do you think voters should be required to prove that they are legitimate?.
Yes, and there is an easy way of doing that. You give people an ID based on their birth certificate and hash that information. You now have an anonymous identifier which you can tie to a vote. This vote can go on a public blockchain. Any party interested can subscribe to the blockchain and verify their own vote from home while their avatars give a plausible deniability.
People that say their votes were tampered with go back to vote again, which submits a cancel vote and a new vote.
can the local groups chose which talk for a given day?
how about the songs?
anything else?.
The opening songs are a small selection based on the script of the talk. So at the header of the talk there is typically a list of 3-5 songs the speaker can pick from, the direction is to pick songs that weren’t used in the last/next few meetings (there are some that disregard that and then you get situations where the song for the talk and watchtower study is the same) and there is an outline with sentences and scriptures he has to stick to for the talk.
Everything is highly produced, there isn’t much left to personal choice.
so the cult is getting into film production.
i saw evans piece on the jws opening a studio in australia.
one thing i see is if they use the people who are drawn to acting one they will create internal stars.
Hollywood is also an echo chamber, everyone in Hollywood that is not extreme-left gets rejected and blacklisted which results in more alphabetsoups being part of the group as you have to be pretty darn left to reject biological realities.
This is the same as saying that there are no alphabetsoup JW's and all JWs normalize child sex offenders - which is true, leftists in general would not be attracted to the message and anyone that does engage in practices or points out the sex offender problem gets promptly kicked out of the group.
There are conservative filmmakers, quite a bit of the best films in the 70s and 80s came from right-wing figures. Some of the best actors around both established and up-and-coming are conservative. You don't hear from them because they have an uphill battle getting recognized. But Jerry Bruckheimer, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn, Joe Pesci, Scott Baio, Jon Voight, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Charlton Heston, Keanu Reeves are or were some of the best actors and directors in history, and you haven't seen a good movie since Hollywood started actively blackballing some of these actors - literally look at the top rated movies (by viewers) of all time, the last one was The Dark Knight (2008) which was more than 10 years ago now.
lloyd evans has just tweeted a video he will be releasing soon on the "change" to the meaning of the sheep and goats and when that is to occur.. i've missed any discussion on that on here or anywhere?
it seems it was part of the 2020 annual meeting the gb had?.
any info on this?.
It seems to me lately that this new light depends on which of the 7 is currently writing. It seems like sometimes details on what interpretation is used in talks or writing greatly depends on which of them is saying it.
This then leads to weird reinterpretations across those who are paying attention (a few exJWs and a few hardcore armageddonists) which are later “corrected” by reprints of old material.
I think there are simply too many drunk cooks in the kitchen and they’re just hoping their flock doesn’t notice too much discrepancy from year to year.
i don’t care about politics, books you are reading, movies and tv programs you’re watching, etc..
I think it’s great to see many of us take part in these kind of discourse, in the past we weren’t allowed to comment on politics or participate in voting etc. There isn’t a whole lot going on in JW-land, they literally have been shutting down the religion to save money. This forum isn’t just about JWs, it’s for JWs and regurgitating the copy-pasta from various other fact-based exJW websites would be boring.
what term would you use for a governor who enacts policies that directly cause the deaths of well over ten thousand and then covers up the death count for fear of prosecution?.
i think "mass murderer" is the correct term.. he's far, far from the "messiah" figure the media have portrayed him to be over his handling of covid.. let the lawsuits commence.. https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/.
The Secretary of State admitted they covered it up because there was a DOJ investigation and to make Dems plans look better in the election as Biden plans for lockdowns are based on Cuomo.
He basically hid evidence from the feds. It is called obstruction.
certain forces appear to be trying to make sure donald trump never runs for president again.
some republicans are clearly abandoning trump and of course the democratic press has been saying trump is done!
is trump’s goose cooked?
About 47% of the population still supports him. I doubt he’ll run again, but true conservatives are forced to make a comeback to offset the crazy of the next 4 years.
No more Romney’s or Cheney’s or Bush’s, that’s for sure, if you don’t fight for your rights and your country you’ll end up with Biden and Harris and AOC.
so you're stuck at home, you may be worried about your income, welcome to the world of filling your stuck-in-the-house time with saving some money!.
here in canada, our energy costs are going up because we have a carbon tax.
today, in the middle of the crisis, trudeau is raising it by 50%, probably as some perverse "thank you" to all the truckers delivering vital goods.
@Italiancalipso: You can just put the entire infrastructure on a timer if you're looking to save some money. It really makes no measurable difference to switch off the antenna, pulling up the webpage to do it costs more energy than the antenna does in an entire day. In most cases it doesn't actually switch it off either, it just blocks the traffic.
The best thing to do is turn down your heat/air. I have 3 settings: day (6a-9p) 68/72F, evening (9p-1am) 64/75F and night (1am-6a) 60/80F. I turn down the night because nobody notices when they sleep, but you don't want to go out to the bathroom in 60F either, so until everyone is settled, I keep it at 65. Also reset the heat to 68F every 4 hours. If we need to boost the heat for whatever reason, we don't need to keep it that high for the rest of the day. I also have a geofence on my smartphone so if we leave the house, it turns it down to 60F and when we get within a mile, it will set it back.
The other things to do is actually invest money into insulation and the like. I saved 50-75% on my heating bill between $1500 of attic insulation and $200 for a smart thermostat. That's almost $50-75/month I'm saving (now I pay less than $100/month for gas and electric, living near Canada in the Northeast)
maybe i`m a just a bit more impatient than some ,but the govt.
did say they will name and shame those who do not sign up to the redress scheme didn`t they ?
and take away their special priveledges , etc.?.
As with most of these things, just grease the right hands and this will all go away. These kind of government actions are just a modern extortion scheme from those in power. They'll go through all the motions, hang this up in court for another decade and hope everyone else forgets before dismantling the operations for having done its job. The WTBTS will never have paid or lost anything, they're too small fish, the Catholic Church is much bigger and has already paid up, the extra few millions from the WTBTS won't make a change.
i think it’s terrible.
if someone wants to believe in a political party they should not be punished or censured because of who they like or what their politics are, right or left.
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People will increasingly opt out of these woke companies. That's why you have things like Parler and Daily Wire but the left then goes for their platforms.
It's why Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are leaving their companies and cashing out. Their companies have been taken over by the mob, groups of people that aren't even their paying customers are dictating the terms with which they can do business, and they see the writing on the wall. People are leaving Facebook in droves, AWS growth has effectively been stunned and the only direction it can go is down, Google is facing the same difficulties and posting massive losses in some of their divisions simply because people in business are afraid of doing business with them. If you have Facebook or Google or Amazon stock, this is the height of their market value.
I've recently recommended against Amazon Web Services for example because they can, at any point, turn off the system and they've proven a willingness and capacity of doing it. So it's bad practice for any company to rely on those third party vendors that will disconnect you the minute you or your employee makes a comment they don't agree with, and we've seen you don't even have to mean it and you could be as left wing as you want, cancel culture can come to you as they redefine words and dig up an old tweet that doesn't meet the new definition. These are purely technical decisions, as most things in business are, they aren't motivated by politics, but if you can't guarantee me a service and won't stand by a customer of 10 years because someone on Reddit or Twitter is throwing a hissy fit, then you don't deserve to be relied upon.
As a result, major corporations will be pulling out or at least diversifying, cutting the funding to these already underperforming services. Goya is one of the more clear examples, they simply are not bowing to the left and they survived, you'll eventually see this happen over and over again and these corporations will just opt out of the establishment systems.
