Anony Mous

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  The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

  a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

  13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

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  Before the Romans, history wasn’t really written as a factual statement, the Greeks started with that style of history writing.

  Ancient history was primarily oral and thus the underlying message was more important than the details. Hence you get epics and mythology, but most of the details are lost to history. What historians do is find the items in the stories that overlap, extract those and then compare with other records which were accurate (such as records on trades, census information etc) to get a roughly factual statement.

  The problem is the Bible, until the New Testament has no archaeological evidence, the Jewish religion and Jews as an identity only proliferated about 1000 years before the Christians, so anything older is taken from prior tribes and civilizations and other religions (King David and the 12 tribes) and worked into a new jacket of a unifying monotheism. There is a line of truth in it (eg there were probably more than 12 tribes in the area and the “10 tribes” were unified from a selection of those but it is not factual history which you can take at face value, modern day you would call it alternative history or “based on a true story”.
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  Watch this, and don’t shoot the messenger...

  by DATA-DOG in

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  2. current

  hopefully i’m doing this right and it will display for you.

  this is an interview with michael yeadon, former vice president and chief science officer of pfizer.

  of course he has been attacked, slandered, shunned, ect, and this will never be allowed on social media, but he has taken the time to appear in an unpaid interview.

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  @rocketman: there is a difference between what the science says and what the government says. The government should be able to give advice, and the people should be able to choose whether to follow that advice.

  If you’re worried about dying, wear a mask, if the mask helps, you have nothing to be worried about. If the mask, as has been proven, does absolutely nothing, a mandate is not going to improve its effectiveness.

  As we’ve seen time and again, the mandates had the counterproductive effect. Because people don’t trust government and government is always the worst option because government can’t respond quickly and has no notion of unintended consequences.

  For example the lockdowns, by locking down in the middle of summer, people were forced to stay inside longer and thus the virus spread more effectively through central airconditioning. Same with the masks, by forcing everyone to mask, there weren’t enough masks, so people got alternatives, which not only were proven to be not effective, some options like the neckscarf which the CDC recommended, turned out to amplify the problem if someone did sneeze. Besides that it gave people a false sense of security even though 99% of people do not know how to properly don masks and thus you had people with masks under their nose so people felt safe whilst they weren’t and others such as nurses, who train for over a year on proper mask wearing, were forced to work with actually infected people without a mask spreading the virus faster, while 99.9% of the population was not infected improperly wearing a pointless mask when they were in contact with people that were neither infected nor capable of spreading the disease.

  Government is almost never the solution to any problem.
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  Narrowly focused, sometimes illiterate

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  three of my sisters - there are five of us - were baptized as witnesses.

  one of them has gone from reading voraciously to only reading her textbooks and watchtower publications.

  this does not seem to be unusual among witnesses.

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  It’s a bit of both. Some do well in reading etc, however there is also a tendency to only stay within the group and revere leaders so any errors that aren’t immediately corrected, which is unlikely if done by the leaders, are propagated through the group.

  Think of it like a dialect, if you have a very small, isolated group, dialects form rather quickly, while large integrated societies tend to have the opposite, where common language happens and dialects die out.
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  Will You Get Back To Normal After Covid Subsides?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some say we will never get back to pre-pandemic days.

  others say we should expect to live with masks and social distancing as the “new normal “.

  still others are hopeful that we can live life realizing there might never be an end to covid or cancer or influenza but our lives must continue to go on.

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  @Brown: the same things happen when the left is in power, but the media refuses to cover it. Remember SARS, a variant of COVID-19, during the Obama admin? Thousands perished, it lasted 2 years and no vaccine, never heard anything about it in the media or how poorly it was handled. How about the terrorist attack in Benghazi? Or the Iranian Hostage Crisis?

