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  Al Jazeera Finds A New Home In Canada

  by Richie in

  1. social
  2. current

  al jazeera, the middle eastern arab propaganda television station has been granted a licence to broadcast in canada on cable and satellite television by the crtc (the federal watchdog for communication in canada).

  both issues are outrageous!.

  the crtc will not let canadians watch the us fox television news network, which is the most viewed american news provider.

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  FoxNews Less Bias, According to UCLA/Stanford Study II

  by Richie in

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  2. current

  this is a continuation of a subject which was introduced by thichi, who showed us a brilliant and in-depth report of how the general media shows a heavy liberal bias.

  not just a small report or just one viewpoint, but a concerted and unbiased effort toward devising a method of measuring press bias based on the manner how members of congress cite various think tanks in determining which were viewed as conservative or liberal.

  this study is extremely credible and unambiguous, unlike the reactions in the previous post by those who who didn?t read the report and just pushed it aside by saying ?would it be biased for the media to quote one report showing one viewpoint if there are hundreds showing the opposite??

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  Ronald Reagan - Too good for the toadies of the international community

  by Richie in

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  2. current

  it is quite remarkable how people who've done nothing to really further the cause of peace seem to win the nobel peace prize.

  the most glowing insult to the integrity of what this prize should stand for, was best demonstrated with its awarding to yasser arafat, the father of modern day terrorism.. .

  although i've never heard of one instant where arafat purposefully placed his life or well being on the line in face to face combat, he has literally sent thousands to their horrible deaths.

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  JW's History - A Real Cast of Characters!

  by Richie in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this is what i found while cruising the internet this afternoon: interesting indeed!

  in the beginning god created charles!

  charles

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  Is a University or College education still frowned upon today?

  by Richie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after about 8 months of "silence", i took the initiative to visit my daughter, who is an active jw - i wanted to see her, as i bought some good nutritional supplements which i wanted to give to her for her children.

  she was kind but somewhat distant - we embraced each other and then talked a little bit about non-essential things.

  she showed me my granddaughter, who is about 10 months old - very cute and so pretty.

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  Traits of Abusive Churches and Toxic Faith Systems

  by Richie in

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  2. friends

  an exhaustive study has been done on the behavior of cult groups - in several books about "cults", they enumerated 21 major points where you can identify the traits of a cult-like organization.

  bear in mind that the authors did not target jehovah's witnesses as a specific group at all, which made it all the more frightening!

  but this dissertation generalized all cult-groups existing in the world.... 1. control-oriented, arrogantly assertive, power-posturing leadership.. 2. authoritarian and legalistic with dictatorial, dogmatic doctrines that are proclaimed to be "the truth".. 3. claims of being the channel of communication between god and humankind; having unique knowledge that makes them special.

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  My experience at the Memorial...

  by Richie in

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  2. friends

  the memorial was held last night at a community center about 15 km away from the kingdom hall.

  as a df'd person, i always feel more uncomfortable if the memorial is held at a location other than the regular kh, as i would otherwise know my way around where to sit in obscurity, as well as arriving just as the meeting is about to start.. well, i decided to come a little bit earlier (although not too early) - then walked inside the community center and suddenly i was standing in front of the wide entrance where practically everyone was gathered in order to get a perfect view of who were entering the hall.

  needless to say, i felt like an alien, someone who did not exist at all, yet when i gazed into the eyes of many of the ones i know, i noticed that they were secretly looking at me and then quickly turned their heads away from me.

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  Comments from the CO today

  by Richie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went to the meeting today to hear the public talk given by the visiting co. the talk dealt with jehovah's secret dwelling place and how we can all be taking advantage of "fleeing to safety" as it were, especially as the days are getting wicked as he mentioned.

  he brought out the dangers of listening to apostates (there were 2 people in the congregation who disassociated themselves recently, which automatically meant that they were apostates according to the co's comments).

  then he further elaborated on the fact that there were about 14,000 witnesses disfellowshipped in the usa each year and in canada 1400, about the size of a circuit assembly - also he said how terribly dishonorable it would be to be df'd and be as a dead person as it were (i felt so embarrassed as i am df'd) - during the talk he brought out two points which were extremely misleading if not outright lies: he said that just after the disaster of sept 11th, thousands of people "wanted to flee to security to the watchtower building and that they felt that they needed this security".

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  what would you do different????

  by Richie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  suppose you never took the truth, what instead would you have done differently in your life???.

  richie :*)

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  unreasonable nit-picking by witnesses!

  by Richie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how many of you have had experiences where elders and others in the congregation presented and even pushed their own viewpoints on matters which should be left to each person's own conscience.. we are all aware of the frowns and negative opinions on the way we sometimes dressed; one elder commented on my tie as it was too bright - i once bought a pretty ornament which had a pyramid shape, afterwards a sister said that i should not have this in my house (she did not know precisely why...but sort of felt it was wrong!).

  we got a few frowns when we had a wind chime, but at least there we did some research on and told the individual to mind his own business.. how many of you know the "demon inspired" proctor & gamble sign, which prompted many witnesses to abstain from purchasing any p & g products.

  how silly!

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