DesirousOfChange

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  British BLM activist has been shot in the head - media bias?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  sadly, british blm activist sasha johnson is critically ill in hospital after being shot in the head.. first, i'd like to wish her a recovery if this is possible.. but i also think this could be a good test case of how the british media report this event.. i think it could be good to explore media bias.. so, we have the right-wing daily mail saying that, according to her friend, sasha johnson was shot in the head due to being in the cross-fire of a gang shooting, and that she wasn't the intended target, neither was she targeted because of her politics.. at the other end of the spectrum, the left-wing guardian is saying that she was shot after receiving death threats, according to her political party that she founded.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9612115/drive-gunmen-shot-black-panther-oxford-sasha-johnson-head-fired-house-party.html.

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/blm-activist-sasha-johnson-in-critical-condition-after-gunshot-to-the-head.

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  DesirousOfChange

  I'm all for defunding the police in those "problem" areas.

  INTERESTING TAKE ON THE PROBLEM FROM A BLACK POLITICIAN:

  ST. LOUIS • Jimmie Edwards, the city’s new public safety director, did not waste time getting to his point.

  “This message is for black folk,” Edwards said during remarks Monday at the annual downtown ceremony honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  Of the city’s 205 murders last year, 204 of the victims were African-Americans, Edwards said. “One hundred percent of the people that were caught and accused of those crimes were African-Americans. We have to address that. We cannot go forward and continue King’s dream unless we look in the mirror and address that problem. That’s a problem that’s on us.”

  ST LOUIS POST DISPATCH 01/18/2018
  
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  As An ExJW or Fader What Do You Believe In?

  by minimus in

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  god?

  jehovah?

  science?

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  DesirousOfChange

  I believe all the gods were invented by men. Even solid believers agree with me with their "one exception." ~ OntheWayOut
  

  Dear Believer:
  
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  Do YOU Think Biden Actually Won As President?

  by minimus in

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  or do you think trump actually won???

  ?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  The loser of the election was America.

  Nothing more true!

  Gas prices over 50% increase
  

  Building material costs 300% increase.

  Unemployment. (Why work when you make more sitting on your ass?)

  National debt. (Evidently it doesn't matter to anyone.)
  

  Illegal immigration thru the roof.

  Great big thanks to Slo-Joe and the Ho!
  
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  Do you still debate with JWs?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. experiences

  i was talking to an ex-jw.

  not been out as long as i have.. cut a long story short, i came to realise that i can no longer be bothered to debate jws if (on the rare occasion), i have encountered them.. i think that because i am somewhere circling a nihilistic atheist it seems pointless.

  i just don't have the energy because i rarely even think about jw related garbage.

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  DesirousOfChange

  As soon as you say something that disputes or disagrees with JW doctrine (whether Biblical or not) most JW's will just refuse to listen. The pain of the cognitive dissonance is just too severe.
  

  
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  Prince Harry: I've suffered genetic pain

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  lol, i'm sorry, but is this n*gga serious?.

  yes, he suffered his mother dying when he was 12, and his father charles maybe wasn't the best hands-on father.. but 'genetic pain'?

  wtf is this shit?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Ginge then told us we need to save water from his mansion with 16 bathrooms.

  It should be pretty obvious what the problem really is with someone that needs 16 bathrooms.

  (Full of ...........)
  
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  With a whimper, not a bang

  by JeffT in

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  the thread about old timers got me thinking about trends i see with the watchtower.

  i've changed my opinion about where the organization stands.

  when i joined the religion in 1973 it was dynamic, even the small congregation i attended sent out three or four pioneers.

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  DesirousOfChange

  At some point it gets impossible to turn the ship around --

  
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  Prince Harry: I've suffered genetic pain

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  lol, i'm sorry, but is this n*gga serious?.

  yes, he suffered his mother dying when he was 12, and his father charles maybe wasn't the best hands-on father.. but 'genetic pain'?

  wtf is this shit?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  It must be tough when you're the #2 son all of your life. His only ticket to stardom was to kill off the older brother. Fast forward and now he's got some 2nd fiddle starlet to play the fiddle for his sad song.

  Losers. (Just because you have cash does not make you anything more than that.)
  
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  400 Rockets Hit Israel

  by minimus in

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  israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.

  evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..

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  DesirousOfChange

  I would not be surprised if Israel finds all this as a good excuse to stop Iran from continuing to pursue nuclear capability. Israel is kinda like the JWism. They really think they are God's Special People. But, they have BIG GUNS to kick ass. (JWs only have lawyers.)
  
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  J Dublethink

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i'm just thinking of examples of jw doublethink.. here's one - jws will tell a bible study or unbaptised publisher that there is no hierarchy within the org.

  they typically remark on christendom's hierarchy but then say 'we are all brothers'.

  but as a person gets further into the cult, jws will constantly stress the need to obey the governing body.. jw hierarchy .

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  DesirousOfChange

  You forgot:

  5.5 Elders' Wives
  
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  What is your status (as of today) as a Jehovah's Witness?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  active believer...still attend meetings, go out in field service, believe it's ''the truth''.

  active non-believer... go to meetings and field service to please family... living a double life .

  inactive believer...don't attend meetings but believe it's the truth, one day might go back to kingdom hall.

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  DesirousOfChange

  #4 -- Inactive agnostic.

  Convinced the WT bOrg does not have The Truth(®) but still have lingering thoughts about a Higher Power somewhere, somehow involved in it all. Just haven't really been shown any hard evidence to make a convincing argument.