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  Should Reparations Be Given To Relatives of Slaves?

  by minimus in

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  some people say that’s the least we should do while others say no way!

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  what do you think about dispensing reparations?

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  "According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America. And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America. Only about 388,000. That's right: a tiny percentage." - Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Director of the Hutchins Center for African American Studies and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University.

  

  No matter what color a man's skin is, slavery is heinous and evil. However, in my opinion it would be just as heinous and evil to single out one race of individuals over and above any other race and reward them financially for wrongs done to their unknown ancestors. This is modern America where everyone has a chance to better themselves and make something of their lives. How long should innocent people be held financially responsible for the 'sins' of their forefathers?
  
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  Question- do JWs use the term overlapping generations

  by Xanthippe in

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  ... or is that one of our memes?

  thanks..

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  "MILLIONS THEN LIVING ARE NOW DEAD" - Sparky1

  And interestingly enough, all those who died during that generation originally spoken of by Jehovah's Witnesses....their lives and deaths overlapped!
  
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  "The Former Things Will Not Be Called to Mind” How Can This work!

  by The Bethelite in

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  my previous thread talked about how the jws believe that jah will magically remove all memories of their dead loved ones in the "new system.

  " thus no sorrow.

  ok so god will erase all memories of your dead children from your mind.

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  As usual, Jehovah's Witnesses take a scripture out of context and assign a meaning to it. If you read the full context, it would or could seem to indicate that Jehovah is doing the forgetting and not calling to mind his peoples past transgressions. Verses 16 and 17 should be read together:

  "16. So that anyone who seeks a blessing for himself in the earth, Will be blessed by the God of truth, And anyone who swears an oath in the earth Will swear by the God of truth. For the former distresses will be forgotten; They will be concealed from my (Jehovah's) eyes, 17. For look! I am creating a new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be called to mind, Nor will they come up into the heart." Interestingly enough, verse 16 is cross referenced to Isaiah 12:1 which states: "In that day you will certainly say: "I thank you, O Jehovah, For although you were angry with me, Your anger gradually subsided, and you comforted me."
  
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  Do Celebrities Influence You In Making Your Decisions?

  by minimus in

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  whether it be sports athletes or hollywood heavyweights or talk show hosts—do these people influence your thinking?.

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  Here is a group of celebrities that influence millions for the good or the bad depending on their personal preference. As for me, I have no use for the lot of them and would not base my personal decisions on anything they say. I am not interested in any political or product endorsement that so called celebrities care to pontificate on and am not influenced one way or another.
  
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  Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah

  by Sour Grapes in

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  my pimi wife listens to a lot of the meetings on the phone with the speaker on.

  when i am watching tv i hear the meetings in the background.

  i just cringe with how a witless can't give a comment without having said jehovah at least two times.

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  Thank you, Sour Grapes for posting this topic, Sour Grapes. It shows the idiocy, Sour Grapes, of most Jehovah's Witnesses, Sour Grapes, continually using the name of their god Jehovah, Sour Grapes and it helps many here to realize, Sour Grapes, the mind numbing practices, Sour Grapes, of the religion, Sour Grapes. And so, Sour Grapes, I look forward to more of your insightful posts, Sour Grapes and hope in the future, Sour Grapes to learn more about my former religion, Sour Grapes. So once again, Sour Grapes, I want to thank you, Sour Grapes, for all you do, Sour Grapes, in the cause of exposing the Jehovah's Witnesses for what they really are.
  
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  "Its not about the numbers...Its about Love"

  by Solzhenitsyn in

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  in the org did anyone ever tell you that its not about the numbers...yet the reality was that it was all about the numbers?.

  i ran into a pimi who asked why my family and i were awol.

  i told him that it was private and personal and i wasn't at liberty to discuss it.

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  Actually it is about both love and numbers:

  Jehovah's Witnesses 'love' their 'numbers'!
  
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  Should Reparations Be Given To Relatives of Slaves?

  by minimus in

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  some people say that’s the least we should do while others say no way!

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  what do you think about dispensing reparations?

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  I think I am the great-great-great grandson of this child millworker in Lowell Massachusetts. She worked for pennies a day and worked 12 to 14 hours, 7 days a week in the late 1800's. I know she is Caucasian but that shouldn't matter. I want my money and I want it now!
  
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  Jehovah will lovingly Erase the Memories of Your Dead love Ones From Your Mind!foyarse e

  by The Bethelite in

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  i know i would be miserable if i could remember all my dead relatives.

  all my dead children, parents all my worldly family members and friends, yes and the billions of other people too.

  all the people jehovah will be killing off in the years to come.

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  Jehovah God...the Great Lobotomizer!

  "And the former things will not be called to mind, Nor will they come up into the heart." - Isaiah 65:17 NWTRevised
  
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  JWs just called at my daughter's house and said the end is near because .....

  by Xanthippe in

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  the world is getting worse, for example children are getting more cheeky!.

  proof positive!

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  'The end is near because...( insert social, political or personal difficulties HERE)

  Might I remind those zealous proclaimers of doom and gloom that just called on your daughter the following scripture:

  "But the end of all things has drawn close." - 1 Peter 4:7 NWTRevised

  Those words were written by Peter 62-64 A.D. , almost 2000 years ago. How near is near? How close is close?
  
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  Governing Body - Time in Ministry

  by Peeringin in

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  is there any transparency in how many hours on the ministry the governing body members do on the ministry?

  by this i mean the physical act of going door to door in their area.

  i guess it is plausible that they would count overseas trips and working on publications as part of their ministry, but this is not what they encourage from the jw on the street.. is it possible for a gb member to be reproved or otherwise for not going out in service?

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  Marty and Gertie 'clocking in time' out in the ministry.