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  The earth can hold only 9 billion persons at the most

  by cultswatter in

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  *** public address by district overseer bro.

  charles sunutko in spring 1967 in sheboygan, wisconsin[recording of this talk available in realaudio format, 2,745kb, approx 22 minute recording].

  "serving with everlasting life in view"............. "the watchtower 1964, page 722, paragraph 24, and listen to this: "tens of billions will be back".. how many are tens of billions?

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  Australian Bush Telegraph - November 2006

  Eco-city farm

  By Renee Du Preez

  Friday, 17/11/2006

  Making commercial food production viable in the city is a seemingly impossible task with the high value of land for housing development.

  But with the current debate centred on bringing down carbon emissions, there's a push to reduce the distance food has to travel to reach the dinner table. And with that in mind two farmers from the north coast of New South Wales, Hogan Gleeson and Andrew Bodlovich, have invented an urban farming system that they claim can feed up to 300 families with fresh fish and vegetables from a piece of land the size of an average house block.

  Reporter Renee du Preez visits the prototype "eco-city farm" at Nimbin where Andrew shows her the netted greenhouse which houses the fish tanks and revolving ladder-like structure from which grows salad greens, herbs and vegetables. Andrew says the system produces no effluent, recycles its own water and is economically viable even at current city land values.

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  Going door to door to recruit members doesn't work

  by JH in

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  2. beliefs

  when you look at all the hours they do going door to door world wide and then you look at how many hours preaching it takes to bring just 1 person to their organization, it's not efficient.. my mom goes to a baptist church now, and i was surprised to know that 500 go to that meeting on sundays and they don't go door to door to go get these people.. there might be 80 witnesses at my hall and going door to door doesn't make much of a difference.

  maybe it's even counter productive since people don't like being pested at home..

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  But there's a concordance with scripture

  .......hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
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  Similarities between Pol Pot and Jehovah?

  by Gill in

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  pol pot had ambitions for cambodia.

  he wanted to make it an farming paradise and return it to year 0!.

  he attempted to do this by killing of the enducated people and those who did not agree with his ambitions.

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  All people in Cambodia were forced to work for 'Ankar' and they encouraged the population to report people who were disloyal to Ankar. A time-honored recipe for genocide was followed - an obsessive desire to reach a religious or political ideal coupled with a healthy dose of madness.

  Pol pot was simply head of a GB who were unrestrained in their plans and ideas - but the goals of both groups are the same

  • think like us or die
  • let them rot and the birds eat them
  • shun adanced thought and technology
  • rely on primitive farming and similar non-thinking existence
  • serve Ankar (jeboobah) - Ankar sees everything, Ankar knows best
  • if anyone is even thinking out of line, even your own family, dob them in
  • it's best for the group if such ones are chastised or perhaps killed, even if they are your family
  • you will be happy, if you are not happy with all of this there is something wrong with you
  • the rest of the world are evil, we are pure and getting purer

  etc, etc, etc, etc

  same s$!t, different name
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  The earth can hold only 9 billion persons at the most

  by cultswatter in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  *** public address by district overseer bro.

  charles sunutko in spring 1967 in sheboygan, wisconsin[recording of this talk available in realaudio format, 2,745kb, approx 22 minute recording].

  "serving with everlasting life in view"............. "the watchtower 1964, page 722, paragraph 24, and listen to this: "tens of billions will be back".. how many are tens of billions?

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  A Paduan

  The earth can hold only 9 billion persons at the most

  It's only limited by our abilities and physical space - it's rather infinite if you consider extraterrestrial space

  You might be thinking of 9 billion jws who communicate apocolyptic hyperbole instead of undertaking advancements in living, while they wait on an all powerful self-image to come and give them their own pandas.
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  Can I tell you a question?

  by The Dragon in

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  my little boy used to say that when he was three....think i need a dna test?.

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  sorry..i just had to share that..

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  It makes more sense, but probably not as much as "here's a question" or "would you answer this question for me"

  It seems that "can I ask you a question?" must be embedded as a standard phrase in U.S. language these days, because I'm always hearing it on U.S. movies and TV (and it makes me cringe) - the thing is, you've already asked a question.
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  Witnessing The End

  by Tyre in

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  from times magazines.

  any comments ??.

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  I would love to have seen a follow up Time article on how the new light revealed it was actually a cleansing of the wicked and weak ones who believed it - a special cleansing arrangement orchestrated by jeboobah himself.

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  What concerns the Watchtower most these days?

  by JH in

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  is it the lack of young leadership?.

  lawsuits?.

  internet?.

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  What concerns the Watchtower most these days?

  Truth - honesty

  So many bible verses point to 'love of a lie' or 'love of darkness rather than light'' and 'hate the truth' - you could almost believe the wtbts was specially written about in there.

  In the internet you can find truth (among other things) - they hate it.
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  Mom is having a rough time right now

  by Junction-Guy in

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  well 3 years ago when my stepgrandma died, mom left her abusive husband to live with and take care of grandpa.

  she cooks, she cleans, she helps him dress.

  he is so mean to her it makes my blood boil.

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  He is a very greedy man, and has lots of money. He lived 50 miles away from Amanda and I in Hazard Kentucky, and refused to help us in any way. When my car broke down, he begrudgingly helped to patch it up, and then talked to me like a dog.

  So I'm guessing he's the jw of the house ?

  Sorry, just read that he wasn't - shouldn't fall for my own stereotyping
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  Witnesses play down transfusions for premature sextuplets

  by freefly in

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  http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=fcbed172-f4b3-4d3e-8dc0-1fa34a2c959c&k=1815.

  (bc canada).

  vancouver - the jehovah's witnesses national organization issued a statement wednesday in an attempt to quell widespread media speculation about the medical treatment of sextuplets born prematurely to a woman at b.c.

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  Just and addit

  One doesn't need to be a jw in any way, shape or form to realise that minimising sampling quantities is important. The wt would have people believe that the medical fraternity are mad blood careless infectors, rather than highly learned and detailed physicians.
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  Your thoughts and ideas on how and why the WTS.started, a background study.

  by thetrueone in

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  hi folks, i've been reading your comments in this forum for awhile now, and they certaintly have been enlighting, but i'm interested in your .

  ideas on who, why and how the organization started, and how did it maintain itself for all these years.

  what was the underlining intent of the people who started.

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  People who think literal read what is spiritual and try to adapt it "according to the flesh", and their own fears and pride cause them to loose insight and even use the ignorance against others - it seems to bring out the worst in them, to the point that it becomes diificult to determine whether the attitude allures people to join, or whether the attitude develops after joining.

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  Once upon a time there was said to be a great treasure, and it was believed that it could be found by deciphering the ancient writings that spoke of it, Many went to great effort in the quest for it, yet the treasure was hidden in plain view. When someone believed that they had found clues they would invest all they had in their assumption, and in zeal they would come under the spell of their own pride, and work tirelessly toward nothing.

  One such spell spread among people over a hundred years ago. In the quest they looked at the ancient writings, and, not seeing, they made their own stories up, and they looked at the ancient writings and not, seeing they made their own stories up, and they looked at the ancient writings not seeing they made their own stories up.