Posts by ABibleStudent

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Russian Parliament Approves Military Action in the Crimea

by ABibleStudent in

why did russian president vladimir putin ask the russian parliament to approve using military forces to keep the peace in the crimea, instead of asking the un?

why did the russian parliment pass a law approving military force instead of asking for the un to send peace keeping forces to the crimea (http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-politics/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)?.

is russia spiralling into a totalitarian dictatorship like germany in the 1930's and the soviet union from 1920's - 1990's with information control and coercive tactics?

ABibleStudent

It seems that there are Russian's who are willing to critically think for themselves and express their opinions to the Russian government according to http://news.yahoo.com/anti-kremlin-protest-draws-thousands-moscow-160257721.html.

How can the Obama Adminstration be convinced to swtich from using inflammatory rhetoric towards Russian government officials, and instead communicate with words and actions that the USA and Western countries want Americans, Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese, etc. to critically think for themselves without coercion from governments/organizations?

IMHO the best way for Russians (or citizens from any country) to crtically think for themselves and achieve their full potential is for citizens to convince their representatives to enact constitutional protections for a Free and Pluralistic Press, Free and Pluralistic Thought, Freedom from Unwarranted Incarceration/Coercion, and independent Administrative/Legislative/Judicial branches of goverment and stringent anti-corruption laws to minimize undue influence by governments, organizations, and wealthy individuals.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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The Dilaudid Delusion

by Zoos in

hey folks.

just need to check in.

due to an injury, i had to start taking some pretty powerful pain killers and stayed on them for about 1 1/2 months until i finally had surgery this past wednesday.

ABibleStudent

Hi Zoos, If you can, go for a quiet walk and/or talk to some positive non-JW people. Excercise, getting out of my comfort zone, having conversations with postive people, and seeing interesting sights usually make me happier.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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My 45 Minute Conversation With JWs Today

by cofty in

as i was saying before the watchtower literature trolley has arrived in my little town.... my wife and i were in town this afternoon and i saw one of my former elder colleagues standing beside the trolley talking to a young man and reading to him from one of their books.

ray was one my least favourite people - he was everything that is bad about jw elders.

i went up to them and interrupted and told the man that this is a cult recruitment campaign.

ABibleStudent

jwfacts - I have been pondering on the great opportunity these stands present to ex-JWs. In my new place where I live I have only been called on once in 2 years. But I have seen a number of stands. If we start to go and speak to the people, they are our captive audience. Very quickly we could have JWs and the Watchtower afraid of using them. It would be good to have a discussion on topics to use, and things that have worked.

Hi jwfacts, Just having a reputable and balanced information source such as jwfacts.com to refer JWs to is a great asset - avoids needless debates. Please keep writing reputable and balanced articles that help JWs to "Critically Think" for themselves.

To help non-English speaking JWs, have you thought about advertising for English to other language translator volunteers to translate JWfacts articles on JWfacts?

Have you thought about creating and subscribing to dynamic QR code service providers so that smart phones/tablets could quickly link to information on JWfacts? Please checkout the link http://www.qrstuff.com/ to learn more about how QR codes could be used to help JWs to accesss JWfacts and how people could download JWfacts QR codes directly from JWfacts.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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Did anyone in the congregation discourage you from going to college?

by Trapped in JW land in

i remember being out on service with an elder when i was 17. he asked me what i plan on doing after high school.

i told him i was thinking of going to college to be a teacher.

he then asked me, "do you think this system is going to be around that long"?

ABibleStudent

Good for you Trapped in JW land! No body else knows better than you what is in your best interest and will make you happy.

I wish you the best in successfully getting more education/training to qualify for a successful career that you will enjoy. "Critically Think" for yourself by doing independently and thoroughly researching what you want, making your plans, executing your plans, and adapting them as needed.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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Russian Parliament Approves Military Action in the Crimea

by ABibleStudent in

why did russian president vladimir putin ask the russian parliament to approve using military forces to keep the peace in the crimea, instead of asking the un?

why did the russian parliment pass a law approving military force instead of asking for the un to send peace keeping forces to the crimea (http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-politics/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)?.

is russia spiralling into a totalitarian dictatorship like germany in the 1930's and the soviet union from 1920's - 1990's with information control and coercive tactics?

