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  1975 WAS a Big Deal!

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  as we all know well, jehovah's witnesses taught from the mid '60s that the world would end until 1975. as we all know it is also now 2011. nuff said.. but 1975 had a lot of big things happen..... wheel of fortune first went on the air.. major watergate figures were convicted and went to jail.. the pittsburgh steelers won their first super bowl.

  charlie chaplin is knighted by elizabeth ii.

  bill gates founded microsoft.

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  Nickolas

  We shall see, my simian friend.

  That video is an amazing example of someone mind controlled. Thank you.

  I started my book study in late 1974. Best thing about 1975 is I finally finished school and started earning money full time. Second best thing was watching that last minute go by on December 31 and nothing happens. When December came along and people at the Kingdom Hall were starting to look a little queasy (in comparison to the euphoria of the summer meetings) the thing just began to start to stink. People were saying, "well, it could drag out for another few months, but it's gonna happen any day, any day." Before the end of the next year I was out. It was all timing. Had I begun my voluntary indoctrination a year earlier, I might have been more controlled and less disposed to leaving. Had I begun after 1975, the indoctrination method would have been slightly different - ie. without the ripe plum of 1975 being dangled in front of recruits. That's what makes that video so bogus. The guy who made it either wasn't there or is exercising selective reasoning. Despite the mildly tongue-in-cheek of the OP, 1975 WAS a big deal if you were involved with the Watchtower. That the GB weasled its way all the way through and out of it bears no little weight on them having successfully swelled the ranks of Jehovah's Witnesses in record proportions because of its salacious hints about and deliberate pandering to the expectations of 1975.
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  another sad blood story

  by Found Sheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i had a patient this week that needed blood.

  as i always do i give the signs of a rejection and pros and cons... she said of course i'll have one since i need it... i just don't understand people that don't!!!

  and they would rather die.

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  Nickolas

  What the HELL is wrong with their vaunted "conduit" from Jehovah? Does it get clogged up????

  Yes, Rabbit, it does. With exactly the same thing toilets get clogged up with.
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  What,s the solution for our neighbor south of the border?

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  there,s a civil war in that country.

  why don,t the.

  un get involve.

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  Nickolas

  I don't know you well enough to either like or dislike you, dgp. Perhaps in future. I think you're ok so far. I was only providing my takeaways from the article you cited. They're not necessarily my own. To your disagreeing with takeaway #2, I can't dispute it because I know too little on the subject to form an opinion. The article talks about Americans arming and funding the Mexican drug gangs and goes on to say:

  Above all, it is within Mexico’s own power to do better. Its economy has long been held back by monopolies and cartels—of legal businesses, not drug traffickers (see article). Costliest of all is the state monopoly over oil. Even as Brazil’s oil industry—state-dominated, but open to foreign investment—is surging, Mexico’s is retreating. Then there is the telecoms business: thanks to a private near-monopoly, owned by Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, Mexicans pay between four and ten times as much to be connected than do people in developed countries. Restrictive practices drive up the price of much else, from medicines to air fares.

  Which tells me that the author is citing Mexico's business laws as having fostered the climate in which cartelism is nurtured, vs business laws in the rest of North America which bans them because they in turn foster consumer exploitation, just as the paragraph above says. I take that to mean that the author is saying that Mexico, at least to some extent, is complicit in bringing about its current problems. You cited Canada earlier as an example of where large volumes of illicit drugs are being manufactured and then exported into the United States. But there are no drug cartels in Canada. All of the Canadian crooks are independent crooks and for the most part they're not shooting up civilians in the streets. But as far as Mexico is concerned, I have to ask myself what is the problem? Is the problem drugs or is the problem violence? It's a rhetorical question. If Mexico's laws foster an environment of corruption and exploitation of the majority for the benefit of the rich minority, it might foster an environment in which violence will flourish. Possible?
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  What,s the solution for our neighbor south of the border?

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  there,s a civil war in that country.

  why don,t the.

  un get involve.

