If you want some amazing, infuriating reading on the mortgage scam industry that nearly brought the world's economy down try The Big Short by Michael Lewis. This is an astonishing read.
Slidin Fast
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US foreclosures a mess
by diamondiiz inbankers or fraudsters?.
60 minutes the next housing shock.
edit: can't get the video to show up.
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How powerful - the Holy Spirit?
by Slidin Fast instartfragment.
holy spirit the power behind the creation of the universe, millions of galaxies, billions of stars.
the energy flow required to achieve this is unimaginable.
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Now you are getting me mad AnneB. I do take responsibility for my actions, my ability to stop smoking or otherwise is simply down to an arbitary rule imposed by the GB. It could be argued that alchohol kills and maims thousands every year but OH Yes Jesus turned water into wine. I take the "spiritual" advice I am given by all in authority that I have been councelled by. They say that if I apply this councel, if I rely on jehovah that Holy Spirit would help me with my problems. It didn't. Other help did.
It seems to me that the default position with anything actually measureable is that nothing happens. We can pray to God but not for anything to be improved, not for someone to get better (although many dopray for that) but simply that we can endure. If we fail to do so then it is our fault for having little faith. How exactly does this "Holy Spirit" help. Where is the power to really improve lives.
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How powerful - the Holy Spirit?
by Slidin Fast instartfragment.
holy spirit the power behind the creation of the universe, millions of galaxies, billions of stars.
the energy flow required to achieve this is unimaginable.
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Holy Spirit – The power behind the creation of the universe, millions of galaxies, billions of stars. The energy flow required to achieve this is unimaginable. The power can accomplish anything.
I have prayed for HS to help me stop smoking with great sincerity. I was DFd multiple times for this personal weakness and clawed my way back simply for the need to support my family. I lied through my teeth to be reinstated.
Finally I succeeded, dependence on tobacco was a thing of the past. Was it Holy Spirit? No it was a simple psychological technique taught by a health professional.
I have been a dub for over 50 years, not once did I feel the slightest tremor, the faintest buzz or any discernable evidence of this “active force” working in my life. Not when niece died refusing blood needed as a result of cancer at the age of 18. Not when her mother, sister was taken ill with dementia and died before she was sixty. Not when her daughter had a stillborn baby three months later and then was diagnosed with serious breast cancer six months after that. Not a twinge.
Has anyone honestly ever felt that mighty force in their life.
Perhaps I didn’t pray hard enough. NB Some artistic licence used to protect the innocent but the content is factual.
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VIDEO. Violent bloody protest at the Memorial in Burgas, Bulgaria. 2011
by 3Mozzies inyou will need to be signed in to youtube to see it, or go to the bulgarian website (link below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mupvrlg-i8g&.
beat the pastors of jehovah's witnesses and wrecked their prayer house.. story from a bulgarian website - google translated.. .
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Slidin Fast
This may be a cliche but I believe it. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" attributed to Voltaire.
If we ever gave a nod or a wink to this kind of behaviour we would demean ourselves. These sort of battles are won by force of argument intelligence and logic not brute force.
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It's sundown on 17 April and there's a full moon
by Broken Promises in... and i'm cooking dinner and planning a nice evening at home.
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what are you planning to do tonight?.
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Slidin Fast
Sundown?....... Sundown? .......... You are still indoctrinated ------ its DUSK.
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On Human Evolution
by TD init's a subject that comes up fairly often here (understandably) and very strong opinions are expressed.
much of the discussion seems to be counterproductive.. i'd like to propose a different approach.
we all know what each other's conclusions are (or at least we should by now).
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Slidin Fast
I would love to give an authoritive, well substantiated answer to this fascinating question but I am unable to. Had I not been forbidden higher education maybe I would have the tools to make an educated annd informed shot at this.
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Stupid not just once but twice, and it is praised
by therevealer in12 the watchtower ?
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children are trained to keep a simple eye!.
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Slidin Fast
As someone else said the unit of currency is th Birr. Here is the current exchange rate.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
3,000 Euro = 73,470.2 Ethiopian Birr
I would have said yes, a little generous for a school leaver. It may have been gun running or smuggling radioactive materials for nefarious purposes.
Hmmmmm.
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Heads up, the Local Needs part this week is a special talk on blood transfusions.
by miseryloveselders ina brother called me to ask who was delivering the talk at our hall.
i didn't know what he was talking about.
he then explained to me that this week, for the local needs, congregations across the us will have a brother deliver a special outline on blood transfusions.. .
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Slidin Fast
I smell a "don't let your child get a blood transfusion" WINK WINK from the legal department, allowing wiggle room for them to actually get the transfusion under protest, so no one dies and bad legal consequences go bye bye. (Sorry I can't highlight)
Our speaker said that parents must put in writing "I do not authorize the use of blood for my child”. That is like saying “I don’t forbid blood, its up to you”. “What you decide is nothing to do with me”. It is a total cop-out, they know that no doctor or judge is going to refuse blood to a young child. I agree, its Wink Wink, well said Kurtbethel.
My other point- How the hell can they use the word PROTECT when talking about blood and JW children
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Was Stoner stoned?
by Slidin Fast instartfragment.
peter stoner calculated the odds against eight of the messianic prophecies being fulfilled in one man.
it comes out to a ridiculously improbable number.
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Peter Stoner calculated the odds against eight of the messianic prophecies being fulfilled in one man. It comes out to a ridiculously improbable number. Just google his name and it will pop up.
This does not of course have any relevance to the veracity of the WTS but it does raise questions about where the best of the bible comes from. There is so much unthinking brutality and corruption recorded and yet there are gems that enrich life.
The older I get the less I know. I do know that I wish I was as sure about anything as the WT is of everything.
I would appreciate any comments about Stoner’s calculations.
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JWs want the medical community to RESPECT their beliefs
by sabastious inhow can jehovah's witnesses demand respect from the medical community as regards to their refusal to take blood tranfusions?
how could i ask my doctor, or anyone for that matter, to engage in my suicide?
how can a witness ask a doctor, or anyone, to take their child's life?.
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JWs believe that with the HLC and cell savers and blood alternatives that they are now safe from all harm. They think that whatever the medical problem
the loving society will step in and all will be well. They get better faster than those that take blood. They just don't get it that their decision for themselves or
their kids is life or death. People die? I have lost two family members, one 18 years of age from blood refusal. Now another young relative is being treated for
breast cancer. When will it end? How many lives?