jehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.
on par with the is and other terroristic groups.
it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.
Nobody can do a single thing to change the course of Russian nationalism.
But the question in the OP was whether Russia are right in banning religious freedom for the Watchtower. My point is that anybody who agrees with Putin's actions is putting themself on the side of an enemy of liberal democracy.
jehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.
on par with the is and other terroristic groups.
it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.
Old Navy - The topic is not the international policies of the USA it is the disregard for personal freedoms in Russia.
jehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.
on par with the is and other terroristic groups.
it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.
Russia is very wise. - Old Navy
Russia is an enemy of freedom and a danger to every one of us in the west. Stand for a principle regardless of how much we despise the Watchtower.
"congregation picnic"2.
"congregation gathering"3.
"spontaneous gathering of jws”.
Sounds like it is simply a concern about legal liability for anything that goes wrong. I don't think they are saying don't have picnics just don't advertise them as congregation events. They don't want to be sued if everybody goes down with salmonella.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtagwzkjhk.
do the gb and their backers know of this and like fields of thought but are scared to death to go public?.
Zeb you're being ironic aren't you?
jehovah's witnesses are presecuted in russia.
on par with the is and other terroristic groups.
it happened when the anti-extremism laws were extended to non-violent groups.. i don't believe that russia actually cares for the well-being of their citizens with this move and probably merely a law to stop other political forces (and the jws are one in a way, since their gather authority over large groups of people and also have their own political and judicial institutiona), but are they right about it anyway?.
Putin is promoting a form of Russian nationalism called ‘Eurasianism’ that links national identity with ethnicity and geography. The Russian Orthodox Church is an important part of that identity. No opposition will be tolerated.
Russia is not a democracy let alone a liberal one. It does not even see personal freedoms as a virtue. It values the collective over the individual and submits to a leader who brooks no opposition — much like the Governing Body.
Anybody who cares about freedom and democracy must condemn Putin's attack on the Watchtower. Sadly many self-satisfied, smug, Chomsky-loving, pseudo-intellectuals in the West have fallen 'hook line and sinker' for Putin's anti-democratic propaganda. They have no clue how many of the tropes they echo on social media originated in Putin's Russia.
JWs should be free to preach their bullshit in every country on earth. Freedom does not just belong to people we agree with.
See Black, Wind, White Snow — The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism by Charles Clover and The Invention of Russia by Arkady Ostrovsky.
i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.
medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.
on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.
By no means is all that is to know yet known to science
Of course not.
i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.
medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.
on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.
'The Enlightenment' people.
Ever since then we have investigated the world using the scientific method. No magic explanations allowed.
Telepathy hasn't been ignored, it had been researched and failed under scientific conditions 100% of the time.
for thousands of years, the human race has slowly advanced by learning and mastering professions and grouping into cities allowing specializations.
these trades were passed directly and through books.
but everything until recently began with the ground up.
Don't worry there will always be geeks who learn HTML and CSS just for the hell of it.
To be fair, despite the myths, there are probably no ancient skills that can't be performed better by modern-day craftsmen and women.
i believe in rational explanations for everything, whether they are understood yet or not.
medication used to be considered 'magic' until understood how it worked.
on the subject of telepathy, for me it's very subtle but has happened many times.
blondie - Good point. There are so many clues that we receive without even being aware of it. Body language, transient facial expressions, hesitations etc etc. Most communication is non-verbal. Some people are better than others at picking up on them. There might be a gender bias there in favour of females but I'm not sure if there is data.
The other thing is that we are very good at noticing the things we get right and forgetting the many times we miss clues or make wrong assumptions — confirmation bias.
As soon as somebody says ‘quantum’ the conversation has bottomed-out. Quantum effects are what happen to particles so small a neuron or synapse looks like a planet by comparison.
