......when you have a blue collar job and you own 12 cheap suits.
DesirousOfChange
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You Know You're A Jehovah's Witness When...
by pale.emperor inyou know you're a jehovah's witness when.... being offered a scholarship to a good university is considered a bad thing.. when you see a house you like you claim it for after your god kills the owner.. you recieve spiritual guidence from a bus driver and a window washer.. you're engaged to a person you only met 3 months ago.. your widowed mother is marrying a man she met at the convention who she's known for 2 weeks.. there's jehovah's witnesses meeting in your house on a saturday morning to talk about going out knocking on doors on a saturday morning.. a lie in on a weekend happens about twice a year.. you dont talk to your own parents/children because they have a different opinion about a magazine.. you're not quite sure what you're supposed to believe anymore.. when someone criticizes your a magazine you feel like you're being attacked.. your 3yo son owns a suit.. if you're not married by the age of 30 you're considered to be gay or something wrong with you.. (for girls) if you havent married the first or second person you've dated you're considered promiscuous or something wrong with you.. you get your scientific knowledge from a magazine written by people who've never been to college and have never actually read the source they claim to be citing.. you get excited if there's a storm or natural disaster.. you get excited when there's a terrorist attack.. you get excited when there's a pandemic.. your version of tinder is the lunch break at a convention.. your girlfriend dresses like her grandmother.. your grandparents, despite being in the same religion as you, died believing totally a different belief system..
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DesirousOfChange
If the Dems had control of the White House AND the Senate, they'd nominate and approve some left wing Justice of their choice. RBG should have retired while Obama was in office if she wanted a Dem to name her replacement.
Timing is everything.
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St. Louis at 50 Year Murder High
by Sea Breeze inmurder rate at 50-year high in democrat mayor lyda krewson’s st. louis.
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Name some major cities governed by GOP mayors.
Are any of them in the news for riots, murder rates, or ................
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St. Louis at 50 Year Murder High
by Sea Breeze inmurder rate at 50-year high in democrat mayor lyda krewson’s st. louis.
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I hadn't thought of it that way, Fink.
You're right. It's probably just coincidence that cities run by Democrats are (almost without exception) shitholes.
What are the "other pertaining factors" of which you speak?
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St. Louis at 50 Year Murder High
by Sea Breeze inmurder rate at 50-year high in democrat mayor lyda krewson’s st. louis.
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DesirousOfChange
East St Louis is a sad story. In the 40s & 50s it was run by the Buster Wortman mob. The area (St Clair and Madison Counties) had the revenue and political influence equal to Cook County/Chicago. The National Stockyards and the resulting banks there, were the cash cows. During the race riots of the 60s, E St Louis was "burned to the ground". The "Big Money" left town and never rebuilt. Then anyone with even a little money, got the hell outta there (white flight). The rioters "won". They took over East St Louis. 50 years later, it's still a (to quote silentbuddha) fucking shithole.
Fast forward to 2020 -- I fear history is repeating itself in Baltimore, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc. Ferguson was surely a "repeat". Nothing has been rebuilt there since its burning in 2006.
BTW -- East St Louis has been a strong Democrat stronghold since the 60's.
The City of St Louis has TWO political parties: White Democrats and Black Democrats.
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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DesirousOfChange
People need to... vote for family values.........Such as porking a porn star while third wife is pregnant with child.
As though any of these people have "values"?
Biden is grabby and sniffs the hair of little girls and is accused of sexual assault (but we don't believe women who accuse Democrats).
Obama allegedly was on the "downlow" and regularly engaged in gay sexual encounters before hitting the national limelight.
Clinton was getting bl*wjobs from interns in the Oval Office.
Kennedy. Roosevelt. Both said to have multiple affairs.
So let's quit pretending that any of them have any "personal" values. We need to discern what result their policies will have on community (our) values. People in power don't want to live by our rules or values.
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St. Louis at 50 Year Murder High
by Sea Breeze inmurder rate at 50-year high in democrat mayor lyda krewson’s st. louis.
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The City of St Louis is its own "county".
There is also St Louis COUNTY. It is the "suburbs" surrounding StL CITY.
Sometime around the 1904 Worlds Fair, the high class folks in the City of St Louis seceded from the County. They did not want to pick up the costs for the redneck country folks in the outlying rural County. Fast forward 100 years and that redneck country territory is the high rent suburbs and the City is the Ghetto (with a few very classy and a few moderate neighborhoods).
Usually crime statistics given for St Louis only include the actual City of StL which makes the numbers usually seem very "high crime" because most large cities include their surrounding (safer) suburbs vs just the "inner city".
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St. Louis at 50 Year Murder High
by Sea Breeze inmurder rate at 50-year high in democrat mayor lyda krewson’s st. louis.
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DesirousOfChange
People get what they vote for.
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Ant legal recourse?
by Huxley1979 inhello everyone, if the elders start hounding someone to attend a judicial committee meeting is there any legal recourse that someone can take to make them back off?
i know that sometimes they will just at the threat of it.
thoughts?.
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DesirousOfChange
Have the elders "invited" you to a JUDICIAL COMMITTEE (3 elders) or to meet with 2 Elders (investigative committee)?
IF they have already formed a "Judicial Committee" then they believe they already have the "evidence" to DF you. That would mean TWO eye witnesses or strong circumstantial evidence (ie you stayed overnight alone at the home of a lover). The 2 eye witnesses can be testifying to two different events (ie you spoke apostate ideas to both persons at different occasions; or 2 people saw you smoking at two different times).
If you are to meet only with TWO Elders, then they are still trying to "get the goods on you", hoping really for your "confession" or that you admit to the "sin". In this situation, you can DENY DENY DENY. Frankly, most elders will follow those rules -- with only ONE witness against you -- they'll drop the charges (and wait......). Or they'll hope you will answer the "apostate question": Do you believe the GB is the Spirit Directed channel used by Joe Hoover to direct the Flock?" (or something similar). If you say no or challenge that, then you have agreed that "you are no longer on of JW's".
If you are to meet with THREE Elders and you refuse to meet, they will DF you in absentia and call you (with two elders on the phone) to give you the results. The only way to avoid DFing is to meet with them and convince them the two witnesses are in error or lying, or to grovel for forgiveness and hope they find you "repentant". If you haven't been going to meetings, etc, then you do not "have the fruits" that prove you are repentant.
Good luck!