@JwFacts: if someone got carried away with their abilities to forecast the market and they are overly exposed in the hedge fund/derivatives market, 1 biilion in promised funds is not going to cut it. They may need much more to cover some swaps that went south.
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Germany loses 22 congregations and 41 KHs in 3 years (2011-2014)
by Viva la Vida ini just compared the latest data provided by the german wt and data i found searching for the same page in archive.org.
congregations 2011: 2232. congregations 2014: 2210. kh 2011: 1075. kh 2014: 1034. source: http://www.jehovaszeugen.de/statistik.18.0.html - this is a oficial site for germany.
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How do you shut your mind down so you can get a good night sleep???
by jam inthe more i learn about jw's the harder it is.
to sleep at night.
the wife hit the pillow and within 5 min.. she is snoring.
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I'm with Juan on the Melatonin. I don't have a problem falling asleep, just staying asleep. This stuff really helps (me) YMMV. Also, the only side effect I have is very lucid (very) dreams. Can't complain. If you have trouble falling asleep, try the breathing techniques mentioned. I can't even make it to 10, before having to start over. Also, not a cheap solution, but you might try testing a used Biomat to see if it works for you. I usually wake myself up after 20 minutes with the snoring.
If I can get 6-7 hours of solid sleep, I am a happy camper.
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Trolleys everywhere in my neck of the woods
by KateWild ini went to an appointment today and what do you know a trolley.. i couldn't stop and chat, but i have another appoinment thursday, i will go early and have a chat.
i love this it's great fun chatting to jws whilst being df'd.. any ideas for my presentation?.
do you think i am harming myself?.
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In front of the main train station in Warsaw (facing the Palace of Culture) there is always a setup. Different people all the time. Usually 2 trolleys side by side and 3-4 Jw's. Most of the time 2 women and 1 man. I'll try to get a pic up this week.
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Jehovah vs. Jehovah - A comparison
by processor ingetting to know the warrior who gives peace we can learn something about god when we are concerned with people like jacob, who saw god face to face.
(gen. 32:30) true, moses and aaron, nadab and abihu and seventy of the older men of israel proceeded to go up, and they got to see the god of israel.
24:9, 10.someone who has seen god face to face surely would be able to teach us many things about him.
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@processor: you are really sharp. Love your work. I can imagine you are very successful at whatever secular enterprise you are involved in.
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£1m for a house in Wales - that's nothing compared to £16m in Barnet
by PaulWrightson72 inthe ibsa spent 6m buying two plots of land near wt house and spent another 10m on building and fitting out the flats.
since there are only 15 flats there, that works out at over 1m/flat - and these are 2 bedroom flats only.
similar flats nearby are marketed to the very top of the market.
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So apparently, someone just needs a nice place to chill-out for the occasional weekend.
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How *exactly* you and your income are being affected by inequality.
by cognisonance ini found this link really interesting: inequality.is and associated with the excellent robert reich documentary: inequality for all.. .
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Cog,
Yes, I am suggesting that you move. Not easy to get into Norway, which would be the best (wealth fund from oil). Sweden is possible if you have some needed skill, but perhaps not so easy if you are US citizen. For me, living in Poland as a US citzen with permanent residence card, Sweden would be the best bet. Denmark is very expensive.
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How *exactly* you and your income are being affected by inequality.
by cognisonance ini found this link really interesting: inequality.is and associated with the excellent robert reich documentary: inequality for all.. .
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Cog,
All the countries you mentioned are much more 'socialist' than the US but would be very high on my list of places to move to if I was younger. Sure taxes are higher, but when you are not paying for the self-appointed world's police force (as in the US), you have a lot more money to use for social welfare. They didn't change, they just never went down that path (in modern history, post WWII). I voted with my feet and we are in one of the currently lighter colored countries on you map (Poland). Wife wants to go back to Canada (for health benefits). Not going back to the states....
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How *exactly* you and your income are being affected by inequality.
by cognisonance ini found this link really interesting: inequality.is and associated with the excellent robert reich documentary: inequality for all.. .
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Cog,
Unfortunately it is not a problem to be solved. It just has to play out. The only people that could bring about change are those that are benefitting the most from the current system. Are they going to change it? Why? Are the folks at the other end of the spectrum? Not likely. More likely, if they try they will be classified as 'terrorists'.
Sounds a lot like a cult I was associated with for a long time. Only the 'terrorists' were called 'apostates'. Same result. Better just to bail out while you can...
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JWs in a frenzy!
by leaving_quietly inanyone else get the distinct impression that jws are being worked up into a frenzy with all the changes and activity nowadays?
by the end of august, there will have been four campaigns inside of a year.
one last november, a memorial campaign, a convention campaign and an advertise jw.org campaign.. then there's the conventions with all the hooplah around that with all the video, and the aggrandizement of synchronized gb talks.
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My wife keeps making little aside comments about 100 years since 1914. Not sure how much longer I can resist an appropiate response.
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17 calls? Are you kidding me?!?!
by Jon Preston inwell my wife and i still arent attending meetings....we first agreed to go here and there...oops.
anyways we missed the last meeting and suddenly our phone blew up!
it was like 17 missed calls!
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Actually, Outlaw - that is not always the case. As they say, YMMV. Recently, even though I no longer attend, I had to change jobs after not getting paid for 3 months and several 'friends' gave us money to get by. In the past, I gave a brother/friend several thousand dollars so he could keep a roof over his children's heads. I didn't ask him to sign any docs as the WTBatS recommends. I guess this is what normal people do too, but I wouldn't know. There are some good people who are still JW's....