Posts by Anony Mous

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Why Do You Think There Is A Spike In Covid Cases?

by minimus in

jw
friends

any thoughts?

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Anony Mous

@slimboyfat: All the countries that so-called did really well have these 3 things in common:

- They are remote countries that see fewer International travelers, Taiwan has sanctions imposed upon it from the mainland, you can't travel there without China and China doesn't let just anyone go there.

- Most of those countries are communist or extremely liberal (eg. New Zealand) and have imposed very strict restrictions upon its population before (guns, travel, taxes) and their population is used to heavy government regulation. Not only would no free country go along with these sorts of restrictions, they already have the deaths, low economic output and other issues associated with such regimes. Yes, even New Zealand.

You ask: What is wrong with our leaders that they can’t manage to do this? - I ask, what is wrong that their population allows their leaders to test, track and trace anyone against their will. Not only that, but as we see from Europe, if your population isn't hit yet, it will eventually get hit, but now with a stronger, mutated virus, there will be no immunity if everyone remains isolated across the globe. You can off course always put everyone in a sterile bubble at gunpoint, but that doesn't improve the economy.

The reality is that if you're younger than 40, this is less deadly than the flu, if you're between 40 and 65, it's as deadly as the flu, if you're older than 65, pretty much anything, including the flu has a better chance to end up killing you. Now we don't stop surgeries on people older than 65, we don't lock down or mask up every flu season. It burned through NY and many no-lockdown US states and Italy and Sweden, they don't see any resurgence in death. Belgium locked down fast and early, they've been having the top COVID deaths in the world (per capita).

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The 1950s NWT (1984)

by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

i did a video on this subject once but feel this is a noteworthy topic.

to be honest the old nwt has come under sonsiderable attack from fundie morons attacking it's nt which was translated with a few revisals in 1950.the truth is john 1:1 and 8:58 and other texts, though despite being odd, are within the translation rules as are the inclusion of the word {other} since this was stated in the forward as an interpolation.

jehovah in the nt is odd but certianly lacking as other translations have added more yhwh.. so the ot?

Anony Mous

Dr. Bruce Metzger, Professor of New Testament at Princeton Universtity:

“Far more pernicious in this same verse is the rendering… ‘and the Word was a god’… It must be stated quite frankly that, if the Jehovah’s Witnesses take this translation seriously, they are polytheists. In view of the additional light which is available during this age of Grace, such a representation is even more reprehensible than were the heathenish, polytheistic errors into which ancient Israel was so prone to fall. As a matter of solid fact, however, such a rendering is a frightful mistranslation.” (For the Record – John 1:1)

Dr. William Barclay, a leading Greek scholar, University of Glasgow, Scotland:

“The deliberate distortion of truth by this sect is seen in their New Testament translations, John 1:1 is translated: ‘the Word was a god,’ a translation which is grammatically impossible. It is abundantly clear that a sect that can translate the New Testament like that is intellectually dishonest.”

H. H. Rowley, British scholar:

“From beginning to end this volume is a shining example of how the Bible should NOT be translated.”

Dr. Julius Mantey, author of A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament:

“A grossly misleading translation”; “obsolete and incorrect“; “shocking mistranslation“

“It is neither scholarly nor reasonable to translate John 1:1 ‘the Word was a god.’ But of all the scholars in the world, so far as we know, none have translated this verse as Jehovah’s Witnesses have done.”

“I have never read any New Testament so badly translated as the Kingdom Interlinear of the Greek Scriptures…. It is a distortion–not a translation.”

“The translators of the New World Translation are ‘diabolical deceivers.'”

Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed, well known translator:

“A fatal distortion of Biblical truth”; “the grammar is regrettable”

Johannes Greber’s “bible”

The one “bible” which translates John 1:1 as “the Word was a god” known to us, and to the WTB&TS, is Johannes Greber’s “Bible.”

Greber was a Catholic priest who became a spiritist. He claimed to get his “translation” as a medium of the spirit world.

He wrote another book entitled, Communication with the Spirit World, published in 1932, which details his experiences as a medium.

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Why Do You Think There Is A Spike In Covid Cases?

by minimus in

jw
friends

any thoughts?

