Posts by Anony Mous

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Make America Great Again.......Maybe...........For all you on Social Security.

by liam in

so there's a bill called the social security fairness act that "might" help those on social security.

the bill is something trump said he would push for once he become president.of course there is some rinos and democrats who don't want the bill because they still want to fund wars that americans have no business getting involved.

all the president has to do is signed it "if" he makes it into office.. this could go in effect as soon as next year.

Anony Mous

Social security is not an investment, it is welfare. Although you pay into it proportional to your income, you may not receive accordingly, there is a cap as to what you will get out of it. Illegal immigrants can get social security without work credit (there is a long list of exceptions for immigrants that do not need work credit, recently including the men that evaded their draft in Ukraine but also anyone that had to endure spousal abuse, Haitians, Cubans, etc etc), disabilities, being trafficked - so that includes pretty much anyone except for Canadians.

If you are earning $10,000 or more per year for 20 years, you receive 70 to 80 percent of the Social Security benefits paid for a full work life. Note that you do not have to “work”, being unemployed, Bethelites and special pioneers are often on some kind of “disability”, earning a stipend together with odd jobs, unemployment and state assistance, all counts because from your unemployment/income there is a withholding which at the end of the year (at tax time) is technically negative, it is considered “paying into” and making you eligible for payout.

Yes, those of us paying $1500/month in social security taxes, we are expected to receive $600/month out of it and the others are subsidized by us to the tune of $500-550/month. The thing you don’t have and what people may be confused about is 401k or pensions, you earn that on your own, it has a yield of approx. 180% if you work from a reasonable age (so if you pay into it now for 40 years, you can live very well for the other 40-60 years). In comparison, Social Security will have a net negative investment rate for the average person (you will never get out what you pay in)

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Wythenshawe Kingdom Hall - Sold

by AdamCzarnobay in

jw
friends

i was slightly surprised to see that wythenshawe hall has been sold.

it's now a mosque.

this one had an attached flat where the co and his wife lived, i wonder what accommodation they put them in these days..

Anony Mous

The rules have long changed. I know back in the 80s and 90s even going to a Catholic hospital was frowned upon and dutifully avoided where possible. Now you can be active duty police, non-combat military, work at a religious school or hospital, even perform work for a church as long as it does not violate your conscience.

Although selling KH to make profit for the WTBTS real estate scam has always been allowed, even when it happened in the 90s, some were offended they didn’t hold out for another buyer but it was explained that they do these things through third parties and have no control (which is a blatant lie).

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Maddison, WI Shool Shooting - 3 Dead

by Sea Breeze in

like the one in tennessee, this one in maddison, wi, was done be a female.

the police chief points out that: .

“yes, i don’t know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not, and quite frankly, i don’t think that’s even important.

Anony Mous

@jhine: you can’t compare the total school shootings in the UK with ALL of the US. The UK is relatively tiny, many states can fit multiple UK’s. That being said, according to the Ben Kinsella trust, there were 99 children murdered in 1 year by knife in England, most of those in or on the way to school with 738 reported criminal possession incidents. Multiply that by 40 for a size comparison. 4000 children did not die in US schools last year, when counting gun homicides, you get to ~1500 children per year, most of those were not in schools but gang-related. A MORI Survey for the Youth Justice Board found that 29% of Secondary School-children, along with 57% of those excluded admitted to routinely carrying knives. - imagine if 29% of US school children carried guns because they needed it for protection.

@joey: you are the one that said that more guns = more gun crime, so you brought up the issue of proportionality, when pointed out the data, now you agree with me that gun ownership is not correlated? I already pointed out the data on guns and crime rates for other countries is incomplete, which you can see in the total discrepancy between reported and surveyed crime rates, but the UK has some nice knife crime statistics. It also doesn’t line up if you look for reports on teens being arrested with guns in Europe, there are quite a few pretty much every week that make some local headline, yet they are not reflected in any statistic?

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Maddison, WI Shool Shooting - 3 Dead

by Sea Breeze in

like the one in tennessee, this one in maddison, wi, was done be a female.

the police chief points out that: .

“yes, i don’t know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not, and quite frankly, i don’t think that’s even important.

Anony Mous

Again, there are no official stats on gun violence in the EU, so whatever stats you pull out of your behind do not show the whole picture. Similar to how recently the FBI declared a decrease in crime simply by not including certain cities.

According to the EU’s own data on crime victimization rate (https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/criminal-justice/protecting-victims-rights/victims-rights-eu_en) survey show 15% of Europeans are victimized annually, in the US his rate is 2.3% https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/criminal-victimization-2023#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20there%20were%2022.5,6.9%20per%201%2C000%20in%202023.

