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  Zoom Social Event With a GB Member (Losche)

  by Jofi_Wofo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in a recent turn of events, i found myself at a jw social gathering on zoom (supporting my pimi wife, while among mostly jws whom i don't know and a handful of old friends who don't know i'm inactive) that just so happened to also be joined by garrett losche and his wife.

  sorry to disappoint but i had absolutely no interaction with him and have nothing interesting to report about it.

  i'm just sharing this because i can't believe i even got that close to maybe chatting with him, despite being a closeted apostate.. there were about 300 people in the zoom meeting, all having been directly invited.

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  FFGhost

  Did he give a talk to the group? Or was it strictly a social meeting?
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  We used to say if they dumb it down any more they will have to draw pictures.....

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well guess what!

  they are using whiteboard animations!😳.

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  What about the cartoons?

  Boring. Too preachy. Too idealized.

  I still, even after years, can't figure out what kind of accent Caleb's father has. Kind of sounds like an American pretending to be a Cuban who is trying to imitate Bela Lugosi.
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  The difference in JWs in the cult

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have been in several congregations over the years.

  the hypocrisy was staggering.

  so many of these idiots were fake jws.some were strict followers and were as annoying as could be.

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  I've "been around a while", raised as a JW in a previous century

  There were dozens of JW kids in my congregation and neighboring congregations, within a few years of my age, attending school around the same time.

  With just a few exceptions, most of the "good kids" left "the truth" within a few years of graduating high school, while a higher percentage of the "double-lifers" ended up sticking around, some even progressing up the chain of "organizational privileges".

  Indeed, hypocrisy abounds within the JW congregations. Hypocrisy is not really objectively measurable, but if it were, I suspect the ratio of it within the JW Org would exceed that of the general population.
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  We used to say if they dumb it down any more they will have to draw pictures.....

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well guess what!

  they are using whiteboard animations!😳.

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  FFGhost

  I dunno, those whiteboard animations are the closest thing to "entertaining" that they produce.

  How's that for "damning with faint praise"?
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  Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  most of my friends have gotten the vaccines and are quite confident that it’s just what the doctor ordered.

  i’m not confident with dr. fauci.

  i don’t like the fact that the makers of the vaccines are not held responsible if someone taking the vac develops an illness or even death.

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  the level of hysteria going on here.

  Here? This site is merely a microcosm. Multiply it by 60 million or so and you get an idea of the level of hysteria in the whole nation.
  
  
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  Larry Graham interview, last days quote

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we all know stephen lett's infamous quote that we're living in "the final part of the final part of the last days!

  shortly before the last day of the last days.".

  well, there is an interesting interview with larry graham and his family that has a variant on this, where he says that we're living in "the last of the last of the last days".

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  FFGhost

  Closer than the inside of your eyelids!

  Spoken a half-century ago.
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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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  FFGhost

  So you confirm, he was following correct procedure as per police policy.
  He died from fentanyl.

  I'm rapidly losing interest in rebutting bad faith arguments, but here is one more attempt before I go off and do something else.

  “You’re seeing here fatal injury to the brain from a lack of oxygen,” Dr. Tobin said.

  The jury has heard repeatedly that police officers are taught that
  restraining people facedown is dangerous. Dr. Tobin walked the
  jury through exactly why, explaining first that simply being in the
  prone position reduces lung capacity.

  On top of that, a knee on the neck compressed Mr. Floyd’s airway,
  he said, and the weight on his back alone made it three times
  harder than normal to breathe.
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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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  FFGhost

  I see.

  Lacking the ability to refute the arguments made by the expert witness, the best defense is now

  Floyd was no angel
  

  he died of a drug overdose

  Chauvin's knee wasn't touching his neck the entire 9 minutes

  Some people were convinced of the officer's guilt prior to trial, therefore....he must be not guilty?
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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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  FFGhost

  <Sigh> This is tedious, and why I rarely debate this stuff anymore.

  "Did you read the article"?

  Quote from the article:

  restricted Mr. Floyd’s breathing by flattening his rib cage against the pavement

  I don't know your personal anatomy, but my rib cage is not in my neck.

  Repetition for emphasis:

  His testimony may help prosecutors overcome the fact that the official autopsy report did not use the word “asphyxia,” and seemed to make irrelevant the exact position of Mr. Chauvin’s knees, which has come up several times.
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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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  FFGhost

  did you actually watch the video?

  Yes, I see photos of a police officer with his knee on Floyd's back & neck.

  Curiously, quite consistent with Tobin's testimony.