Yes the documentary Blackfish sheds light on the psychopathic corporate mentality of the seaworld industry. They don't care about the animals or the people they hire to care for them. They lie to both the trainers and the public about the animals behavior and needs. In fact the trainers are the only ones who really care about the animals.
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Nature is amazing :)
by LoveUniHateExams ini studied biology at uni and specialised in animal biology (wolf behaviour) but i've always liked natural history.. even if i never went to uni, i'd still be amazed by nature and i'd still watch nature programs on tv.. i'd like start a thread where posters can post nature clips that are in some way amazing.. the vid below shows wild wolves in the canadian arctic encountering humans for the first time.. these wolves haven't been exterminated by human hunters and therefore haven't learnt to fear humans.
result: wild wolves approach human strangers almost like dogs.
pretty cool.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgavk7fovu .
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Fox Has a 3 Part Series on Hasidic Jews
by minimus inyesterday they started a three part series on hasidic jews living mostly in brooklyn and new jersey and how they take advantage of the system and at the same time rule with an iron hand for bidding the use of modern technology, smart phones, tv etc .
if you think the witnesses are bad, take a look at them.
they ostracize you and kick your children out of their schools and treat you as nonexistent !
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Yes, i agree the control this group has over its people is OTT. It seems a bit sad and rather ironic that this sort of oppression of human beings that is perpetrated by a religion exists in the home of the "free."
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Mad max, star trek or super heros?
by Jayk insome say or future, is going to be like the movie mad max.
other say it will be like star trek.
but if the comic books are correct we're about to see the first generation of super heros and i'm convince one is donald trump;).
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Nah, Mad Max, Star Trek and Superheroes are all to cool.
Idiocracy definitely except not as funny.
A blend of 1984 and Idiocracy.
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Child trafficking issues in India
by MaxPayne inthis is the message that was posted on the jw inbox announcements tab.
i have copy pasted it as it was.
if anyone from india has any information related to this, please do share.. regards.. urgent: child trafficking accusations.
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"The Branch Office is aware..." and will help you to deny deny deny...
All I can say is they know, they know, they know their congregations are a lurking place for predators.
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Eye-brow Wigs ... are a thing?
by Simon in... and apparently justin trudeau wears them.
also, they can come off or slip down while you are doing a press-conference to a global audience.
what a god awful embarrassment this fool is, he should stick to his indian costume dress-up and dancing routine.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g46km4da3yw.
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Anyway back to important things like the mysterious case of the strange Trudeau double-brows.
If they are "enhanced" in any way they look more like a "weave" than a "wig" that is fake eyebrow hair weaved or glued into the existing natural eyebrow to give the appearance of a more full lustrous manly brow.
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Eye-brow Wigs ... are a thing?
by Simon in... and apparently justin trudeau wears them.
also, they can come off or slip down while you are doing a press-conference to a global audience.
what a god awful embarrassment this fool is, he should stick to his indian costume dress-up and dancing routine.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g46km4da3yw.
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I'd say he's an android and they haven't perfected realistic eyebrows yet but an android would be more logical.
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Lol if there's no room in the COmobile maybe the next lay offs will be CO's wives.
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JW stopped me in the street.....
by Phizzy inhe pulled up in his car beside me and asked for directions, then he recognized me, we used to be in the same congo.. the usual pleasantries, i gave him directions, and then "when are you going to come back then" he asks.. "never" i say, "well, it has all changed" he says, " it's not like it used to be" i detect a tone of regret.. "but you know there is nowhere else to go" he boldly proclaims.. "yes there is !
" say i, "there is somewhere where you can find truth, and truth is supported by facts and evidence ".
he had to drive off then as he was blocking a narrow street, i did not get time to say " go to jw facts.com", i will tell him next time..
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Poor sad JWs don't know that truth is a way of being not a book a building or a website.
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We can make Jehovah happy!
by Sour Grapes inlight travels at 186,000 miles per second and it would take light 25,000,000,000 years to travel across the visible universe.. with that in mind, the borg tells us that we can make jehovah happy or sad by the things that we say or do.
i think that yhwh has bigger fish to fry.. so god watches and listens to everyone on earth so that he knows what emotions to feel.. the borg acts like they are the center of the universe and so do most jdubs.
they are just a three ring clown circus..
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Yeah, makes no sense unless jehovah the great has a borderline personality with deep seated abandonment issues and JWs are his narcissist followers believing they're so special because they can make him happy or sad depending on their thoughts, feelings, actions and inactions.
Religion relies on this type of magical thinking to control people and survive.
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Antiwitnessing: cowards
by john.prestor inso i'm downtown and i see two jws hanging out on a bench by a cart.
i approached them and said, i saw you guys on the news, there was a child abuse cover-up in philadelphia.
they don't respond and just look at me.
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I look at it like this, even if these individual witnesses were familiar with the case you speak of "their" opinion would only be in line with the official "company" line for eg
"These are isolated cases. JWs abhor child abuse. There is worse abuse in other religions. Now go away opposer."
Individual witnesse have no power within the group to change the group and that's especially so with sisters. They are discouraged under threat of De eFFing to avoid all negative media reports and not to believe them if they do come across one. They are not the ones who make policy or change policy. They have zero power to affect change except to leave if they don't like it and possibly including all their social connections.
So they close their eyes and ears to any cognitive dissonance creating flaws and contradictions.
Talking to them is like complaining to a shop assistant about store policy the assistant will not want to complain about their employer in public even if they agree with you. There is nothing they can do about store policy even if the policy is unfair. They have no power. There is some saying about "...not taking a no from someone who doesn't have the power to say yes..." or something like that the meaning being you need to go over that person's head to get anywhere but applicable to dealing JWs.
I'm not saying it's a waste of time approaching cart people but I just wonder considering the brick walls they throw up what the goal should be when approaching cart people?