Posts by cofty

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Do You Condemn Anti-Semitism?

by minimus in

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i do .

for me , it’s a nobrainer!.

cofty

Of course. The Labour Party in the UK (the main opposition party) are tearing themselves apart over it at the moment. I heard on the news that the Democratic party are having similar problems.

Anti-semitism is the stupid man's socialism. The far left see the world through the prism of power struggles. They buy into the conspiracy theory that Jews are the hidden power behind capitalism. Frequently anti-Zionism is a cover for anti-semitism.

Jeremy Corbyn (Labour leader) defended this mural that went up in London in 2012. When he was lambasted for it he hypocritically pretended he hadn't seen it before he offered his support for it.

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How Long Will YOU Identify As A Jehovah’s Witness?

by minimus in

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some witnesses realize that they got into a religion and it turned out to be disastrous.

many decide they have to somehow get out.

some do it right away and others take longer.. where are you in your journey?

cofty

I understand why some may stay in for family reasons, that is their own decision. I cannot understand elders who continue to serve but don't believe the organisation is the 'truth'. There are a multitude of ways you could step down with honour.

Personally I was unable to pretend to believe anything. As soon as I worked out it was a lie I had to say so take the consequences.

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BREXIT

by ScottyRex in

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as the clock ticks down, i just wish our politicians would get on with it.

i think teresa may has had a bitch of a job in the last couple of years and wish her well.

as a once labour supporter i could not under any circumstance support them again under jeremy corbyn and diane abbot.. i voted out, and do still have hope that the uk will prosper free of europe.

cofty

Duplicate?

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Leaving Neverland the Micheal Jackson documentary

by Finkelstein in

leaving neverland the micheal jackson documentary was just released and i must say watching it myself left me pretty disgusted but not necessarily surprised.. being that there is two accounts given by two separate boys, men now, leaves the impression that their stories are truthful and factual.. what one can take from this story is that mj was a megalomaniac that thought he had the power, money and personal stature to get away with just about anything he wanted, this included pedophilia with boys.

i wonder if the over oppression restrictive nature of being brought up a child in the jws religion had an effect to his loose out of control behavior of a super rich celebrity ?.

his celebrity status and wealth really came to him when he was a pubescent young boy/teen, money in such a huge amount made anything he wanted or could afford possible.. personally i think he was inherently gay and had pursued arranged marriages to protect his perceived public image, a pretentious act which was mostly devised as a money and business endeavor .

cofty

Thank you for that OC. Looks like both positions are a myth and gay men are no more or less likely to be attracted to children than heterosexual men.

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Need Help - How do I refute this???

by HappyBlessedFree in

so i was talking with my husband about all the things the organization is doing ie.

hiding pedophiles, lying about what 1914 was etc.

so his response was that the nation of israel had times when they weren’t doing the right thing, but it was still gods chosen organization.. another topic we were talking about was disfellowshipping.

cofty

his response was that the nation of Israel had times when they weren’t doing the right thing, but it was still Gods chosen organization

It is the way that followers of every totalitarian regime rationalise the things they know are wrong. Either the evidence becomes too much — and everybody has their own threshold — or something happens personally that makes them wake up. Often is is hurt rather than reason that makes the difference.

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Is The Watchtower Society Just Copying The Mormon's Model?

by pale.emperor in

when i was a faithful jw i was pretty much obsessed with the mormon religion.

to me it was like lord of the rings.

i knew the characters, the history, the events, the joseph smith stories, the religion's history etc etc etc and i long suspected even then that the watchtower society has been copying certain things from the lds church.. for example, the first thing i noticed was when the book study was dropped and family worship was started.

cofty

I think you are right PE. I wonder how they will package the compulsory personal donations when it happens.

Perhaps it will begin with a pro-rata obligation from each congregation — unconnected to building loans — so that the congregation is obliged to make up any shortfall.

