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  WARNING - DON'T SIGN IN TO JW LANGUAGE APP

  by cultBgone in

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  2. friends

  unless you are willing to have all your movements tracked on the internet and your files opened to the watchtower, don't sign in.

  here's what will happen:.

  to install the app - you will give the jw-app access to:.

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  JeffT

  I had the same idea as Greenhorn. I haven't been in a Kingdom Hall since 1988. I should download the app and check JWN frequently, maybe look at some porn. I could give them a real run trying to find me. If they did, I'd tell them I'm not a JW and what I look at on my phone is my business.
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  Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

  i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

  what did you love about the 80s?

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  JeffT

  Wife and I DA'd ourselves in March 1989. Highlight of the decade.
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  Pinker on Terrorism .... Self-Defeating

  by jgnat in

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  http://chronicle.com/article/era-in-ideas-terrorism/128490/.

  his conclusion, .

  "even when they are not rooted out by states, terrorist groups carry the seeds of their own destruction.

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  JeffT

  Bill, I had not seen what he said, but I talk to a lot of military and ex-miltary on the net. A number of them are making or quoting similar comments. Air power enthusiasts have been claiming for a hundred years or so that aircraft can win wars by themselves. I think some people are claiming that Bill Clintons bombing in Serbia ended that conflict. The claim is disputed, and even if true its the only time it happened.

  I agree, its going to take "boots on the ground."
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  Pinker on Terrorism .... Self-Defeating

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://chronicle.com/article/era-in-ideas-terrorism/128490/.

  his conclusion, .

  "even when they are not rooted out by states, terrorist groups carry the seeds of their own destruction.

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  JeffT

  A lot of people did not take Hitler and the Nazis seriously in the early 1930's. I can't find the quote just now but I've read some political leaders at the time who said that they expected Hitler to moderate his policies once he had power consolidated.

  ISIS seems different from other terrorist groups in that they are seizing and controling territory (or attempting to). Their stated goal is to reestablish the Caliphate as an actual government over the captured land. They may be gone someday, but we don't know what its going to take to do that.
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  Kennedy assassination....

  by new hope and happiness in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  to me its a great example of a totalitarian government's ability to manage information and keep us in the dark; .

  all right it was a long time ago.

  should we just forget about it?.

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  JeffT

  Finkelstein beat me to it. Also Garvilo Princip got Franz Joseph's route the same way, except that he got into the "right place at the right time" only because the driver didn't know the correct route.
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  jehovahswitnessesexperts website

  by love2Bworldly in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  are most people aware of this website?

  they have a video that is pretty interesting.

  it was too long though and i didn't have time to listen to the whole thing.

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  JeffT

  Actually, the rhetorical tone is a little over-the-top for professional legal counsel.

  I don't believe its run by a lawyer. Looks like whoever runs it is one of those "experts" that testify for one side or the other in court. Some are more expert than others, which is why I put that in quotes.
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  Well it look like AG Eric Holder is finally stepping down.

  by tootired2care in

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  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/25/351363171/eric-holder-to-step-down-as-attorney-general.

  happy day - our incompetent race baiting ag who refuses to actually do his job, and prosecute high crimes right under his down in the irs is finally stepping down.

  good riddance!.

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  JeffT

  Couldn't the same ignorant drivel be said of the founding fathers of this country by merely replacing Black Panther with Ku Klux Klan?

  Only if you're ignorant of history. The country was created between 1775 and 1787, the KKK didn't come into existence until 1865. Several "founding fathers" (Benjamin Franklin, John Adams for example) were anti-slavery.
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  Watchtower/Telecom Ownership Agreement!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  watchtower-qcstelecom ownership agreement.. .

  re: petition to transfer ownership of qcstelecom, inc., to watchtower bible and tract society.

  http://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/common/viewdoc.aspx?docrefid=%7b57614a3f-7101-408a-8b25-b3499530db5a%7d.

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  I think on its face, there's nothing too out of the ordinary about this. They either set up the company through a shell arrangement or picked it up cheap from the brother who did.

  The fun starts with future possibilites: a means to monitor and control every JW's internet access by having them routed through the WTBS' system. While they're at it, they can get every JW to pay them $ xx every month for the privilege.
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  Minor Update to circuit accounting scam

  by Justnowout in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  many outside are now aware of the scam.... the brother announces a "deficit" at the assemblies.

  what they dont announce is that the so called expenses include a predetermined donation to the branch.

  meaning, the assembly hall is paid for so the basic expenses should be utilities, maybe some speaker expenses and a 52nd share of property taxes and the like.... however the "deficit" always seems to run into the thousands with "expenses incured" totaling 7-10k.

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  JeffT

  What expenses would they have? Water, electricity & HVAC for 7 hours. Maybe an occasional refill of cleaning supplies & paper products.

  I'm about to eat dinner. Later I'll try to look up some old budget numbers and I could give you a good estimate of the actual numbers.
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  best blonde joke ever

  by JeffT in

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  2. humour

  my wife (a blonde) told this one to our son and i yesterday, knowing we'd find it really funny.. .

  a blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde.

  the blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver's license.

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  My wife (a blonde) told this one to our son and I yesterday, knowing we'd find it really funny.
  
  A blonde woman was speeding down the road in her little red sports car and was pulled over by a woman police officer who was also a blonde. The blonde cop asked to see the blonde driver's license. She dug through her purse and was getting progressively more agitated. 'What does it look like?' she finally asked.
  
  The policewoman replied, 'It's square and it has your picture on it.'
  
  The driver finally found a square mirror in her purse, looked at it and handed it to the policewoman.
  
  'Here it is,' she said.
  
  The blonde officer looked at the mirror, then handed it back saying, 'Okay, you can go. I didn't realize you were a cop too.'