DesirousOfChange

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  How many of your relatives have left the borg after you?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?

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  DesirousOfChange

  All of our kids. Although they were all at least PIMO even before we were.
  
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  Return to Kingdom Hall Meetings - Letter to Elder Bodies?

  by JWTom in

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  a couple of threads over on reddit that there is a letter to elders on restarting meetings.

  i find this hard to believe and have not seen anything on this from our trusty sources on this site.

  can anyone confirm?.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Reddit says Feb 2022 which is still almost 6 months off.

  According to my PIMO friend it was announced this week that 4000 Bethelites were allowed to travel home for visits recently. I believe he indicated that they were quarantines upon their return, but despite all being vaccinated, 4 tested POS for Covid.

  If they are testing the water with Bethelites, I certainly could see them opening Assem Halls, at least in "safe" areas that are allowing such gatherings. I think even JWs must be confused when you can attend a funeral service at the funeral home or church for a "worldly" relative but JW funerals (at least here) are still only on Zoom.

  Additionally, as one person commented, Circuit Assemblies are HUGE CASH COWS for WTS because they dictate how much will be contributed. (And it's a lot!)
  
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  Will your wife let you......

  by mickbobcat in

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  i grew up in the 70s and had a few of the posters young guys have.

  farrah fawcett and bo derek in 10. i just bought a vintage copy of both for my work shop.

  my wife says she does not care but you never know.

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  I inherited a huge collection of Playboy mags from a family member who died. (Unfortunately not the Marilyn Monroe issue.) My wife sees no problem with them.
  
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  Tony Morris Needs Money

  by Vanderhoven7 in

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  looking for a laugh.... listen to this gal's response to tony's encouragement to donate.. https://youtu.be/mvjv__r7xaw.

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  This is my favorite quote! What’s your favorite?

  by Iamallcool in

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  no one can steal your thunder when you are the fucking storm!

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  “I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day." ~ Frank Sinatra
  
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  Differences, on average, between men and women

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  quite bizarrely, there are people trying their level best to blur the lines between man and woman, male and female.. so, i thought it a fairly good idea to list the differences, on average, between men and women.. ok, starting with the most obvious .... women have a vulva, a vagina, and internal gonads (ovaries); men have a penis and external gonads (testes).. women get pregnant, give birth and breastfeed their babies; men do none of those things.. men are taller than women.. men have greater upper-body strength than women.

  men have greater bone density and percentage of muscle mass than women.. women live longer than men (this is partly due to life choices and behaviour and partly due to genetics).. men have higher testosterone levels than women.. men heal more quickly from physical injury than women.. the sexual dynamics between men and women tend to be different, too.

  re sexual selection, women typically have their choice of the most suitable men.

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  Women can multitask men can not ~ GreenHornet

  Absolutely! No man has ever been seen driving in the fast lane while talking on the phone and putting on mascara! Multi-tasking is definitely a woman's thing.
  
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  Superman and Captain America

  by punkofnice in

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  i see that marvel are introducing a gay captain america as dc announce the son of superman is bi-sexual.. whereas i don't give a hoot about a person's use of their genitalia as long as it is consensual and not with kids, i'm finding all this 'inclusivity' becoming a bit boring.. are dc and marvel just virtue signalling in the hopes of selling comics and not being set on fire by the antifa frauds?

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  DesirousOfChange

  Do not buy their crap. Hit them in the pocket book.

  DITTO!

  I quit drinking Coke products when they decided all of us white people should become "less white" and I stole a case of Grape Nehi next trip to the market.
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  What Do You Like About Biden's Build Back Better Agenda & the Democrat's Build Back Better Act?

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  what do you like about biden's build back better agenda & the democrat's build back better act?

  is it liberal and progressive enough for you or do you wish it would go further?

  https://www.vox.com/22711083/biden-reconciliation-build-back-better-polls-infrastructure has some comments about it.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Its core intent is to rebuild the country's infrastructure which has declined over the years and create jobs in the process.

  It's being called an "infrastructure" bill, but in reality infrastructure (roads, bridges, airports, etc) are less than 10% of the spending. It includes things like raising taxes on businesses and the middle class; it includes paying for free child care and elder care; it includes requiring banks to report ANY monetary transaction over $600. (Currently this is set for $10,000 CASH transactions.)

  It is said in reality it will cost taxpayers over $10 TRILLION, which will likely jump-start the high inflation we are already seeing. Most here are likely too old to recall the Jimmy Carter years in the White House. Inflation was over 14%. Mortgage interest was as high as 18%. This Biden Boondoggle will bring the same kind of results.
  
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  "My decades of activism have been very satisfying" - A conversation with Alan Feuerbacher

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ad-b5vc3e.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Very few things from Cedars are worth the investing of over an hour of one's life. This is one of the exceptions.

  (Thank you, Simon, for leaving up it for us to view. I know you're not a fan of Cedars.)
  
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  Differences, on average, between men and women

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  quite bizarrely, there are people trying their level best to blur the lines between man and woman, male and female.. so, i thought it a fairly good idea to list the differences, on average, between men and women.. ok, starting with the most obvious .... women have a vulva, a vagina, and internal gonads (ovaries); men have a penis and external gonads (testes).. women get pregnant, give birth and breastfeed their babies; men do none of those things.. men are taller than women.. men have greater upper-body strength than women.

  men have greater bone density and percentage of muscle mass than women.. women live longer than men (this is partly due to life choices and behaviour and partly due to genetics).. men have higher testosterone levels than women.. men heal more quickly from physical injury than women.. the sexual dynamics between men and women tend to be different, too.

  re sexual selection, women typically have their choice of the most suitable men.

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  DesirousOfChange

  Yes, women live longer than men as is evidenced by the fact that most married men die before their wives. But most often it is because they want to.