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  What would happen if everyone who ever lived came back? - Video on Youtube

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  very interesting video showing what would happen if everyone who ever died came back...tldr: 90% would die (again) within two months because of famine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-s34gz3xwgtherefore: "paradise" is just impossible..

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  By my calculations that give everybody about .3 acres (1800 people per square mile) or about 750 per square kilometer. And that is ALL land, good land, crummy land, swamp, desert, mountain glaciers etc.
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  Need some research help

  by JeffT in

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  2. friends

  so i'm working on another (fictional) book project and i need some historical help.

  i came into the borg in 1973, just as they were starting the new elder arrangement.

  i know that before that there was a presiding overseer who (as i understand it) ran the show.

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  Lois, this character is female. The fact that she's JW is is peripheral to the plot. She, my lead character, and another young man discover they have supernatural powers. When her parents get wind of this they think she's demonized. I just want to make sure I get the JW related details right.

  The story takes place near Seattle.
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  Need some research help

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i'm working on another (fictional) book project and i need some historical help.

  i came into the borg in 1973, just as they were starting the new elder arrangement.

  i know that before that there was a presiding overseer who (as i understand it) ran the show.

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  JeffT

  So I'm working on another (fictional) book project and I need some historical help. I came into the Borg in 1973, just as they were starting the new elder arrangement. I know that before that there was a Presiding Overseer who (as I understand it) ran the show. What other positions were there, and how did things run generally? My book is a young adult fantasy set in the late sixties, one character is a JW and I like to get things right. Any insight or sources you can share will be much appreciated.
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  JeffT

  Since I got out I've found it funny that the WTBS claims that God made sure the Bible was handed down to us accurately, therefore we can rely on it. Except that he was apparently unable to keep those nasty Catholic monks from deleting his own name. If that is so all fired important, why didn't he make sure it stayed there?
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  Believers: How do you know your view of your chosen holy book is the correct one?

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't start fighting, darlings.

  i am genuinely curious.

  after all i was a jobo 50 years and thought the wbt$ was 100% correct.. i ask this because i see that, for example, christian denominations (or whatever), likely have differing interpretations of the same writing.

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  JeffT

  Simple answer: I don't. I'm always open to new thoughts and willing to change my position on something. I think that some parts of the Bible are there to makes us ask ourselves questions, not to provide the answers. I haven't been to church since 2009 which leaves me free to think whatever I want.
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  Dunkirk.

  by zeb in

  1. social
  2. current

  i have just seen the film "dunkirk".

  do yourselves a big favour and go see it.

  (not for kids).

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  JeffT

  I intend to go see it soon.

  The "French surrender monkey" meme is unfair. French soldiers fought well, their problem was an officer corps that could not adapt to the new style of war fast enough. They were beaten in the staff planning rooms, not on the battlefield.
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  Karl Marx Genius Of The Modern World

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  2. beliefs

  he was all for getting rid of religions and their delusions for the betterment of mankind.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mydmc1wio8.

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  Let me see: V. I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim family...Yeah, I think I'll stick with religion, thanks.
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  The big mistake of jw.org property management

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  today i read some news story's about the property deals of jw.org in brooklyn.

  they made good money and good connections.. but i'm sure jw.org made a very, very big mistake in brooklyn.

  they did.. they sold and are selling all the property for money.

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  I worked in real estate asset management for twenty-five years. There are a lot of factors at play in the decision to sell a property. We do not have most of the information the WTBS would have used in making a decision to sell and leave, therefore anything we think of the decision is pure speculation. There does come a time in the life of a building when selling it makes the most sense.

  There are numerous problems with the scenarios outlined above. Those are old buildings and getting them up to code and rebuilding the core systems would have taken a huge amount of cash. A new owner can take advantage of the tax code to make that worthwhile. The WTBS can't make use of those advantages. Also, they can't use volunteer labor to rebuild them for commercial purposes or to maintain them after they are put back in service.

  As I said, the only thing we know is that it looked like a good plan to them. I think there are good reasons to think they may have been right.
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  Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  just thought i'd start a thread about favourite movies.

  mine, in no particular order, are .... alien - a great visual film.

  the chest-bursting scene is still great to watch, no matter how many times i've seen the movie.

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  The Shawshank Redemption (I see lots of analogies to live as a JW)

  The Patriot

  Master and Commander

  The Walk

  Red and Red 2

  Red Dawn

  Battle: Los Angeles

  Spartacus

  300 Spartans (not "300," the one made back in the sixties).

  Lots of old science fiction
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  UN Budget Cuts

  by Finally Left in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just read this on the news.

  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-un-iduskbn18k1v2.

  it shows president trump wants to make deep cuts to the un.

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  JeffT

  Overlapping UNs?

  Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. According to the Watchtower the League of Nations morphed into the UN after World War II.