It's difficult to rationalize such a horrible action, but as we know from our JW days, people can rationalize very extreme things.
Posts by 88JM
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21Today's groundless speculation thread - so why would a German copilot deliberately fly an airplane into a mountain?
by sir82 injust can't wrap my head around this.
the guy (a) evidently did all of this on purpose, and (b) evidently had no reason at all to do so.. there is a huge chunk of the puzzle missing from this one (so far)..
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Leaked New Songs 139-142
by toweragent inhttp://jwtalk.net/forums/files/download/498-songs-140-142/.
i don't know if anybody has seen this (or if anybody cares).
but it seems that some of the "new" new songs have been leaked by somebody at bethel.. just a bit of a warning, do not click on that vocal rendition of song 142... it is awful.
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88JM
They almost sound like a WT Christmas album?
Song 140 starts like it's about to turn into this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChU4M3fe-9Q
And Song 141 sounds like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mg7ok8dmDU
Song 142 is channeling The Lion King:
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30 fricken minutes for a part about "Meetings for field service" !!!! Seriously??
by stuckinarut2 in30 minutes and a km article of 13 paragraphs to consider how the field service group should be 5 mins brief!.
how ironic!.
(find this in the kingdum misery for march).
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88JM
It's just a one more item in a trend of the total joke that the service meeting has become.
Week in and week out, there is very little substance to the service meeting items these days - it's either reviewing a previous item earlier in the month, looking ahead to upcoming parts, or reading some bit from the yearbook. Just recycling the same junk with alarming frequency.
Incidentally here this week it's an assembly weekend so there's no Thursday meeting. However, the elders have changed the service meeting in two weeks so that they are still having this 30 minute item anyway!
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Ferguson Shooting (Is my thinking on this all wrong.......)
by out4good3 ini think everyone here can agree that walking down the street, even in the middle of the street, is not cause for having a clip emptied in your ass......... i can understand how the black community would be outraged by the injustice of seeing another black man dead in the street at the hands of the police under mysterious circumstances....... i hope that i'm not succumbing to the attempts to assinate the already well impuned character of the dead man...... however.
i can't help but think that this could all have been avoided by exercising the proper discretion with fore-knowledge of the disadvantages people of color have when they are dealing with law enforcement in the united states.
it is not as if this disadvantage has only since recently came to light.
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88JM
Sorry to bump an old thread, but just read this on the US D.O.J. figures for Ferguson - certainly shocked me at least:
"In Ferguson -- a city with a population of 21,000 -- 16,000 people have outstanding arrest warrants, meaning that they are currently actively wanted by the police. In other words, if you were to take four people at random, the Ferguson police would consider three of them fugitives."
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Shorter meetings for field service
by hoser inmarch kingdom ministry insert is about how the field service meetings will be shortened from 10 to 15 minutes down to 5 to 7 minutes.
they want the publishers to report more hours.
in my experience the problem isn't the length of the meeting for service but pioneers and publishers dogging it after the service arrangement.
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88JM
Doesn't everyone pretty much "round up" their time anyway? (especially pio-sneers)
I don't think making the group 5 minutes shorter will show much on the reports.
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Songs 139-142
by wifibandit infull set: http://imgur.com/a/4xl77.
for pdf use key: uyqnbqyeulurxzvvvuo2iq.
sample: .
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88JM
Wow that is really terrible - I assumed it was a parody at first.
Songs supposedly based on scriptures, but where does it mention the word "pioneer"?
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The Great Leak: BOEs from 1935 to 2015
by hildebrando in409 pages of boes which have leaked from a london informant!
these include from 1935 to 2015!.
http://hildeydesa.blogspot.mx/2015/03/the-great-leak-archivo-de-cartas-de.html.
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88JM
Good to see leaks, and multiple sources, but is this any more comprehensive than the file from Atlantis/Petra a couple of weeks ago?
See this thread:
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WT loses appeal in UK!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida inthe wt lost its appeals regarding the charity commission inquiry.
here is the ruling:.
http://www.charity.tribunals.gov.uk/documents/decisions/watch-tower-ruling-03mar15.pdf.
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88JM
Just a suggestion, Simon - could you not perhaps just do CSS "word-wrap: break-word"?
I know linking the title is better and everything, but not everyone will to go to the trouble.
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WT loses appeal in UK!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida inthe wt lost its appeals regarding the charity commission inquiry.
here is the ruling:.
http://www.charity.tribunals.gov.uk/documents/decisions/watch-tower-ruling-03mar15.pdf.
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88JM
Where was the instruction that only the GB can define who is and who is not a 'predator'?
That was the Oct 1st 2012 BOE letter that got Cedars' blog suspended for a while.
He discusses it here, but you'll have to go elsewhere to download the whole thing:
http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/we-will-decide-who-is-a-predator-new-watchtower-instructions-to-elders-on-child-abuse
Edit: here's Barbara Anderson's article on it, who helpfully mentions at the bottom that the letter is now in the public domain, thanks to the Steven Unthank inquiry:
The letter:
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WT loses appeal in UK!!!!!!!
by Viva la Vida inthe wt lost its appeals regarding the charity commission inquiry.
here is the ruling:.
http://www.charity.tribunals.gov.uk/documents/decisions/watch-tower-ruling-03mar15.pdf.
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88JM
I just thought, there is actually one thing in their favor if they lost - as a non-charitable organisation, they wouldn't be required to openly declare their finances, so they could shift money around much more easily, especially in light of the recent huge cash grab from the congregations. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit though.
Also, Half banana - you're maybe underestimating how much gift aid is worth to them. I don't think it's been mentioned on here, but gift aid these days isn't quite like it used to be where publishers had to make out a form and specifically declare that they wished their donations to be gift-aided (and very few publishers bothered to do it).
There was a new rule brought in over a year ago where they could say that any donation under £20 in the congregation box can be claimed back with gift aid. In the congregation here, even if there is more than £20 in the box, they will make out separate, individual receipts if it looks like the money could be from more than one person. (i.e. if it's two ten-pound notes rolled together, then that's obviously just from one person, but otherwise it gets divided into amounts smaller than £20 and put on separate receipts)