd say it's a minority that doesn't. I've heard very few that were actually condemnatory of those that did and typically they have fallen into "pretty ignorant generally" category.

Personally I have been in the save and invest mode since I started working.

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