My mother voted Green but now supports Trump. Some friends of mine do too. I can't help but be snide and say that he's doing a great job of waking up Congress and the SCOTUS to the need to limit the ever overreaching powers of the Executive branch. Backhanded compliments directed to the Dear Leader are the only way to talk to Trump supporters.
SonoftheTrinity
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Has Politics Affected Your Friendships?
by minimus ini’ve read that some families are not looking forward to spending time with their families and friends during the holidays because of their opposing political views.. isn’t that just ridiculous?
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"Because it's my choice!"
by SonoftheTrinity inmy stepsons, aged 12 and 13 are proud to be the first boys in their school with facial hair, and are choosing not to shave it "because it's my choice!
" much to their jw mother's chagrin.
i am so proud of them for standing up to their mother, but if they want to shave later on it's their choice.
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SonoftheTrinity
It's because of their ancestry on an isolated archipelago where the men, and indeed some of the women are hirsute from a young age. It's not because of diet.
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"Because it's my choice!"
by SonoftheTrinity inmy stepsons, aged 12 and 13 are proud to be the first boys in their school with facial hair, and are choosing not to shave it "because it's my choice!
" much to their jw mother's chagrin.
i am so proud of them for standing up to their mother, but if they want to shave later on it's their choice.
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SonoftheTrinity
My stepsons, aged 12 and 13 are proud to be the first boys in their school with facial hair, and are choosing not to shave it "Because it's my choice!" much to their JW mother's chagrin. I am so proud of them for standing up to their mother, but if they want to shave later on it's their choice. I have always found JW clean shaven policies to be feminizing and infantilizing, and contrary to scripture.
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Evolutionist on their deathbed.
by Nimble duck ini would really like to read the thoughts of an evolutionist as they lie on their deathbed.
their "honest to nogod" thoughts.
their terrors.
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SonoftheTrinity
According to the Positivist Religion of Compte, people of reason go down in the history books, but I don't equate acceptance of evolution as denial of the God of Abraham, since the Torah was recompiled during the Babylonian captivity, and so any irrational fables that came to pollute Genesis can easily be blamed on Babylonian syncretism. -
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Watchtower teaches that Jesus dying on the stake is no longer certain
by Listener inthe watchtower has held for many years that jesus died on a stake and held strongly to this teaching.
w 1951 3/15 the above agrees with the new world translation of the christian greek scriptures in its appendix, page 769, in saying that the instrument upon which jesus was nailed was a stake without a crossbeam, and not the religiously represented “cross”; and that the greek word used for that instrument in ancient time meant a “stake” and not the conventional religious cross.
they are no longer certain on this point.
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SonoftheTrinity
I wonder if there are any half worldly couples who agreed to name their kid Stavros in honor of all the arguments they have about Jesus.
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What Happens If the JW Beard Policy Stumbles a Person
by Cold Steel insome of the videos on youtube really make the beard policy look ridiculous.
i wondered what would happen if the jw beard policy caused someone to stumble?
jesus most likely wore a beard, and charles taze russell had a beard.
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SonoftheTrinity
"I don't trust anything a clean shaven man, who looks more like a man pleasing salesman or politician than a holy man, has to say about God." -Is there a more discouraging line you could deliver to a door knocker?
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Would You Outlaw Jehovah's Witnesses If You Had Your Way?
by minimus ini still believe in freedom of religion even if i disagree with the beliefsof the religion.
what about you?.
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SonoftheTrinity
As wicked as it sounds I would totally understand the idea of internally deporting Jehovah's Witnesses to a territory all their own, in order to give them the autonomy they need to stop blaming the World. If their religion is so perfect then if they were forced to shift their focus from witnessing to and blaming nonbelievers they could make their territory a paradise on earth.
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My parents found out
by BlackWolf inso in my last post i talked about how i had told my younger siblings how i didn't plan to get baptized or ever be a witness.
i thought i could trust them but i guess i was wrong, they're just kids after all.
my oldest brother (who's 11) told on me today.
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SonoftheTrinity
Don't let them abuse you emotionally. Respect them and demand respect. Learn about logical fallacies and learn to call them out when they attack your motives and character. In fact call out every logical fallacy you hear from the Watchtower. Don't listen to Black Wolf with the calling on Satan nonsense. Go full stone cold Dr. Spock on them, but do it very carefully and respectfully. In their videos they are supposed to respect the adolescent 'questioning' phase in theory. Call them out on whether motives are true faith or keeping up appearances. Use the phrases 'with all due respect' and 'please don't insult my intelligence with emotional appeals' Remind them that 'your disappointment doesn't make 'da troof' any more or less factual' and is thus neither here nor there. Be the nicest logical fallacy policeman in the world and tell them that recognizing fallacies will help me to a better Bethel writer because the ones they have use bad arguments that cause smart people to leave when they could have come up with better arguments for the same Truth and kept people in.' In short, what would Daria do?
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Beards - September 2016 Watchtower
by Listener inthe issue of whether beards are acceptable or not is addressed in the september 2016 watchtower - well sort of.
it is as clear as mud as to whether they are allowed in places like australia, usa and britain.. 17. what are some factors that may affect whether a brother wears a beard?17 what about the propriety of brothers wearing a beard?
the mosaic law required men to wear a beard.
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SonoftheTrinity
Like I said before, it's a great way to demoralize them during field service. "I believe in Jehovah, and because I know his word, I can't take anything a clean shaven man or a woman without a headscarf has to say about his will." (slam the door) -
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Will Governing Body stop preaching work?
by neat blue dog inat this year's annual meeting (2016), david "mark" sanderson asks the audience the question, "are you determined to keep on preaching with us until we say the work is completed?
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do you think that stopping the preaching work will ever be a part of the gb's long range plan?
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SonoftheTrinity
I brought up the idea before that some country, especially Russia, could simply give them some square miles and deport their Jehovah's Witnesses there, and tell them they are so fed up with their preaching that they are giving the JWs their own country and deporting them all there. That could cause the GB to say the time of preaching is over.