Posts by Anony Mous

35

So...what do you think about The United States of America?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i know the usa is not perfect.

there have always been social issues and differences.

politics has been for many people divisive.

Anony Mous

I was born and raised in Europe, moved to the US and stayed. In general the world still thinks highly of the US, regardless of the media, very few people that live in lesser countries don't want to move here, they don't want to move to Germany or the UK, they want to move to the US.

It's fairly simple, freedom is guaranteed. Even if you have a poor president (eg. Obama-Biden) that is hell bent on taking as much as they can, individual states and your first and second amendments guarantee that those things don't last very long.

I've now lived halfway through Bush, Obama and halfway through Trump in the US, I still don't want to move back, I've made more money than my parents can even dream of (they still translate their money to pre-Euro currency), I'm a millionaire to them, they've worked their butts off till 65 and still work to date to keep up with their tax and medical bills (there is no Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security for poor people in Europe, free healthcare does not exist in Europe). They make what the US would qualify as barely above minimum wage after taxes and a mortgage, their blue collar counterparts here drive F150's and have large houses which they paid off.

Only in the US can you be your own person and make money, even if some of those decisions lead to bad outcomes, at least you know you have yourself to blame. But speaking from personal experience, you can always get back on top. Try that in the EU.

19

I don't get it - Praying before eating while ...

by menrov in

i noticed recently.

there was an item in the news on some terrible / horrific child pornography in germany.

really disgusting to hear what these people were doing with children as young as a few months.

Anony Mous

Praying before the food has historical reasons. Not too long ago, we didn't have that much food, most people thanked their deity because finding food was a rarity so if you did, and you had prayed before, praying again must bring more food (it's positive reinforcement). Same for praying at night, if you prayed at night and you survived the night, you should do more of it if you want to survive more nights.

Animals do the same thing. Not saying that religion has no effect or isn't needed, but many religious practices we have inherited from simply surviving, because before between 50 and 200 years ago we didn't survive very well, and positively reinforced behaviors evolved alongside us.

41

Noah's Ark : A structure that could never have been built in Noah's day

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

the ark encounter located in kentucky (opened in 2016) is a large representation of noah's ark based on the genesis flood narrative contained in the bible.

it is 510 feet (155 m) long, 85 feet (26 m) wide, and 51 feet (16 m) high.. .

genesis 6: 14 so make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

Anony Mous

Pyramids are possible, we have proof that they are. The ark, we have no proof of any structure that large and it would have been preserved and talked about in contemporary history until it was totally rotted away. If anything something that immense, would be like the pyramids, revered, imitated and documented at least until the Greeks/Romans.

Same goes for the Tower of Babel soon after, if they were halfway done as the Bible says and then suddenly dispersed, where are the ruins? There is more "evidence" of King David or King Solomon (which also never existed in contemporary history and retconned a local warlord into Jewish lore) than the ark.

Besides the obvious engineering issues, why did God need a physical device at all? He could just put them all on a "unusual high mountain" like Satan did to Jesus or even just China, which has a continuous written history through the flood time or just wiped the people out without all the rain (which a mass flood can't be found in the geological records)

19

Going to see my abusive jw mother tomorrow

by Simonsez in

my me mother and i do not see eye to eye to say the least.

my childhood was fraught with her abusive behavior.

alas.she is old now and though i have not spoken to her in a year she called the other day and wanted to see me.

Anony Mous

Sorry to hear.

As far as visiting her: I won't visit my abusive stepfather, even though he raised me, I haven't seen him in nearly a decade. It's better that way for me. If you want to visit her and say goodbye, I understand, but is it worth your emotional investment?

As far as telling her about your brother: Is it worth the trouble? Are you expecting some huge sum yourself if she dies? What is the goal of telling her, you know she won't believe an unbeliever over a fellow Witness, regardless of your proof.

4

That Wuhan Pool Party - Is it back to normal?

by fulltimestudent in

jw
friends

china now!

does this mean we can start to go back to normal ?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ysrtdrqle.

Anony Mous

Well, when the government tells you to party, it's time to party, virus or not. We all know China's News Network has been lying about Chinese death. They dropped from a few thousand to zero in a week time, then 'adjusted' the numbers as too many people were dying statistically speaking, after that, dead silence from any official sources, including the WHO.

If the number of funeral urns distributed and the period over which cremation services operated at full capacity operation up to March 23, 2020, are considered, the estimate of the total deaths up to this date reaches 36,000. Even if it followed the best death statistics in the rest of the world, we are probably looking at least 100k-0.5M dead Chinese by now, at least one source says 136k excess deaths in China this year.

