i just read an excellent article on the issue of mental illness and jehovah's witnesses by psychologist named jerry bergman.
the link is:.
http://www.premier1.net/~raines/mental.html.
Seattledude, that's a very good piece of information, I've thought about it before but never see any information about it. It looks like fertile ground for doing a follow-up study. If only the tower would cooperate, which they won't.
Also I wonder what percentage of new recruits already experience psychological problems before becoming jw. I think this number probably is much higher than in the general population.
Bas
i recently bought some iraqi currency (dinars) as an investement.
the price is low and i believe the return may be high...time will tell.
i bought mine here: http://buyiraqidinars.com/.
You could have bought Euro's 2 years ago, they have apreciated 30% since (against the dollar). Thinking about, the dinar might not be a bad investment though speculating in currency is always somewhat risky. Hope it works out for you.
Bas
if you knew that armageddon was just around the corner, what would you stock up upon, just incase you wouldn't find any in the new system?
you know, the better things of this system that you wouldn't find again even in the new system.... .
i would buy a truck load of coke a cola .
I'd stock up on cigarettes, frozen pizza and beer.
but the article quoted below makes an excellent point about american protectionism.
i will quote the first three paragraphs of steven e. landsburg of the university of rochester.
the article is "xenophobia and politics ?
austrian economics? never heard of those. I do know about specialisation. America still has some comparative cost advantages, mainly high tech. My suggestion would be to let the old non competative industries go to china while you focus the economy on profitable high tech, even just development. The problem with this is however that you 're short of qualified labour while unschooled labour is demanded less, you''ll have more unemployment in this segment of the labourmarket. Economic change isn't painless.
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what about www.jwreform.org ?.
don at www.captivesofaconcept.com
It is good to see a new opposition initiative...Another worry for the GB
i'm the kind of person who literally wouldn't kill a fly.
any insect that happens to wander through my place gets caught in a glass and thrown outside.
now, last summer, a bunch of ladybugs decided to move in with me.
that's weird, I never heard of a ladybug plague...At least they're less repulsive then other insects. Most kids I know love 'em, but a 1000 in one place would be a bit much. Maybe you can sell 'em, make a business out of ladybugs. Ladybug inc. well good luck
Bas
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she's like 50 or 51 now, but when "girls just wanna have fun" came out, as a red blooded teenage boy i was totally in love.. just thought you all needed to know.
*grin*
thinking about vallis assembly post on the other board made me think of an evil idea.
suppose you were at an assembly eating lunch with the elder about to give the next talk (one of those two hour groaners).
all of a sudden he leaves to use the bathroom and you have a chance to sneak an illegal narcotic of your choice into his food*.
LSD should do the trick, he'd really see things flying around.....
sorry i just used that subject to get a lot of views.
now for the real reason of this topic.
is it just me or has this board exploded with activity?
it almost becomes like chatting sometimes... Maybe there should be some chatboxes added to the forum, currently the chatbox is sometimes too full (a shame also that there are no emoticons in chat)
Bas
hi i am a newbie!!
i dont want to put a big post about my life here just yet, because, well, its just not that interesting!
i am here to learn, meet new people and find a bit about myself.
welcome Becks!
