@joey: you should really read up on a bit of history. Israel is the only place where Arabs and Jews in the region live together. Gaza Strip, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, all places where Jews get murdered. Jews and Arabs have lived in that area for thousands of years, but the Jew hatred has been exacerbated during and after the Second World War, when Muslim extremists came to power in the region, helped by Hitler and Russia.
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400 Rockets Hit Israel
by minimus inisrael retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
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Chipotle says employees can make $100,000 after just 3 years on the job
by Iamallcool inhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/chipotle-wage-increase/index.html .
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That’s not entirely uncommon for high end managers and regional managers of fast food places, especially as they get bonuses and profit sharing. I knew a girl once that was a Radio Shack manager that made a ton of money too, I couldn’t believe how much a good sales month would bring in bonuses.
Waitresses made an average of $50k before the pandemic between a $12/h average taxable wage and an average of $13/h untaxed tips (which quite honestly I can’t believe is that low as doing 6 tables/hour should give you ~$50 around here)
Good employees deserve to be payed well. The problem recently however is that the government handouts have killed the job market. Why go to work when between unemployment and other poverty benefits you effectively make $45k/y doing nothing at home. This is driving the cost of commodities up as people need to be paid effectively $25/h or more for ANY job, even the low-end simplest jobs.
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I am still not able to solve this God's name paradox...
by psyco ini am finishing to read the entire bible (nwt 2013) for my first time (my fault) and i wrote down hundreds, maybe thousands, of questions not clear to me, but one especially came in my mind meditating on god's name.. if i wanted to summarize the entire bible in one phrase i would say (even before the kingdom): god’s name sanctification.. god is jealous about his name.
he does everything for the love of his name, and he wants to be called and prayed using his name.
no doubt about all this (repeated several times in the bible), but it involves the pronunciation of his name.. god left us his name in the form of יהוה which is unpronounceable.
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Well the interpretation that god cares about his name is very JW-centric. The JWs added the name in a ton of places where they interpreted it should be but no extant texts do have it in those places. Not because it was removed, but because the writers never put it there.
The first few books of the Bible would have no knowledge of a named god as Judaism hadn’t yet formulated, thus you would see more proto-names which is believed to be Yahweh Asher Yahweh, which is not a name but more along the lines of a royal title of the deity and by the time the later books came around, most Jewish sects would’ve stopped using it already. So yes, you would see shortened versions like Yahweh as a “name” in some places in the Bible (around Kings and Psalms) but it would quickly disappear after the diaspora (the prophets).
By the first century CE the Jews would not have used the name at all and Jesus and most early Christians being a Jew and all wouldn’t have either, else you’d be seeing that debate all over the biblical texts.
The name Jehovah is anglicized, if god cared about his name, surely he would want his “witnesses” to pronounce it correctly and thus it would be “Yahweh Asher Yahweh’s Witnesses“ for the earliest “name” and Yahweh is the closest to what we know it used to sound like but that would also make them sound like some Rastafarian.
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Significant Changes Happening - Even Though Many May Not Realize
by JWTom ini posted this item a few weeks ago (link below) with a compilation of items that could happen as the organization unravels - even though many (including myself) may find it unlikely, improbable or simply too much of a change to believe.. https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5165806634663936/drastic-upcoming-changes-accelerated-pandemic.
as an active pimo though, i came up with the list in the above post simply from the standpoint that very significant changes have been occurring on an ongoing basis and sometimes i think even very active witnesses do not realize it.
a few major items that have been ongoing or were singular events listed below.
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Remember when conventions were 5 day events that went from like 9am to 4pm. I heard they just had the circuit assembly, 1 day over Zoom, down from 2 days, basically pre-recorded speeches. No need to go to multiple conventions to hear the same points from different speakers.
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400 Rockets Hit Israel
by minimus inisrael retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
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Iran is just testing how far it can push the Americans this time. Israel seems to be readying for an invasion of Gaza though, guess they have enough of supporting a ton of freeloaders.
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U.S. Announcement at CLAM w/o March 3 - Donation of Trailers Needed
by JWTom inat our clam meeting this past week there was a rather lengthy announcement asking for the donation of travel trailers.
needed to be at least 22 feet long and not older than a 2005 model year.
lots of other details were in the announcement about what was desired related condition of the trailer, etc.
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They've long asked for donations of cars and other vehicles. Travel trailers (which classifies as an RV) are one of those things that stood out to you, but is just part of the 'acceptable donations' in these cases (as ar motorcycles and boats, but I'm sure they don't want to send that message you should even have a boat/motorcycle). Trust me, you won't see the CO traveling in your '97 Chevy Blazer and a patched up trailer in tow (that was maybe a special pioneer in the 50s).