?.

Anony Mous

There is a spike in cases, but not deaths. Basically, more people are getting it because people are getting sick and tired from being inside. Go to the supermarket and you'll see, people are close again, they aren't staying 6 feet away.

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If Whites Are Inherently Racists.....

by minimus in

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does that mean that blacks are too?

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Anony Mous

I believe racism and religion is innate in people. They both stem from long, evolutionary processes that have been proven quite helpful in the past. This has been proven in young children, even controlling for a range of factors such as education and personal beliefs of the parents.

The explanation is quite simple: If you are in an area with low resources, you find out grouping is beneficial, but too large a group is not. So you make a small group, you need to keep them together so you make up stories about the darkness outside the range of the campfire, this fear of the darkness is quite natural, because people that wander out there are more likely to get eaten => religion is born.

So you have a small group, there isn't enough resources to grow the group, you find another group, you kill them. Now you are sentient enough to know killing is wrong, because killing within your group is bad for survival (you kill the hunter, you starve, you kill the healer, you get sepsis), but you just killed others that act and look like you. So you come up with stories about how they are "different", "less human" => Now tribalism is born, racism is just a form of tribalism.

These things have been tested in groups of young children and both close and remote ancestors of primates. Groups form when there is sufficient resources but too much danger for individuals. Tribalism forms when there is a shortage of resources for a larger group.

Kids tend to share and form groups as long as there are enough toys. When you take away some toys so they don't have enough for everyone, kids will start to form groups and fight, those groupings don't necessarily make sense, but generally along the lines of observation, how they look, race, gender, smell, even clothing items, clothing colors etc. As kids get older, they make more nuanced distinctions and come up with more elaborate stories about these distinctions.

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What`s wrong With American Politics ?

by smiddy3 in

what`s wrong with american politics ?.

96% of american people who got off there arse to vote, chose hillary clinton to be president of the united states of america over donald trump.. and the electoral college overode the will of the majority of the people who bothered to vote , and gave the office of president to donald trump who was the 2nd choice, an also ran , of the will of the people.. it`s a furphy to say that some larger blue/red states can dictate to smaller red/blue states or vice versa to rig the elections ,simply because people can, and do change there preferences in any one state whether it be traditionally red or blue.. both democrats and republicans are both guilty and responsible for the gerrymander that is the electoral college.. there i`ve said it ,.

nobody else seems to be able to say it how it is ,.

Anony Mous

He is trolling, from another perspective, Trump won 2,626 counties while Clinton took 487 of them nationwide.

Yes, Hillary nearly won the election with just 15% of all US communities voting for her. So there you go, Trump won 85% of the vote and nearly lost to Hillary.

So if you want to talk about fly-over country and the majority of the country having the feeling they are getting ignored, this is why. The cities (NY and CA in particular) get all the attention, all the funding, all the political capital and people in rural areas and their local issues get largely ignored.

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Eliminate the Oil Industry?

by Anony Mous in

a lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.. in the us, biden has promised to eliminate all federal lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the united states) as well as native american tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the us).. in europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the nordic countries and the uk (which the eu recently lost access to), germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is china from russia and russian-controlled portions of ukraine, even after trump cut off all builders from russian oil pipelines, the russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.. venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.. in the mean time, control for most non-us energy sources is now wholly dependent on russian and middle eastern governments.. california and germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives.

germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kwh and california is not far behind with 16c/kwh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.. the world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.

co2 emissions in the us have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.. do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing?

Anony Mous

We rely on hydroelectric (Niagara Falls) which has been operating since Nikolai Tesla convinced Westinghouse to build it. Natural hydro is cheap, nuclear is cheap. We pay 2c/kWh where I live (4c in the winter), from hydro + nuclear in the north-east which is cheaper than the natural gas which is 6c/kWh (not account for inefficiencies converting BTU into kWh).

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Biden Voter Fraud Admission

by Simon in

he's either admitting that they are relying on voter fraud, or he's a decrepit senile old fart who's unfit to be president.. which is it?.

did he also just claim that they committed fraud to get obama elected?

what a joke.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8a2g6ttp0.

