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  Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

  "for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

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  Rivergang

  Looking at these census results in another way, out of the Top Five "Religious Affiliations", the non-religious (aka "Bush Baptists") now lead the list at 38.9%, with the Catholic Church second at 20%, Anglican Church third at 9.8%, Islam at 3.2% and Hinduism at 2.7%.

  https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/cultural-diversity-census/2021#:~:text=Media%20releases-,Key%20statistics,during%20the%20Census%20collection%20period.

  Also of note is the percentage of the population who are foreign-born, at 27.6% With one in every four of the population born outside of Australia, "migrant - bashing" might not be a healthy occupation! (To say nothing of a hypocritical one).

  On a concluding note, it is good to see how well my "church" is faring - i.e. the one of which I was a member of before becoming a JW, and the one I have been with ever since I gave that lot away.
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  Results of Australia's 2021 Census- More Unbelievers than Believers

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this abc (a national government owned media group) report states:.

  "for the first time, fewer than half of australians identified as christian, though christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).. meanwhile, the number of australians who said they had no religion rose to 38.9 per cent (from 30.1 per cent in 2016).".

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  Rivergang

  I believe in earlier times those in this category were known as "Bush Baptists!"

  There were always a few of them around.
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  Has Anyone Had any JWs PHYSICALLY Put Their Hands On You (And Not Within A Family Unit Situation)?

  by HiddlesWife in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was asking the above question because a pomo friend of my family told me about an incident involving her and a couple of dubs who were physically abusive in the past.. a single sister who was running around from one cong to another cong looking for a husband.

  she was visiting my friend's cong for less than a year.

  there was a commuter bethellite bro who was very friendly towards my friend (which i'll call her "q") and her fam members.

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  Rivergang

  What Simon observed.

  JWs are no more immune from that sort of thing than anybody else. (I have heard of some very fiery rows breaking out in the Australian branch office).
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  Big Win in Supreme Court of the U.S. today for all of the 2nd Amendment folks

  by StoneWall in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm so happy about this.this will have major implications for states such as california and their laws not only new york.let freedom ring!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv70otfd8ck.

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  Rivergang

  Well, during in my time in a certain cess-pit of Third World violence, I saw several alternatives to that.
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  Big Win in Supreme Court of the U.S. today for all of the 2nd Amendment folks

  by StoneWall in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm so happy about this.this will have major implications for states such as california and their laws not only new york.let freedom ring!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv70otfd8ck.

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  Rivergang

  I lived for several decades in a certain crime-ridden Third World country, whose capital city is regarded as one if the more dangerous places in the world. Furthermore, some of its outlying districts - such as the one I lived in - are even worse. In common with most expatriates who have experienced that country, I could go on all day with stories which fit the category of “The truth is stranger than fiction.”

  From that experience, I have serious reservations about the level of protection afforded by carrying a firearm on ones person.

  The only persons whom I knew who got shot were both carrying a 9mm automatic (which both of them knew well how to use).

  Maybe the Australian country singer John Williamson got it right in one of his songs - a stanza of which reads “ The way to get shot is to carry a gun”.
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  Jeffro,

  Covering some now common ground, your observations about nuclear energy are of course very correct.

  Interestingly, Finland's Green Party has recently done a complete reversal in its stance, and now endorses nuclear power.

  Finland’s Green Party supports nuclear power - Nuclear Engineering International (neimagazine.com)
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  You said I was wrong,

  Where did I say you were "wrong"? More Straw Man stuff - and bloody good deflection, I will grant you that!

  I did say you ought to at least produce an up to date list of which coal powered plants are still generating in this country; which so far, you have avoided doing.

  
  
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  This pretty much sums the situation up (albeit in language a little less moderate than some other commentators might use!)

  https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/australia-has-become-an-international-laughing-stock-over-energy-crisis/ar-AAYrcUU?ocid=msedgdhphdr&cvid=b5f564334eb54200980fb097302394bd
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  I never claimed that they had all closed - talk about the "Straw Man" argument!.

  YOU, however, claimed that "over twenty" were still in operation.

  YOU should therefore be the one producing an up-to-date list demonstrating that this is still the case.

  (Instead of citing figures which are six years out of date).

  PS: Also, never assume that a power station's "Installed Capacity" - i.e. the total sum of what is written on the nameplate of each of its generators - is what it is capable of sustaining. This is by no means always the case. (Speaking here as a former power station superintendent, I can only say "I wish").
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  Jeffro,

  That list you provided which is claimed to show that there are “still over twenty coal fired power stations operating in Australia” is in fact quoting the situation as it was six years ago. Those statistics have no relevance now, during the winter of 2022.

  What was planned and what has actually happened are not always the same thing!