Posts by Anony Mous

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Opening doors, putting your foot in the door and other dangerous activities

by Anony Mous in

i was listening to the news and there is this big brouhaha about someone shooting someone through their front door.

apparently the person tried to open the door of an elderly person, scaring the homeowner and they shot a gun injuring the person.

obvious castle doctrine case.. which made me remember a rather overzealous old pioneer that used the same tactics when he knew the homeowners were home but didn’t want to come to the door, he would start opening the storm doors and try to see if the door was unlocked so he could yell inside.

Anony Mous

@GoUnion: Read the full details (both sides) on the case, the attorneys are now changing their tune from "through a closed door" to "the door was opened" and according to the homeowner, the other party was pulling on the storm door to get it open. According to neighbors, they were likewise scared when someone came to their door banging and trying to open the door.

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Opening doors, putting your foot in the door and other dangerous activities

by Anony Mous in

i was listening to the news and there is this big brouhaha about someone shooting someone through their front door.

apparently the person tried to open the door of an elderly person, scaring the homeowner and they shot a gun injuring the person.

obvious castle doctrine case.. which made me remember a rather overzealous old pioneer that used the same tactics when he knew the homeowners were home but didn’t want to come to the door, he would start opening the storm doors and try to see if the door was unlocked so he could yell inside.

Anony Mous

@GoUnion: In this particular state, if you trespass on property and attempt to open a door, the homeowner has the right to defend their property. The only open question to the jury is legally whether shooting through the door was legitimate and the trespass amounted to breaking/entering in this particular state.

I know for example in Texas, this would've been an open and shut case, even here, the police didn't charge the homeowner and let them go after questioning until hours later, when there were riots and the local DA went after them for political reasons. It's very likely this case will still get thrown out unless they, like the Floyd case, can intimidate the jury in a particular direction with the threat of gang violence.

Note that in EU/CA/NY/Canada and a few other states/countries you may not enjoy this right, in most states and countries however, a right to home defense is universally accepted.

Hence my note, that I saw egregious behavior in my time going "in service", some of which I now think is a major violation of law and even decency/privacy, but back then we did believe "Jehoober would not allow us to get shot".

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UK Supreme Court decides Watchtower not liable for elder raping 29 year old congregant

by Corney in

background: https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5684019822854144/vicarious-liability-court-appeal-dismisses-appeal-from-religious-organisation-following-sexual-assault.

the judgment (unanimous): https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2021-0089-judgment.pdf.

press summary: https://www.supremecourt.uk/press-summary/uksc-2021-0089.html.

Anony Mous

Interesting though that the court did hold:

- The Supreme Court agrees with the lower courts that the relationship between the Jehovah's Witness organisation and Mark Sewell was akin to employment

This will have MAJOR repercussions down the line

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Biden running in 2024 🤣

by LoveUniHateExams in

i've filed this under news and world events, although i could've posted it under entertainment, lol.

apparently, joe biden will be seeking re-election for another term in the white house.. this, despite a recent poll showing that 70% of people don't want him to run again.. biden just has to be the worst president i've seen.

his gaffes, over-relience on a prompter, and, more than any other president, his refusal to answer journalists' questions, all go to make him top of the list in terms of bad presidents.. it will certainly provide entertainment, if nothing else..

Anony Mous

29% of people approve of Biden vs the current average 48% for "candidate" Trump.

Moreover, most swing states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia etc) Trump is hitting 55-60% vs Biden.

It's going to be an interesting primary on both parties, not sure if there will be Dems that try and primary Biden but according to rumors before his announcement, even Kamala and Buttigieg were thinking of taking a stab at it (the only DOT appointment you've ever known the name of because he's doing such a poor job).

I think ANY Republican can win at this point, like Biden in 2018, just wheel a dead man like Weekend at Bernie's and as long as they can keep it on message, they win.

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Opening doors, putting your foot in the door and other dangerous activities

by Anony Mous in

i was listening to the news and there is this big brouhaha about someone shooting someone through their front door.

apparently the person tried to open the door of an elderly person, scaring the homeowner and they shot a gun injuring the person.

obvious castle doctrine case.. which made me remember a rather overzealous old pioneer that used the same tactics when he knew the homeowners were home but didn’t want to come to the door, he would start opening the storm doors and try to see if the door was unlocked so he could yell inside.

