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  Largest amount of refugees since WW2 in Europe

  by Powermetal4ever in

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  so i had a discussion with my mother about this, and she claims that because of this that: "we are surely living in the last days right now" while i must admit myself that the situation seem chaotic, i don't want to believe that it is the last days.

  so question is, how do i face an opinion like that?

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  The U.N Refugee Agency, June 8th 2015.

  " Globally one in every 122 humans is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum"

  Now I can understand how a person who reads the bible, may believe that the above figures are down to satan and a sign we are in living in the last days.

  Personally I think what is worse is that many of us simply shrug of the figures with:-

  " well it won't reach my street so why should I care"

  So I wouldn't take your mothers thoughts too seriously, as long as she doesn't see you as a black sheep, and you get along, isn't that most important?

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  The social institution of the Kingdom Hall.

  by The Rebel in

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  it is a warm sunny day, blue skies and i am excited by the prospect this sunday holds.

  will i dismantle a motorbike?

  paint a picture?

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  Pure sarcasm and the complete opposite of what goes on at the "Kingdom Hall" as sang and written by Van Morrison on the " Wavelength" L.P

  " Kingdom Hall"

  Down at the Kingdom Hall

  They were having a party, they were having a ball,

  Bells were ringing out and the choir was singing,

  Hej Liley, liley, liley, hey, liley,liley,low

  Do do do do do do do do.

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  The social institution of the Kingdom Hall.

  by The Rebel in

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  it is a warm sunny day, blue skies and i am excited by the prospect this sunday holds.

  will i dismantle a motorbike?

  paint a picture?

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  It is a warm sunny day, blue skies and I am excited by the prospect this Sunday holds. Will I dismantle a motorbike? paint a picture? Or play football with my boy?

  Maybe all three!!

  However it was not so long ago I was denied such choice on a Sunday.You see I belonged to the " social institution" we named the "Kingdom Hall". It was a strange place, where everyone was " brother" or " sister" and " truth" equaled "it may be so" or if not someday, someone on our behalf will " guess again".

  Oh looking back, I realise I wasted so many Sunday's, in a place where " self realisation" means "acceptance" and " to question" means " to suffer"

  " We shall see, we shall see" says the " blind man" and we all opened our watchtowers, and closed our hearts to warm sunny days, dismantling bikes, painting pictures, and playing with our loved ones.

  So how about you? Have any of you got anything better to do than go to the K.H today?

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  WHEN people leave a cult...MAN landed on the moon? Or critical thinking......

  by The Rebel in

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  i believe anyone who has voluntarily left a cult has shown they can adapt to new solutions, and have used " critical thinking" skills otherwise most would not have left.. yet i believe a safe place for support is still needed and this safe place i believe is searched for.. now i may not measure up to much in ways of education, but for me personally " critical thinking skills" = " new" a " new" way of thinking, that takes time for me the individual to be visual and to contemplate.

  and the more i read about " critical thinking," the more convinced i am that i can live with the ridicule of those that claim i do not possess it.

  furthermore i would say those that criticise others " critical thinking skills," often luck the sensibility and thoughts to snore, spit, and fart....nor would they understand a room full of tobacco smoke and cheap booze...where " critical thinking " can often be found in its most profound, in the most sensitive poems and "pictures" that were ever drawn.

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  When the heart wishes to speak.

  Millie210:- " I am glad you found a writing style"

  Thank you for the words of encouragement, they meant a lot. I am now trying to develop this style on " compound and complex" thread " The Teacher"

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  The Teacher

  by compound complex in

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  an unwelcome dawn comes creeping upward, her tendrils straddling the dark mountain so terribly near my once sweet but now quaking refuge called home of the heart.. i peer through panes that give onto a landscape of horror that, to some, appears pristine but to me is a reminder that he has been swallowed up by a wood both black and cruel.. daring to venture forth, i hear his voice .

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  .. he calls out, so faintly, begging i rescue him from a jail that holds him fast against all escape; though myself a liberated man, i cannot free the one i taught the truth.

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  So now my once alert, proud and stubborn heart, bleeds when he wishes to speak. A heart which has grown expressionless to all words of daytime " truth". Now such daytime thoughts are only received in weary pain. But at night, a sleep on a hard bed my heart can still call out "faintly begging that I should rescue" that bleeding membrane, and allow him escape in to the weary fantasy of dreams...

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  Helen Keller is not a hero

  by StopTheTears in

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  few realize just how wicked some of the most revered people in history were.

  helen keeler (1880 to 1968) was a wolf in sheep's clothing, no hero.

  keller was a communist.

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  It amazes me that each week we have new biographies slandering the dead, written by people who never personally new them.

  I guess phrases such as "could have" " may have" are a way to make a quick buck.

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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

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  anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

  bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

  i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

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  My sympathies to the victims friends and family.

  In my opinion Flanagan was a coward and he wanted to kill. People can find any ecsquse to kill if that's what they want to do.

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  VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account

  by WingCommander in

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  anyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.

  bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.

  i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.

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  Obama on the election trail "The Bitter Speech" 2004" why Americans " Cling to guns"

  " But the truth is....you get into some of these small towns in Pennsyvania and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest the jobs have gone, and nothing's replaced them they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration.......

  So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, that they cling to guns or religion...."

  So ok this was 4004, but from that speech the President of the United States, believes or at least claimed to believe people turn to guns when they loose jobs?

  Was this staggering ignorance from the top?

  Or do people turn to guns when they lose jobs?

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  If you could name the theme of an assembly what would it be???

  by karter in

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  divine boredom.

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  The JOY Jehovers people receive by being poor, uneducated, and of no real value in satans world.

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  WHEN people leave a cult...MAN landed on the moon? Or critical thinking......

  by The Rebel in

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  i believe anyone who has voluntarily left a cult has shown they can adapt to new solutions, and have used " critical thinking" skills otherwise most would not have left.. yet i believe a safe place for support is still needed and this safe place i believe is searched for.. now i may not measure up to much in ways of education, but for me personally " critical thinking skills" = " new" a " new" way of thinking, that takes time for me the individual to be visual and to contemplate.

  and the more i read about " critical thinking," the more convinced i am that i can live with the ridicule of those that claim i do not possess it.

  furthermore i would say those that criticise others " critical thinking skills," often luck the sensibility and thoughts to snore, spit, and fart....nor would they understand a room full of tobacco smoke and cheap booze...where " critical thinking " can often be found in its most profound, in the most sensitive poems and "pictures" that were ever drawn.

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  Millie210....

  I read your post many times and my earlier posts on other threads today were posted based on the wisdom contained.
  

  Post one was on the thread ; " To DA or not to DA. That is the question?

  this I assumed was from Shakespeare's " To Be or not to Be, that is this question?

  My answer was I think Skakespear was saying " To Live or not to Live, that is the question?

  Thread two " VA shooting suspect...." And Frazzled replied to my post " The Rebel has summed the reason why this debate is going nowhere brilliantly...." All I said was "Guns represent to me Americans freedom of choice? I mean Americans should be able to do what the second amendment says......."

  Now whilst I was pleased with applying my " limited critical thinking" I felt my answers were calculated and I noted by giving down to earth short responses, positive compliments followed. Such response I feel are a cheap victory if it lacks the senses and the depth of using more forceful emotional language when the heart wishes to speak.This is what I learnt from your comment Millie210 "Man must be able to lead two life's"

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