That research paper purporting to be from the University of Hamburg definitely sounds suspicious. All the more so when a newspaper in such a prominently "theocratic" country as Pakistan even writes it off as a fraud.
Rivergang
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Australian ex-JW claims to be Jesus
by Mum ina 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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Australian ex-JW claims to be Jesus
by Mum ina 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
We are not here talking about "some sort of religious belief system", along the lines of attending church at Christmas and Easter, plus the odd Sunday in between those events - but certainly not getting too bent out of shape over the matter of religion.
Rather, a common trait amongst the mentally ill is an extreme level of religious devotion - to the point of fanaticism and frequently even crossing that line. To some, that may sound biased, but persons who work day in - day out with the mentally ill cannot but observe certain common traits amongst their patients. This happens to be one of them.
(For the record, I have had extensive involvement with mentally ill people - experience I would rather not elaborate on).
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400 Rockets Hit Israel
by minimus inisrael retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
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Rivergang
But Palestinians have never had an independent country - the UK owned Palestine and divided it up for Palestinians (the West Bank) and Jews (Israel).
Actually, not quite correct. Following WWI and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, Britain got to administer Palestine under what was known as a League of Nations Mandate - similar to how they were also entrusted with the administration of former German East Africa. (Similar also to how Australia got to administer all former German Pacific Ocean territories south of the Equator, and Japan all former German Pacific Ocean territories north of the Equator).
While the mandated powers tended to treat all such territories as their own property, legally these were "owned" by the League of Nations.
The proposal to partition Palestine into two countries - one Jewish, one Arab - was put forward by the League's successor, the United Nations. That came about after Britain announced its intention to simply abandon its Palestinian Mandate as of the end of May, 1948 (the prolonged guerrilla war waged by certain Jewish organisations made its further presence there untenable).
The "partitioning" that Britain carried out occurred very early during the Mandate period, when out of the Palestine Mandate, Britain created a separate country, "Transjordan" (now known as Jordan).
It is true, of course, that the Palestinians never had an independent country. For 400 years (1517-1917) Palestine was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Prior to that, it was always under the rule of some other Middle East power.
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Australian ex-JW claims to be Jesus
by Mum ina 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 inthe 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 inawake!
"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 inawake!
"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 inawake!
"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 inthree 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 inanyone 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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Rivergang
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!