for newbies, who was carl olof jonsson?
he was a jw in sweden who was challenged by a householder in the 1960s, who pointed out to him that secular history books don’t agree with watchtower that jerusalem was destroyed in 607 bce, but instead place the event 20 years later.
the reason the date is important is because it is the starting date for jw chronology which leads to 1914 as the end of the gentile times, and the beginning of the last days, as jws understand it.
That’s sad… We all die. Time is the undefeated Champion.. Personally I don’t care if I die anymore. Really, the only reason I’m around is the feeling that my being gone will make others sad. So even after leaving the cult I’m controlled.. Life, the great Cosmic joke…
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former kgb agent yuri mesmenov explains the concept of ideological warfare.
or how to destroy a nation from the inside out - by demoralising them within 20 years.. why 20 years?
because it takes 20 years to educate one generation of students that despite an abundance of information to the contrary, they are unable to come to a sensible conclusion in the best interests of their family, their community and their country and instead embrace the ideology of the enemy.
It will take 20-30 years to un-f@@k the USA if we start NOW…
Place your bets…
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unless you've been hibernating under a rock for the last couple of years, you're probably aware that ai is the new hotness.. chatgpt gets a lot of attention but equally amazing is how capable ai is at generating art.
if you'd been ask to name anything that would be the last holdout for humans, creative arts such as writing, painting, and music would probably be some of the things at the top of the list.. yet those seem to be the things that ai can do best.. it's fascinating to use the tools, but one thing you realize is that they are just combining patterns and shapes, there isn't yet any real "intelligence", artificial or otherwise.. as an example, you can ask it to create a painting in the style or a particular artist, with a whole raft of things you want to include.
it will do a great job on first glance, but can often give people more arms or fingers than is normal, and lamp-posts can grow to different heights, like trees.
So… can I sell art that A.I generates??
DD
have you seen this video about the covid vaccines?
have you got any views on the information?
i find it worrying at least.
Riley says the Raccoon Dog is ultimately responsible, so I’m sure that’s the case.
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the dalai lama has apologised after footage showed him asking a boy if he wanted to suck the tibetan spiritual leader's tongue.. .
his office said he wanted to apologise to the child and his family "for the hurt his words may have caused".. .
the video also shows the dalai lama kissing the child on his lips.. soon after the pope alleged peodo activity .
I don’t see what all the fuss is about. He was obviously blessing this child.. Haven’t any of you seen Thumb Wars? You have to touch tongues to make it all official. Pretty basic stuff really…
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the claim that russia blew up its own pipeline functions, whether intentionally or not, as a test of our collective intelligence, and it’s worrisome how many fail the test.
as a former pentagon official put it, “a child could tell you that doesn’t make sense”.
they talk a lot about russian propaganda and suppression of their media, which i don’t doubt for a minute.
“the media and the population are even more servile than they imagined…”
Yeah…most of them.. 80/20 rule and all…
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the claim that russia blew up its own pipeline functions, whether intentionally or not, as a test of our collective intelligence, and it’s worrisome how many fail the test.
as a former pentagon official put it, “a child could tell you that doesn’t make sense”.
they talk a lot about russian propaganda and suppression of their media, which i don’t doubt for a minute.
Putin isn’t stupid. He’s intelligent and most likely very mentally stable according to Dr. Jordan Peterson. That doesn’t mean he’s “moral”, but he’s not stupid.
Whoever runs Grandpa Joe blew up the pipeline.
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didn't know silicon valley bank was so important for start-ups....now there's some sort of contagion, people taking their money from regional banks to the big banks.
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system seems pretty resilient and different from 2008. thoughts?.
SVB.. massive profits during the Lockdowns, closely linked to Big Tech.. same group supporting the Summer of Love, BLM, Antifa, censorship… The top dogs pulled out just in time to make their $$$.
Don’t worry, ‘Ol Grandpa Joe says this won’t affect taxpayers. Just watch Netflix…
DD
mass shooting at a kingdom hall in hamburg, germany this evening.
at least 6 or 7 killed, dozens injured.
single shooter on the run, police doesn't rule out more shooters.
Not true Fishy-Face, at least not here in the USA. There are limits, of course. Self-defense can be violent, but that doesn’t legally make me an assailant for not being the victim as defending oneself is legal.
If I practice some vigilante/Batman style justice then legally I would be viewed as an assailant. I won’t argue with that. I just won’t get caught…
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yeah, so shamima begum's challenge has failed.. the ruling body has declared that the home secretary's stripping of her citizenship in 2016 was lawful.. there are some people who say she was somehow 'groomed' but this is complete bullshit.
she was no more groomed by isis than a 15 year-old kid, who sees an advert for chocolate and then goes out and buys a chocolate bar is being groomed by cadbury's, or whatever.. glad to see common sense has won out this time.. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/22/shamima-begum-loses-appeal-removal-british-citizenship.
She should run for Congress in the US. I hear “The Squad” needs some fresh ideas.
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