Wow, I just came home from this movie and while watching it was struck with the very same thoughts as you. Remember the one female trainer who said "I thought I was an expert on whales, but I was only an expert at training whales using Sea World methods. I really didn't know anything about whales"?
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Movie BLACKFISH Reminds Me of Watchtower Corporation
by OnTheWayOut inyou can google it to learn more but blackfish is a documentary about killed whales in captivity.
particularly a male named tilicum who wound up killing trainers, the last one in 2010.. i had to bite my tongue when my jw wife said "whad did ya think?".
i answered but wanted to say that seaworld giving the impression that trainers were most highly educated was a lie, telling the public these were isolated instances of trainer error was a lie, and all their actions and area tions made me think of wts.. trainers were typically not marine biologist but just young eager excellent swimmers.
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The Advocates for Awareness of Watchtower Abuses (AAWA) [WARNING]
by Simon inuncensored discussions and information for anyone interested in the advocates for awareness of watchtower abuses or 'aawa' http://aawa.co/ (previously known as "the association of anti-watchtower activists http://jwactivists.org/) and how it's handled and responded to privacy issues and put people at risk:.
aawa is here!!
(the association of anti-watchtower activists)an invitation to a new effort- aawawhy when i logged onto aawa did it go to facebook ?in regards to aawaaawa - every generation needs a new revolution - thomas jeffersonnotice how the introduction of the aawa has brought out the loonies lately?will aawa become another cult?
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:pinky to mouth: muuuuuaaaaaahhhhaaaaaahhhhaawwa-hahah.
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The Advocates for Awareness of Watchtower Abuses (AAWA) [WARNING]
by Simon inuncensored discussions and information for anyone interested in the advocates for awareness of watchtower abuses or 'aawa' http://aawa.co/ (previously known as "the association of anti-watchtower activists http://jwactivists.org/) and how it's handled and responded to privacy issues and put people at risk:.
aawa is here!!
(the association of anti-watchtower activists)an invitation to a new effort- aawawhy when i logged onto aawa did it go to facebook ?in regards to aawaaawa - every generation needs a new revolution - thomas jeffersonnotice how the introduction of the aawa has brought out the loonies lately?will aawa become another cult?
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Should you pay the Obamacare penalty or buy health insurance in 2014?
by moshe ini am already reading that some plan to drop their medical insurance coverage on january 1st and just pay the penalty-.
an individual with $30,000 annual income would pay a $300 penalty in 2014, $600 in 2015 and $750 in 2016.. an individual with $50,000 annual income would pay a $500 penalty in 2014, $1,000 in 2015 and $1,250 in 2016.. an individual earning $100,000 a year would pay a $1,000 penalty in 2014, $2,000 in 2015 and $2,500 in 2016.. here is your insurance subsidy calculator-.
http://healthreform.kff.org/subsidycalculator.aspx#incomeagetables.
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SixofNine
Tell her to read the fine print. If you "can't be turned down for pre existing conditions", the premiums she'll pay will be astronomical, they'll be huge co-payments and any other number of ways they can think of to screw her (and anyone else who thinks they'll be able to do this) over.
No, pre existing conditions are not charged at higher rates anymore. That's kind of like the core issue of Obamacare.
I'm not sure how it works exactly (don't have time to go look right now) but there are going to be some sorts of roadblocks in place to discourage people from gambling until they actually have a major illness. (that roadblock might just be the penalties, which I'll admit aren't going to be much of a roadblock the first few years because they are phased in; they will be higher in 2015, 2016, and so on until the full penalty is standard).
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Should you pay the Obamacare penalty or buy health insurance in 2014?
by moshe ini am already reading that some plan to drop their medical insurance coverage on january 1st and just pay the penalty-.
an individual with $30,000 annual income would pay a $300 penalty in 2014, $600 in 2015 and $750 in 2016.. an individual with $50,000 annual income would pay a $500 penalty in 2014, $1,000 in 2015 and $1,250 in 2016.. an individual earning $100,000 a year would pay a $1,000 penalty in 2014, $2,000 in 2015 and $2,500 in 2016.. here is your insurance subsidy calculator-.
http://healthreform.kff.org/subsidycalculator.aspx#incomeagetables.
