Posts by Anony Mous

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Don’t Trust the Courts! Splane’s Latest Anti-Apostate Talk

by StephaneLaliberte in

david splane’s talk “put up a hard fight for the faith” was that last talk presented on the saturday of the annual convention.

this talk was to largely address apostates and restated ideas and arguments often presented before.

however, this year, watchtower is spending more time in disqualifying negative findings originating from secular courts and here is the segment of interest here: .

Anony Mous

Actually, neither sides probably wants the whole truth to come out in court.

If he’s referring to the WT pedophilia lawsuits, then there is at least one party that doesn’t want the truth, but quite a way to slander victims of child sex abuse. He’s basically saying that if you are a victim of child sex abuse, you have something to hide, it’s partially your fault too.

Also quite a way to misrepresent Roman and Mosaic law, the Jews largely followed their own unified laws by then as controlling debts according to the strictest literal Mosaic interpretation only works on very small scales and the are had grown from a bunch of tribes to a full-scale nation (the physical space we call Israel today).

As far as the country of Israel, when established about 600 BCE the jubilee wasn’t a thing, according to Rabbinic tradition, this only applied to the land when they lived as separate tribes (pre-exile), according to science, the law was written post-exile and never really applied or only for a short period of time after their return from Babylon. It was probably written as an “eat the rich” propaganda tool and either never implemented or abandoned soon after it was written as it would not allow the sale of land and thus promote owners to hold and lease property across generations rather than having an economy around it. There is no evidence it was ever practiced according to the words, although it was sometimes found in Babylonian decrees and thus it is potentially an explanation or incorporation of those decrees into the law.

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Electric Vehicles ... or Auto Unions?

by Simon in

apparently biden had an electric vehicle summit earlier this week.. tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?.

tesla ... right?

they have practically defined the segment after all.. but which company wasn't invited to biden's electric vehicle summit?.

Anony Mous

Electric cars are extremely polluting, just not spread across where they drive, but manufacturing is insanely bad for the environment. Lithium and other rare earth metals are now much more expensive than they were a decade ago, so batteries are getting much more expensive, electric cars are going up in cost year over year. They’re also impossible to recycle and because of weight concerns contain a ton of plastic, carbon fiber and alloys that won’t ever get recycled.

Most electric energy comes from hydrocarbons and even though there has been massive deployment of wind and solar, even Germany can’t get that share beyond 15% of their total consumption, even though on paper, they should be able to produce 200% of their electric needs from renewable powered today (most of the energy gets produced when nobody needs it, so it is sold off at negative rates to neighboring countries, then they import coal and coal powered electric from Russia when they need it).

The load on the grid will require massive investments, charging stations that have 10-15 cars charging at a speed acceptable to people (<15 minutes) would require an entire 10kV electric power line dedicated to it.

The Chrysler minivan mentioned above has an MSRP of 53000 without any options and isn’t fully electric, it’s a hybrid. The regular minivan costs half that. No way you are pumping $20k worth of gas in 10 years even if electric and financing that amount up front were feasible and free (it isn’t). I spent at most $200/month ($2400/year) pre-COVID for 2 full-size cars (Luxury sedan and 3-row SUV), now its approximately half that.

If I were rich, sure, Id get a Tesla, but I just can’t afford it and prices aren’t pointing down by the time a mandate kicks in, it is estimated e-cars will be 30% more expensive by then and that isn’t even taking into account resource shortages and import issues (most of the resources mined come solely from China)

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2700 years ago Jews ate pigs

by fulltimestudent in

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from haaretz newspaper:.

what does a pig skeleton discovered in jerusalem say about first temple era jews?.

the argument here is that sanctions on eating pork were only introduced in the 2nd temple era.. so what does that tell you bout biblical accuracy.. .

Anony Mous

If you look at the research, Jewish (and thus also Christian) canon wasn’t established until relatively recently. The Books of Moses can be divided between 5 major factions and the Levite laws were rather late in this amalgamation.

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What’s Your Prediction For Covid & Its Consequences?

by minimus in

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will we close down again?

will we be masked forever?

will we be required to get vaccinated over and over again?

Anony Mous

It all depends who will be in power in your area.

In the US, Dems have another 12-18 months to create their utopia, their ratings are dropping quickly. They have a few more tricks like stacking the Supreme Court and the current spate of Gerrymandering they’re doing. Europe is done for, they will soon be a puppet to the Chinese like much of Africa and Asia already is, some countries will try to split from the EU but unless we have a return of great leaders in the US, they will be like Poland or Ukraine or countries like France and Germany may split again like East Germany or Nazi France.

We will see a post world war boom in free areas and a return to a USSR-era Cold War communist-style government in others, with fights between factions and free people while countries like the EU will either splinter or muddle on and require handouts from the free areas for the next 50 years.

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Electric Vehicles ... or Auto Unions?

by Simon in

apparently biden had an electric vehicle summit earlier this week.. tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?.

tesla ... right?

they have practically defined the segment after all.. but which company wasn't invited to biden's electric vehicle summit?.

Anony Mous

@rocketman: you missed the part where I said, all those manufacturers have one, but almost nobody buys them.

You won’t fit a family with 2 or 3 kids in a Prius, you won’t haul anything with it, you won’t fit much cargo, they need special tires and they have a short range.

