Posts by Phizzy
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43On the current migrant crisis
by LoveUniHateExams inthousands of migrants have come to england this year, already beating last year's total.. some may have fled syria and other war-torn countries; others are economic migrants.. let me try to get my head around this phenomenon: migrants are relatively safe in france and other countries.
they then leave the relative safety of continental europe and risk their lives and that of their children by crossing the english channel in rubber dinghies.
there's just no fixing stupid, is there .
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Did You Experience People Always Seeming To Get Offended?
by minimus inthere always seems to be someone offended by something.
in today’s world if you don’t see eye to eye with someone they claim to be offended.
if you don’t support a cause that someone deems important, they get offended.
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Phizzy
One Elder put those who were "offended" or "stumbled" in perspective for me. he asked : " Are THEY perfect ? " I replied " Certainly not", so he said " Well then, they cannot demand Perfection from us !".
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On the current migrant crisis
by LoveUniHateExams inthousands of migrants have come to england this year, already beating last year's total.. some may have fled syria and other war-torn countries; others are economic migrants.. let me try to get my head around this phenomenon: migrants are relatively safe in france and other countries.
they then leave the relative safety of continental europe and risk their lives and that of their children by crossing the english channel in rubber dinghies.
there's just no fixing stupid, is there .
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Phizzy
I heard this earlier today " You do not put your children in a dinghy if they are safer on the land".
Migrant "Crisis", in what way is this a "Crisis" ? This has been blown up by the MSM and Patel and others to deflect attention from other matters.
A few thousand people seeking Asylum here is not a crisis.
Bandicoot above is just repeating the crap of Enoch Powell's " Rivers of Blood" speech.
Racist Right Wing rhetoric is better off being on nasty Right Wing Sites than on here. Or is this now a Right Wing Trump loving place that the likes of Nigel Farage would feel at home being a part of ?
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What’s Your Prediction For Covid & Its Consequences?
by minimus inwill we close down again?
will we be masked forever?
will we be required to get vaccinated over and over again?
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Phizzy
What interests me is how our experience of living in, and through a pandemic may change Society.
I am hoping that the majority view that we need to be responsible in our own actions, to protect ourselves, but , importantly, to protect others, will remain.
Before the Pandemic people coughed and sneezed regardless of spreading illness to others, I hope that selfish, slobbish attitude is a thing of history.
I am hoping that stupid Anti-vaxxers and conspiracy Theorists will have lost any traction before the next Pandemic.
I live in Hope.
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2700 years ago Jews ate pigs
by fulltimestudent infrom haaretz newspaper:.
what does a pig skeleton discovered in jerusalem say about first temple era jews?.
the argument here is that sanctions on eating pork were only introduced in the 2nd temple era.. so what does that tell you bout biblical accuracy.. .
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Phizzy
The "Gerasene" swine story is a Literary trope. Look it up. But it did enter my mind for a moment, that story, but in the parable of the prodigal son the son had to travel out of Judea to keep pigs.
I think by the time of Jesus eating Pigs was a no-no, but obviously in much earlier times, when the Mosaic law was supposed to be in full sway, the Jews knew nothing about any such ban !
Which is further proof that the Jewish Bible was thrown together at a very late date.
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2700 years ago Jews ate pigs
by fulltimestudent infrom haaretz newspaper:.
what does a pig skeleton discovered in jerusalem say about first temple era jews?.
the argument here is that sanctions on eating pork were only introduced in the 2nd temple era.. so what does that tell you bout biblical accuracy.. .
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Phizzy
The find of one skeleton surely does not prove they ATE the meat of the Pig does it ?
Personally I don't doubt they did, and as said in the O.P, the Jewish Bible was compiled after the return from Babylon, as a Nation Builder, so the Levitical ban on eating Pork may well not have existed until the Editor/Compilers of the Jewish Bible wrote it in.
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Jesus, without sin and a perfect human being ?
by smiddy3 inhow could he be, regardless of how god impregnated mary, as she was a sinful human just like the rest of us according to the bible.. mary was subjected to the adamic sin like all other humans, so jesus had to at least be part sinner himself.. to believe otherwise is just deluding oneself imho .. the only way jesus could have been really without sin is if god created him the same way he created adam.. what do you think ?
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Phizzy
" Christianity was invented, adopted by the Roman Empire as a control mechanism, and imposed on the citizens as the official state religion."
And by then of course it had evolved in to a very different belief System to the one taught by Jesus. and adopted much that was condemned by what he taught, and how he lived.
Those who claimed to be Christian, followers of Jesus of Nazareth, were certainly not by that point, and subsequently.
I think your equating the thoughts of Jesus with those of Gautama Buddha I agree with, plus I do not think that Jesus of Nazareth was anything more than a very great man, but that is a wonderful thing to be.
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Splane`s war rhetoric
by inbetween09 inthe last talk o the saturday convention of jw was already often the centre of discussion, with all the name calling, logical fallacies and fear mongering.
however, it was interesting, not just what and how splane adressed the matter, also what he actually had to admit.
1) he had to admit, that the org is actually loosing court battles, left and right.
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Phizzy
How on earth did you simply guess that Punky ?
I am hoping this talk will do more damage than good to the Org, it was certainly Talks etc on this sort of theme that added to my Cognitive Dissonance, and so contributed to my eventual waking up.
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Splitting furs
by Jofi_Wofo ini'm half listening in on my wife's zoom meeting.
in my decade+ in the org, i don't remember ever getting into such minutia about jw hunting rules.. apparently, it's ok to kill an animal to use its skin as a clothing accessory, but it's not ok to kill an animal to use its antlers as a wall decoration.. not mentioned in the talk: whether or not its ok to kill an animal to wear its antlers as a hat.. .
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Phizzy
Lots of J.W's around the World ignore this kind of nonsense from the G.B. Their control only goes so far with those with more than two sparking brain cells.
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From Reddit…What rumors were reported about you after you stopped attending meeting?
by Biahi ini didn’t hear any about me, my dad was there to squash any of that.
but, a guy who left on his 18th birthday, moved cross country, had the rumor started (by elders), that he was now in prison for selling cocaine.
lol, he’s an artist in california.
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Phizzy
They could not find any form of wrongdoing that explained my leaving. And they always will never face the thought that I left because it simply is not " the truth", no, there must be another reason.
A rumour went around that I had left to start my own Religion ! When I heard that one , I said, " Well, what a great idea ! there is Money in that !".