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  Psychological Effects of Color

  by RedPillPopper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for item #1 check out the color for trust.

  totally ironic and you know the borg chose this on purpose.. .

  http://goweloveit.info/entertainment/these-8-psychological-facts-will-help-you-understand-a-lot-more-about-life-5-is-a-game-changer/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral.

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  Thanks, OrphanCrow. I did some internet surfing on color psychology and learned that orange can indeed cause anger. But, so can red, and I love red.

  I still feel bad about making my guest change his orange shirt. Very rude of me.
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  Wal-Mart Workers Plan Huge Protest on Black Friday

  by talesin in

  1. social
  2. current

  wal-mart, which pays a top wage of $12.00+ to its full-time employees, is under attack, once again, by its employees and those who would like to unionize them.. i can't speak to the usa, but here in canada, most wal-mart employees are not full time.

  it is mostly a part-time employer, so zero benefits.

  in my opinion, that makes the $12.00+ look a lot smaller when you envision the actual paycheque.

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  GrreatTeacher

  The problem with your theory, ADCMS is that unemployment is high and part time jobs are some of the only jobs available. New job growth has produced a lot of part time jobs. Another problem is that the economy is built on these jobs; someone will always have to work them.

  The third problem is the irrational belief in the "bootstrap" myth. It works for a few, but there are many many people who work their butts off their entire life and never make decent money. The US economy is built on it. It's perfectly legal to pay people $7.50 an hour. And that is just unacceptable.

  And by the way, I do my best not to support big oil as much as possible. I drive a fuel efficient car and heat my house with electric. As soon as solar power is affordable, I'll install solar panels on my house, as well.
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  Psychological Effects of Color

  by RedPillPopper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for item #1 check out the color for trust.

  totally ironic and you know the borg chose this on purpose.. .

  http://goweloveit.info/entertainment/these-8-psychological-facts-will-help-you-understand-a-lot-more-about-life-5-is-a-game-changer/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral.

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  GrreatTeacher

  So, blue supposedly stimulates trust. The problem is that people have personal color associations. Jehovah's Witnesses don't "feel" blue to me, they absolutely don't feel like a primary color. They feel more like brown to me. Maybe because of the old brown songbook?

  Anyhow, this might just be some weird Synaesthesia on my part. I have strong reactions to colors. I find orange so disconcerting that I once asked a visitor to change out of an orange shirt because it bothered me so much. Orange makes me feel unsettled or even angry. Kind of like the way I feel in fluorescent light.

  I know this sounds psycho. Maybe someone who knows more about psychology than I do could address this.
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  JW with cart in front of White House today! It was 32 degrees!

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  well, then, if it was so cold, what was i doing there?

  i was on a field trip with a bunch of 8th graders.

  i volunteered to chaperone and i was in charge of seven 13 year old boys who demanded to see the white house since the bus dropped us off on the national mall and we had 2 hours to look at the war memorials before we had to be back on the bus.

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  GrreatTeacher

  You can preach outside the White House all you want.

  It's when you actually try to go inside that they have a problem...
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  JW with cart in front of White House today! It was 32 degrees!

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, then, if it was so cold, what was i doing there?

  i was on a field trip with a bunch of 8th graders.

  i volunteered to chaperone and i was in charge of seven 13 year old boys who demanded to see the white house since the bus dropped us off on the national mall and we had 2 hours to look at the war memorials before we had to be back on the bus.

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  Quarterback, maybe it was so cold that the other sister stayed home? The woman that was there seemed deliberately chipper, though obviously freezing cold.

  Shirley, she'll probably be crowing about it at the next circuit assembly.
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  JW with cart in front of White House today! It was 32 degrees!

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, then, if it was so cold, what was i doing there?

  i was on a field trip with a bunch of 8th graders.

  i volunteered to chaperone and i was in charge of seven 13 year old boys who demanded to see the white house since the bus dropped us off on the national mall and we had 2 hours to look at the war memorials before we had to be back on the bus.

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  Yeah, Apog, I get that that sounds bad. LOL. He was obviously a homeless guy, not a jihadist. Among other strange people. They gather in front of the White House, and you have to walk by them to get by.

