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TUTORIAL: Proving the GB and Watch Tower is guilty
by Terry inq: are you willing to admit the gb and the wts is wrong if the facts go against them?.
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What I'm going to say to JWs offering the JW.org tract
by baltar447 inlisten guys, one month i had some bible thumpers knocking at me door telling me about hell.
then i have some weird fundamental religious sponsored "education books for parents to help their children in school".
the next i have some south korean mother god cult come to my door with qr codes on their literature too.
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Sounds more like
BAM BAM!
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List of Branch Offices and Country Offices of Jehovah's Witnesses
by cedars ini'm trying to put together a comprehensive master list of watch tower society branch offices that corresponds roughly with the figure published in the worldwide report.. i feel it would be useful to monitor the number and location of existing branch offices, because i believe the distribution of branch offices worldwide is a good indicator of the society's financial wellbeing.
we now seem to be entering a period of branch office closures, with last year seeing an unprecendented 16% reduction in branch office numbers over the year before.
it will be interesting to see how things develop moving forward, but i'm hoping that by keeping a list of the offices we will be better placed to keep track of the "retreat" if branch office numbers continue to dwindle.. here we go.... .
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$30 million for a Shang Dynasty bronze casting
by fulltimestudent inin 1922 some farmers in taoyuan county, hunan province, china, dug up a beautiful cast bronze vessel with a lid.
the farmer's son took the lid to school to ask his teacher what it was.
the teacher saw that it was something wonderful and raked up 800 silver dollars to buy it.
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IN MY OPINION,
the Society would view this as obscene materialism, what with much of the world living in poverty.
HOWEVER,
If these items were left to the Society through someone's Last Will,
IN MY OPINION,
the Society would try to squeeze every penny out of the sale of these trinkets, viewing it as a
BLESSING FROM JEHOVAH.
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$30 million for a Shang Dynasty bronze casting
by fulltimestudent inin 1922 some farmers in taoyuan county, hunan province, china, dug up a beautiful cast bronze vessel with a lid.
the farmer's son took the lid to school to ask his teacher what it was.
the teacher saw that it was something wonderful and raked up 800 silver dollars to buy it.
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April 8, 2014
Small Chinese cup sells for $36 million
Sotheby’s Deputy Chairman for Asia Nicholas Chow presents the Meiyintang “Chicken Cup” from the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) during a press conference in Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Sotheby’s said Shanghai collector Liu Yiqian won the bidding for the “Chicken Cup,” which is decorated with a rooster, hen and their chicks. Including the auction house’s commission, the price for the small cup comes to HK$281.2 million (US$36.1 million), which Sotheby’s said is a world record price for Chinese porcelain. ; AP Photo/Vincent Yu
HONG KONG - A Shanghai collector bought a rare Ming Dynasty cup that's touted as the "holy grail" of China's art world for $36 million at a Hong Kong auction on Tuesday, smashing the previous world record price for Chinese porcelain.
Sotheby's said Liu Yiqian was the winning bidder for the small white cup, which measures just 8 centimeters (3.1 Inches) in diameter and is more than 500 years old. The vessel is known as a "chicken cup" because it's decorated with a rooster and hen tending to their chicks.
It was made during the reign of the Ming Dynasty's Chenghua Emperor, who ruled from 1465 to 1487. Sotheby's said there are only 17 such cups in existence, with four in private hands and the rest in museums.
"There's no more legendary object in the history of Chinese porcelain," said Nicholas Chow, Sotheby's deputy chairman for Asia. "This is really the holy grail when it comes to Chinese art."
For such a prized item, bidding was limited to a handful of wealthy collectors and when the winning bid was hammered down at HK$250 million ($32.2 million), the standing-room only crowd broke into applause. The auction house's commission brought the total to HK$281.2 million ($36.1 million). A pre-sale estimate had estimated a maximum sale price of HK$300 million.
Sotheby's said the previous record for Chinese porcelain was set in 2010 when a gourd-shaped Qianlong vase sold for $32.4 million.
It's the latest of several records set at the auction house's Hong Kong spring sales, indicating that the region's super-rich are still spending despite fluctuating economic growth. At Sunday's sale of modern and contemporary Asian art, Asian collectors bought nine of the top 10 priciest lots.
"Definitely the mood in Hong Kong at this moment, in Asia, is buoyant," said Chow.
Chow said the cup would likely go on display in Liu's Long Museum in Shanghai, which he and his wife, Wang Wei, opened in 2012.
Liu is a middle-school dropout who drove a cab before becoming a multimillionaire. Forbes estimates his fortune at $900 million, making him the 200th richest person in China.
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If you were going to die in 30 days....
by LogCon inand you wrote a letter,.
who would you write to?
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and you wrote a letter,
Who would you write to?
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What would you say?
