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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

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  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  "He likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls"

  False analogy. Trump is not alone "flying an airplane". There's a cabinet, there's advisors, there's congress, there's a supreme court, there's powerful special interests groups, there's other countries' governments, there's the press, there's 320 million people who will help him or remove him way before the plain crashes. No, we are not dying in an airplane without a pilot.
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

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  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  For example

  listen after minute 20
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  I may have to stand corrected on this particular podcast, but in previous podcasts about Trump, Sam has used ad hominem, hyperbole and mildly fallacious ways of argumentation.I am quite OK with many of us doing that, but I hold Sam to a higher standard because he uses very high standards in other critiques when Trump is not the subject. I can echo Sam's sentiments about Trump quite easily, I just believe that Sam has allowed his feelings to interfere with his almost flawless rational form of argumentation.
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  Harris is at his incisive best

  Not really, I have seen him doing much better. Ad hominem is what many like to hear, especially when referring to Trump, but it's not the Sam Harris that I know and expect.
  
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  It's been quite a year. Finally can move forward.

  by Darkknight757 in

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  looking back at this journey that my wife and i took this last year has been quite life changing.

  who would have ever thought that two watchtower drones would experience an awakening after child loss?

  we can finally move forward since coming out to our family that we will no longer be jehovah's witnesses.

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  Always very glad to hear stories like yours!!
  
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  Sam Harris on Trump - The Most Powerful Clown

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  harris is at his incisive best in his latest podcast.. he likens the situation to being on an aeroplane where the pilot has died and somebody with no experience of flying has grabbed the controls.

  we should all be committed to his success.

  prize for the best line goes to - "caligula with a iphone".. even if you love trump and despise harris you should appreciate his clarity.. waking up with sam harris....

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  the one good thing is that the DNC, the RNC and the press will have to do a much needed soul searching. The message was loud and clear. People rather have Trump than the status quo. Scary as it sounds, it may help fix the broken status quo. All we have to do is survive the next four years.
  
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  The overlapping generation doctrine - The epitome of stupidity?

  by evilApostate in

  1. watchtower
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  for years watchtower has taught that some of the people (anointed) who saw the events of 1914 will be alive to see the end of this system of things.

  102 years later and the end is nowhere in sight; another failed prophecy.. to remedy the situation they have concocted some 'new light' in the form of the overlapping generation doctrine.

  this new doctrine essentially states that the generation of 1914 consists of two groups of anointed whose lives overlap.

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  Welcome evil!

  overlapping generations???

  
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  This week's bs, bible study help

  by Normalfulla in

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  hi all , because i'm useless and can't be bothered studying, i need some rebuttals for the excuses given in this week's bs , (i love how the acronym matches its origin) my uber dub father pleaded with me to study this week's book study as it addresses my issues with them being directed by holy spirit etc and how jah reveals things progressively , problem is i know there's a great argument to put fwd with proper preparation but i'm onto my 2nd drink of the evening and can't be assed , please unload some smoking guns i can take with me tomorrow .

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  The 1st century Christians had witnessed miracles. They were being taught a consistent thing - the law was removed and the apostles had a new theology. There was no constant backward/forward/up/down flip flops in the 1st century, again showing the modern GB are not anything like the apostles

  Sorry to disagree because you are one of my favorite posters. We have nothing written by the original apostles , other than Paul, to back up your claim. From examining the new testament and other gospel not included in the canon, it's rather easy to conclude that "There was no constant backward/forward/up/down flip flops"

  Funny how, despite the huge number of inconsistencies in the Bible, many still use it as an infallible reference.
  
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  What if one of the GB members suddenly needed blood?

  by StarTrekAngel in

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  there is not much to be analyzed.

  in a cult enviromment the leader will always look up for himself.

  he would never hesitate to break every rule to save his own skin.

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  What if we avoid "IFFING" so much in the OP's. That would be so effing great!
  
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  Learn To Speak Like A Jehovah's Witness

  by pale.emperor in

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  for those who were never a jw, here's a fun guide to passing yourself as one:.

  privilege [priv-lij] - a duty nobody would volunteer to do which is assigned to you without your say so.

  such as cleaning the toilets, picking up other brats candy wrappers in the back row and being stuck on locking up duty for the 7th time in a row.. df'd [dee-eff'd] - disfellowshipped.

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  PREACHING WORK

  A competition in which JW's attempt to be the slowest walker and knock on as few doors as possible.

  Another event of the competition is to stand in a corner holding a magazine, avoiding eye contact, always looking straight forward and without blinking for as long as possible.

  The third part of the competition is only for the most accomplished preachers. JW's stand near a literature cart and try to avoid eye contact and conversation with anyone passing by.

  The goal is to count as many hours while using minimum calories