DuckDuckGo is pretty good. Also, ditch Android altogether, Apple at least doesn't want to track you and is fighting the tracking, Google is tracking everything.
Anony Mous
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dump google
by phoenixrising ini have noticed as of late that google searches are heavily filtering searches and shopping.
i know they keep track and monitor your activity but when i can not find things or articles because they don't fit googles bs naritive its time to leave.
duck duck go is my replacement.
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Australia - Selling Off Assets
by Pants of Righteousness inthis article seems to confirm what we already knew:.
https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/jehovahs-witnesses-accused-of-selling-off-assets-and-moving-cash-to-avoid-sex-abuse-compensation-ng-08ffe6d55e293182580d9e34b4400088?transactionid=72145.
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Anony Mous
@Stephane: The tax was on money that was being off-shored to the US. In France, charities have to demonstrate that they are using the money for charity in France.
Instead they were sending it to the US and claiming that it was being redistributed worldwide for charity, but the French government cannot get visibility in US charities.
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CO'S "encouraging" letter to circuit
by nowwhat? inthe point of the letter was how many are feeling disappointed these days.. no circuit assembly, convention, how we can't fellowship at the k.h.
disappointed we might have had a love one die, etc etc.
he then goes on to write about how disappointed jehovah must have felt when his first human creation rebelled.
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Anony Mous
@Kosonen: It is becoming more and more of an issue, the upkeep of the halls is a major cost and could even land them in court.
I used to volunteer where this happened and yes, to save money and avoid local building code regulations, the high voltage cabinet was installed and maintained by JW's: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20170913_03070732
All halls, especially quick-builds are a poorly built death trap and the liabilities, as the org is now taking on ownership of the halls themselves, is a major problem.
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Anony Mous
@millie: I agree, but I think that's largely due to me getting tired of the same thing. When I got out a few years ago, I was excited about all the new things I was learning and all the minutiae the Borg was bringing out.
Going back, being older myself now and knowing much more of the history, there really hasn't been anything new in WT-land since the 80s. They started playing it safer after 75 and currently they feel a lot like 'just another Christian televangelist group'.
Yeah, there are still major issues within the organization but the business entity really has taken a back seat and are just letting the locals figure out how hardcore they want to pursue this whole thing. My local congregation has gotten a LOT more relaxed, the hardcore pioneers and elders got disfellowshipped and/or got disillusioned themselves and the Zoom "meetings" have turned into family nights where they play board games.
And there is nothing unique that JW's are doing today, they've ended their ministry which is the only thing that stood out, every church is on Zoom and it's just another social group for most.
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The Cry of Peace And Security
by jwfacts ina bit late in coming, but i have a new article on the cry of peace and security at https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/peace-and-security.php.
this was prompted by trump using the term peace and security a few times in 2017 and 2018, and the excitement this generated amongst jehovah's witnesses.
i would love to see other quotes you like on this topic, or texts and experiences..
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Anony Mous
That's the thing about prophecies, they are always true. So when the bad thing eventually happens, the prophets can say "I told you so".
There was an article a few days ago about the scientists warning about coronavirus. The article mentioned they've warned about this since the 70s and SARS a few years ago, and how bad and evil it is to not be completely prepared for this eventuality. They will eventually be right but we can't have firefighters stationed in every house or ambulances follow every car just in case.
The hospital I work at had protocols for massive outbreaks for decades. They didn't apply because they were for things we know about like Ebola, not for a virus that spreads through the air because every airborne virus we knew about prior including SARS wasn't nearly as deadly and transmissible (which makes some people believe it was engineered after all).
The Bible prophecies in the NT are likewise intentionally vague and have been fulfilled in Nero burning down Rome, the fall of Jerusalem and every large conflict since. Pestilence and food shortage and calls for peace following war has been true since time memorial, only in the last 100-200 years has the world been made rich enough for certain aspects of that to no longer be true the way it was before. This makes the JW prophecies less and less relevant. Iraq didn't have food shortages and pestilence like they would've had in the past after a war because as the US was fighting, they also brought with them the tools of rebuilding a free and democratic civilization which are the precursors to wealth and wellness. As war gets more and more "humane", the effects will diminish as well.