What they basically do with those cars, as does cars-for-kids etc is sell them to either dealerships or junkyards and collect the profit. The reason they set a limit on the age of the vehicle is because at some point it's just junk and it costs them more to pick it up and deliver to the junkyard than it would bring in profit. The junkyard isn't going to give you much for older used RV's as they are primarily plastic and not a good source of metal unlike cars. Junkyards will pay a little bit for modern ones because there is still a market for parts.
For construction sites, you have special style construction trailer which are rented by the regional building committees. The WTBTS has a deal with the rental companies so they get a small chunk of the rebates, they also don't want to deal with patching up an old trailer or the liability/insurance for that (any cost would be a sunk, unrecoverable cost after the project).
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Watch this, and don’t shoot the messenger...
by DATA-DOG inhopefully i’m doing this right and it will display for you.
this is an interview with michael yeadon, former vice president and chief science officer of pfizer.
of course he has been attacked, slandered, shunned, ect, and this will never be allowed on social media, but he has taken the time to appear in an unpaid interview.
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I just quoted you from the NIH, feel free to show scientific evidence that contradicts well established studies.
Even the CDC has no scientific papers to backup its guidance, instead relying on Randi Weingarten from America’s Public Teachers Union to write its guidance. And yes, that is quite literally what the Biden White House has admitted to be doing.
The teachers union in the middle of a scandal for influencing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's official school reopening guidance gave nearly $20 million to Democrats in the 2020 election cycle. https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails/
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4th Stimulus Check? (USA)
by Iamallcool indo you think there will be another round of stimulus checks?
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I just got my 4th stimulus check, what are you talking about? Trump got us 3 rounds of stimulus (2 large checks and 1 little one) and Biden just got us 1. Between this, the Trump tax cuts and extra unemployment I gotten nearly $35k from the government in the last 18 months and I work full time (I got layed off 1 week per month last summer to take the extra unemployment) with a six figure salary.
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Watch this, and don’t shoot the messenger...
by DATA-DOG inhopefully i’m doing this right and it will display for you.
this is an interview with michael yeadon, former vice president and chief science officer of pfizer.
of course he has been attacked, slandered, shunned, ect, and this will never be allowed on social media, but he has taken the time to appear in an unpaid interview.
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@rocketman: you lost the argument when you decided to ignore facts and continue to parrot what the governments told you.
The facts about masks are well known. They do not help the regular population.
Here is an article from the fucking NIH which and I quote In the 1919 influenza pandemic, masks were available and were dispensed to populations, but they had no impact on the epidemic curve. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868614/
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I Will Give President Biden Credit
by minimus inhe’s really implementing the democrats agenda!
he’s wasting no time !.
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Regards the 2 parent household, here is a well written statistical analysis: https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/power-two-parent-home-not-myth
The Democratic plantation is the expression of policies that are designed to promote poverty (such as single parent households being promoted through section 8, child support, tax breaks and other left-wing policies) in order to keep certain types of people (especially blacks) poor, uneducated and thus continue to vote for the Democrats. This is a real thing, quite explicitly in left-wing cities from the 1940s to 1970s, poor people in the “projects” would get additional benefits if they were single parent households, however, if ever a man was found in the house, they would instantly lose those benefits. That law was particularly enforced against black people, thus if you wanted the benefits, you voted Democrat, but enforcement of the law consisted of explicitly excluding black male presence in childrens’ life. Democrats had KKK senators until the 1990s, Biden famously eulogized a grand wizard and senator in the early 2000s.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood (which she called “the negro project”) explicitly founded the abortion industry to rid America of blacks; as she wrote in her autobiography she founded it for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization”
Those things are still being promoted to date, the BLM is explicitly calling for the removal of police from black neighborhoods, which has already increased the murder rate in some cities by over 100%, the number of unarmed black people being killed by police is in the single digits every year. The number of black people being killed by other black criminals is in the thousands every year. Hence promoting a police-less presence is promoting black murder. And as BREONNA TAYLOR’s mother said recently: BLM is profiting, taking millions of dollars on her name, they don’t even recognize her when she walks in the room, they haven’t given her or her community a dime, they are frauds. The leaders of Antifa and BLM are the ones who buy million-dollar mansions in gated communities instead of doing something to promote a better black community, promote fathers presence in children’s life, promote honest work over crime.
Wokism specifically is the left-wing religious belief system. The promotion of “systematic racism” and the cult-like following of people like Ibram X Kendi who promotes a system of black against white discrimination (or what he defines to be anti-racism) to fight what he believes to be a white supremacist system. They redefine words, such as the recent “black birthing person” instead of mothers. This redefinition of culture as they go along, is wokism. Where you can’t say he/she anymore but refer to anyone as them, where you have to put your preferred pronouns in every email or chatroom, where you push companies like Coca-Cola to put anti-white HR training.