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  who is this wilford guy trying to give me 12 million dollars

  by primitivegenius in

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  from: mr.wilfred kudjo.

  auditing and accounting unit.

  foreign operations department.

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  james_woods

  This is a very common scam - usually from 3rd world countries - and commonly from Aftrican 3rd World countries. They want to con you into fronting a small amount of money so as to get the big reward. I get maybe 2 or 3 of these a week.

  Guess what happens after you front up the small amount of money asked? They ask for a little more, then a little more. Finally you get sick of it and just go away. If you try to prosecute them, you will find these governments are complicit in the scam.

  There is another form of this - (if you occasionally advertise collector cars for sale in trade mags as I do)...A foreign "buyer" will immediately offer you your full asked price without even trying to bargain. He will ask for your bank routing so he can send a draft. Guess what they do with the bank routing? If you ask for a paper cashiers check, he will send one for about $3000 more than the price, and then ask you to remit about $2500 or so to a special overseas shipping agent out of the surplus. You can keep the rest for your effort.

  The cashiers check is of course bogus, but it may take up to 15 days before it is obvious. A lot of people actually used their own money to pay the $2500 to the agent, who of course is part of the scam. There are variations of this for antiques and aircraft as well.

  In all cases, they are just hoping that maybe one out of ten thousand they spam this out to will be silly enough to bite on it. Amazing that it still goes on after all the expose journalism on this subject. "Skeptical" can help you in more things than just the religious!!!

  YF, James
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  Wow that UN scandal really DOES work wonders

  by osmosis in

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  i'm totally amazed.

  i gave that un report to my (hardcore jw to the extreme max, but in a nice way) aunt, and she didn't speak of it for several days.

  when she said nothing, i knew i'd gotten somewhere.. today she finally spoke up.

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  james_woods

  I have said this before, but here goes again - if the real reason was a "library card", then:

  What in the hell did the watchtower society need to get a "library card" at the UN for in the first place? What could the UN possibly have in that so-called library that could be necessary to spread the "good news".

  I thought the WTS was supposed to be about the Bible and Bible History. UN does not keep that kind of stuff in their library.

  I thought the WTS was supposed to NOT be part of the world. UN is specifically part of the world.

  The Library Card excuse is childishly stupid. It does not excuse them at all, nor does it even make sense.
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  Dearest JamesThomas...

  by AGuest in

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  the one that is called the holy one of israel, my lord, jaheshua mischajah: christ, of course!

  by means of him, all creation came into being.

  thus, they "arise" in christ.

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  james_woods

  If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a noise?

  As Jim once said on "Taxi" - "Of course it makes a noise. There just isn't anybody there to hear it."

  James, of the existentialist nihilst class.
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  The worst films you watched

  by greendawn in

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  we often talk about the best films that we have seen but what about the opposite, what were some films that really disappointed you either at the cinema or at home watching them from a dvd (or vhs though that got outdated now)?

  one film i found very boring was the "horse whisperer".

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  the only cool thing was Redford's MGTD.
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  The worst films you watched

  by greendawn in

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  we often talk about the best films that we have seen but what about the opposite, what were some films that really disappointed you either at the cinema or at home watching them from a dvd (or vhs though that got outdated now)?

  one film i found very boring was the "horse whisperer".

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  I was dragged kicking and screaming into "The Way We Were" with Redford and Striesand. I actually thought it was over several times and tried to get up and walk away - but NOOO - it just kept on going and going and going...The only cool thing

  Yes, it was a witness girl that did this to me, and yes - I had to pay full box fare as it was during the first release.

  And she walked out of the great film THX1138 because of that nude scene...

  James
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  Bee silly but not stupid

  by BlessedStar in

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  howdy all.. it's amazing how modernized the world is now.

  i'm wondering if any of you people think that computerized and new technology is taking away the fun of natural life?.

  eg 1. children are behind computers games more than playing in the park.

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  james_woods

  Hi - (note this is from a 56 year old computer geek):

  When we first got pocket calculators, a lot of us who had to do our math, chemistry, and physics in the 1960s were all stressed out that kids no longer had to learn to use slide rules and logarithm tables. It was pointed out to me that logs and slidesticks were merely an easy way to get calculated results and not an end in themselves. The principles behind the numbers were more important.

