One little factoid I discovered yesterday that really surprised me is that Russia's economy is at the same level as Australia's. I assumed it was an economic power house with its natural resources, land mass and population.
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Will Ukraine win?
by Fisherman ini was under the impression that it was going to be a short war, that russia’s military would indeed subdue ukraine’s forces quickly but that is not happening.
seems that russia’s military power is much less than it’s reputed to be.
no guess how it will all end..
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It was good enough for C.T. Russell.....
by BoogerMan in....but not for jw's!.
w70 4/15 p. 250 -"in 1870 charles taze russell...was not satisfied with the sectarian [jw's are sectarian] explanations of the bible given him, so he started a bible-study class with several of his friends....".
km 9/07 p. 3 question box - "does “the faithful and discreet slave” endorse independent groups of witnesses who meet together to engage in scriptural research or debate?
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JW's are sectarian
Ain't that the truth
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My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang
by Sea Breeze ina new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.
wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.
that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
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Nonny This is exactly why I absolutely hate media sensationalism of scientific discoveries. I understand it, I worked in academia and we had a dedicated full time media person just to hype the latest discovery for the next funding round.
I would imagine this is the case. The data will be unintelligible to most people so they put it into simple to understand terms, which can end up kind of being incorrect.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Matt Dillahunty and some of the others are just as creepy.
Damn straight. I cannot bear that man.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Thisismein1972: He says he dreams of leaving Twitter. Well why dream when all he has to do is hit that deactivate account button.
TOH Just like his relationship with his penis, he has yet to master the "log out" function.
(≧▽≦)🙌🙌🤣🤣I'm dead
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The Jehovah's Witness religion has gone for good !!!
by snare&racket ini am not sure how you all feel as we all left at different times for different reasons.... but this new bible seems to have put some final nails into a coffin that was once my jw life.
the religion is so far and so different to the religion i grew up in that it has become something i feel no affiliation with anymore, no bond, no shared ideas or even sentimental views.
different teachings on when the end is coming.
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What a brilliant post Snares !!! I chuckled at so many of them. When I looked at the date I had a good snort, too! I only noticed because of the new Bible comment ...I thought does OP mean a new foreign language translation? Or have they gone and done a new, completely loopy translation complete with Governing Boobies in Jerusalem that Paul (definitely did) visit. And a wicked and adulterous overlapping generation that keeps getting the sign wrong (shurely shome mishtake....Toni (hic) M.)
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Some thoughts on Lloyd, Russia and aggressive activism:
I think Lloyd forgets it was only the organisation that was under ban in Russia. Believing as a Witness is not under ban... so refusing blood won't get you in trouble per sa. for the naysayers I always think Imagine if Watchtower had been stopped before your family had joined...how good would that have been?! There are arguments against the methods Putin uses, but that doesn't necessarily make the end result bad.
I think Lloyds conflating Russia with his grudge against aggressive activism in that video was more born from not being centre stage.
Anyway how does he define so called aggressive activism? Was the ANC aggressive? Was ML King? Gandhi?! Yes! By Lloyds measure they were! Even a "sit in" would count as aggressive.
I don't believe all activism must be physical. That documentaries or written articles are not effective or don't contribute.The pen really can be mightier than the sword. I would certainly say Barb Anderson's campaigning website and Marc O'Donnell's work on CSA for sure count as effective activism.
What about Lloyds"Passive" activism? Does it exist? Perhaps signing an online petition would count, for example. Or as Kim mentioned making you tube videos.
But is it really "activism"? Or is it mainly information with some opinion? And If it is activism is it effective?
Just because I don't see it as activism doesn't mean i discount all Lloyds work as unimportant. The video he made about the Dutch reclaimed voices, for example, was excellent because it got the information out. But was it activism? Or was it about activism?
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Watchtower November 2022... Adapt to new adjustments and new changes
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower—study edition | november 2022. study article 48. keep your senses when your loyalty is tested.
14 vlado, a 73-year-old elder in slovenia, struggled when his congregation merged with another congregation and the kingdom hall that he attended was closed.
he says: “i did not understand why such a beautiful kingdom hall would be closed.
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Poor old Vlad the Cabinetmaker🧛🏻♂️
All that hard work renovating the hall, just for it to be sold out from under him and the money pocketed by the scroungers in Warwick.
Boxer indeed😔
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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MAL(content) has been through hell.
I remember Lloyd having a rant about being far too busy to answer personal messages and how he's not there to help exjws with free therapy!! etc. This was very early on in his You Tube career, too. He said he doesn't answer personal emails (unless funnily enough he can make content out of you. Seems to read those ok).
Eventually dear Cherie from this site stepped up to the plate as a volunteer on JWsurvey to work as jwsurvey's support worker (at first, later taking on more roles). As if working full time with dying cancer patients wasn't emotionally draining enough. But no, apparently at the time making a you tube video every week or so is so demanding Lloyd required a full time Hospice manager to come and do it for him free of charge, bolstering the importance of his ridiculous survey (which JWs never took just a few thousand exjws). The written submissions on CSA of mark O'Donnell and others and Cherie's devotion is what swelled the value of that site 100%.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened inoriginal reddit post (removed).
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Jeff You think you're running the business, but the reality is they run your life.
Yes I know a retired pub landlady of 30 years plus, who raised her kids whilst running one. She works for a hospitality charity and gets invited to careers fairs,too. She said if your not prepared for it to be a way of life, rather than a job, don't do it.