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  Socialism

  by Perry in

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  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  4 Hear this, you who trample the needy
  and do away with the poor of the land,

  5 saying,

  “When will the New Moon be over
  that we may sell grain,
  and the Sabbath be ended
  that we may market wheat?”—
  skimping on the measure,
  boosting the price
  and cheating with dishonest scales,
  6 buying the poor with silver
  and the needy for a pair of sandals,
  selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

  7 The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done."

  Amos 8:4-7 - New International Version
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

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  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  Perry: "A rising tide lifts all boats."

  Face it Perry, middle class "boats" are sinking.
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

  1. social
  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  bohm:

  So are Scandinavia socialist? Is it more socialist than e.g. the USA? Can we agree that countries can be at least this socialist without failing?

  Perry never agrees or admits to anything.
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

  1. social
  2. current

  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Village Idiot

  Socialists think that money will solve all man's problems. Everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.

  That seems to apply to capitalism.

  They have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money. God calls this greed and envy. They are sins.

  Capitalists blame those with little money for their problems. They think they're entitled to the wealth that workers produce (which transforms into money). They are greedy, constantly thinking of ways to increase their money at the expense of others.

  Remember the National Socialist German Workers' Party? No? They were called Nazi's for short.

  Hitler killed all the Socialist leaders in the Nazi party. That historical event is called "The night of the long knives". Hitler also hated communists and rounded them up into the concentration camps.

  The party, in its beginning, had been a hybrid party. They called themselves "nationalist" in order to attract the right wing (whenever the word "nationalist" comes to mind it always applies to the right wing). They called themselves "Socialist" to attract the left wing. By attracting the disaffected of both movements they were able to draw enough voters to win an election.

  The fate of the Socialists within the Nazi party was sealed when Hitler came into power. Once they were killed off and the election was won they started destroying unions - something no Socialist would do.

  Same thing applied to the other two major fascists in Europe. Mussolini, in Italy, had been kicked out of the Socialist party. Franco, in Spain, had the Socialists trying to kill him.

  Domination is the result of Socialism, not freedom and equality. This is a demonstrable fact of history.

  Socialist nations can be either freedom oriented or dictatorial. Go to Western Europe where Bohm lives and you will find those Socialist nations that believe in freedom and democracy and I should say much more than the United States with its plutocracy. You conveniently pick out the examples that you wish and ignore the ones that contradict your ideology.

  How many Hollywood millionaires lead a train-wrecked life in spite of all their money?

  Why Hollywood millionaires and not the others who outnumber them?
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  Not the Author of Confusion

  by Coded Logic in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  609 african independent charismatic.

  black american apostolic.

  african independent charismatic.

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  Village Idiot

  Here are two galaxies crashing together. Why would an orderly god crash two galaxies into each other?

  

  Because the Universe is the product of both chaos and order. One infinitesimally small thing gave birth to a zillion things just like one religious leader gave birth to a zillion denominations.
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  Another Newbie

  by Drifting Away in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello, i have been lurking for a while, but discovered ttatt for about 8 months now.

  i am trying to fade out, problem is i have a big family i would lose if i got df'ed or da,'ed myself.

  my wife knows how i feel, and is not thrilled but i cant hide my feelings.

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  Welcome to the nuthouse Drifting Away.
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  What do Muslims Really Think - UK Documentary

  by cofty in

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  channel 4 have commissioned a study into attitudes among british muslims.. the documentary starts in an hour from now at 10pm.

  if you watch it live or on 4od please share your thoughts.. unlike many other surveys of muslim opinion, which have predominantly been done by phone or online, icm used face-to-face, in-home research to question a representative sample of 1,000 muslims across great britain.

  icm also used a “control sample” to compare what british muslims thought with the rest of the british population.. at the top-line level, the survey suggests that a mainstream british muslim majority have similar values and attitudes to the wider british public on issues such as support for british institutions and a feeling of belonging to britain.. but looking deeper into the results, a chasm develops between those muslims surveyed and the wider population on attitudes to liberal values on issues such as gender equality, homosexuality and issues relating to freedom of expression.

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  Village Idiot

  Muslims need a good education as to what to expect when they enter a European nation. They should be told that if they cannot have any tolerance for others with different values they should stay at home.
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  My mom died at 96 (without a visit from her granddaughter)

  by BONEZZ in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  don't get here much anymore.

  my mom, if you remember, really wanted to see her granddaughter before she died.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpuj96a8lg.

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  How awful and pathetic! I wish that video had been shown at the Australian Royal Commission.
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  Excellent Conversation At Literature Trolley

  by cofty in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday my wife and i enjoyed one of our regular days out at edinburgh - movie, lunch, walk, meal etc.. in the late afternoon while mrs cofty went shopping i had an hour at the excellent museum of scotland and arranged to meet up outside the national gallery on princes street.

  on my way back i saw the jw trolley was at the usual spot on the royal mile.

  there was an older man and a young woman standing well back trying hard to look inconspicuous.

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  Village Idiot

  Yesterday I saw two Witness ladies in front of a supermarket. No trolley, just magazines in their hands, while they were chatting with each other. They were strategically positioned in the blind spot of a water dispensing machine where only a few customers would see them.

  Keep up the good work JWs.
  
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  Tiger numbers in the wild have risen slightly

  by Xanthippe in

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  in 1900 there were 100,000 tigers in the wild.

  a hundred or so years later there were only 3,200 due to habitat destruction and poaching for traditional medicine.

  for the first time in a hundred years the numbers have risen.. .

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  Village Idiot

  TIGER, tiger, burning bright

  In the forests of the night,

  What immortal hand or eye

  Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

  In what distant deeps or skies

  Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

  On what wings dare he aspire?

  What the hand dare seize the fire?

  And what shoulder and what art

  Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

  And when thy heart began to beat,

  What dread hand and what dread feet?

  What the hammer? what the chain?

  In what furnace was thy brain?

  What the anvil? What dread grasp

  Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

  When the stars threw down their spears,

  And water'd heaven with their tears,

  Did He smile His work to see?

  Did He who made the lamb make thee?

  Tiger, tiger, burning bright

  In the forests of the night,

  What immortal hand or eye

  Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

  William Blake