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  "Never stop your enemy when he's making a mistake" - Napoleon

  by JeffT in

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  so yesterday when i went to the library there were three older gentlemen in suits standing around the front door.

  i spotted the stand with the magazines a second or two later.

  they were talking among themselves, totally ignoring everybody walking past them.

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  I didn't want my words to goad them into some kind of actual activity.

  Haha. . . This is great.
  
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  Is Being a “Manly Man” a Bad Thing?

  by minimus in

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  so much is said regarding men , in a negative way.

  shaving commercials are now lecturing us as to how bad we really are.

  men should be less masculine.

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  As far as the Gillette commercial: publicity stunt.

  Reminds me of when Target announced that they would allow transgender people to use whatever bathroom they identified with. "Look at us! Look how progressive we are!"

  If Target really wanted to be progressive, they would pay their employees a living wage and provide heath insurance -- but that would affect their bottom line $$$$$. A bullshit bathroom rule is costs them nothing and gets them tons of free publicity.
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  Do You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Believe They Are Living In The Time Of The End?

  by minimus in

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  i think they talk a good game and that’s about it..

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  To be a JW, you have to be really good at believing in ideas that completely contradict/oppose each other all of the time.

  For instance: A friend of my MIL is 85 years old. She will tell you how horrible this system is -- the gays, Putin, Trump blablahblah. Worst time ever to be living. She will also tell you that the new system is just going to be so amazing. Can't wait.

  Funny thing is though, her heart is failing and instead of letting nature take its course and leaving this horrible, awful system behind and stepping into a panda-petter's paradise, she has travelled from Florida to NY several times to receive experimental treatment/operations for her heart condition. So does she really believe there is a new system? If she did, why would she be doing this to preserve her life in such an awful "system of things" for a couple years?

  So back to the OP: Do they really believe they are living in the time of the end? I honestly think the answer is both Yes and No at the same time.
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  THIS IS IT Tony Morris Identifies King of Norht

  by scotoma in

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  2. friends

  this is the announcement we have heard “about” but now it has been released to the whole world.

  its in the 2nd of a three part serries about the jw annual meeting (oct 2018).

  to minute 52. .

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  I wonder what they mean exactly by Russia's allies? - COFTY

  Haha. . . I noticed that too. I think that's what you call a "hedge". Russias allies can be whoever they (the GB) need them to be at any given moment.
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  "This system will probably be over in about 5 years"

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i don't think i shared this story yet, it's strange and although i did a little detective work trying to figure out who said what and when i never found out much, big surprise, jehovah's witnesses love their secrets as we all know... but i thought other posters might find this interesting both in and of itself, because of what an elder told me one sunday back in 2011, and because of what it could imply as to high-ranking jehovah's witnesses prophesying the date of armageddon.

  specific dates went out the window in 1975, although governing body helper ken flodin hinted at 2040 in a talk uploaded to jw.org a couple years back, and the governing body hinted at 2034 in a watchtower back in the 90s.

  but it might be, just might, that more specific date-setting still goes on behind closed doors in certain circuits.... so after i went to "meetings" and talked to witnesses for a couple years at a rural congregation in the eastern united states an elder pulled me aside one service into the vestibule at the hall, in other words, into a private area where no one would overhear us.

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  Individual JWs set dates because 1) it makes them feel good (e.g., proud they have "special knowledge" no one else has) and 2) they can do it for FREE!!! Making predictions doesn't cost anything.

  For instance, I remember my one BIL saying around the time of the 2014 RC ("Celebrating 100 Years of Kingdom Rule!") that this system COULDN'T POSSIBLY be around in 5 years. Whelp, it's now 2019, and this summer will be exactly 5 years from when he said this to me and my wife. . . so I guess there's still some time for his prediction to come true! And as noted above, saying this made him feel good ("I'm such a smart JW! I know something everyone else doesn't know") and his prediction cost him nothing. Will he be embarrassed when 2019 comes and goes without anything happening? Nope. Will he lose his shirt financially if nothing happens in 2019? I don't think so.

