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  What's your degree of anti-JWness?

  by Landy in

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  so, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is absolutely pro-jw, 5 is neutral and 10 is youtubing nutjob apostate, where do you stand?.

  i'm probably around a 6. i have the view that jws are a nothing marginal religion.

  if i hadn't been brought up as one i doubt they would have ever entered my consciousness.. the reasons it's a 6 and not a 5 is that i have some concerns over their child baptism and safeguarding procedures, but i think it's down to them being a bit dim rather than any pro child abusing ethos.

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  I'm a 9. To me a 10 would be someone who dedicates himself 24/7 to anti-witnessing.

  Back in the 1980s I distributed my own self-made anti-Witness flyers in a neighborhood 90% filled with JWs. It was only when they got under my skin though.
  
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  The Democrats respond to Trump

  by glenster in

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  "i'm a proud democrat.

  but first and foremost, i'm a proud republican...anddemocrat..and mostly american.

  " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jx8padyzmc.

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  I guess that the person who down voted my previous post doesn't like anyone mocking someone who's making a financial gain on a book that has every page blank. Thicken your skin.
  
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  The Democrats respond to Trump

  by glenster in

  1. social
  2. humour

  "i'm a proud democrat.

  but first and foremost, i'm a proud republican...anddemocrat..and mostly american.

  " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jx8padyzmc.

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  Village Idiot

  Spoletta,
  

  Just the type of humor I expect from the right.
  

  Here's another example of their humor.
  

  Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide
  

  Comprehensive review: All 266 pages are blank. Yes, literally blank.

  
  
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  Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland

  by Roberto Carlos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.

  click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).

  jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.

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  Village Idiot

  Just fine, no, I don't think you were an idiot (not everyone is like me) but most people don't bother taking it up the hierarchy. I'm glad you did.

  Just curious to know, what did their corporate office have to say?
  
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  Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland

  by Roberto Carlos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.

  click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).

  jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.

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  Village Idiot

  just fine,

  They refunded my ticket price........
  

  That was a decision made by a grunt worker. The top executives might think or do something else. However, as I just stated before, they may not be able to do anything about it if its on public property. Do you know if they were on public property? If they weren't then you may want to write a letter - not email - to their public relations department.
  
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  Stop Jehovah's Witnesses from posting outside of Disneyland

  by Roberto Carlos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  please sign petition to have disneyland stop jw's preaching outside gate.

  click here to sign petition (not spam, real link).

  jehovah's witnesses have been involved in vast amount of pedophilia cases.

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  People who are outside the property of a private establishment are allowed to proselytize, gather petitions, etc.. A sidewalk is public property even if it's right in front of the business.
  
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  Baptism at 10 years of age! March 2017 broadcast

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (i wanted to put this in the child abuse section of the forum!).

  we have seen that during the march 2017 broadcast, m stephen lett has openly praised children who get baptised as young as 10!.

  so lets summarize why it is wrong to push child baptism (not far off "infant baptism" that jws condemn other churches for).

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  A deep philosophical question here: Does the baptism of a pregnant woman apply to her unborn child?

  Inquiring minds want to know.
  
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  Ugg took aspirin?! - Perhaps ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. current

  interesting article in the huff post uk today - scientists in australia have been studying the tooth enamel of neanderthals (homo neanderthalensis).. from the article: .

  dr laura weyrich, author on the paper, said: “genetic analysis of that dna locked-up in plaque, represents a unique window into neanderthal lifestyle ― revealing new details of what they ate, what their health was like and how the environment impacted their behaviour.” .

  ... neanderthals who lived in spy cave ate wooly rhinoceros and wild sheep ... those from the el sidron cave ate a largely vegetarian diet of pine nuts, moss, mushrooms and tree bark.. and perhaps the most interesting: one of these vegetarian subjects had a dental abscess on his jawbone, and a diarrhea-causing parasite, and was self medicating with poplar - a plant that contains salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin.. (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/neanderthals-used-aspirin-to-self-medicate_uk_58c13a4fe4b0ed71826a4151?utm_hp_ref=uk; http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news91022.html)..

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  LongHairGal,
  

  Textbooks have always pictured the Neanderthal as a brutish and unintelligent being. The "experts" are going to have to rewrite textbooks.

  Actually, those text books are from a hundred years ago. Since the 1950s Paleoanthropologists started seeing Neandertals in a new light.

  They were still less intelligent than we were based on the conservative and unchanging tool set that they used versus our more sophisticated and constantly changing ones.
  

  

  And yes, their brains were bigger than ours but not in the right places.

  Neandertals had a sloping forehead above his thick brow ridges which meant he had less prefrontal lobes than us - critical to foresight and long range planning. We have a more domelike bubbly brain.

  They also had less cerebral cortex than we which meant lesser general intelligence.

  His brain volume exceeded ours because his skull was much longer than ours from front to back giving him an egg shaped skull compared to our bubbly one. That meant that they had more occipital lobes which are the visual center at the rear of the brain. This implies that they were more visually oriented than we, probably memorizing every nook and cranny of his territory.

  They also grew up faster than us with a 10 year old Neandertal being the equivalent of a 15 year old Homo Sapiens. This required more growth hormone creating a higher metabolism which would have a greater impact on his personality. They were probably more quick tempered than us.
  

  Simply a different species than ours.

  As for the interbreeding between them and us I suspect that it was Cro-Magnon males who mated with Neandertal females. This was probably the result of violence between our two species where the victorious Homo Sapiens took captive brides. Sound familiar?
  
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  A Special Thanks ESPECIALLY to ATHEISTS

  by David_Jay in

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  2. friends

  as most of you know there has been a rise in antisemitism in the world as of late, especially in the united states where i live where many of our jewish community centers and schools have been subjected to bomb threats.

  around the world many jewish cemeteries have been vandalized too.. while i have left the forum earlier this year due to a need to move on with my own healing path (and realizing this forum is doing quite well with the many bright minds already among the crowd), i have briefly returned mainly to write this note of gratitude (though i did post a few times too while i have been here).. it has been touching and very helpful when muslims, christians, and people of other faiths have stood with those of us in the jewish community to protest this wave of hostility against my people.

  there have been many public displays of solidarity with us against these acts of hatred and prejudice and some personal notes from friends letting me know i am not alone.. some of you have been among those who have voiced your concern for me and other jews during this time.

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  A Special Thanks ESPECIALLY to ATHEISTS

  You're welcome Jay.
  
  
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  School bus driver accused of telling boy he would go to hell because of moms.

  by ToesUp in

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  2. beliefs

  school-bus-driver-accused-of-telling-boy-hed-go-to-hell-because-of-his-mom/.

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  Village Idiot

  The media could have misinterpreted the statement from Armageddon, or something similar, to 'hell' which the public is more familiar with.