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  Boring Threads on Loyal Dub Sites

  by Stephanus in

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  you've seen them before: what's your favourite colour?

  favourite spaghetti sauce recipe?

  and so on.. here's some subject lines i'd like to see (feel free to add):.

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  Stephanus

  - Preparing for the Great Tribulation: Best Recipes Involving Household Pets

  - So Desperate even Fred Hall's Beginning to look Attractive? Tips on Dating

  - What was your Favourite Hideout while Counting Time?

  - Bribery: The Fast Track to Congregational Privileges

  - Ways to get Mentioned in the Will of a Lonely Elderly Sister

  - If the End is so Close, how come my Elders Buy 30 Year Bonds?

  "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Groucho Marx
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  Boring Threads on Loyal Dub Sites

  by Stephanus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you've seen them before: what's your favourite colour?

  favourite spaghetti sauce recipe?

  and so on.. here's some subject lines i'd like to see (feel free to add):.

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  Stephanus

  -What to do when Items you Bought at a Garage Sale Start Talking to You

  - Which Part of the Kingdom Hall is Best for Secret Sexual Liaisons with your BF/GF?

  - Using the "Two Witnesses" Rule for Fun and Profit

  - Why Wait 'til Jehovah Kills the Apostates; Let's Start Now!

  - Running Ahead of Jehovah; Is He Getting Too Old to Keep up?

  - "Outdrink Rutherford" Competition This Weekend!

  - Tips for Driving your Fellow Bethelites Crazy

  "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Groucho Marx
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  Boring Threads on Loyal Dub Sites

  by Stephanus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you've seen them before: what's your favourite colour?

  favourite spaghetti sauce recipe?

  and so on.. here's some subject lines i'd like to see (feel free to add):.

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  Stephanus

  - Blackmailing your Judicial Committee; What Worked for you?

  - It's so Hard to Find a Good Black Pudding in the Shops Around Here!

  - Which of your Elders is Best in Bed?

  - Which of your Elders' Wives is Best in Bed?

  - Which of your Elders' Kids is Best in Bed?

  - Methods for Evading your Chaperone; Which Ones Work Best?

  - Nudism is the Perfect Edenic State; Where Shall we Practice?

  - Tricking the HLC into Thinking the Guy in the Next Bed is the Dub!

  - Pros and Cons of Various Inflammable Liquids for Burning Down Kingdom Halls

  "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." - Groucho Marx
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  Boring Threads on Loyal Dub Sites

  by Stephanus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  you've seen them before: what's your favourite colour?

  favourite spaghetti sauce recipe?

  and so on.. here's some subject lines i'd like to see (feel free to add):.

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  Stephanus

  You've seen them before: What's your favourite colour? Favourite spaghetti sauce recipe? And so on.

  Here's some subject lines I'd like to see (feel free to add):

  1. Describe the Wildest Orgasm you ever had.

  2. What's your favourite brand of cigar?

  3. What's the Most Lethal Cocktail you've ever Mixed?

  4. What is Your Favourite Piece of Latex Clothing?

  5. What Piercings or Tatoos do you have that you can't Show here?

  6. Who's your Favourite Collector at the Blood Bank?

  7. Name your Favourite "The Smurfs" character

  8. Your Recipe for Thanksgiving Stuffing

  "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx
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  So what happened to You Know's prophecy?

  by LDH in

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  i mean, the world is still here and all.

  i'm just wondering if i missed the financial collapse of every major economy.. it was supposed to happen in october right?.

  could someone update me?.

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  Naeb, isn't that the Watchtower way - using a two-headed coin? Eg, when things are bad, the 'Tower says it's a sign that the end is near, yet when things are good, it is also a sign that the end is near!

  "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx
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  Do you know how fast the world is changing?

  by Mindchild in

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  while you were sleeping the world is changing in very unusual ways.. do you think that you have been doing a good job keeping up with new discoveries that may change your life?.

  here are just three things i pulled out of the news just on the topic of food and gardening that happened in the last month that might surprise you.. 1. scientists have discovered how to make delicious steaks without killing any animals.

  this will soon be going into commercial use and may radically affect the worldwide meat industry.

