good pick?
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helpful to president biden?
And for those that don’t believe me. Seymour Hersch, investigative journalist and a Washington insider said Obama called Biden the morning after his mysterious LA visit (he kind of disappeared, probably due to health crisis) and told him to step down telling him “I have given permission for Kamala to invoke the 25th amendment”.
That is the kind of backstabbing that went on in the White House.
good pick?
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helpful to president biden?
Why it would take Obama a whole additional week to finally endorse her is odd.
Not really odd, the DNC works through a whole cadre of selectors. After the primaries, the people who actually get to vote are the wealthy Democrat donors, they get half the vote, then at the convention do the actual voters (the people) get half of the votes through a group of representatives (Clinton, Pelosi, Newsom etc).
Typically everyone kind of follows what the voters say, but they don't have to, at all, which they didn't do in this case, as Biden was already "elected" in the primaries, so he should be the candidate that is nominated.
What the Pelosi's of this world opine about has nothing at all to do with how the candidates are nominated. The Obama's had hoped there would be sufficient resistance to the Pelosi/Biden camp to dark horse someone else (probably Michelle) at the convention, however as I said before, (now Jill and Hunter) Biden has 50 years worth of dead bodies in their closet, as do Clinton and Pelosi which grants significant pull in the party which someone like Obama cannot compete with. Had Biden not endorsed Kamala (as the Obama staff writers didn't want to do, as is evident from the first Biden letter), then Obama would have had a chance for a 4th and 5th term.
good pick?
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helpful to president biden?
As far as the Obama backing Kamala, they did so holding their noses, they waited until Kamala had the requisite delegates.
There are really two factions within the Democrats, the Obama-style radicals that you see out in the street and the 1% (Elizabeth Warren, Gavin Newsom and co) that have the money and the votes within the party, they want higher taxes and regulation so they don’t have to compete with startups for their government-dependent businesses (think Boeing, Halliburton, Google, Microsoft etc).
Biden and Obama hate each other, that is clear, but Biden stabbed Obama in the back by endorsing Kamala after the letter on Twitter (which was written by Obama staffers) about him giving up on the election. This got her the requisite delegates because that guy (or rather his family at this point) knows where the bodies are buried though through 50 years in government so don’t underestimate his party power. The money is why Obama had to pick him as VP after all, without it he wouldn’t have even had the money to pass the convention.
good pick?
bad pick?
helpful to president biden?
@Jensus: those videos are no longer available in the US. Must wonder what kind of propaganda those things must be that even the far left YT blocks them (there are laws against Russian and Chinese government propaganda content farms in the US).
good pick?
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This Kamala?
https://youtu.be/UbDK0z5V0UQ?t=42
Hah, look at me from 3 years ago “she will be in charge soon”
i still read on reddit.
(though no longer post) occasionally, i'll venture over to the ex-seventh day adventist (sda) sub and catch up a bit.
it's been a long time.
I’ve seen similar things. The in-between half-Christians (JW, SDA, Mormons and many progressive churches) are seeing a serious drop but the more “Catholic” and Evangelical churches, even Orthodox Jews are seeing a comeback.
It seems people do look for and need a sort of guidance in their life, it used to be that this was prevalent in your community and even if you didn’t attend church you still had those values imposed. But since then society rejected all those rules leading to modern issues.
Whatever you think of a specific religion, there is value in ancient wisdom, getting together with your community and the closer you stay to that originalist message, people are attracted to that and people see through more and more when people use that to divide and serve themselves like politicians and cults like JW do.
You don’t have to believe literally in any of the message, I don’t think many people do, but it is necessary to get together with your neighbors and have a base of morals to start from.
but the entire congregation is not to be informed or mark the person.
the only repercussions are that the individual who is aware of it can decide to "mark" them and not go to the local club or bar with the individual, but they are still obligated to go door to door in the ministry with them, and even speak to them at the kn as if nothing is wrong and not feel obligated to tell anyone else?
this is crazy.. so they are also basically saying that a person can carry on a romantic (but none sexual) relationship with an unbeliever and still go out in service and participate in meetings?
This is fairly easy to find out. As many know, ignoring a direct command from the Bible is a DFing offense (see elder book)
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jw-dating/
Christians who want to marry are commanded to choose only a fellow believer. (1 Corinthians 7:39) Jehovah’s Witnesses view this command as referring not merely to a person who respects our beliefs but to one who shares and practices those beliefs as a baptized Witness. (2 Corinthians 6:14) God has always directed his worshippers to marry only those of the same faith. (Genesis 24:3; Malachi 2:11) This command is also practical, as modern researchers have found.
so: the mystery has been clarified as to more "new light" / clarifications of decades old doctrine and procedure.
august watchtower has finally been leaked.
disfellowshipping?
To people ‘in the know’ it may not be that much of a difference, but to outsiders it definitely is.
Disfellowshipping is something that is generally reserved to the highest scandals in a church (public censure) and doesn’t happen in response to minor sins or disagreements. Basically it is only acceptable if a sin is very severe without regret and very publicly known. To many Christian denominations the refusal of giving communion as punishment for minor sins is in itself a major sin.
Removal means basically you stopped going to church and they dropped you off the rolls, it happens all the time and is just an administrative thing.
https://cne.news/article/4320-small-church-in-rome-goes-to-the-big-court-in-strasbourg-to-find-justice?push=null .
the evangelical church in rome will move to strasbourg to seek justice from the european court on human rights (ecthr) to eliminate the huge tax burden.
in the meantime, protestants all over the world are amazed by what is happening in italy..
I’m not opposed to governments going after scam church registrations for tax purposes. Even if Italy were to pursue a group because religious reasons, that would be something that may be bad, but it is allowed in Europe. The EU does not guarantee freedom of speech or religion, you must overthrow and redraw the constitution for that to happen.
as an educated guess, the august 2024 watchtower may be delayed because 2 complicated subjects need to be discussed in this issue which haven't yet been approved to be included in the revised shepherding textbook.
perhaps the revised shepherding textbook must be finalised before this watchtower is released publicly.. the 2 subjects may be as follows:.
how to shepherd and appoint brothers based on the removal of the hour requirements, getting to know the brothers instead (does this mean prioritising appointing men who have auxiliary pioneered during the co visit and campaigns or men who are regular pioneers?).
@slimboyfat, any reduction in congregation is huge as each congregation consists of about 75-100 people. 2% of thousands is a big number, multiplied by 100, that is a ton of people that aren’t being replenished.
I know back in the day, it was a huge blemish on the reputation of the elders and a scandal if their congregations shut down, as it was almost always for gross misconduct and a loss of blessings was to blame. Every time a congregation closes another 10 or so elders and servants are forever “marked” to many of the older generations.
