Posts by GLTirebiter

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Ponzi scheme - 75% of investors were Dubs....

by RagingBull in

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/sep/25/alleged-ponzi-scheme-leaves-lives-shattered/?prefetch=1.

funny how many of the dubs didn't want their names mentioned in the article.

lol.

GLTirebiter

With the average investor losing $200,000 it's clear they weren't targeting minimum-wage pioneers with this scam.

"The claw-back lawsuits filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court ... have drawn the ire of people who say they have had their retirement nest eggs zeroed out and college savings for children erased."

I wonder if the author appreciates the irony? Good Witnesses don't have retirement nest eggs because "the end is so near", nor do they send their kids to college because "they will have no chance to pursue a career in this system of things".

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Witnesses Ban gambling using no Scriptures only stupid logic...it's greedy! What?

by Witness 007 in

there is no scripture that ever said "thou shall not gamble.

" the bible never mentions gambling.

yet it's a disfellowshiping sin.

GLTirebiter

I never could figure out why buying a $1 lottery ticket was considered greedy or wrong.

Because that $1 could have gone toward The World-Wide Work, instead of supporting the Government who would spend it furthering their evil agenda, such as education!

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What Do You Like For A Drink?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i'm usually a cognac drinker.

i love armagnac too.

and i enjoy a martini i invented---mandarin vodka with a slight bit, usually about a capful of chambord served in an ice cold martini glass.. this saturday i'm mixing with my gf's friends and family in conn. with some affluent people and i might want to try something different.

GLTirebiter

Pale ale

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CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured

by botchtowersociety in

huh?.

cern claims faster-than-light particle measuredgeneva (ap) -- a fundamental pillar of physics - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around albert einstein's theories.. scientists at the world's largest physics lab said thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light.

that's something that according to einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity - the famous e (equals) mc2 equation - just doesn't happen.. "the feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said james gillies, a spokesman for the european organization for nuclear research, or cern, outside the swiss city of geneva.. gillies told the associated press that the readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery.. "they are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they've done and really scrutinize it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the world to repeat the measurements," he said thursday.. scientists at the competing fermilab in chicago have promised to start such work immediately.. "it's a shock," said fermilab head theoretician stephen parke, who was not part of the research in geneva.

GLTirebiter

60 nsec early arrival on a 2.4 msec path? It doesn't take much experimental error to account for that.

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You can be fined for holding Bible studies in your home in California

by Terry in

faith california city fines couple for holding bible study in their homeposted on september 19, 2011 at 1:36am by madeleine morgensternphoto via flickr user erwin vogelaar.

a southern california couple has been fined $300 dollars for holding christian bible study sessions in their home, and could face another $500 for each additional gathering.. city officials in san juan capistrano, calif. say chuck and stephanie fromm are in violation of municipal code 9-3.301, which prohibits religious, fraternal or non-profit organizations in residential neighborhoods without a permit.

stephanie hosts a wednesday bible study that draws about 20 attendees, and chuck holds a sunday service that gets about 50.. the fromms appealed their citations but were denied and warned future sessions would carry heftier penalties.

GLTirebiter

Hmmm...

This happened in California, though a different city and county. One of my English Lit profesors liked to hold the weekly discussion sessions at his house, Wednesday evenings after dinner. This was a regular assembly of a dozen or so people, every week for entire term, in a residentially zoned area (off the college campus, so whatever exemption the college had would not apply).

If the city allows this, they could hardly forbid a home Bible study group of the same size.

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Inside Australia's chilling new cult, an xJW is the leader

by finallysomepride in

in a 10 month investigation, sunday night infiltrates one of the worlds most worrying new cults.

but most chilling, this cult is australian, spreading and described as worse than waco.

we go inside the cults headquarters to meet the leaders and their followers who claim their lives have been changed forever.. http://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/article/-/10276027/inside-australias-chilling-new-cult/.

GLTirebiter

Scary, Jim Jones scary!

Can't finish watching those videos, don't have the stomach for it.

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Today's Watchtower Study is SO dumb!!!

by TimothyT in

i would like to think of myself as an academic.

im starting my second degree and i enjoy research.

when i see a statement backed up by references and support from a credible source, sometimes i get excited.

GLTirebiter

it made me want to rip up the magazine and throw it in the bin.

So, what are you waiting for? "Just do it!"

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Were any of you anointed?

by TimothyT in

did any of you feel that mystical force telling you that you were of the anointed class?.

what did it feel like?

was it real?

GLTirebiter

What does the Bible mean when it says beware for those partaking unworthily though?

The word "hypocrite" sums it up nicely. See Matthew 23, especially verses 5-7 and 23-28. "All their works are performed to be seen. They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. They love places of honor at banquets, seats of honor in synagogues, greetings in marketplaces, and the salutation ‘Rabbi.’" "You cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside may also be clean." Partaking to make a show of holiness without first converting your own heart and soul: that is what makes you unworthy!

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Australia: Ramifications of government watchdog's ruling on Scientology's use of unpaid laborers

by MrMonroe in

fair work australia, the government industrial law agency, has ruled that the church of scientology broke australian law by requiring employees to work long hours for as little as $10 a week.

the church's defence was that because it is a religious entity, its workers are not employees, but volunteers.. which all sounds a bit familiar!.

the agency also found that "a significant level of control and direction was applied to workers by more senior church members who hold positions of authority".

GLTirebiter

From the second article:

Senator Xenophon said ... it was likely many of the complaints would only be finally resolved in the courts

That's the rub, for serfs of the GB as well as the SeaOrg. Unless they file a complaint, and have good enough documentation and witnesses to prevail in court, they have no chance for justice.

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What Turns The Average "Worldly" Person Away From The Witnesses?

by minimus in

jw
friends

is it their door-to-door incessant preaching?

is it their view on blood?

is it that the religion itself is simply often misunderstood?.

GLTirebiter

to Oz!