ABibleStudent

Hi fulltimestudent, Governments/organizations are controlled/influenced by people who are greedy and self-interested, as well as by people who honestly want to help other people. I can find faults with many administrations throughout history and the world. Winners of conflicts usually write the history (i.e., information control). Critical thinking requires an open mind and doing independent research of events to understand motives, intent, and consequences. Debating which governments have done or could do worse seems pointless.

IMHO standing up for my ideals and helping others to critically think for themselves is better than being miss-led by self-interested people using information control and BITE control techniques. There is not too much that I can do about the past, except learn from it. I can critically think about the future, make plans, and act in the present to help myself and others, who want to listen.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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Celebrating WTBTS Memorials in Public Venues

by ABibleStudent in

the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses is having a memorial celebration on april 14, 2014 at 7:05 pm pst at the westlake hyatt in westlake village, ca, usa.. i am thinking about greeting celebratants as they leave with poster(s) and business cards with qr codes for www.jwfacts.com and www.freedomofmind.com.

my intent is not to debate or convert "spiritual strong" (non-thinking) jws, but to provide life-saving information to "spiritually weak" (still thinking) jws suffering from the wtbts's "undue influence" and bite control.

i might even be eating crackers (and cheese) and drinking red wine at the exit.. my plan is to place up to three posters across from the exit of the celebration and then place business-size cards with "critically think for yourself" and qr codes on the back.

ABibleStudent

Hi lisaBObeesa, I know that the Unification Church is a dangerous cult and that Steve Hassan is a former member. I would like to get a screen shot from the Unification Church saying that they are not a cult to replace the screen shot from www.jw.org describing what is a cult to the WTBTS so that I can get past a JWs shields.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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Celebrating WTBTS Memorials in Public Venues

by ABibleStudent in

the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses is having a memorial celebration on april 14, 2014 at 7:05 pm pst at the westlake hyatt in westlake village, ca, usa.. i am thinking about greeting celebratants as they leave with poster(s) and business cards with qr codes for www.jwfacts.com and www.freedomofmind.com.

my intent is not to debate or convert "spiritual strong" (non-thinking) jws, but to provide life-saving information to "spiritually weak" (still thinking) jws suffering from the wtbts's "undue influence" and bite control.

i might even be eating crackers (and cheese) and drinking red wine at the exit.. my plan is to place up to three posters across from the exit of the celebration and then place business-size cards with "critically think for yourself" and qr codes on the back.

ABibleStudent

Hi lisaBObeesa, Interesting idea! Thanks for the tip. I will visit the Unification Church website and see what they write about cults.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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Celebrating WTBTS Memorials in Public Venues

by ABibleStudent in

the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses is having a memorial celebration on april 14, 2014 at 7:05 pm pst at the westlake hyatt in westlake village, ca, usa.. i am thinking about greeting celebratants as they leave with poster(s) and business cards with qr codes for www.jwfacts.com and www.freedomofmind.com.

my intent is not to debate or convert "spiritual strong" (non-thinking) jws, but to provide life-saving information to "spiritually weak" (still thinking) jws suffering from the wtbts's "undue influence" and bite control.

i might even be eating crackers (and cheese) and drinking red wine at the exit.. my plan is to place up to three posters across from the exit of the celebration and then place business-size cards with "critically think for yourself" and qr codes on the back.

ABibleStudent

HI villagegirl, Thank you for your concern, but I'm a retail trader and less adversely affected by high-frequency traders then large pension/hedge funds and market makers. Independent research and critically thinking is important when reading news stories - especially when someone may be plugging their book.

Any active retail trader knows that high-frequency traders help increase market liquidity by tightening the bid-offer spread. High-frequency traders may be able to beat large orders to different exchanges, but no one knows where the market will be headed in 1 minute versus in hours, days, or weeks. High-frequency traders may adversely impact filling orders for traders who trade > 10,000's of contracts, verses I, who trades less than 20 contracts and can be filled at one exchange. There are also tactics to counter-act perceived advantages of high-frequency trading like spreading large orders into smaller orders and sequencing orders to arrive at all exchanges within millisecond.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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Russian Parliament Approves Military Action in the Crimea

by ABibleStudent in

why did russian president vladimir putin ask the russian parliament to approve using military forces to keep the peace in the crimea, instead of asking the un?

why did the russian parliment pass a law approving military force instead of asking for the un to send peace keeping forces to the crimea (http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-politics/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)?.

is russia spiralling into a totalitarian dictatorship like germany in the 1930's and the soviet union from 1920's - 1990's with information control and coercive tactics?

