Not all states you can kill or even harm an intruder. There are stand your ground states where you can use lethal force if you feel that you are reasonably threatened or you are defending someone else. Then there are states where you have to attempt to withdraw from the situation if you feel that your life is threatened, there is some murkiness when it comes to within your home but some of the same principles apply. No one wants to take another person's life even if it is legal for them to do so.
John Davis
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To kill or not to kill
by Chook inhow many jws would kill a violent rapist in there home or protect their family with lethal means .
the one thing i love about the usa is the right to defend oneself with lethal force in their own home.
it's not that i want to kill someone but better them dead than my children..
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(Not so) Subliminal Shave Your Beard Message
by Funchback ini'm in the middle of dissecting the june 2017 jw broadcasting video.. in the first minute, they summarize a story about a guy who apparently was a one-time bad ass (showed a picture of him with a beard while posing on a chopper).
then, they show him shaving at the exact same moment the narrator is saying how he regained "a clean conscience".. this no-beard obsession by the jws is beyond nuts.. .
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John Davis
I am sure some Witness men would want a beard but I really doubt that most would. Look at most settings just in the normal public, a small percentage of men have beards. I am sure that thing that most Witness men would like is not having to shave for every meeting more would take advantage of that but a full on beard I doubt there would be a large percentage of JW men that would do it.
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Crimea Ordered to Renounce Faith or Fight for Occupying Russian Army
by John Davis ina crimean member of the jehovah’s witnesses has been ordered to prove he has renounced his faith or else take up arms for the occupying russian army.
the move follows russia’s banning of the christian denomination in april and its annexation of the ukrainian territory of crimea in 2014.. one of the central tenets of jehovah’s witnesses’ faith is an opposition to serving in the military.
previously in russia, members have been allowed to undertake alternative civilian service.
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A Crimean member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has been ordered to prove he has renounced his faith or else take up arms for the occupying Russian army. The move follows Russia’s banning of the Christian denomination in April and its annexation of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in 2014.
One of the central tenets of Jehovah’s Witnesses’ faith is an opposition to serving in the military. Previously in Russia, members have been allowed to undertake alternative civilian service. But that has changed since the country’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling from the justice ministry that they violated an anti-extremism law, liquidating all 395 of its local religious chapters and rendering the faith of 175,000 of its members illegal.
There have since been multiple reports of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia being denied alternative civilian service.
But now an even more controversial case has emerged in Crimea. The group’s Russian website has shown paperwork reportedly sent to a Jehovah’s Witness instructing him that he must provide documentation proving that he has either renounced his faith or transferred to another religion.
As well as violating the individual’s religious liberty, the order, according to Ukrainian human rights organization Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, flouts international humanitarian law. A United Nations resolution passed last December recognized Russia as an occupying force in Crimea.
The Geneva Conventions states, “The Occupying Power may not compel protected persons to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces. No pressure or propaganda which aims at securing voluntary enlistment is permitted.”
Despite that, Russia has continued to conscript Crimeans into military service. In April, it announced that its latest spring draft campaign would continue to include people from Crimea and that they would also be sent to perform military service in all parts of the country.
In doing so, Crimean human rights groups claim that Russia is in violation of another Geneva Convention article, which prohibits “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power.”
Ukraine’s foreign affairs ministry has similarly demanded that Russia cancels military conscription in Crimea.
The treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia since the Supreme Court decision has already come under the microscope. As well as being denied alternative civilian service, there have been reports of meetings being disrupted by police and, in one instance, a Danish member being arrested. He now faces up to 10 years in prison.
An appeal against the Supreme Court’s decision will be heard on July 17.
http://www.newsweek.com/jehovahs-witnesses-russia-crimea-military-628699
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(Not so) Subliminal Shave Your Beard Message
by Funchback ini'm in the middle of dissecting the june 2017 jw broadcasting video.. in the first minute, they summarize a story about a guy who apparently was a one-time bad ass (showed a picture of him with a beard while posing on a chopper).
then, they show him shaving at the exact same moment the narrator is saying how he regained "a clean conscience".. this no-beard obsession by the jws is beyond nuts.. .
