There is even a news item, on CBC Canada that talks about an ant-aging cream, advertisers offer a free trial period, but you have to give credit card info for the shipping, but the you find out, that the trial is for 2 weeks, but you signed up for a never ending subscription (unless you cancel), but you hardly can find the cancel clause in the original presentation. Surprise, sounds like a deceptive, hard to leave religion that promise anti-aging processes too.
Posts by waton
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8Religion is just like Advertising!
by stuckinarut2 ina thought occurred to me today, that religion is just like a clever marketer or advertiser.
first , a "problem" is created, then the advertiser offers the "solution"!.
religion does the same!
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The Great Pyramid of Gizeh: New Light!
by Ding inthe guardian has a story about a recent discovery regarding the great pyramid of gizeh.
it begins this way:.
"archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious enclosure hidden deep inside the great pyramid of giza, the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
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waton
The builders probably were glad to have these voids included, less stones to hew, fill to cart uphill.
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Religion is just like Advertising!
by stuckinarut2 ina thought occurred to me today, that religion is just like a clever marketer or advertiser.
first , a "problem" is created, then the advertiser offers the "solution"!.
religion does the same!
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waton
advertisers now spin a story that you can latch on to, that resonates with you. but the advertiser/ agency is just a front for the company/business behind it.
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I cry during the National Anthem now
by kairos inafter being a jw for 25 years and finding every weasel way to 'maintain christian neutrality', i now find myself in a completely 'new light'.. i quit abruptly, four years ago and have lived a jw free life with the exception of my born-in wife.when i see the ceremony of the national anthem, it not only reaffirms the absolute beauty of personal freedom, but it also allows me to see that most people are good and loyal to one another.
i treasure my life and have become a patriot.
now i feel ashamed that i was a government/authority rejecting, isolationist that benefited from living in the greatest country in the world.
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waton
besides, some national anthem are appropriately stirring and profound music.
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American JWs - Marriage in Foreign Countries
by NeverKnew inas a non-jw, i now know of at least 3 american jws who have left the country, married some random person in a third world country and who have returned to the us alone.
there may be a 4th one soon.. it could be pure coincidence, but just thought i’d throw it out there to see if there’s some bizarre jw logic to this .
i’m no longer close enough to the group to hear any details so... could be purely coincidence.
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waton
Some countries even require their embassies to approve the marriage, never mind getting all the red tape typed. as said It could take years, true love is required during the wait. coming back alone at first, is the norm.
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Witness Royalty and the last day at the "Towers"
by Lynnie inmy uber elder cousin and his wife got the "privilege" of having one last "toast" of wine at the rooftop garden at the towers in nyc since the jw's are vacating to warwick.
his oldest daughter and son in law are quite high up in the inner circle so they get invited to all the "inner circle" activities.
even though they aren't supposed to toast to anything it was pretty darn close.
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waton
The inner circles, are mashing with outer circles that have the wealth to make it happen, may be not on this roof rumble overlooking Manhattan, but if you could latch onto the inner wt circle after an assembly you might be astounded the splendor you see meshing at the periphery.
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In 1923 I Almost Died
by TerryWalstrom inin 1923 i almost died.. don't get me wrong, i wouldn't even exist for another 44 years.. for a few seconds, on top a building, my grandfather stood with tears running down his cheeks and a small caliber pistol in his right hand.
if he had pulled the trigger, not just one man--one very depressed and hopeless man--would die; he'd take with him the four children his wife would never carry, their children (including me) and so on.
all of my children and grandchildren would never exist stretching off into the darkness of eternity itself.. it was on the way back from seagoville, near dallas, my grandfather told me about it the day he drove out to the prison where i was to be released on parole.____.
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waton
thank you, always worthwhile reading, and intertwined with the unchanging wt story, Millions now living will never die. 1918-2017.
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Lawyer from Canada Bethel turns whistleblower
by krismalone inlawyer from canada watchtower branch reveals how the watchtower protects pedophiles.
he had the courage to speak up against the evil policies that protect pedophiles.
this video needs to go viral.
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waton
come to think of it, the prototype whistleblower, Joseph, kept his identity hidden too, until the right moment. Perhaps here too, WT will be made to eat crow. ( not orphan though).
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If there was a resurrection in paradise
by Sour Grapes insomething that bothered me even when i was a watchtower company drone was the thought of dying and being resurrected in paradise.
would the resurrected person really be me or just a copy of me?
if god could recreate one of me, he could also recreate five of me.
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waton
only if humans were dramatically scaled down, could an open space, rural society exist on earth with billions of resurrected, and why bother the creator with the sordid details of all those lived lives? It is one thing to have to live with your own "flying off the handle" episodes, but the memory, ingrained personality traits of billions, and then to have the "books" and memory of their "new world" deeds opened? That is what I call carrying the burden of the sovereignty issue. not our problem.
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Some more background information on Geoffrey Jackson
by Listener inborn in 1955 jacko was baptized at 13 years of age in 1968.his life story, printed in the august 2015 watchtower doesn't state the year in which he married, it's fairly general when talking about it.
hmmm, i wonder why?i've come across a recording of an interview with jacko at a hall dedication in another part of the us in 2009 which provides some further information.he married his first wife, jenny, in 1974 at the grand old age of 19. no wonder they didn't want to print it in the watchtower.unfortunately his first wife, jenny, was diagnosed with cancer in 1999.in 2003 jacko was sent a letter from the gb stating he was being transferred to hq and his wife would be given appropriate work.
he initially didn't know why they were being called to hq as he felt they were being very productive in their fijian paradise, he states that they brought 75 people into the truth.
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waton
Sbf: Loraini looks older than 34 in this picture. I'd say mid 40s.
true, but she is half his size and they wilt faster in the sun. I thought too that there was not anything untoward about that marriage after a 4 year cooling off period.