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  If I were a CEO, and I wasn't very honest...

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...and i was in charge of a big company, and i knew it was going under, you know what i'd do?

  i'd gather up as much money as i could hold in my arms and then i would disappear right before anyone called me to account for misleading all those shareholders and employees.

  then i'd fake my own death while skiing in colorado and get some papers made up saying i was cremated before too many reporters got into town to snoop around.

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  Jesus' money box

  by Apognophos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it seems to me that no one ever talks about jesus' money box, sometimes referred to as the poor box.

  all we know is that it was a box, and it had money, and judas iscariot kept it (and apparently stole from it).

  was it donations made to jesus?

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  Your worst store accident?

  by Apognophos in

  1. social
  2. humour

  mine: i was walking around a grocery store with one of those snapple iced tea boxes dangling from one hand, looking for the other thing i ran in to buy.

  suddenly the flimsy cardboard side of the box came unglued, and bottles dumped out, smashing open on the floor.

  a river of iced tea began to run down the aisle.

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  Why Armageddon is like the end of a Shepard Scale

  by Apognophos in

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  2. beliefs

  for those who haven't heard the famous "infinitely ascending/descending tone", please listen to it now on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shepard_tone.

  although the wikipedia version is unable to demonstrate this, one can download similar sounds and play them in a loop and the tone will seem to continue ascending or descending forever (here's a classic ascending tone to download if you want to try it).

  as one listens, it seems impossible that it could continue going in that direction without leaving the range of human hearing.

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  YRM (Yahweh's Restoration Movement) - Out-JWing the JWs?

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just thought i would point out another religion that shares many of the jws' teachings, including non-trinitarianism and emphasis on god's name: http://www.yrm.org/yrm_statement_of%20belief.htm.

  interestingly, they lean even further towards preserving the jewish covenant than witnesses do.

  i didn't know it was possible to lean this far while still believing in jesus!

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  Why are Witnesses so effective?

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm sure some of you chuckled when you read the topic, or wondered if this was sarcasm, but i'm being serious.

  yes, witnesses number less than one in a thousand, but that's still millions of people.

  people like you and me!

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  Governing Body came to power when/why?

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i've read a little on here about the gb not existing formally until the '70s, and even then not having the top position at first.

  something about knorr and f. franz not wanting to give up their own influence?

  i just wondered if the eventual transition to a body of men might have been intended to prevent another "1975".

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  What are the WT Society's expenditures?

  by Apognophos in

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  2. scandals

  i'm hoping someone who has at least a little inside knowledge can help educate me here.

  what sort of things does the wbts pay for, on a worldwide basis?.

  - i understand that khs are owned and funded locally, at least where the locals can afford them, but what about in poor areas?.

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  Your earliest doubt?

  by Apognophos in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this might be an unfair question for those who have been out of the organization for decades, but i'm wondering if any of you remember your earliest doubt -- maybe something odd that occurred to you as a kid (if you were a jw then).

  please try to limit to two doubts at the most :-).

  i think my first "doubt" was simply realizing that at the time of the flood, every animal that wasn't in the ark died (well, besides the fish, supposedly).

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  Sisters and the Double Standard in the Hall

  by Apognophos in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "i do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in silence.

  " -- paul.

  okay, so this means that a sister has to speak to a householder when on the platform, so she isn't addressing us herself and teaching us something.

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