Anony Mous

I remember the screened in porches as well. Interesting to see how far I've come to appreciate some of those issues after leaving that people "in" still don't see a problem with. I also remember the high rise apartments where you could easily spend all morning, just sitting inside ringing 100 doorbells, waiting 1-2 minutes between each of them, people walking in and out, probably worried about their safety to see 2 big guys in trenchcoats ringing every doorbell and we were just oblivious.

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Opening doors, putting your foot in the door and other dangerous activities

by Anony Mous in

i was listening to the news and there is this big brouhaha about someone shooting someone through their front door.

apparently the person tried to open the door of an elderly person, scaring the homeowner and they shot a gun injuring the person.

obvious castle doctrine case.. which made me remember a rather overzealous old pioneer that used the same tactics when he knew the homeowners were home but didn’t want to come to the door, he would start opening the storm doors and try to see if the door was unlocked so he could yell inside.

Anony Mous

I was listening to the news and there is this big brouhaha about someone shooting someone through their front door. Apparently the person tried to open the door of an elderly person, scaring the homeowner and they shot a gun injuring the person. Obvious castle doctrine case.

Which made me remember a rather overzealous old pioneer that used the same tactics when he knew the homeowners were home but didn’t want to come to the door, he would start opening the storm doors and try to see if the door was unlocked so he could yell inside. His excuse was that if they weren’t home they should lock their doors - the community service of a burglar.

Other pioneers I knew would have the habit of putting their foot in the door so the homeowner couldn’t slam it in his face after they started their “discussion”. More than a few would “count on Jehober” and walk through gates and no trespassing signs.

What other potentially dangerous activities, including some cases of breaking and entering, do you remember some Witlesses get involved in?

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Better off PIMA than POMA or POMO.

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the situation is many of us are pima and all putting on a front, sometimes saying something we don’t fully believe.

or at least are actually agnostic about but a hope that it’s true.. but it can be useful if someone is really going through a hard time or has something they are very worried about, to say things like well let’s hope there is not much longer of this old system.. this can be useful in an awkward situation where you just don’t know what to do or say.

it’s a little bit of hope that can help when there is nothing else.. my agnosticism just means i won’t look back over decades thinking i wasted my life.

Anony Mous

@ExBethelitenowPIMA: The fossil record has lots of skulls, not sure if you've ever heard of any of these, which for the major lineages there is plenty of evidence that not only did they co-exist, they also interbred and thus have a shared offspring that influenced each other's evolution until today for H. Sapiens or until they went extinct for other species.

The percentage of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is about 1 to 2 percent in people of European or Asian background. The percentage of Denisovan DNA is highest in the Melanesian population (4 to 6 percent), lower in other Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander populations. So even humans are for a small percentage other species.

If you want faster proof of evolution, you can buy the tools to run this experiment AT HOME if you really want to see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8&ab_channel=HarvardMedicalSchool

Comparative table of homo species:

Lineages	Temporal range (kya)	Habitat	Adult height	Adult mass	Cranial capacity (cm3)	Fossil record	Discovery/ publication of name
H. sapiens (anatomically modern humans)	c. 300–present[p]	Worldwide	150–190 cm (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 3 in)	50–100 kg (110–220 lb)	950–1,800	(extant)	—— 1758
H. luzonensis	c. 67[97][98]	Philippines				3 individuals	2007 2019
Denisova hominin	40	Siberia				2 sites	2000 2010[s]
H. tsaichangensis possibly H. erectus or Denisova	c. 100[r]	Taiwan				1 individual	2008(?) 2015
Nesher Ramla Homo classification uncertain	140–120	Israel				several individuals	2021
H. floresiensis classification uncertain	190–50	Indonesia	100 cm (3 ft 3 in)	25 kg (55 lb)	400	7 individuals	2003 2004
H. neanderthalensis	240–40 [94][q]	Europe, Western Asia	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)	55–70 kg (121–154 lb) (heavily built)	1,200–1,900	Many	1829 1864
H. rhodesiensis early H. sapiens	c. 300	Zambia			1,300	Single or very few	1921 1921
H. naledi	c. 300[91]	South Africa	150 cm (4 ft 11 in)	45 kg (99 lb)	450	15 individuals	2013 2015
H. longi	309–138[89]	Northeast China			1,420[90]	1 individual	1933 2021
H. cepranensis a single fossil, possibly H. heidelbergensis	c. 450[88]	Italy			1,000	1 skull cap	1994 2003
H. heidelbergensis early H. neanderthalensis	600–300[o]	Europe, Africa	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	1,100–1,400	Many	1907 1908
H. antecessor	1,200–800	Western Europe	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	1,000	2 sites	1994 1997
H. ergaster African H. erectus	1,800–1,300[87]	East and Southern Africa			700–850	Many	1949 1975
H. rudolfensis membership in Homo uncertain	1,900	Kenya			700	2 sites	1972 1986
H. gautengensis also classified as H. habilis	1,900–600	South Africa	100 cm (3 ft 3 in)			3 individuals[83][j]	2010 2010
H. erectus	1,900–140[84][k][85][l]	Africa, Eurasia	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	60 kg (130 lb)	850 (early) – 1,100 (late)	Many[m][n]	1891 1892
H. habilis membership in Homo uncertain	2,100–1,500[h][i]	Tanzania	110–140 cm (3 ft 7 in – 4 ft 7 in)	33–55 kg (73–121 lb)	510–660	Many	1960 1964

