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  If you had the means to kill a terrorist before he detonated would you ?

  by Chook in

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  i mean blow their fucking brains out..

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  Are you referring to Muslim terrorists or terrorists in the general sense.
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  Un freaking believable. Taking advantage of a tragedy level = JW's only.

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  Literally 5 minutes ago I got an email one of those typical JW chain emails that says how Jehova maneuver the situation so that that cart could stand there as a testament to these people's only means of Salvation and safety
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  2017 Convention Video To Be Shown Regarding The 1975 Failure

  by pale.emperor in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3arnnsfkk&feature=youtu.be.

  no mention whatsoever that it was watchtower themselves that strongly hinted towards this date.

  instead they blame those who "put their trust in a date, not jehovah".. let's recap... .

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  My parents were around for the whole fiasco. In 1973 they moved from fairly comfortable circumstances in NJ with their two kids, one 4 and the other was two. They made this move so that they could devote as much time in service until the system ended. They moved to a remote part of NC where the closest hall was about 50 miles away. They struggled for 3 years and realized it was a bad move and that the end was not coming. They struggled their entire lives after that with three children and never fully recovered. Both in their late 70's you would think they would have learned.

  5 years ago when I began making my exit and spoke to them about this they said the exact same thing that is said in the video. Even down to the part about people deciding on their own to sell houses and cars and even stating many of their friends did the same thing. I even showed them the articles in the Awake from the 60's in their own hardcopy of the bound volumes in their study and they REFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSED to look at it.

  There is no saving the generation that lived through it. They have been thoroughly convinced that everything they went through never took place.
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  22,000 years of arctic ice cores melt, and wash the YHWH/JESUS concept down the sewer

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the full story, as told in the uk guardian can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/16/arctic-ice-cores-melt-university-alberta-canada.

  and briefly it tells of an equipment failure at a storage facility for ice cores that had been extracted from the polar ice cap in various locations.. but note, that the layers of ice evident in the cores covered a period of 22,000 years.

  and from the christian/jw perspective, that's impossible, for the bible story of the flood (verified by jesus and sundry other biblical writers) maintains that 4000+ years ago, the ice caps would have melted during the period when the earth was covered by the divinely caused deluge.

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  Are we still debating in 2017 if Adam and Eve existed? ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFL
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  NPR: Lack Of Education Leads To Lost Dreams And Low Income For Many Jehovah's Witnesses

  by silentbuddha in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i'm just going to leave this here.. http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/510585965/poor-education-leads-to-lost-dreams-and-low-income-for-many-jehovahs-witnesses?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170219.

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  I'm just going to leave this here.

  http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/510585965/poor-education-leads-to-lost-dreams-and-low-income-for-many-jehovahs-witnesses?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170219
  
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  So, the Womens March ... What Is It For?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  it seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.

  i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?

  ... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?

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  SERIOUS BROMANCE BROOOO
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  Thoughts on African Americans and Slavery

  by Simon in

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  let's start by saying that slavery is of course a terrible thing, one of the worst crimes imaginable, and that "slavery" rarely implies good treatment, anything noble or defensible.

  nowadays, even god doesn't escape judgement from our enlightened views with passages about slavery in the bible usually glossed over because they are shameful.. but not all slavery was equal.. because of the media, movie industry, racial tensions in the us regularly shown on the news and our taught history, i think most people's knowledge and idea of slavery is that of the north atlantic slave trade where white people took africans to work in cotton fields.

  this idea is probably also re-enforced because the largest group of descendents of slaves we see today are african americans (usually in the us or places they subsequently migrated to).. but it's incomplete.. it's only when you look into it more that you discover that there was much more to the slave trade than that, otherwise it would have been just called "the slave trade" and not "the north atlantic slave trade".. some 12.5 million slaves were taken from africa to the us with just under 11 million surviving the trip so it obviously took a terrible toll immediately, even before any maltreatment once they landed in the americas where conditions and treatment were truly awful.

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  I think many do not want to face the reality of the situation. Last week in a Starbucks two people in their 50's began talking about the holocaust, and the lasting impact that it has on the jewish community. I sat quietly ad listened from the table behind them. They kept speaking about this huge fear of another holocaust because everyone

  They kept speaking about this huge fear of another holocaust and how something that happened in the 1940's still has such a huge impact on THEIR daily lives. They believe that the racist views that many had in the early 20th century still exist to this day and that AMERICA and EUROPE need to devote more monetary sources to the security of their nation.

  I must admit I was very upset. Here we are 70+ years later and you are still acting as if you are disadvantaged? World governments came together and created / returned you to your country and continue to provide billions of dollars in aid and defense. The time has come to move on and realize that things that took place over half a century ago have no bearing on where you are at today - which I might add is a very nice situation.
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  Thoughts on African Americans and Slavery

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  let's start by saying that slavery is of course a terrible thing, one of the worst crimes imaginable, and that "slavery" rarely implies good treatment, anything noble or defensible.

  nowadays, even god doesn't escape judgement from our enlightened views with passages about slavery in the bible usually glossed over because they are shameful.. but not all slavery was equal.. because of the media, movie industry, racial tensions in the us regularly shown on the news and our taught history, i think most people's knowledge and idea of slavery is that of the north atlantic slave trade where white people took africans to work in cotton fields.

  this idea is probably also re-enforced because the largest group of descendents of slaves we see today are african americans (usually in the us or places they subsequently migrated to).. but it's incomplete.. it's only when you look into it more that you discover that there was much more to the slave trade than that, otherwise it would have been just called "the slave trade" and not "the north atlantic slave trade".. some 12.5 million slaves were taken from africa to the us with just under 11 million surviving the trip so it obviously took a terrible toll immediately, even before any maltreatment once they landed in the americas where conditions and treatment were truly awful.

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  I often have a similar reasoning in regards to what Jews experienced. Had it not been for he ill treatment received by the Jews in Europe they would have never been returned to their religious homeland. I am sure what happened to their forefathers during WWII is not seen as a positive experience but the end result is they now find themselves in protected position in their homeland
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  silentbuddha

  What exactl where Simon's questions? A lot of the information has disappeared the abundance of answers. And can you also if you don't mind just because I think I've missed it list the examples of racial hypersensitivity that you're speaking about
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  Racial Insensitivity

  by Coded Logic in

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  "blue" lives matter!

  - sheriff david clarke at the rnc.

  this bs really makes my blood boil.

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  Would it be easier or accomplish anything if we all admitted that black people in the United States just make all of this stuff up. That they are not faced with bias any more than white Americans are. Would it make more sense if we all just accepted the fact that black people are not as a group treated any differently than anyone else in America and that since the Civil Rights era everything has been on an even playing field