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.
Jazzbo
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District Assembly Dramas - where the heck do they come from?
by babygirl30 indespite 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?
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Would Witnesses REALLY drink the "Kool-aid" if the faithful slave told them to? Yes or no?
by Witness 007 ina "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!.
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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 ini'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.
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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 inif 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.
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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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Dr. Jerry Bergman and Joe Anderson on Dialogue Saturday March 20,2010
by koolaid-man injoin former jehovah's witness and watchtower historian richard rawe on his telephone conference call.
his special guest tonight will be dr. jerry bergman, author of the book "jehovah's witnesses and the problem of mental illness".
and former bethelite, joe anderson, barbara anderson's husband.
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Jazzbo
Bergman is a pathetic, failed buffoon. I don't know why anyone pays any attention to him.
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Pelosi Prays To Saint Joseph To Pass Health Bill!
by minimus ini just saw that on drudge report.. omg.
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Jazzbo
It's St. Joseph Stalin that Pelosi prays to.
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2010 DC" Remain in Gods Love"...Most Unloving Yet??
by JWFreak inthe talk outlines for the summers conventions are only being printed over the next 2 weeks or so.. the finished outlines were ready in the middle of december 2009, however sources that i trust tell me that at least 5 of the talks were returned for last minute rewriting which is highly unusual.
this has held up the printing until now, a delay of over a month.
this is a fact!!.
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Jazzbo
The reality is that fewer and fewer people pay much attention to the things that they are not presupposed to do anyway. It must be extremely frustrating to the organization to realize that the majorit of Witnesses simply ignore it when they try to crack down on this stuff, maybe a little lip service but that's about it. They've railed against the Net for years, that's worked out real well for them hasn't it.
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Liberals, Atheists Just Plain Smarter - Religious Conservatives Really Just Paranoid Cavemen
by daniel-p inlet the flame wars begin!
liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to iq.
by elizabeth landau, cnnfebruary 26, 2010 5:03 p.m. est(cnn) -- political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.. evolutionary psychologist satoshi kanazawa at the the london school of economics and political science correlated data on these behaviors with iq from a large national u.s. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher iqs.
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Jazzbo
So you have a guy that has a history of very controversial findings, some of which have been blatantly racist, he uses a pretty funky definition for liberal and conservative, his data is based on a strange age group, and he looks at this through the lense of evolutionary psychology. I'd say this has all the credibility of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Of course the gullible will lap it up and quote it religiously. The real revelation is in who is prepared to swallow this tripe.
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Required reading for Rand Cam investors (and other interested parties)
by dissed inthis article appeared may 9, 2009 about a rather dubius company the wt partnered with.
notice they are still touting their military connections.
but of speacial interest is how they have been able to bilk investors for 20 years, never producing a return and yet, live high off the hog.
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Jazzbo
Boring, done to death, bogus. Give it a rest and find a real issue, there are many.
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How 'bout that Prez Obama?
by MsDucky in.bringing in bush and clinton to help out with the disaster in haiti.
what will limbahhumbug have to say about this?.
obama, gw bush, clinton: together on haiti .
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Jazzbo
That making $30 or $40 million a year is a dead give away to idiocy every time.
All you liberal hounds hate and fear Limbaugh because he makes you obviously inadequate.