  So next time he makes a bold claim regarding the end of the world again, I think I'm going to call him on it.

  I can't do anything about #1 because he's way smarter and more spiritual than I am. But I could do something about #2.

  Next time he says "This system can't last another 5 years" I'm going to say "Cool. I'll buy into that. But let's do this: right now, let's go to a lawyer -- I'll pay -- and we'll draw up an agreement that will come due in exactly 5 years. At that time -- since the New System will be here and you won't have any need for the stuff -- I will take possession of your house, everything in your house, your business and all of your bank accounts. How does that sound?"

  You think I can get him to sign the agreement? ;)
  
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  Who else had to sit though last weeks WT study, 6th Jan 2019 - "Buy Truth and Never Sell It"

  by skin in

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  2. bible

  that title, “buy truth and never sell it”.

  is that not our goal has jw’s, to try to sell the truth to those who have the right heart condition to accept it?.

  para 9: “when the fishermen peter and andrew were invited by jesus to become “fishers of men,” they “abandoned their nets.” (matt.

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  WT Study for week of January 9, 2020- "Buy Real Estate in Brooklyn, Refurbish It With Free Labor, and Sell It For Billions 100 Years Later"
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  Should calling someone 'Nazi' be made illegal?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. current

  a rabble-rouser called james goddard and a crowd of pro-brexit people called anna soubry 'nazi' recently.. the same crowd also called owen jones a few names.. i don't know these people but they seem to be unsavory people - they were certainly not behaving themselves.. the met police are looking into the matter, to see if the crowd did anything illegal.

  a journalist asked the police officer if calling someone 'nazi' is illegal.

  the officer said 'that's what we're looking into'.. first, this crowd behaved badly, no question.. what i find fascinating, though, is the speed of response from authorities.. calling people fascist or nazi has been going on for decades.

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  I knew that mindlessly invoking "Hitler" or "nazis" in an argument was some sort of fallacy, but I didn't know it had a name!

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
  
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  Artificial Intelligence and 2019

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
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  i was intrigued by a forecast made by damo academy, the in-house technology and science research arm of china's, huge e-commerce business,, alibaba.. they seem to be predicting the following technology trends for 2019 and that artificial intelligence would continue to be the ho area of progress.. so what do any techies hanging out here think?

  safe predictions?

  wild guesses?

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  1. Plausible.

  2. Couple of things: Is the "so-called Turing Test" actually a test of a "machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equals that of a human"? Also, note "in certain areas"

  3. Not familiar with this.
  

  4. No.
  

  5. "accelerating the arrival of AI and the quantum-computing era" -- how specifically?
  

  6. Ok, but 5g has its limitations
  

  7. Yes.
  

  8. "fixed-route public transport and unmanned delivery around commercial buildings and campuses" Plausible.
  

  9. Plausible.
  

  10. Plausible.
  

  Yes AI is "hot" and there's a lot of cool stuff out there; but TBH, the math/algorithms underpinning it all hasn't advanced much since the 80s (the implementation/hardware has, though)
  
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  Was disfellowshipping really sanctioned by God? Please share your honest views according to your Bible views

  by Strugglingrsa in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what were the writers of the bible telling christians when they wrote : “stop keeping company with anyone called a brother who is sexually immoral or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.” (1 corinthians 5:11) regarding everyone who “does not remain in the teaching of the christ,” we read: “do not receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him.

  for the one who says a greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works.” (2 john 9-11.

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  Even if the person has taken some stand based on a conscience matter. They are treated the same as an adulterer or pedophile. - BOBCAT

  If they were treated the same as a pedophile, they would get off scot free!
  
  
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  Baby it’s cold outside...Is That Song Offensive To Ypu?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to think that this classic song is “offensive “.... is absolutely ridiculous!.

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  No.