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  Nickolas

  Good article. I take away three points. 1) Corrupt Americans are largely responsible for the drug-fueled violence in Mexico, 2) Mexico is the author of it's own problems and, 3) Only Mexico can solve its problems.
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  another sad blood story

  by Found Sheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i had a patient this week that needed blood.

  as i always do i give the signs of a rejection and pros and cons... she said of course i'll have one since i need it... i just don't understand people that don't!!!

  and they would rather die.

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  Nickolas

  Sometimes you just don't know what to say. There are no words that come, maybe because no words are sufficient.

  To obey god, despite consequences can be very hard, especially for imperfect humans!

  What are the consequences of saying stupid things in a thread like this? Go back under your rock.

  
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  1975 WAS a Big Deal!

  by AllTimeJeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as we all know well, jehovah's witnesses taught from the mid '60s that the world would end until 1975. as we all know it is also now 2011. nuff said.. but 1975 had a lot of big things happen..... wheel of fortune first went on the air.. major watergate figures were convicted and went to jail.. the pittsburgh steelers won their first super bowl.

  charlie chaplin is knighted by elizabeth ii.

  bill gates founded microsoft.

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  Nickolas

  Hey, shamus. I bought a mess of Tim Horton's stock awhile back at $30, now at $47. I don't eat there a whole lot, though.

  

  I was "a study" in 1975, pulled the plug in 1976, because of 1975. All the subsequent backpeddling from Brooklyn was bullshit. People were just about pissing their pants with excitement in those days and Brooklyn wasn't saying boo about it but what they were saying was people who were selling their homes and leaving their jobs to go on full time service were to be commended. Tacit recognition that 1975 was going to bring great things followed by weasle words. Disgusting bunch of bastards.
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  Would you go back if you thought there were one in a million chances you were wrong?

  by Paul Duda in

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  often i wake up in a cold sweat wondering if i'm wrong.

  life is short.

  i have only a brief time to make a decision.

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  Nickolas

  One in a million? No. I don't buy lottery tickets, either.
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  Im disfellowshipped

  by newcomer1982 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  think it was announced yesterday that im disfellowshipped.

  will these feelings of guilt and panic ever go away?

  my head is so messed up.

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  Nickolas

  It may not feel that way now, but this is the best thing that could happen to you and now it's up to you not to bend to the blackmail that is shunning. You are on your way to a great new life. This first bit will be a little painful, but it was not your doing but the Watchtower's. You are innocent. Treat your parents and family with love but stand your ground and hold your head high.
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  What,s the solution for our neighbor south of the border?

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  there,s a civil war in that country.

  why don,t the.

  un get involve.

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  Nickolas

  I like you a lot, Nickolas. I'm kind of sorry that you and I are having this discussion. I suppose you see things your way, and I have failed to show them my way.

  I'm not sorry, dgp, and neither should you be. This is just a discussion about hypotheticals. I agree with you that the root of the problem is in the United States but I cannot see the solution in the US. The US has been waging a losing war on drugs for generations and, if anything, the associated problems have multiplied. Unfortunately, I don't see a current solution in Mexico, either, because the situation is out of control and escalating. The government of Mexico is not in charge, the drug lords are. Wish I had the answer to your OP.

  Cheers.
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  THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE!!...THANK YOU NOAH...AND LACK OF SCIENCE TO PROVE THE FLOOD....AND POONTANG....OMG THE POWER OF POONTANG...I WISH I COULD TAKE ALL THE CREDIT...BUT NO!!!!!

  by oompa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has been a hellacious five years for many in my family...especially my poor jw wife who could almost walk on water damm it...she is a saint.....and i so hate i have hurt her in so many ways....and i mean that.....but it has hell for me too since third grade as i never fit in..... or 1995 or both of course...that damm generation of 1914 thingy being kicked to the curb..... and me knowing it was now all bs since then just as i thought it was before......you mean really???

  ?......you mean i actually am going to grow old and die?!?!?

  !....no fukkin way?!

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  Nickolas

  I'm late to the party, but this is absolutely fabulous! Congratulations.