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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

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  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  vienne

  It goes beyond facebook and google. Yahoo, AOL and any number of others promote a political agenda rather than news. Yahoo generates 'fake news' and outrage using twitter feeds as 'proof.' They all need regulation.
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

  1. social
  2. current

  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  vienne

  "Online platforms should be held in common ownership, democratically run, and financial dividends distributed to all users, rather than digital rent seekers who arrive at policy on the basis of whims and personal enrichment."

  My mom used to say that they should be regulated like public utilities. That makes sense to me.
  
  
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  Google threatening to pull search engine from Australia

  by joey jojo in

  1. social
  2. current

  government is saying google should pay fees to news media for aggregating news.

  google says they will geo-block australia from search if forced to.

  raises some interesting questions about how dependant we have all become and how entangled google is in our lives.

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  vienne

  Put lives at risk. That seems to be utter nonsense. There are dozens of other search engines. Use one of those.
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  The Power Behind Rutherford

  by DNCall in

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  not the holy spirit and not the couple on the left.

  it's the couple on the right, bonnie and bill heath.

  to be more precise, it was their money that empowered jf rutherford and much of what he was able to do.

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  Source for your suggestion that the Heaths paid for Beth Sarim. I'm very, very interested.

  Annie
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  Do old time present day active JW`s genuinely believe in overlapping generations ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  for the life of me i can not come to terms with old timers in the "truth" who could swallow this interpretation of scripture about an overlapping generation .. when jesus spoke about "this generation" .

  are their any real bible students among younger ones any more ?.

  here are 3 bible scriptures that confirm a generation is approximately 40- 50 years long give or take a few years .. 1. matt:1 :17 abraham born 2016-18 bc jesus born 2 bc approx.

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  I don't think 'overlapping generations' makes much sense. But I know some older witnesses who seem to believe it without understanding it.

  To me it appears that the overlapping argument allow them another hundred years or so to play with.
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  Talk Outlines You Might Want!

  by Atlantis in

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  talk outlines you might want and a lot of them are dated 2020.. .

  https://filetransfer.io/data-package/i3fcrbfc#link.

  let me know if anyone wants the "original" zion's watch tower issues in pdf and searchable.

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  Thanks as always. I'd love to have the Bible Student Material.

  Anastasia Marie [Annie]
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  Should JW's Follow an Apostate?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  wasn't ct russell an apostate seventh day adventist?.

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  vienne

  Apparently some of you do not like an accurate presentation of Witness history. Fine. Live with your myths, but when you repeat them you make those who oppose the Watchtower look like fools. And you can 'thumbs down' this post too.
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  Should JW's Follow an Apostate?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  wasn't ct russell an apostate seventh day adventist?.

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  I do not see in that quotation what you claim. Elaborate.
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  Should JW's Follow an Apostate?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  wasn't ct russell an apostate seventh day adventist?.

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  vienne

  Truth-b,

  No, they're one of the splinter groups from the original Millerite movement of the 1840s.
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  Should JW's Follow an Apostate?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  wasn't ct russell an apostate seventh day adventist?.

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  I should add that in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras, all things Egyptian were popular and used in many non-related designs. For many years there was a theater here called "The Egyptian." It's long gone, but the Egyptian theaters were all over the USA; that was part of the trend. I wouldn't attach too much meaning to the winged globe design. The original of that seems to have come from Assyria anyway.