Posts by Anony Mous

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Simon, are you affected by this Canadian trucker convoy?

by greenhornet in

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i think you live in canada.

this convoy is starting in the usa and soon to be in europe.

just like to know how this is effecting your daily life and like to share with us if it is.

Anony Mous

I think Canada is getting desperate, lots of people talking about food shortages in the stores now that they are also blocking major border crossings, farmers especially haven’t been able to feed their cattle and are prematurely slaughtering livestock to keep up.

Trudeau in the mean time said that you need the mandates in order to prevent the restrictions. Not kidding, that’s literally what he said.

The media is calling it simultaneously a small insignificant number of truckers, a Trump rally, terrorists blocking the entire capital and off course they’re all racists and Nazis.

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"A thousand years as one day"

by Awakened07 in

the scripture saying: "...one day is with the lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

" (2. peter 3:8) is often used both by jehovah's witnesses and others, to show that a day can literally mean a thousand years in the eyes of god.

this is then used especially for the creation story, and for the fall of adam and eve.

Anony Mous

If 1000 years is as 1 day to God, that seems to imply that God really doesn’t have time to deal with us individually. 86400 seconds per day, that would mean a year is just 1.5 minutes to God, even assuming he can interact with everyone individually, within 1.5 hours we are born and die, and for half of that time we aren’t even conscious or adult.

It also means we can measure gods age and it’s 38333 god-years old and humans have existed for less than 1 of them.

If a God really cares about intelligent life to worship him, why would he bother not creating creatures that can do it for 38332 years and then even if they devote their entire life, they can do it for a few minutes in utter misery and disappear again. Seems like he just got bored and it’s a bit of an afterthought. Dinosaurs were more his thing.

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SANG BLOOD

by Marcial in

courts of denmark all lands supreme court news and judicial summaries blood transfusion to a member of jehovah's witnesses was legal.

01 feb 2022. .

supreme court.

Anony Mous

@smiddy: it already panned out, the European courts basically held that medical directives are not valid. Therefore the government (which runs medicine in EU) can make medical decisions on your behalf as long as you’re not conscious. Very dangerous.

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Any jw's play World of warcraft?

by lemonlime in

i am jw and i do play wow.

id like to find some other jws that play.

preferably around the age of 35-40. if u play and ur jw whats ur character name and realm?

Anony Mous

I thought WoW died a long time ago. More into Hearthstone and HotS right now. What your BattleTag, I’ll add you.

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It begins norway no money for wt because of shunning

by Yomama in

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organized shunning will stop when money stops.

Anony Mous

It doesn’t seem they are losing their charity status or anything else. In Norway, tax money pays churches for existing.

Basically Norway was giving JWs millions per year to simply exist as a religion. This wasn’t a tax break, this was a donation, which was then sent off to the US.

And I agree, if the giver doesn’t agree where his donations are going, they don’t have to be given. I do disagree with the whole notion that church and state should not be separated or that the state can decide what a church should or should not be saying.

My question is why the WTBTS would even accept this money, it’s clearly a payment that makes an organization become dependent or subservient to the state.

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Call me Suspicious, but ...

by Simon in

when the president is going somewhere to talk about an infrastructure bill, and wants support for ever more endless spending, some of which is for bridge reconstruction, having a bridge collapse on the very day and in the very place he's going just seems "too perfect", doesn't it?.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60173771.

Anony Mous

Obama did the same, right as election started a bridge collapsed triggering a major refocus into infrastructure. Then when Republicans tried to slow spending in 2011 he pointed at it, even though the bridge didn’t collapse due to lack of maintenance, it was revealed later that the bridge collapsed likely due to design flaws.

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What is your IQ? Does it Matter?

by Sea Breeze in

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i had an aunt that had rheumatic fever as a child and only had an iq the high 70's.

but, absolutely no one was able to bs her on an emotional level.

she had an uncanny ability to see through people's bs.

Anony Mous

IQ is an important measure to see how well people solve logical and mathematical puzzles. But it doesn’t mean you are learned. And the opposite is true as well, just because you are learned, doesn’t mean you have high IQ or are smart (look at all the PhDs that tell you how to live your life these days).

