Where does the 24B come from? If nobody dies anymore, then over the first 1000 years alone we have so many people, you’d need to cover the entire surface of land with buildings stacking 100 stories high just to give them enough room to stand. If you didn’t do that, we’d each have space less than a skin cell to live on.
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144,000 + 1 kings
by moomanchu ini wonder why so many kings are needed for the millennial reign?
the almighty governing body says 24,000,000,000 people combined from those resurrected and the survivors of the big 'a' could make it into paradise.
that gives you 1 king for every 166,665 persons.
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A message from Barbara Anderson re: the health state of her hero, her husband, Joe Anderson
by jwleaks infrom barbara:.
my dear husband, joe anderson, has had very real problems with his short-term memory for at least a year which really worried me.
as his mental health deteriorated, i decided to have our local longtime physician talk alone with joe during an office visit last september.
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Anony Mous
Sorry to hear what you are going through is very tough. Make the best of the time you have left.
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What will happen to the Watchtower Religion now that Trump has Withdrawn from certain aspects of the United Nations.
by liam inso trump has signed an executive order to withdraw from the united nations human rights council, a refugee organization, some others parts as well and calls for a review of american involvement in funding of the united nations.
he said the united nations has not been living to its potential and they need to get their act together or just dissolve the organization completely.
he said america will continue to be a part of the un but it's tiring that the united states is the country that funds most of the monies and that can't continue.
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Anony Mous
The UN all but collapsed in the 90s with the wars in the Baltic where the UN would stand idly by while atrocities happened.
It is a forum for politicians to get some cheap wins and funnel trillions of dollars from rich nations to warlords and terrorists.
The UN is based in an international socialist ideal that you can centralize power into a superstate and arrange the affairs of the nations. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Is the US a democracy or a republic? Yes
by blondie inhttps://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122089076/is-america-a-democracy-or-a-republic-yes-it-is.
throughout our history we have functioned as both.
put another way, we have utilized characteristics of both.
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Anony Mous
There are three independent branches of government. Read the federalist papers if you want to understand how it works. Pure democracy typically centralizes power into the executive branch, hence why we should have small government, that way you cannot control everything from a single seat. Axing bureaucracy as Trump is doing now is reducing his power directly, thousands of bureaucrats that were wielding their own power structure while unelected are now voluntarily leaving, that is a good thing as that power is now returned to the states and flows down to the citizen.
If what you want to do in business or private is not regulated or there is no law against it, then it is allowed per the constitution. If the government wants to do something that is not regulated or has a bureaucrat or law for it, government is not allowed to do it. That’s the crux of the constitutional republic.
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Prague Czech Republic Considers WT Registration
by blondie inhttps://english.radio.cz/culture-ministry-considers-revoking-jehovahs-witnesses-registration-8841807 .
culture ministry considers revoking jehovah’s witnesses' registration.
the czech ministry of culture is considering revoking the religious registration of the jehovah’s witnesses, according to czech radio information.
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Anony Mous
Funny because I remember the convention they had in Prague as the first country in the ex Soviet Union that registered them.
It was a big JW-sponsored tourist-fest, sure that was one of the reasons they got registered.
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Characteristics of a Cult - Heaven's Gate
by dropoffyourkeylee inchacteristics of a cult - by my count, wt ticks 9 of the 12 boxes.
last night i watched a really interesting video (link below) put out by an ex-mormon site discussing the heaven's gate cult.
the person interviewed had a unique perspective in that he had firsthand contact with that group, specifically the house they lived in and the aftermath.
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Anony Mous
Where do you tick only 9? I tick all 12 of them.
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PENNSYLVANIA SENTENCING OF JW CHILD SEXUAL ABUSER
by blondie inhttps://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/case-update-philadelphia-jehovahs-witnesses-congregation-member-jailed-up-to-4-years-for-sexual-abuse-of-a-young-child/.
harrisburg — attorney general dave sunday announced that david balosa will serve two to four years in prison for using his standing as a member of a jehovah’s witnesses congregation in philadelphia to befriend, then sexually assault, a young child in 1998.... and https://www.newsbreak.com/daily-voice-525087/3786329373200-4-year-old-abused-by-jehovah-s-witness-gets-justice-pa-ag .
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Anony Mous
It is a 10 year suspended sentence, so he has to serve 2-4 years, the rest he is on probation. Provided he doesn’t pick up any other cases and complies with his bond, his bond conditions expire within 10y, he picks up anything, DUI, assault, drugs, he spends the remainder of the sentence in prison. Likely lifelong registered sex offender.
Given his apparent age, this will basically follow him until he dies, if he doesn’t have an ‘accident’ in prison - these people if they go in gen pop don’t survive very long, so they often end up in protected custody, where you basically get a 4x4 cell, alone, 23h/day, 2x30m in the yard, alone. For weak minded ones, as long term JW often are, this is a trip to the looney bin in weeks-months.
The prison system has a good way of taking care of these people, criminals are often victims themselves. Some of the things they do, the guards may even let them.
If he does survive his ordeal, I know JW will take him back in, may even make him the poster child of some reformation or persecution, although they’ll call him André when they tell his story.
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jwfacts is gone?
by Rnadomchris83 inwas not sure on where to put this, so please move if need be.. i was just on there last night.
you are now redirected to a godaddy site stating that it has been taken.. did i miss something?.
thanks!.
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Anony Mous
Just because you buy the domain does not mean you get the content. Either the owner has given up on the site and let the domain expire, or an oversight caused this to happen. You may be able to get most of the content from archive.org
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jwfacts is gone?
by Rnadomchris83 inwas not sure on where to put this, so please move if need be.. i was just on there last night.
you are now redirected to a godaddy site stating that it has been taken.. did i miss something?.
thanks!.
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Anony Mous
Seems to work for me still.
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JW's home schooling over-representing
by joey jojo inspeaking to an old elder friend recently about his decision to home school his high school aged kids.. he claims that here in australia, about 30% of the students that log into online classrooms are jw's.
the others are disabled kids - who cant physically attend class and the rest are long distance students.. another generation of under-educated jw kids on the way..
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@diogenesister: the primary reason people homeschool is to get a better education. Again, it is all about parental motivation to the kids, where are the priorities. If the parents want their kids to go out in service and view school as suspicious, you won’t get good results, regardless of the type of school.
People from around the world go to the US for private education and healthcare, simply because it has the best outcome globally for people that are motivated. From lower to higher education, the US is filled with the rich class children of Asians, Africans and Europeans. I’ve worked in higher education for a while now and it is easier to find a foreigner than an American, even the people you think are white, speak perfect English (like myself) are often foreigners.
@Joey: computational neuroscience. Contributions to other fields are in parallel software development (large data management, image processing and language, ML/AI). Some famous studies you may have heard of are analyzing Google ngrams/project Gutenberg how words form chains that become sentences (a stepping stone for modern LLM), our evolutionary relation to color red (males being more attracted when a female wears red), video gamers being more reactive than their peers (found out by pure accident, student in the lab was developing a test and had his friends test it and got “impossible” results), NFL helmet brain damage studies and the fact that apes can do relatively complex math.