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  I am now 73 and the road has been filled with wonders

  by Terry in

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  i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.

  you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .

  which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!

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  In my late fifties, but really love your posts Terry. Which means I love you too. Happy Birthday!
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  Another Rare Beard Sighting

  by neat blue dog in

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  this is from a recent article about malawi, and the caption calls the man "brother welosi mbendera".. .

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  First, Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Brother Welosi is dressed quite decently in the midst of endemic poverty (probably second-hand clothing imported from wherever). He has a "beard", but a lot of that goes with age in Southern Africa. He actually looks the better for it since said "beard" matches what hair is left on his head. The sister is not wearing a hat - it's a "head scarf" commonly worn by women of all ages throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

  Please, always remember the context. More than a third of humanity only manages to scrape by and cannot afford certain "luxuries" considered nothing by those who can. There is no point mocking the poor who only happen to have been born where surviving is more a matter of luck than anything else, or lampooning a person in whose shoes we've never walked even if, in our opinion, they are in the "wrong" religion. Oh, about that "knocked out" tooth? Were he in a society with affordable medical care and had the means, Brother Welosi would most likely have had that replaced. Overall, considering his "robust" looks, he's come a long way in a country where life expectancy at birth is 50.
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  What Are Your Predictions for 2020 and Beyond?

  by The Bethelite in

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  2020 the society will continue to have financial problems with massive pay outs because of their lack of protecting their young people from a religion that harbors thousands of pedophiles.

  thus this and other religions that has an 1800's mentality will continue to lose their young people.

  with the religion's lies easily found on the internet the smart ones will continue to leave in droves.

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  Trump wins 2020 hands down, including the popular vote.
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  International Convention this year in St. Louis.......missed opportunity for protesters!

  by krismalone in

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  i attended the international convention this year (to avoid chaos in family life).

  the convention center was right on the middle of downtown st. louis.

  the cult members had to stand in line on the public sidewalk before entering the arena.

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  What's the point about picketing? I don't just get it. If the internet won't change them, a few bill boards won't do. My opinion, of course.
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  Need Help fleeing my country

  by saorean in

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  don't be startled by the title of this thread.

  heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.. in planning for my escape from the borg, i've come to the sad realization that the best thing for me to do considering factors like: breaking my parents and siblings hearts, lack of support groups, lack of counseling groups for cult survivors, and the prospect of finding a mate who shares my secular views on life, i've come to the realization that i need to leave my country and even my continent africa.

  i know i sound desperate, but what can a brother do when all he can do is cry out for help or die in silence.

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  It was bound to happen, that Saorean finally revealed his real intentions for joining the forum. Not only does he want to "flee" his country - but he wants a destination outside Africa, a continent of 54 countries. The likes of you give Africa a name it does not deserve. It took you so little a time to pull off your mask.

  You, Sir, are a fraud.
  
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  New member

  by saorean in

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  this is the first of many posts from me.

  i'm pimo, an overseer, somewhere in africa.

  i'll hold of giving further details until i've executed my plan to leave the organization.

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  Witnesses and a plethora of Christian sects will continue to grow in sub-saharan Africa. That's for a fact. Misery fosters belief in paradise - heaven or earth, and God knows there is great misery out there. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst, the witnesses would likely score far better than most in SS Africa.
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  Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka

  by cofty in

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  three christian churches and three luxury hotels have been attacked in sri lanka this morning resulting in more than 130 deaths.. buddhism is the state religion in sri lanka accounting for 70% of the population, hindus make up 12% with islam and christianity comprising 9% and 7% respectively.

  no group has yet claimed responsibility.

  a civil war between government forces and separatist tamil tigers ended in 2009. the war lasted 26 years and cost at least 70,000 lives.

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  Terrible. Why???
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  Rationalize? In your question lies the paradox. Tony is human. That's it. And in the end, all he did was buy "expensive" alcohol, given his estate. Did he fail by his own standards? Perhaps, perhaps not. His standards have been proven to shift according to circumstances.
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  Tony Morris video footage of him buying a dozen bottles of scotch

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  i was howling watching cedars latest video of tm111 buying a dozen bottles of scotch ((maccallans scotch).

  you can't write this stuff.

  right, i'm now off to buy a bottle of maccallans 😂..

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  I hardly comment. Simon's take and other posters leaning that way is about the most balanced in this tragi-comedy. Most other posters have an axe to grind in whatever fashion they fancy. Perhaps it's catharsis, I don't know. But it feels sad.
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  What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

  by pseudoxristos in

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  my first thought when seeing this headline was; "how could trump be right?

  " even though i am registered as a republican, i don't really care for trump.

  after reading the article, i still don't care for trump, but i had never considered many of the points brought out by the article.. january 17, 2018. what i learned in the peace corps in africa: trump is right.

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  Quite a pathetic article and even more pathetic responses, mostly coming from people who know so little about "Africa", or who think Africa is one country. It is so very sad that a stay in one rural African community can serve as the only brush to paint a whole continent in one dark stroke. Please do visit Africa, not just one "fecal territory" before you come up with some of the terrible and reinforced biases that have come out of many comments I have read so far (women prostituting to have a few coins to feed their families, a continent happy to practice excision, men lazying about all day and leaving the bulk of work to women, gay bashing - as if that is exclusive to Africa, etc.). I lived eleven years in North Africa; I now live in West Africa. I have visited and worked in well over thirty African countries. Yes, there are challenges facing African countries but a little bit of deeper knowledge without racial biases would go a long way to understanding why some parts of Africa are where they are today. Better still, it will open eyes as to why so many other sections of African society are forging ahead without people stealing to give to their extended families (what idiocy) or defecating on highways.

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