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Sigfrid Mallozzi
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Is it because of Pride or Loyalty?
by joey jojo inin a recent effort to entice me back to meetings, an elder friend gave me the example of his dad.. he said that his pioneer/elder/ex-missionary dad went through the anticipation and disappointment of 1975 and yet, he kept going faithfully for decades afterwards.
the obvious point was that, if his dad can deal with disappointment, then, surely a nobody like me could do the same in regards to the scrapping of the 1914 generation doctrine, and all the other changes.
his 'encouragement' was to tell me that it was only me that felt like this, everyone else is fine and have no problems with the changes.
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Sigfrid Mallozzi
I agree with the sunk cost. I've heard from older witnesses that said they had too much invested to go to something else and they just keep plodding on faithfully until death.
Also, I believe it takes humility to realize you have been fooled. I remember when I woke up I was angry that my grand parents, my parents, my brothers and sisters, and myself had been fooled. How could we be so stupid? We were the cream of the congregation, the mature Christians, ones looked up to for having the answers.
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What`s wrong With American Politics ?
by smiddy3 inwhat`s wrong with american politics ?.
96% of american people who got off there arse to vote, chose hillary clinton to be president of the united states of america over donald trump.. and the electoral college overode the will of the majority of the people who bothered to vote , and gave the office of president to donald trump who was the 2nd choice, an also ran , of the will of the people.. it`s a furphy to say that some larger blue/red states can dictate to smaller red/blue states or vice versa to rig the elections ,simply because people can, and do change there preferences in any one state whether it be traditionally red or blue.. both democrats and republicans are both guilty and responsible for the gerrymander that is the electoral college.. there i`ve said it ,.
nobody else seems to be able to say it how it is ,.
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Sigfrid Mallozzi
"Because the system encourages coalition-building and national campaigning. In order to win, a candidate must have the support of many different types of voters, from various parts of the country.
Winning only the South or the Midwest is not good enough. You cannot win 270 electoral votes if only one part of the country is supporting you.
But if winning were only about getting the most votes, a candidate might concentrate all of his efforts in the biggest cities or the biggest states. Why would that candidate care about what people in West Virginia or Iowa or Montana think?"
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What`s wrong With American Politics ?
by smiddy3 inwhat`s wrong with american politics ?.
96% of american people who got off there arse to vote, chose hillary clinton to be president of the united states of america over donald trump.. and the electoral college overode the will of the majority of the people who bothered to vote , and gave the office of president to donald trump who was the 2nd choice, an also ran , of the will of the people.. it`s a furphy to say that some larger blue/red states can dictate to smaller red/blue states or vice versa to rig the elections ,simply because people can, and do change there preferences in any one state whether it be traditionally red or blue.. both democrats and republicans are both guilty and responsible for the gerrymander that is the electoral college.. there i`ve said it ,.
nobody else seems to be able to say it how it is ,.
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Sigfrid Mallozzi
The United States in not a pure democracy. It is a Republic.
From the citation above: "The Founders had no intention of creating a pure majority-rule democracy. They knew from careful study of history what most have forgotten today, or never learned: pure democracies do not work.
They implode.
Democracy has been colorfully described as two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. In a pure democracy, bare majorities can easily tyrannize the rest of a country. The Founders wanted to avoid this at all costs."
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What`s wrong With American Politics ?
by smiddy3 inwhat`s wrong with american politics ?.
96% of american people who got off there arse to vote, chose hillary clinton to be president of the united states of america over donald trump.. and the electoral college overode the will of the majority of the people who bothered to vote , and gave the office of president to donald trump who was the 2nd choice, an also ran , of the will of the people.. it`s a furphy to say that some larger blue/red states can dictate to smaller red/blue states or vice versa to rig the elections ,simply because people can, and do change there preferences in any one state whether it be traditionally red or blue.. both democrats and republicans are both guilty and responsible for the gerrymander that is the electoral college.. there i`ve said it ,.
nobody else seems to be able to say it how it is ,.
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Meet Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the newest member of the US Supreme Court
by pistolpete inhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-justice-sworn-in/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylevocee10.
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Sigfrid Mallozzi
A road to nowhere is baiting someone. The President has the responsibility to appoint sc justices. This responsibility is for his full term.
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If a JW becomes inactive is he then labeled as an apostate?
by Pallbearer ini have heard a rumor that if a jw becomes inactive he or she is considered to be an apostate.
is this true?
has anyone here on this forum had such an experience?
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Sigfrid Mallozzi
If you are inactive and not on the elder's radar to investigate you, throw the depression and anxiety card. The Enstein-Barr Virus is also a good cover, it leaves you sooooo weak and it can last for years.
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Eliminate the Oil Industry?
by Anony Mous ina lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.. in the us, biden has promised to eliminate all federal lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the united states) as well as native american tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the us).. in europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the nordic countries and the uk (which the eu recently lost access to), germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is china from russia and russian-controlled portions of ukraine, even after trump cut off all builders from russian oil pipelines, the russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.. venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.. in the mean time, control for most non-us energy sources is now wholly dependent on russian and middle eastern governments.. california and germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives.
germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kwh and california is not far behind with 16c/kwh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.. the world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.
co2 emissions in the us have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.. do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing?
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Sigfrid Mallozzi
Well, on the positive side Harley Davidson is currently making an electric motorcycle that will cost $30,000. This will save the planet.
I've worked at four nuclear plants in the U.S.A. Yes, there is nuclear waste but for the amount of energy produced it is low, and for much of the last it is stored on site. I personally feel the current procedures are more than safe. I remember the Three Mile Island situation when I was a young man. Story I've heard several times while personally questioning older workers is that workers in the control room had a news paper that was covering a warning light. Jimmy Carter personally visited the control room and asked what the problem was and helped them find what happened. (I've also heard of an operations controller say you are getting false reading fill the pool with water). NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) does not permit any reading material, personal possessions, etc in the control room that could impede safe operation. This is what I was told.
As I have explained to my daughter, the smoke from the cooling towers at a nuclear power plant is only steam cooling down the water from 600 degrees and very high pressure. It is not nuclear waste. The nuclear rods heat the water to run a steam turbine. That's it's. The spent fuel is stored on site in steel and concrete cylinders after it has cooled in the pool inside containment.
As far as getting rid of coal here in the U.S. it makes no sense when China is building a lot of coal fired plants.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has a great use of their terrain just outside of Chattanooga, Tn. The power from Sequoyah Nuclear Plant when demand is low usually at night is used to pump millions of gallons of water in to a man-made lake at the top of Racoon Mountain. Then when demand is higher the water is released into hydroelectric turbines.
https://www.tva.com/energy/our-power-system/hydroelectric/raccoon-mountain
Granted, TVA had 6 million yards of fly ash flow into river close to Knoxville, Tennessee and they cleaned it up, and workers are sueing them for the adverse health effects.
Windmills kill birds. Coal has fly ash that needs to be stored. Nuclear has spent fuel and other contaminated materials like used personal protective equipment (clothing) that needs to be stored.
I'm not an expert in energy. Hydroelectric energy is wonderful and is cheap. Kentucky recently was in the process of building three hydroelectric dams on the Ohio river. I worked on two of them. Hydroelectric energy is very cheap.
The tools to manufacture energy are diverse and with the proper management will overall benefit humans. If you live in a third world country or in California you can regularly have rolling black outs. Blackouts present their own negative issues. Is your mass transit train powered by electricity? Wait until you have a rolling blackout because solar or wind cannot meet the demand. The loss of productivity is exponential.