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  What’s Your View On Self Defense?

  by minimus in

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  if someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?

  if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?

  if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?

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  iXav

  If you can run, that will be the best option. Even if you have a gun and you shoot the assailant, taking another human life can also cause side effects like PTSD, similar to what happened to soldiers.

  If the idiot is trying to kill you, then, I would rather kill than be killed.
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

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  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  iXav

  There’s a pandemic by definition, but it’s hardly the life-ending plague it was predicted to be. It sucks that people die, but people die every year, especially from preventable diseases and no one is bitching about that last time I checked.

  There is definitely an element of propaganda and mis-information. You need to remember that any time a new disease raises its ugly face, there is always fear mongering and misinformation. When HIV-AIDS made the news, there was a lot of fear mongering as well. That said, saying that Corvid19 "it’s hardly the life-ending plague it was predicted to be" is a little disingenuous if you only take a single data point to make your point (death toll).
  

  A lot of experts were not sure about the full impact of Corvid19 in the beginning and what they could go by was data from previous pandemic that cost millions of lives. Thanks to modern medicine and new media (mass communication), most government were able to stem the flow of what could have been a more deadly outcome.
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  Where is Kenneth Cook?

  by Mary2 in

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  video from new publication.

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/pub-lffv_542_video.

  now only 7 members of fds.

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  iXav

  ere is a screenshot to save you clicking on the link

  
  
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  Who/ What In Your Opinion Was The Best?

  by minimus in

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  the best president.

  the best boxer?

  the best over all athlete?

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  iXav

  I bought a strip of Wagyu beef from Costco a few weeks ago, quite an investment even at Costco prices.
  

  Now you have to sell another Kidney to enjoy all that goodness again
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  Who/ What In Your Opinion Was The Best?

  by minimus in

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  the best president.

  the best boxer?

  the best over all athlete?

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  iXav

  Best hamburger. Big Mac? Really!! I love a feta burger myself but I will say when I want junk McDonald’s makes the grade.
  

  I have tasted Bic Mac in 3 different continents and that Junk food taste is consitent

  
  
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  Who/ What In Your Opinion Was The Best?

  by minimus in

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  the best president.

  the best boxer?

  the best over all athlete?

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  iXav

  best president : Jacques Chirac (he put an end to compulsory military service, loved that)

  Box : Ali

  Best Hamburger : Big Mac

  Best Athlete : Jesse Owens (messed up the Nazi Agenda)

  Best exjw Forum : Reddit (lol Simon rolling his eyes)

  Best musical instrument : Guitar

  Best Asian Food : Indian Curry with Basmati rice
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  The absolute insanity that religion breeds

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  however good certain religious principles may or may not be, there seems to be complete insanity that only religion breeds.. a buddhist monk in thailand has apparently chopped off his own head to give himself 'good luck' in the afterlife.. .

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9488127/buddhist-monk-chops-head-guillotine-buddha.html.

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  iXav

  When religion meets crazy, anything is possible.
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  'Theocratic Careers' and the Covid Pandemic

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
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  the watchtower has always banged on about not pursuing worldly careers and that best career was 'theocratic service.

  but now i am wondering what line they will take.

  let's have look at the options;.

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  • Missionary Service : Almost all missionary homes have been sold or closed and most missionaries in parts of Central South America/Africa have been sent packing. Most recent Guilead graduation was field with bethelites or former missionries. Most of them are sent back to the same location or back to some branch office. There was a massive cull in Brookly as well when the started moving to the new HQ.
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  • Bethel Service : Recently they closed all bethels in Central America and sent many back to the field aka back home. Massive reduction in the bethel in Mexico and many were not pleased. Before that, the bethel in Mexico printed for Mexico and Central America, with the reduction of the magazines from 1536 pages(per year) to only 46 pages (per year). You read that right, only 3 WT per year with only 16 pages. Calendars, and many publication have been discontinued which means you need less workers.
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  • Serving Where the need is Great : Most of those who had plans to serve where the heat is greater have had to rethink that. Many already established would probably have gone back home because of the instability ($$$$)caused by the pandemic
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  • Construction Work : Quick builds have been dead for a long time. What seems to be happening is that many congregations are being merged and KHs sold. They sometimes build a new KH and merge multiple congregations into the new hall and just sell the remaining. There is less enthusiasm for members to contribute $$$ to the local congregation since the GB took over the halls and raided the bank accounts of many congregation. Imagine how people felt seeing a KH you contributed to and helped build being sold and the organization pocketing the cash.
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  • Foreign Language Groups and Congregations : The lastest update from the GB is that the FL groups and congregation are a waste of time and $$$ so they are closing them down. A lot of disgruntled elders losing their fancy position in the FL field. Now add those elders to main language congregation with a lot of elders and each vying for the little position that is left. Some congregations are huge with 150 to 200 publishers. Very little room to shine. The competition will be interesting

  • Pioneer service : Due to the pandemic and people having a hard time meeting the hours requirement, they have just decided that pioneering has no hour requirement. Just do what you can. The difficulty will be getting those people to get back to active preaching once the pandemic is over. Once you taste the good life, going back to hardship will not be easy
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  • Circuit Overseers : The days of the COs are also numbered. With the merging and FL groups being dissolved, that means there will be a reduction in the number of Circuits. Some overseers will be getting the boot sooner or later. Another difficulty for the COs will be going back to visiting each congregation every week when you have experienced over a year of bliss running everything through Zoom. Once the meeting is over, you are home and don't have to deal with spiritually trying to encourage others. The stress level must now be lower.

  That above leaves very little room for those aspiring (ambitious) for spiritual position in the organization. There is little left to reach out to. Even talks are now video sent by the organization for assemblies. You can't add your personal touch and shine like before. The future will be really interesting.

  BTW, only those who have been in the organization long enough will appreciate the shift in the organization strategy. The younger ones (under 30) really wouldn't have a point of reference and they will not share the same point of view.
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  Over population

  by mickbobcat in

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  so i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.

  that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.

  well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.

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  iXav

  There is no need to panic. Greed will lead us were we deserve to be and by the time that happens, a lot of people who are worried about over population will be dead. Then, something major like major war, tsunami, pandemic, etc will happen and it will wipe out a few million people (Population control).
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  Covid Virus and serving where the need is greater

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i get the impression that many of those serving where 'the need is greater' have had to return to their home countries due to the current covid pandemic.. just over a year back the society was pushing people to go to places like india; not the easiest places to get to grips with at the best of times.

  now i see that the covid pandemic is pretty much out of control in india.

  it seems to me that 'needs greaters' were the watchtowers way of getting missionaries on the cheap.

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  there isn't much to do when most JWs are now writing letters and making unwanted phone calls to people in the phone book. You don't need to be a needs greater to accomplish that. The normal preacher will likely not resume until well into 2022.