And there's me (and I hope more like me). My wife and I officially DA'd ourselves thirty years ago next month. I've made no attempt to hide my location or identity because I don't give a rat's ass if the WTBS knows who or where I am. Of course we're helped that at this point we have no friends or family shunning us. There are some good friends I miss and would love to see again. They just need to realize that they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting me back to a Kingdom Hall.
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14Beware of divulging any personal info on this site!
by Crazyguy2 inhey this is crazyguy, forgot my password so this is my new name.
anyway be sure to all you new ones that if you post any personal info on this forum or respond to pms asking for email addresses this information maybe able to be used by wt spies to try and find out who you are!
someone has recently pmd me asking for my email address or more accurately to respond to his email address which would give him mine, this maybe an innocent request but this person also has no posting history.
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How much longer until more people believe the earth is flat?
by Crazyguy2 inhow much longer until more people believe the earth is flat then there are jws?
with these youtube channels using propaganda and the bible i believe over a million people now believe the earth is flat.
it maybe not much longer.
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If by "more" you mean more than half, you've got a ways to go. One million belivers is approximately 1/7500 of the human population.
If by "more" you mean more than there were yesterday, well there's a sucker born every minute. It still won't add up to much.
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Navigating Sec.gov
by APieceOfShitNamedTate incan anyone explain exactly how to navigate sec.gov in order to find records of watchtower's investments?
i saw the video called why i left jehovah's witnesses from exjw analyzer where he talked about this.
i'm never able to find anything when i go there.
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The WTBS isn't publicly traded so it isn't required to file reports with the SEC. I don't believe the SEC compiles its information in a way that would allow you to easily find out who the WTBS has invested in, short of reading every SEC filing for every company required to report.
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henrietta m riley
by lostsheep82 inok, there's been tons on this i know.
here's what i found and spent some time researching some of the companies.
in my search i found in 2014 boeing, lockheed martin & northrop grumman which supports the military.
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This argument is a non-starter if you understand trusts. The WTBS has no control over what the trust owns, invests in, or how it disburses the funds. The only thing it could possibly do is send the checks back to the trust. You might make a case that by keeping the money, it is benefitting from defense industries, but I think their are much bigger fish to fry when looking for reasons to attack the WTBS.
Reminder: I'm a retired accountant.
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What Are Your Rights?
by Simon inrights seem to be everywhere nowadays.
say hello to someone in the wrong way and you've violated 101 of their human rights.
people imagine they have the right to all sorts of things - food, healthcare, housing, internet ... so many things are labelled basic rights and then you get onto their human rights - a favourite of the do-nothing bodies such as the un to declare.
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My wife and I are collecting social security. If that was all we had, we'd be impoverished. I'm not sure that is a step forward. If the voting rights act was such a good deal, why did they not make it apply to the whole country?
I think the biggest problem we have is each side trying to define what the other side thinks. I've read too many articles (and a good number of posts on this site) that start out "Liberals believe that..." or "Conservatives think that..." those to phrases then followed by something about how the other side feeds kittens to wolves or some such nonsense. It destroys what little conversation we have left in us.
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Flat Earth Jw and Galileo Galilei
by Earthmeasured inin the image you can see what jw wrote about how galileo was treated by the catholic church.
now they are disfelloshipping me because i believe the earth is flat.
is this coherent?.
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JeffT
So which idea is dumber: "The earth is flat", or "the GB is interested in my theories?"
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Anti vaccines
by blisterfeet ini personally feel that vaccinations are beneficial.
there has been a modern movement that vaccinations are more harmful than beneficial to which i disagree.
what is your stance as an ex jw on vaccinating your children?
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I used to drink and drive all the time (I'm a recovering alcoholic). I never got a ticket for it, or got in an accident. Should I conclude that my experience makes it OK? Or was I just f***ing lucky? Which one of us (Sober Jeff T or drunk Jeff T) do you want to share the road with?
My father was a well-known cancer researcher (look up E. Donnall Thomas). He considered statistical analysis to be the only reliable way to track medical results. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, where he worked keeps track of every patient from the moment they start treatment until the day they die. It is the only reliable way to measure the results of their work.
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Anti vaccines
by blisterfeet ini personally feel that vaccinations are beneficial.
there has been a modern movement that vaccinations are more harmful than beneficial to which i disagree.
what is your stance as an ex jw on vaccinating your children?
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My wife is just now getting over a bout of shingles. I'd like to invite all those people having "chicken pox parties" to come over and see what's going to happen to their kids down the road. She'd tried to get the shingles vaccination but couldn't find a place that had it. Apparently it's in short supply.
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Anti vaccines
by blisterfeet ini personally feel that vaccinations are beneficial.
there has been a modern movement that vaccinations are more harmful than beneficial to which i disagree.
what is your stance as an ex jw on vaccinating your children?
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The scientific evidence is in (actually it was always in), vaccinations are good. Right now, we have a measles outbreak here in Washington State and in Oregon. The people getting it have not been vaccinated.