  If he had been a threat, he wouldn't have still been there. There were Secret Service everywhere. They were on high alert, I guess since the latest security breach.

  I have no idea where that kid got his info, either, and I didn't ask. He was the studious type. I thought it was weird that he said they were a publisher, for one, rather than a religion. And, two, that he added an "s" as in multiple religions.

  I thought it was best to just let it go rather than get into a discussion about religion with a 13 year old boy.
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  JW with cart in front of White House today! It was 32 degrees!

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, then, if it was so cold, what was i doing there?

  i was on a field trip with a bunch of 8th graders.

  i volunteered to chaperone and i was in charge of seven 13 year old boys who demanded to see the white house since the bus dropped us off on the national mall and we had 2 hours to look at the war memorials before we had to be back on the bus.

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  Well, then, if it was so cold, what was I doing there? I was on a field trip with a bunch of 8th graders. I volunteered to chaperone and I was in charge of seven 13 year old boys who demanded to see the White House since the bus dropped us off on the National Mall and we had 2 hours to look at the war memorials before we had to be back on the bus. My boys, though, wanted to see the White House so we trudged up 16th Street to Pennsylvania Ave.

  We talked about all the extra security and Secret Service men who were out since the recent White House break-in by that crazy guy. They seemed to be duly impressed about this and I gave them the speech about how people like to protest in front of the White House and to be prepared for weird people.

  We rounded the corner to the north side of the White House and everyone took their selfies and speculated about there being guys on the roof. There were I told them. With guns, I told them. Duly impressed. There was a policeman with a dog and they were impressed with that, too. Then someone said, "Look at that crazy guy!" And there truly was a disheveled looking man rolling a suitcase with an American flag who had stopped to pray to Mecca on his forehead in the middle of Pennsylvania Ave. Fortunately that block had been closed to traffic.

  As we made our way over toward him, there was a JW lady with TWO rolly carts. She was all bundled up against the weather because it was literally freezing out. Each cart had its own publication which I studiously avoided looking at. As we walked by her, she brightly said, "Hello!" to the boys and I held my breath waiting for her to say something else. The boys said, "Hello," and kept on walking past her to the crazy looking Muslim guy who was praying with forehead on the pavement just past her. That guy was very interesting to a group of 13 year old boys. I mentioned again that all kinds of people come to the White House to protest or make their agenda known.

  As we passed by the JW lady, one of the kids asked about her. I think they were curious to see if she was selling souvenirs. "No," said the boy closest to her, "It's just Watchtower stuff." "What's that?" asked another. "Oh, they're just a publisher that prints stuff for religions."

  I left that exchange alone. And we moved away looking for a food truck and heading toward the Lincoln Memorial.

  She truly did just look like one of the crazies. Right next to the homeless Muslim and other assorted malcontents that gather in front of the White House. The boys in my group got their "witness" today and they did not seem to be very impressed.
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  "You can't believe anything science says, they're always changing their minds.."

  by disposable hero of hypocrisy in

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  i know this is going to come up in a conversation shortly, how would you respond to this?

  i've had it said to me before, specifically about health, one week wine/eggs/milk/axle grease is good for you, next week it's not..

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  Kind of like how the Watchtower is always changing its mind with New Light?
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  Scientists Should Not Dismiss Genesis So Quickly

  by Chris Tann in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  nasa discovery proves the bible scientifically accurate.

  the debate.

  for decades there has been a long standing debate between science and religion as to the validity of the biblical genesis account of creation.

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  So, even if modern science and the Genesis account have some things (though not all) that could be construed as consistent with one another, what does that prove? Where is your argument going with this?
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  New requirement to become an Elder or Ministerial Servant!

  by hardtobeme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has been a few months since i hear this from an elder.

  he said that the c/o told them this new requirement.. "men that wanna be an elder or ministerial servant has to go out to field service on sundays.

  if there is an elder or ministerial servant that is not going out to field service on sunday can lose the priviledge".

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  GrreatTeacher

  They really don't understand cause and effect, now do they?

  Make it harder and you'll have fewer servants.