  Since Biden took office, the cost of basic resources like steel and wood went up 20% which will ripple through the economy. Enjoy your $2000, it will soon be eaten by the increased in basic costs like bread and housing. Conservative estimates have price hikes pegged at 30% as Biden has blown $10T in spending over budget on top of the $2T Trump spent last year (which resulted in the vaccine, Biden has nothing like it to show for it)
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  Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

  if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

  there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

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  One of the jurors just came forward and gave an interview to the media. Turns out he is a BLM activist, wearing t-shirts to convict Chauvin. But he told the judge he knew nothing about the case.
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  Are my options closed? Myself and my 2 sisters molested by fellow 19 y/o Jehovah's witness babysitter

  by TjHunt in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  myself 5 and my 2 sisters 4 and 6 years old molested by a 19 year old babysitter in 1975 and no police called, just elders meeting at home and brushed under the table.

  north cape coral florida.

  messed up all 3 of us our whole lives in some way or another.

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  For 1975, there are indeed statutes of limitations. Even the youngest would now be 48yo, 30 years past the time when the clock started ticking (when you become a legal adult or 18yo). That clock typically ranges from 4-10 years for that era unless you can make the claim you were continuously dependent for that time period.
  That limit has since been lifted, but is not retroactive. Unless they did something that qualifies them for life in prison or the death penalty, you are probably out of time. This would also mean this person is now 65.
  You should indeed contact an attorney to see about potential civil damages from the WTBTS and/or the offender but it will be an arduous process, things will have to be examined closely, expect old wounds that may have healed to be opened. You will also need some form of proof, with a bit of luck one of the younger elders may still be alive, but everyone else involved will have died. Whatever was on paper was probably lost or destroyed since.
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Systemic racism is a circular faith-based argument. You MUST believe that you are a racist and atone for your racism or else you are a racist and should be shunned.

  That is the argument they’re making, everything and everyone is racist and should join their religion. They are literally shunning their family members and friends and coworkers that do not agree.

  They have a priest class of rich black wokesters that tell them everything they should do to grovel and pray. They have religious texts in the form of their anti-racist books and they have communion in the form of Twitter. They even have an end of times prophecy where the dates keep changing in the form of global cooling/warming that will destroy the earth.

  It’s a Kafkaëske argument or witch trial where you can only be found guilty of witchcraft or get killed proving your innocence. And everything they don’t like is fitted with the white supremacy label, because if you look hard enough you can find fault in everyone’s history.

  As some frequently say on here: it’s a cult.
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  What Will Happen If You Do NOT Get The Covid Vaccinations?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we are encouraged to all, if possible, get the vaccinations.

  if you don’t, we are told that we definitely could get the virus.

  fair enough.. but what happens if you decide you aren’t going to get the shots?

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  If you get the vaccine there is a 1 in 50,000 chance that you will not get immunity and only have reduced effects. At that point (if you are that 1 in 50,000) you have a 96% chance of having reduced symptoms and a 4% chance of having severe symptoms (these are guesses made by the scientists). From those with severe effects (if you are in the 4% of the 1 in 50,000 you have a 1% chance of dying). Purely statistically speaking that means a small congregation of JWs may still die from COVID if the entire population of the world was vaccinated.

  All other billions will have full immunity (meaning you can’t get sick, can’t spread it etc).

  Do note that your chance of dying from the flu after a flu vaccine is orders of magnitude higher.

  Here are your chances of dying for various other reasons: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/

  Since the vaccines were rolled out, nobody with the US funded vaccines has died from COVID.
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  Covid 19 True Infection Rate / Proof of Misinformation

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  this is interesting.. you've probably heard of "asymptomatic spread" which is, people who are infected with the virus and are spreading it, but who have no symptoms.. but is it accurate?

  is it supported by the statistics?.

  this video analyses the facts and concludes that we've been given misinformation due to faulty testing.

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  @rocketman: you can look at the stats in the US and EU. States like Florida that never locked down or did not do any top-down policy cramming have much lower impact across any measure. Compare to high control states like NY and California where crackdowns continue and deaths are a lot higher.
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

  1. social
  2. current

  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  Depends on the statistics you're looking at. According to PubMed, TB kills about 480,000 persons in India every year which would put them at 32/100k annually. Tuberculosis death rate (per 100000 people) in India was reported at 32 in 2019, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators.

  Regarding the TB, I was indeed incorrect, misquoted from a source, that was not annually.

  The statistics quoted on COVID are annualized. COVID has been going on for 1.5 years if you didn't notice, you can't make a comparison of all deaths in India and give it as an annual rate. Look at the number in 2020 and then the number is 7/100,000.