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  Cards Against Humanity

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  we bought this game for xmas because it looked funny and we like board / card games.. https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/.

  omg, it's freakin' hilarious!.

  it turns out too that we're really bad people.

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  talesin

  I noticed they have a free printable download (just use card stock). For anyone on a budget. I love board games - now, to tear other people away from their screens/headsets. LOL
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  Kevin O'Leary Asked to Invest in Watch Tower Society of Pennsylvania - His Response

  by berrygerry in

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  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwspmjngt6w

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  Wasanelder Once, he is kind of a TV icon in Canada. Not only for Dragon's Den (precursor to Shark's Tank), but also as a financial advisor for years on the "O'Leary Report" (is that the show) on Canada's national public broadasting system, the CBC. (Really good documentaries, btw, and many on youtube - look for The Fifth Estate, CBC or Doc Zone).
  
  These folks are venture capitalists; they are investing to make money, and qquickly. O'Leary's biting sarcasm is well-known, and his lust for Randism is legendary. He hams it up a lot for the camera. So a combination of his 'take-downs' of the entrepreneurs is yeah, kinda funny in the context of the b'Org presenting, looking for venture capital.
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  Update 8: "fix your attitude, young lady"

  by Esmeralda001 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my study conductor lectured me about my attitude this morning!!!!

  apparently some sister complained to her that my attitude was irritating.

  the sister in question is just bothered by the fact that i ignore her along with her four daughters.

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  Just like at work. Tolerate the troublemakers when you *must* be around them, and avoid them when possible.

  Tres bien! :D
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  Kevin O'Leary Asked to Invest in Watch Tower Society of Pennsylvania - His Response

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwspmjngt6w

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  hahaha, Mr. Wonderful is quite the success w/ his Dragon's Den clone. Go Kev!
  
  I can see him meeting with the WT now. As if !

  Good one, BG. :P
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  Remember When Something Bad Would Happen And You Felt Its Really What They Deserved?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was thinking about christmas and how celebrants may lose their home and all their possessions because a christmas candle burned down the house.. witnesses smugly would say, "well, they shouldn't have been celebrating the holidays!

  ".....yet if a jw got into a fatal car accident while going to a convention, it was clearly satan's doing..

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  No, never. I just don't get it.

  In fact, it was about 5 years ago, I heard my mother say "It serves him right, he shouldn't have been doing [insert FUN activity] at his age!" ... upon my learning about a tragic accident. It was then I realized what a monster she was. It's very disheartening to realize, that is the JW way of thinking. : (
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  The really cool feeling of community within JWs

  by Phaedra in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..

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  Oh, my! I really should read the whole thread. smh

  North Korea is a communist monarchy with a god-king. Google is your friend!

  (Afterthought: "personality cult" or "cult of personality" ; think of the Moonies, it is a cult.)

  Watch Lisa Ling's documentary for National Geographic, on youtube. Here's the link to part 1.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_268_pBvPs
  

  from Rational wiki, where it's rightly called 'bizarre':
  
  

  North Korea, also known as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" (DPRK; Korean chosŏn'gŭl: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Korean hancha: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國; Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk), is a small, autarkic remnant of the Cold War ruled by third generation "leader" Kim Jong Un. The former ruler and father of the current one, Kim Jong Il,[2] lorded over the country as a God-king, and had the world's largest personality cult. He inherited power from his daddy, Kim Il Sung,[3] who founded the nation with the assistance from theSoviet Union. However, since the present leader is the third-gen Kim, that would make North Korea the world's only Communist dynasty (This is especially bizarre since monarchism was one of the things Marx railed against).
  North Korea is perhaps the most undemocratic and totalitarian state in existence, with possibly the world's worst human rights record, and one of the only countries in the world in which Internet access is hugely censored and generally only available in the capital city.[4]. The regime is so abhorrently totalitarian that even most communists despise it. Its only outside supporters are either brainwashed tankies, or are just insane.
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  The really cool feeling of community within JWs

  by Phaedra in

  1. jw
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  i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..

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  "Argument from intimidation", which, based on John T. Reed's Debating Strategies, is "its appeal to moral self-doubt and its reliance on the fear, guilt or ignorance of the victim. It is used in the form of an ultimatum demanding that the victim renounce a given idea without discussion, under threat of being considered morally unworthy."

  
  

  DJS Great quote. I've seen this tactic used a lot in recent debates. Saved, and the book is not at my library, but I'll find online. Thanks.
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  The really cool feeling of community within JWs

  by Phaedra in

  1. jw
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  i remember going out with other jws after the memorial.. small gatherings.. picnics at some local landmark.. the feeling of closeness, camaraderie, friendship with like minded people you could trust.. haven't experienced it since i left.. really miss that..

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  I remember that feeling, though it was long ago. We knew each other before we went to school, they are the only ones we were allowed to be friends with. And we shared that experience. I still miss going out to dinner with a group, and some of the funniest conversations. Oy, I was naive, and never did have much of a 'filter'.

  I've had some great times in my life, and still do. But those are the only really fun memories of my youth (skating parties, the best). Sometimes, at this time of year, it would be good to have folks around that i grew up with, or went to uni with, known and trusted for many years. You know, like regular people. xx

  Edit: After reading fmf's comment, I have to say, YES. I have not read the thread. Best thing I ever did was get involved in some activism, and organizing a festival. My atheist friends, LOL, dubbed me 'the antiChrist' , and had the best Xmases with them, and other times, drum parties on the beach, pot lucks ...... music and food and no judgment, and not heavy drinkers. Thinking atheists have poor values is ignorance, plain and simple. All hail Festivus! :P
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  Questions for Serena Williams

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  being as serena williams shows outstanding abilities and skills at that which she exerts herself in, such as tennis, it would seems reasonable that serena williams has the same high level of abilities in all of her worthwhile endeavors.

  perhaps she has this level of abilities in her journey as one of jehovah's witnesses.

  would it not be reasonable that those who need greater clarification and understanding of certain bible subjects, to make contact with serena and ask her such questions?.

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  Exactly sparky1, and then a few months later, she's lonely at Xmas? Baptized or not, she can still be declared 'shunned'. When the 'ship hit the sand' in our group, I walked away, and my best friend FLED 4000km away. She led a double life all this time. Serena reminds me of her. I think the cognitive dissonance is strong with this one!
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  The positive achievements of Science and Religion in 2015. How do they compare?

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. current

  science.. landed a probe on a comet, found liquid water on mars and successfully completed a ten year mission to pluto.. developed the first successful vaccine against ebola, discovered another human species in homo naledi, developed cancer killing molecules and high intensity ultrasound therapies which avoid surgery and leave healthy cells alone.

  successfully mapped the human epigenome and developed the gene editing tool crispr, it's potential for medical and agricultural advance is staggering!.

  found a way to produce graphene for a 1000th of the previous cost, developed cheap and sustainable methods to supply clean drinking water where water borne infections have been killing thousands, scaled up production of clean, renewable energy.. there's loads more, please feel free to add to the list.. .

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  True story, October 2015. We're not quite "Back to the Future", but soon! : )

  , video in link

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hoverboard-duru-1.3270569
  

  This past May, Montreal inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru broke the world record for the longest hoverboard flight.
  Duru flew up to five metres above a lake for a distance of 275.9 metres aboard his homemade, propeller-powered hoverboard in a trip that lasted more than 1½ minutes.
  Now, the 31-year-old Duru and his company, Omni Hoverboards, are working on a secret, next-generation version of the device. Watch as he takes CBC's Reg Sherren into the workshop where he is building it, and then to a Quebec lake where he puts the new prototype to the test for the first time.