Posts by pistolpete

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JWs who are now paying the price of following the cult.

by mickbobcat in

my in-laws are two such people.

people who pioneered and did not work and try to save, instead they made just enough to get by and waited for the end to come.

now my mil is in palliative care and the state is paying for her keep, my fil lives in a dilapidated home and can not keep it up.

pistolpete

The cult is pushing this again. Quit jobs work building the cult projects and give your dog away.

I don't think this is going to work anymore. Today's young jws might go work at some building project for a year or two, (Mostly as an adventure or looking for a marriage mate) but all the madness of 1975, or, "You will never grow old" RHETORIC ---is not a thing anymore.

Most young jws today that I know want to do something with their life. Most of them are going go College under the pretense of going to serve in Bethel. So they go to a Community College to learn a trade and at the same time they get the basics out of the way, and after two years, they transfer to a University to finish their real career that they had planned all along.

My cousins and nephew are doing this. The parents have no idea that this is the big plan. They tell the parents that they are going to Community College to learn a trade to serve in Bethel.

But when the 2 or 3 years are up at Community College, they will tell the parents that they will continue their school at a University. If the parents get mad and kick them out of the house, these kids already have schooling in a trade and can move out, work part time in their trade and pursue their other career like Doctor or such.

So I think there will be very few if any that will throw away their lives by listening to the Garbage the GB keeps spouting.

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Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

by Simon in

so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

a tragic accident?

maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

pistolpete

The more you learn the more you realize these people are batshit crazy and reckless.

And these are the people running the entire Country.

For example; A Senator grills a Biden Nominee over the San Francisco Homelessness problem by asking her two simple questions on how she would solve the Homelessness crises;

She is clueless and she is the one Biden nominated to to run the entire Country's Homelessness problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP7BSjBP_Jk

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Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

by Simon in

so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

a tragic accident?

maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

pistolpete

Alec Baldwin Shooting Happened Because He Is Anti-Gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3vHhnQaryI

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A bit of history ... for you history buffs

by RR in

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i wasn't sure where to post this.

not sure why i'm posting this.

it's only going to add fuel to the fire.

pistolpete

"Gradually I was led to see that though each of the creeds contained some elements of truth, they were, on the whole, misleading and contradictory of God's Word.

After all these years, it should be obvious to everyone, that it was never really Russell's fault, or for that matter even the Watchtower's fault.

The problem that has led to "a Watchtower Organization" being built, and robbing people of their lives is the continuing Belief that the BIBLE is GOD'S WORD.

This fallacy has continued to mislead, divide, confuse, and enslave people into the idea that GOD is somehow involved in communicating with people by means of a book consisting of weird blood lust accounts, and contradictory STORIES, written by mere men. Why wasn't any woman used to write at least one book? Because it was written by men when humanity was still evolving from a misogynistic, lower class view of women.

The Bible has been used for thousands of years to create all kinds of religions. Some 40,000 sects, groups, and mainstream CHRISTIAN congregations or churches.

Do we really believe that an ALL POWERFUL , WISE and JUST GOD, would tolerate such stupidity if he actually existed and knew this book was the cause of so much division among humanity?

All Russell did was REINTERPRETED, what the Bible meant in HIS IMAGINATION and from there another religious cult out of thousands before it, emerged.

As long as the Bible continues to be looked at as being the "Words" of an ALMIGHTY, ALL POWERFUL, GOD, who has trillions of ways to communicate to his tiny creatures, like through dreams, one on one with everybody, instant voice from the sky, or anything you can think of from an omnipotent Being, you have to mediate and ask the question,

WHY WOULD THIS ALL POWERFUL BEING CHOOSE TO USE A BOOK LIKE THE BIBLE, WHICH HAS BEEN USED AS AN INSTRUMENT TO CONFUSE, TO ENSLAVE, TO MURDER,----INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT TO KNOW AND LEARN FROM A "SUPPOSED" GOD OF LOVE?

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Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

by Simon in

so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

a tragic accident?

maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

pistolpete

Baldwin PICKED UP THE GUN

Baldwin AIMED AT THE PERSON

Baldwin took a deep BREATH

Baldwin PULLED THE TRIGGER

Baldwin KILLED THE PERSON HE WAS AIMING AT.

Baldwin yelled; It's not my fault-----THE WOMAN MADE ME DO IT.

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How can you have a deficit for a Circuit Assembly on Zoom??

by pistolpete in

remember when after a circuit assembly the assembly overseer would come out right before the end of the assembly and make a special announcement;.

"brothers, we have a financial deficit of $5,000 dollars for our circuit assembly.

keep in mind that we have utilities and other expenses that need to be met.

pistolpete

Remember when after a Circuit Assembly the assembly overseer would come out right before the end of the assembly and make a special announcement;

"Brothers, we have a financial deficit of $5,000 dollars for our Circuit Assembly. Keep in mind that we have utilities and other expenses that need to be met. We are confident that Jehovah will open your hearts to take care of the matter."

Well it seems that they are doing the same thing with the Circuit Assembly on ZOOM!

And the True Believers are buying it!

Check out the posts on exjw reddit here;

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/qf6c0t/donations_requested_for_streamed_assembly/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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Evolution News: Humanlike Footprints in Crete Dated to 6 Million Years Ago!

by Disillusioned JW in

i find it astonishing that humanlike feet could have existed that long ago.

i wonder if some non-human upright ape might have had that kind of feet that long ago.

see https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/humanlike-footprints-in-crete-dated-to-6-million-years-muddle-archaeologists-1.10301706 and https://scitechdaily.com/oldest-footprints-of-pre-humans-identified-in-crete-six-million-years-old/ .

pistolpete

neat blue dog

I find it astonishing that they can date a footprint to 6 million years with a straight face. Trust the science!

I agree NBD.

Trust in science---climate change, 3 booster shots, Al Gore,etc.

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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!

by pistolpete in

just a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.

today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.

what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.

pistolpete

One a young woman (who was much heavier/fatter than I, and probably taller than I) co-worker kicked me

That would never happen to me. When I walk through the grocery stores, everybody, man or woman or feminist see me and get out of my way. And when I'm out at night pumping gas, and get out of my truck, women immediately jump into their car and drive away.

I'm kind of a big fellow. My girl is 5' 10" tall and she is almost a foot smaller than me and almost 200lbs lighter than me.

I like it this way because no one has ever picked a fight with me. Not even when I was in grade school, or High School. 👺

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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!

by pistolpete in

just a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.

today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.

what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.

pistolpete

This is Reality.

This woman is 219lbs, and said she can take ANY MAN. She challenged a marine to prove she can beat ANY MAN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fBTzilzkc4

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Follow The Truth

by Slidin Fast in

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so it seems that donald is set to launch a social media platform called "truth social".

if you start the sign up to go on the wait list you are asked to "follow the truth".

uncomfortable.. maybe it directs you to wt.borg.

pistolpete

Each of us has a choice - do we abdicate our powers of reason to someone else and allow them to process 'the data' draw the conclusions, put out a message and influence our decision making or do we work the data through our own minds and draw our own conclusions?

Freedom means we draw our own conclusions.

They may be wrong, and we may suffer the consequences, but at least we are not allowing someone else to determine what is right or wrong for us.

WT quote. All of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not." Watchtower 2013 Nov 15 p.20