Anony Mous

The phrase "Can I change my vote" has been trending in the top 100 Google searches for the last few days, which surprisingly, some states allow you to. Many, many people are just finding out about the extensive corruption within the Democrat party.

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If a JW becomes inactive is he then labeled as an apostate?

by Pallbearer in

i have heard a rumor that if a jw becomes inactive he or she is considered to be an apostate.

is this true?

has anyone here on this forum had such an experience?

Anony Mous

Official JW.org doctrine: Apostasy is abandoning, deserting or rejecting Jehovah’s organization [the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society]; so by definition, anyone that 'abandoned' (or has let themselves become "inactive") is an apostate.

Contrast this with the regularly accepted definition of Apostasy: Apostasy in Christianity is the rejection of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian.

So you can be an apostate in the JW simply by abandoning the WTBTS organization (becoming inactive), whereas in most churches you must reject the entire Christian faith (so you can change churches, denominations etc) to be considered an apostate.

My experience:

I have been officially inactive for a decade, I am officially also still an MS, I am also labeled an apostate by many. Mostly because they tried to but failed to disfellowship me, but I was able to hold any change in status with legal action and they've since forgotten about me. I'm sure someone at some point will simply throw out my publisher card.

The apostate label does not follow any status in the JW organization, it is something you can be labeled whenever you disagree with the ever-changing WTBTS official doctrine. By definition, anyone inactive is disagreeing with the WTBTS doctrine that you have to attend meetings to be "saved", so yes, inactive ones are apostates.

If you post here, as many a faithful JW do, you are considered an apostate.

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Eliminate the Oil Industry?

by Anony Mous in

a lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.. in the us, biden has promised to eliminate all federal lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the united states) as well as native american tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the us).. in europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the nordic countries and the uk (which the eu recently lost access to), germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is china from russia and russian-controlled portions of ukraine, even after trump cut off all builders from russian oil pipelines, the russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.. venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.. in the mean time, control for most non-us energy sources is now wholly dependent on russian and middle eastern governments.. california and germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives.

germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kwh and california is not far behind with 16c/kwh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.. the world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.

co2 emissions in the us have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.. do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing?

Anony Mous

A lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.

In the US, Biden has promised to eliminate all Federal Lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the United States) as well as Native American tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the US).

In Europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the Nordic countries and the UK (which the EU recently lost access to), Germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is China from Russia and Russian-controlled portions of Ukraine, even after Trump cut off all builders from Russian oil pipelines, the Russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.

Venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.

In the mean time, control for most non-US energy sources is now wholly dependent on Russian and Middle Eastern governments.

California and Germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives. Germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kWh and California is not far behind with 16c/kWh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.

The world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.

CO2 emissions in the US have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.

Do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing? I understand migrating to a more dense fuel source (eg. nuclear) would be a great thing, but there is a lot of resistance to that for various political reasons. What are you doing to reduce your CO2 footprint? Do you think it's safe to have your country or even the entire world's energy dependence until we make such conversion to full solar/wind/nuclear in the hands of two of the most ruthless dictators, Putin and Mohammed bin Salman or is this a worthy sacrifice?

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Hunter Biden—Will He Affect The Election?

by minimus in

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i think he’s done incredible damage to biden.

he must be in hiding in his dad’s basement too.

i think this is the october surprise people have been wondering about.

Anony Mous

Both candidates have admitted their internal numbers look closer than the public polls. That's because they use different measures, small groups of "likely voters" is not really representative.

The Biden campaign made a tremendous mistake calling a lid every day and staying in the basement for the last 2 months. They were thinking the media was going to cover for them and they did. But now the Hunter Biden story, Trump exposing the deep corruption within the Biden family on public television, the first time ANY major network covered these facts, the failed censorship and exposing deep corruption ties with social media (both Twitter and Facebook spokespersons on the issue were proven to be Biden plants) and failing to stack the debates in their favor put them into a frenzy and now Biden is hurriedly tracking all over the country.

They've been going so fast, even Kamala Harris doesn't know where she is at any moment, asking on a hot mike the other day whether she was in Cleveland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFe5pqJ_MtA).