Posts by MrFreeze

it would be nice if this little nougat of information could be more widely known - especially by journalists.. the quoted figures for scientology are taken from tony ortega's 2011 article in the village voice, which quotes former scientology pr executive jeff hawkins as saying.... "i know that event attendance internationally was somewhere in the region of 25,000 to 35,000. the international 'bodies in the shop' (people actually in the orgs that week for service) was 16,000 to 18,000. ias was struggling to get 40,000 members.

based on this and a lot of other information i was privy to, i estimate the actual number of scientologists at a maximum of 40,000. that's on the high side.".

portugal is one of 33 countries with more than 40,000 active jehovah's witnesses - demonstrating the gulf in size between the two faiths.. the following list shows all countries with more than 40,000 jws according to their reported peak publishers for 2013.. .

MrFreeze

The only reason scientology gets any press is because of who the members are.

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Local Needs Talk: Brothers must repair dents and scratches on their vehicles...

by Calebs Airplane in

so about 8 years ago, we had a local needs talk about dents an scratches !!!!

it was given by the cobe and this guy was just your normal everyday elder.

except he had his occasional pet peeves... like (you guessed it) dents and scratches on some of the brothers' vehicles.

MrFreeze

You should keep your home neat and clean. I don't think there is anything wrong with that advice. However, the car repairs? A lot of brothers/sisters don't have enough money to justify fixing minor dents and scratches.

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Do you think that "Born Agains" will eventually abandon the "Hellfire" doctrine?

by booker-t in

i have talked to christians for years on this subject and they all seem more confused then ever.

some born agains have a hard time reconciling hellfire damnation with jehovah's loving personality.

the two just can't mix.

MrFreeze

Eternal punishment for something that really isn't our fault. It's like if you were outside and some bully pushed you in a mud puddle and your mom grounded you for getting your clothes dirty.

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Jehovah's Witnesses calling us "mentally diseased" hits Danish media

by Amelia Ashton in

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http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/2013/07/25/151958.htm.

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MrFreeze

I am a married long-fry

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Why do the Jehovah's Witnesses focus on one meaning of the word "brother" in Matthew 18:15-17 when in fact it has multiple meanings

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MrFreeze

Because when you analyze something really trivial it makes people who don't know any better think you are a genius.

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What's the weirdest health advice given by a JW?

by Julia Orwell in

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from radio biola to a sister who said you can treat autism and ptsd with scented oils, jws have had some weird some weird ideas about medicine.

what gems have you heard?.

MrFreeze

The brother who put cayenne pepper in his eye because it "gets the impurities out of your eyes." His idea was all the gunk that comes up in your eye after you put it in is all the gunk in your eye being extracted. I said "Nah, pretty sure that is just your eye melting."

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13 bloodlines of the illuminati

by truthhurts13 in

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this may have been talked about already, but i didn't see anything.

i was doing some research and keep seeing ole charley's name on this list.

it does make sense though, the more i think about it......

MrFreeze

The problem, as I see it, is that conspiracy theories have some truth to them... but not enough to bank completely on what a conspiracy theorist says. The truth is usually in the middle of the ridiculous "official" story and the outrageous "conspiracy" story.

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This is just one of the morons that run a country ,Peter Garrett ex midnite oil lead singer.

by karter in

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peter garrett is definitly a can short of a slab.. the australian goverment and the new south wales forestery service were presenting an alternative for the nsw sheep farmers for controling the dingo population.. it seem years of the sheep farmers useing tryed and true methods like shooting them and traping them,peter garrett environmental minister and nsw forstery service and other tree hugging greenies had a more humane solution.. they proposed the animals be captured alive and the males be castrated and wait for it let loose again.. therefore the dingo population woul'd be controled.. this was actually proposed to the nsw sheep farmers association.. finally one of the old boys at the back stood up and tiped his hat back and said "son i don't think you understand our problem,the dingos aren't fucking our sheep they are eating them!!!!".

there was a roar of laughter as garrett,nsw forestery service and green tree huggers leaft the room "very sheepishly".

you couldn't make this up.. .

MrFreeze

I like the band Midnight Oil but I don't know anything about his politics.