Posts by Riley

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No more REPORTING field service!!!!!!!!!

by BoogerMan in

this is going to break the hearts of a lot of uber-jw's!

reddit has now removed the video link of samuel herd telling jw's they will no longer have to report time or placements - just tick a box which says "active.".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdshyx79rm&t=13s.

Riley

I remember about 10 years ago, we were having a really miserable January. It was literally -40 the entire month. There was a little break in the weather near the end of month, maybe it was only -30 and still icy as hell. The CO was coming for a visit and everyone was in a mad panic to get here hours in.

Two sisters got killed on an Icy highway, after getting hit by a semi. There was no sane reason that anyone should be out there. No leadership in the corg. No said " don't get yourself killed out there, your life is worth more than a time card. "

Funerals were a sales pitch for the borg. The two brother were remained within the year. What a joke.

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Is the USA gradually moving to a majority of citizens being non-religious

by Reasonfirst in

jw
friends

this is a topic discussed in a current article in the hongkong based asia times*.

find it at: https://asiatimes.com/2023/09/nones-still-no-match-for-us-christian-nationalism/.

the claim is made in the article, that near 30% of americans are non-believers, and that this number is increasing.

Riley

The transgender thing is weird but I don't think they exist any real numbers that this is a real problem. Plus I think half of them are just trolls who love the attention and getting right wing loons all upset. I don't know. There has to be something to it . Why would you want to walk around with a target on your back with people calling you a queer, faggot, pedo, weirdo etc. Outside of sports and women's change rooms, you can just do you. None of my business. For the people taking about the innocence of the children, shit that is funny. Every kid is walking around with the worlds largest smut store on there telephone. Some of these sites are getting nearly 3 billion hits a month. I am sure they have already seen it all. Long gone are days of the Sears Catalogue and a vivid imagination.

To have people protesting at my sons K-8 school without a single trans or gay kid, no drag queen hour or whatever is absolute bullshit. The whole thing is like the black parent who had there kid join some inner city gang at 17 and go to jail and turn around and blame society. Only if a democrat was in office, this wouldn't have happened. Either do your job as a parent or accept what your kid is but don't blame the schools. Just fuck off.

In my neck of the world we currently have 300 or so kids in hospital with an Ecoli outbreak with some 20 in ICU care. The gutting of the health authorities by right wing is much or a threat to the safety of children.

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Is the USA gradually moving to a majority of citizens being non-religious

by Reasonfirst in

jw
friends

this is a topic discussed in a current article in the hongkong based asia times*.

find it at: https://asiatimes.com/2023/09/nones-still-no-match-for-us-christian-nationalism/.

the claim is made in the article, that near 30% of americans are non-believers, and that this number is increasing.

Riley

I was raised as a JW, walked out after my teens. I got involved with an evangelical church in my 30s. I still enjoyed the bible and trying to be a good person. I also did keep a health dose of skepticism in me. I thought I was damaged because I was raised in a cult and I could never fully accept anything.

Then covid hit and I really had the whole thing backwards in my mind. I soon realized the same people who were telling a 14 year old girl 6 weeks pregnant that she was a murder for having an abortion were the same people who didn't give two shits if they flooded the hospitals and if you just happened to miss your cancer biopsy because of it, that is on you. Then everyone become an infectious disease expert or a climate change expert or an expert on the situation in Ukraine, electric car turn people gay.

I have an 8 year old son who has had the police called twice to his school. Once when a guy walked on to the playground with a candy wanting to talk to the children about the dangers of vaccines and once when two ladies walked on to the playground telling the kids the teachers were dangerous and woke.

I am so sick of this shit.

I have no problem with the death of religion. Let it die.

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FACT: The "faithful slave" was personally selected in 1919......

by BoogerMan in

.........by the elite in the wtbts, who then became the self-proclaimed "faithful slave.

" (sans divine interference!).

as attested to countless times in decades worth of literature.. all succeeding members were then "personally selected" by existing "slave" members.

Riley

Me- I am the worlds greatest guitar player.

Other person- How do you know ?

Me- I have a trophy saying I am the world great guitar player.

Other person- Who gave you that trophy.

Me- Well, I bought it for myself because I am the world greatest guitar player.

