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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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?.

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  cofty

  galaxie - you are better than that.
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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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?.

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  cofty

  Your hatred for the Watchtower is causing you to side with a tyrant.
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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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?.

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  cofty

  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.
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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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?.

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  cofty

  Old Navy - The topic is not the international policies of the USA it is the disregard for personal freedoms in Russia.
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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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?.

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  cofty

  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.
  
  
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  Legal concerns about: "picnics"

  by Darth FayDehr in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  "congregation picnic"2.

  "congregation gathering"3.

  "spontaneous gathering of jws”.

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  cofty

  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.
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  Its all about the moon

  by zeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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?.

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  cofty

  Zeb you're being ironic aren't you?
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  Is Russia "right" about presecuting Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by iliketreasure in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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?.

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  cofty

  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.
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  Evidence of a form of telepathy, science and personal experiences.

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. social
  2. current

  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.

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  cofty

  By no means is all that is to know yet known to science

  Of course not.
  
  
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  Evidence of a form of telepathy, science and personal experiences.

  by Bad_Wolf in

  1. social
  2. current

  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.

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  cofty

  '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.