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Anony Mous
Many have moved on because JW stuff stops being interesting after being out for a while.
Then there are those that have left after being "offended" at being unable to defend their ideas. It's always interesting across the many forums I am present, one side calls for censorship of ideas and if the moderators agree, you get an echo chamber and if the moderators aren't censoring, they leave in protest instead of engaging in discussion leaving behind an echo chamber.
There are still interesting conversations around here, but the world has been changing as have conversations in the world, I can't believe people that left the JW mindset are now simply re-accepting similar ideas of collective guilt, group division, religious creeds and groupthink in politics.
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CO'S "encouraging" letter to circuit
by nowwhat? inthe point of the letter was how many are feeling disappointed these days.. no circuit assembly, convention, how we can't fellowship at the k.h.
disappointed we might have had a love one die, etc etc.
he then goes on to write about how disappointed jehovah must have felt when his first human creation rebelled.
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Anony Mous
100 bucks the letter says something about contributions towards the end. That's the only goal of these letters, gimme gimme gimme. CO's aren't being reimbursed when they can't go and have their donations in the box at the KH, and I'm sure plenty of old people aren't comfortable donating online.
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Having trouble with parents staying home?
by Steel inmy parents are in there late 60s, they have a net worth of 2 to 3 million dollars and a 2500 sq ft home.
my dad works a hobby job at a service station for boredom reasons.
it’s a kiosk type between glass but it does require some contact with the public.
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Anony Mous
Given what you indicated, I'm assuming they're healthy. The risk for catching COVID-19 and dying is extremely low, even amongst the elderly if they're relatively healthy.
The largest deaths (50% or so in NYS) were in nursing homes where people are already frail and sick and after a hospital visit NYS forced them back into the nursing homes to re-infect the rest (less people reduces the state expense on these facilities) as well as to reduce reimbursement costs for Medicaid through the hospitals.
Given your parents did so well for themselves is an indicator that they worked hard, they didn't excess, they probably didn't smoke or drink (at least not much). That is a great predictor to live to 100 even with COVID-19.
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Removing Historic Monuments and Statues - Does the Term "Historical" Make it Right or Wrong?
by RubaDub inafter further review and thought, i really don't see how removing a monument or statue that may be truly offensive to a large group of people is in some way rewriting history.. i think of germany or other parts of europe.
you don't see swastikas on buildings or statues of hitler or mussolini or other upper level generals in public.
would it be good for a person (think jewish) to drive around a city and see hitler in a public park, even though it is "historical?
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Anony Mous
@dropoffyourkeylee:
I do agree that some statues were placed with bad intent. But you don't always have to revere everyone that has a statue.
We have a local park with a statue of Frederick Douglass, my kids ask "who is that" and then I can explain about what he did and what he didn't do. People think Frederick Douglass was a great guy and he did a great deal of good but he was also a politician, he advised Lincoln on the plight of slaves but he was also sympathetic of extreme violence and murder on the part of his cause and a womanizer. Most of what we know about him is from autobiographies and his poems, so take his story with a grain of salt.
Same goes for Columbus, he was a great explorer but his primary objective was to get away from the religious persecution and his story is more nuanced than just discovering the Americas (or should I say, the Carribean).
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Harry Potter actress defends the delusional!
by BoogerMan in"emma watson, who played hermione granger in the potter franchise, said: "trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren't who they say they are.
"" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53002557.
mental institutions throughout the world should now release all the inmates who similarly claim that they are napoleon, adolf hitler, brad pitt, etc.
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Anony Mous
@Daniel: you are free to prove what the majority of people in this world believe as factual is wrong.
If you can point to a biology textbook where biological sex is fluid in any other mammal ape.
These aren't right wing viewpoints, they have been considered facts for thousands of years outside of politics.
There are indeed people with mental illness but to play along with their delusions to the point of self-harm does not serve them well. There are plenty of examples of sex change regret as well as permanent damage to teenagers through hormone replacement and the suicide rate doesn't go down after treatment, even among those that integrate with society as their preferred sex which indicates something else is going on.
It's cruel to say "yeah, you have a problem, let's have some surgery and drugs that don't help, just so I can feel good and can be woke and tell our friends how great we are"