Topics Started by Hecce

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If you prepaid $2100.00 in taxes, Uncle Sam could refund you $9987.00
by Hecce in
1. social
2. current
there was a little bit of discussion on another thread about the results of the recent tax changes in usa.

i decided to compare whether or not the changes were favoring the lower-income class versus the middle class.

the family that i inputted into the system was a married couple with four minor dependents, their income was $44000.00 annually and they paid $2100.00 in taxes during the year.. after completing the calculations, this family is getting a refund of $9981.00; the bulk of it are earned income credit $2191.00 and additional child credit $5600.00.
Chilean cardinal summoned by state prosecutor for alleged abuse cover up
by Hecce in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
chilean cardinal summoned by state prosecutor for alleged abuse cover up.

by staff reporter.

posted wednesday, 25 jul 2018. .
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Will they drink the Kool Aid?
by Hecce in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
as you know the question regarding the “kool aid” is related to the tragic events at guyana and jim jones.

blind obedience and faith in this man resulted in a massive loss of lives.. sometimes we see the same pattern of blind obedience to the watchtower from the witnesses.

this could be on major items or small details.
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Do you know anything about Live Kingdom Hall?
by Hecce in
1. jw
2. experiences
i learned recently about this link that allows for a person to listen or watch the meetings at the kh that have contracted the service.

you have the option to watch the meeting live or just listen.

there will be a recording of the audio available until the next meeting.. i don't think that this is an official wt arrangement, it might be a private enterprise like the preaching materials .
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Finds in Jerusalem shore up biblical account of Babylonian conquest (586 BCE date)
by Hecce in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this is a nice article about archaeological finds, what caught my attention is the use of 586 bce as the date for the destruction of jerusalem.. according to biblical descriptions, in 586 bce, the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar vanquished the judaean king zedekiah and razed his capital city, jerusalem.

the babylonian captain of the guard nebuzaradan was dispatched into the city, where, as told in the book of jeremiah, he “burned the house of the lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of jerusalem, even every great man’s house, burned he with fire.”.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-jerusalem-finds-shore-up-biblical-account-of-babylonian-conquest/.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Crimes Against Fellow Jehovah's Witness Victims
by Hecce in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
i ran a search and it seems that this was not posted before, there are 5 pages of criminal cases involving jws.. in the following criminal cases, the watchtower society - jehovah's witnesses religion served as the spiritual element of the perpetrator's and/or other actor's formative environment, or otherwise served as a major influencer of the perpetrator's and/or other actor's behavior.

the following cases are often tragic, and speak for themselves.. http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com/familicide4.html.
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Cute: A Goose Quacked And Pecked At A Cop’s Car. When He Followed Her, He Couldn’t Believe What He Saw!
by Hecce in
1. social
2. current
officer james givens has served with the cincinnati police department for over 26 years, but has never quite experienced anything like this before.

he was sitting in his patrol car in a parking lot when he got an unexpected visitor.

a goose came up to his car and started pecking on the side of it.
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The Watchtower and Islam
by Hecce in
1. watchtower
2. bible
a few times we have commented in the forum about the lack of information in the watchtower publications about the islamic religion.

we have to go back to 1951 to find a very comprehensive analysis of mohamed and his religion that is in the book “what has religion done for mankind?”.. this subject is discussed on page 278 and chapter 22, under the title “islam, mohamed religion of submission”.

the information is written with the watchtower detailed style for those days and there is a lot of history to be learn in that chapter.
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Mohammad Will Style Your Hair — And Slit Your Throat
by Hecce in
1. social
2. current
mohammad will style your hair — and slit your throat.

posted on june 29, 2017 by baron bodissey.

mohammad hussain rashwani is a syrian “refugee” who came to germany for a better life.
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"Child abuse is abhorrent to us."
by Hecce in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
birds of a feather flock together.

australian cardinal george pell: "they are false.

the whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me.".