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  Guantanamo Bay Suicides - a PR Move

  by eyeslice in

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  quote from bbc website .

  a top us official has described the suicides of three detainees at the us base at guantanamo bay, cuba, as a "good pr move to draw attention".

  colleen graffy told the bbc the deaths were part of a strategy and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause", but taking their own lives was unnecessary.

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  Can't people find a better cause than this? These people would blow you up if they could. Talk to the people who work at Gitmo... a good majority of the prisoners have faked their suicides in an attempt to get the guards to come in to their cells unwittingly, then attack them with makeshift weapons. Even the most liberal news outlets have admitted that.

  And don't tell me that they're trying to attack the guards or commit suicide because Gitmo is such a terrible place that they've all gone nuts. My grandparents were wrongfully imprisoned during the Holocaust by the Nazis... and I believe that Nazi camps are pretty much among the most hellish places to have ever existed upon this earth (Gitmo is like a picnic compared to that)... and I highly doubt my grandparents were faking their own suicides and then trying to attack the Nazis with makeshift weapons. These people at Gitmo aren't doing that because they're so desperate at being stuck in such a TERRIBLE place like Gitmo... they're absolutely insane and evil.
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  PROTEST AT WATCHTOWER SOCIETY

  by SHUNNED FATHER in

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  we had a fun time last june at the protest and afterward we got together for a meal.

  i hope to see you this june.

  last june , i was invited to the ctv television studio and was interviewed live on canada am which is shown from coast to coast.

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  That's awesome. I'd go if I lived closer. Keep up the great work!
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  Guantanamo Bay Suicides - a PR Move

  by eyeslice in

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  quote from bbc website .

  a top us official has described the suicides of three detainees at the us base at guantanamo bay, cuba, as a "good pr move to draw attention".

  colleen graffy told the bbc the deaths were part of a strategy and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause", but taking their own lives was unnecessary.

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  Um, yeah, jihadists commit suicide all of the time! This is nothing new. "Suicide bomber," anyone? They consider this to be their highest calling. There is nothing they love more than to commit suicide for their "cause," because then they get to go be with Allah in heaven, get to bring a certain number of souls with them, and get a bunch of virgins of their very own!

  I don't think Guantanamo is as much of a hell as some would like you to think... they get to hang out and relax, read whatever books they ask for (I heard that Agatha Christie and Harry Potter are popular choices, no joke) all translated into Arabic, get to play volleyball and all other kinds of things. Believe me, they're fine.
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  Embarassing moment involving a bra and an interview

  by kristyann in

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  so i went to this job interview this morning (my semester is finished, and i am looking for something for the summer, and my jury duty just ended, which hopefully i'll get a chance to tell you about some other time).

  so i applied at this doctor's office to just do office work and filing and stuff like that.

  the place is really great and laid back and it seems like a really fun place to work!.

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  Oh my lanta... you guys... I got a call for a second interview! LOL I cannot believe it. I go back for the second interview next Tuesday. I mean, that certainly doesn't mean I have the job, but I guess it DOES mean that the bra through the shirt thing wasn't the hugest deal in the world to them. You all were right. Thanks so much for your help.

  I'll let you know how it goes next time... and I'll be sure to be extra careful when getting dressed!
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  Embarassing moment involving a bra and an interview

  by kristyann in

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  so i went to this job interview this morning (my semester is finished, and i am looking for something for the summer, and my jury duty just ended, which hopefully i'll get a chance to tell you about some other time).

  so i applied at this doctor's office to just do office work and filing and stuff like that.

  the place is really great and laid back and it seems like a really fun place to work!.

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  AWWWW thank you! LOL you all made me laugh so much! Those are some good stories, and you really cheered me up and made me realize it's not the biggest deal in the world. And you're right, if they only concentrated on that, why would I want to work there, anyway?

  NO, I do not have any pictures of yesterday morning in bright light, you goofs! If I ever decide to take any like that, you'll all be the first to see them, though!
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  Do you have to be "gullible" in order to be a good JW?

  by JH in

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  in french we use the word "naif", which means to believe anything that's said without proof of it being true.

  i think that gullible is the english translation.. i was very gullible in my early jw years.

  i guess it's not faith that one needs to be a good jw, but gullibility...

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  I agree with under_believer. It does seem to be pretty successful amongst the lower classes of people, and that's sad in and of itself because a lot of these people are looking for some sort of meaning or hope in life. And then the Watchtower does whatever it possibly can to keep these people naive and to keep them in the lower classes (i.e. telling them not to go to college, not to get educated) because they know that if they become less naive and have more knowledge, they will leave!
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  Exaggeration on WT site?

  by Broken Hearted in

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  this week while doing some more of my reseach, i went to the official wt site.

  i was just looking around in many areas, when i came upon this media release in 2003. so i read what they have typed then watch the video.

  something struck me odd so i read the page again and then re watched the video.

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  drew sagan, I agree completely. Most JWs seem to have a good case of martyr syndrome. They want everyone to think that they have it so much worse than they do. Sure, they are persecuted in some areas, and that's not good and I don't approve of it for any group. But they always try to make it sound like they are so much more persecuted than any other group when really they are only a minor blip on the radar.
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  Let's Decorate the Kingdom Hall!

  by Nosferatu in

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  one thing that always sucked about the kingdom hall was it's blandness.

  bland wallpaper, bland paint, no pictures, no windows, maybe a fake plant or fake flowers, the big sign with the years text, the cork board, and contribution boxes.

  boring.. what would you put into a kingdom hall to make it look more interesting?

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  Ahhhhhhahahahaha a cuckoo clock would be great!

  I think a lot of places, like churches or classrooms or anything, have clocks at the back, so that the audience isn't staring at it the whole time. Also, it's convenient for the speaker or teacher to keep track of time. A cuckoo clock would really throw that whole plan out the window, though, huh? :-)

  Has anyone actually ever snuck anything like jack-o-lanterns for Halloween or an American flag or a "He Is Risen!" sign for Easter? Would it be easy to do without getting caught? They don't have cameras monitoring or anything, do they? I know, I know, they are very cheap, but since they are so intent on spying on people, maybe they obtain cheap 1980s video recorders from somewhere and set them up and monitor the place? I'm serious. Would it be possible to do something like that, or would there be a police officer on my doorstep the next morning? (Since JWs are big fans of calling the police, even though they're not allowed to be police officers.)
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  Embarassing moment involving a bra and an interview

  by kristyann in

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  so i went to this job interview this morning (my semester is finished, and i am looking for something for the summer, and my jury duty just ended, which hopefully i'll get a chance to tell you about some other time).

  so i applied at this doctor's office to just do office work and filing and stuff like that.

  the place is really great and laid back and it seems like a really fun place to work!.

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  Thanks.

  One interviewer was a man (the doctor), the other was a woman (the office manager).
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  Embarassing moment involving a bra and an interview

  by kristyann in

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  so i went to this job interview this morning (my semester is finished, and i am looking for something for the summer, and my jury duty just ended, which hopefully i'll get a chance to tell you about some other time).

  so i applied at this doctor's office to just do office work and filing and stuff like that.

  the place is really great and laid back and it seems like a really fun place to work!.

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  kristyann

  Good point... I didn't even think of that!