so i was checking out the website to see what the february broadcast was all about before i watched it with my jw wife.. on the front page was this video.... https://tv.jw.org/#en/video/vodbible/pub-jwbai_201607_1_video.
i watched it and pretended i had never been a jw.. if you pretend you don't understand their particular language it makes for a interesting (if not vague) watch.. btw i've seen several of the actors before.
jw version of movie stars?
Outrageous!! Did you notice the amount of carbs at the breakfast table?? donuts, bread, juice, fruits. That's not a balanced diet. I am surprised mom and son are so slim.
Toes up: Just the title alone is disturbing. God is aware of the secrets of the heart.
1984. Big brother is always watching!
steve2: is there some way this can be presented so that it is crystal clear what was actually in the demonstrations and what was added?
i guess some will think it should be obvious - but this is where misunderstandings arise because we end up wrongly attributing something to jw organization that was never said.. circuit assembly theme: maintain love for jehovah!.
note to speaker: warmly encourage young ones to prove their friendship with jehovah by observing his commandments and defending his standards.
"We don't reject homosexual people, just their conduct"
Exactly, our loving father will kill you (Mr/Ms homosexual) only to get rid of your conduct. You are just... well...collateral damage.
just saw this commercial and was very impressed.
hoping more companies start doing the same.
most of us are immigrants.
"wetbacks", "demonizing", "criminals" C'mon guys, it's economics, complex economics that benefit and hurt the U.S., and the net result is hard to quantify. That's why we have had unchecked illegal immigration for decades.
I feel the main threat to the average white guy is not economics, it's cultural. Yes as a Mexican born and raised in Mexico but living in the U.S. for 30 years, I see how communities of immigrants are changing the landscape... for the worse... It's rather easy to tell the predominant ethnic group living in an area by the looks of that community.
just saw this commercial and was very impressed.
hoping more companies start doing the same.
most of us are immigrants.
Never a JW. Point to a single instance here where someone called someone else a bigot for referring to someone as illegal. This post and that commercial is about the wall. I for one believe that illegal immigration needs addressing. The wall is not the way.
Many people defending illegal immigration refer to people opposing illegal immigration as bigots. That's a debate killer. Can you see the big "I" in the word ILLEGAL. Referring to illegal people as "illegals" is not derogatory, is factual.
The wall is a bad move and a waste of money. I doubt it will ever be finished. Trump is bluffing and trying to score points with his supporters. He is running the country as he ran his real estate empire. He is bluffing knowing full well that he won't get his "initial offer", but will get much better than "fair price":
in another thread a poster has been in a pitched fight with others about the results from the arc.
trying to explain away the results and minimizing the damages.
what he has failed to understand is that the society had and still does have certain policies in place that hide the sexual abuse of minors.
Well they have only lost one case and that case was greatly reduced on appeal.
How many have they lost before reaching the courts, otherwise known as settlements?
just saw this commercial and was very impressed.
hoping more companies start doing the same.
most of us are immigrants.
We don't live in a perfect global free market, but we keep moving in that direction, and more and more the Chinese worker is getting better wages at the expense of the American worker's wages (for example). This movement will only stop with national isolationist policies, or in a free market, when the workers in China reach the same economic level as the American workers, all other things being equal. It's the invisible hand!
Regarding people at the top, I still believe is the invisible hand, but certainly a glitch of the free market that runs the risk of collapsing the economic system when the wealth is concentrated in few hands. That's why most nations have progressive taxation, to reduce that risk.
just saw this commercial and was very impressed.
hoping more companies start doing the same.
most of us are immigrants.
Simon: it's all about whether it pays a decent wage.
Who gets to say what's a decent wage. It's not about "decent" wages. It's about American companies staying alive, even competitive, in a global economy. That's why companies who stay in the U.S. have to get cheap labor from illegal immigrants. It's Adam Smith invisible hand always at work in a free market economy. American workers have to get used to the new world order or get a rude awakening. Voting for Trump got them a short break only. The invisible hand can't be contained for long.
Simon :I presume illegal immigrants don't [pay taxes]?
No good numbers on that, but many, possibly most illegal aliens pay income taxes in proportion to their low wages. They also are consumers and pay sales tax and pay property taxes through their landlords. So, the answer is many illegal aliens don't get a tax free ride.
just saw this commercial and was very impressed.
hoping more companies start doing the same.
most of us are immigrants.
It is quite amazing how easily people are willing to ignore their own principles. Most reasonable people in the planet would agree that laws are necessary for an orderly society, and yet so many either get offended by, or disregard the mentioning of the word "Illegal" when referring to most of the immigration going on between the borders of the U.S. and Mexico. In fact, it should be enough to say "It's illegal" to end the debate. But people who use this argument are demonized and called bigots. Strange times!
fyi from north-east england:.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/johovahs-witness-abused-girls-after-12538877.
jehovah's witness abused girls after luring them with video games, court told.
Richard Oliver
Confidentiality? B.S. What a bunch of crap! Three elders put together, victim, perhaps parents, and perpetrator and then the Watchtower legal services (multiple people) is involved too. As far as I know this business of confidentiality involves two persons only: the spiritual advisor and the "sinner". That's it. No reports, no judicial committees, no interrogations.
