Posts by James Brown

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Did You Feel Guilty As A Witness Because Of Your Sexuality?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
did you feel guilty over your sexual feelings or actions, while you were a jw?

the watchtower always wasnts people to feel guilty.

i know of many witnesses that would pioneer or volunteer for something, as an act of penance for their sexual sins or desires, even if they were married!.
James Brown

Did you feel guilty over your sexual feelings or actions, while you were a JW? The Watchtower always wasnts people to feel guilty. I know of MANY Witnesses that would pioneer or volunteer for something, as an act of penance for their sexual sins or desires, even if they were married

It seems like many religions that derive from the catholic church and the bible.

Thrive on guilt and penace.

I would say the Catholic church is Jehovahs witnesses light.

But since the catholic church is the original that doesn't really make sense.

The church is a coconspirator with the wealthy in controlling the masses.

and in that you find your conspiracy and conpiracies.

Just read a high school history book of the world, aka World history 101.

From the begining of history in Sumer 3,500 years ago.

Let me clarify, the begining of recorded history.
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Do You Support Illegal Aliens Coming Into The USA As They Have This Past Year?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
i think it's hurting the country..
James Brown

Jgnat. The Key word is

ILLegal Aliens.

Not refugees.

not ecomomic refugees.
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Do You Support Illegal Aliens Coming Into The USA As They Have This Past Year?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
i think it's hurting the country..
James Brown

They are not sneaking into Canada. It is too far and too hard to get into.

And Canadians don't seem as willing to be raped, financially that is.

The only thing bad about Canada is the wheather.

Canada must not have all the programs that attract illegal imigrants.

Plus the ones from South and Central America, like the heat, they don't like the cold.

They are not going to Canada, even if you feed and shelter and medicate them for free.

They don't like the cold.
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Are you interested in dropping your southern accent?
by jam in
1. jw
2. experiences
well you are in luck, oak ridge national laboratory in.

tn offered a class for their 4000 employees from 90. different countries, get this,a class that teaches how to.

minimice a southern accent.
James Brown

The southern accent has improved a lot over the years.

My mother was born in Atlanta in the 30's and you and I could not understand my

mother or her family my aunts uncles and grand parents.

I was born in Cleveland Ohio, where we don't have an accent.

Clevelanders talked in the 60's like the national news casters or professional broadcasters.

But nowdays people from Atlanta speak pretty good, well.

I asked my aunt how she learned to talk.

She said we had to learn to speak to get good jobs dealing with the public.

A southern accent is cool, but it is a detriment to many kinds of 21st century employment opportunities.

You are not going to call a call center and talk to someone with a southern accent.

Call centers are the 21st centuries answer to automobile manufacturing and manufacturing in general.

Its where the bulk of modern jobs are in the USA.

Having a southern accent and getting a good job is like trying to sell insurance covered with tatoos.
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Can anyone give me any advice on how to get rid of cockroaches?
by Jeannette in
1. social
2. humour
i have sprayed, i have bug bombed, i have sprayed some more.

i threw things out i thought that they might have a nest in.

i soaked some things in hot water all day.
James Brown

Ha. I got rid of carpenter ants at our cottage in the Laurentians by......

sealing off the windows , backing my van up to the house, hooking a plastic pipe to my exhaust that went to one window, taped that up, started the van, and went for a swim. Bye-bye carpenter ants and spiders.

I wonder if that would work for termites?
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What Would It Take To Prove......
by metatron in
1. jw
2. friends
a hypothetical question.. at a minimum, what evidence would it take to prove that the society is trying to quietly shed publishers?.

now, i don't think we have evidence of this yet but that doesn't mean it could never happen.

we must consider where the trends of magazine/literature cuts, branch office sales, coerced contributions, bethel/do layoffs, and emphasis on jw.org lead us.. otoh, you might argue that there would never be a deliberate move to get rid of them, just moves that discreetly abandon them.
James Brown

Why would they want to shed publishers?

They are more likely to hide the money and try to increase the money flow into the organization.
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Do You Support Illegal Aliens Coming Into The USA As They Have This Past Year?
by minimus in
1. social
2. current
i think it's hurting the country..
James Brown

I am against illegal immigrants.

It is a problem started by Bush and the republicans.

But Obama has dropped the ball and is responsible also.

Who can you vote for to change it?

I voted democrat because of the terrible job Bush and Channey did.

And now Obama is following in their footsteps.

You cant win.

But we know and knew that.

The key word is illegal.

My great grandparents had to apply for citizenship and come over on a boat from Germany

and go through Ellis Island.

Also they had to be sponsered, if they could not provide for themself, the sponsor was responsible.

My Great Great Grandfather came over sponsered by a German industrialist who sponsered many Germans.

I know there has to be some rich Mexicans that can sponser Mexicnas.

Taco bell, Chipoltes, Moes Southwest Grill, Del Taco.

Let them sponser their amigos and do it legally.
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Can anyone give me any advice on how to get rid of cockroaches?
by Jeannette in
1. social
2. humour
i have sprayed, i have bug bombed, i have sprayed some more.

i threw things out i thought that they might have a nest in.

i soaked some things in hot water all day.
James Brown

Roach motels.

Bugs get in them but they cant get out.

They work in Florida, the roach capital of the world.
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Does consciousness end with the death of the body
by givemejustalittlemoretime in
1. watchtower
2. bible
apparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.

they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.
James Brown

Mad Giant:

I have been out of the watchtower since 83.

For all practical purposes they didnt have computers as we know them back then.

So If that is the watchtowers belief today, I doubt it was then.

I didnt get it from the watchtower.

Yesterdays watchtower corporation is not todays watchtower corporation.

I really don't know what the watchtower in the 21st century believes.

I know they were wrong about everything they preached about in the 20th century.

I got the idea from a book I read.

I think it was called ancient aliens.

But its just one unfounded opinion to the next.

Nothing provable.

Call it a theory. Or possibility.
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Does consciousness end with the death of the body
by givemejustalittlemoretime in
1. watchtower
2. bible
apparently, the carvakas in anceint hinduism were materialists and skeptics, arguing that consciousness ends with the death of the body and that therefore we should take pleasure in this life while we possess it and practice compassion toward others.

they also argued that direct observation is the only certain way to know anything, and thus the existence of supernatural forces and realities cannot be established and must be rejected.
James Brown

A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God. - Ecclesiastes 2:24

In my opinion that is

Good

Orderly

Direction

From God.