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  Susan Rice Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel?

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel.

  what can we make of this?

  rice is on record being a racist and lying about benghazi, now this?

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  snowbird

  Let's see now.

  Susan Rice quoted former FL governor and U.S. senator, Bob Graham, to the effect that national security personnel are "too White, male, and Yale."

  Does this make her a racist?

  If it does, then what does that make Bob Graham?

  Sylvia
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  Words for the Day; please share

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, word lovers:.

  in my job, i work with words and wrangle them into shape, well, in a manner of speaking.

  one word might be mistaken for another, a word with either a similar or identical sound.

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  snowbird

  Apotropaic and revenant - from this weekend.

  Sylvia
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  whatever happened to rotation? wt study to April two.

  by waton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  with all the emphasis on hierarchical succession in that wt, , what ever happened to mentioning of the refreshing, liberating "rotating of positions" period, the time of great increase?

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  I remember the switch from WT study conductors.

  The original conductor did such an excellent job that Witnesses would come from a neighboring state for the study.

  Well, his replacement was so boring and inept that attendance dropped by one half.

  It was simply painful to sit through it.

  Sylvia
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  Blood as the seat of life: The blood paradox among Afro-christians. 

  by TheWonderofYou in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i find this an interesting read.. https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/perc.2016.14.issue-1/perc-2016-0003/perc-2016-0003.pdf.

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  I am African-American, and I recall some of the taboos about menstruating girls and women that were insisted upon by The Ancestors.

  For instance, we girls were not allowed to prepare meals during our periods.

  That suited me quite fine!

  LOL.

  Thank you for the information

  Sylvia
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  Test yourself...Which Religion Best Suits You, what non religion best suits you.

  by Giordano in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since we have had so many joining up while others have changed their thinking it doesn't hurt to see where we stand now .. this 20 question test is not the definitive test but it may be revealing or affirming....... find out where your religious or nonreligious comfort range is.. i just took it and my #1 choice was that i was a secular humanist.

  being a jw was #24........ way way down the list.. www.playbuzz.com/benjaminbirely10/which-religion-best-suits-you.

  you start by clicking on the general statement that is closest to how you think.

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  snowbird

  Christianity

  Sylvia
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  Interesting take on John 3:16

  by NikL in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the superstar of all scriptures.

  for god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.. .

  but i just learned something about it.. i try to look at different translations of the bible and the lexham english bible words it a bit different.... 16 for in this way god loved the world, so that he gave his one and only son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

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  Try reading it in The Message Bible.

  You can do it online.

  Sylvia
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  JWs, An American Religion, in dress, in language, etc., by Joel Elliot

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a fascinating article, with color-saturated imagery.

  requested that he not be quoted, so there are no snippets here, just a link:.

  https://web.archive.org/web/20070612092219/http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html.

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  OK, can Google now.

  This new tablet is giving me fits!

  Those articles are 20+ years, but ring just as true today as then.

  Sylvia
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  A LETTER OF APPRECIATION

  by bola in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just want to appreciate you all..

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  JWs, An American Religion, in dress, in language, etc., by Joel Elliot

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a fascinating article, with color-saturated imagery.

  requested that he not be quoted, so there are no snippets here, just a link:.

  https://web.archive.org/web/20070612092219/http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html.

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  One of the first anti-JW articles that I read!

  Also, JW's And The Theocratic Subversion Of Ethnicity - I believe that is correct - can't Google right now.

  I was looking for something else at UNC site and stumbled upon Joel's essays.

  The rest is history.

  Sylvia
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  The Watchtower are Right About Blood...

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.

  it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.

  they take pride in obedience.

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  Cofty's conclusion is logical, Fisherman.

  You MUST know this!

  The WT is bloodguilty due to its discouragement of blood transfusions for its members.

  I am exploring a hunch of mine as to how this no-blood nonsense came about in the first place.

  I believe it has something to do with Charles Drew, blood banks, and the fear of White people that somehow the blood of Black people would "contaminate" them.

  This came about during the pre and post-WWII years - the same time frame as WT's development of its no-blood stance.

  Sylvia