9

Why is it that all the Presidential Candidates are not addressing the most dangerous problem we face?

by pistolpete in

on january 13th, 2018, an emergency warning appeared on phone screens across hawaii, alerting everyone: .

ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii.

seek immediate shelter.

Anony Mous

The nice things about nuclear weapons is that they are too powerful to use. Throughout the chain of commands in any country no chain of people is nuts enough to believe that anyone would ever attack first. Even the 'close calls' we've had thus far, someone, somewhere in Soviet Russia, the US, Pakistan, India, France, UK, ... has always had the wherewithal to think through the malfunction.

On the other hand, having them has stopped World War 2, kept the Cold War cold, stopped World War 3 from happening. Things are very, very peaceful compared with just 100 years ago.

The scarcity due to COVID-19 was largely man-made, but nobody has died because they couldn't get food, that's a thing relegated to the past even in a massive pandemic, just 50 years ago, people would be STARVING if we did such an exercise, nobody starved because COVID-19. Sure it's sad that some people die, but many more people will have died from preventable diseases than from COVID-19.

11

What Happened to VP Pence? He Was Put in Charge of the COVID Thing by Trump But Disappeared. Is He in His Basement Too?

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

what happened to him?

he was supposed to be the "covid-19 czar".

trump made a big deal about appointing him to manage the whole process but after about a week, he disappeared.

Anony Mous

Pence was just on TV, he's been touring on the re-election campaign "Faith in America".

Obviously the MSM isn't going to report on this, Pence makes too much sense, he's very rational, very well and soft spoken, he makes indisputable arguments and puts reporters in their place, and this goes against the narrative that the Trump administration is a bunch of lunatics.

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2020/08/06/vice-president-mike-pence-interview-florida-coronavirus-faith-economy

102

Who Do You Think Would Be A Good Running Mate For Joe Biden?

by minimus in

jw
friends

it seems like the only possibilities are women of color.

no whites need apply.. maybe he will change his mind and ask hillary clinton?

?.

Anony Mous

So how long until Biden bites the dust? Do you think a small case of the Arkancide come 2022 will be necessary?

16

2 + 2 = 5?! lol

by LoveUniHateExams in

interesting video from carl benjamin.. apparently, some philosopher is arguing that 2 + 2 doesn't always = 4; sometimes it equals 5.. this is madness, utter madness.

i'm a scientist; objective reality does exist.

the existence of gravity isn't up for debate.

Anony Mous

@Simonsez: Perhaps you should read a bit further than whatever the CNN/wokecrowd shovels forward:

The term two spirit was adopted ... in 1990 at the third annual Native American/First Nations gay and lesbian conference ... The decision to adopt this new, pan-Indian term was deliberate, with a clear intention to distance themselves from non-Native gays and lesbians, as well as from non-Native terminology like berdache, "gay", "lesbian", and "trans".

Not all cultures will perceive two-spirits the same way, or welcome a pan-Indian term to replace the terms already in use by their cultures. Additionally, not all contemporary Indigenous communities are supportive of their gender-variant and non-heterosexual people now.

What's more, the same page on Wikipedia has a list of words natives actually use to identify homosexuals which is generally "male who acts as a woman" or some other term that clearly sets forward a dysfunction from the gender binary.

As for the blog post you linked to, the closest the writer could get is that homosexuality was sometimes written about, generally denigrated, in Roman culture and that sometimes women could have the same rights as sons if no and then only until a male heir was produced. That is NOT the same as gender dysphoria, the Bible has the same provision in some cases where no male heirs are present, that does not mean those people take on a different gender.

I do understand homosexuality has always existed and people with severe mental illness have as well, but that does not mean it was ever normalized.

102

Who Do You Think Would Be A Good Running Mate For Joe Biden?

by minimus in

jw
friends

it seems like the only possibilities are women of color.

no whites need apply.. maybe he will change his mind and ask hillary clinton?

?.

Anony Mous

I think the Dems have largely forgiven other Dems for outright pedophilia (eg. multiple witnesses placing Bill Clinton during Epstein's parties is never talked about).

Biden will forget to pick a running mate and the DNC just can't support any of the candidates because they're equally controversial and unliked.

Biden needs a strong women, but Democrats won't warrant the first female vice-president or president to be a Republican.

If Biden wants to GUARANTEE a win: Nikki Haley. But if he keeps putting out outright racist and misogynist messages, he will probably lose.