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  Going clear: Scientology

  by James Mixon in

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  a must see if you haven't seen it.

  some scary stuff.

  they pay their workers.

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  JeffT

  We just finished watching it. Very powerful documentary. I'm still trying to digest it. I may post my thoughts tomorrow.
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  March Broadcast- Jehovah is speeding up the work

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  2. friends

  i watched some of the segments on the jw broadcast.

  in the video they showed how they managed their inventory orders for the congregations.

  at the conclusion it was stated by the narrator how god is speeding up the work.. the problem is the system they implemented has been used for over two decades in logistics.

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  JeffT

  The couple who started our bible study told us that the Speeding Up scripture meant that it was taking less time for their bible students to progress to baptism.

  What? Last time I looked it took about 7000 hours of field service for each baptism. A few years ago it was 4000. I think it was one or two thousand when I was baptized in 1973. How is this taking less time?
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  Shunning Styles 101. Any I missed? Care to elaborate?

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my oldest brother got baptized at 12 and realized he was 100% gay at 12 1/2.

  sucky timing huh?

  he fought the fine fight of the abstinent until his mid-twenties and then decided he couldn't live like that anymore.

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  JeffT

  I've seen or heard this one a couple of times:
  
  Ultra-Hypocritical Shun: "I can't talk to you except for important family business and won't, but right now I need to borrow a few dollars."
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  Any cyclist participate in critical mass?

  by Protarded in

  1. social
  2. physical

  for those unfamiliar with critical mass, it's a mass bike ride through many major cities on the last friday of each month.

  i was not very familiar with the ride until my hethen, worldly, unjudgemental, friend invited me last night.

  after googling it, i found that it's pretty controversial.

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  JeffT

  The thumbs down wasn't mine, but I will answer the questions for you.

  First off, two of my three children are avid urban bikers and I want them to be safe. Maybe its different where you are, the group has a bad rep here in Seattle. They've been known to block the road no matter what is behind them, including emergency vehicles and a guy trying to get his wife to the hospital. I fail to see how you encourage sharing something by attempting to hog it for yourself. Some of the people associated with the group have made some really asinine and rude comments about drivers. This is not helpful.

  This even happens when he has the right of way, say turning left at a red light

  I don't understand how this situation gives him the right of way.
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  Who is like the Wild Beast (Russia) and who can do battle with it? Rev 13:3,4

  by scotoma in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  continuing my posting to the blind, deaf, & conventionally minded ... you may be out of the jw's but you are still thinking in a box.. now that russia is back it is clear why powerful countries are wary of doing battle with it.

  putin is getting his way.. sorry, ukraine, you can't beat putin - bloomberg view.

  jan 28, 2015 - ... restrain russia's incursions into ukraine, but they can't defeat putin.

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  JeffT

  Continuing my posting to the blind, deaf, & conventionally minded .

  I'm going to see if I can have a compulsive need to apply logic and critical thinking declared a mental illness.
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  Utah to bring back firing squads

  by cofty in

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  are parts of the usa in a different century from europe?.

  why don't they just stone them to death?.

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  JeffT

  Save the money necessary by releasing the people jailed for not paying $10 parking fines.

  Just not pursuing the death penalty will save the necessary money. I've long been against the executing anybody. There is a very good conservative argument against it: "It's a government program and they'll screw it up."

  And yes, it is about the Mormon blood sacrifice thing, and we have several centuries of experience with killing people with guns.
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  Assembly Assessment increased 300%

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  while at the assembly, when reading the financial statement, i noticed our expenses went from $2500 to almost $9500 so i questioned an elder and said that the assessment per publisher is at $10.50 for all in the us branch territory.. he added this helps the society know how much is coming in and helps them plan out future projects!.

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  JeffT

  Every accountant can tell you that expense for one entity is income for somebody else. The WTBS has done a good job of confusing this simple fact in the minds of the R&F
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  So, Who Controls Your Mind Now?

  by Night Owl in

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  well?.

  nightowl.

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  My mind is uncontrollable.
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  The Bottomless pit is CERN Rev 9

  by artcritic in

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  rev 9 : 1 and the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and i saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit; 2 he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.. this is the fifth trumpet .

  when the pit or well is opened it says , and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft .

  now for something to darken the sun from the viewpoint of earths observers it must be some incredible event.

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  JeffT

  If the collision energy is disperse over say one billionth of a second, the power produced is .00000001 Watts. This is .00000000000013 horsepower. Giver or take a couple of decimal points one way or the other.
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  Drugs and Alcohol Ruin Your Life

  by campaign of hate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this point was raised in another thread vaguely, and wanted to try and expand on it.. the wt has said (and rightly so in my opinion) "that excessive use of drugs and alcohol can ruin your life".

  in my eyes this is a fact.. this is where it starts to get a little suspicious, as they also say (or subtly hint at) "that if you leave the wt you will becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol and will ruin your life".. its almost like a self fulfilling prophecy.

  as there are a lot who leave the borg and they do start drinking heavy or smoking, or taking drugs...or whatever.. the wt capitalizes on the fact that people want more freedom, and they subtly ingrain the thought that.

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  JeffT

  What Shirley said. I went into rehab almost twenty years after I left the Borg, but looking back the downward spiral began shortly after I became a JW. It was then that I started drinking every night, and at every social function. I drank more (a LOT more) as a JW than I did in college.