Posts by prologos

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Has anyone thought about if a General strike take place by undocumented immigrants.

by James Mixon in

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this would cripple the economy, don't know about other states in the union but it would.

be devastating for the border states.

here in california restaurants (no workers) closed, .

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Social Security number, 2014 541000 SSN were issued to illegal emigrants. driver licenses--

all kinds of foreigners, landowners can get these Numbers, social security numbers but stamped. not for work. and yes you could get a driver license if you had a residence, phone bill to show, at least it limits the liability issues with properly ensured vehicles. The government should have enforced existing federal law. created a more comprehensive temporary worker program. big crunches are coming, strikes or not.

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Do you recognize?

by Gorbatchov in

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gorby has had a personal paradigm shift lately.. from one point to an other i "feel" and "think" different about the jw subject.. - no more interest in doctrine.

- no more interest in things that happen 100 years ago into an religion.. - no more taking statements too serious.

it doesn't matter me at all what a generation doctrine change is all about, it doesn't matter me at all that brother elder said "blablabla boe!".

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went through a process here where things that concerned me about wt, and religion period, were overturned one by one, removed from my list of things to do, , but am still interested to point out the build-in contradiction of their world view. , but I am no Gorbachev. look what he did, he used his concerns to overturn his domain, the USSR. -

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The Sea

by compound complex in

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the sea once held this youngster's heart within its mighty bosom.i loved and cherished the sea, stretching outward beyond infinity.

i took to the e'er dreary landscape, the dank surroundings soothing me, enveloping me in crawling mists that were more welcomed to me than the evaporating rays of a cavorting summer sun.i, however, am no longer that pensive lad who found comfort in the dark and cold and deep blue sea.

today, a man in the physical sense, i no longer possess that childlike fascination with my former abode.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztkUuunI7g

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Evolution Gap - Where's the Fur?

by shadow in

evolution paints human ancestors covered with fur.

fur has several benefits as stated by britannica "the pelts of fur-bearing animals are called true furs when they consist of two elements: a dense undercoat, called ground hair, and longer hairs, extending beyond that layer, called guard hair.

the principal function of ground hair is to maintain the animal’s body temperature; that of guard hair is to protect the underlying fur and skin and to shed rain or snow.".

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Where is the fur? yeah, particularly on my shiny old head!

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WTS investment in Ford-Werke - 1943

by OrphanCrow in

*thanks to reddit poster ahilexxx for this information*.

the watchtower society was invested in the german branch of ford motor.

in 1943, their investment was worth $597,595 ($8,363,677.95 in today's value - over 8 million!)..

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sorry to have fallen into the "bash the wt mode" when it was not justified. Jws on the ground in 1943 id their level best not to contribute to the workings of the war machine.

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This religion has a chance of survival

by Socrateswannabe in

the jws could survive as an organization due to one vital human need: recognition.

for decades this religion glorified the older ones and really didn't do much for the younger folks, hence the younger people left in droves.

if you're middle-aged or older, what was the average age of the elders in your congregation or your circuit overseer, as you were growing up?

prologos

I like what you say, except that wt has hobbled the young ones, I mean males mental development, by only assigning them bible readings with no comments for decades, in congregations with power blinded BoEs anyway.

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WTS investment in Ford-Werke - 1943

by OrphanCrow in

*thanks to reddit poster ahilexxx for this information*.

the watchtower society was invested in the german branch of ford motor.

in 1943, their investment was worth $597,595 ($8,363,677.95 in today's value - over 8 million!)..

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OC :--dumping those donations into 'wordly' investments.

Investments that at the time, 1943 would have guaranteed to be used for anti-allied war production. The Tide was turning against germany, and some prior investor might have foreseen the devaluation of any asset under the threat of imminent destruction, even dismantling under the Morgenthau plan, or "ship all factories to Russia" program? May be WT bought it, because it was put on the market so low? not spirit guided investors.

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WTS investment in Ford-Werke - 1943

by OrphanCrow in

*thanks to reddit poster ahilexxx for this information*.

the watchtower society was invested in the german branch of ford motor.

in 1943, their investment was worth $597,595 ($8,363,677.95 in today's value - over 8 million!)..

prologos

Did they diversify and also invested in Opel? GMC's german branch? Ford was ahead of Opel in standardising parts and squeezing the most out of its workers, initially. Henry Ford had also strong anti-semitic leanings. or? PS: Us-owned factories produced great stuff for the german war effort: IBM, another example: NCR (National Cash Register) Berlin's factory produced the timers for anti-aircraft grenades that targeted the Boeing B17 formations flying overhead.

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Generation expiry date?

by pleaseresearch in

how long will it take for a jw to see that even the overlapping generation is wrong?.

the org waited and waited to see if their interpretation of it came true.

those alive in 1914 would still be alive obviously it didn't and jws have to believe in an overlapping generation.

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stuckinarut: "As has been said before:
Jesus was only speaking TO HIS FOLLOWERS IN HIS DAY!
There is no future application...so its all a moot point.
and that 40 year generation did not pass away until all these things, the destruction, took place, but now, wt writers, by making the generation anointed, and having them pass away before the destruction, are making it that moot point, pointless. Then, David Splaine, by invoking F. Franz as an age example, pushed it to ~2075, guaranteeing to make it really pointless for the living, who are are supposedly to survive and hope they "will never die."
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December Study Watchtower - Preparing to Reveal a New Light?

by The Searcher in

the jw/wtbt's anti-scriptural & anti-christ teaching that "a person's own death wipes out their sins" (based on their lie that romans 6:7 is to be interpreted literally) appears to have had a little wedge inserted into it.

despite making numerous accurate references to the fact that 1st century christians had figuratively died to sin, the svengalis at the top of the brooklyn pyramid point-blank refuse to discuss/cite/quote romans 6:7 and its true meaning.

page 10, par.

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eom: "What about Hebrews 9:27, doesn't seem to show that anybody gets a free pass from at least one death..... "27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment

yeah, if you pay for your sins with your death, the account is settled, what basis is there for a further judgement, possibly unfavourable? will wt fear mongering never end? and if Adam & Eve paid the price too, why not resurrect them, now with a clean slate?