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  JW Vaccine mandate: The contrast between voices of reason and confusion

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.

  another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.

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  in 2021. I was one of the first people I knew who rolled up their sleeves and got the shot. I knew two people in their 40s who died from Covid and a whole ton of people that are really really sick from it. I didn’t really see how a controlled exposure to a deadly pathogen could be any worse than an uncontrolled exposure, but I was actually pretty good in science in high school school. Then the data to start the role in from simple cohort studies and there was a significant difference in in hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and death from being vaccinated versus unvaccinated.

  That being said, I even found the vaccine passports, a little little weird. I guess in a once in a century public health crisis, you have to do what you have to do, but I was never comfortable with it. I’m just glad it’s not novel to humanity anymore in life has gone on..
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  JW Vaccine mandate: The contrast between voices of reason and confusion

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.

  another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.

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  Just go back to the borg already if you want to live in a world of us versus them, now federal government workers, and Canadians have now made the listl.

  enemies enemies everywhere.
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  JW Vaccine mandate: The contrast between voices of reason and confusion

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was reading an intriguing post on the exjw reddit, a forum i do not with to sign up for, as i'm not interested in the internal politics of reddit.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/1hwlja8/the_governing_bodys_letter_that_shook_bethel_and/.

  another post counteracted this one, driven by the "conspiracy theory" card.

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  Do you realize that in human nature that one out of every hundred people is either a psychopath , sociopath or dark empath?

  When you see some study on some right wing algorithm by some Lonewolf doctor that claims to be discredit the entire medical community, do you ever explore the fact that instead of being a brave and noble whistleblower that that person might actually be an attention seeking narcissist?

  I can’t believe people who are raised in a cult aren’t a little more receptive to this idea.
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  Ukraine - Nato - US crisis

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  don't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....

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  the reason for the war is that the Russian people are in demographic collapse. They’ve had more deaths each year than live births since the 90s. The only chance they have a remaining somewhat of a world power is to Gang press the Ukrainians and the Bella Russians into Russia. This is the last generation they will have any kind of manpower to fight a war like this.

  as for the Ukrainian corruption accusations, you think if they were all true that the Soviet military could’ve just bribed the Ukrainian Army into surrendering. It kind of blows all your theories all this shit Wen three years into this. These people are just fighting tooth and nail to survive.
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  Ukraine - Nato - US crisis

  by mikeflood in

  1. social
  2. current

  don't understand....but this crisis in ukraine seems to be getting out of control....i mean, everybody knows how to start a war..... by the way, as always, people at the borg are having a field day.....

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  Riley

  Oh god Simon , just post the link from whatever right wing algorithm and cesspool of social media you Muppet all your thoughts and ideas from and save yourself the trouble of having to type it all out. My God, were humans this stupid five years ago..The stupid pandemic has just brought up the absolute worst in everyone.
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  My Beliefs After Leaving the Watchtower

  by KalebOutWest in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i tend to keep my personal beliefs separate from my posts.. i know that is often different from others as their posts as often one and the same with their opinions.

  i think that is good.

  you get to learn a lot about people that way.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB8P6R6ZLGo

  I saw this last night. Kind of sums how I feel about religion right now.
  
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  My Beliefs After Leaving the Watchtower

  by KalebOutWest in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i tend to keep my personal beliefs separate from my posts.. i know that is often different from others as their posts as often one and the same with their opinions.

  i think that is good.

  you get to learn a lot about people that way.

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  Riley

  When I was in , I really grew to dislike eschatology. Once I realized, it was nothing but opinion that really required leaps and assumptions, it really didn't mean much to me. Considering the WTS really build core theology around it, I couldn't do it anymore.

  Then Covid hit and I realized that evangelical Christians are generally assholes too. Everyone was a civil rights expert, or scientist or vaccines were the mark of the beast................it was all just as stupid as what I just came from. Trump just cut off foreign aid for poor nations today. This is who we got behind for FFS.
  

  The scary thing for me is the only religious people I found were great people are Mormons. Not discounting the book of Mormon is a work of fiction.

  I have no idea what I believe anymore.
  
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  New Watchtower Study: Apostates and Red Balloons 🎈

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  https://youtu.be/gt0cuez3emy?si=wur7afqwryddqgnt.

  the new watchtower study edition is out and i have a bone to pick with the watchtower with paragraph 14 from study article 14. there we read: "we want to help clear jehovah’s name of all reproach.

  consider this scenario: you have a close friend who is kind, generous, and forgiving.

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  How old were you when you realized it was nothing but the unique dogmas and legalisms of the WTS, without a lick of bible in it.
  
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  What Theme Song Should Be Played When You Walk Into a Room?

  by Sea Breeze in

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  2. friends

  this could fun.

  what song should be played when you walk into a room that best describes you?

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  Not ready to make nice - Dixie Chicks ( or just the chicks ) , my ex-jw song.

  Immigrant song -Led Zeppelin or Vodoo child Hendrix the rest of the time.
  
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  News of fires out of control in California

  by ballistic in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hope everyone near to the region affected in california is ok. it's shocking to hear of the destruction.

  these affected areas are some of the places i visited when i came on a tour of the us.

  malibu, santa barbera, la, santa monica, hollywood and so on..

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  I love when the Alt-Right who preach both low taxes and cutting public services sees what happens and accuses people someone of not spending enough tax payer money.