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  What’s Your View On Self Defense?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  if someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?

  if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?

  if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?

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  I don't own a gun so if there was any serious trouble in my own home, I could use a knife.

  Criminals love to engage with victims who bring knives to gun fights. But to each their own.
  
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  Single Pretty Girls that are JWs, have so much potential, but sadly........

  by pistolpete in

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  the pandemic has made the situation worse for single young jw girls.. i'm hearing tons of sad stories of single jw girls who are going, or have gone into deep depression.

  with many having thoughts of committing suicide and hoping for a better life in the new order.. the pandemic has made it almost impossible for young jw girls to find a suitable marriage mate.

  especially since the single jw boys-men want young, gorgeous, thin, virgins, who look like models and summit to the headship arrangement.

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  I know I likely will get thumbs down for this, but when I was thinking of marrying I made the comment to my mother, "There are only two kinds of JW women. Those that are married, and those who are not, for VERY GOOD reason." I also noticed, and perhaps it was only in my part of the U.S., that of the single JW women there were usually only two kinds. Those who had never been married and wanted an elder or MS with a BIG . . . bank balance. And those who had been married and wanted a dad for their ill-mannered brats. Oh, and he also had to have a BIG . . . bank balance.

  That is why I make it my practice to only date non-JW women. And they know from the start that marriage is NEVER going to be in the future.
  
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  Single Pretty Girls that are JWs, have so much potential, but sadly........

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the pandemic has made the situation worse for single young jw girls.. i'm hearing tons of sad stories of single jw girls who are going, or have gone into deep depression.

  with many having thoughts of committing suicide and hoping for a better life in the new order.. the pandemic has made it almost impossible for young jw girls to find a suitable marriage mate.

  especially since the single jw boys-men want young, gorgeous, thin, virgins, who look like models and summit to the headship arrangement.

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  JW boys-men want Young, Gorgeous, Thin, Virgins, who look like Models and summit to the headship arrangement being treated as a convenient doormat for immature mental midgets with a small amount of power.

  Sorry, I just had to make your comment fit what I have personally witnessed over the last five decades.

  PIMP...May I use that? Fits me to a "T".
  
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  What’s Your View On Self Defense?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?

  if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?

  if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?

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  You have to be willing to kill.

  Agreed. My father who served in the United States Army pre-JW was the one who taught me firearm safety and use. He was a multiple decorated soldier who served in Korea during some of the bloodiest fighting. He was also a military trained sniper. I cannot count the times he drilled it into me that you NEVER draw a weapon unless you are willing to pull the trigger, and you NEVER pull the trigger unless you intend to kill what you are aiming at. Of course shooting range practice does not involve killing anything other than several hundred rounds of ammunition per year. But you are right, it takes a learned mind-set to actually be willing to use a firearm for self-defense, and not everyone is capable of that.

  If you use a gun its best to get the best defense ammo you can find.

  Again, I agree. I use what I consider the best available hollow-point PDA I can find in my ACP carry mags. They will expand and fragment and not just go through and keep going to God only knows where.

  Nothing beats being wise and avoiding situations and places that you really don't want to be in.

  And that is why people should learn "Situational Awareness". It is said, "With great power, comes great responsibility"; and for anyone who chooses to carry a weapon of self defense they need to know they have great power (over life and death) and accept the great responsibility that attaches as a result. Do what must be done to avoid situations that will put them in the spot of making that choice, but be ready to make it and accept the consequences of their choice if they find themselves in a situation that demands action.
  
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  What’s Your View On Self Defense?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?

  if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?

  if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?

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  Self defense is a skill that everyone should learn. As far as the use of a firearm...I am a CWP holder, I practice, practice, practice with every one of my firearms. I firmly believe in gun control, and that is why I hit what I aim at (Tip of the hat to pistolpete). As far as, "would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person??" No. Center mass, and shoot until the threat is neutralized. Also IMO everyone should learn and practice "situational awareness". There are way to many nitwits wandering around in a mental daze with no clue what is going on around them.

  I carry a firearm because a cop is too heavy. When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Police do not prevent crime, they investigate after the fact. Better to be judged by twelve, then carried by six.
  
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  DPA Blood ASAP

  by manicmama in

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  i am in need of the current copy of the newest dpa blood card as some of the jw's in my mothers congregation are asking about if she signed the latest copy after she passed today.

  i am curious as to why they are asking about this specifically and not offering condolences on the loss of my mother.

  there has been some shady interactions leading to my mother requesting me to talk to certain elders to request that certain people not interact with her further.

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  What's next? "Did she leave the Org any money?"

  My personal experience after the deaths of each of my parents was THAT was the first question out of their pie-holes! The second was, "Are you the executor? Can we help make sure that anything going to WT gets there?"
  
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  Over population

  by mickbobcat in

  1. social
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  so i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.

  that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.

  well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.

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  Imagine the earth with only ONE BILLION HUMANS.

  JW's imagine an earth with only a little over 8,000,000.
  
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  The choice of being alone has never been clearer.

  by pistolpete in

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  something i've noticed is that marriage was the thing for those born before 2010. but today's culture of divorce laws slanted to favor women has forced men to think carefully before signing the marriage certificate.

  most of my friends have no intentions of getting married.

  all of them have gotten vasectomies, so there is no chance of being blamed for a pregnancy.

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  If I began to think I needed to be married, I would find a woman and give her my house, sign over my bank account and stock portfolio to her, buy her a couple cars and then ask some thug to beat the living Hell out of me, and I am pretty sure that would cure the desire.

  TBH I think prostitution should be legal. At least even a high end escort will always be less costly than getting married.

  Now let the thumb down votes commence.
  
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  Do You Think White People Are Being Discriminated Against?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  some call it reverse discrimination.

  whatever you want to refer to as, in your opinion, are white people being unfairly picked on?

  it seems acceptable that if you are white you are viewed with disdain.

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  FedUpJW

  I am a Caucasian of European descent. I am proud of my ancestry, and anyone who tries to make me apologize for that can kiss the part of my anatomy where I defecate from!

  It has only been the "woke" crowd and their constant whining about RAY-ZISM over the past couple years or so that has created in me a feeling of intense automatic dislike for anyone of a different DNA. I used to believe the best of people unless they proved me wrong, now I lean toward believing the worst of people, unless the prove me wrong.
  
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  watchtower's exemplarily obedient woman, Abigail, Mary and Jesus.

  by waton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  for lurkers, this past week's wt study.

  women, obedient to headship.

  wt message to wt ladies: do like abigail, ignore your husband's initiative, who might have had his own strategy to rid the country of the marauding outlaws for good, and instead kowtow to "the anointed" aka us, the gb and elders.

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  I thought that there are plenty of "Abigails" in the JW congregations. Just read how she spoke about her husband: Please, do not let my lord set his heart upon this good-for-nothing man Naʹbal, for, as his name is, so is he. Naʹbal is his name, and senselessness is with him.

  I hear more JW women that talk about their husbands with the same kind of derogatory speech when their husbands are not present.

  And of course David, that fine upstanding example for JW men today, true to form took Abigail as his wife because she was beautiful in form. Reminds me of some JW men who are now elders who have divorced their first wife in order to take the "she is a size 1" petite, wealthy, little blonde second wife.

  This entire WT article was truly puke worthy, IMO!