Diogenesister

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  You have a $100,000,000 budget to do a global campaign against the WTBS worldwide. How would you spend it?

  by JWchange in

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  what if by inheritance, winning the lottery or any other way, you suddenly got your hands on $150m after tax.

  you maybe would spend a third of this giving your extended family financial security for life.

  you maybe would buy a boat and a few investment properties.

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  Diogenesister

  
  

  Marvin Shilmer14 hours ago

  The answer is easy: Offer each current member of the GB the sum of $10,000,000 to step aside as a GB member and write a memoir on their years as a GB member and that must be accompanied by documentation.

  Watchtower would be toast as we know it today. Over. Done with.

  Multiple GB members would jump on this cash train.

  Oh love it! I agree....now anyone, who would be the first takers...in your opinion?

  Does anyone think any of the GB are partially awake? Or have they swallowed it hook, line & sinker?
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  Are you a 老外 (laowei = foreigner) - where to go for a pub-crawl in Shanghai

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was less experienced in chinese ways, i used to think that chinese people couldn't drink (low tolerance to alcohol).

  not so, last trip i tagged along on a night out, a friend put on for his staff.

  after a long dinner of many dishes, cooked specially by a 5 star hotel chef hired for the occasion, lubricated with many bottles of wine, we finished up at a nightclub on the edge of a lake, where they continued drinking shot after shot of tequila.

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  soooo jealous xxx
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  after 2 years, getting the courage to read COC. but is is still really relevant?

  by nowwhat? in

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  if so why?

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  Diogenesister

  Good point.

  I think Marvin has answered it better than I could.

  I will add, from my own point of view, that this is an organization that claims to have Holy (holy?)Spirit. The personal backing of the Almighty Creator of the universe, at that time and for all time.

  That such an organization could go gunning after one aged individual who had served it faithfully for most of his life - homeless, virtually penniless and almost friendless - with a vindictiveness that would make the Cosa Nostra blush, simply for the crime of resigning his position?

  Words fail me.....

  Is it relevent today? Yes, if you have an ounce of human compassion. I feel no shame in playing the emotion card btw.
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  AUSTRALIA – Artemis Legal launches inquiry into group and class action lawsuits against Jehovah’s Witnesses

  by jwleaks in

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  jehovah's witnesses - group action lawyers fighting for justice | artemis legal .

  artemis legal | watchtower claims.

  13 october 2015 .

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  Diogenesister

  I think simon was just asking for the so called "official Royal Commission list" of (, I guess the assumption was, safe or cleared )lawyers". He asked, reasonably in my opinion, because it was insinuated that using other lawyers might not be the best policy.

  We none of us know what others have been through in the past, some of us share and some don't. Let's therefore give each other a break, not make too many assumptions and maybe try to get the 'sense'of what the other person is actually saying before we wade in!

  Having said that I am as guilty as the next person for being a plonker, but it's especially harsh when something is addressed personally to a moderator - he's damned if he does and he's damned if he doesn't (take it down,that is).

  I fully agree, however, that people should be extremely cautious and yes, if they can, wait until the RC has completed its investigations before approaching lawyers. Anyway I can guarantee that in most countries there will be specialist charaties/helplines set up to give just this kind of advice.
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  We discovered a Dyson Sphere! . . . maybe

  by Coded Logic in

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  okay, okay, okay - i know we're not supposed to jump to conclusions.

  but the odds this is a "naturally occurring event" are pretty low.

  and it's just the sort of megastructure we would expect an advanced alien civilization (type 2) to build.

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  Haven't clicked the link yet but...no way!! I know a little bit about the Fermi Paradox...yikes!!Is this click bait or for real?!!
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  Our son becomes a teenager today it's also our 27th Anniversary

  by cantleave in

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  2. friends

  happy birthday to our son kessan, i hope he doesn't do this to us.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dluey6jn6gy.

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  Diogenesister

  Congratulations Cantleave!🎉

  I have exactly 682 days until I'm gonna have 2 sweet little boys morph into KEVINS! Thanks for reminding !😜
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  When watchtower says love All realy mean all

  by poopie in

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  explain

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  Diogenesister

  Bas#@&#$, the one decent thing about Christianity and they have to negate it.
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  If Jehovah's Witnesses were a cereal, what would they be?

  by Zoos in

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  cult flakes?.

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  (welcome to the height of intellectual thread topics.

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  Diogenesister

  Thanks to Snakesinthetower's list

  • Waffelos – (Late 1970s-early 1980s)
  • Wackies – (1965–1967)
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  The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove

  by Lee Elder in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the watchtower and jehovah's witnesses are fond of saying there are no automatic sanctions for taking blood.

  that they no longer disfellowship someone who takes blood.

  that they have a "free choice" in the matter.

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  Diogenesister

  Lee Elder hi, I cannot see the document unfortunately, may I ask if you get a chance to email it /message it. I would like to keep a copy as I am a hospital nurse.
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  How to deal with anxiety?

  by BlackWolf in

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  lately my mental health has been rapidly declining.

  i have anorexia and deppression, and my anxiety has become overwhelming.

  i have been to many doctors/therapists in the past, but because i have not been magically cured my parents dont want to get me any more help.

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  Diogenesister

  Blackwolf If you have anorexia you need to be under a specialist clinician. It is an extremely dangerous condition, and a long slog to get better.

  Ring or contact an Anorexia helpline, this is your no 1 priority. Anorexia is all about attempting to control an environment you feel completely lost/uncontrollable in.

  Check out JW.facts too.❤❤xxx