Again, the official stats either don’t exist or cannot be compared. European countries do not consider crime reportable if the offender is not found or no guilt is found, the US considers a victims report to be sufficient. In Europe there is no central reporting agencies that all agencies report up to, there is in the US. In Europe, police will often not respond to emergency calls (Calling 112, 28% of calls do not get responded to at all, if calling 999 in the UK average waiting time for priority police calls in UK is 5h30m) in the US, criminals are in many cases effectively pursued (99.8% of calls get responded to within an average 15m20s). So the only proxy you have is to survey victimization rates.

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Maddison, WI Shool Shooting - 3 Dead

by Sea Breeze in

like the one in tennessee, this one in maddison, wi, was done be a female.

the police chief points out that: .

“yes, i don’t know whether [the shooter] was transgender or not, and quite frankly, i don’t think that’s even important.

Anony Mous

@joey jojo: that statement is misleading, the EU does not collect information about gun or most other crime in any centralized manner nor do a lot of other countries. Estimates in studies must use proxies such as whether people are self-reported victims of crime and criminal assault with a weapon is significantly higher in the EU. The most dead in what FBI considers mass shootings (note EU does not have a definition of statistics on mass shootings) in the last decade is the EU, because their police nor schools are prepared to deal with gun crime and people with guns cannot stop criminals with guns.

And you should be honest about the consequences as quite a few countries have an equally “high” per capita gun ownership rate as the US, yet you claim there is no proportional gun crime.

Here are just a few outstanding examples of guns in Europe.

November 2015 - FRANCE - Islamist attackers in Paris armed with guns and bombs target the Bataclan music hall, six bars and restaurants, and the perimeter of the Stade de France sports stadium just outside the French capital, killing 130 people - including 90 concertgoers in the Bataclan - and injuring hundreds.

March 2023 - GERMANY - A gunman in Hamburg shoots dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah's Witness worship hall. Eight other people were wounded, including a seven-months pregnant woman, who lost her unborn daughter.

May 2023 - SERBIA - In a single week, a 13-year-old boy guns down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school. Two days later, a gunman kills eight people and wounds 14 others in a village near the Serbian capital. Both suspects are arrested.

December 2023 - CZECH REPUBLIC - A Czech student shoots dead his father then kills 14 people at his Prague university. The gunman, killed at the scene possibly by one of his own bullets, is also suspected in the killings of another man and his two-month-old daughter who were found shot dead in woods in a village outside Prague, the week before.

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More Menorah

by peacefulpete in

another brief example of ancient traditions reinterpreted by worshipers of yahweh.

the book of exodus 25:.

31 ¶ and thou shalt make a lampstand of pure gold; of beaten work shall the lampstand be made; its base and its branches, its bowls, its knops, and its flowers shall be of the same.32 and six branches shall come out of the sides of it, three branches of the lampstand out of the one side and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side,33 three bowls made like unto almonds with a knop and a flower in one branch, and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch with a knop and a flower; thus in the six branches that come out of the lampstand.34 and in the lampstand shall be four bowls made like unto almonds with their knops and their flowers.35 and there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and another knop under two branches of the same, and another knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the lampstand.36 their knops and their branches shall be of the same; all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.37 and thou shalt make its seven lamps; and they shall light its lamps, that they may give light over against it.. ok, so there is this strangely detailed description of a sacred golden lampstand, with 7 lamps in a strict formation of 3 branches on each side a single 7th in the center.

Anony Mous

@Kaleb: there is a difference between history according to archeology and history according to scripture and then what some people re-interpret history to be based on either or combinations of those sources.

What do Native Americans know about their own history - not much, most of it is told from an anti-Western narratives, few of the Native American tribes had a writing system, let alone a historical record, most were nomadic and continuously at war with each other, trying to eradicate or enslave the other. I’m sure they have stories that are wonderful and self-praising how great their ancestors were to start the best civilization in history - until the Spanish came and submitted them in record time because they had technology like armor and muskets that made the Spanish and later the French and English practically gods in comparison.

The Jews did a lot better, as writing had been invented already a few times in that region, but once you go before 300BC, which is when the scripture as we know them today were ‘edited’ into the current canon, it becomes a lot less clear what is myth, history or a little bit of both, and that is not even accounting for the fact that Jews and interpretation as we know it today didn’t become established until after the destruction of Jerusalem, so there is 500 years or so of unwritten change and re-interpretation, which is why Judaism looks so differently today than it would have when Herod’s temple was in place.

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Is Jesus the Creator?

by Sea Breeze in

that's what the word says.

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colossians 1:16. for by him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through him and for him..

Anony Mous

@joey jojo: the original text definitely makes references to a trinity. What Jews believe today is often very different (especially as there are still different factions) than what was once believed, pretty much like every religion.