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John Davis
I remember that I wasn't able to shave for like 2 months and the CO saw me and scolded me for it and that pushed my appointment as a servant by like 2 years till the new CO came in and appointed me. I was actually really happy that I shaved it, again it was too itchy and never wanted one again.
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(Not so) Subliminal Shave Your Beard Message
by Funchback ini'm in the middle of dissecting the june 2017 jw broadcasting video.. in the first minute, they summarize a story about a guy who apparently was a one-time bad ass (showed a picture of him with a beard while posing on a chopper).
then, they show him shaving at the exact same moment the narrator is saying how he regained "a clean conscience".. this no-beard obsession by the jws is beyond nuts.. .
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Well, I am not Richard Oliver. IDK how to prove it but I will try. As you presented that name I looked up his comments and we may have some stuff in common we are extremely different. I have been trying to highlight how evil Watchtower is, and I am learning how to help people to realise that. All I meant in this discussion was I personally don't see the big deal, probably again because I don't want a beard and never want one again, I didn't dispute anything with anyone. They voiced their opinion and I didn't say anything.
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(Not so) Subliminal Shave Your Beard Message
by Funchback ini'm in the middle of dissecting the june 2017 jw broadcasting video.. in the first minute, they summarize a story about a guy who apparently was a one-time bad ass (showed a picture of him with a beard while posing on a chopper).
then, they show him shaving at the exact same moment the narrator is saying how he regained "a clean conscience".. this no-beard obsession by the jws is beyond nuts.. .
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John Davis
In fact Steve2 I never said that anyone was wrong by saying that they shouldn't have that rule or voice their opinion. I just said that I don't get the big deal. I also qualified it by saying I never want a beard again because it is too itchy and hot for me. So I don't get where your attack comes from.
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(Not so) Subliminal Shave Your Beard Message
by Funchback ini'm in the middle of dissecting the june 2017 jw broadcasting video.. in the first minute, they summarize a story about a guy who apparently was a one-time bad ass (showed a picture of him with a beard while posing on a chopper).
then, they show him shaving at the exact same moment the narrator is saying how he regained "a clean conscience".. this no-beard obsession by the jws is beyond nuts.. .
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John Davis
I have not posted about beards ever before, there Steve2. maybe you need to do some research before blowing up on people.
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(Not so) Subliminal Shave Your Beard Message
by Funchback ini'm in the middle of dissecting the june 2017 jw broadcasting video.. in the first minute, they summarize a story about a guy who apparently was a one-time bad ass (showed a picture of him with a beard while posing on a chopper).
then, they show him shaving at the exact same moment the narrator is saying how he regained "a clean conscience".. this no-beard obsession by the jws is beyond nuts.. .
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John Davis
Granted I never want a beard. I had one and I hated it. Too itchy and hot. My Middle Eastern heritage makes it really a thick and itchy beard.
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(Not so) Subliminal Shave Your Beard Message
by Funchback ini'm in the middle of dissecting the june 2017 jw broadcasting video.. in the first minute, they summarize a story about a guy who apparently was a one-time bad ass (showed a picture of him with a beard while posing on a chopper).
then, they show him shaving at the exact same moment the narrator is saying how he regained "a clean conscience".. this no-beard obsession by the jws is beyond nuts.. .
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John Davis
I don't get the big deal that a group feels that having a beard is a bad thing and wants people not to have them. There are employers who make rules like that. If you want to be part of an organisation and they have a rule like that, you have to follow the rule.
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Britain Branch to Cease Printing Sooner Than Expected
by The Searcher ini've received the following news from a reliable and trusted source: .
the demise of printing literature in the u.k. is being brought forward by one year - to march 2018. graphic design and printing support will go too.
large numbers of "disposable" bethelites will now have to make their own way in the world, when their "mother" abandons them.
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John Davis
It is not unusual for them to scale down print production. How many people here still read a newspaper that is delivered to their door or a commercial magazine that is not on your computer or tablet?