Posts by enigma1863

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Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint (Referral) Form

by enigma1863 in

hey are you guys familiar with this form?

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf.

are there any instances where the watchtower is abusing their tax exempt status?.

enigma1863

No one knows anything? I found this document after watching a documentary on Scientology, I didn't know you can file complaints to the irs.

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has anyone else seen the hbo scientology documentary 'going clear' - wow...cults are just mind-blowing you wonder how people can fall for that garbage, then you (those of us former/fading jws) look in the mirror.. i would love for someone to make a major jw documentary like this.

'going clear' is getting a lot of press.

poor tom cruise...he looks like quite the whack job in it too.

enigma1863

Well its not highly distributed but "Truth Be Told" is a pretty good documentary.

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Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint (Referral) Form

by enigma1863 in

hey are you guys familiar with this form?

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf.

are there any instances where the watchtower is abusing their tax exempt status?.

enigma1863

Hey are you guys familiar with this form?

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf

Are there any instances where the Watchtower is abusing their tax exempt status?

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Petition to Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status

by ABibleStudent in

fyi, if you feel that scientology's tax-exempt status should be revoked, you can sign a white house petition to revoke its tax-exempt status at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/revoke-scientologys-tax-exempt-status.. i signed the petition even though i have mixed feelings about this petition.

i would prefer that dangerous cults like scientology be reformed by suspending its tax-exempt status until it makes needed changes and i do not like targeting a specific organization when the whole system should be changed.

on the other hand this type of action may help to promote debate about revising the tax codes in the us.. i do prefer revising the tax code like i wrote about in revise tax code to protect children from sexual abuse .. peace be with you and everyone, who you love,.

enigma1863

I signed it after watching Going Clear.

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Atheism

by Jonathan Drake in

jw
friends

recent events and book reads (one suggested by cofty i believe- thank you) have lead me to the only logical and acceptable conclusion:.

there is no god.. simple logical reasoning: matter can neither me created or destroyed.

so the amount of mass in the universe is constant.

enigma1863

Wait a minute this isn't another April fools joke is it?

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JW Podcast Interview with Steven Hassan

by God_Delusion in

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friends

hi guys & gals,.

i'm really pleased with how the interview with the acclaimed author steven hassan just went.. you can listen to it here - http://www.jwpodcast.org/2015/03/29/s01e11-steven-hassan/.

if you've read the first edition of combatting cult mind control, let us all know what you thought of that book too.. cheers,jaymes.

enigma1863

I wish you guys were around when I first woke up five years ago.

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If Adam and Eve were perfect, why did their immortality have to be sustained by the Tree of Life?

by I_love_Jeff in

it was access to this tree that kept adam and eve in a "perfect" state.

that is why they were kicked out of the garden.

actually, they may not have found the fruit at the time of their expulsion.

enigma1863

I brought something like this up before:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/272966/did-satan-sin

So Adam and Eve died from a small sin of eating a piece of fruit. If sin causes death why is Satan not dead?

Why didn't Adam and eve die that very day like god said? Why punish a snake if it was just being used by Satan? Would Adam and eve have died from sinning if they ate from the tree of life first?

Is Satan still perfect if he disobeys god? Did humans make the first sin?

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Google Ranking sites by trustworthiness

by enigma1863 in

have you heard about this?

in the future google might sort website links by how accurate the information is.

it would definitely put the jw.org website near the bottom of the list.. http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/03/06/38933/fnc-hn-20150306-morano.

enigma1863

Have you heard about this? In the future Google might sort website links by how accurate the information is. It would definitely put the JW.org website near the bottom of the list.

http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/03/06/38933/fnc-hn-20150306-morano

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/google-wants-to-ranks-websites-for-trustworthiness/

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Some Scholars "feel" that...

by enigma1863 in

i am tired of jws using spin words to make it sound like scientist and scholars are not sure about what they are talking about whenever the wtbs doesn't agree with what they are saying.

they'll say stuff like the bible is true but some scientists feel evolution is.... do you know any good examples of these twisting of words?.

enigma1863

I don't think I understand your point with these examples. I agree that you can be very intelligent, well educated and still believe in weird things.

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Some Scholars "feel" that...

by enigma1863 in

i am tired of jws using spin words to make it sound like scientist and scholars are not sure about what they are talking about whenever the wtbs doesn't agree with what they are saying.

they'll say stuff like the bible is true but some scientists feel evolution is.... do you know any good examples of these twisting of words?.

enigma1863

I found this to be helpful info:

http://freeminds.org/psych/beel.htm