Posts by Room 215

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Royal Commission Australia - Report into Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower Society has been released

by OrphanCrow in

link to pdf:.

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/c2d1f1f5-a1f2-4241-82fb-978d072734bd/report-of-case-study-no-29.

reading it now...no comment yet.

Room 215

"Certain states in Australia already have mandatory reporting and I would see this as the #1 candidate for federal change." Right, Konceptual99; if I correctly recall Jackson's testimony, at one point he hinted that enactment of a federal law to require mandatory reporting would be a welcome outcome to them.

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Turkeys ... to brine or not to brine (recipe)

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

being that time of the year when you can buy turkeys so cheap (most jw's i know but at least a couple) or in some cases food stores give one away with a purchase exceeding some dollar amount, i was just interested in any interesting recipes.. we usually do the brine thing (3/4 cup salt to 1 gallon of water, a few packets of chicken bouillon, some random additional spices, dry or fresh as desired).

cover the turkey completely and then let it soak overnight ( we usually do about an hour a pound).

not a real precise recipe but it does, in our opinion, make for a much more juicy bird without the typical dryness that often happens.. depending on the size of your refrigerator, it may take some gymnastics to get a big pot with a turkey in it.

Room 215

Picture-prefect and delicious turkey, my way: dry-brine it (1 tbsp of kosher salt for every 5 pounds of bird; easier and far superior to wet brining); rub salt over the entire bird, and if you're willing to take the trouble, get some of it under the breast skin

THEN: Put it uncovered in a pan in the fridge for up to three days (the longer the better). When ready for the oven, melt about 6 ounces of butter in some chicken stock, immerse 2-3 layers of cheesecloth and drape it over the bird. covering it entirely. Add about one pint of stock, or white wine, or a combination of both to the roasting pan.

Pre-heat oven to 400 deg. F for 15-20 minutes, then reset the temperature to 325 F..for about 4 hours for a 20 pounder; check for doneness with a meat thermometer (your'e looking for 165 F for the dark meat, about 170 F for the white meat.)

Et voila'!

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Jehovah's Witnesses Crime Against Grammar

by Simon in

jw
friends

so this is really starting to grate on me the more i think about it because it's just wrong grammatically.. one of my friends always refers to me used to being "a jehovah witness" which used to grate whenever she said it but now it seems more correct.. think about it this way: bruce springsteen has fans.

they are fans of bruce springsteen or, bruce springsteen's fans.

but each of them isn't a bruce springsteen's fan.

Room 215

"Jehovah's Witnesses," as in "I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses," is grammatically correct.

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A movie: "I ran away from Jehovah's Witnesses"

by sp74bb in

nov 13, 2016.. http://www.vanityfair.it/news/storie/16/11/13/testimoni-di-geova-storia-x-factor.

google translator:.

when sara told her parents that he no longer wanted to be a jehovah's witness, the father replied that he preferred the dead.

Room 215

Nathan,

I wonder about your proficiency in speaking/understanding a foreign language; your snide remark doesn't deserve Afrikanman's temperate reply.

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Watchtower's "New Light" re Babylonish Captivity, November 2016 WT

by Room 215 in

has anyone noticed the wt's most recent shell-game revisionism in the november study tractazine, relating to the shifting of its "babylonish captivity" doctrine, from a 3 1/2-year period around the ww 1 years, to a period now spanning about 16 centuries, or from the 4th century (constantine's legal recognition of christianity) to 1919?.

Room 215

So now, how do they explain the "Two Witnesses in Sackcloth for 42 Months" of Revelation 11?

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Mark the Date: March,20 2017 Austrailian Royal Commission to Reopen Its JW Child Abuse Inquiry

by Room 215 in

i don't know whether anyone else has posted a thread on this development:.

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

Room 215

I don't know whether anyone else has posted a thread on this development:

http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney

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Watchtower's "New Light" re Babylonish Captivity, November 2016 WT

by Room 215 in

has anyone noticed the wt's most recent shell-game revisionism in the november study tractazine, relating to the shifting of its "babylonish captivity" doctrine, from a 3 1/2-year period around the ww 1 years, to a period now spanning about 16 centuries, or from the 4th century (constantine's legal recognition of christianity) to 1919?.

Room 215

Has anyone noticed the WT's most recent shell-game revisionism in the November study tractazine, relating to the shifting of its "Babylonish Captivity" doctrine, from a 3 1/2-year period around the WW 1 years, to a period now spanning about 16 centuries, or from the 4th century (Constantine's legal recognition of Christianity) to 1919?

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Election Post-Mortem

by Simon in

i'm sure many people, republicans included, are shocked at the results of the 2016 presidential election.

really, wtf!.

the polls were wrong and although it's tempting to blame voter suppression and fbi interference, that would just avoid looking at the real issues for the loss.