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"In 2014 , due to her over $50k income( subsidies are for the poor-low income) she will only be able to afford the crapola bronze insurance policy- it will cost more than her policy now and have worse coverage- like a $2000 or so deductible- so after breaking her budget to pay the premiums she will be too broke to even use the insurance and pay the copays for general illnesses and medicine."
Could you tell us the specifics of what you are talking about? What does she pay now, and for what, and what will she pay then? Also her age, if you don't mind?
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Not meaning to sound sexist : In general are women more emotional/feel good about religion,and men more proof/doctrinal in their acceptance ?
by smiddy ini`m just speaking from my own experience here ,and it has occured to me that over the 33 years i was a witness and in the six congrgations i was a part of , except for a few exceptions, the majority of sisters in the congregations did not have a grasp of the so called deeper things of god,according to wt theology, sure they could run off " bible topics for discussion" sermons but very few could take a discussion any further than that.whereas i was aware that males seemed more likely to delve deeper into, not only the scriptures,but also the wt interpretations as a whole.
don`t get me wrong a few women left me for dead in their comprehension of topics ,but i`m just saying overall i found this to be the case ... my experience... smiddy.
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Since being on this forum I've tried to follow some of the more convoluted theological discussion, and it just kills me!
Maybe it bores you to death because, just like the Witness theology it is discussing, you know that at it's core, it's all just "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin"?
As a witness, while I always blamed myself and had self-loathing for not.doing.the.research to truly understand the "deeper" (actually just more convoluted) things of our theology, I think that deep down I just knew it was bullshit. I mean, I went to three meetings a week, if things couldn't be explained deeply and in exquisit detail in years and years worth of meetings, how likely was it that there really existed logical support for anything questionable? -
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Not meaning to sound sexist : In general are women more emotional/feel good about religion,and men more proof/doctrinal in their acceptance ?
by smiddy ini`m just speaking from my own experience here ,and it has occured to me that over the 33 years i was a witness and in the six congrgations i was a part of , except for a few exceptions, the majority of sisters in the congregations did not have a grasp of the so called deeper things of god,according to wt theology, sure they could run off " bible topics for discussion" sermons but very few could take a discussion any further than that.whereas i was aware that males seemed more likely to delve deeper into, not only the scriptures,but also the wt interpretations as a whole.
don`t get me wrong a few women left me for dead in their comprehension of topics ,but i`m just saying overall i found this to be the case ... my experience... smiddy.
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I don't think there is evidence for that claim.
It's a self-validated assumption based on the existing male/female power division in the congregation and the overarching (erronious) view of male/female intellect in society at large.
Scientific studies just don't back up those views.
Specifically to the male witnesses, you'll notice if you think about it that many (most?) of those male witnesses, men of position in the congregation that you assumed were solid, logical thinkers about doctrine, are really just organizational parrots - their core belief is 100% emotional.
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So thankful! Would have never believed it possible!
by coffee_black inover 2 years ago, my daughter was diagnosed with end stage congestive heart failure.
she has come so far.... and even rides her bike 5 to 6 miles per day now.
here's how she looks today.
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oh man, this is so wonderful to hear!
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Homeless HitchHiker saves Woman from Jesus Attack w Hatchet
by SixofNine inhow great would it be for it to turn out that this dude is an exjw (watch it till the end, you'll understand):.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckfbgdzor_0.
http://youtu.be/4y7i1ascs5o.
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Right Beks? (how you doin, btw?)
I don't know what's going on, it is showing up both as embeded video and as a working link for me.
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Homeless HitchHiker saves Woman from Jesus Attack w Hatchet
by SixofNine inhow great would it be for it to turn out that this dude is an exjw (watch it till the end, you'll understand):.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckfbgdzor_0.
http://youtu.be/4y7i1ascs5o.
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How great would it be for it to turn out that this dude is an exJW (watch it till the end, you'll understand):