OneEyedJoe

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  How do you feel about identifying roughly where you are from ? Country, Region,State ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  hi friends ,.

  is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?

  what country state or region you are from ?

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  OneEyedJoe

  Dallas Texas
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  2019 Annual Meeting: more F.O.G.

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  after the new construction project is announced, anthony morris the turd gives a talk where he arrogantly tells the audience to 'get over it' and get to work.

  he says relaxing is fine and 'im not trying to put a guilt trip on you' but you all need to get busy.

  no graciousness at all for the endless volunteer labor they demand for whatever new projects they dream up.

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  His voice is also a little slurred and constant stumbling of his words, which makes me wonder if he takes a sip or two to loosen up before going on stage

  Could also be a symptom of dementia
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  Richness of personality seems to work against spiritual-mindedness,

  by snugglebunny in

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  2. bible

  are you bland enough?

  just incredible imho.

  wt 63, 2/15.

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  OneEyedJoe

  They love to use words like thus (as they do here) or evidently to imply that they've laid sufficient groundwork to reach the conclusion that they've drawn. I don't think I've ever seen a more clear example than this of them just jumping to their preferred conclusion, though.
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  Jordan Peterson - Messiah or Poseur?

  by cofty in

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  a jp video came up on my youtube feed last week - he was on a panel in front of a huge audience and some poor disturbed guy ran on stage and started crying and wailing to peterson that he needed his help.

  it was agonising to watch.. what was even more disturbing was the comments section.

  i do not exaggerate when i say that dozens of people were extolling peterson's wisdom as if jesus had come again.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Sometimes I want to like him, like when he seemed to change his mind on the spot about anti-discrimination laws (I think this was during a Jim Jeffries show episode) when faced with facts he seemed not to have considered. He seems to think fairly clearly on a lot of topics that are currently confusing a lot of leftists, but when it comes to religious/spiritual/literary topics, he seems like a great example of what happens when a very intelligent person falls in love with their own ideas and decides there is no valid criticism of them. His regular excuse of "it'd take me 40 hours to answer that" or "I'd have to write a 600 page book on that" response to simple questions on religions topics ("do you believe Jesus literally died and was resurrected" or "if all humans ceased to exist would god still exist") is infuriating

  Watching him dance around his claim that no one can give up smoking without a supernatural experience in conversation with Matt dillahunty was painful. His confused way of defining truth in conversation with Sam Harris, doubly so.

  To the extent that he says anything true and useful, there are people out there doing so much more clearly and honestly. He seems mostly to be taking advantage (though, it seems to me that he's doing so unintentionally and out of genuine belief in his own nonsense) of intellectually lazy people that are in search of meaning and want to imagine themselves to have formed an intellectually interesting and novel worldview.
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  Everybody's getting old

  by neat blue dog in

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  at an assembly in texas is it me or are there not too many young folk about 😉.

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  OneEyedJoe

  This is actually my old assembly hall. The picture appears to have been taken about half way from the back of one of the back sections - you can kinda see the additional section to the right but the picture is missing two sections to the left. Assembly attendence was usually a hair over 1000 when I was in, and it was probably about 50-75% full.

  This one is located just west of Denton, TX.
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  Your thoughts?

  by Iamallcool in

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  https://www.watoday.com.au/world/jehovahs-witnesses-recover-best-from-surgery-despite-refusing-blood-20120703-21fi1.html .

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  Yeah when you have patients that put outrageous restrictions on their doctors, they will often be forced to go to the best doctors or the doctors using the most modern techniques. It's no surprise that they'd have better outcomes. There's also almost certainly a strong selection bias effect as the riskiest patients are turned away because of their refusal of blood transfusions, so the sample of jws getting the surgery is probably a healthier sample on average than the control. None of that justifies the thousands of needless deaths that the cult had caused with its bullshit doctrines.
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  Memorial date

  by DomineIvimus-DI in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  can someone please help me with this, if you’ve looked into it before?.

  i read somewhere that the witnesses didn’t celebrate the memorial on nisan 14 according to the jewish calendar.

  i did a quick google check - seems next years memorial is on tuesday (nisan 13) rather than the wednesday, nisan 14 according to the jewish calendar.

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  OneEyedJoe

  The days were counted as starting at sundown so after sundown on Nisan 13 is the start of Nisan 14
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  Sex before marriage.

  by nicolaou in

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  2. relationships

  mrs nic' and i were 16 and 18 years old respectively when we first met at a circuit assembly in corby.

  three years later we were married.

  we've had a great time, we're very lucky but looking back i can see how crazy it is to put that pressure to marry on teenagers.

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  OneEyedJoe

  It's only premarital sex if you get married.
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  is the watchtower cult the most hated religion ?

  by stan livedeath in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hated by many members of the public for their ( former ?

  ) door knocking and preaching at the most inopportune times ( at work for instance ).

  hated by former members who are now shunned by family and former friends.. hated by thousands ( millions maybe ) of pimos who only stay for fear of losing wives / family friends.. can you name any religious cult thats even worse ?.

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  OneEyedJoe

  Given what they've gone through and the baseless accusations still leveled at them regularly I'd say the dubious honor of being the world's most hated religious group ought to go to the Jews. Some Muslims seem to be working hard to claim the title for their side, but given that antisemitism is essentially explicit in islam and implicit in christianity I think the Jews will hold the title for quite some time to come.

  Jws are an annoyance at worst to most people since they only kill their own.
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  So how "worldly" did you get after you left the "truth"

  by greenhornet in

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  i don't drive a 4 door car.

  lol.

  i go to a local christian church.

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  OneEyedJoe

  I didn't change a whole lot but I've done plenty of things now that could well get me dfed. Smoked a few cigarettes and weed occasionally and I've done mushrooms (the latter I expect I'll do again sometime) a decent amount of fornicating, got a tattoo, been to a swingers club (it was fun but not really my thing), been in a couple churches, and I've both donated blood and undergone a medical treatment that would've been banned under jw rules. Apart from out and out crimes (though I suppose the drug use falls under that umbrella a bit) and homosexuality I think I've covered my bases pretty well.