I was taken to a Japanese restaurant where all the seafood was raw. We ate prawns, squid and octopus which was ok but I prefer them cooked. The common meat in central Africa is game from the bush so if you visit the rural areas you will likely eat all and any hoofed animals, wildebeest, gazelle, gemsbok, springbok, dik dik, oryx, eland and a host more--I found them all very tasty and lean. In Lithuania I had delicious wild boar burgers and also beaver sausage--I've tasted better. Ostrich is very good.
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Meat Eating
by Fisherman inmost hard to swallow meat and fish (that i was aware of) that i have ever eaten is rabbit, but also deer, octopus and eel sushi.. how about your meat eatings?
what have you eaten that is interesting?.
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Did man really go to the moon?
by atomant inl have researched this subject and come to the conclusion that no we didn't.what do others think?.
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If you are a recently escaped ex-JW its hardly surprising to find such individuals trying to get some clarity on things. It's only by asking questions and by using non-JW research avenues that can clear the mental fog.
I reckon we should be patient with newbies and tolerate a bit of oddness--we were duped once remember.
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First Christmas without the guilt
by Apostate Anonymous ini have lurked around the site for about 3 months and finally decided to join.
this will be my first time creating a topic here.
a little backstory for me.
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Welcome to the site Apo, thanks for posting and well done for choosing to live a normal life from now on. And a happy new year!
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Did man really go to the moon?
by atomant inl have researched this subject and come to the conclusion that no we didn't.what do others think?.
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Venus said,
Recent polls indicate that approximately 20% of Americans believe that the U.S. has never landed on the moon.
That's interesting since about the same percentage of people in the USA also believe that God is soon to bring on Armageddon to destroy unbelievers.
I wonder if they are the same 20%?
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Are We all Witnesses Here?
by Ikechukwu.info ini am new to this site, want to know who in the admin and are we all jw?.
if yes, i am from nigeria, west african.
as an active and dedicated witness i want to tread safe.. need to make some friends here; i love honesty in all things.. best regards.
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Half banana
Hello Ike, you are welcome here! but as it happens due to a sense of honesty most of the posters on this site have decided that they can no longer agree with an organisation which teaches one thing and does another. For example the organisation taught that the United Nations was the Wild beast of Revelation who whored with Babylon the Great, but then an English newspaper (The Guardian) showed that the Watchtower Society had joined this 'blasphemous' organisation to gain political leverage.
This is just one of many dishonest things they have done and if you are interested in how the brothers were so badly treated by JW HQ in Malawi but favoured in Mexico, you can stay and find out.
Best wishes to you.
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Human Rights Executive Order
by berrygerry inspeculation building.. thoughts?.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/.
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Half banana
And does it include US corporations who use a doomsday scam to lure uneducated, gullible people into a tax exempt religion which uses almost free labour to get rich and calls the labour “voluntary”?
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Watchtower Rebranding
by Fred Franztone inthe wtbts has finally decided to join the rest of us in the 21st century and has begun rebranding.
they've dropped the iconic watchtower sign from their heaquarters, and it's only a matter of time till they drop the now embarrassing watchtower name completely; a name synonymous with failure on the one hand and concentration camps on the other.. the organisation will soon be known solely as jw.org, bringing them right up-to-date with the web 2.0 revolution of 15 years ago, and making them the only company still to use a full web address as their main identifier, very forward-thinking of them.. it's inevitable that they'll gradually rebrand everything.
what methods do you think they'll go with?
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The "Watchtower" brand was truly ugly and had to go. The name "Jehovah" is likewise unattractive so perhaps it too will have to be pushed overboard as the organisation struggles for survival in the future. Some New York PR guru will likely recommend something more palatable like 'God's True Congregation' when the "Jehovah" brand has been stained to a degree beyond which PR scrubbing will no longer get it clean.
The main thing for a doomsday cult to remain even partially credible is to keep renewing your image and cutting off your roots so that you are no longer associated with the perpetual failure of your earlier prophecies.
Observing this manoeuvre is also one way of spotting a doomsday cult.
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The Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses of Namibia and legal problems
by TerryWalstrom inthe christian congregation of jehovah’s witnesses of namibia has asserted its right to be exempt as an "employer" for purposes of payment to those who work on its behalf, nor are they responsible (they claim) for filing any social security documents as to wages, hours worked, withholding, etc.in 2014, the congregation asked to be de-registered as such.____it didn't go so well.____on the 16 june 2014, authorities replied to the jw's request by confirming that the appellant is considered an employer in terms of the ss act and consequently should be registered with the employees’ compensation fund established by the employees’ compensation act, 1941, as well as having the order register its members with the maternity, sick leave and death benefit established by the ss act___a ping-pong protest and response commenced with multiple requests for clarification by the dubs and protestations and requests for appeal, etc.____authorities decided this matter was best handled by visiting the premises and investigating for themselves what goes on.____after the "visit" by authorities, nothing was offered by the dubs to change any minds.___the jw's continued to whine and protest and appeal, etc.____the authorities examined the congregation's appeal and made the following evaluation:== in the respondent’s listed grounds of opposition, it noted that the appeal filed by the appellant is not proper as it failed to complete the form 11 as contemplated in rule 17(2)(a) of the rules of this court==___jw's protested and appealed the appeal response which didn't appeal to them.___arguments continued until the following finding was released:the labour amendment act stipulates that:18 ‘for the purposes of this act or any other employment law, until the contrary is proved, an individual who works for or renders services to any other person, is presumed to be an employee of that other person, regardless of the form of the contract or the designation of the individual, if any one or more of the following factors is present:(list of factors attached)____blah-blah-blah-blahfinally:the ss act does not provide for de-registration of employers.
