Posts by Terry

Relevant: Josephus ( Jewish Antiquities 20.9.1) describes how, for just a few months in 62 AD, there was no Roman procurator over Judea. While the next procurator was still on his way, the high priest Hananiah ben Hananiah arranged for criminal trials against his political enemies, in order to have them executed. Josephus doesn't say it directly, but this would suggest local executions had to be approved by Roman authority, and the high priest took advantage of the power vacuum.

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http://www.myjewishlearning.com/life/Life_Events/Death_and_Mourning/About_Death_and_Mourning/Death_Penalty.shtml

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FINDING a logical way of seeing problems of RACE, RELIGION, TERRORISM

by Terry in

hard questions lead to problematic answers.

"tricky, complicated, and controversial.).

emotions stem from values and values are personal.

Terry

Let's face some uncomfortable facts.

Here we have a Gordian knot. The ends are hidden.

Unravelling a tangled skein is no mean feat.

Beginning at the beginning, find the tie that binds.

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Young black men father children out of wedlock, and then leave the mothers to support the next generation

by plunging them into poverty. Can we all agree this happens at an epidemic level? Would you accept the statistic of

7 out of 10?

Is this a racism issue? I don't see how. It is a choice and it is a fatal one.

This, of course, occurs in all colors of communities--BUT NOT AT THIS HIGH RATE.

So what? So, each generation falls further and further behind. That's what.

Will the mother and the child survive without becoming DEPENDANT on whatever "help" is available?

What are the choices? Which of the available choices gives this mother and child a genuine chance at

escaping, crime, drugs, gangs, poverty?

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What I see happening is this. The cheap answer is the blame game. Those who take charge of their own lives can break

out of the downward spiral. Those who blameshift become bitter and ripe for cynicism and payback.

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This is where Community Leaders can make all the difference in the world.

I earlier cited the model of Martin Luther King and his Peace Marches, Sit-ins, and passive resistance movements as a WINNING STRATEGY.

The struggle of the black community for EQUAL RIGHTS was brought into public consciousness as a problem with a possible solution.

The opposers to equal rights were the BRUTES.

The picture was clear and the solution was begun.

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All these years later, that model of HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL has been abandoned by black leaders. The effectiveness of change by legal means

has been discarded. WHY?

Corrupt leadership. Race pimps. Self-aggrandizing spokesmen. Inflammatory media. Dishonest analysis.

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The politics of RACE has been to appeal to blacks by throwing money and promises at programs to gain their votes, and once elected, to ignore the

rest of their problems. Democrats are really good at this.

Republicans are completely clueless.

Old white men from the Jim Crow era who grew up without Civil rights consciences, often say inflammatory, ignorant, clueless sound bites creating

a wall of separation.

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Where was black leadership in Ferguson when the young man who was shot was being used as an excuse to break things, burn things, to loot and

shoot?

THERE WAS NO LEADERSHIP. There was no Martin Luther King.

There was Rev. Al Sharpton. There was a screaming bereaved father,"BURN IT DOWN--BURN THIS BITCH DOWN."

Where were the Leaders? Where was a moderate voice among the angry ones?

NO LEADERSHIP, NO FUTURE.

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In Arab countries, the young Arab males are held in high esteem while the females are dominated by religious law.

The majority of Muslim communities in the Middle East have no employment for these self-centered, highly-indoctrinated young Princes.

The Oil Billionaire sheiks provide welfare.

The only political movement is also the Religious movement: Theocracy.

Indoctrination corrupts education.

Hatred for Israel is in the mother's milk.

The West is demonized.

1 out of every 4 people in the world embraces ISLAM.

Even though a small percent of total Muslim population is radical, deadly and vicious--make no mistake--THAT LEAVES AN EXTREMELY

LARGE NUMBER OF TERRORISTS; roughly the equal to the entire population of the United States.

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In both of the above instances LEADERSHIP makes the difference.

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GREAT QUOTES, but filtered to include Jehovah's Witnesses

by Terry in

great quotes viewed with jw's in mind_______________________________________ some people die at 25 and arent buried until 75. benjamin franklin________________________________________________jehovahs witnesses stop growing, improving, learning when they accept the watchtowers misnamed truth.

lost souls waiting at a bus stop for a bus that never comes; all the great things they could have done, people they could have helped, productive lives they could have led are suffocated by standing there waiting for armageddon to solve every problem for them.___________________________________________________ most people are other people.

their thoughts are someone elses opinions.

