Posts by redvip2000

The WT and other religious nutcases have benefited from the fact the the writers of the goat herders manual, were so vague about the predictions that they can be used for anything.

There will be "fearful sights". Oh really? Is there anything terrible that can't be applied to that?

"There will be earthquakes in some places".... oh ok. Want to give us more detail goat herder? What day and time, and where? Then your prediction can have some teeth.

Here I can make a prediction that is just as impressive:

Oh ye of little faith, there will be plane crashes in the future..... Now, I won't tell you when, where, how many or any other details. Just remember to give me credit when the next one happens.

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Do you believe that this life is all there is

by Fisherman in

the bible records resurrections and there is orher evidence besides that gives hope.

what do you think, is there enough evidence to believe in another life?.

redvip2000

The Bible records resurrections and there is other evidence

Fairy tale accounts by middle eastern goat herders are not evidence. And there is no other evidence, so no, i don't believe it.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

redvip2000

The “viability” argument isn’t viable. I can take a sampling of modern humans, drop them in the wilderness and they are no longer “viable.” That doesn’t mean their lives aren’t important.

Sorry, but that's a really silly argument.

In any case, this is not about viability. This is about trying to figure out the point where a piece of living tissue has developed enough features that we would normally associate it with calling someone an individual.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

redvip2000

Btw, I just saw an add on TV where Newsom is saying that they will welcome people from all states in Cali where they can seek "reproductive care".

"Reproductive care"? Notice the branding here. It almost seems women can't go to the doctor in that medicine area at all. It's infuriating how every issue under the sun has to be sanitized with some PC language. Nothing can be called what it really is anymore.

Everybody has to pretend something is slightly better than what is it, as if there is shame in calling it abortion. If you pro abortion, then be proud and call it abortion.

Calling it "pro-choice" is similar. Another attempt at sanitizing it. As if people are forced to have abortions at gun point, and not really choosing to have one in the first place.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

redvip2000

If one is against all abortions no matter what.

In my experience, the people who are against all forms of abortion are typically religious nuts and ideologues. These are the people that claim that a second after conception, some magical spirit enters the fertilized egg.

Most rational people understand that there is a difference between living tissue and an individual. And most rational people understand that the line between going from living tissue to an individual is not perfect. Is it 15 weeks? 20? 25? it can be debated, but it certainly isn't 1 second after conception and it's not 1 second before birth.

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Roe vs Wade Overturned by US Supreme Court!

by Simon in

i know there was a leak a few weeks back, but this really does seem to have come out of the blue.. the anomaly was the original decision.

it clearly had no basis in law or the constitution, and was a flimsy, ridiculous ruling.

plus the whole thing was based on a fraudulent case in the first place.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898.

redvip2000

Mostly hysteria.

This is the right decision. Abortion is not a constitutional right, that's basically the decision. The decision is not about the merits of abortion itself.

The supreme court doesn't and shouldn't write law, so now the decision goes back to the people, the way it should be.

Most states will continue to allow abortions for the first 2 - 3 months which seems reasonable. Perhaps a few will ban it completely.

In the state I live in, abortion will be allowed into the third trimester, which is absolutely ridiculous. Here, you really are killing a baby.

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"Somebody" needs to do "Something!"

by Terry in

jw
friends

it's always unjustifiable for a country to attack another country without having first been attacked itself.. the nuremberg trials at the end of wwii made this clear.. more vividly too: following orders as a patriotic duty is never secondary to the pangs of your personal conscience.. .

worst of all, hypocrisy destroys credibility when you.

criticize other countries for doing what you have done.. .

redvip2000

The US used the same excuses for invading Iraq in 2003. They claimed Iraq was developing nuclear weapons just as Putin claimed Ukraine was developing nuclear weapons.

Oh you mean the Iraq that had invaded a sovereign country without provocation year earlier? You are really going to defend an illegitimate government who brutalizes its people and terrorizes its region? Now, I was not in favor of the Iraq war, but again, this is false equivalency.

How sweet no to invade your allies.

If by allies you mean democratic countries, then..... yes I'm ok with that.

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Why do you call yourselves "apostates?"

by Marbles in

well let me clarify the question.

i know you call yourselves apostates because the bible defines people who leave their previously held beliefs as apostates.

my question means, if the bible is not true (and i don't think it is) then there is no such thing as an apostate.i have never been a jw, only a bible student with them.

redvip2000

Apostasy has no relationship with truth. Even if a religion is BS, you can still be an apostate.

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"Somebody" needs to do "Something!"

by Terry in

jw
friends

it's always unjustifiable for a country to attack another country without having first been attacked itself.. the nuremberg trials at the end of wwii made this clear.. more vividly too: following orders as a patriotic duty is never secondary to the pangs of your personal conscience.. .

worst of all, hypocrisy destroys credibility when you.

criticize other countries for doing what you have done.. .

redvip2000

I understand the point, but this is a false equivalency. The USA has invaded sovereign countries yes, but in response to something. Now, you can debate the validity of that like you have, but it's true. Worth mentioning that those countries usually don't have legitimate governments anyway, but instead dictatorships.

But the USA states does not go around invading democratic countries, unless my memory is failing me.

But even when the Unites States engages in war, it does not do it in this brutal way. The US goes to great lengths to spare innocent lives, most of the time using technology to hit with pinpoint accuracy, often aborting strikes if there will be large collateral damage.

Israel does the same. Israel goes to the extent of dropping a mock bomb in a building first, so that it is evacuated and then hitting it with a real bomb afterwards.

Russia still wages war like in the 1950's, also due to outdated material. Apartment buildings, neighborhoods, anything is fair game. Russians don't think the same way, or have any of the ethical concerns that many countries in the West do, and why would they? It's not like they have those concerns even domestically.