Posts by snare&racket

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Putin the Pressure Up!

by snare&racket in

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/05/nato-rapid-reaction-force-counter-russia-ukraine.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/02/08/russia-investors-on-war-watch-wednesday/.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11397924/ukraine-crisis-europe-and-us-debate-how-to-handle-russia-live.html.

snare&racket

"Ukraine and weapons? If the US begins openly weaponizing Ukraine's military Putin will respond in kind and escalation will occur, and probably to a very bad end."

Hmmm.....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/09/obama-confirms-arming-ukraine-on-table-if-diplomacy-with-russia-fails/

"President Obama confirmed Monday that his administration is weighing the possibility of sending arms to Ukraine to help the country beat back Russian-backed separatists, if diplomacy fails."

It's all creeping in the wrong direction daily now...

http://rt.com/politics/230559-russia-west-attitude-poll/

The number of Russians who claimed their negative attitude to the United States rose to 81 percent compared to 44 percent one year ago. The number of those who perceived the current relations between the two nations as hostile rose from 4 percent to 42 percent in a year.

Some 71 percent of those polled claimed negative attitude to the European Union (up from 34 percent a year ago) and 24 percent said that the EU and Russian Federation were in hostile relations, compared to just 1 percent in January 2014.

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Should I go to college or pioneer??? Hmmmm...

by ADJUSTMENTS in

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hmmmmm... i can't decide???.

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snare&racket

Having done both...

if you want to spend your 30's regretting your lost youth........ignore your doubts, remain a JW and gIve into the guilt and pressure from the Window cleaners above you in the org.....become a pioneer.

If you want to be happy and enjoy freedom of thought and expression, leave the JW's.

If you want to learn something about the world and become an expert in something, maybe even offer something back to mankind, then educate yourself at college. Education is a protection, it teaches you how to safely procure information. it will make the Watchtower and Awake look like nothing more than the dishonerable self advertising it really is.

I have pioneered and gone to bethel, I have also gone to university. I literally CAN'T BELIEVE how I used to live, when a JW. There is nothing of sufficient value in the whole world that would be tempting enough to get me to swap my life back.

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Putin the Pressure Up!

by snare&racket in

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/05/nato-rapid-reaction-force-counter-russia-ukraine.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/02/08/russia-investors-on-war-watch-wednesday/.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11397924/ukraine-crisis-europe-and-us-debate-how-to-handle-russia-live.html.

snare&racket

I agree cofty.

Putin is a very intelligent man and he is determined to resurrect the Russia of old.

He recently cried at a ceremony, drenched in memory of the glory of mother Russia. He welled up when the old national anthem began. Along with his sentimental KGB memories, these are a seriously bad mixture.

He knows he can't stay in power forever, I can't help but feel he wants his last years in office to be.....memorable.....

23

Putin the Pressure Up!

by snare&racket in

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friends

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/05/nato-rapid-reaction-force-counter-russia-ukraine.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/02/08/russia-investors-on-war-watch-wednesday/.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11397924/ukraine-crisis-europe-and-us-debate-how-to-handle-russia-live.html.

snare&racket

Well, the king of the North is being a dick again....

The mighty Putin is certainly hustling for a scrap. I have felt for some time that he wants to go out in flames and glory. Russia is so far behind the rest of the world and with China and India, the economic powerhouses of the future, Russia has little to drag itself up with.

So Putin is now flying planes over the UK with their communications and transponders switched off. The planes that carry the kind of bombs nobody want to see dropped.

The news channels are not discussing it at all, but it is impossible that western leaders are not sizing up a POTENTIAL world war 3 right now....... What do you guys think?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/05/nato-rapid-reaction-force-counter-russia-ukraine

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/02/08/russia-investors-on-war-watch-wednesday/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11397924/Ukraine-crisis-Europe-and-US-debate-how-to-handle-Russia-live.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11397900/Ukraine-crisis-Do-not-try-to-scare-Putin-warns-Merkel.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/29/russian-bombers-english-channel-ambassador-summoned

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Jw wedding talk giving questionable advice as usual

by hoser in

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i recently went to a wedding and listened to the wedding talk at the kingdom hall the couple had both heard the talk before as they were both married in kingdom halls before.

this is his second time and her third.

the advice given.

snare&racket

So between them they have 15 cords....... Wow, strong.

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HEADS UP: Tony the 3rd life story. W15 05/15.

by campaign of hate in

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haven't got an electronic copy, or scans.

just a heads up..

snare&racket

I wonder if it will mention the terrible accident that left his head up his ass?

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Gave my first hour talk sunday before last

by Perry in

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i started going door to door at age 5 and was giving no.

2 talks by age 7. during the 8 years i was an active adult jw i was never a ms or elder (although i was a regular pioneer once).

so, i never qualified to give an hour talk.

snare&racket

Well Perry, I am happy for you.

There are in my opinion, a spectrum of dangerous belief systems and despite our differing views on belief, I am happy to see you advance far away from a particularly ugly one, Watchtower. We have that in common bro. Hope you enjoyed giving your talk, I imagine it felt like a milestone.

Snare

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would jehovah find himself disfellowshipped?

by sowhatnow in

so lets assume that the current jw use of disfellowshipping was used back in jesus day, .

who of the bible characters would find themselves disfellowshipped?

jehovah?

snare&racket

If a baptised JW denied following Jesus three times, would they be given microphone privileges?

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Christian bakery ordered to pay $150 000 to gay couple

by cofty in

an oregon bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage has lost its appeal..... the judge has ordered 'sweet cakes by melissa' to pay $150 000 damages to rachel and laurel bowman-cryer.. discrimination is illegal, and religious superstition is not an excuse.

how long before jws land in court under similar circumstances?.

snare&racket

Great point cofty, they will quote changes in homosexual doctrine to be drivers in community progress around the world......

Coming back to the OP, I have felt for some time that JW's skate far to close to the edges of religious extremism for most people now. the literature is less provocative thanit was but only because the homophobic culture survives well without it being printed in ink. I know teens disfellowshipped from my old hall, cut off from all friends and family, because they refused to pretend to be straight for the rest of their lives. It is a crime and one day, it will be punished as such, rightly so.

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Wow, the forum is very slow

by FlyingHighNow in

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i know that logging in has been a problem for some.

i hardly post any more.

i figured there would be more activity than this.

snare&racket

Cheers Si, top bloke