Terry

GREAT QUOTES viewed with JW's in mind
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• Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. —Benjamin Franklin
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Jehovah’s witnesses stop growing, improving, learning when they accept the Watchtower’s misnamed ‘Truth.’ Lost souls waiting at a bus stop for a bus that never comes; all the great things they could have done, people they could have helped, productive lives they could have led are suffocated by standing there waiting for Armageddon to solve every problem for them.
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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions. Their lives a mimicry. Their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde
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Jehovah’s Witnesses beam with satisfaction when they tell you, “All of us agree on everything.” Individuality shriveled and fell off like the carapace of a locust.
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• When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Nietzsche
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JW’s spend every waking moment staring at the end of the world as though it were a puppy in a pet shop window eager for a home.
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• Don’t let schooling interfere with your education-Mark Twain
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The Governing body would add, “Don’t let education interfere with your indoctrination.”
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• Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. ― Oscar Wilde
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The householder awakened by the doorbell on Sunday morning would agree.
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• I destroy an enemy by making him into my friend — Abraham Lincoln
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JW’s don’t bother making friends by exercising kindness. They ‘mark the foreheads’ of 'goats' and imagine they’ve doomed a sinner at Armageddon.
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• Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. — Tryon Edwards
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JW’s begin with a delusion: they are automatically right. They don’t listen when others speak, they plot the next refutation.
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• The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
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The instrument of destruction of the human mind lies in the magazines, Watchtower & Awake!
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• The most dangerous man is the man able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the authority he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. ― HL Mencken
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And that, my fellow Apostates, is US!

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FINDING a logical way of seeing problems of RACE, RELIGION, TERRORISM

by Terry in

hard questions lead to problematic answers.

"tricky, complicated, and controversial.).

emotions stem from values and values are personal.

Terry

I wrote a huge reply and then left the room before clicking "submit." When I came back, it was gone!

Sigh. I'll try again later.

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Officer Wilson not indicted in killing of Michael Brown

by Simon in

after a thorough investigation and weighing of the evidence the grand jury has decided not to indict the officer.. the reaction so far seems as predicted - people refuse to accept that the result represents justice despite claims that is what they wanted.. there is now violence and vandalism, including gunshots.

let's hope the police contain the troublemakers.. .

Terry

A family is the proving ground for co-operation, goal setting, honor, pulling together toward goals of mutual benefit.

A family with a father and a mother who set the goal of education for their children is NUMBER ONE in setting the

path for the income of that child when he/she grows up.

Unless I'm greatly mistaken, black communities with great unrest are communities without father+mother and the

emphasis on good education.

It is very disturbing to see the differences between Asian families who arrive from across the ocean with a strong

work and education ethic completely overtaking and out-performing our American black families in almost every venue.

Can we doubt the cause as unwed pregnancy and fatherless homes?

Asian families live with several generation under one roof, all pulling together, pooling income and sharing child-rearing.

These contrasts and comparisons aren't easy to face without anger and blame-shifting.

Instead of these ethnic minorities learning from each other, their appears to be a barrier of unnecessary enmity.

The glaring difference, it would seem between Asian and Black communities is the absence of a FAMILY BINDING.

The core of civilization is FAMILY.

I was speaking to an Asian friend of mine a while back. He told me of the shame any young person would bring

to themselves or their family if they didn't make excellent grades in school.

I have a two daughters and a son in college. All three have told me of the extraordinary dedication to excellence

in study and grade performance of their Asian roommates.

My daughter Lily told me she herself was shamed into spending a lot more time hitting the books and making the

effort to not just PASS a class, but to do so with top marks.

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Disfellowshipped "People" Are Treated Like Sh*t!

by minimus in

jw
friends

when i look back at it, i must apologize to anyone that was disfellowshipped for the treatment we gave to you.

we clearly set ourselves up as judges and often viewed disfellowshipped persons as "dead"!

i hope anyone that is still in the congregation knows that this treatment is unchristian, unkind and unloving..

Terry

Jehovah's Witnesses don't see former members as STRAY SHEEP to be rescued.

They aren't worth reclaiming.

In fact, they seem to think priority number one for a stray is persuading the rest of the flock

of excellent reasons to abandon the shepherd.

You know what is missing from this calculus is the value of human life.

Meaning what? Each and every person has value, even if that person doesn't agree with you.

The insecurity about the binding power of their "Truth" is quite telling.

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FINDING a logical way of seeing problems of RACE, RELIGION, TERRORISM

by Terry in

hard questions lead to problematic answers.

"tricky, complicated, and controversial.).

emotions stem from values and values are personal.

Terry

CODED LOGIC:

I'm wondering if the Amalekites would agree with you

The plight of the Amalekites is one shared all throughout the ages. One need look no further than the atrocities committed in Syria by ISIS, the genocide in Kosvo, or the mass graves filled with Tutsis in Rawanda to see the destructive patterns of religion.