I work with very smart people and people that pretend they are smart. Almost everyone in my friend and colleague circles has a doctorate, some even more than one but I would not rate their IQ equally high across the board, there are truly some “dumb” professors, that don’t get the logic regardless of how you explain it.

The EQ rate is complete horsemanure, it is a made up measure for HR folks. Did you know the Myers-Briggs score was completely made up by a mother and daughter, no training whatsoever they just made it up one afternoon as a joke based on their friends; every personality on those measures is interchangeable.

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Ukraine - Nato - US crisis

by mikeflood in

don't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....

Anony Mous

@slimboyfat: the pipeline was previously shut down by a fella named Trump. It’s being built by Americans since they are the only ones that have the technology to properly build in that particular location (deep sea in a geologically active area). When the Americans stopped building, Russians tried to finish it and caused a small ecological disaster (toxic grease on Baltic beaches) because their equipment is just not capable of doing it properly causing everyone in the area to tell them to stop. Not only that but the Russian produced basically a pile of junk and bolted it together, but it would have been dangerous to pump at capacity without the thing blowing up based on their shoddy work, some people were giving them 1-3 years before it would fail.

Russia and Iran talks big game, but their primary tanks (T72) are still an average 50 years old (Israel famously killed 30 Iranian tanks with just 1 of theirs in the 90s, similar the US in the Gulf War made scrap metal out of them), infrastructure building like pipeline boats is also from the last century, Iran’s navy is basically a bunch of speed boats and Russian navy has submarines that are so old, they occasionally end up on the bottom of the ocean without even being in combat. They do have numbers and willpower though so an urban combat landwar would be problematic.

The biggest question for Ukraine is whether the US would get involved, it seems like Biden doesn’t want to (I’m assuming after the Hillary hacking affair, Putin may have a bit of dirt up his sleeve) so Ukraine would have to fend for itself. If the US does get involved, not even a modernized China would want to cross that line, let alone Russia.

Germany doesn’t want to get involved because they’re dependent on Russian coal, gas and oil. Take that away and Germany basically has to shut down half the country because their wind and solar plants don’t work at night or when it’s not windy or too windy or when it’s cloudy (which is like 200 days of the year over there) and they shut down all their nuke plants as well.

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Coercion at its worst: religious mandated shunning

by Yomama in

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by patrick haeck any comments on article?.

Anony Mous

Here is the thing, in Europe, a government CAN demand that you do or don’t say certain things, in that sense Patrick is right; if your government can mandate a better treatment of others, then they should do so, whatever the basis is they use to mandate the right to demand you don’t disparage Islam or gays or people with perceived gender disorder, they can also mandate that you don’t disparage exJWs.

In the end those types of societies and laws end up with a segregated society, the exact thing they say they intend to prevent. You also end up with logical contradictions in law, such as you can’t disparage exJWs but saying that the faith of Islam/JW are evil is also disparaging.

However, I disagree that it is a human right, you can’t mandate a right. A right is the absence of government regulation.

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Ukraine - Nato - US crisis

by mikeflood in

don't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....

Anony Mous

The history of American involvement in Latin America and Middle East and Asia is a story of making the best choice out of 2 bad options. You either get a corrupt autocrat or a murderous communist/jihadist in power. Either way you’re going to get criticism.

It is also an example of what happens when the US doesn’t get involved or listen to its left-wing base for foreign policy, that’s how you end up with communist Cuba, Venezuela, China etc, always the same story whether it was JFK or LBJ or Jimmy Carter or Bush Jr. or Obama, when you ignore (or try to appease) people with communist or theocratic origins or tendencies because you don’t like conflict (like Putin today) you get bad results.

Ukraine has been relatively stable and democratic after the Soviets fell. And I wouldn’t trust Putin to just be nice and take his troops away. After Afghanistan China, Russia and Iran smelled blood in the water. They’re not going to be nice and wait another 3 years for another President. I can see them invading Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine as soon as they get an opportunity and America’s commander in chief will sit there and put sanctions on an ever shrinking free world.