Whoa, hang on a sec there FedUpJW, we don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water. Making it compulsory would mean we all die earlier, whereas good Darwinian principles require us to target only the weak willed and weak minded. Now here’s a thought, not only allow unbridled advertising, what also employ the services of Cambridge Analytica and target smokers and potential smokers with tailor made pro-smoking propaganda. I reckon that would be sufficient to weed out enough to keep the population stable.
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Could Boris "save the NHS & lives" by BANNING Covid 19?
by BoogerMan inobviously not, but he could do so by banning an even greater killer - tobacco.
smoking has been identified as the single greatest cause of preventable illness and premature death in all 4 nations of the u.k. .
annually, in scotland approximately 10,000 die, in wales, 5000, and in n.i.
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Could Boris "save the NHS & lives" by BANNING Covid 19?
by BoogerMan inobviously not, but he could do so by banning an even greater killer - tobacco.
smoking has been identified as the single greatest cause of preventable illness and premature death in all 4 nations of the u.k. .
annually, in scotland approximately 10,000 die, in wales, 5000, and in n.i.
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Ultimate Axiom
I am not convinced about the “excessive” cost to the NHS, and to the nation as a whole, that smoking (and gluttony) incurs. And for four reasons:
First, if all those people dying of smoking related diseases (and Big Macs) hadn’t smoked, they would live longer, end up requiring care and would die of other things, all incurring costs that would otherwise have not been incurred, and that should all therefore be deducted from the costs of treating the smoking (and gluttony) related diseases.
Second, tobacco is a heavily taxed product and brings in billions of tax revenue every year. So, if nobody smoked, that revenue would also need deducting from the costs of treating the smoking related diseases.
Third, while smokers (and gluttons) are alive, they still pay into pension funds and National Insurance, and because they die early, the DWP and the pension industry saves huge amounts of pension money they would otherwise have to pay out if those people lived “full term”.
And fourth, they keep the population down, thus reducing the burden on the nation’s resources.
Only by deducting all of the above costs, from the costs of treating the smoking (and gluttony) related diseases can we get the actual cost to the nation that smoking (and gluttony) incurs.
I think there’s an argument for actually encouraging smoking. Tax it to the hilt, allow unbridled advertising, but retain the ban in public places for the sake of those of us who don’t smoke. That way more people would die before requiring long term care, and before collecting their pensions, leaving more for the rest of us. It’s all in accordance with Darwinian survival of the fittest. In the case of smoking, those with the fittest minds. -
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My latest letter to WT demanding correction from their side
by Kosonen inbrothers and sisters associated with the watchtower society may 9, 2020. i have tried to inform you of the necessary adjustments you ought to take in order to truly be in the truth.
but my efforts have remained fruitless.
you well know the biblical procedure.
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Kosonen, there is a basic flaw in your plan, which is why it will never work. You are working on the assumption that JWs are God’s people who have gone astray and are in need a prophet to turn them back. And there’s your problem. They are not God’s people, they never were. So even if you were a true prophet of God, He wouldn’t send you to the WTS, He has no more interest in them than He does in any other religion.
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My latest letter to WT demanding correction from their side
by Kosonen inbrothers and sisters associated with the watchtower society may 9, 2020. i have tried to inform you of the necessary adjustments you ought to take in order to truly be in the truth.
but my efforts have remained fruitless.
you well know the biblical procedure.
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Ultimate Axiom
There is a basic flaw in your example of Pharaoh. Those plagues were not sent because Pharaoh ignored god’s messages, they were sent for god’s own pleasure and to show off his power. You see, he had already hardened Pharaoh’s heart in advance to make sure Pharaoh would ignore the messages - “I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.” (Exodus 4:21). He’s very capricious like that, so be very careful not to annoy him, especially if you claim to speak for him, for he also said, “a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say … must be put to death." (Deut 18:20).
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This thread is not about Covid-19
by Ultimate Axiom inevery single news item, on every single news channel, and the majority of threads on this site, for the past three weeks seem to be either directly or indirectly related to covid-19.
is nothing else happening in the world?
has putin stopped slaughtering syrian civilians?
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That wasn’t an inconvenient truth, I found it quite fascinating, and something I will certainly read more up on. Several years ago I received a cold call offering me an investment opportunity in carbon credits, I didn’t know what they were, although I suspected they were an unethical means of making money out of efforts to reduce carbon emissions and told him to piss off, I have never thought any more of it till now, but it would appear my suspicions were correct.
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I thought this would be "obvious", but apparently ...
by Simon inif you want to share a conspiracy video that is going to be removed by youtube, maybe sharing a link to a copy that is hosted on youtube isn't the best plan.. who knew?!.
social media is no longer the platform to use for controversial, alternative or "wrong think" opinions.. host it if you feel strongly about it, but don't keep posting "this video has been removed" links, it's a waste of everyone's time..
