"Medical care is a matter for personal decision. We do not attempt to make choices for others." Announcement on 12/03/2020.
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I have been out of the cult for 10 years now! What is their latest stance on Vaccines or the Covid-19 Vac? Any insiders?
by Intel ini used to be very active on this board - 14 years ago (redpill2006...still remember blondie, barbara and many others).
then left the cult for good 10 years ago (ex-bethelite, ex-elder).
today, after so many years, i decided to come back because there is an issue that is nagging in my mind.
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8 Year Old Can Decide If They Are Transgendered
by minimus inso says joe biden.. anybody agree with this?
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Apologies that the video I linked to above is not available. Here is a transcript of the relevant segment:
STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to get one more question this segment and it comes from Mieke Haeck. She's from state college Pennsylvania. This is your first presidential election that you're voting.
MIEKE HAECK: It is.
BIDEN: Hi, Mieke, how are you?
HAECK: I'm good, thank you. I'm the proud mom of two girls, 8 and 10. My youngest daughter is transgender. The Trump administration has attacked the rights of transgender people, banning them from military service, weakening non discrimination protections and even removing the word transgender from some government websites.
How will you as president reverse this dangerous and discriminatory agenda and insure that the lives and rights of LGBTQ people are protected under U.S. law?
BIDEN: I will flat out just change the law. Every -- eliminate those executive orders, number one. You may recall I'm the guy who said -- I was raised by a man who I remember I was being dropped off, my -- my dad was a high school educated, well read man who was a really decent guy.
And I was being dropped off to get an application in the center of our city; Wilmington, Delaware, the corporate capital of the world at the time. And these two men, I'm getting out to get an application to be a lifeguard in the African American community because there was a big swimming pool complex.
And these two men, well dressed, leaned up and hugged one another and kissed one another. And I'm getting out of the car at the light and I turn to my dad. My dad looked at me and said Joey, it's simple. They love each other.
The idea that an 8-year-old child or a 10-year-old child decides, you know I decided I want to be transgender. That's what I think I'd like to be. It would make my life a lot easier. There should be zero discrimination.
And what's happening is too many transgender women of color are being murdered. They're being murdered. And I think it's up now to 17, don't hold me to that number. But it's -- it's higher now?
HAECK: Yes.
BIDEN: And that's just this year. And so I promise you there is no reason to suggest that there should be any right denied your daughter or daughters, whichever one or two ...
HAECK: One.
BIDEN: ... one, your daughter -- that your other daughter has a right to be and do. None, zero. And by the way, my son Bo, passed away; he was the attorney general in the state of Delaware. He was the guy who got the first transgender passed in the state of Delaware and because of a young man who became a woman who worked for him in the attorney general offices.
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8 Year Old Can Decide If They Are Transgendered
by minimus inso says joe biden.. anybody agree with this?
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Finding a mate
by MissMary inso here i am 44 yr old divorced and free to remarry jw sister....first time single since i was 19. but guess what no single brothers in my area.
i’ve tried those stupid jw dating sites and still no luck.
oh yes there are tons of single brothers, but guess what...they all expect a hot barbie to come running into their life.
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LoveNinja : Will you be disfellowshipped if you date an unbeliever?
Only if you are not scripturally free to marry.
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Things that YHWH Never Told Me. Did You Know that YHWH Came from Egypt? Hmmmm!!
by fulltimestudent ini belong to a group (best description that i can think of) that specialises in sharing academic papers.
ok, sometimes that provides me with all kinds of interesting material pertinent to my research interests.
but, sometimes, (and since i have not read all of it, i'm assuming its fair dinkum, genuine research) something turns up (not among my usual research interests) that blows my simple brain.. anyway, after a brief examination, my conclusion is this: i think charlie russell would have gone gaga over this research.. the author has named his paper, .
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What an interesting paper. There seem to be a few more articles on the same theme, namely
https://www.academia.edu/40246583/In_Search_of_the_Sacred_Tetragrammaton_Name_of_God (Part 1)
https://www.academia.edu/40581930/In_Search_of_the_Sacred_Tetragrammaton_Name_of_God (Part 2)
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Apostasy
by frozen2018 inhas anyone seen the 2017 movie apostasy?
set in britain, the story is about a family, a single mom and her two daughters, who are jehovah's witnesses.
i'm not going to give away too much of the plot, but holy moly!
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Twisting Micah 6:8 to fit the Governing Body's narrative
by RULES & REGULATIONS inmark sanderson: “wisdom is with the modest ones” (prov.
here is governing body member mark sanderson reading micah 6:8 from the new world translation.
twisting micah 6:8 to fit the governing body's narrative to be ''loyal'' to jehovah and ingrained into every member's brain to also include the ''governing body.
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truth_be_known : However, loyalty is not the idea and being loyal to someone … is definitely not what the author was trying to convey.
Not quite. It may be expressed as ‘goodness’ or ‘kindness’ or ‘mercy’, but it also conveys a sense of loyalty and mutual obligation within the context of relationships. In fact it is only used where there is a relationship between the parties concerned.
