Posts by talesin

Holy jumpin's! I was planning on giving my MC a workout at the mall, but this, this is like, Memorial time. Truly, we are privileged to support Jehovah's loving arrangement.

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Have you ever had your oven door explode?

by Ucantnome in

the other day the glass in my oven door exploded and sent glass into the next room, fortunately i wasn't peering in at the time.

about a year go the previous oven door shattered one morning.

the oven was cold.

I typed it into Google, and top article, 2015, from CBS Chicago, says it's common (previous results from 2013 and earlier have similar reports). I found this quote particularly interesting. Sears products' quality has declined. I had 2 Kenmore fridges that had compressor problems (heat emanating from the freezer of my new, expensive fridge), and a quick online search showed this was endemic in the Kenmore line. House fires and insurance claims were rampant. [bold is mine]

:http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/07/08/2-investigators-glass-oven-doors-shattering-without-warning/

In just the past year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission received 123 complaints of oven glass breaking. Kenmore received the most complaints with 52. Some consumers complain about repeated breaks. One said the same oven door exploded three-times. Another complained it happened four times. Other complaints include 20 for Frigidaire and 20 for GE.

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I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

by Terry in

jw
friends

please post your favorites too.

my favorite quotations:.

you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.

talesin

Terry, there are so many good ones in your list, I picked a section, but it's by no means inclusive of *all* the ones I really liked. Thanks, some are real keepers. x

This one:

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You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
People are more what they hide than what they show.
Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
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I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

by Terry in

jw
friends

please post your favorites too.

my favorite quotations:.

you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.

talesin

Hi, QB ... *waves* spaghetti squash is great with homemade sauce and parm! :P

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I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

by Terry in

jw
friends

please post your favorites too.

my favorite quotations:.

you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.

talesin

Twitch, I thought of Desiderata, love, love, love it!

Read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

~ Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass

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Watchtower is cashing in on China

by nakanozzi in

japanese brother in china recently revealed thatmany wealthy chinese are interested in watchtower’s teaching and donating money.ex-cos and ex-district os are now preaching undercover in china,and, numberes of special pioneers in china are growing !

talesin

Reading this thread, and contemplating the topic, it seems very possible that China could be an area the JWS will focus on. There are a lot of new capitalists in China, and lots of bux.

Last year, when I did some research, I discovered the Society (TM) was encouraging travel to Israel. Through use of travel visas, JWS would spend whatever time (6 weeks? I don't know Israeli regs) doing 'undercover' preaching work. This was extremely dangerous, duh, it's ISRAEL. There was another country I read about, was it Malaysia?, where JWS were deported for being discovered doing the same activity.

KH's are in private homes. That is one way the law is subverted; ie, breaking Caesar's Laws (TM) in the name of Theocratic Warfare (TM). It could be the same in China.

It would not surprise me at all, to find out that the same kind of illegal and deceptive preaching work (and dangerous! think of what has been happening in Tibet since the Chinese takeover) is being 'encouraged'. Student visas would be a great excuse, providing 4 years of opportunity, it boggles the mind.

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Here's a viable set-up for JW subversion of Chinese laws. What about TESL teachers? TESL is a 2-year certification, with only HS requirement for entry. Imagine JW families in China, sponsoring a young TESL teacher who is also JW - all undercover... running a TESL school for Chinese children of wealthier families. Works for me.
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Time to do a bit of looking around the net, to see what they are saying on travel blogs and such.

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I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

by Terry in

jw
friends

please post your favorites too.

my favorite quotations:.

you cannot change what you refuse to confront.. sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.. don’t think of cost.

talesin

The best revenge is to live well.

Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.

~ Oscar Wilde

Was he bitter or not? The first quote appears to say 'no', and the second, hmmm. I enjoy and admire his duality; it is so very 'human'. There is no question that he had great wit, was a brilliant writer, and experienced much pain and persecution in his own life.