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Ultimate Axiom
So it's confirmed, not only am I mentally diseased, I am evidently also suffering with a syndrome. Oh well, I understand it’s not fatal so I’ll just have to live with it.
The media were keen to promote it. What does that say about them?
I’m not sure what you mean by promote, but if you mean highlight, emphasize and ridicule, then it tells me they’re doing their job. If Boris Johnson made such a crass statement, I'm sure the UK media would pillory him. But what does it say about someone who calls another person highlighting it a “Typical TDS sufferer, repeating a false narrative” claiming that “it’s no different to a … hoax”? Oh, and I thought we weren’t allowed to use the words “orange-man” here, but I guess it’s OK if we put it in quotes. I have never called Donald “orange-man” myself, I think that’s far too complimentary.
The media really are the enemy of the people.
I disagree, I believe the likes of Cambridge Analytica are the real enemies of the people.
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This thread is not about Covid-19
by Ultimate Axiom inevery single news item, on every single news channel, and the majority of threads on this site, for the past three weeks seem to be either directly or indirectly related to covid-19.
is nothing else happening in the world?
has putin stopped slaughtering syrian civilians?
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Ultimate Axiom
This thread was initially intended to give a little encouragement that even after 50 years, a born in can wake up. Unfortunately our meet for the end of March was obviously cancelled and I haven’t heard from my niece since then, so nothing more to report on that, and I don’t want to push her for any info.
However I did get my first nuisance call since February today, and would you believe, I then (just like the buses) got another (well my wife actually got them because I was getting the weekly shop). So it looks like the scammers are out of lock down and back at work.
As for paying more for ecologically damaging energy, I approve. And I’m quite happy to call those who insist the climate isn’t warming “global warming deniers”, and as I said before, even Martin Durkin isn’t one of those – or should I say he wasn’t one, for he now argues that warming has reached its hiatus. That’s a shame, I was looking forward to the south of England becoming another French Riviera. -
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I thought this would be "obvious", but apparently ...
by Simon inif you want to share a conspiracy video that is going to be removed by youtube, maybe sharing a link to a copy that is hosted on youtube isn't the best plan.. who knew?!.
social media is no longer the platform to use for controversial, alternative or "wrong think" opinions.. host it if you feel strongly about it, but don't keep posting "this video has been removed" links, it's a waste of everyone's time..
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Ultimate Axiom
I may well be suffering from TDS, and be too dumb to notice the lies, but I’m not that dumb to even think of considering injecting disinfectant - that’s utter lunacy. Just as closing down the task force would have been - I understand he announced he’d changed his mind the following day via his favourite channel of communication. Or was all that fake news, it’s so hard to tell over here with our biased and lying media. I know UV light can destroy viruses on a surface, but what evidence is there that it can be effective once the virus is inside the body?
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I thought this would be "obvious", but apparently ...
by Simon inif you want to share a conspiracy video that is going to be removed by youtube, maybe sharing a link to a copy that is hosted on youtube isn't the best plan.. who knew?!.
social media is no longer the platform to use for controversial, alternative or "wrong think" opinions.. host it if you feel strongly about it, but don't keep posting "this video has been removed" links, it's a waste of everyone's time..
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Ultimate Axiom
I get that StephaneLaliberte, but I don’t suppose your Prime Minister spends quite so much of his time blaming the world and his wife via Twitter for everything that’s gone wrong. I’m no fan of Boris Johnson here in the UK, and we have likewise made a lot of mistakes, but I have to admit that Boris has handled the whole affair with a professionalism and rationalism that has surprised me and makes Trump look like a complete amateur.
It must be hard to be a Trump supporter. You want your leader to be strong and decisive, but to be thoughtful and level headed; to show imagination and intellect, and above all govern with wisdom. Instead you get a man who changes his mind via Twitter and constantly comes out with something even more stupid than the last stupid thing he said, and his only answer to a critical question is to insult the questioner. Well good luck with the disinfectant, has anyone tried it yet? And how about that UV source down your throat, how did that work?
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I thought this would be "obvious", but apparently ...
by Simon inif you want to share a conspiracy video that is going to be removed by youtube, maybe sharing a link to a copy that is hosted on youtube isn't the best plan.. who knew?!.
social media is no longer the platform to use for controversial, alternative or "wrong think" opinions.. host it if you feel strongly about it, but don't keep posting "this video has been removed" links, it's a waste of everyone's time..
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Ultimate Axiom
Social media is no longer the platform to use for controversial, alternative or "wrong think" opinions.
Yep, more and more of them are moving in that direction. I'm told there's one that won't allow any posts critical of Donal Trump, claiming such people must be suffering from some sort of disorder.