The ones that are big enough and have a range to replace my $15k VW on gas (BMW, Toyota) are more expensive than Tesla’s offering ($50-60k).

If you can afford a big electric car and you are single or have one child, you have nothing to worry about, but people rely on trucks and minivans sub-$20k for a reason.

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COVID not found

by Anna Marina in

alberta has just lifted all covid restrictions because they can't find any samples to prove it even exists.. https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/alberta-lifts-all-covid-restrictions-because-they-cant-produce-an-isolated-sample-of-sars-cov-2-to-prove-covid-exists-to-back-their-mandates/.

german paper bild apologises for pushing covid lockdowns and damaging society.. https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-07-30-german-newspaper-apologizes-covid-lockdown-hysteria-society.html.

wonder if the day will come when wt admits it lied?

Anony Mous

@fulltimestudent: it’s interesting how news stories coagulate around COVID being the cause of these bodies washing ashore, when these kind of occurrences happen daily and India has done ever worse since the British left.

Here is an article from 2015: https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/15/asia/ganges-corpses-india/index.html

Note that in India, burial is often not religiously acceptable, so they burn their dead and/or float them or bury them on or near the “holy river” depending on the caste and sect they belong to.

Some 2.4M Indians die from preventable diseases annually, while 5M die from chronic diseases, total of 10M deaths annually. Some of them will have covid, sure, but the majority will die from lack of food, water and healthcare. The few thousand deaths from COVID over a time span of now 2 years won’t make much of a change.

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Electric Vehicles ... or Auto Unions?

by Simon in

apparently biden had an electric vehicle summit earlier this week.. tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?.

tesla ... right?

they have practically defined the segment after all.. but which company wasn't invited to biden's electric vehicle summit?.

Anony Mous

@road to nowhere: that is Europe in a nutshell if you’re poor. That’s how I grew up. And there are people on here that don’t understand that if you’re rich or American (but I repeat myself) you can’t fathom the pure poverty that socialism has bestowed on Western Europe over the last 70 years.

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Electric Vehicles ... or Auto Unions?

by Simon in

apparently biden had an electric vehicle summit earlier this week.. tell me the first name that comes to mind when it comes to electric vehicles?.

tesla ... right?

they have practically defined the segment after all.. but which company wasn't invited to biden's electric vehicle summit?.

Anony Mous

@rocketman: look what happened to all the auto brands that have trade unions. Without the Obama intervention, they would’ve all gone out of business by now.

Musk doesn’t like unions, because he likes to actually get his car built at reasonable prices.

Electric cars are already insanely expensive because they take a lot of energy and resources (carbon emissions) to create, much more than any regular car. You can’t reduce those costs without cutting a ton of space, range and usability (compare a Tesla with VW eGolf, Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, Toyota Prius and understand why nobody wants to buy the latter).

Top of the line electric cars will always cost more than my house and their prices are going up, not down, mandating the electric car, like Biden is trying to pass by 2030, would mean that nobody that isn’t rich can afford to drive a car, just in time for the government to swoop in and provide Amtrak public transport paid for with your taxes, and just as in California, a waste of money for whatever high speed rail system they have been building for 30 years.

Musk is also a conservative/libertarian, so Biden would never invite him just for that, but Musk isn’t shy of pointing out the hypocrisy and shady backroom deals they just made in the White House. How much do you want to bet a Biden family or staff member will be heading whatever development the big three auto makers are going to make in this arena?

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Dems and useful idiots take private property.

by mickbobcat in

this is nothing but illegal.

telling people that they can not evict a dead beat renter for not paying rent while the land owner has to pay for repairs, insurance, taxes and a mortgage is such a private property grab.

any one who votes for these assholes is a total idiot.

Anony Mous

Owning property is bad. They’re just creating problems like housing shortages that way they can swoop in and solve the problem.

That is how they did it in California and now the government owns approximately 1M units in what once was highly desirable locations (they pay premium on $250k+ housing units, driving the cost up) while assisting more than a million people with rent and they want to shore that up by developing 2M public housing units.

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More lies from fake news.

by mickbobcat in

news is broadcasting that death valley is getting close to breaking a record.

the highest air temp recorded is 134 but that was in 1913 way before the huge spike in co2.

now its 130 and its the end of the world.

Anony Mous

@Rivergang, just a few thousand years ago, most of North America was glacier. Canada still is. Climate has changed and will again, there is nothing we humans can do about it. Yes, we may have an impact, but most scientists will admit this only contributes to 1.5-3C over the next 100 years. Millions of years ago, the earth was an actual greenhouse with average temperatures over 20C higher than today. We now call it the Cambrian explosion, when life exploded from a few microorganisms and shellfish into the ancestors of every species on earth.

It all depends on your time scale, humans need to adapt, there is nothing we can do now to reverse global warming, that time was 200 years ago, hurricanes are dying down and forests are exploding in growth, we control natural forest fires and they will become bigger and bigger each year. We need to prepare for change, not try to prevent it. Ask the aussies what happened when they tried to control nature, they got bunnies, lots of them, so they built a fence, so they have created entirely different ecosystems and even went to war with the emus (and lost), now they have rodents everywhere.