Posts by oppostate

Social Democrats believe in democracy and distrust rampant abusive forms of capitalism. They are for the welfare of society and the social order under a truly democratic system. What we have in the U.S. is not a true democracy, it is a federalist republic with few restraints on capitalist ideals at the expense of folk's well-being and freedom from greedy corporations and business magnates' control. Trump would turn the U.S. into a third world country. Sanders would approximate the nation to the high standard of living enjoyed by a lot of social democracies in Europe.

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Who would you vote for Today?

by James Mixon in

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d. trump or h. clinton and why.. i would vote for gun slinging trump..

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the older children were not spoiled - he made time for them when they needed him, even at 5 on the phone, he would stop the board meetings to talk with the kids

Would Trump put up with any of his underlings stoping a board meeting to talk with their kids? He'd be spouting his favorite phrase "You're fired!" faster than a blink.

I can't understand how anyone would trust such a megalomaniac.

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Building layoffs & JW calendar 2016 theme

by Gorbatchov in

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the theme of the jw calendar 2016 is building, building, building.

all the calendar pictures are about building wts property with cheap labor witnesses.. and then, just before the year approaches the building has halted.. it seems a short term decision.

a strange correlation again.. gorby.

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On average, 1,187 additional Kingdom Halls are needed
each year to keep
up with current organizational growth.

I was left scratching my head at that bit as well, slimboyfat.

If on average every KH held about 70 Witnesses that would be a total of 83,090 new JW's.

And with the merging that's been going on around my area for the past few years, there's no way that an "additional" high number like that would be conceivable. They call them "additional" and not replacements--No way!

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Building layoffs & JW calendar 2016 theme

by Gorbatchov in

jw
friends

the theme of the jw calendar 2016 is building, building, building.

all the calendar pictures are about building wts property with cheap labor witnesses.. and then, just before the year approaches the building has halted.. it seems a short term decision.

a strange correlation again.. gorby.

oppostate

What used to really get under my skin were the pictures of young shapely babes in construction outfits sporting ponytail hair styles and looking yummy. I think they do this on purpose to keep males in the org, the promise of sex and marriage for geeks even

I know what you mean. Just look at the "shapely babes" at the Dedza Assembly Hall construction site. Sadly Assembly Hall construction everywhere has been halted. But that means these "shapely babes" will have more time to get acquainted with interested suitors, so there's a plus right there.

Oh, by the way those tiny brick fences are not fences, they're the rows of seats, yup, those ARE the seats!

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Largest BOE file in existence - updated as of November 2015

by WTS Archive in

courtesy of atlantis, largest boe file ever compiled has been updated (see previous version here).. to download it, visit: http://www.filedropper.com/1905-2016-boe-file.

click on gray "download this file" button, then solve the captcha and enjoy the massive, 1.2 gb file containing nerly every secret letter and document watchtower society published since 1905 up until now..

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Why does Antoine Leiris' powerful tribute to his wife, killed by ISIS in the Paris attacks, bother me so much?

by nicolaou in

here is the translation of monsieur leiris' words;.

friday night, you took an exceptional life - the love of my life, the mother of my son - but you will not have my hatred.

i don't know who you are and i don't want to know, you are dead souls.

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He is a better man than I am. All I have for these inhuman, murderous Mohammedans is disgust and loathing.

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DAESH

by pepperheart in

the french pm used the word daesh to name the people that used to be called is etc .

daesh is a play on words to mean a bigot who imposes his views on others.

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@tgnd: It's pronounced "Dah-eesh" as in the first part of "Die shameless murderous scum!" but without the "aimless murderous scum!" part.