Posts by redvip2000

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Coronavirus / Covid-19 - The canary in the coal mine

by JimmyYoung in

is anyone prepping by buying food that has a long shelf life?

i have been messing with it for years.

buying fat free powder milk, bullion cubes, rice, beans dried, and other things that has a shelf life of 25 years.

redvip2000

Like others, I have been thinking about it. I do have a short supply of canned food always stored, but nowhere near what you would consider being prepared.

I will probably buy a bucket of emergency food online to last a few months, in case the zombie apocalypse hits. I do have a small propane stove, a good supply of lighting options, including batteries, flashlights, oil lamp.

I don't have a backup for water, I guess i'm hoping it wouldn't get turned off.

Sometimes I wonder the amount of chaos churned from a serious disruption of services. I'm pretty sure society would turn into a jungle. It is well knows that nearly half Americans don't even have a few bucks saved for emergencies, so you can be sure they are zero prepared in any other way.

Looting and rioting would soon follow especially in cities where people are piled up and heavily depend on supply chains.

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May 2020 Watchtower They Admit, they don't know

by Listener in

they'll write pages and pages of stuff and yet they don't have any idea.. here's a paragraph from their latest speculations on future events, bolding is mine.. a prophecy recorded by ezekiel gives some insight into what may happen during the last days of the king of the north and the king of the south.

if we view the prophecies of ezekiel 38:10-23; daniel 2:43-45; 11:44–12:1; and revelation 16:13-16, 21 as speaking about the same time period and events, it appears that we can expect the following developments.. that's an awful lot of assumptions to make.

what they've done is picked out various scriptures from different parts of the bible and now state that they may or may not be talking about the same events.

redvip2000

@OP,

You didn't list specifically what they are implicitly predicting. It would be nice to see that as well if you can.

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Michael Bloomberg—what’s your opinion of him?

by minimus in

jw
friends

and do you think he has a chance to win it all?

?.

redvip2000

It seemed to be so necessary simply because Trump didn’t offer his.

Again, no. Nobody created a rule for Trump. It is standard practice that every POTUS discloses tax returns in an effort to be transparent. Logically they have all disclosed it, because they have nothing to hide.

This is how you know the type of Trump supporter that has been brainwashed. It's the same type of stupidity as when JWs say that they are ok with the Watchtowell not opening their financial books, because they trust their leader.

Idiots and gullible morons who rather stay in step with their cult affiliation than knowing the naked truth about things.

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Do JWs believe that animals were created to live in harmony? Lion and the lamb

by Doubledecker in

thanks to all who replied to my first post, i appreciate you taking the time to do so.. i left jws for my own reasons as a teenager as i just simply didn’t believe it .

i am enjoying playing catch up with all the information out there now showing multiple examples of false prophecies , covering up the truth and the jw broadcasting stuff is amazing ( as said before i’ve just ignored the organisation for 30 years ) , it’s totally brainwashing evangelical propaganda.. however i digress .... as a young kid i used to ask , “if in paradise the “ lion will lay with lamb “ and all creatures will live in harmony, why for example does a snake have venom if not to eat another creature ?”.

like i say i was 10 years old i remember so please excuse the childish question.. but do they actually believe that was gods original plan for animals ?

redvip2000

In fact this was one of my first doubts. I remember asking my bible study conductor why lions and other animals have bodies, teeth and claws which are perfect to eat other animals.

I distinctly remember that he didn't have an answer and just told me in a somewhat annoyed way that I had to have faith.

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Michael Bloomberg—what’s your opinion of him?

by minimus in

jw
friends

and do you think he has a chance to win it all?

?.

redvip2000

I looked up his claim he shut down coal power plants. . BULLSHIT he didn't shut down no no coal plants.. he's a liar.

Ok i'll bite. Please provide references on where he claimed he shut down coal plants.

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Michael Bloomberg—what’s your opinion of him?

by minimus in

jw
friends

and do you think he has a chance to win it all?

?.

redvip2000

@Room 215

I could not have said it better myself.

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Michael Bloomberg—what’s your opinion of him?

by minimus in

jw
friends

and do you think he has a chance to win it all?

?.

redvip2000

Do you really care about seeing someone’s tax returns? I don’t. I don’t think any candidate needs to prove what money they make. As long as they are filing it’s their business.

Oh ye of little understanding... Let's see if we can get those brain gears of yours working. The reason why there is interest in seeing a president's tax returns is not to see how much money they make.

Now, come on, see if you can figure out the reason why that's important. Let's go, i'm sure you can do it.

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Believers: How do you know your view of your chosen holy book is the correct one?

by punkofnice in

don't start fighting, darlings.

i am genuinely curious.

after all i was a jobo 50 years and thought the wbt$ was 100% correct.. i ask this because i see that, for example, christian denominations (or whatever), likely have differing interpretations of the same writing.

redvip2000

The Bible is a story of good and bad. No matter what version you own of the Bible it's the same story.All it really says is how we should treat one another.

Yup, it sure says how we should treat each other. Such asLeviticus 21

20 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged. 21 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.

See folks? All is well if you hit your slave, and the the slave dies of his injuries 3 days later. All clear.

Such a lovely god that inspires such great actions.

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Michael Bloomberg—what’s your opinion of him?

by minimus in

jw
friends

and do you think he has a chance to win it all?

?.

redvip2000

He does and I hope he wins, instead of crazy Warren, or even Sanders who sit on the extreme left in comparison.

Bloomberg was a good mayor in NYC, and he is a no nonsense manager. I recall one of the things he did at city hall as mayor was to remove high wall cubicles, because a lot of employees were slacking off at the job, and this would increase accountability.

He is a smart, no nonsense guy, and above hall he is moderate, not like the extreme left crazies like Warren and others. The democratic establishment absolutely does not want Bloomberg to be elected, because he does not play the agenda pushing game of the left.

I hope he wins. We need someone again in the white house that knows a little more about the world than eating fast food and watching himself on TV. Bloomberg would not be an embarrassment to our country like the orange agent.

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My husband and I told our families we want to disassociate

by erinee in

well, these stories are always fun, right?

let me share mine.. my husband and have been pimo for 2 years.

inactive for one year.

redvip2000

7 uber, suuuper indoctrinated dubwubs in a room together

Yeah this was the first mistake. Why have this format, where you gather several JWs in a room to engage on what will likely be a debate? Even if you were making sense on those points, they will not want to concede in front of their peers. You should have a more casual one on one with them.

Anyway, the thing that pisses me off the most, is that they want us to just be inactive so they can keep talking to us.

Yes and they are probably right about this. What is the value of disassociating? By doing that, you are just validating their own governance policy and their rules. You should recognize that their process for disassociating is as ridiculous as everything else about their religion. Just walk away and be done with it.