BettyHumpter

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  Do you think the JW's ever will or could go the Mormon route?

  by BettyHumpter in

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  what i mean is the mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education.

  in fact, the handful of mormons i went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college.

  yeah there are ex mormons but for a great many, going to university doesn't turn them into atheists.

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  What I mean is the Mormon's have their own set of wacky beliefs and are a pretty insular group, engage in a form of door to door ministry but don't discourage higher education. In fact, the handful of Mormons I went to school with were pushed to excel academically and go to college. Yeah there are ex Mormons but for a great many, going to University doesn't turn them into atheists. They study biology, philosophy, physics etc. but still manage to keep believing in seer stones and a magical tophat, the planet Kolob and Jesus visiting the native americans. Cognitive dissonance and family ties are pretty powerful.
  
  The main roadblock for the JW's is they'd have to lighten up on the 'end is coming soon' rhetoric. But on the other hand, engineers and doctors and lawyers have alot more money for the contribution box.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  Lloyd Evans
  
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  First Day of Returning to D2D Work

  by Foolednomore in

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  this is the first day of the return to the d2d work, no one in the strip opened their doors or gates.

  what a waste of time!.

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  "just passed my local KH this morning…2 cars, maybe 3. Dismal"
  
  Hasn't it always just been a handful during the week? Saturday was when you'd have a large group back when I was in.
  
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  Does anyone know why the quote function doesnt always work?

  by BettyHumpter in

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  or perhaps i'm doing something wrong?

  oftentimes if i try to quote someone so that it's highlighted in yellow, after i submit my comments, the quote remains but my comments are gone.

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  "I find the best way to use the quote function is after you complete your post. Then go to the quoted parts, highlight them and then click on the quote function. That way you will not lose anything."
  
  Yep, thats how I do it and it still deletes my comments alot of the time. Maybe its something to do with Firefox.
  
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  Does anyone know why the quote function doesnt always work?

  by BettyHumpter in

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  or perhaps i'm doing something wrong?

  oftentimes if i try to quote someone so that it's highlighted in yellow, after i submit my comments, the quote remains but my comments are gone.

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  Or perhaps i'm doing something wrong? Oftentimes if I try to quote someone so that it's highlighted in yellow, after I submit my comments, the quote remains but my comments are gone.
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  "This goes back a few years, but what was the guy's name who was like the walking cliche of an apostate? Holding placards in front of buildings and at one point pepper sprayed some JW's at his door? Drawing a blank on his name..."

  Now I remember. 'Danny Haszard'
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  "I swear, it's like he's a WT plant, out here running amok and doing everything you'd expect a crazy protesting ex-JW apostate to do! Total nutter!"

  
  

  This goes back a few years, but what was the guy's name who was like the walking cliche of an apostate? Holding placards in front of buildings and at one point pepper sprayed some JW's at his door? Drawing a blank on his name...
  
  
  
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  LBC radio host James O'Brien: my job is harder than manual labour

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  james o'brien must be one of the most deluded f**kwits on planet earth.. he works as a radio host for lbc and he seems to genuinely reckon that his job is harder than manual labour.. what a smug tit .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduw2lb5kve.

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  Meh...radio talk show host. Our radio in the U.S is filled with these blathering self important twits. Almost all from a conservative point of view screaming about the latest injustice done to poor old 'real americans' (ahem..white middle class conservatives) or whatever.
  
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  NASA: Humans Back to the Moon

  by Gerard in

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  nasa plans return to moon by 2020

  "this vision aims to return humans to the moon, and then to use it as a staging point for a manned mission to mars.

  i wonder if jws will be required to canvas those areas too.

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  "Why not fix the problems here on earth before we go and mess up somewhere else."
  
  Because there will never be a time when all problems on Earth are fixed. Fix a problem, new problem pops up.
  
  NASA is currently 0.48% of the US budget.
  
  If you want to get upset at waste....The cost of the Iraq war was around $2 Trillion. Talk about pissing money to the wind......
  
  If in 2002, if someone had proposed a $2 trillion plan over the next 20 years for say Universal Healthcare as you mentioned..oh the cries and wailing and gnashing of teeth from Republicans and lectures about fiscal responsibility and calling such a plan "socialism " would have been endless. Destroying the country they would have said.
  
  But....such money was apparently available for the clusterfuck that was Iraq.
  
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  Gorbatchev

  by Gorb in

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  the real gorby has died today.

  he was my inspiration for change, with perestroika and glasnost.. that is why i chose the name gorby at jwn.. see the man at the background.

  he was there also.. g..

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  "I have always held that the negotiations and leadership which defused the cold war was one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century. Kudos to Reagan and Gorbachev."
  
  Reagan I suppose learned from his mistakes. But the combination of a paranoid Politburo and Reagan's chest thumping rhetoric (in his first term) got us within a hair's breadth of Nuclear War in the autumn of 1983. Some say the closest since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Once he learned how freaked out the Soviets were in thinking we were about to launch a first strike and some in the Politburo were urging Andropov to preempt, he was horrified and toned it down.
  
  The scary thing is that in the Cuban Missile crisis, both sides at least knew what was going on. During Able Archer in 1983, the U.S was oblivious that the USSR was in a panic until it was all over.
  
  Then of course, the good fortune to have Gorbachev take office who he was able to do business with to turn down the heat.
  
  This is a great book about that particularly frightening year: