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  Sound Familiar?

  by peacefulpete in

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  a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.

  the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.

  "it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".

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  I see some are saying some lovely prayers for them.
  
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  Sound Familiar?

  by peacefulpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a republican congressman voted his conscience to impeach trump.

  the results might surprise some of us.. "my dad's cousins sent me a petition - a certified letter - saying they disowned me because i'm in 'the devil's army' now," kinzinger said in a phone conversation on thursday.

  "it's been crazy, when you have friends - that you thought were good friends that would love you no matter what - that don't.".

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  Regarding money/economy - shortly before the virus and US election there were issues with the price of oil.

  I am only doing this from memory so this is as best as I can remember.

  An expert on oil prices who could tell a lot from a chart had gone off to tell those in the Middle East that their oil prices would drop. He admitted he got it wrong because he had no idea HOW LOW those prices were going to drop. When the price of oil got so low, they were paying people to take it away he said that was a key moment in history, as big as when oil itself was discovered.

  He said the future would be like an economic heart attack - prices wildly up and wildly down for no reason. He said this is like the death of an economy.

  Economy is to do with household management. And households have values and priorities. God Himself has a household.

  (Ephesians 2:19) . . .Certainly, therefore, you are no longer strangers and alien residents, but you are fellow citizens of the holy ones and are members of the household of God,
  
  
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  The Trolley Problem

  by Simon in

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  2. friends

  so you've probably heard of the ethical dilemma question which is a thought-experiment where you imagine there is a runaway train-trolley, a junction with a lever that you can pull and two tracks - one with 5 workers on it and another with just 1, but no way to warn them.. all you can do is pull the lever, or not, thus allowing 5 people to die or through your direct action sacrificing 1 to save them.. what should you do?.

  this sort of thing may seem silly but it comes up in real life.

  should a self-driving car for instance, faced with a certain collision, chose which pedestrians to run over?

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  So long as there's no real intention for 5 to actually mean 5 or 1 to actually mean 1, I think we can address this problem as adults and learn lessons, then do the right thing. Or do the right thing and then learn lessons.
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  Anyone notice how when some of us older ones were in the cult.......

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?

  i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.

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  JeffT and Smiddy

  Yes I notice WT is very civil rights anti-war. A good thing on the surface appealing to those concerned about others and not killing but it is as if they are set up like a net to catch anyone, motivated by stuff seen on the news to fall into their net.

  Then you have a Bible study which appears compelling but is full of semantic traps you are incapable of discerning at that point.

  Two media orgs working together? Secular one highlights the problems? Non-secular says 'come to us'. Maybe?
  
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  Are We Now Living in a POST-Science world (at least politically?)

  by Terry in

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  if your sex is only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality, .

  your race can be only what you say it is, without any reference to biological reality.. .

  is this repudiation of science?

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  Um.... I know you've heard it all before but...
  

  (2 Timothy 3:1-5) . . .But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.
  

  I think we are living in a post world. A world where everything gets posted.
  
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  Anyone notice how when some of us older ones were in the cult.......

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i was a kid in the late sixties the type of books we would study was very intense compared to the bull shit pablum that they put out today?

  i mean the finished mystery and others now its these stupid books that don't dive deep into the beliefs.

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  I think they write their lit like this.

  1) One small excellent point.

  2) Half a ton of waffly rubbish.

  3) One small point that flatly contradicts the excellent point they made 43 pages, 9 magazines and 3 talks ago that everyone has now forgotten.
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  Who is best at silencing the competition?

  by Anna Marina in

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  wt media covers over child abuse and they like to silence those who expose their lies.. silicone valley has it's own agenda too and they want to silence the competition.

  seems freedom of speech is fine so long as you agree with the people who run silicone valley.

  and if you dare to say 'love your neighbour as yourself' you must allow those in charge of silicone valley to define the words.

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  Hilarious thing Reddit users did on Tuesday to a hedgefund called Melvin Capital

  Melvin took out a loan to bet on the price of a stock going down.He was shorting a company called GameStop (GME).
  

  So Reddit users pushed the price up and up and up.

  Now Melvin has to pay up.

  He liquidates his assets but it isn't enough.

  He declares bankrupcy.

  The bank he got the load from is on the hook for his bad decisions. If they can't pay it back, because the Reddit users keep driving the price up, they go bankrupt.

  Then the bigger bank will be on the hook and so and so forth all the way up to the fed.

  The federal government of the United States may literally have to print money to buy GameStop back from a bunch of Reddit users.

  The powers that be are not happy. This is what one headline is saying

  Wall Street traders are currently raging, as online "degenerates" successfully execute a massive short squeeze of GameStop, forcing hedgefunds to be bailed out for billions of dollars
  

  https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddit-board-melvin-capital-closed-out-of-gamestop-short-position-tuesday.html
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  Child abuse - Film Producer speaks out - Love will win

  by Anna Marina in

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  https://www.bitchute.com/video/bkb0z9i0mxna/.

  the speaker is the producer of “hunger games”.

  he is talking about elite pedophiles in hollywood and beyond.

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  Hi Smiddy

  I didn't have a problem with the audibliity. So I don't know what tech problem that is.

  But my point is, WT is media, Hollywood is media. There are distinct similarities in how they communicate - he explains about old ideas getting put out over and over again.

  With WT when you go to KH you expect to learn something but after a point all you get is endless repetition. One brother described it to me as - "you go dressed up, expecting a banquet and all you get is endless beans on toast. After a while you end up realising someone is having a laugh."
  

  What he's saying is that those who run Hollywood and other powerful people don't want others to start thinking. Hollywood does things their way and some horrendous abuse of children takes place. They want to keep it quite.

  There are other points I could bring out but I'll keep it simple and leave it there. If you find the video of value, glad to have helped you find it. If not, well you don't.

  I put the Bible verses in becuase he doesn't - he advocates certain techniques. Glad he's been helped but there is a superior way. And this superior way found in the Bible has nothing to do with the Watchtower but everything to do with Jesus Christ.
  
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  Child abuse - Film Producer speaks out - Love will win

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.bitchute.com/video/bkb0z9i0mxna/.

  the speaker is the producer of “hunger games”.

  he is talking about elite pedophiles in hollywood and beyond.

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  https://www.bitchute.com/video/bkB0Z9i0mXnA/

  The speaker is the producer of “Hunger Games”. He is talking about elite pedophiles in Hollywood and beyond.

  He speaks about re-treading old ideas - I thought how very like meetings a KH when they keep repeating the same thing to stop the publishers thinking.

  He talks about love and how we all need to be loved.

  He doesn't mention the scriptures but I'll put them in.
  

  (1 John 4:16) God is love, and he that remains in love remains in union with God and God remains in union with him

  He urges people to take time to be kind to children and describes it as making a deposit in a bank.

  (Matthew 6:19-21) . . .“Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
  

  (James 1:27) . . .The form of worship that is clean and undefiled from the standpoint of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.
  
  
  
  
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  Who is best at silencing the competition?

  by Anna Marina in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wt media covers over child abuse and they like to silence those who expose their lies.. silicone valley has it's own agenda too and they want to silence the competition.

  seems freedom of speech is fine so long as you agree with the people who run silicone valley.

  and if you dare to say 'love your neighbour as yourself' you must allow those in charge of silicone valley to define the words.

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  WT media covers over child abuse and they like to silence those who expose their lies.

  Silicone Valley has it's own agenda too and they want to silence the competition.

  Seems freedom of speech is fine so long as you agree with the people who run Silicone Valley. And if you dare to say 'love your neighbour as yourself' you must allow those in charge of Silicone Valley to define the words. Not Jesus Christ.
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq8H0bqcmQA&feature=youtu.be

  Do you remember when social media was frowned on in the congregations. Then there was a sudden change of mind and we were all encouraged to start using out tablets and mobile devices. Wonder what changed? Did the WT media company suddenly realise this was an easy way to deplatform/silence those opposed to it?