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  Humans only survive for 3-5 days without water...

  by purrpurr in

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  and yet today's watchtower and indeed the bible condemns the israelites for moaning about having no water!

  it's never occurred to me how unjust this is!

  and how could a so called loving god not provide a basic human need?!.

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  First of all, I think it is important to remember that the Israelites were in the wilderness because of their own choosing.

  Really... lets examine the facts. Their choices were 1) leave egypt or 2) witness the death of their first born. Some choice.

  
  

  They were in the situation that they were in because they were focusing on their seeming impossible obstacles, instead of God. They had the opportunity to enter the promised land, but ten of the 12 spies came back afraid, and without faith. They chose to not enter the promised Land. This is after the 10 plagues of Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea & the miraculous defeat of Pharoah.

  You would be excellent at debunking bible fairy tales. You just gave a really good explanation as to why the story is flawed.

  And especially important, it was aftera covenanat relationship was mediated by Moses between the nation of Israel & God.

  Really? Why is that “especially” important?
  
  
  

  The problem was that the Israelites were still thinking like a defeated, enslaved people. The people had been taken out of slavery, but the slavery had not yet been taken out of the people.

  hmmm.... could it be because their petty weak ass desert god left them in captivity for 400 years??? Do you THINK THAT may play into it????? What a joke. He leaves them for GENERATIONS in abject poverty and slavery but they are supposed to get over it in 30 days? Screw you and your terrible excuse making for a horrible fairy tale.
  

  Your a terrible PR agent for a terrible story.
  
  
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  Anyone notice there has not been any announcement for the annual meeting broadcast this year?

  by nowwhat? in

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  let the speculation begin!.

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  Its because the org has collapsed... invisibly. Slim can explain it... sort of
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  Bro. Geoff in September 2018 Broadcast vs Serena Williams

  by NeedToKnow in

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  the september broadcast opens up with a story of 80 yr old brother geoff who gave up been in a band all them years ago.

  fast forward to 2018 and we have a world renown tennis player and jw as far as we’re told.. so where some are encouraged to leave the world and it’s futile pursuits of fame and fortune, others are not.

  or even punished for their behaviour on court or for been photographed with their country’s flag where others have been executed for refusing to salute flags.

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  Yes but just like larry grahm and george benson, those who were famous before being jw’s stay famous, or at least well known. What are they to do, use a neuralizer on the whole world? Prince was more famous than any of them. It was his only career, ever.

  As for the williams sisters, what do you expect the wt to do, make some sort of public statment on their official status? Thats ridiculous. The can of worms that opens is massive and the reality is nobody outside the minor cult of jw’s gives one damn what religion they are let alone their official status in that cult.

  Get over yourselves.

  Its sad that kids in jwdm are discouraged from reaching whatever their full potential may be, but the ugly truth is many are discouraged, in all walks of life, from reaching their full potential. That why the greats are great. They focus and sacrifice to be great. It sucks and its ugly, but if you didnt sacrifice because you saw an “easier” way, a panda petting paradise, then you never would have been great.
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  Serena William is 'fighting for women'?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so serena williams lost the us open final 6-2, 6-4 to naomi osaka, her japanese-american opponent.. williams received three code violations from the umpire, carlos ramos: .

  1. a warning for illegal coaching (subsequently admitted by williams's coach).

  2. a point penalty for smashing her racquet.

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  Seems a fair caricature to me
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  Unsung Movie Villains

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. entertainment

  we all know the big movie villains get a lot of credit and appear in multiple movies - the shark in jaws, darth vader, and before them dracula, wolfman, frankenstein's monster, etc.. but there must be plenty of villains that get forgotten.. i thought clarence boddicker (played by kurtwood smith) was fantastic in robocop (1987) - a real psychopath.. another character who springs to mind is vilos cohaagen (ronny cox) in total recall (1990), i thought he was very good too.. obviously these and other movie villains do get some critical acclaim but they don't get their own franchise and they rarely get universal praise.. maybe 'unsung movie villains' is the wrong phrase but hopefully you get what i'm trying to say!

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  Lol but negan is neither forgotten nor unsung!
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  Unsung Movie Villains

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  we all know the big movie villains get a lot of credit and appear in multiple movies - the shark in jaws, darth vader, and before them dracula, wolfman, frankenstein's monster, etc.. but there must be plenty of villains that get forgotten.. i thought clarence boddicker (played by kurtwood smith) was fantastic in robocop (1987) - a real psychopath.. another character who springs to mind is vilos cohaagen (ronny cox) in total recall (1990), i thought he was very good too.. obviously these and other movie villains do get some critical acclaim but they don't get their own franchise and they rarely get universal praise.. maybe 'unsung movie villains' is the wrong phrase but hopefully you get what i'm trying to say!

