Posts by GLTirebiter

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Jehovah's Witnesses and Amway
by paul from cleveland in
1. jw
2. friends
maybe you're all familiar with this subject already but i just came across it tonight.

it's an article about whether or not amway is a cult.

the similarities between jehovah's witnesses and amway are incredible.. http://www.cocs.com/jhoagland/amcult.html.
GLTirebiter
Evaluating MLMs:
- When will your "upline" be paid a commission: when you buy inventory, or when you make a sale?
- Is there any reasonable hope of success strictly as a sales representative, without recruiting others to be "downlines" for you?
- Are there sales territories assigned to each representative, sized so that each representative has enough prospective customers in their territory to succeed?
- Are the products offered comparable in quality and price to those offered by retail stores and online merchants?
- Considering all the expenses and time invested, what will you be earning per hour?
- In short, is the company interested in your success, or only that you buy into the business?
I am aware of no MLM that has satisfactory answers to all of these; many cannot give a good response to even one of them!
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JWs cheat the least??
by lambsbottom in
1. jw
2. friends
how do ya figure this!??.

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http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/survey-finds-evangelical-christians-are-most-likely-cheat-their-spouses.
GLTirebiter

Only because they're such a small group relative to the other categories reported! The wording of the article is poor; it gives the results in a way that represents population size rather than the likelihood that any given persoon will cheat on their spouse. Also, the survey's methodology is poor (a self-selected sample is not a random sample, and therefore is unlikely to provide accurate results).

98.76543210% of all statistics cited in internet articles are meaningless, made-up BS (including this one).
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Anyone recall a time when your congregation came to the aid of a Brother or sister in need??
by jam in
1. social
2. entertainment
i'm not talking about a individual, but a congregation as a whole.. i'm talking about a brother or sister that really hit hard times.. have there ever been an occasion where the brothers (elders).

decided to dip into the kh funds and help one in need????.

example, brother loose his job, get evicted, family of four or.
GLTirebiter

I cannot recall any cases of financial help, but there were cases in the 1990s and early 2000s where Ex's kingdom hall organized meal schedules to help the sick and elderly. The sad thing is that those are the only cases I remember where any bona fide charity came from the local kingdom hall.
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Who was the best batman?
by FL_Panthers in
1. social
2. entertainment
it seems that batman has been portrayed by more actors than any other superhero.. who do you think has played the best in the role of bruce wayne/batman?.
GLTirebiter

Adam West! He turned hackneyed scripts, bad props, and absurd special effects into a low-budget slapstick classic.
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Any tips for safe web surfing?
by compound complex in
1. social
2. entertainment
greetings to all who surf shark-infested internet waters.. after i was hit by ransomware the other day, i did research on so-called safe sites.

it seems more and more sites are being infected deliberately by hackers.

i went to a legit-looking site on a famous artist and -- wham!
GLTirebiter

Keep everything you run up-to-date (that means replacing an old Windows XP machine, because XP isn't supported any more).

Use Chrome, Firefox or Opera instead of Internet Explorer. As the biggest target, IE attracts the most attention from the evil-doers.

Set your browser to the tightest security settings you can tolerate, including Javascript settings.

Use Ad-Block and Flash-block browser extensions. Be wary of where any Flash content comes from before you run it.

Use a good anti-virus program and Spybot Search-and-Destroy.

Set up a guest account on your computer and use that for web browsing, not a "computer administrator" account.
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Are Elders Mandated Reporters or not? (California)
by awakenyr2004 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
i know clergy are mandated here in california but are elders considered clergy?.

father is on drugs and since confessed.

" father of the year, right!
GLTirebiter

Link to summary of clergy reporting laws by state (US Dep't of Health and Human Services--PDF file).

I believe the oldest daughter was telling on the father (to the elders) the entire year

In California (and many other states) the clergy privilege is limited to "pastoral communications". Communications including victims, witnesses and other third parties may not be considered to be "pastoral" and not exempt from the reporting requirement. To know if that applies to the elders' contact with the daughter, you would need the advice of an attorney familiar with the law, especially how the courts interpret what is (and is not) pastoral communications.
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Why was the Book of Enoch omitted from the Bible..
by jam in
1. jw
2. experiences
the book of enoch taught women magic, the art of war.

and cosmetic..they felt this book was too far out in left field.. the show "bible secrets revealed".. ok, magic vs having a monster baby by a angel.. so happy they omitted that book, otherwise women would.

be leaders of the militaries.
GLTirebiter

It depends on whose Bible you're talking about. Enoch follows the pentatuch in the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.
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Do You Believe That Jehovah's Witnesses Should Be Outlawed As They Are In Some Countries?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
or do you believe they have the right to practice their religion, as they do?.
GLTirebiter

If the Warchtower Society was outlawed, its members soon would be sucked into some other high-control group. It would be better to innoculate them with understanding and critical thinking skills, so they learn to be nobody's fool.
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Are you a Kentucky Derbie Fan
by designs in
1. social
2. entertainment
do you have a favorite.

do you bet on the ponies.. gotta pull for california chrome..
GLTirebiter

I loved the story - the humble beginnings and a couple guys who did it out of love for the animal.

Yes, the story reminds me of Seabiscuit: a horse nobody else believed in, a trainer who was "too old", from a California track the elite owners considered a backwater, and owners who were too foolish to listen to the "experts". Next up: Preakness!
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Materialists, Jehovah's Witnesses & Biblical Christianity
by Perry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
materialist.

jehovahs witness.

biblical christian.
GLTirebiter

What's a Materialist again?

Materialist philosophy holds that reality is comprised soley by material things; in other words, that matter, energy, space and time define the closed universal set of all things.