I'll take science's track record over ideology's any day of the week.
Posts by Vidiot
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8Flawed Science? Say it ain't so..................
by Night Owl inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-met-office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html.
nightowl.
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Another doozie from DO Brown Payne about "many JW's compromising their neutrality" and voting for Obama
by oppostate inbro do brown payne told the audience of today's sa day at natick mass.
that "many brothers compromised their neutrality by voting in 2008".
he followed that by asking "and what has this president done for you?
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Vidiot
More and more JWs are breaking the rules by voting, quietly getting transfusions, not shunning, and rolling their eyes at Sparlock and the deafsterbation video...
Elders with porn problems aren't getting removed 'cause the pickings are too slim...
The Remnant's ranks are swelling with mental cases...
The wave of pedo lawsuits are rising like Godzilla...
I forgot one; more and more rank-and-filers (mostly Sisters) hooking up and/or marrying out of the "Truth".
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A Secular wts
by mtwtf ina secular wts?my venting #4. .
perhaps im jumping at shadows, but from the reports of doctrinal changes coming out of the 2012 wts annual meeting, it looks very much to me like the gb is revisiting something it started much earlier.
), the gb took what i interpreted at the time, to be the first step to abdicating its role of oversight of the masters household.
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Vidiot
Phizzy - "I think they will remain as the official leaders for some time, in fact until it becomes necessary that they become the public fall guys who take the blame for all the past errors , deceit and murders."
The Legal Dept's long game, maybe? Sell 'em up the river when the Feds come knockin'?
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A Secular wts
by mtwtf ina secular wts?my venting #4. .
perhaps im jumping at shadows, but from the reports of doctrinal changes coming out of the 2012 wts annual meeting, it looks very much to me like the gb is revisiting something it started much earlier.
), the gb took what i interpreted at the time, to be the first step to abdicating its role of oversight of the masters household.
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Vidiot
Not a snowball's chance in Hell.
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Phizzy - "I did not realise until recently that they have known for years that the Blood doctrine is not right, but have stuck to it, why?"
Psychological
Authoritarian leaders cannot admit they are wrong; it goes against every fiber in their collective body.
They'd rather chug horse jism.
Legal
America is a litigous society; if the WTS makes transfusions a "concience matter", they potentially open the floodgates to thousands of wrongful-death lawsuits from non-JW relatives of rank-and-filers who died "maintaining their faith".
I suspect this happened on a (relatively) small scale after they made transplants a "concience matter", but they were able to keep it on the DL with out-of-court settlements.
Which, in turn, would have set an internal procedural precedent and developed into the policies they apply nowadays across the board.
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Alex lost his house playing the stock market
by solomon inin the january 2013 study watchtower:.
alex got caught up in trading in the stock market, thinking he could soon quit his job and enter the pioneer service.
engrossed.
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jgnat - "This article clearly puts the blame back on the congregation for this state of affairs."
Well, they sure as hell ain't gonna say, "sorry, this was our fault".
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Alex lost his house playing the stock market
by solomon inin the january 2013 study watchtower:.
alex got caught up in trading in the stock market, thinking he could soon quit his job and enter the pioneer service.
engrossed.
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AndersonsInfo - "...they are property rich and cash poor and are finding it difficult to sell billions of dollars of property they have for sale all over the world..."
That sums it up so well and concisely; burdened with assets that are decreasing in value and unable to sell, coupled with dwindling revenue from the R&F.
I suppose it serves 'em right for building a religious organization around a 20th Century capitalist business model.
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Well, I talked with two active JWs about the latest understanding of the F&DS.
by Theocratic Sedition ini know a brother who went to the most recent annual meeting.
older brother, non-annointed, elder, wife a pioneer, and overall a pretty good dude.
he let me take a peak at the new awake dropping in 2013, which by the way i have to give credit where it's due as i like the new 16 page format.
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Vidiot
I think this could be a tactic to thin out the professed "Anointed".
Marginilize the head cases, thin-skinned, and eggshell egos, and those ones are more likely to pack up their toys and leave the sandbox in a huff, thus bringing the overall ranks of Partakers back down to a dwindling and more manageable (i.e. compliant) number.
I could be wrong.
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First time poster, Long time Lurker
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Broken Promises - "You said your Dad is one of the "anointed". I'm wondering how you think he'll take it when he learns that he's not part of the FDS anymore?"
Yes, please tell us how it goes down.
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First time poster, Long time Lurker
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Vidiot
"Wouldn't you rather have a smoke alarm that went off once and awhile even if there was no fire, than to not have one, because at least you knew it worked, so that when the smoke started coming for real from a real fire you would have the warning?"
Wouldn't you rather have a boy who only cries "wolf!" when there really is a wolf, instead of just to get attention?