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  Stephanus

  You'll find an awful lot of impoverished countries don't have some factors which we Westerners tend to take for granted: the rule of law and protection of property rights, to name two. How can you you try to pull yourself out of poverty when some thug from the army (or the rebel forces) could come through at any time and "tax" your small business or farm (steal from you), with no way in which you can respond to protect yourself and your investment. This is the case in many, many African countries. Look at Nigeria: oil rich, but always begging for IMF and World Bank loans and debt forgiveness, all such payments which end up in the pockets of corrupt govt officials. The lowering of Western trade barriers against agricultural products could be a step in the right direction; indeed has been. Refusing to forgive the debts of corrupt govts who will simply continue to suck the economic life out of their countries in order to maintain inapproprately luxurious lifestyles while their countrymen have subsistence level existances is another - force the buggers to play fair! For some examples of why poor countries continue to be poor, this is a good site:
  http://www.overpopulation.com/

  "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx
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  Do you know how fast the world is changing?

  by Mindchild in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  while you were sleeping the world is changing in very unusual ways.. do you think that you have been doing a good job keeping up with new discoveries that may change your life?.

  here are just three things i pulled out of the news just on the topic of food and gardening that happened in the last month that might surprise you.. 1. scientists have discovered how to make delicious steaks without killing any animals.

  this will soon be going into commercial use and may radically affect the worldwide meat industry.

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  Stephanus

  I should add that like Lomborg, I come from a very environmentalistically oriented background. Here's a link to a site about my father, if you don't believe me!:
  http://www.uow.edu.au/science/env/prize.html

  "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx
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  Do you know how fast the world is changing?

  by Mindchild in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  while you were sleeping the world is changing in very unusual ways.. do you think that you have been doing a good job keeping up with new discoveries that may change your life?.

  here are just three things i pulled out of the news just on the topic of food and gardening that happened in the last month that might surprise you.. 1. scientists have discovered how to make delicious steaks without killing any animals.

  this will soon be going into commercial use and may radically affect the worldwide meat industry.

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  Stephanus

  Unfortuantely, for the time being in this world, economics rule.

  Hey, what's wrong with that, Skipper? It's the rich countries which are currently reversing the environmental damage of earlier, less enlightened and more impoverished times (and they have the surplus resources {wealth} to achieve that goal).

  You want environmental degradation, visit any really impoverished country on the planet. Visit a rich country and you'll see large scale sustainable forestry and reforestation, and rehabilitation of land degradation and the cleaning up of water ways.

  As for Lomborg, his book is the result of a project he started where he set out to disprove Julian Simon's assertions that things are getting better for humanity at large and resources are increasing, not diminishing as the Malthusian imperative would seem to demand. To Lomborg's surprise, he found that Simon was for the most part right; hence his whole change in outlook and his book.

  "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx
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  Mispronunciations at the meetings

  by TR in

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  moxy raised a point in the "exaggeration" thread that aggravated me at the meetings.

  mispronunciations.

  moxy mentioned the word 'hyperbole' as frequently being mispronounced.. another one that bugged me was 'epitome'.

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  Stephanus

  I take it you say "molybdenium", Englishman?

  "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx
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  Mispronunciations at the meetings

  by TR in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  moxy raised a point in the "exaggeration" thread that aggravated me at the meetings.

  mispronunciations.

  moxy mentioned the word 'hyperbole' as frequently being mispronounced.. another one that bugged me was 'epitome'.

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  Stephanus

  The pastor at a church I once went to always pronounced phenomena as "phenonema" - and insisted on doing so (I did hear him get it right once in the 6 years I was there!) Another pastor at the same church used to mispronounce statistics as "stastistics"; he too insisted on using the word as much as he could.

  "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." - Groucho Marx