LV101, it is my understanding that there is not one molecule of evidence supporting the assertion of mail-in ballot fraud. However, if you actually have evidence, please include a link to the source. I am interested.
Cadellin
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Trump suggests postponing the elections ... I'm not making this up
by RubaDub inelections have been held per the us constitution during many difficult times; us civil war, ww i, ww ii, whatever.
i just put on the pro-trump fox news and even they are saying ... oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. this is really scary.
are we headed towards a dictatorship?
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2020 Convention Friday Highlights: Information Control and Hypocrisy
by neat blue dog inthere's yet another talk to add to the list of talks written specifically for damage control against "apostates".
the speaker says, "some who were once part of the christian congregation attempt to mislead us", that they tell "false accusations" & "lies".
to combat this, he says that you should "protect your ears from damaging noise by not listening to it", comparing it to wearing "noise canceling headphones".
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OMG, those danishes were SO good!!! I got free food tix as a pioneer and would stock up!
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False prophets, and proud of it
by neat blue dog inthe latest wt celebrates the 100th anniversary of 1920 with an article about what happened that year:.
on march 21, 1920, joseph f. ruther-ford .
spoke on the subject“millions now living will never die.” the bi-ble students left no stone unturned in theirquest to invite interested ones to this event.they rented one of the largest theaters innew york city and distributed some 320,-000 invitations.the public responded beyond all expecta-tions.
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Cadellin
Interesting how when the serpent aka Satan, in the Garden of Eden, says to Eve, "you will not die," it is a lie, but when Rutherford said the same thing in 1920, it was "good news," and "one of the most successful meetings ever held."
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"The Best Convention Ever" - 2020 starts today
by bats in the belfry indress up for the show.
... and now please be seated.
proudly presenting your 2020 convention program.. ... and, thank god, for the ff button on my player.
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It's a bit of a joke. My elder husband "watched" the Friday sessions as background noise while he worked on the computer (secular work, as they say). I strongly suspect he was not the only one. At least he's multi-tasking instead of giving up an entire day.
So much for sacred service, as it used to be called. Or maybe still is. Who knows. Who cares.
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HBO removes Gone with the Wind because its offensive.
by phoenixrising inas the altleftist idiots burn books, ban speech and now ban movies that does not conform to their twisted thinking never forget, those that start by burning books end up burning bodies.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/business/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max.html.
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Cadellin
Millie210, I agree. This is actually a great example of how a very complex issue (the reality of racism) is being handled in an over-simplistic, knee-jerk reactive way. Yes, GWTW has troubling elements but it also showcased the first black actress to win an Oscar so doesn't removing it discredit McDaniel? The fact is that it was a product of its time, for bad, yes AND for good. Viewing it solely through the lens of racism shuts out the fact that it is far more of a feminist bildungsroman than anything else. Scarlet O'Hara is a remarkable protagonist, not because of her love affair with Rhett Butler, but because she spurred traditional female limitations of her day. Yes, the horrors of slavery are completely ignored and I can understand why some would feel that in and of itself is grounds for censorship (and that's what this is, folks) but I think Mitchell was focused on doing something else with the story. And of course, critics can say well she SHOULD have been focused on depicting slavery in all its horror but when you start telling authors what they should and shouldn't be writing in their works of fiction, then fiction is essentially dead.
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Lingering doubts and internal debates
by Huxley1979 inhello, i am in the beginning stages of a slow fade.
over the years i have become more and more dissatisfied with the beliefs, teachings, and organizational practices of the organization.
i no longer have faith in it.
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Huxley, I completely understand how you feel. The world right now does feel somehow worse than, say a couple of years ago. The pandemic is frightening, as are the riots (though understandable, IMHO, given systemic racism). It does feel, at least to me, that the overall situation is different. Still, I ask myself whether these events actually fulfill what JWs say characterize the last days: food shortages, disease, earthquakes, war. If you do some research, the answer quickly becomes--no.
The main threats we face right now are due to environmental degradation and economic inequality (which is being exacerbated by climate change). COVID-19, while frightening, is relatively mild compared to pandemics of the past (such as the Spanish Influenza). Moreover, it has been a century since there has been a global pandemic to compare. Rather, the time period constituting the "last days" according to JWs has been characterized by a dramatic reduction in global mortality due to disease, along with a corresponding increase in global food supply. Hence, the sharp increase in population. Along with it, the last thirty years has seen widespread economic upturns, improving the everyday life of literally billions of people. In fact, in 2014, there were more obese people on the planet than malnourished, a little fact you won't find anywhere on the JW website.
Alas, economic expansion has brought along with it extreme depletion of natural resources and widespread pollution, including plastic waste. But this very phenomenon is a result of economic development, not of worsening famine and disease and other physical woes. Similarly, the level of global warfare has been at an all-time low since the end of WWII, about 70 years ago (hey, a generation!!), so much so that historians have described this time period as the Pax Americana or Great American Peace (take that as you like, but still, the point is that it has been a relatively/comparatively peaceful and prosperous time).
So--reasons to be anxious? Yes. But evidence of JW's accuracy in describing our time period? No.
I've learned a lot from a variety of sources including Our Word in Data. Highly recommended.
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Will You Constantly Wear A Mask?
by minimus intoday, it will be 90 degrees and humid!
this morning i’ll be playing tennis again.
while most people have been holed up in their houses, i have regularly played the sport outside.
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Well, not constantly. I do wear one when shopping but not when I'm walking or running outside. I don't wear one in the car but I understand why some might. You might not want to pull it off if you don't have hand sanitizer to first use on your hands, particularly important if you've just come out of a supermarket. But I carry hand sanitizer with me, so I get back to the car, use the sanitizer, then pull off the mask. I use the mask so I don't inadvertently infect others. It is a considerate thing to do.
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The New World's first Convention... - LMAO
by tresdecu inthis was sent to me by a cooky uber-dub.
apparently it's making the rounds locally...it's typical lighthearted jw satire (that they think is great!!
smh :-/ ) .
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@Pete Zahut--ROFLMAO!!! Awesome.
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Ancient Hebrews Got Away With So Much
by Tim207 inwhy wasn’t judah punished for sleeping withtamar?
even though she had the legal right to an offspring by his family he still thought he was sleeping with a prostitute.
if it is wrong to even think of having relations with a woman similar to the “sin” of watching pornography why wouldn’t what judah did be wrong?
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Cadellin
He got away with it because there was no law against fornication, in the same way there is in the NT. All of the Mosaic laws related to sexual conduct have to be considered in the context of women as property. It wasn't that the sexual act w/o marriage was problematic, it was that the man was tampering with another man's property. Judah having sex with a prostitute was not infringing on another man's rights. However, Tamar risked being burnt alive when found pregnant because she WAS someone's property--in that case, her father-in-law's property. She was one smart cookie to retain proof of paternity.
I wouldn't agree that the Bible is mainly fiction; however, it is certainly not the kind of accurate history that JWs like to believe. I think what we have are embroidered tales that have their root in some kind of actual events, though not in the fantastical form we read today.
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Remember the Revelation book?
by wozza ini recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.
i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.
who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.
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I have vivid recollections of cutting out the little paper corrections and taping them over the assigned words/lines. I was obsessive that way. Still, the very act of doing that niggled at the back of my mind and contributed to my eventual awakening.