  I am considered an old gruntfart in the computer industry because I am one of the last programmers around here who knows machine language and assembler code. I am even kind of behind the times as I did my current app in C++. Nowadays all the newbies use Java.

  I have always refused to buy a car with an automatic transmission - but now the very best sports jobs are mostly coming with a sort of automatic that has paddles on the wheel to change the gears. I am sticking with stickshift...but the newbies tell me the paddles are faster.

  When TV came in the 1950s, our teachers were all stressed out that kids were becoming TV zombies and did not go outdoors and play.

  I don't know - maybe internet and computer games are just stealing time away from Gameboy and MTV?

  Point being, I think change is inevitable and we do have to adapt to it.

  Now, I suppose you are going to tell me that this is proof the society is OK in changing primary doctrine every 25 years or so?

  HaHa, James.
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  WTF? I sent in my DA letter a couple months ago and ....

  by HockeyMullet in

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  ... nothing has been announced.

  here's the deal.

  after moving from northern mn (congregation #1) to the twin cities i attended cong #2 for a couple of meetings and my records were supposedly transferred but i don't know for sure.

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  Dear friend HockeyMullet, for what it may be worth to you...

  I did the clean break thing years ago (circa 1980 in Oklahoma City). It was part of the big break when Ray Franz and the Dunlaps all left. There were approximately 35+ baptized JW individuals who left the "truth" within that year just in Oklahoma City and the area - all of us doing so over the same doctrinal issues.

  To my knowledge, only two or three from OKC were ever disfellowshipped or announced as disassociated. (incl. myself and Marion Dunlap). The others were just ignored as if nothing had happened - including my ex-wife and many of her relatives.

  Most of us (at least those who are all still in contact after all these years) think that the local elders avoided doing multiple announcements because they were afraid to make the falling away look too big! Better to just let people think that they just kind of drifted away...

  I have the feeling that a lot of people are leaving just like you have - (especially the young) - and it may not be in the org's best interest to call too much attention to it. You know you did the right thing, and it will be with you forever, if no one else.

  YF, James
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  Japan's rich buy organs from executed Chinese prisoners

  by flyphisher in

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  hundreds of well-off japanese and other nationals are turning to china's burgeoning human organ transplant industry, paying tens of thousands of pounds for livers and kidneys, which in some cases have been harvested from executed prisoners and sold to hospitals.

  see: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article352535.ece

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  Was there not a thread a while back in which a Canadian province advocated MANDATORY organ donation for anyone killed in an accident?

  I am kind of a progressive science kind of guy, but I too find this organ market thing to be very creepy.

  SF Literature reference: "The Late Mr. Elvesham" - short story by A. Conan Doyle. Old rich guy unexpectedly wills all his estate to healthy but poor young guy, has dinner with him to announce this gift, and then gives young guy a really special "after dinner drink". Young guy wakes up in the old guys house, drags himself out of bed, looks in mirror, and guess what?

  He is the old guy!

  BOO!!!!
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  Prince, is paying $70,000 a month to rent in hollywood.....and more

  by orbison11 in

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  gotta love it.....

  prince, the pint-sized pop star, is paying a whopping.

  $70,000 monthly to rent a hollywood hills mansion.. and he apparently thought that hefty sum allowed him.

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  Well, if he does get an eviction notice, I heard that both Neverland and Beth Sarim are available.

  He wouldn't have to worry about those demon smurfs at either one of those -

  James
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  Do Mormons have a more intellectually substantial belief system than JWs?

  by slimboyfat in

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  that seems to be the implication in a new evangelical response to mormonism called "the new mormon challenge: responding to the latest defenses of a fast-growing movement.".

  http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/asin/0310231949/qid%3d1142896789/202-9316169-3351050.

  this books presents a sophisticated response from serious scholars in fields of theological and religious studies who bring their expertise to bear on controversial mormon truth claims.

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  james_woods

  Their bible translation committee has truly put the NWT writers to shame...got it directly from the angel Moroni on tablets just like Moses did, and knocked out the whole thing in a few weeks insted of 14 years!

  I also say a court TV episode showing that they actually spawned the king of all american document forgers until he got too greedy and started trying to be an imitation Unibomber...

  However: let's consider this while reconsidering the multiple marriage angle -

  I have heard that "holy underwear" does not exactly come from Fredericks of Hollywood...and it is probably just for Mormon missionary boys and not da ladies?

  Sure sounds like a reasonable and dignified belief system to me...