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Religion is an excuse to behave badly for those with anger and vengeance in their hearts.

Religion is an excuse for mild-mannered, benevolent, pacifists to behave as they do.

People seek solidarity and a boilerplate CAUSE to hide their fingerprints.

Religion is less cause than it is pretext.

The fact that certain groups of people band together and do awful things is at the heart of my query.

Why are the riots in Ferguson pretending to be a meaningful and justifiable protest when stealing things is merely local terrorism?

What would Martin Luther King have done if he were standing there watching all this? Do you think he'd approve?

I THINK IT COMES DOWN TO LEADERSHIP! (Or lack of . . . )

Self-serving sociopaths who lead others with silver-tongued oratory have a lot to answer for.

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NOTE:

Research the legal concept of FIGHTING WORDS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW2HF5JzK-M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words

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FINDING a logical way of seeing problems of RACE, RELIGION, TERRORISM

by Terry in

hard questions lead to problematic answers.

"tricky, complicated, and controversial.).

emotions stem from values and values are personal.

Terry

Pacopoolio:

Terry, Coded Logic explained to you why your answers to your own questions are wrong. There is no one, unique answer to the questions you asked that specifies a race or religion, as there are multiple answers. Your attempt to say "Muslims" is incorrect as members of other religions currently are doing the thing you speak of, for instance. It's a wrong answer.

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This reminds me of the fellow who dynamites the cave entrance and declares, "There is no way out."

Let's snuff that fuse before the cave in becomes self-fulfilling prophecy.

Quakers, Adventists, Mennonites, Amish, JW's are but a few Christian denominations who are non-violent in practice.

Martin Luther King borrowed the strategy of satyagraha from Ghandi (passive resistance) and in both instances, this strategy

won the day. I would assert as a FACT (as well as historically true) there is something demonstrably DIFFERENT and EFFECTIVE about

non-violent protest.

If the Ferguson, Missouri protests had a non-violent moral compass policies and hearts might well have been changed for the better.

WHY THE DIFFERENCE in these groups?

Why is one group willing to suffer to bring about an ideal, whereas the other groups want OTHERS to do the suffering.

Can you riddle me that one, Batman?

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The fact that your questions have no unique answer shows you why the worldview of those that believe it does is so errsant in the first place. Because all of these things are tied in with nuances and specifics of peope in similar situations, things that cross bounds like race and religion, it's impossible to single out a single one at any point in time for such broad questions.

-That's- pure fact.

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do other religions change doctrines like the wt society does?

by sowhatnow in

i just wondered.

i mean ok, the catholic church seems to make 'adjustments' more or less , by accepting previously held prejudices.

against certain things, like gays, or birth control, or rather tolerate it more, but is that a genuine change of doctrine?.

Terry

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Jehovah's Witnesses were a branch off the limb of Adventism, with the trunk of that tree being WILLIAM MILLER's fantasy about exact dates for

the arrival of Lord Jesus.

These were people who elevated their own self-styled cunning above common sense.

No matter how many times they got things wrong THEY WOULDN'T ADMIT IT.

Like a crazed, addicted gambler who loses his rent money at the crap tables, the Adventists kept doubling down on yet another try.

Jehovah's Witnesses invented a self-myth: "faithful and discreet slave" inside tips from Jehovah.

Those tips were nonsense and their horse never even crossed the finish line!

But, an addiction to gambling has less to do with winning than it does the fact all the EXCITEMENT and harrowing suspense

makes life really exciting, and they loathe packing it in to go back to ordinary human achievement.

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In Christian denominations (all 40,000+ of them!) every possible variation on a theme split off into branches, sects, cults, congregations, etc.

The only reason this happens is because Protestants worship the Bible. (The book about nothing.)

Protestantism carved out an identity as the UN-cola of soft drinks, i.e.,"We sure as hell aren't anything like Catholics."

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1,500 years of ONE monolithic church allowed prelates, priests, pontiffs, and other pointy-hats to do as they damned well pleased.

Protestantism was born with just one monk, Martin Luther, writing down the obscene list of blasphemies perpetrated by this Organization and demanding they answer for their hellish behavior.

Once they (Protestants) saw how much fun it was protesting what others believed--well, they sort of couldn't stop themselves.

Interpreting the scriptures is a lot like printing your own money!

After all, the Catholic Church could make up whatever their imaginations concocted and heaven itself would rubber stamp it, "What is

sealed on Earth is sealed in Heaven.)

That successful act set the stage for OPINION to rule the church forever into the future!

They don't call it that, however. It is called HERMENUTIC.