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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

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  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  waton

  Moses employed must have been accurate, for Jehovah had it included in the Bible.​—2 Timothy 3:16.

  It could also have been like the twirling baton of a cheerleader, or like the spinning prop of an aeroplane, hard to tell whether it is single or 6. bladed, ---anyway,

  it was about the tree of life, which was perhaps a staple part of the humans diet, to sustain against nature's course? or was it just a kind of medication in case of-- an accident? and "the fall" went too far? and

  why did the deity have the good tree not just shrivel up? he did it with the cursed fig with the snap of a finger so to speak!

  I did not start to look at the unreasonableness of scripture until the " Superior Authorities" backflip in the eraly 1960s
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  How long did it take before you realized that you missed the obvious?

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  remember when the public speaker in the kingdom hall or convention related the ten plagues and the parting of the red sea?.

  the finale when jehovah closes the red sea and swallows pharaoh's entire army of egyptian men.. when i was a little kid about 5 years old and listened to this story, i would think---wow jehovah is strong.

  when i started school and started learning compassion as early as the first grade i started wondering?????.

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  waton

  How about the same question for the flood, the deluge? The evildoers were not even human, or fully human. evildoers nerver are, but think of the baby pandas. who's distant offspring will never see paradise.

  that much collateral damage, nearly 99.99999% is surely against the geneva convention.
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  Are You Concerned About Inflation?

  by Simon in

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  i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

  that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

  they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

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  waton

  Giving that much money away to people without return in services is bound to increase the money supply. Inflation has hit big here people are offering > 100 000$ over asking price to just be able to buy a house.

  Building materials too are up 50%.

  The current governments are buying votes by their giveaways, daring the opposition to challenge them and leave them the responsibility to make the taxpayer pay for the largesse.

  The savers (like me) will be punished big time.
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  JWs now in the movie business

  by mickbobcat in

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  so the cult is building movie studios and making films or propaganda d movies of jesus.

  my question is how do they plan to make their investment back?

  my guess is that they are hoping that this somehow brings in converts.

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  waton

  That must be the most boring subjects. with the outcome of the plots well known for 2000 years.

  may be they will try now angles, like explaining the truth, moral lesson behind the 70 times forgiving line:

  If you are stupid enough to be victimised more than once, you deserve it. I told you so, keep forgiving.
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  Wanting articles on statistics for the incidence of csa between the Catholic Church and JW

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  had an ultra jw relative say to me the there are only a few examples of csa in the jws.

  the catholics are significantly worse.

  i’m after statistical information that proves him wrong.

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  waton

  how about the abusive elder vs catholic "father' clergy ratio? there are not many celibate elders. and the RCC is very obstinate and powerful in avoiding to have to come come forth with details. see https://p.dw.com/p/3qnDv
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  Child Smugglers Drop Children Over Border Wall

  by Bangalore in

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  https://news.sky.com/video/smugglers-drop-children-over-14ft-us-mexico-border-wall-12262371.

  https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/31/exclusive-leaked-video-human-smugglers-drop-small-children-from-border-wall-in-new-mexico/.

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  waton

  Assuming you meant an anchor such as the ones found on a ship, I agree.

  Pzh: yes, you corrected me. another way to get that barb into the skin of the hapless animal, ( the longsuffering tax payer) is the industry that has sprung up to have "visiting" expectant mothers give birth in North America, thereby having a native born citizen to "sponsor" you.
  
  
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  "New light": how and when did this idea start?

  by psyco in

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  2. beliefs

  how and when did the "understanding" of the progressive ("new light") understanding start?.

  anybody knows?.

  thanks!.

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  waton

  wt writers also introduced the 'sailboat tacking against the wind' analogy to justify their vacillation on many subjects.

  admitting that the crew is on a collision course with realityt most, if not all the time.
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  Child Smugglers Drop Children Over Border Wall

  by Bangalore in

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  https://news.sky.com/video/smugglers-drop-children-over-14ft-us-mexico-border-wall-12262371.

  https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/31/exclusive-leaked-video-human-smugglers-drop-small-children-from-border-wall-in-new-mexico/.

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  drop children? it is like dropping the anker. these are ankers. to which parents can winch themselves in.

  The wall needs a net to catch them, keeping them from hurting themselves, touching ground. catch and and reunite them with their parents. fingerprint them to stop reoffending. of course bidens bid is to bring in more fellow catholics, the more fellow lefties. the better for biden.
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  Social Trends - Male underwear as hot fashion

  by fulltimestudent in

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  during australia's lockdowns and other reactions to the batty virus.

  i've been spending more time studying my history interests via the internet and its many possibilities.

  one area is quite interesting.

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  temple underwear? tempting underwear? from the Mormon thread,
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  Mormon Apologetic Article - JW comparisons etc

  by dozy in

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  2. friends

  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-mormons-like-me-really-believe.

  from an ex-jw perspective , i was quite interested in the above article , which the spectator ( presumably ) felt obligated for legal reasons to publish to allow a response to a rather unfavourable article below.. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-troubling-history-of-mormonism.

  the arguments are fairly rehearsed and often used by jw "spokesmen".

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  waton

  Of course that could all be love bombing and things change once you sign up.

  mnil: and it sinks in, that your income is reduced by 10%, like it or not.