ABibleStudent

ABibleStudent - Putin is playing a waiting game, which is why I chose the "Go" analogy, until news organizations redirect their reporters to more sensationalistic news. Putin can do whatever he wants without the international news media present.

I wanted to go Salsa dancing tonight, but I still don't feel comfortable about sweating until my contact dermatitis heals more. My dog is banned from roaming in the shady brush (i.e., poison oak) near my home indefinately. So, I started thinking about what might significantly influence equity markets in the coming weeks and months. News events can affect markets, but don't ask me in what direction, because I don't know.

The Ukrainian situation has been on my mind for the last 1-1/2 months, because it does have potential to move markets. As an options trader, I just want prices to move in the short-term and mitigate my longer-term risks by hedging my positions. Because the Ukrainian situation has been out of the lime-light compared to locating flight MH370, I started thinking what would I do if I was Putin.

I would:

Change Russian military/political tactics to keep foriegn governments off-balance through lying and deception.
Keep the newly formed Ukrainian government off-balanced by fermenting unrest by supporting dis-infranchised Russian-speaking Ukrainians, maintaining troops near the Ukrainian borders, and making unrealistic demands for natural gas payments,
Control information to Russians and show Russians how strong and important they were under the former Soviet Union,
Allow Western politicians to make inflammatory political rhetoric to use as sound bites for Russian propaganda reports and to follow out-of-date contingency plans, and
Wait for a perfect combination of weather, timing, and circumstances to mobilize Russian troops.

If I am right about Putin's and his administrations ambitions, the Russian military will invade first eastern and/or southern Ukraine during a weekend or upcoming long holiday with cool temperatures, dizzle to light rain, and overcast skies for a week or so before scheduled elections on May 25, 2014. The aforementioned factors would hide Russian troop movements from satellites as well as limit the number of people, who would want to block military movements and minimize casualties.

April 12 through April 19, 2014 could be very interesting for Ukrainians and equity markets, because the aforementioned conditions will be met according to Easern Ukraine accuweather.com satellite images and weather forecasts, and when Ukrainains celebrate Easter on 20-April-2014 according to http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/ukraine/easter-sunday.

Of course, everything I am writing about is hypothetical. I wonder how different people will react to the same news stories. Run and hide, or overcome their fears and take advantage of opportunities.

In the end I hope that if Russians do invade Ukraine that casualties will be minimal and everyone, including Americans, Ukrainians and Russians learn to critically think for themselves. Skepticism can be a good thing.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert

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Celebrating WTBTS Memorials in Public Venues

by ABibleStudent in

the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses is having a memorial celebration on april 14, 2014 at 7:05 pm pst at the westlake hyatt in westlake village, ca, usa.. i am thinking about greeting celebratants as they leave with poster(s) and business cards with qr codes for www.jwfacts.com and www.freedomofmind.com.

my intent is not to debate or convert "spiritual strong" (non-thinking) jws, but to provide life-saving information to "spiritually weak" (still thinking) jws suffering from the wtbts's "undue influence" and bite control.

i might even be eating crackers (and cheese) and drinking red wine at the exit.. my plan is to place up to three posters across from the exit of the celebration and then place business-size cards with "critically think for yourself" and qr codes on the back.

ABibleStudent

Thanks for reading everyone. A guy has got to dream sometimes for good things to happen to people "unduly influenced" by BITE control, such as critically thinking for oneself.

@ never a jw, Yes, I live in the Conejo Valley. I'm not an apostate - NEVER BAPTIZED A JW, and NO HORNS or TAILS either. LOL

I was only adversely affected by the WTBTS. If you want to read my introducation/story, click on the thread (Belated) Hello.

If you want to meet, just PM me. My mornings until 1:00 PM PST are busy trading options, searching for jobs in the area, and posting on JWN. It looks like this coming week I may be very busy trading because of a possibiilty of increasing volatility in the markets.

Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

Robert