Christianity was a Jewish sect at one point, Islam as well, so all the ideas come from the same root - purely historically speaking, the Jewish God has both Elohim and Yahweh as name, both coming from different deities, and the spirit is also often mentioned, it would make sense that if you’re trying to meld multiple gods into one, you take aspects of a ‘father’ god (El) and his son Yahweh, often depicted as a bronze snake.

Note that a more recognizable form of Judaism and the composite Old Testament doesn’t develop until the 5th century BC, many centuries after the earliest writings surrounding the (initially polytheistic) cult of Yahweh starts (1800BC), references survive such as the different names of god, story about the King of Salem, bronze calf, references to other gods being ‘real’ and having some power and beasts that were once worshipped in various places like the Book of Job etc, it would thus be likely that ideas about a trinity or unity deity may have survived through tribal or sectarian knowledge transfer.

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Sacred Days

by Riley in

yesterday was remembrance day/veterans days in canada.

we had a couple younger half wits in the cong in field service yesterday.

both are trying to climb the ladder with the entire elder body ready to die in the next 10 years.. i just of thought it was a dick move to go door to door about the merits of fighting for freedom or not fighting on such a sacred day.

Anony Mous

So JW are fleeing the draft in Ukraine, becoming deserters. How nice of them not to go to prison, drawing attention to the human rights abuses and instead claiming refugee status in rich nations, I’m sure those elders are taking them in with open arms to give them tasks as the org, like Ukraine, is also running out of males.

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P Diddy list of names

by liam in

no wonder the left was furious when elon musk bought twitter.. someone leaked some of the names of the epstein files before they went public.

the complete list is still pending.

doesn't matter if it's the governing body, celebrities, politicians, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, the royal family, and more, are just ordinary humans who lust for sexual ..............!!!!!.

Anony Mous

@meanmrmustard: that would be funny, Hunter fighting his dad’s own policies in Supreme Court. But this is typical left wing, rules for thee but not for me, and clearly demonstrates their gun agenda has nothing to do with safety but pure, unadulterated power. The oligarchy can have guns and lie on the forms to obtain guns, but if you dare to be able to defend yourself against tyranny, you are the bad man looking to shoot up schools.

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P Diddy list of names

by liam in

no wonder the left was furious when elon musk bought twitter.. someone leaked some of the names of the epstein files before they went public.

the complete list is still pending.

doesn't matter if it's the governing body, celebrities, politicians, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, the royal family, and more, are just ordinary humans who lust for sexual ..............!!!!!.

Anony Mous

@peacefulpete: Hunter is not charged with tax evasion, he’s charged with not reporting his illegally obtained income and money laundering (false reporting). Trump was not charged with tax evasion charges, he was charged with overstating his income in a private transaction, which is neither illegal nor were any damages found. I also think you confuse tax evasion and tax avoidance, one is bad, the other is a moral obligation - if you don’t agree, don’t itemize or don’t claim your deductions next year.

Trump was never charged with illegally carrying, that is impossible in the US, the second amendment states your right to carry cannot be infringed and SCOTUS recently upheld that. Biden was charged with falsely stating he was drug free on a background check form, something that citizens and FFL regularly get prosecuted for simple clerical errors like typos or not filing it correctly, Biden instead illegally OBTAINED a gun and then illegally sold/discarded the gun when his sister-in-law (which he slept with) threatened to report him for driving/being intoxicated at a school parking lot. Few people will agree with the notion that druggies should be granted permission to obtain a gun if non-criminals have to jump through a ton of hoops. Few people will agree that you should be able to throw away evidence of a crime once you believe you will get caught.

The hypocrisy is that Biden’s ATF went hard after people that made simple clerical errors on the same form Biden INTENTIONALLY LIED on. Biden made it part of his anti-gun agenda to weaponize the ATF to go after anyone that ever had a simple clerical error and revoked their FFL licenses. ATF went after people with legal prescription drugs and denied their applications or prosecuted them after the fact.

The Biden DOJ was going to give Biden a get-out-of-jail-free card with a plea deal that was wrapped in secrecy, once the judge saw it, the left wing judge said that the plea was so egregious, it was unacceptable. Basically the DOJ wrote that not only would he be off the hook for the crimes alleged, they wanted the judge to let him off the hook for any crimes alleged and also those not alleged from 2014 onwards (when he started at the board of Burisma). So if Hunter murdered someone, or the bribery stuff he did in Ukraine that eventually was part of the current war, which was not part of that case, they wanted a blanket immunity (basically a Presidential pardon laundered through the judicial system).

As far as the pictures of Trump, lots of people on those red carpets, that’s not really interesting, what is interesting is who was at their houses when the ‘real stuff’ happened. It’s already been proven Trump was never at Epstein’s island or Diddy’s apartments unlike others which the FBI does have lists of and doesn’t want to publish. If Trump was on anyone of them, they sure would’ve selectively leaked that.