I bet it will be something like.
“ so you’re in your early 30s and you don’t have a mate or a family. If you dare try to look outside the reservation, we will make your life a living hell.”.
Posts by Riley
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21Any information about a special talk on Marriage in December 2024
by insearchoftruth intwo folks from the local kh visited the house yesterday looking for my wife who is an on again off again baptized jw.
wife was not available so they asked me to tell her about a special talk on marriage next week.
any outlines available for this ‘special talk’ or could this potentially be a local issue?.
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Are You Confident With Covid Vaccines and What Officials Say Is The Right Thing To Do?
by minimus inmost 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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Riley
In 2020 when Covid come apon humanity , the only thing they knew about the virus was it was very similar to MERS ( Middle Eastern Respiratory ) which has about a 40% fatality rate. The health authorities were justified in being cautious. The accusation that the scientific community was lying requires the premise they already knew everything about the virus which isn't true.
The 2021 when covid was novel to humanity , there was a 14 fold reduction of hospitalizations, ICU admissions and covid deaths between being vaxxed and unvaxxed. In 2024 when separated by age and adjusted per 100,000 cases, there is no evidence that being vaccinated leads to an increase in heart attacks, strokes or Cancers.
In 2024 chances you are have some immunity either though vaccination or infection and life goes on but please don't think anyone has been vindicated with there anti-vaccination views. I don't know why more ex-jws don't have more of a problem with poorly educated halfwits telling highly educated people they don't know what they are doing. It is kind of the whole premise of the WTS.
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Defend Your Borders or Listen to the Watchtower?
by raymond frantz inhttps://youtu.be/dnoww-4jfao?si=ehzmc5-gxqukgn7q.
with ww3 on the horizon the watchtower is bringing out their best hits on the issue of neutrality and the latest instalment on jw.org with stephen lett has the theme " why ancient israelites were allowed to go to war but as a christian you can't " or to paraphrase for a 2024 audience " why the modern state of israel is allowed all the nuclear weapons to defend their borders but you as a western european or north american you aren't supposed to compliant against open border policies and uncontrolled illegal migration" isn't that the exact same rhetoric or is it my imagination?
so one of stephen lett's go to arguments is that christians do not take up arms because we don't live in ancient times where israelites had a mandate to occupy the holy land where as we gentile christians we don't.
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Riley
The Irony the Watchtower can only exist in secular and free democracies seems to be complete lost on them.
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Tis the season
by garyneal inseems like i just pop in here every now and then to see what everyone is up to.
just like the previous years, i check in during the holidays to let everyone know about the annual christmas card exchange.. blondie used to lead this several years ago and i was involved for about 3 to 4 years before it began to fall off.
for those of you who participated back then, i still have your addresses and have just sent off this year's christmas cards to everyone.
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Riley
As I learned the entire religion was just the revision of a failed prediction that the world was suppose to end in 1914 and later the generation of 1914 was not suppose to see the end of the system of things, I not only didn't care about they have felt about Christmas, I broke the rules and flouted it. I didn't care about gift exchanges at work, I didn't care about saying Merry Christmas back to someone, I didn't care about visiting non-witness family on Christmas day.
I didn't see see the point of worrying about 3rd century Christians choosing the day of the winter solace to celebrate the birth of Christ when I couldn't understand bullshit like the understanding of the overlapping generation 1995.
I sure hope I run into some of the elders this season and wish them a Merry Christmas just in case some wizard has a vision or something. The hearts of the governing body grew three sizes that Christmas eve, it was a Christmas miracle.
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What is Your Favorite WT Lie?
by Sea Breeze ini would like to start a thread on lies that the watchtower and their reps have told.
surely we all have one or two that truly sticks out in our memories, no matter how much we would like to forget.
my favorite wt lie: the reason they don't want to release the name of the "scholars" who worked on the new world translation is because they do not want to accept "glory and honor" from others.
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Riley
I am going to win the lottery on Monday...........doesn't happen.
I am going to win the lottery on Tuesday...........doesn't happen.
I am going to win the lottery on Wednesday...........doesn't happen.
Thursday my house burns down.
See it was a marked day.
That is watchtower 1914 logic.
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Biden gives the order to Zelenskyy to Use the long range missiles to hit the interior of Russian territory
by liam inthe war in ukraine has now escalated.
europe is now talking of getting involved in the war to curb the north korean armies that are helping russia.
putin has warned that this will now give him no choice but to retaliate against nato nations.. the biden administration and the democrats in congress want to make sure that the war escalates to such a point that trump won't be able to bring peace to the war in ukraine.
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Riley
The US economy is 20 trillion dollars. Donald Trump 2016-2020 added 7.2 trillion to the national debt his first go around. The majority of US aid has been soon to be decommissioned military equipment. Hardly any of the money even leaves the continental United States. It just goes to manufacturing jobs in the American rust belt. The spin off for the oil and gas and mining industries by cutting off Russia from the world order , far surpasses the help we give Ukraine. Half of Europe now is being heated by American LPG.
The idea we are making some significant sacrifice helping Ukraine is absolute horseshit.
When commies want to take free people over, we help.
Live free or Die.
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Biden gives the order to Zelenskyy to Use the long range missiles to hit the interior of Russian territory
by liam inthe war in ukraine has now escalated.
europe is now talking of getting involved in the war to curb the north korean armies that are helping russia.
putin has warned that this will now give him no choice but to retaliate against nato nations.. the biden administration and the democrats in congress want to make sure that the war escalates to such a point that trump won't be able to bring peace to the war in ukraine.
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Riley
So we basically give Russia what they want because they have Nukes because they are finding out there armed forces are useless ? Then North Korea , then Iran and then China.
Just take what you want, we don't want any trouble.
Live free or die.
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Biden gives the order to Zelenskyy to Use the long range missiles to hit the interior of Russian territory
by liam inthe war in ukraine has now escalated.
europe is now talking of getting involved in the war to curb the north korean armies that are helping russia.
putin has warned that this will now give him no choice but to retaliate against nato nations.. the biden administration and the democrats in congress want to make sure that the war escalates to such a point that trump won't be able to bring peace to the war in ukraine.
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Liam
I am not really sure what you point is ? Let me guess, Russia isn't dumping missiles and bombs on Ukrainians cities ? Just the lies of the main stream media ?
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Biden gives the order to Zelenskyy to Use the long range missiles to hit the interior of Russian territory
by liam inthe war in ukraine has now escalated.
europe is now talking of getting involved in the war to curb the north korean armies that are helping russia.
putin has warned that this will now give him no choice but to retaliate against nato nations.. the biden administration and the democrats in congress want to make sure that the war escalates to such a point that trump won't be able to bring peace to the war in ukraine.
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Riley
I love how the right turns a blind eye to Russia raining missiles on Ukrainian cities nearly nightly but somehow retaliation is somehow unproved escalation. Imagine if this generation of conservatives had to fight to an actual war. They would fold quicker than the French.
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Trump wins
by gavindlt ini am non political and have never voted but nonetheless i have been keenly watching to see how the trump presidential race unfolds.
i believe that his involvement in propelling or influencing a leaning toward bible prophecy will unfold.
how, i can’t say but something tells me that this anomaly and outlier being trump is highly signifiant!
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Riley
The US Military right not has a shortfall of about 250,000 people which really highlights the challenges of the current job market. The idea that we are going to kick out 10 million people working the worst jobs in the country is kind of silly.