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  Australian ex-JW claims to be Jesus

  by Mum in

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  a man named a, j. miller, who lives in queensland, australia, claims to be jesus.

  i saw it on a youtube video of "60 minutes australia, he was formerly a "jehovah's witness minister" according to the video.

  he has bought a large tract of land, with the help of his followers.

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  Rivergang

  Those who work with the mentally ill are generally in agreement that persons suffering from that affliction often share three common characteristics.

  For one thing, they tend to be obsessed with something.

  For another, they often suffer from delusions of grandeur. The psychiatric wards house many a person who believes that they are Jesus, God, the Seventh Angel of Revelation, the granddaughter/grandson of the Russian princess Anastasia, or similar.

  Also, most mentally ill people are also deeply religious.

  That isn't to say all religious people are mentally ill. However, deep religiosity is a common characteristic of those who are mentally ill.

  (I certainly have often enough observed all three characteristics at work. While working at a remote site in the tropics, I saw two work colleagues go insane in the space of two years - a condition often referred to in this part of the world as "Going Troppo", i.e. brought about by extreme work stress, plus the environmental stresses produced by the climate. One in particular exhibited all three of those traits).
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  Bathing Daily Doesn’t Help The Planet

  by minimus in

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  the new york times as well as other news agencies are reporting that in order to help save the planet we should limit our daily bathing.

  they say daily bathing really because popular in the 20th century because elites decided to impress and use petroleum based soaps and take advantage of their indoor plumbing.

  a lot of this daily bathing ritual was just for show.

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  Rivergang

  One stanza of Carson Robison's old poem "Life gets Tejus" reads as follows:

  Water in the well getting lower and lower,

  Can't take a bath for six months more.

  But I've heard it before and it's true i'm sure,

  That too much bathing will weaken you.

  So there you have it - overuse of soap and water is likely to weaken a person!
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  1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake!

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

  because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  Rivergang

  So what?

  Only that a lot of people got hurt as a consequence. Nothing much to worry about, though!

  (PS: Sorry for feeding the troll)
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  1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake!

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

  because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  Rivergang

  In this and with so many other matters, it is the "conscientious" JW who cops the worst of it - so much for "The Truth" being "The Best Way of Life".

  Bloody hell - if this is meant to be the best way of life, I would hate to see the worst!
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  1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake!

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.

  because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  Rivergang

  I remember that one like it was yesterday (I was 14 in 1969).

  The bloody bastards!
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  Narrowly focused, sometimes illiterate

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
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  three of my sisters - there are five of us - were baptized as witnesses.

  one of them has gone from reading voraciously to only reading her textbooks and watchtower publications.

  this does not seem to be unusual among witnesses.

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  Rivergang

  I think the point Simon made was certainly true in the days of Frederick Franz, when Watchtower articles used such words as "revivify" (and we all had to consult the Oxford Dictionary to confirm that there was indeed such a word in the English vocabulary!).

  When I first started attending Kingdom Hall meetings in the late 1960s, the JWs were fastidious about grammar and pronunciation - certainly in the congregation I was with, anyway. However, towards the end of my time with the JWs (in the late 1980s), there seemed to have developed an absolute aversion to using any words "bigger than marmite", with a clear preference for those of single syllables. Together with that, it was no longer a punishable offence to make a grammatical error in ones speech.

  Since breaking with them in the mid-1990s, I have had very minimal contact with the JWs, and have read very little of their printed matter.

  Vienne may well be right.
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  Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

  if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

  there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

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  Hi Anony mous,

  With all due respect, I am not confusing anything. From being involved in first aid and rescue work over the last five decades, it has always been emphasised that you must act swiftly if the casualty is to have any chance of being revived.

  Yes, there are exceptions - but you would be ill advised to attempt that for yourself!
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  Prince Philip dies aged 99

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  born philippos, prince of denmark and greece in 1921, prince philip has died aged 99 years old (june 1921 - april 2021).. a very long, quite remarkable life lived.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaqxest27_e.

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  Rivergang

  A war hero in his own right, Prince Philip was mentioned in dispatches whilst serving on board HMS Valiant during the Battle of Cape Matapan in WWII.
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  Derek Chauvin - The Right to a Fair Trial

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.

  if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.

  there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?

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  In general terms, the “Rule of Three” applies to the human body’s requirements for food, water and oxygen

  - three weeks without food

  - three days without water

  - three minutes without oxygen

  After three minutes without oxygen, brain cells start dying off - a process that is irreversible (and while that may sound humerous, that is all that is funny about it). Death is then likely within four to six minutes afterwards.

  There have been some unusual cases in which people have survived at lot longer without oxygen, but that is exactly what they are - unusual.

  The industry I work in requires regular retraining in CPR / Live Switchboard Rescue. Over the nearly 50 years that I have been engaged in this field of work, it has always been emphasised that seconds count. The longer you delay starting CPR, the likelihood of death increases exponentially.
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  Losing My Religion - America's progressive estrangement from organized religion

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this article on the latest gallup survey:.

  https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-losing-religion-effects-long-093028404.html.

  in 1937, 73% of americans would be affiliated with some organized religion; that number remained steady until 1999: (70%); the 21st century brought about a major shift: 50% in 2018; 47% in the latest survey.. children who grew up in households without organized religion are less likely to affiliate to some form of organized religion.. it's not only a generational difference; the growth in those who express no religious preference is also on the rise in generation x (those born between mid 1960's and early 1980's).

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  Humans are wired for religion

  Sad to say, that would be correct.