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  What Should the Minimum Wage Be (USA)?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. social
  2. current

  during the gop debates donald trump said that american’s “wages [are] too high” and later said “that having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country” (7:25)..

  do you agree and if so why?.

  my two cents on this issue; do the math.

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  As an Aussie , I could never understand why Americans needed to rely on tips to boost wages .Surely a minimum wage should be above the poverty line so families could have an adequate income and not have to rely on tips.

  I find it hard to comprehend how the most powerful nation on earth since WW2 can have such an archaic system of providing for it`s citizens.

  Here in Australia we don`t have all the answers , we do have a problem with young people who do not want to work and still receive unemployment benefits ,but that`s a failure of the Govt. not being strict enough in setting rules/guidelines for receiving unemployment benefits.

  This is just an observation on my part , I am no economist .

  Just my 2 cents worth

  smiddy
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  The name of the street in warwick

  by brandnew in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  did they name the road at warwick?

  kings dr??.

  im so sure......them gb members got some big heads!!

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  What about Hotel California Way ,

  Blood Avenue

  Lost Souls Court

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  Just got an apology from an exJW

  by Village Idiot in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i'm back from the store walking to my apartment, over a hundred units in the complex - all jws and ex-jws - and i see someone talking to an ex-jw neighbor of mine.

  she turns around and says "now there's some else i have to apologize to".. she identified herself as an old neighbor who used to play as a jw child right by my place.

  she had told me how she was raised to consider me and all the ex-jws in the apartment complex as evil and thought she had to apologize for that.. made my day.

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  I can`t get my head around an apartment complex with over 100 units all JW`s and ex JW`s ?

  Sounds like The Hotel California

  Hell on earth

  That was a nice experience you had V.I , it just occurred to me why your user name LOL

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  Does Believing in God Make You Dumb?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzqaeusdmtk.

  http://jdc.jefferson.edu/jmbcimfp/5/.

  abstract.

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  Finkelstein

  No more to be said LOL

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  Brooklyn Brownstoner article: Reader Unearths Fascinating 1969 Letter About Then-New Jehovah’s Witnesses HQ

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2016/01/jehovah-witness-history-brooklyn-squibb-1969-donations/.

  reader unearths fascinating 1969 letter about then-new jehovah’s witnesses hq.

  by barbara eldredge 1/25/16.

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  I remember when the Squibb building was purchased , I was " in " about ten years then .and then the sign WATCHTOWER going up in lights .

  It never dawned on me till many years later , why , WATCHTOWER ? in such a prominent visual position .

  Wouldn` t JEHOVAH ? have been more applicable ? seeing he is the one they claim to represent because of Christendom`s , so called exclusion of the name which is utter bullshit ?

  Their are thousands of references of Christendoms religions in texts , ancient writings and commentaries ,Bible Dictionaries , Commentaries . discussions of Old Testament , New Testament , thesis and so forth , both Jewish and Christian scholars that attest the name of God being recognised as Jehovah /Yahweh .going back Centuries .

  Rebutting the lie that Christendom was hiding that name from Christians , and more importantly , that J.W.`s were the only ones that used Gods name .

  What a load of rubbish that is still being said today.

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  Mexico-Malawi Addressed Finally, JW.org Gives the Nod to Bribing, errrr Tipping Government Officials

  by LostGeneration in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  mealy mouthed article in the may study wt here:.

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/watchtower-study-may-2016/questions-from-readers/.

  tacit approval to bribe, oops, i mean "tip" your local governmental official so they can grant you a cartilla card, or whatever else you might need done..

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  stuckinarut2

  Or been beaten or raped , or died . while their Mexican brothers paid a bribe to say they had done service for the Govt. when the knew they hadn`t

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  Church of Christ Brainwashing Children Video

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  all churches are cults, it's just a matter of degree.. always submit to the church administrationfor they were placed by lord god to lead his nationif we obey then we will receive salvationsing along with me.... ....

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  Isn`t that the church that originated in the Phillipines , that is very similar in many ways to JW`s with a far greater membership worldwide I might add . and not to be confused with the Church of Christ that originated in America.?

  Iglesio ni Cristo , look it up on Google

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  Does Believing in God Make You Dumb?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzqaeusdmtk.

  http://jdc.jefferson.edu/jmbcimfp/5/.

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  Believing in God does not make you dumb , as can be shown by history .Many scientific , medical ,industrial , innovative , achievements have been made over the Centuries by men and women who have had belief in the Bible.

  Believing in charlatans , self delusional people who claim to be God`s only spokesperson for God ,false prophets ,cults , etc.

  ,Believing in these types , can certainly lead you down the path , whereby you become dumb by suspending reason and critical thinking and blindly accepting what they say as "truth"

  That`s dumb

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  whats so bad about believing people go to heaven?

  by sowhatnow in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it occurred to me today, that so often, my mother will make the comment that .

  "those false religions teach that everyone is going to heaven when they die, oh sure, .

  all you have to do is be a good person, and off you go to heaven.

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  Giordano

  Isn`t there a joke about that somewhere ? It goes like this.

  Peter is showing new arrivals around heaven , and different faiths have different doors to them with a welcoming sign on them.

  All except Jehovah`s Witnesses , that says , Do not enter.

  The new arrivals ask why that sign is on the J.W.door

  Peter answers , because they think there the only ones up here

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  My wife made a very wordly comment the other night

  by Clambake in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my wife who is currently on maternity leave made a comment about luck she was to leave in canada because we get 52 weeks maternity at basically 40,000 per year.

  she is not originally from canada coming from a country with basically no maternity leave.

  i told her to make sure she doesn't say anything like that at kh.

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  I have heard pioneers and Elders make comments that the Australian Govt . is stupid , so take what they offer and use it to serve kingdom interests.

  smiddy