Posts by JW_Researcher

Consider this: If you now know everything about that evening and do nothing it could be argued (perhaps successfully) that you are tacitly OK with their visit. Now suppose one of the JWs, who might be uninsured, develops a back problem that supposedly occurred during his "visit" to your home?

It is a stretch but, might he sue you for his injury? If you think that is a stretch, think of the "attractive nuisance" laws. Think of robbers who are shot while committing the robbery who sue the person being robbed. There is an endless list of possibilities. Especially considering the animus that exists and the attempts to prevaricate

My only point is that you don't know what you don't know. Perhaps a report to the police without actually pressing charges would be a reasonable response.

Stranger things have happened. I would want to have an official record of what actually happened.

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Jehovah's Witnesses and Racism

by karnage in

i have been wondering and trying to find some information into whether the wtbs has ever played the race game.

when i see pictures of the society of old, all i see is white people.

i don't see any blacks, asians, hispanic, or mixed (black and white or whatever) couples.

JW_Researcher

A more compelling analysis might take into consideration what society as a whole was saying at the time.

Judging these quotes by 21st century standards is suspect.

Judging the quotes by how deviant the quotes are from "mainstream" thought and publications of that time would provide more insight.

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Urban Legend Experience JW Style

by moomanchu in

jw
friends

enjoy:.

a shepherding call where one word was never spoken but was .

successful!.

JW_Researcher

Did they pay royalties before sending it to you?

http://www.bprc.org/parables/silentsermon.html

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FWF Disavows GB on 9/7/75

by compound complex in

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friends

during the gilead school graduation exercises, september 7, 1975, fred franz admitted to the students and their families that no governing body existed during the time of the apostles, nor one since then.

he had already concluded that the doctrine of a governing body from the days of the apostles to the present was a false teaching.

as franz revealed the unscriptural nature of the doctrine, his audience sat in bewildered silence.

JW_Researcher

I read on Ray Franz's web site about the tape of this talk. Very interesting.

Could you please supply the URL for this website?

Thank you.

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GLOBAL WARMING ALERT....

by SWALKER in

the bush administration has now decided that global warming is indeed a fact and the u.s. is now going to put the polar bear on the threatened list (barring no set-backs):.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16361087/.

swalker.

JW_Researcher

Haven't you noticed everyone else is pissing all over your economy?

Gotta' say...I did not notice this. To what economic indicators are you referring?

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GLOBAL WARMING ALERT....

by SWALKER in

the bush administration has now decided that global warming is indeed a fact and the u.s. is now going to put the polar bear on the threatened list (barring no set-backs):.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16361087/.

swalker.

JW_Researcher

JeffT...I guess I just made up the following article:

Swalker,

I'm certain you didn't "make it up" but...I'm fairly certain it is not from a major news outlet (http://www.republicandictionary.com/article_environment.shtml) . Is that website your source?

To post the article without identifying the source, especially when it is a clearly biased source, makes me wonder about how you consume and digest the media.

Do you eat your media-vegtables, too....or just left-wing (which even you won't deny that website is) red meat? :-)

Steve

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The Cooling World

by JW_Researcher in

article also here click here.

can't seem to post the jpg large enough to be read..

JW_Researcher

Hype - it's always Hype if it is cooling warming or turning pink.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/

Thank you for the website. It has much interesting information.

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The Cooling World

by JW_Researcher in

article also here click here.

can't seem to post the jpg large enough to be read..

JW_Researcher

True, but you're also talking some 30-plus years ago when that article was written. There has been a wee bit of new technology and research projects done in the last third of a century, and guess what? You might want to take a look at that. It's easy to be a nay sayer on this, though there are fewer and fewer of you, it seems. Even the oil companies are talking about climate change. Maybe all these scientests are getting on to something.

You misunderstand. I am not taking a position on this....other than the evidence is not in and that artifically created windows of technological advances only serve to obfuscate the real issue....that we don't know. Maybe we will, maybe we won't but ....regardless of how loud "scientists" clamor, it is only speculation.

A wise poster on this board once wrote about a different issue (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/126408/1.ashx) "I've seen how emotional this issue is in discussions on this board, but I have to say that the level of anger it creates when someone questions fundamentalist beliefs is more than a little scary."

In light of the fact that I am not taking a position, simply noting that the scientists' positions change in an eye-blink (30 years is very short when dealing with climatic change, without regard to new technologies), and yet you are labeling me a "nay sayer" (sic)... it seems that this is an emotional issue for some.

A good question(s) to answer "scientifically" might be: "Am I being persuadded by the current politically correct messages? Would I have been screaming about man-made, earth-cooling activities 30 years ago in response to those scientists?"

Please refrain from putting words in my mouth like "It's easy to be a nay sayer on this, though there are fewer and fewer of you."

I am not a naysayer. I am not a non-naysayer. My point was never about whether there is or is not "global warming." My point was that the scientists' views on the matter change rapidly and that there appears to be a bandwagon effect. Thank you.