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  Favourite Quirky / Low Budget / Non-Mainstream Movies

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  so the recent topic about film franchises got me thinking.

  sure, we all love the big budget, mainstream releases that are so successful they spawn never-ending (it sometimes seems) sequels.

  we could watch marvel and star-wars movies for the rest of our lives (and we might just ...).. but y'know what i love?

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  I first saw this at a film festival my freshman year in college (1969). They don't come cheaper or quirkier than this. Presented in its entirety:

  Bambi
  
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

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  The only financial statement that would actually tell us what's going on is a consolidated statement for ALL of the Watchtower's related entities. A thin slice of the pie (which is what these numbers represent) don't tell us anything about the pie as a whole. Transferring money from one operation to another may look like money disappeared if you're only looking at the outgoing transaction. We need to know where the money WENT.

  Morpheus: thank you. I think some people here let their desire to see the Watchtower go down cloud their judgement.
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

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  Without a lot of research, for which I don't have time; we still don't know what's in a lot of those numbers. They list $55,000,000 in "other liabilities." Who do they owe this money too, I suspect its other Watchtower corporations, where it would be listed as an asset. I used to work for an international real estate investment company that had all sorts of interlocking separate corporations. One of my jobs was making sure everything evened out.

  They also list an expense line for $60,000,000 for "supplies and other purchased assets." That's a lot of supplies. Again we don't know who they paid the money to, or for what.

  I'm not arguing in favor of any position on the Watchtower's financial status. We don't have the information needed to formulate a proper analysis.
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  Canada Branch Financials are Posted (The Bleeding Appears Very Real)

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  posted here:.

  https://docs.zoho.com/sheet/published.do?rid=740aq85115d1a04174c4d867e056351ad6836.

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  Where did these numbers come from? This isn't an actual financial statement, its a spreadsheet. Without the notes its useless.
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  Enlightenment, Will It Be A Rather Common Experience In The Future?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it has been said by some that an enlightened being came/happened once every 500 years, but now they seem to be popping up all over the place.. the buddha had to meditate like hell, he even starved himself to attain it.

  monks spend many years doing some are successful some are not.. i think with science looking into these nirvana states of mind that they will figure out a way to end suffering for the human species which will usher in a whole different way of life with higher intelligence running things.

  from my understanding of enlightenment it is a sort of rewiring of the brain where the signals go up pleasure side of the amygdala where as painful emotions and sensations go up the other side.

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  Be about it, not talk about it means, essentially, actions speak louder than words. This thread contains a total of 15 comments, 10 of which are yours. Five of those are basically (if not completely) videos.
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  Enlightenment, Will It Be A Rather Common Experience In The Future?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it has been said by some that an enlightened being came/happened once every 500 years, but now they seem to be popping up all over the place.. the buddha had to meditate like hell, he even starved himself to attain it.

  monks spend many years doing some are successful some are not.. i think with science looking into these nirvana states of mind that they will figure out a way to end suffering for the human species which will usher in a whole different way of life with higher intelligence running things.

  from my understanding of enlightenment it is a sort of rewiring of the brain where the signals go up pleasure side of the amygdala where as painful emotions and sensations go up the other side.

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  I went to college in the sixties, when lots of people ran around talking about being enlightened. In the eighties I worked for a company that sent all of its employees to EST and its offshoots. A few years ago my wife taught in a school run by a religion that was all about mindfulness. Now people are talking about being "woke." It is my experience that all of the above groups contain some nice people, but all of them are remarkably self-absorbed and talk about their supposed (but not noticeable to an outside observer) intellectual and spiritual superiority.

  In my opinion, you need to be about it, not talk about it.
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  May 1 2018 my Ayahuasca Experience

  by new boy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has been over a year and a half since my last ceremony.

  which was way to long.

  my son came up from scottsdale for the ceremony.

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  I would like to say that Ayahuasca is drug as you say, but to many around the world who have tried it is a sacrament, and medicine.

  That's what they said about LSD, peyote, and marijuana in the sixties. Later they said cocaine wasn't dangerous. I'm a recovering alcoholic/addict. I work in a 28 day rehab facility. I think you're doing drugs.
  
  
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  What's it like these days for teenagers?

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i converted at age 22, and left 15 years later (1988) so i don't really know what its like to be in high school as a jw.

  for those of you who do know: do teenage jw's hang out with each other?

  worldly kids?

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  I converted at age 22, and left 15 years later (1988) so I don't really know what its like to be in high school as a JW. For those of you who do know: do teenage JW's hang out with each other? worldly kids? nobody? Lie to your parents/elders about it? I'm curious, this might be background material for the novel I'm working on.

  Thanks in advance. Sometime in the next few days I'll put up a post about my latest adventures in writing.
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  Can a DF person testify at a judicial committee?

  by JeffT in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this may be a plot point in a novel i'm working on.

  will a judicial committee take testimony from a df'd or da person?

  i could see them wanting to get dirt from any possible source, on the other hand i can picture somebody saying "he's df'd everything he says will be a lie.

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  This may be a plot point in a novel I'm working on. Will a judicial committee take testimony from a DF'd or DA person? I could see them wanting to get dirt from any possible source, on the other hand I can picture somebody saying "He's DF'd everything he says will be a lie." Maybe there's official direction or do they leave it up to the elders involved? Just curious.
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  Has anyone seen this?

  by wokeup in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  google: vintage freemason compilation collinsworth family.. several pages into the program has a familiar face..

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  And, Yes that is a real question. I would like to see the answer.