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Leaving Neverland the Micheal Jackson documentary

by Finkelstein in

leaving neverland the micheal jackson documentary was just released and i must say watching it myself left me pretty disgusted but not necessarily surprised.. being that there is two accounts given by two separate boys, men now, leaves the impression that their stories are truthful and factual.. what one can take from this story is that mj was a megalomaniac that thought he had the power, money and personal stature to get away with just about anything he wanted, this included pedophilia with boys.

i wonder if the over oppression restrictive nature of being brought up a child in the jws religion had an effect to his loose out of control behavior of a super rich celebrity ?.

his celebrity status and wealth really came to him when he was a pubescent young boy/teen, money in such a huge amount made anything he wanted or could afford possible.. personally i think he was inherently gay and had pursued arranged marriages to protect his perceived public image, a pretentious act which was mostly devised as a money and business endeavor .

cofty

I don't doubt that being gay and a pedophile may be part of the same mental defect - TobyJ

Since everybody seems to think tribally, I want to make it clear that I do not want to be associated with that assertion.

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Leaving Neverland the Micheal Jackson documentary

by Finkelstein in

leaving neverland the micheal jackson documentary was just released and i must say watching it myself left me pretty disgusted but not necessarily surprised.. being that there is two accounts given by two separate boys, men now, leaves the impression that their stories are truthful and factual.. what one can take from this story is that mj was a megalomaniac that thought he had the power, money and personal stature to get away with just about anything he wanted, this included pedophilia with boys.

i wonder if the over oppression restrictive nature of being brought up a child in the jws religion had an effect to his loose out of control behavior of a super rich celebrity ?.

his celebrity status and wealth really came to him when he was a pubescent young boy/teen, money in such a huge amount made anything he wanted or could afford possible.. personally i think he was inherently gay and had pursued arranged marriages to protect his perceived public image, a pretentious act which was mostly devised as a money and business endeavor .

cofty

Where is the research that backs up the 11:1 ratio for homosexual pedophiles? - Della

You also have the ratio back to front.

I linked to the source twice. It is a peer-reviewed paper published by the US National Library of Health.

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Leaving Neverland the Micheal Jackson documentary

by Finkelstein in

leaving neverland the micheal jackson documentary was just released and i must say watching it myself left me pretty disgusted but not necessarily surprised.. being that there is two accounts given by two separate boys, men now, leaves the impression that their stories are truthful and factual.. what one can take from this story is that mj was a megalomaniac that thought he had the power, money and personal stature to get away with just about anything he wanted, this included pedophilia with boys.

i wonder if the over oppression restrictive nature of being brought up a child in the jws religion had an effect to his loose out of control behavior of a super rich celebrity ?.

his celebrity status and wealth really came to him when he was a pubescent young boy/teen, money in such a huge amount made anything he wanted or could afford possible.. personally i think he was inherently gay and had pursued arranged marriages to protect his perceived public image, a pretentious act which was mostly devised as a money and business endeavor .

cofty

No you have that ratio back to front.

'The ratio of heterosexual to homosexual pedophiles was calculated to be approximately 11:1'

Since the ratio of hetrosexual males to heterosexual males in the population is greater than that it means that gay men are over-represented among pedophiles. As the authors are right to point out this does not mean that most gay men have a propensity to pedophila.

I was responding to the assertion made by wasanelder that gay men are 'notoriously NOT gay'.

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Leaving Neverland the Micheal Jackson documentary

by Finkelstein in

leaving neverland the micheal jackson documentary was just released and i must say watching it myself left me pretty disgusted but not necessarily surprised.. being that there is two accounts given by two separate boys, men now, leaves the impression that their stories are truthful and factual.. what one can take from this story is that mj was a megalomaniac that thought he had the power, money and personal stature to get away with just about anything he wanted, this included pedophilia with boys.

i wonder if the over oppression restrictive nature of being brought up a child in the jws religion had an effect to his loose out of control behavior of a super rich celebrity ?.

his celebrity status and wealth really came to him when he was a pubescent young boy/teen, money in such a huge amount made anything he wanted or could afford possible.. personally i think he was inherently gay and had pursued arranged marriages to protect his perceived public image, a pretentious act which was mostly devised as a money and business endeavor .

cofty

I was just about to ask Cofty to kindly clarify his post as it's getting late here and I was not sure I was reading it correctly,

I would be happy to. How can I help?