Posts by breakfast of champions

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Pay your subway fare in NY city - or ELSE!

by fulltimestudent in

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/11/22/12/10/nypd-cop-filmed-splitting-man-s-head-open-with-baton.

footage has emerged of an new york city police officer striking an alleged fare-evader's head with a baton, sending the man stumbling and spraying bystanders with his blood.. the video shows the officer approach 20-year-old donovan lawson at bushwick train station in brooklyn yesterday shortly before 8pm.. graphic warning: viewers may find the contents of this video shocking.

lawson was sitting on a wooden bench and holding his hands up when the unnamed officer started throwing punches.. witness michelle anas was on her way home from work when she stumbled across the scene.. she said she went to call 911 just as the officer pulled out his truncheon and cracked lawson over the head, sending him reeling across the platform as blood poured from his skull.. "it was one of the most awful things i've ever seen," witness michelle anas told new york daily news.

breakfast of champions

Broken Windows Theory, I get.

Breaking heads open . . . not so much.

Then again, here's a great idea:

Pay for a goddamned metro card like the rest of us - if in fact the perp did jump the turnstile.

I dunno. . . would like to see more evidence.

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PLEASE don't read this . . . if you have O.C.D. tendencies or are superstitious

by Terry in

what if there were no such things as arabic numerals (0123456789)?.

what if you only had your alphabet?.

you could use letters as numerical values.

breakfast of champions

Poop on pi!

e is everything!

Oh gosh, I was warned not to read this thread!

(and I'm not superstitious)

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Elders: Born-Ins vs Recruits

by breakfast of champions in

this is an unofficial survey.. was curious as to the number of currently serving elders who were born-in and/or raised as jw versus those who were "recruited"( i.e, not born in or raised as jw.).

for instance, right now in the hall i am assigned to:.

2 elders were born-in and/or raised as jws.. 5 were not (recruited as adults).

breakfast of champions

This is an unofficial survey.

Was curious as to the number of currently serving elders who were born-in and/or raised as JW versus those who were "recruited"( i.e, not born in or raised as JW.)

For instance, right now in the hall I am assigned to:

2 elders were born-in and/or raised as JWs.

5 were not (recruited as adults)

What is the makeup of the elder body in the cong. you are assigned to right now? How many born-in/raised? How many "recruited"?

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UNCONFIRMED RUMOUR - GB Member DF

by notsurewheretogo in

did you see the post on reddit?

unconfirmed naturally and just a rumour but at at one assembly this week it was announced that the 6 members of the gb send their love.. .

there are 7 members of the gb.. .

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Yeah, it was Raymond Franz!

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What really woke me up: I started noticing most JWS are weirdos..

by kneehighmiah in

jw
friends

thankfully my parents are converts so they aren't wierd.

seemed pretty popular by all accounts.

they are "popular" jws even now.

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My wife and I have always joked about the bible verse which describes god's followers as a "people peculiarly his own."

Peculiar indeed!

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Scientists Should Not Dismiss Genesis So Quickly

by Chris Tann in

nasa discovery proves the bible scientifically accurate.

the debate.

for decades there has been a long standing debate between science and religion as to the validity of the biblical genesis account of creation.

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Everyone on this forum will awaken in their own time.

Yes. I have.

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My prophecy about the tight pants comments

by stillin in

ok, so, brother morris seems to have gone out on a limb with his comments about tight pants.

yup, he's an opinionated man.

but, i fully expect that there will be some reference to the scientific wisdom behind his words.

breakfast of champions

Interesting.

So, yes, there could be a "mismatch" here between an evolutionary perspective which would favor "loose pants" (or even no pants) as being most adaptive, as opposed to a more cultural perspective favoring "tight pants" which would, according to the speaker, attract only members of the same sex (not very adaptive).

I'm going to cut right down the middle (ouch! That hurt just saying it!) and choose pants that "fit" me, neither tight nor loose.

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My Wife Takes the "Spiritual Belief System" Quiz

by breakfast of champions in

so i asked my wife to take the "spiritual belief system" quiz online.

now, this is not claiming to be a scientifically accurate system to determine your religious affiliation, but i thought it would be an interesting exercise.. for those who haven't seen it, the questionnaire is here:.

http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/.

breakfast of champions

Interesting, JUSTNOWOUT. . . . I'll have to research that a bit further.

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My Wife Takes the "Spiritual Belief System" Quiz

by breakfast of champions in

so i asked my wife to take the "spiritual belief system" quiz online.

now, this is not claiming to be a scientifically accurate system to determine your religious affiliation, but i thought it would be an interesting exercise.. for those who haven't seen it, the questionnaire is here:.

http://www.selectsmart.com/religion/.

breakfast of champions

So I asked my wife to take the "Spiritual Belief System" quiz online. Now, this is not claiming to be a scientifically accurate system to determine your religious affiliation, but I thought it would be an interesting exercise.

For those who haven't seen it, the questionnaire is here:

http://www.selectsmart.com/RELIGION/

After you answer the questions, it returns what "spiritual belief system" you are most closely aligned with with according to a percentage scale. For instance, #1 for me was Secular Humanist at 100%, #2 Non-theist (87%) and #3 Unitarian Universalist (84%). Dead last at #27 was Jehovahs Witness at 0%.

So I ask my wife to take the test, and all I ask is that she answers what she actually believes, and not what she's supposed to say.

I'm expecting JWs to be in the top 5. Certainly not the #1 spot, but up there.

Here are her results:

#1 Orthodox Quaker- Religious society of friends (100%)

#2 Reform Judaism (96%)

#3 Unitarian Universalism (88%)

Now when I saw these top results, I wasn't particularly surprised. I was kind of happy we have a bit of overlap in the UU category.. . . . . But where were JWs?

I started scrolling. . . . .down. . .. .. down. . . down. . . .

#26 Jehovahs Witness (35%)

This is good!

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Scientists Should Not Dismiss Genesis So Quickly

by Chris Tann in

nasa discovery proves the bible scientifically accurate.

the debate.

for decades there has been a long standing debate between science and religion as to the validity of the biblical genesis account of creation.

breakfast of champions

Sometimes things seem 100% true. All evidence points to it being true, but as time goes on things are proved otherwise.

Yes. At first reading as a child, the genesis account seems to be 100% true. Quite "reasonable." All the evidence (that watchtower supplied me) also pointed to it being true.

Cofty, just because Iam reading one book about evolution, doesn't mean I'm going to believe it right off the bat.

Actually, there is no need to "believe" in evolution.

Well, I suppose on some level, you do need to "believe" that you actually exist and that you are in fact reading a book.

Other than that. . . .