@stan: Why would they do that? They have the West by the proverbial bollocks because the West is too weak to fend for itself.
Anony Mous
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Is Russia Bluffing?
by Fisherman in“supplies of offensive weapons to the kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” state duma chairman vyacheslav volodin said.
“if washington and nato supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”.
what is russia implying?
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Is Russia Bluffing?
by Fisherman in“supplies of offensive weapons to the kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” state duma chairman vyacheslav volodin said.
“if washington and nato supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”.
what is russia implying?
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Anony Mous
@Sea Breeze: The Czech Republic still holds claim to various Slovakian areas. There are about 150,000 Slovaks living in the Czech Republic still where the areas haven't been ceded. Yes, there is a peace between the two, but so did Europe think that Czechoslovakia was peaceful.
Besides that, you also have Russian-origin and the Roma people (not Romanian) that don't want anything to do with the Czech Republic or the EU (Roma are nomadic and to date fiercely independent). Being 'liberated' from the EU into their own little states would sound good to many Slovaks, Roma and other ethnic groups in the Balkan, and because the EU nor US leadership will cede any rights to date, those states will be more allied with Russia.
Yes, most of the Czech Republic doesn't want anything to do with the war, but nobody wants war, it just becomes a reality when there is a combination of weak, corrupt leadership that is significantly removed from the people they purport to serve, which accounts for most of the EU and the Balkans.
All Russia needs is a pretext to invade the portion they want to 'liberate' and within the EU there is plenty of pretext, not enough unity. Plenty of people on the outskirts of Russia and Europe have long histories of independence and losing a lot of people to fight off the Nazis, Napoleon and everyone that came before them. I think Putin understands that, the West doesn't. He wants to have trade relationships and entrench Russia into the global oil/gas trade, which has practically been forbidden by the EU.
It's hubris to believe that people as diverse and independent as Roma, Catalonians and ethnic Russians will ever bend the knee to the EU and could be ruled like the German dictatorship the EU has become, especially when they take away the primary energy resources people need to survive and build wealth.
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ROJW - Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses
by OrphanCrow ini was going through some research i had done a few years ago and came across something that referenced rojw healthcare support and a note to myself to take a look at rojw when i had the time.
so i did a search for rojw (an acronym for religious order of jehovah's witnesses).. the search turned up some interesting bits of information.. according to dun & bradstreet, rojw was founded in 2011:.
since 2011, rojw has been providing nonclassifiable establishments from wallkill.. for a list of persons who have worked for rojw:.
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Anony Mous
The corporation has existed for a while, it's basically the corporation that Bethelites etc are connected to. I believe it was started after a few lawsuits started about Bethelites doing free work that in NYS falls outside the realm of voluntarism, basically the courts ruled that WTBTS still had to pay for some benefits and fall under regulations like OSHA for their 'volunteers'.
Same thing for Watchtower Leasing (or whatever it was) where they sold CO cars after they came off lease.
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Is Russia Bluffing?
by Fisherman in“supplies of offensive weapons to the kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe,” state duma chairman vyacheslav volodin said.
“if washington and nato supply weapons that would be used for striking peaceful cities and making attempts to seize our territory as they threaten to do, it would trigger a retaliation with more powerful weapons.”.
what is russia implying?
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Anony Mous
Russia is implying that if NATO aids their puppet state and Ukraine actually invades Russian held territories then Russia will escalate the war. Europe has been pretty lucky with the weather this year, so natural gas demand and thus the pressure Russia can exert is minimal which makes them a bit optimistic in what they can get away with. Russia however has been holding on to the areas it initially intended to capture so to Putin, the war has been successful and can be over at this point.
It’s all just saber rattling at this point, but air and ground offensives on Kyiv once spring comes and invasions into other states such as Czech Republic (which is like Ukraine, divided into ethnic groups that really don’t care about their central overlords), and it seems Putin has enough clout to pressure Belarus into the war, which would be devastating to Europe’s and NATO’s hold on the arctic areas.
Winter isn’t over yet though, if the warm front ended in Europe, the war would be over in no time, at this point, it’s probably going to be another year of fighting.
Russia is asking Ukraine and Biden into a peace treaty that sees the current occupied territories part of a separate state, probably allied with Russia, like Belarus or Kazakhstan. Biden will refuse, as will Ukraine, neither of them are willing or able to declare defeat. Are they bluffing? No, Russia’s army is bigger than all of Europe’s combined, everyone knows they have been staging new gear that’s significantly more powerful than what they started with last February. Right now Russia is playing chicken, hoping Zelensky gets his hopes up and starts attacking those staging grounds and that would be sufficient reason for Russia, China and co to flatten Ukraine.
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Did the ransom sacrifice even work?
by Sharpie inshower thought entered my mind the other day... jesus christ.
as per doctrine.
is still alive in heaven right now correct?
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Anony Mous
@fisherman: the insurance policy was a scam all along.
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Are they now tracking our activity on jw.org app?
by raymond frantz inthis disclaimer appeared on my jw.org app after using their add notes function on the watchtower study section are they now tracking the app and what we add to it?
the information i add on their note section is mainly points that i can use on my videos which is really clashed as apostate material.this information is saved on my drive and not on cloud so are they installing a tracker on your system once you press accept so they can use this information against in the future?
have you had a similar experience?.
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Anony Mous
Seems like a standard disclaimer about the information they publish not constituting medical advice. That way you can’t sue them over the blood issue.
They’re probably not tracking any more or less info than they did before.
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Anony Mous
@rattigan: the Bible makes clear that for salvation you need to partake of the flesh and blood of Christ. It’s a cornerstone of the Christian faith for most denominations. John 6:53–57 - it’s a command from Jesus himself.
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King of the North
by pontoon ini've been out for 13 years.
just wondering who the society is identifying as the king of the north?.
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Anony Mous
Have they actually published any articles about it or is this just speculation from old timers?
Back when I was in, they hadn’t updated it in at least a decade and they seemed to have just brushed the whole thing under the rug with warnings only in convention talks not to speculate or run ahead of the GB on any issues of “previous interpretation of prophecies”. Elder/servant school it was told to resolve those questions by basically telling people to “wait”.
Not sure why they keep digging up these obscure prophecies instead of just forgetting about them like aluminum and blood factors.
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Did the ransom sacrifice even work?
by Sharpie inshower thought entered my mind the other day... jesus christ.
as per doctrine.
is still alive in heaven right now correct?
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Anony Mous
@sea breeze the articles you pointed at are very weak “evidence”. There is no archeological or historical evidence of Jesus even existing, everything about it has been proven forgeries or interpolations. The scriptures were written a lot later and based on earlier Greek and local stories. If you read the Illiad, nobody says that the writer must have seen something therefore stories about giants and mermaids are true. George Lucas didn’t travel to space, JRR Tolkien didn’t go to middle earth, yet their stories have the same motief, the same Jesus characters, the same Satan characters, good vs evil and explanations for it, promises of paradise and redemption. Yet we don’t believe those stories to be factual.
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JW Data Protection Policy
by dropoffyourkeylee injust discovered something that is worth a comment or two:.
go to jw.org and type in the search box 'data protection'.
i had a conversation with an elder who told me that they are directed to purge some files pertaining to people who are ex-jws and have been disfellowshipped over a prescribed number of years.
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Anony Mous
It depends on jurisdiction and their website policy has nothing to do with it. Some countries/states/areas will require the purging of old ‘customer’ records. In some cases they will need affirmative consent, in other places there is a time period, in some it is ‘on demand’.
As privacy laws become more engrained, they already had to adjust the policies around return visits, not-at-home and do-not-call registries they used in public service.