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  Agent smith is all time great, but uni asked for “forgotten” or unsung villians.. hugo weaving is by no means forgotten. To my point, neo was only great because smith was so evil.

  In terms of forgotten maybe i could say alan rickman in “quigley down under” as marston. Fantastic villian in a movie that dosent always get a lot of credit... its just hard to find forgotten villians. Villians make movies therefore we dont forget them
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  Unsung Movie Villains

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  we all know the big movie villains get a lot of credit and appear in multiple movies - the shark in jaws, darth vader, and before them dracula, wolfman, frankenstein's monster, etc.. but there must be plenty of villains that get forgotten.. i thought clarence boddicker (played by kurtwood smith) was fantastic in robocop (1987) - a real psychopath.. another character who springs to mind is vilos cohaagen (ronny cox) in total recall (1990), i thought he was very good too.. obviously these and other movie villains do get some critical acclaim but they don't get their own franchise and they rarely get universal praise.. maybe 'unsung movie villains' is the wrong phrase but hopefully you get what i'm trying to say!

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  Fight club is phenomenal
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  Unsung Movie Villains

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  we all know the big movie villains get a lot of credit and appear in multiple movies - the shark in jaws, darth vader, and before them dracula, wolfman, frankenstein's monster, etc.. but there must be plenty of villains that get forgotten.. i thought clarence boddicker (played by kurtwood smith) was fantastic in robocop (1987) - a real psychopath.. another character who springs to mind is vilos cohaagen (ronny cox) in total recall (1990), i thought he was very good too.. obviously these and other movie villains do get some critical acclaim but they don't get their own franchise and they rarely get universal praise.. maybe 'unsung movie villains' is the wrong phrase but hopefully you get what i'm trying to say!

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  I always love a good movie thread, uni, but theres a problem with this one, at least from my perspective.

  Most good tales involve a hero or heroes overcoming a dastardly villain. We cheer for the heroes because they fight the villainy we hate and its only because they struggle to overcome the evil that they are heroes.

  In short, great heros dont exist without great villains and great movies dont exist without great heroes. Any movie we think is great is likely to be great because, in no small part, of the villain. Ive been largely unable to think of an unsung villian.
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  Serena William is 'fighting for women'?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so serena williams lost the us open final 6-2, 6-4 to naomi osaka, her japanese-american opponent.. williams received three code violations from the umpire, carlos ramos: .

  1. a warning for illegal coaching (subsequently admitted by williams's coach).

  2. a point penalty for smashing her racquet.

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  There is an underlying story that, unfortunately, serena’s jackassery has ruined...

  serena threw her little hissy fit because shes shes spoiled and feels entittled to win all the time, largely because she always has. Shes been phenominal and dominating but the rare occassions shes lost this has typically been her response, to act like a horses rear end and yell and scream etc etc, but she missed a HUGE opportunity to really represent women this time..

  the main reason she lost is because shes terribly out of shape, at least compared to her normal physique . Just a quick glance at her tells the story. Shes downright pudgy, borderline obese.

  She just had a baby a year ago. She has every reason in the world to be a bit out of shape. She still made the finals. Let that sink in... shes 35 (ish), has her first child and within a year is competing at the highest level of her sport.

  Imagine her saying ‘hey im a new mother, i worked hard to get back and still almost won, you can do it too’... imagine the inspiration. Imagine the strong woman narative. Hell she coulda thrown in a ‘im coming for you next time little girl’ and nobody would have blinked twice. Its a damn shame for womens rights that she went the route she did.
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  Serena William is 'fighting for women'?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  so serena williams lost the us open final 6-2, 6-4 to naomi osaka, her japanese-american opponent.. williams received three code violations from the umpire, carlos ramos: .

  1. a warning for illegal coaching (subsequently admitted by williams's coach).

  2. a point penalty for smashing her racquet.

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  _Morpheus

  Since we are talking has been tennis players weighing in here is another one:

  https://nyti.ms/2MYZHXw

  I like Martina Navratilova’s take.. shes much more balanced than billy king. Serenas behavior is indefensible.