So it is evident between a husband and wife (Genesis 20:13), between a father and son (Genesis 47:29), between other relatives (Genesis 24:49; 1 Samuel 15:6; Ruth 2:20), between host and guest (Genesis 19:19; Genesis 21:23; Joshua 2:12), between friends (1 Samuel 20:8; 2 Samuel 16:17; Job 6:14) and between a king and his subjects (2 Samuel 3:8; Proverbs 20:28; Isaiah 16:5). It also describes proper behaviour towards others within the community of God's people (Psalms 109:16; Proverbs 11:17; Isaiah 57:1; Micah 6:8; Zechariah 7:9).
So Micah 6:8 describes the behaviour expected towards those with whom you have a relationship as a community of God's people, which includes showing kindness and mercy and a loyal love due to the bond you have. But it is between individuals, or between God and man, not an organization.
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Twisting Micah 6:8 to fit the Governing Body's narrative
by RULES & REGULATIONS inmark sanderson: “wisdom is with the modest ones” (prov.
here is governing body member mark sanderson reading micah 6:8 from the new world translation.
twisting micah 6:8 to fit the governing body's narrative to be ''loyal'' to jehovah and ingrained into every member's brain to also include the ''governing body.
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Micah 6:8 (NWT 1984) : He has told you, O earthling man, what is good. And what is Jehovah asking back from you but to exercise justice and to love kindness and to be modest in walking with your God?
Footnote on "love kindness" : Or, “loving-kindness; loyal love.” Heb., cheʹsedh.
Micah 6:8 (NWT 2013) : He has told you, O man, what is good. And what is Jehovah requiring of you? Only to exercise justice, to cherish loyalty, And to walk in modesty with your God!
Footnote on "cherish loyalty" : Or “to be kind and loyal in your love.” Lit., “to love loyal love.”Biblical scholars have often complained that the word translated as "cherish loyalty" is difficult to translate into English, because it really has no precise equivalent in our language. English versions usually try to represent it with such words as "loving-kindness," "mercy," "steadfast love," and sometimes "loyalty," but the full meaning of the word cannot be conveyed without an explanation, such as the one given here.
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More on South Africa
by zeb inhttps://killingfieldsmovie.com/.
write to your mp help these people to leave to come to safety..
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If anyone wants to understand what it is like for both black and white in the rural areas of South Africa in our time (2016-2020), there has been a 15-minute program on Radio 4 in the United Kingdom each afternoon this past week. The programme is entitled "Blood Lands", which is summarised as follows:
At dusk on a warm evening in 2016, two men arrive, unexpectedly, at a remote South African farmhouse. The frenzy that follows will come to haunt a community, destroying families, turning neighbours into traitors, prompting street protests and threats of violence, and dividing the small farming and tourist town of Parys along racial lines. Blood Lands is a murder investigation, a political drama, a courtroom thriller, and a profound exploration of the enduring tensions threatening the “rainbow nation". Over the course of three years, correspondent Andrew Harding has followed every twist of the police’s hunt for the killers, the betrayals that opened the door to an explosive trial, and the fortunes of all those involved – from the dead men’s families to the handful of men controversially selected for prosecution.
The account can be accessed here, but please don't comment on it unless you have listened to it in full.
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What’s up with the modern Nation of Israel?
by DATA-DOG inbeing raised a dub i never voted.
i’m not a republican or a democrat, not a liberal or a conservative.. i’m pretty middle of the road.
i want everyone to have a fair shake if possible in this life, but i definitely don’t believe in forced equality, that’s just not possible.
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JoenB75 : I think Israel army snipers have shot children too
In the 2019 Amnesty International report there is a section on Unlawful Killings.
Israeli military and security forces killed at least 38 Palestinians, including 11 children, during demonstrations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Many were unlawfully killed by live ammunition or other excessive force when posing no imminent threat to life. Many of the unlawful killings appeared to be wilful, which would constitute war crimes.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continued weekly “Great March of Return protests” that began in March 2018. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, by 27 December, 215 Palestinians had been killed, among them 47 children, four paramedics and two journalists. Some Palestinian protesters engaged in violence, including by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails towards Israeli soldiers.
On 28 February, the UN Commission of Inquiry into violations committed in the context of the protests in Gaza between March and December 2018 found that Israeli forces may have committed war crimes, including by deliberately firing at Palestinian civilians. In July, Israeli media reported that the Israeli military had decided to change their open-fire regulations, which had allowed snipers to fire at protesters’ lower limbs above the knee, but only after over a year of it being aware that they were leading needlessly to deaths and devastating injuries; snipers were briefed, in the future, to shoot below the knee.
On 16 May, the Israeli army closed the investigation into the killing of Ibrahim Abu Thuraya, who used a wheelchair, during the Gaza protests in December 2017, without pressing any charges.
On 30 October, the army sentenced an Israeli soldier who shot dead 15-year-old Palestinian Othman Halas during a protest in Gaza in July 2018 to community service and reduced his rank for “endangering a life by deviating from orders”.
Israeli air strikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip killed 28 Palestinian civilians who were not directly participating in hostilities, including 10 children; 13 civilians were killed in the hostilities of 3-6 May and 15 in those of 12-16 November. Some of the attacks in which civilians were killed or injured appeared to have been indiscriminate or disproportionate or to have been carried out without adequate precautions to spare civilians.
Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank resulted in the killing of two Palestinians and the injuring of 112, according to OCHA. There has been a pattern of Israeli forces failing to intervene to stop such attacks and the Israeli judiciary failing to hold perpetrators to account.