Posts by pistolpete

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Politics and Hope

by lriddle80 in

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so there are a lot of atheists on here.

my question: where does your hope come from?

that the right people will be put in political positions and will eventually form a utopian society that will meet all needs and we will have equality for all?.

pistolpete

riddle80
So, it WAS all for nothing after all!

Not at all. Life is a gift to be treasured. If I live only until I hit forty, was it for nothing at all? Of course not. I enjoyed sunsets, the ocean, endless meals, pets, my work is enjoyable, I fell in love with a wonderful lady, children, wonderful parents, and I will attest-----it was not for nothing.

I’m not sure if you were a jw, but the ones I know were fed an unrealistic promise of living forever in a paradise earth petting pandas. That unrealistic promise can make life today meaningless. That’s why many jws stop living for today and give up everything, because they have been promised everlasting life by a group of men that most have never personally met. And that's why when many find out they didn't have the truth, they have a hard time coping with life today.

I think our lives are intricately woven together playing out an epic story of a redeeming Savior saving people who are worthless for an ultimate crescendo of God, man, and creation becoming one.

I have no problem with people believing whatever they want to believe to make the inevitable a lot less painful.

For me I don’t see why an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent God wasn’t able to create a planet that didn’t have to be conquered, and a race of humans that didn’t need salvation.

If I was that God, and created children, I wouldn’t put them through all that suffering----unless I was malevolent, and enjoyed seeing contests like the gladiatorial fights of Rome.

And I wouldn’t put them on a planet that was deliberately designed with some animals destine to be prey and others designed to be predators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaM9Ct3g1Fw&feature=youtu.be&t=25

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How will the rest of the World be affected if America is run by far-left Socialist?

by pistolpete in

america was a power not to be reckoned with.

but lately it seems to be the laughing stock of the world.

what other countries are seeing on the news is riots, calls to de-fund the police, breakdown of society, and elections being over taken with fraud.

pistolpete

America was a power not to be reckoned with. But lately it seems to be the laughing stock of the world. What other Countries are seeing on the news is Riots, calls to de-fund the police, breakdown of society, and elections being over taken with fraud.

World powers fall. Is it time for the USA to fall????

This video is making the rounds. This woman is from Yugoslavia and has been seeing with interest what has been happening in America, because it is exactly what happened in Yugoslavia. She is warning Americans that America is changing right before our eyes -----and we can't see it..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzmz-p_Dvs

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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big

by minimus in

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a month ago it might have been questionable.

not now.

after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.

pistolpete

So it looks like the Covid Vaccine is here. If true, no doubt Biden will say he as "President Elect" was responsible for the vaccine finally arriving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejACG6lgrA

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Politics and Hope

by lriddle80 in

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friends

so there are a lot of atheists on here.

my question: where does your hope come from?

that the right people will be put in political positions and will eventually form a utopian society that will meet all needs and we will have equality for all?.

pistolpete

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lriddle80

I was thinking about all of advances in technology and things like stoves and air conditioning. But now we have an advanced, maybe irreversible climate problem most likely caused by these advances, so I don't know it was such a good idea to become so advanced.

There are several theories out there that hypothesize that the more advance a species gets, the closer it gets to the “Filters” that will prevent it from advancing to much.

One of these “Filters” is that civilizations Destroy themselves when they reach a certain point. For example once they learn how to build Nuclear Weapons, it only a matter of a few hundreds years before someone decides it is time to end it all and thus pave the way for a new species to climb the ladder to the top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWphqA1Slrw

Killer epidemics could wipe out the entire human species before a solution is developed, paving the way for a new species to climb the ladder.

Overpopulation could force world leaders and politicians to come up with a plan to cull the herd. Your average citizen would have no idea what is happening.

There is actually some speculation that the Covid virus was deliberately created to cull the overpopulation problem and get rid of the old and sickly people, since they are more of a drain on finite resources instead of adding ideas, and labor to earth’s diminishing resources.

Are we at that point in the scale of approaching one of those filters?

You tell me. From a high of 70,300 active weapons in 1986, as of 2019 there are approximately 3,750 active nuclear warheads and 13,890 total nuclear warheads in the world. Many of the decommissioned weapons were simply stored or partially dismantled, not destroyed ---------meaning that humans still have access to them.

Considering how some countries armed with Nukes, hate each other to the max, like India and Pakistan, it wouldn’t take long for ONE OF THEM TO START SOMETHING and then the whole world join in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iNWaBZ3-w

Another great “Filter” would be the same thing that happened to Dinosaurs,--a giant meteor or a possible storm of Asteroids struck the planet earth and wiped them all out, leaving room for a new species to rise to the top of the chain,----Homo Sapiens.

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Collapse of JW Org - Possibly on the Horizon?

by JWTom in

this topics get a great deal of discussion here.

what i find interesting is even some of my pimi family is embracing the reality that all is not well with jw.org and that many current jws are just going through the motions due to not having a good way out of the org.

wondering what could realistically lead to the collapse of jw.org in the not distant future?

pistolpete

Collapse of the JW Org - Possibly on the Horizon?

The Watchtower makes up .001 of the population. (Not even close to the number 1) And to be honest, it's probably less than that because I don't believe there are 8 million full fledged believers - JWs world wide.

With that in mind, if the Watchtower collapsed today, I doubt anyone would even notice besides the members and some exjws.

I know 1.4 BILLION people in China wouldn't give a hoot

I know 1.3 BILLION people in India wouldn't blink an eye.

Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Russia wouldn't even bat an eye

If you had two stories on the news all over the internet---Elections or Watchtower collapse, which do you thing people would click on!!

Earth population wise------nobody really cares!

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Politics and Hope

by lriddle80 in

jw
friends

so there are a lot of atheists on here.

my question: where does your hope come from?

that the right people will be put in political positions and will eventually form a utopian society that will meet all needs and we will have equality for all?.

pistolpete

My question: where does your hope come from

Definition
Hope; a FEELING of expectation and DESIRE for a certain thing to happen.

When I was a little kid I use to Hope=DESIRE to one day fly like superman. But as I grew up I realized that all HOPE is --------is just a feeling and nothing more. It's not something tangible that actually comes true just because you wish it or desire it.

In my short little life, considering I'm still young, I've seen real good people hope in God that their cancer would go away. (They died) I've seen good parents hope in God, that their 5 year old daughter is found before it's to late. (She never came home) How many of the 350,000 people that died in the December 26, 2004 tsunami do you think were Hoping in God considering many has just celebrated the birth of Christ the day prior?

Because we know that won't happen because people are always going to be divided and unsatisfied.

Now you are predicting a future event and acting like a prophet. That's how religion starts. No Human can predict how humanity will turn out thousands of years from now.

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Understanding a family member that’s A witness

by understandingjehovah in

i need some advise or understanding.. my brother became jehovah witness because of his wife.

our dad is dying and over the last two months he’s done some very weird stuff.. my family knows he’s not a real witness because he sells corn liquor and pills, drinks daily, let us have our moms birthday at their house.

he’s also committed adultery, it’s rumored that he molested our cousin when he was younger, done fraud to my dying dad, lied about being our dads poa for greed only to find out he’s not, lied to the family about his estranged daughters, called his oldest daughter a b*tch because she doesn’t want anything to do with him, lied on our dads life to her to get her to talk to him, he has the name nympho tattooed on his neck, has slandered his immediate family and abandoned two of his daughters for over 20 years to start a family with his new wife.

pistolpete

I’m really confused at how they speak if jehovah but live their life like this.

You seem to believe that a person's religion has anything to do with a person's character. A religion is a belief system with their differing ideas of what makes a person moral, All religion"s ideas of what make a good person is flawed.

For example Jehovah's Witnesses speak of Jehovah as you mentioned, yet they would be willing to let their child, wife, husband, or parents DIE, if it conflicts with their doctrine of no blood transfusion. Does being a Jehovah Witness make them more moral than anyone else considering they are willing to let their family die for a belief system made by a group of men that started the religion in the 1800s?

You need to judge a person's character based on how they live their life and how they act instead of the religion they associate with. .Some of the most famous serial killers were very religious.

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If Biden wins

by mickbobcat in

if biden wins i hope trump starts the trump news network and hires out from fox the good casters.

the people who made fox what it is are starting to get sick of how its turning to the left or dark side.

this would give trump a voice and keep alive real journalism.

pistolpete

"This is exactly how it went in Cuba, why cant Americans see ahead?"

It's the same reason why Jehovah's Witnesses are seeing that the preaching work has come to a complete halt going on a year almost, and possible longer, tons of child sex abuse cases, the preposterous overlapping generation new light, the accelerated child baptisms, and all the other tweaks within the organization that makes it obvious it's not God's Only Channel to save mankind.---------------------

IGNORANCE!

They refuse to look at the evidence for whatever reason

Most Americans are not aware of what the political system did in Cuba. Most have no idea what happened in Venezuela. Most have no idea what Socialism is. They think Socialism is FREE EVERYTHING. And it's actually the upcoming generation that is being taught in Universities that Socialism is a good thing.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz6VJK3mS08

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Do You Believe In A “Deep State”?

by minimus in

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or do you think the idea of a deep state is malarkey?

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pistolpete

Here is an different example of a "Group" who has vested interest in what policies the Political party in place has to offer. That Group will protect the party that supports them and remove the one that doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uYERZX0aJM

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Do You Believe In A “Deep State”?

by minimus in

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or do you think the idea of a deep state is malarkey?

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pistolpete

Deep State; a body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy.

I believe there are "GROUPS" of people with vested interest in different types of machinery running in the Country. For example; "The United States is home to half of the world’s 10 largest defense contractors and to 43 of the top 100 defense companies. These companies accounted for 59% of total arms sales by the world’s 100 largest defense contractors in 2018 "

One example, Harris Corp.a defense contractor, which relies heavily on government clients, most (73%) of the company's overall revenue of $6.8 billion in 2018 came from contracts with the U.S. government.

Do you think this Corporation might have some interest in who is going to be President of the USA?????

Another company, Virginia-based technology company Leidos reported an annual revenue of $10.2 billion in 2018. About half the revenue came from the company's defense and intelligence division. The company's services include IT infrastructure, data analytics, cyber security, logistics, surveillance vehicle and equipment development and maintenance, and consulting. Its defense clients include the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, and NATO.

The company's history with the federal government goes back to its founding in 1969. The U.S. government was the company's first customer when it hired Leidos to analyze nuclear weapon effects for $70,000. More recently, the company was awarded a contract, with a five-year base period, worth a maximum of $6.5 billion, to operate and sustain the Department of Defense Information and System Networks.

I have a small plumbing company and protect my clients like a mama bear. What makes us think all these companies with vested interest wouldn't do the same.