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Truth about Covid vaccines

by Kosonen in

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i hope the truth about the covid vaccines becomes public knowledge as it does now in australia.

senator malcom roberts tells it all in his speach.

https://youtu.be/vrlm8ybdhiy.

Riley

Cofty

Your so called talking points are nothing but opinion while I am just pointing out the fact the according to all All Cause Mortality in every age group over the last three years , the unvaxxed have died at disproportionately higher rates than the vaxxed.

It is just true in the very young it is almost statistically insignificant and the gap between the two groups have narrowed from 14 to 1 to about 1.8 to 1 but at no time have the vaxxed died at a higher rate than the unvaxxed.

I am sure you will use some country like Israel where everyone is vaxxed to prove a point but that is what I love about US data. You have enough unvaxxed people to really see how effective the vaccines were.

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Truth about Covid vaccines

by Kosonen in

jw
friends

i hope the truth about the covid vaccines becomes public knowledge as it does now in australia.

senator malcom roberts tells it all in his speach.

https://youtu.be/vrlm8ybdhiy.

Riley

It is strange how everyone is demanding apologies when every health authority in the world is reporting when adjusted per 100,000 that the unvaxxed always died at greater rates than the vaxxed.

The great part about the United States is only like 66% of the adult population got vaxxed so we have this great body of data of how well the vaccines worked.

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What caused the 1994 Rwandan genocide?

by LostintheFog1999 in

Riley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiUcY4dECqA

Seriously, I didn't realize how narcissistic and self absorbed and WTS was till the pandemic. Everyone thinks they are special and a central figure in the events of the planet.

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If JW is not the truth, then what is the true religion?

by TxNVSue2023 in

even though i'm disfellowshiped ( & i belive wrongfully so).

i still belive this is the truth.

i have been d'f for about 8 months now and working on reinstatement.

Riley

Think of yourself as a christian and not a member of a club. That is your first step.

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Customers being frozen out of their bank accounts for political views is a very worrying trend ...

by LoveUniHateExams in

yeah, so i know nigel farage is a bit of an abrasive twat.. he no doubt holds views that other people disagree with.. but that doesn't mean his bank can just tell him to sod off and freeze his accounts.. such a thing might go on in commie china or authoritarian russia.

no doubt hitler closed lots of jewish people's accounts in nazi germany, too.. but the fact that it is happening here, in the yew-kay, is pretty chilling when you consider this country is supposed to champion freedoms, including the one to hold and express varying political views.. this seems to be part of a trend to delegitimise and cancel people who hold certain views.. i remember looking at a yt video of richard dawkins questioning muslim journalist mehdi hassan about his belief in flying horses and muhammad.

all fair analysis and criticism by dawkins until he suggested that hassan shouldn't be a journalist because of his beliefs.

Riley

Somehow i don’t believe the people who were protesting were actually employed in industries in which they were going to lose there jobs.

I am sure that motel room cleaner or garbage truck driver wasnt really fighting for the right of the doctor or nurse to remain unvaxxed .

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Customers being frozen out of their bank accounts for political views is a very worrying trend ...

by LoveUniHateExams in

yeah, so i know nigel farage is a bit of an abrasive twat.. he no doubt holds views that other people disagree with.. but that doesn't mean his bank can just tell him to sod off and freeze his accounts.. such a thing might go on in commie china or authoritarian russia.

no doubt hitler closed lots of jewish people's accounts in nazi germany, too.. but the fact that it is happening here, in the yew-kay, is pretty chilling when you consider this country is supposed to champion freedoms, including the one to hold and express varying political views.. this seems to be part of a trend to delegitimise and cancel people who hold certain views.. i remember looking at a yt video of richard dawkins questioning muslim journalist mehdi hassan about his belief in flying horses and muhammad.

all fair analysis and criticism by dawkins until he suggested that hassan shouldn't be a journalist because of his beliefs.

Riley

I am still trying to understand what difference Canadian vaccination policy really meant if the United States had the same policies in place. Canada 🇨🇦 only shares a border with a single country. So you are mad you can’t enter a country from a country you technically can’t even enter to begin with?

As Bill Shakespeare once said “ it is all sound and fury signifying nothing”.