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  2015-12-16-BOE Instructions For Recommending New Congregations!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2015-12-16-boe.

  instructions for recommending new congregations click the green download button.

  http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/v8exeat petra!

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  Oubliette

  Sigh, more control-freakery from the Borg.

  Thanks for posting!
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  Brave New W0rld of Education - The Regressive Left

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  i found this to be a thought-provoking film on the trend in higher education.. oubliette drew my attention to a brilliant article recently called "the coddling of the american mind".

  please have a look at the film, click the link and check out the links in the article.

  i would love to hear your thoughts.. ...

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  Oubliette

  Great short film - kind of a nightmarish version of the issues the authors, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, raise in the article.

  Thanks for sharing.
  
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  Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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  https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.

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  Oubliette

  Simon: Just to be clear so no one get's the wrong impression (given the current climate) - we promoted legitimate purchases of Ray's books (as well as others) without any compensation and have never sold anything on this site.

  And that is EXACTLY how I remember it!

  
  
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  Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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  https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.

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  Oubliette

  As I remember, there were links to the Commentary Press website where you could legally purchase a downloadable PDF which required a password to open.

  Completely legit.
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  Drink Driving

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  with the christmas almost upon us i would like to share a personal experience with you about drinking and driving.. as you may know the local police are having a serious go at drink drivers this year... well, a couple of days ago i was out for an evening with friends and had a small number of drinks before dinner, followed by some rather nice red wine.

  feeling jolly i still had the sense to know that i may be very slightly over the limit.. that's when i did something that i've never done before - i took a taxi home.. sure enough on the way home there was a police road check, but since it was a taxi they waved it past.

  i arrived home safely without incident.. this was a real surprise as i had never driven a taxi before, i don't know where i got it and now that it's in my garage i don't know what to do with it.. any ideas?.

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  Oubliette

  You got me!

  Great story, I'm gonna share it.
  
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  Literature being discontinued, including Isaiah's Prophecy and Reasoning book

  by Richard_I in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  congregations get an annual letter that tells what can be ordered for literature (it's mainly a list of audio cds/dvds for the deaf), but this time it included publications that will be discontinued, and this included the isaiah's prophecy book and the reasoning book, and i think i saw the draw close to jehovah book.

  i meant to take a picture of the letter but forgot.

  the branch is only going to give what they have on stock, when that stock depletes that's it, you won't be able to order those publications anymore.. this is in canada so i don't know if this is worldwide..

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  Oubliette

  d4g: It's called revisionist history, and the WT, as well as all authoritarian regimes are masters at it.

  “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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  Crisis of Conscience- World Wide Cease & Desist

  by Newly Enlightened in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.commentarypress.com/copyright/.

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  https://youtu.be/fdzzl453drq.

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  Oubliette

  Cults against cults. What a surprise.

  This is why I now recognize no authority superior to myself.

  It really simplifies things because I automatically know that anyone that disagrees is delusional in one way or another.
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  Colour blind glasses opinions?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am colour blind and so is my little brother.

  i see some colours, but apparently not all.

  specifically i can only see the first number in the ishihara test.

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  Oubliette

  Check out this video about two colorblind brothers:

  News 8 story on EnChroma Color Blind glasses & brothers Gianni & Anthony
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  Colour blind glasses opinions?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am colour blind and so is my little brother.

  i see some colours, but apparently not all.

  specifically i can only see the first number in the ishihara test.

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  Oubliette

  I found this website for a company named EnChroma that makes glasses for colorblind people.

  Check it out:

  EnChroma - Color for the Colorblind
  
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  Colour blind glasses opinions?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am colour blind and so is my little brother.

  i see some colours, but apparently not all.

  specifically i can only see the first number in the ishihara test.

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  Oubliette

  Color blindness is usually classified as a mild disability, however there are occasional circumstances where it can give an advantage. Some studies conclude that color blind people are better at penetrating certain color camouflages. Such findings may give an evolutionary reason for the high prevalence of red–green color blindness. - Morgan, M. J.; Adam, A.; Mollon, J. D. (June 1992). "Dichromats detect colour-camouflaged objects that are not detected by trichromats". Proc. Biol. Sci. 248 (1323): 291–5. doi:10.1098/rspb.1992.0074.
  

  There is also a study suggesting that people with some types of color blindness can distinguish colors that people with normal color vision are not able to distinguish. - Bosten, J.M.; Robinson, J.D.; Jordan, G.; Mollon, J.D. (2005). "Multidimensional scaling reveals a color dimension unique to ‘color-deficient’ observers". Current Biology 15 (23): R950–2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.11.031.