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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches For Any Arrest

by Bangalore in

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supreme court ruling allows strip-searches for any arrest.. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html.

bangalore.

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Lore

To make sure they don't sneek any cigarettes out of prison into the general population.

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"Are They Witnesses?"

by OnTheWayOut in

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Lore

Give me a minute to edit this post.

posted 2 mins ago

What the heck man?!

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"Do you still feel Jehovah is directing the Organization?"

by outsmartthesystem in

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for those of you with experience being asked this question.....or those of you that are/were elders........ what would happen if you responded to that question by saying "i don't know"?.

what would happen if you responded with "i choose not to answer that question."?

and then when they ask why, you say "because i wish to invoke my 5th amendment rights".

Lore

How you answer that question depends entirely on your goal.

Are you trying to remain a good witness so you don't get shunned by your family? Then the answer to that question is very easy: "Yes of course Jehovah is directing the organization."

Their decisions are based almost entirely on attitude. They're not a legal system, they're a cult. You can't 'plead the 5th' since they don't have a consitution.

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Why are there so many adverts here for mail order brides?

by Glander in

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i swear, i have not been visiting any sites that would tie in.

if i look up info on, say, a particular auto i expect to be clobbered with auto ads.

but ads for asian, russian, etc.

Lore

Ads? What are these 'ads' of which you speak?

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what happens to wts writers who write mistakes in printed pubs

by mP in

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given that the printed word is forever and cannot be erased do the writers get into trouble for the embarassment they cause ?

every mistake results in someone today or tommorrow or nnext year and so on losing faith which is a disasyer for the org.

how do they hope to control these errors and prevent them from happening in the future.?

Lore

What kind of mistakes are you talking about?

I haven't seen a typo or grammatical error in a Watchtower publication in. . . pretty much forever.

That only leaves factual errors or theological errors.

Their comments on science and history are so minimal I'm not really aware of any 'mistakes' in that regard. Lies, yes, like the 607 articles.

Or quoting mathemeticians as authorities on biology, or biologists as experts on astronomy. But those aren't mistakes, those are intentional deceptions.

And if any of the 'experts' they quote are proven wrong, then they can simply say: "We weren't wrong, the scientist was. No suprise there. We were simply informing you of the nonsense those amoral eggheads were spewing."

And any theological errors are just ignored as 'old light', which disqualifies them from being errors since they were true at the time. The updates is not a correction, it's just more true.

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