Posts by Landy

"deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

Landy

Trump's presidency is descending into farce, and that's where it will stay for the next four years.

His NSA has gone for cosying up to the Russians, his communications team can't get a coherent message out. His EO is in tatters and there isn't one metre of wall built yet.

And this is just the first three weeks!

I'm just looking forward to Have I Got News Foy You starting again.

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The Inherent Founding Paganism of the Jehovah's Witnesses

by Finkelstein in

there is an inherent founding association with paganism through and by the founding leader of the watchtower corporation that has to be realized and accepted as such.

c t russell was once the head editorial writer for the wts.

right up until his death in 1916. russell had associated himself with freemasons for awhile, giving talks at freemason halls and handing out literature he published at the same time.. he made up more or less a commercialized version of the gospel based upon a new era for mankind which he calculated by measuring the dimensions of the great pyramid of giza.

Landy

But if that new light comes from the top of a pagan Pyramid at its source you still have a pretentious " New Light "

Yeah, but if you take all the old books out of the congregation library then it never happened, right?

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New to site...let me intro myself

by LarryCope in

first, i've been out of the organization for 20 years this very year!

i was baptized in 1979 and attended one of the lancaster ohio congregations.

realizing i was gay, i left and after being in the columbus gay community for 6 months, decided bar hopping and cruising was not my cup o' tea.i decided to return in late '90 and was reinstated in '91.

Landy

BTW, I did not leave due to sexuality issues.

it would have been enough, with the exception of a couple of southern US states fundie sects, I don't think I can think of a worse religion to grow up in as a gay person.

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Moral High Ground

by Spoletta in

it seems that the other threads about trump's policies are veering off into endless ideological theories about how much better we are than islam.

does anyone think there is a chance that islam can be changed in the same manner that christianity has over the centuries?

with the inflow of ideas from western countries into the middle east, will people gradually want to move away from sharia law to something less patriarchal and cruel?

Landy

Possibly. Christianity threw off the warfare and crusades about 400 years ago. So give them another 400 years and they'll be a Muslim version of the CoE - Islam Lite as it were.

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The Inherent Founding Paganism of the Jehovah's Witnesses

by Finkelstein in

there is an inherent founding association with paganism through and by the founding leader of the watchtower corporation that has to be realized and accepted as such.

c t russell was once the head editorial writer for the wts.

right up until his death in 1916. russell had associated himself with freemasons for awhile, giving talks at freemason halls and handing out literature he published at the same time.. he made up more or less a commercialized version of the gospel based upon a new era for mankind which he calculated by measuring the dimensions of the great pyramid of giza.

Landy

I'm sorry but you're all totally ignoring the loophole that is 'new light'.

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Just sharing-Ex JW's in Media

by Confusedandangry in

https://youtu.be/qvm1prhnoci.

i'm not sure if anyone has already posted this link or info on deborah frances white.

i just wanted to share for anyone interested in hearing her experience.

Landy

Perhaps if you go looking, but she's not in your face with it. Or ashamed of it.

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New to site...let me intro myself

by LarryCope in

first, i've been out of the organization for 20 years this very year!

i was baptized in 1979 and attended one of the lancaster ohio congregations.

realizing i was gay, i left and after being in the columbus gay community for 6 months, decided bar hopping and cruising was not my cup o' tea.i decided to return in late '90 and was reinstated in '91.

Landy

Absolutely! Don't get me wrong, it was a terrible burden. I remember going in FS with on brother who was an absolute doll and having to focus on my presentations. WHEW!!

Yeah, sorry about that. I was a bit of a stunner in my time.

;)