accordingly, logic follows that once an employer has been registered under this act, the obligations created in terms of this act ceases to exist only where the employer (who is a natural person) dies or becomes insolvent or is sequestrated or is liquidated or wound up (where an employer is a juristic person).
employees may be ‘de-registered’ under that employer in the event they die or their services have been terminated._______cut to the chase:accordingly, the appellant cannot pick and choose which laws should apply to them and which not.
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Yes Terry, here is where the folly lies, with the happy deluded JW, reading the Bible and thinking he or she is a "good-for-nothing slave".
You really have to be in a bad way mentally to imagine that this humiliating relationship in full time service to the JW org will benefit yourself. Certainly God doesn't give a fig, no pioneer or Bethelite has ever had his hope rewarded, the only beneficiaries of this servitude are the governors of that organisation.
Being a lifelong JW is always a lifelong disappointment.
The indications then are that JWs (the little ones) are masochists.
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The Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses of Namibia and legal problems
by TerryWalstrom inthe christian congregation of jehovah’s witnesses of namibia has asserted its right to be exempt as an "employer" for purposes of payment to those who work on its behalf, nor are they responsible (they claim) for filing any social security documents as to wages, hours worked, withholding, etc.in 2014, the congregation asked to be de-registered as such.____it didn't go so well.____on the 16 june 2014, authorities replied to the jw's request by confirming that the appellant is considered an employer in terms of the ss act and consequently should be registered with the employees’ compensation fund established by the employees’ compensation act, 1941, as well as having the order register its members with the maternity, sick leave and death benefit established by the ss act___a ping-pong protest and response commenced with multiple requests for clarification by the dubs and protestations and requests for appeal, etc.____authorities decided this matter was best handled by visiting the premises and investigating for themselves what goes on.____after the "visit" by authorities, nothing was offered by the dubs to change any minds.___the jw's continued to whine and protest and appeal, etc.____the authorities examined the congregation's appeal and made the following evaluation:== in the respondent’s listed grounds of opposition, it noted that the appeal filed by the appellant is not proper as it failed to complete the form 11 as contemplated in rule 17(2)(a) of the rules of this court==___jw's protested and appealed the appeal response which didn't appeal to them.___arguments continued until the following finding was released:the labour amendment act stipulates that:18 ‘for the purposes of this act or any other employment law, until the contrary is proved, an individual who works for or renders services to any other person, is presumed to be an employee of that other person, regardless of the form of the contract or the designation of the individual, if any one or more of the following factors is present:(list of factors attached)____blah-blah-blah-blahfinally:the ss act does not provide for de-registration of employers.
accordingly, logic follows that once an employer has been registered under this act, the obligations created in terms of this act ceases to exist only where the employer (who is a natural person) dies or becomes insolvent or is sequestrated or is liquidated or wound up (where an employer is a juristic person).
employees may be ‘de-registered’ under that employer in the event they die or their services have been terminated._______cut to the chase:accordingly, the appellant cannot pick and choose which laws should apply to them and which not.
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Half banana
I was in Namibia last year and found a desert land with a small population and an infant democracy. A lot of their political troubles are now behind them and there is a discernable sense of progress especially as there is unity and equality amongst the disparate races.
I really hope that the Namibian government stick to their guns and don't yield to the grasping commercialism of the JW governing body. These places in Africa can more easily spot the injustice of the rich (US JW HQ) depriving their slavish workers of a realistic income and social benefits. Funny how they get away with it in the rest of the world. Perhaps the tide is beginning to turn?
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Moses, Soloman spoke to the entire assembly of Israel...How???
by James Mixon inmoses spoke to the entire assembly deuteronomy 31:3, leviticus19:2 and exodus 16:9 no sound amplification, we must remember he was speaking to 2 million people.
solomon in 2 chronicles spoke to thousands maybe millions, so how the hell did folks a mile away hear..you need a sound system for 200 folks in a close building in the kh.... moses, solomon and others had a great set of vocal cords.....
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Half banana
Fictional characters at fictional events doing impossible things. . . like you can in FICTION.