Posts by Jehalapeno

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Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

by UnshackleTheChains in

i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

you can't write this stuff.

right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

Jehalapeno

What I do know is that while you can invent any story about anyone, it doesn't make it true or believable ... unless you have an audience of fools desperate to believe the sensationalist crap you're peddling.

It's almost as if cognitive bias doesn't go away just because you leave a cult!

Like a few of the Tony Backers on this site have said

Ridiculous to call people that are asking for evidence of the conclusions people are reaching "Tony Backers."

That's like calling people that want evidence of Russian collusion before making a judgment on it "Trump supporters."

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Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

by UnshackleTheChains in

i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

you can't write this stuff.

right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

Jehalapeno

while wearing a trench coat and cap.

Jesus. Did none of y'all ever visit Bethel? That's like Bethel elder uniform, especially with the Brooklyn crowd.

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Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

by UnshackleTheChains in

i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

you can't write this stuff.

right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

Jehalapeno

And if you give a thumbs down to his exposure, then the question begs “Why?”

I'm pretty sure the thumbs down is not to his "exposure," it's to the biased hysteria that is interwoven into the reaction to this video.

Without any other context, this is objectively a big nothing burger.

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Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

by UnshackleTheChains in

i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

you can't write this stuff.

right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

Jehalapeno

The exjw hysteria around this reminds me so much of the leftist hysteria around Russian Collusion.

So many conclusions being jumped to without a single lick of evidence.

The only thing this video shows is (1) hypocrisy, which we already knew and have seen from plenty of other sources, and (2) Tony Morris had enough money with him to buy that much at once. Tony Morris, the only member of the GB who had a career at one time and likely has a military pension and is of retirement age to collect social security.

Ask yourselves, what new information did we gather from this other than the fact that Tony once bought 12 bottles of scotch at once in Jersey?

With the information we have, is there any rational reason (other than wishful thinking and cognitive bias) to assume he's buying all those bottles for personal consumption?

Sure, there are a plethora of ways to justify the glee, schadenfreude and salivating at the opportunity to criticize Tight Pants himself. I'm just wondering if it's all worth making the exjw community appear as frothing at the mouth sensationalists to outsiders and JWs that might be starting to doubt.

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Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

by UnshackleTheChains in

i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

you can't write this stuff.

right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

Jehalapeno

His advice on the Jameson? "You can't go wrong with that". This is a man who knows his way around a liquor store.

Jameson is like the McDonald’s of Irish whiskies. If anything, it tells me he knows far more about Scotch than Irish Whiskey.

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Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

by UnshackleTheChains in

i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

you can't write this stuff.

right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

Jehalapeno

Yes you're the only one. If you wanted to go at a time least likely to be caught by jws in a liquor store, it would be on opening hours on Sunday morning. Any other time of the week, afternoons, evenings, other days of the week, he would be more likely to get caught. Those JW's who don't have 9 or 10am Sunday meetings will either be sleeping or just home.

That's just ridiculous. There's no evidence to support your theory. In fact, there's no evidence to support much in this thread other than the fact that Tony went and dropped some money on a bunch of booze.

1. We don't know the source of the money. (Watchtower Corporate Card? Cash gift? Gift card to that specific store? Money from his grown children?)

2. We don't know the circumstances of the purchase. (Alcoholic? Circle of friends pooling money for a sale? Special occasion? A yearly tradition of gifts for the memorial?)

3. No other context for this aside from the fact that it was in New Jersey.

Let's not be like CNN whenever Trump tweets.

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Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

by UnshackleTheChains in

i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

you can't write this stuff.

right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

Jehalapeno

Footage taken 11:00am on a Sunday morning - Wow That is no accident. He figured all the JW's would be at a meeting and he could get away with it. I hope the active JW's think about what their leadership are doing while they are suffering through boring meetings on Sunday mornings.

Am I the only one that sees the flaw in this assertion? Not all JWs have meetings in the morning on Sunday...some don't even have meeting until 4:00. Some don't even have a meeting on Sunday, they go on Saturday.

How is it logical to say that his timing was "no accident" because he intended on avoiding seeing JWs? Do you really think a Governing Body member wouldn't know that not everyone has morning meeting on Sunday?

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WT-Closing In On 50 Subpoenas!

by Atlantis in

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more subpoenas have been added.

so the watchtower is getting close to 50. i think there are about 44 of them listed here.

brumley the witchhunter!.

Jehalapeno

Xanthippe: in the United States, you aren’t required to register a copyrighted work to be protected by copyright law.

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26 Years Later

by Victor in

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i'm one of earliest adopters of the internet in discovering the real history of the watchtower.

back then it was the wild wild west with newsgroups being the primary sources of information.

then came watchtower observer, freeminds, and all the other sites that followed jwd was one of the later sites.

Jehalapeno

Hey Victor...

I'm an old (nearly 40 now) youngster from Laredo and knew you growing up.

My dad used to have a morning radio show on the local AM station.

You'll be glad to know I escaped from the cult with my wife and kids. My parents don't really talk to us anymore unless they want to see how the kids are doing.

But thanks for being there 4 years ago (this month!) when I was going through my crisis of conscience. I read the books you suggested, got a therapist, and it helped a lot. In the end, I escaped, my wife woke up, and my kids aren't being raised in a cult!

Life is good!

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Asylum Caravan

by dubstepped in

alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?

i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?

it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.

Jehalapeno

What are y'all talking about? It hasn't vanished from the news. I see reports on it every day or two. Just this past weekend, there was a demonstration by MEXICAN protestors in Tijuana chanting, "This is an inviasion...get out Hondurans."