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  $15.00 minimum wage

  by hoser in

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  2. friends

  while we are talking about economic stimulus i thought i’d bring up the $15 minimum wage.

  pros and cons?.

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  Employers said the same thing about the government imposing safety standards, pollution standards, etc. Can't afford it, will go out of business. Should anything be regulated?
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  May JW Broaadcast - so bad, "it's not even wrong"

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  don't know how many of y'all still watch it.. this month's topic is "the king of the north" - cook goes into monotonous detail over the jw interpretation about rome, germany, ussr, russia, etc.. leaving aside for other commentators the emotionally manipulative videos of jws in russian holding cells, the tearjerker interviews, the god-awful stiffness of cook (i suspect he has never genuinely smiled, much less laughed, in his 60+ years), just thought i'd comment on one topic.. the centerpiece of the program is a "morning worship" monologue from splane.

  let's again just leave to the side the dude's pomposity, smugness, and inflated sense of his own genius, and think about this part of his monologue.. he was tracing the history of the "king of the north" and talked about how "britain" (not england, not the united kingdom, not great britain, but "britain" - no idea why they have that fixation - anyway...) became the kotn in the 19th century.. paraphrasing his comments: "britain would not have become kotn if france had its way.

  france was much wealthier and more powerful, but at the battle of waterloo, britain defeated france.

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  Yeah, that part blew my mind. Seemed to imply divine intervention at Waterloo. Not an honest description of that battle
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  The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

  by FFGhost in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

  a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

  13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

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  Probably could prove logically that Israel never even existed
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  Were You Affected By Weird Elders?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  we all had some to deal with some.

  you would ask yourself, “how the hell did this guy ever get to be an elder”???.

  we had one elder originally from england that used to wear his pants belted up to his chest with typically a dirty spotted tie and shirt.

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  Weird, I knew another CO that was a professional piano player
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  Were You Affected By Weird Elders?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we all had some to deal with some.

  you would ask yourself, “how the hell did this guy ever get to be an elder”???.

  we had one elder originally from england that used to wear his pants belted up to his chest with typically a dirty spotted tie and shirt.

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  What was piano CO's name?
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

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  2. current

  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  It's no worse than a bad cold, right?
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  William Shatner is 90 years old but doesn't look like it-------Why?

  by pistolpete in

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  2. current

  i can't believe william shatner is 90 years old but doesn't look like other 90 year olds that i've met.

  is it genetic?

  is it lifestyle.

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  Romulan ale is great stuff but hard to find
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  Are You Concerned About Inflation?

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

  that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

  they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

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  No, because we'll all be dead soon
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  Do you sometimes bemoan the LOST idea, or Belief, that Someone Powerful was going to set all things right?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so it looks like about half of my jw relatives are not going back to the meetings once they open up the kingdom halls.

  the main reason all of them give is that if we were truly living in the last days, jehovah would not have allowed the door to door preaching work, and kingdom hall meetings to stop for over a year.. the elders have talked to some of them and tried to convince them that letter writing is accomplishing the same thing as door to door, and zoom is the same as meetings-----------but my relatives just won’t buy it anymore.

  just a note here, at first, the kingdom hall lock-downs, and the no preaching door to door was not that bad,the relatives still held on to their faith strongly because they believed it was temporary.

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  No, haven't lost that belief
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  Why Do Jehovah's Witnesses Dress Up For Meetings?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  2. bible

  library.

  books & brochures.

  who are doing jehovah’s will today?.

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  Thought Underwood was a real nice guy