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The corrosive nature of CRT

by LoveUniHateExams in

diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

Anony Mous

@cofty: The philosophy that underpinned Fascism (National Socialism and actual Italian Fascism) is Marxism.

Both Hitler and Mussolini quoted Marx and used the ideology as an underpinning for their own and then modified it slightly. Mussolini considered himself a Marxist, and he described Marx as "the greatest of all theorists of socialism." Hitler himself declared that national socialism was based on Marx and argued that the other socialists of the day were basically corrupted socialists, which is the same argument that the Bolscheviks said about the Menscheviks, but they're all still socialists and fought together against the establishments of the day, only disagreeing with each other once it became time to rule (which is typical for all socialists, to date).

Similar argument that JW's make when saying that other religions are "Christendom" and not true Christians or Martin Luther saying that the Pope corrupted Christianity.

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The corrosive nature of CRT

by LoveUniHateExams in

diane abbot has been temporarily suspended from the labour party whilst they investigate her behaviour.. what's she done?.

it was leaked that a first draft of a letter she was going to write had the claim that jews can't experience racism.. the influence of crt is obvious.

according to this warped worldview, there are two types of people, oppressors and oppressed.

Anony Mous

often you can’t tell whether someone is Jewish just by looking at them

That is relatively incorrect and is a matter of perspective. Religious Jews are recognizable by the way they dress, most people when they think of Jewish, think of yarmulkes or the brimmed hat or the payot (curled or hairs on the cheek).

There are Jews that are secular that don't keep to those, but even then, in many cases when it comes to attacks on Jewish people (primarily by people of African origin) it's on the religious Jews.

However even if you are a "secular" person of Jewish origin, people from the Middle East that grow up around Israel, know how to recognize visual traits of people with Jewish origin, it's a lot less precise given humans tend to mix, but people in Europe can often recognize people from nearby countries by certain physical visual traits as well. Eg. you can recognize Dutch because they are tall with an "elongated" head, Germans have straight nose, square jaws and look "rounder".

People in the West have trouble distinguishing Chinese from Korean, people in Asia however can recognize different parts of either country which is the most famous example of how people can pick up traits without ever being taught what any of it means by their parents.

Same goes for black people, once you are around them long enough, you can find people from Creole (eg. Jamaican) backgrounds, actual Africans and American blacks are VERY different, and I'm sure if someone lives in Africa, they can recognize tribal features as well. Even amongst American blacks, you can often recognize black people historically living in the Northerner parts of America (lighter, more features of Native Americans) vs Southern black families.

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I do not understand the universal issue anymore

by psyco in

to explain the universal issue we are often referring to a teacher and his/her students.. let us imagine that a teacher (god) has an hour (everlasting) class to show his students (humans and angels) how to fix a broken clock (to reign).. one student (adam) says he is able to fix it better independently, without the teacher's help (universal issue).. the teacher let him demonstrate that in front of all the others, but instead of an hour lesson he gives him only 5 minutes (death after a limited period of time) and he blocks one of the student's hands behind his back (imperfection).. if i were one of the other students watching i could think: but those were not the initial conditions the student was in when he said he could, and what would have happened leaving him more time and both hands free?.

am i crazy?.

Anony Mous

The universal issue isn’t unique to JWs, even Jews have a version of it and it is clearly exposed in the Book of Job.

The characters of Job and Sheitan in the Book of Job is right, God is a petty ruler and will allow people to die just to prove a point, the modern interpretation according to Rabbinic commentary of Job ends with: you don’t understand and you aren’t powerful, therefore you are wrong, whether that is just or unjust on behalf of G-d.