it’s in dutch but i can attest to the person’s situation back in the day.
his father and mine were relatively close and both abusive tyrants.
he wrote this autobiography in the style of a romance novel (changing the characters) but i know the story is personal.
It’s in Dutch but I can attest to the person’s situation back in the day. His father and mine were relatively close and both abusive tyrants. He wrote this autobiography in the style of a romance novel (changing the characters) but I know the story is personal. I hope it can be translated.
Book title translation: “black light, white shadow”
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/zwart-licht-witte-schaduw/9300000027608137/
so about a month in to biden's presidency and they are already bombing a country.. remind me how trump was going to bring about wwiii with north korea, iran, china and god knows who else?
did he?
no.. but straight back to business as usual for the military industrial complex and crickets from their media buddies..
@slimboyfat: no, the assassination was Mossad, Israel’s CIA. Trump rocketed an Iranian terrorist in response to terrorist drone attacking key US infrastructure. Biden, after Iran attacked a US Embassy (similar style to Benghazi), decided to drone strike an empty Shia muslim outpost in Syria the furthest away from Iran. He also allowed Iran to restart their nuclear weapon stockpile.
government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.
google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.
raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.
I agree, Sky News seems to be the only sensible media outlet, but often blocked by Facebook and Google as fake news.
I disagree that content platforms should be regulated, unless ran by the government. If they advertise to be open, then block conservative outlets like Facebook/Google does on the regular, they should be held to truth in advertising laws. If they want to admit their bias, then that would be totally fine with me, as long as they are honest.
Governments however should not be allowed to do business with companies that admit their biases to avoid government truth in advertising laws, if you say you are a left-wing oriented site, you get no money. This would put a damper on Amazon and Google cloud products if they wanted to block eg. Parler from their systems, then no government contracts for you.
dear,.
i am doing research on the history of jeovah's witnesses and would like to know if any of you have this research work to share: .
jehovah's witnesses: the effects of millenarianism on the maintenance of a religious sect.
Many University libraries have access to these types of papers. You may need to be physically there, but most libraries have requirements for open access.
do you think voters should be required to prove that they are legitimate?.
Yes, and there is an easy way of doing that. You give people an ID based on their birth certificate and hash that information. You now have an anonymous identifier which you can tie to a vote. This vote can go on a public blockchain. Any party interested can subscribe to the blockchain and verify their own vote from home while their avatars give a plausible deniability.
People that say their votes were tampered with go back to vote again, which submits a cancel vote and a new vote.
can the local groups chose which talk for a given day?
how about the songs?
anything else?.
The opening songs are a small selection based on the script of the talk. So at the header of the talk there is typically a list of 3-5 songs the speaker can pick from, the direction is to pick songs that weren’t used in the last/next few meetings (there are some that disregard that and then you get situations where the song for the talk and watchtower study is the same) and there is an outline with sentences and scriptures he has to stick to for the talk.
Everything is highly produced, there isn’t much left to personal choice.
so the cult is getting into film production.
i saw evans piece on the jws opening a studio in australia.
one thing i see is if they use the people who are drawn to acting one they will create internal stars.
Hollywood is also an echo chamber, everyone in Hollywood that is not extreme-left gets rejected and blacklisted which results in more alphabetsoups being part of the group as you have to be pretty darn left to reject biological realities.
This is the same as saying that there are no alphabetsoup JW's and all JWs normalize child sex offenders - which is true, leftists in general would not be attracted to the message and anyone that does engage in practices or points out the sex offender problem gets promptly kicked out of the group.
There are conservative filmmakers, quite a bit of the best films in the 70s and 80s came from right-wing figures. Some of the best actors around both established and up-and-coming are conservative. You don't hear from them because they have an uphill battle getting recognized. But Jerry Bruckheimer, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn, Joe Pesci, Scott Baio, Jon Voight, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, Keanu Reeves are or were some of the best actors and directors in history, and you haven't seen a good movie since Hollywood started actively blackballing some of these actors - literally look at the top rated movies (by viewers) of all time, the last one was The Dark Knight (2008) which was more than 10 years ago now.
lloyd evans has just tweeted a video he will be releasing soon on the "change" to the meaning of the sheep and goats and when that is to occur.. i've missed any discussion on that on here or anywhere?
it seems it was part of the 2020 annual meeting the gb had?.
any info on this?.
It seems to me lately that this new light depends on which of the 7 is currently writing. It seems like sometimes details on what interpretation is used in talks or writing greatly depends on which of them is saying it.
This then leads to weird reinterpretations across those who are paying attention (a few exJWs and a few hardcore armageddonists) which are later “corrected” by reprints of old material.
I think there are simply too many drunk cooks in the kitchen and they’re just hoping their flock doesn’t notice too much discrepancy from year to year.
i don’t care about politics, books you are reading, movies and tv programs you’re watching, etc..
I think it’s great to see many of us take part in these kind of discourse, in the past we weren’t allowed to comment on politics or participate in voting etc. There isn’t a whole lot going on in JW-land, they literally have been shutting down the religion to save money. This forum isn’t just about JWs, it’s for JWs and regurgitating the copy-pasta from various other fact-based exJW websites would be boring.
what term would you use for a governor who enacts policies that directly cause the deaths of well over ten thousand and then covers up the death count for fear of prosecution?.
i think "mass murderer" is the correct term.. he's far, far from the "messiah" figure the media have portrayed him to be over his handling of covid.. let the lawsuits commence.. https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/.
The Secretary of State admitted they covered it up because there was a DOJ investigation and to make Dems plans look better in the election as Biden plans for lockdowns are based on Cuomo.
He basically hid evidence from the feds. It is called obstruction.
