Posts by Jeffro

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Major ABC news article JW'S in Russia

by Bill Covert in

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if someone can post an abc news article on forum, i lack the computer skills.

please read.

the main point was nobody is able to figure out motive for persecution.

Jeffro

Russia's crackdown on Jehovah's Witnesses is intended as a message that small ostensibly American religious sects that try to recruit others will not be tolerated in their country. So while it's heavy-handed and counterproductive, it is hardly the case that 'no one knows why'.

In addition to Russia's dislike of American sects, and the fact that JWs inherently will not endorse Russia's government, it is not entirely surprising that any government might perceive some JW views as 'extremist':

'Russia' is a 'beast' from Ezekiel and Revelation.
All governments, including Russia's, will soon be destroyed
Billions of people who refuse to accept their beliefs will soon be annihilated

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck,,,,do you care about them?

by minimus in

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i’m sick and tired of seeing pictures and articles about their rekindled romance.

who cares???

do you enjoy seeing news articles about celebrity daters?.

Jeffro

Not remotely aware or concerned about what these particular celebrities are getting up to. But what is more concerning is that these kind of tabloid nonsense sources that spout this drivel, much of which is fabricated and replete with doctored images, are frequently the same outlets that many people turn to for actual 'news', the presentation of which is usually of equal 'quality'.

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The right to not be exposed to ideas I don’t like or agree with?

by EdenOne in

ok, i would like to submit to the forum the following question: in abstract, do you think that there is a right to not being exposed to ideas that you don’t like or disagree with?

please think it through and its implications on both ends of the spectrum.. it’s not the right to conscientious objection to do something you vehemently disagree with; it’s not about the liberty to chose which ideas you want to embrace or advocate.

it’s something different.. given that, as exjws, we understand the importance of being exposed to different opinions in order to form our own opinion, should someone claim the right not to be exposed to opinions or ideas that they don’t like?

Jeffro

No, to ‘not be exposed to ideas’ isn’t a ‘right’, certainly not in the way the term is normally used. It’s basically repackaging the idea of ‘the right to not be offended’.

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Lloyd Evans removing comments he does not like, just like the cult

by mickbobcat in

i see posts that evans does not seem to like being removed.

i guess he is not a lot different than the control cult he left.

his rebuttal to the zoom assembly he said that dawkins made some silly comments about gender.

Jeffro

projecthydra:

to bash the said forums in his videos at every opportunity he gets, saying “oh by the way, I won’t recommend that forum to my viewers or to any JWs waking up” or “I can’t recommend that exjw community on reddit to any JW waking up; it’s become unhealthy and un-moderated.”

I don’t watch all of Evans’ videos, but I haven’t seen any where he’s even mentioned JW forums let alone ‘bash’ them. It’s certainly possible that he has done so, but it definitely isn’t ‘at every opportunity’. I’m guessing you’re referring to something he said in a ‘livestream’.

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Russian NWT

by psyco in

being born in, i developed an interest for russian language (which is the king of the north's one), so i have been looking forward to the new edition of the nwt in this language.

i have just discovered they released it:.

https://www.jw.borg/en/library/bible/?contentlanguagefilter=ru.

Jeffro

Maybe they figure the Russian authorities won’t be on the lookout for it if it’s not promoted.

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Some Other Terms For The "Big Bang".....

by titch in

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folks: as you probably all know, it has been speculated that the whole universe, or cosmos, started with what has been called "the big bang.

" but, i've thought up some other terms for the "bb".

how about the big boom....or, the big kaboom....or, the big explosion...the big ignition...or...the big cosmic fartation.

Jeffro

It’s more an ‘expansion’ than ‘explosion’. The term ‘Big Bang’ was first used to clearly distinguish the model from the steady-state cosmological model. The term does not refer to a disordered explosion.

It also wasn’t necessarily the ‘beginning’. We have no way of determining what happened before that, or if ‘before that’ is even possible. But there are various hypotheses including several wherein it is not ‘the beginning’.

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Lloyd Evans removing comments he does not like, just like the cult

by mickbobcat in

i see posts that evans does not seem to like being removed.

i guess he is not a lot different than the control cult he left.

his rebuttal to the zoom assembly he said that dawkins made some silly comments about gender.

Jeffro

It is a curious juxtaposition among uber-liberals that ‘gender is a social construct’ and there’s more genders to choose from than Baskin-Robbins, but ‘trans women are real women’ (and vice verse).

Just let people live their own lives and ‘identify’ however they like. (The people who point out that gender dysphoria is a mental illness rarely seem actually concerned for the well-being of trans people anyway.) There are only a few areas where there is any impact on anyone else (such as professional sports or very young children being ‘raised as trans’; the ‘trans bathrooms’ thing is a non-issue inflamed by right-wing sources).

Aside from a few noisy annoying activists and ‘athletes’, most trans people are just trying to live their private lives like everyone else.

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Lloyd Evans removing comments he does not like, just like the cult

by mickbobcat in

i see posts that evans does not seem to like being removed.

i guess he is not a lot different than the control cult he left.

his rebuttal to the zoom assembly he said that dawkins made some silly comments about gender.

Jeffro

Anony Mous:

Thus far it has ruined:

That’s an exaggeration. Actually, there’s just been a notable instance in each of those sports.

But even in the case of world records, if the rules are fixed up, then those records would be disqualified. so it’s hardly the case that it’s been permanently ruined.

Again, it takes 1 person to permanently ruin the chances of any female to ever attain prominence in the sport.

Unless you’re suggesting that a person can only be prominent in a sport if they hold the world record, that statement is clearly false.

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Lloyd Evans removing comments he does not like, just like the cult

by mickbobcat in

i see posts that evans does not seem to like being removed.

i guess he is not a lot different than the control cult he left.

his rebuttal to the zoom assembly he said that dawkins made some silly comments about gender.

Jeffro

Diogenesister:

no one mentions the simple test for XX or XY chromosomes in order to determine who may compete. Does anyone know why that is?

Chromosome testing was used for the Olympics between 1968 and 1999 but discontinued due to occasional anomalies (though I am not personally convinced that the anomalies would be so frequent to rule it out as the primary method of determination). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_in_sports

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Lloyd Evans removing comments he does not like, just like the cult

by mickbobcat in

i see posts that evans does not seem to like being removed.

i guess he is not a lot different than the control cult he left.

his rebuttal to the zoom assembly he said that dawkins made some silly comments about gender.

Jeffro

Diogenesister:

He's famous for removing comments

It’s his channel. If the alternative is pointless tangential arguments dominating discussion of a video, it’s probably for the best.