Posts by JeffT

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Victoria/Vancouver/Seattle

by happysunshine in

hey everyone!.

i live in victoria (canada).

anyone in my area?

My sister was invited to a Judicial Committee

by opusdei1972 in

today i called to my sister and she told me that two elders went to her house to announce her that a judicial committe is waiting her in the kingdom hall this friday.

she told them that she will confirm if she will go.

however, i have told her that she shouldn't go, instead she should ask them to write a formal letter, with signatures, asking her for which charges she should be submitted in a private room with two men (or three?

JeffT

Call a local TV station and see if they want to cover the proceedings. It would make good TV when the elders block the door and refuse to let them in.

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WT's subtle attack on Wikipedia!

by Wonderment in

did anyone notice this wt's subtle attack on wikipedia?

they wrote (from the 2011 yearbook of jehovah's witnesses, pp.

9-10. source: 'tracing all things with accuracy'):.

JeffT

I regard Wikipedia as a good place to start for an overview of a subject. However I would never quote it in a scholarly work.

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Dear typer-ers, you're doing it wrong!

by Simon in

there are many things wrong with the world, many injustices and crimes committed.

what if we could stop one of them?

wouldn't it make the world a slightly better place?

JeffT

OK, so what about the Oxford comma?

Do you want "cars are available in red, green, black, and white;" or "cars are available in red, green, black and white?" Style guides can be cited for both using it and not using it. Are we following MLA, APA, Chicago, etc; or AP and Canadian Manual?

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How do flood apologists explain these?

by marmot in

spear points dating to thousands of years before the flood (or even adam's alleged creation, for that matter) found preserved in situ among mammoth bones in naco, arizona.. or the 14,000 year-old footprint of a child at a mammoth hunting camp unearthed in a bog in monte verde, chile:.

the kicker is that this isn't even the oldest evidence for human settlement of the americas.

since the wt loves to trot out frozen mammoth carcasses as "proof" that mammoths died in the flood, who were these mammoth eaters in north america?

JeffT

warnings are out that radiocarbon may soon find itself in a crisis situation.

Written in 1981. Maybe he and the Watchtower are using the same dictionary to define "soon."

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Conti Appeal Preview - Oral Argument Jan 14

by Chaserious in

with hopefully a good deal of interest here in the conti appeal tomorrow (or later today, depending on where you are), i thought that on my ride home from work tonight i'd preview what to expect and what i think the key issues are for any who are interested.

i have had a busy few weeks and haven't had time to read everything, but i had some time to look at the appeal briefs during my work commute the past couple days.

it'll be interesting to see what develops out of the network news coverage of this case.

JeffT

I don't see this as about reporting crimes to anybody. If the elders know that some one is a pedophile, they have a moral duty to protect the congregation. This doesn't require that the pedo be arrested, it does require that all the elder understand that one of them has to work with Brother Pedo and sit in on his bible studies etc. In other words, he can't be left alone with anybody.

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Awesome movie: "THE GIVER". This is a MUST WATCH for witnesses and those breaking free from the WT!!!

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

you have to watch the movie "the giver"!

it is simply an awesome movie for every thinking witness, or those trying to break free from the org's hold on us.. i wont give away too much, but the concept of the film is mind blowing!

utopia vs reality etc... conformity vs individuality and humanity... etc.

JeffT

It's available on Xfinity On Demand. We watched it a couple of weeks ago. Great movie.

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Dottie Thomas Sept 18, 1922 - Jan 9, 2015

by JeffT in

jw
friends

i was in the house with her for all of the last week of her life.

she went quietly and peacefully and had people that cared a lot for her around at the end.

she and dad touched a lot of lives in very positive ways.

JeffT

I was in the house with her for all of the last week of her life. She went quietly and peacefully and had people that cared a lot for her around at the end. She and Dad touched a lot of lives in very positive ways. Not the least of which was the fact that she made sure I was still part of the family even after I joined a religious cult.

Here are two articles, last time I did this some people had trouble linking The Hutch website so I put up a news article too.

http://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2015/01/dottie-thomas-dies-92-years.html

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2025434575_dottiethomasxml.html

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What do you think of a Movie about New World

by paradisebeauty in

jw
friends

it looks like the movies about end of the days and the fantasy movies are very much in fashion.

do you think a movie about the end of the system and the life in the new system could captivate the audiences?.

after all more than 90 % of americans are christians and say they believe in the bible.

JeffT

The end of the world part might be interesting. But then you have an endless treadmill of petting tigers and picking fruit off of trees.

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2014 Grand Totals!

by Atlantis in

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.. .. atlantis!.

JeffT

I saw some of this on another board. If you divide the hours by the number of baptisms, it takes 7,000 hour to reach one baptism. If you take the amount of the actual increase (which is about 100,000 less than the number of baptisms) it takes 11,000 hours to get one more publisher. This has to be about the most inefficient human activity ever. And that does not account for the fact that a good number of their baptisms are the children of witnesses.