Posts by breakfast of champions

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Some Watchtower Covers.

by Beth Shan in

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I got a paper cut and put my finger in my mouth. - FOUND SHEEP

EVIDENTLY, this is now a conscience matter.

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Have anyone ask their JW family member to research "Signs of a Cult"???

by jam in

if so what was their response???

if one look at the identifying signs.

of a cult and compare that to jw organization, there is no doubt.. they score very high on that list.. if there is a satan and i said "if".

I pulled Hassan's BITE model off the Internet and imported it into my word processor. I then control-F'd it and searched for every occurrence of the word "cult" and replaced all of them with the word "group."

I showed the modified list to my wife the other day, actually. All I mentioned was that it was written by a counselor/psychologist who had never heard of JWs. I never mentioned the word cult, but I said it was a study of group psychology and I think it applied to witnesses. She read it.

I said, "What do you think? Anything familiar?"

"Yes, absolutely. And he didn't know who Jehovahs Witnesses were?"

"It's all part of the pattern."

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Some Watchtower Covers.

by Beth Shan in

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With regards to the January 2014 Awake!:

I remember my mother FREAKING OUT when I was losing my teeth because I MIGHT SWALLOW BLOOD!!!!!!!

"Spit it out!!!!! Spit it out!!!!! "

How did I ever stand a chance?

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What does money represent to YOU ?

by new hope and happiness in

for example does money represent to you power, love, joy and much more or does money represent to you feelings of worry, guilt, anger, sadness.. for myself i have always enjoyed living largely on little, and i can appreciate that the best things in life are free.

having said that i am glad i have been fortunate and sensible enough with money to never have exsperienced the anxiety of debt.

and it may sound silly but i dont think winning it big on the lottery would improve the quality of my life nor my family.

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Freedom/a tool.

I certainly would not be able to do what I'm doing now without it (putting myself through school).

Not the most important thing in life, but it sure as hell helps if it's there when you need it.

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The GB are really going out on a limb with this DF decision

by Quarterback in

this is how a do explained the family business policy re relatives of df/da members.. he said that the expression, "necessary family business," is really not a scriptural term.

it is nowhere found in the bible.

but, out of the kindness of the gb's hearts, they have gone beyond what is written and allowed association among families for necessary business.

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F*ckheads.

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Additional BOE Letter: Please Be Advised that Further Direction Will Soon be Sent to the Bodies of Elders...

by TTATTelder in

dear brothers:.

we are writing as a follow-up to the letters dated january 24, 2014, and march 29, 2014,. to all congregations regarding the adjustments now underway to accelerate construction of king-.

dom halls and assembly halls.. .

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I sure bet they're worried when they hear that people think their loan has been forgiven and they no longer have to pay it. - ONE EYED JOE

Well they should worry because that's what they said one page one of their letter! Serves them right. Liars.

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How did HQ handle the increase of new JWs leading up to 1975?

by Zoos in

this new donation arrangement under the pretense that so many new halls are needed to accommodate the worldwide increase has me wondering.

the numbers in the current annual reports don't show anywhere near the increase as there was leading up to the 1975 debacle.

so how did the gb of the time handle a genuine need for more kingdom halls?.

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This is a great question.

Just checked jwfacts.com, and publisher growth was 15% before 1975. Even in the 1980s growth was above 5%.

Now here we are in 2014 with publisher growth somewhere between 1-3%, and yet there's this UNPRECEDENTED, EPIC NEED to build more shit.

That doesn't add up, but not to worry!

Watchtower has disabled everyone's critical thinking skills.

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Scientists create synthetic base pairs that can replicate in a living cell

by cantleave in

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so we now have the ability to create new codons, insert them in a living cell and watch them replicate - amazing stuff.

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleno/39913/title/augmenting-the-genetic-alphabet/.

living organisms have two sets of dna base pairsadenine paired with thymine and cytosine paired with guaninethat together encode the 20 amino acids used to make proteins in the cell.

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This is some amazing stuff.

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That does it ! I'm leaving ! ! !

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

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leaving the university with my degree!.

exams are finished and it's just a matter of days before i walk.. i was certainly stressed about doing this.

i'm older than my classmates and armageddon was sooooo close!

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Awesome! Congrats!

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The Big Mistake: celebrating 100 year of Kingdom Rule (1914)

by Gorbatchov in

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the watchtower society has announced the celebration of 100 year of kingdom rule since 1914.. in recent history, more dictorial regimes has celebrated their years of rule.. i see the society's celebration as the big mistake.

it's a boomerang, a double edged sword.. during and in the aftermath of the celebration there is a change that the institution, the watchtower system, will breakdown.. just like the german demoratic republic, celebrating their 40 years of rule!

in a few month's time the gdr was gone.. gorby.

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Interesting parallel there, GORBY