Posts by oppostate

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2021 Public Talk Outlines

by projecthydra in

contents - 5 updated public talk outlines (both in english and spanish).

four outlines has images stored as attachments.

please click here to download.. .

USA House Bill calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws, passed overwhelmingly!

by Disillusioned JW in

on december 7, 2020 usa congressman jamie raskin's (md-08) bipartisan house resolution 512, calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws, passed the house of representatives by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 386-3; see https://raskin.house.gov/2020/12/house-passes-raskin-resolution-calling-global-repeal-blasphemy-heresy-apostasy .

a description of the bill says "the resolution also calls for the immediate release of religious prisoners of conscience worldwide.

as more than 80 countries use blasphemy laws to persecute and imprison religious minorities and dissenters, the house asserted the essential importance of freedom of religion and liberty of conscience globally.".

oppostate

I applaud the bipartisan effort of these bills. When one can be sanctioned for speaking out against religions, all free speech erodes. Let reason prevail and may freedom be upheald

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What’s Wrong With President Biden?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i just watched excerpts from his cnn town hall event and something is seriously wrong with him.

he can’t put together a sentence without getting lost, tripping on his own words, forgetting what he is talking about.……this is embarrassing.

and it’s not because he has a stutter!

oppostate

Well, I think Joe is doing a great job, and yes, his age is showing, but I would much have preferred Bernie in the Whitehouse! And for the record, no, my tv did not fall on my head, and I prefer MSNBC News rather than CNN.

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What’s Wrong With President Biden?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i just watched excerpts from his cnn town hall event and something is seriously wrong with him.

he can’t put together a sentence without getting lost, tripping on his own words, forgetting what he is talking about.……this is embarrassing.

and it’s not because he has a stutter!

oppostate

honestly it’s embarrassing watching the Commander In Chief flail away like he does. It’s pathetic.

@min, The one CiC who was flailing away and acting pathetic was Trump, when he mocked a diabled person. Trumpolini is a disgusting disgrace for our coutry and our democracy.

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What’s Wrong With President Biden?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i just watched excerpts from his cnn town hall event and something is seriously wrong with him.

he can’t put together a sentence without getting lost, tripping on his own words, forgetting what he is talking about.……this is embarrassing.

and it’s not because he has a stutter!

oppostate

Yup, the guy is old. But still ten times more cogent than the fake orange skinwalking Trumpolini. Even at making sense Biden outperforms the liar Donald by a magnitude of epic proportions considering the stupid stuff that came from that Putin loving traitor to the American Costitution. Yeah, 45 may hug and kiss the flag but he disrespects what it stands for and the men and women who served under it. Biden seems like he's getting pretty old and slipping but Trump sure acts like the greedy and ignorant, narcisistic tyrant he's always been.

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For Witnesses Who Want To Leave Fade, Disassociate or Get Disfellowshipped?

by minimus in

jw
friends

my opinion is if possible fading is the best way to go..

oppostate

My same sentiments. But in some circumstances it is quite difficult if one has family in the cult or held promiment service appointments in the b0rganization.

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LOL: just have share a convo I just had with my PIMI wife

by goingthruthemotions in

so my wife and i just went on a walk, remember right now she has been listening to her convention.

so she starts in with the world is getting bad and will end soon.

what started it was we were talking about the economy and such.

oppostate

Talking like that about yout wife, GTTM, the one that sounds like an idiot is you unfortunately, and suggesting you can just get it elsewher just demeans your relationship. You don't sound like a prize catch with your attitude and if she divorces you, she'd probably be doing herself a favor.

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I Don't think the jw kids today are afraid of the Elders or the Governing Body, like the jw kids of pre-internet era.

by pistolpete in

something i've notice with born in jw kids posting on reddit, is that they have no problem telling off the elders.

this generation of born in jw kids just have no fear of who the elders represent because they know from researching on the internet, that jehovah is a created character by ancient people, and no different or real, than thanos.. these kids know exactly what's going on with the child sexual abuse in the organization.

they also have read and memorized the elder's book online.

oppostate

The yang-wans I've seen growing up from babies in the Congregation, and are staying in, don't generally want to make waves. Many are happy just to go on being luke warm JWs or leading a double life and when they get married the want their parents to be as grandparents should be to their kids.

But then there are those who can't live the charade any longer and act up. The b0rg as an institution would rather rid itself of these woke rebels who would never contribute a dime.

The wishy-washy ones who might not contribute are allowed to inflate the numbers and make parents happy they aren't DF'ed like so many other JW youths.

Then there are the heavily in true believers in the b0rg who act like exemplar pioneers and get the Circuit Assembly doctored and partly made up interviews. Those are the type the b0rg loves. Those might be the ones who will varry the b0rg into the next decades unless that is these also wake up as happened with so many a burnt out JW poster child who finally look behind the curtain and google Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Which English Translations of the Bible are you Favorites, and Why?

by Disillusioned JW in

which english translations of the bible are you favorites, and why?

my favorites include the (english) revised version bible (of 1881-1885) and its apocrypha (of 1898), the american revised version bible (of 1898, it close to the american standard version), the american standard version bible (of 1901), the new american standard bible - updated edition, the new revised standard version bible with the apocrypha, the complete bible: an american translation (it includes the apocrypha), and the twentieth century new testament.

i also use others beside those.. they are my favorites because i consider them to be highly accurate, and also they are either very literal (but not so literal as to be hard to understand) or they use functional equivalence.

oppostate

I like the Berean Study Bible a lot over at Biblehub.com because it's quite readable but similar to the ESV and the NASB.

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20 Years Occupying Afghanistan, Nothing Achieved

by Simon in

so the occupation of afghanistan is coming to an end and, as predicted, they achieved absolutely nothing in that 20 years apart from:.

the death of 2,300+ service personnel and tens of thousands more seriously maimed or injured.. handing $billions or even $trillions of taxpayer dollars to defence contractors (so the military industrial complex wins, even if the military doesn't have a clear victory).. has this lengthy but short-term military occupation really changed anything in the country?

it doesn't appear so.. i said at the time that the us wouldn't have the staying power to enact real change.

oppostate

Well, one thing was certainly achieved, thogh, the war equipment manufacturers did get barrel$ of billion$ out of the war.