Posts by road to nowhere

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

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Death has been sanitized. we seldom see anyone die, are removed from the farm. Add in the sadistic feelings we all have if we will admit it. ( how often do posters wish a less than peaceful death for GB?). Couple that to frustration with either a " group" or society and a very few will snap.

I shoot, support 2A, and realize there are some guns no one needs; but who decides and when will they decide the reasonable laws are already passed? Given money to waste I enjoy shooting fast, but don't have the funds, so there is the "reason" for ho caps, autos and all. You can apply the same logic to cars, who needs to speed or accelerate to the capabilities of half the cars sold?

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Money! How much did you "Contribute" To The WTB@TS When You Were A Member

by The Bethelite in

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i was in full time service for six years including bethel.

once i got out of bethel, i figured i had already given them six of the best years of my life (ages 18-24) working as a slave/drone in their factory, so i rationalized that i had given them enough... so over the next 27 years i would say maybe $200 bucks is it.

i think their whole "voluntary contributions" idea is biting them in the ass, because over all jehovah's witnesses are a cheap group people with a few exceptions.

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Those green handshakes....I never had much, but when I received a " look of horror" from a CO when I mentioned overtime they quit. OT always was because something had to be done, never be cause of the boss being generous. I always needed the money and not for vacation or a boat

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The Environmental Cult

by cofty in

i believe the environmental movement has many of the hallmarks of an apocalyptic millenarian cult.. urgent predictions of doom and fear-mongering.

utopian ideology.

us v them, good v evil mindset.

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I am skeptical on the human portion. What caused the large changes in times past? Some of the solutions will harm society; and if you want to see environmental damage, just look at any large scale social upheaval.

Things like carbon credits just transfer money to those who can afford it.

Cant give away my location, but pollution follows wind across state lines, so maybe all states east of California should sue them for having large population and forest fires. Ozone going up because of smoke from california will not be solved by restricting autos in Santa fe

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Money! How much did you "Contribute" To The WTB@TS When You Were A Member

by The Bethelite in

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i was in full time service for six years including bethel.

once i got out of bethel, i figured i had already given them six of the best years of my life (ages 18-24) working as a slave/drone in their factory, so i rationalized that i had given them enough... so over the next 27 years i would say maybe $200 bucks is it.

i think their whole "voluntary contributions" idea is biting them in the ass, because over all jehovah's witnesses are a cheap group people with a few exceptions.

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50 month to local, never to big bro. The assembly has the machines which are not up all the time so it is easy to forget.

Related, how many times did you get roped into Feeding the speaker? I used to deduct whatever I was coerced into from the box money. At times I could bare fed myself

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New HuB logo

by MrHappy in

so the organisation has developed a new software for the coordination of nearly everything!

i just want point out a few things i notice about the new hub icon logo.

the image contains twelve pillars with the 2 at the front being the prominent.

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I " apparently " missed something. What is HUB?

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Who Was/Is The Most Beautiful First Lady In USA?

by minimus in

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jackie kennedy was considered the most beautiful for years.

melania trump is obviously an ex model.

michelle obama has been touted as a true beauty.

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Looking quickly Tyler was pretty. The list I found showed everything from childhood pictures to whrn in the office so it is hard to judge. The earliest are paintings so there may be some artistry hiding things. Jackie was world known for beauty. If we could find pics of all them at age 30 it may help.

As for men JFK was good looking, it is harder to say as I don't look at men the same way a woman would. Maybe grant with his beard?

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Who else provides all this spiritual food?

by StephaneLaliberte in

two days ago, i experienced a spiritual epiphany while visiting the library of a catholic university: i was shocked to find thousands of religious literatures produced by the catholics and protestants in the last few hundred years.

someone could easily spend a secluded lifetime trying to read them all.

for years, i was told by my religious leaders (jws) that the catholics and other religions did not provide spiritual food to their members.

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They pick up popular ideas and run with them. Remember the " way" talks and articles? Then the charismatic religions came with the same, even naming a bible translation that. At the time I thought there was copying going on, but misunderstood who did the copying. They used to quote things like Vines, now they just say " a bible scholar", probably meaning freddy, or else a half quote from something

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If You Could Live In Any Era or Decade What Would It Be?

by minimus in

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i kind of like the 50’s and early 60’s because of the innocence and “happy days” outlook by that generation.

it seems most people were pretty innocent and real.. would you rather be living in a different era or is this century working for you?

?.

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Early 1800s. IF. I could keep some of my modern knowledge and modern medicine. Otherwise I would be dead or at least crippled from a childhood disease, wife would have died from appendix, cancer, or what have you children may not have lived so now ain't all that bad

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Would You Stop Buying A Product Because of Political Differences?

by minimus in

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would you stop buying nike products because you didn’t like their politics?

conversely, would you give business to a company because you liked their political stand on a matter?

would you stop watching an entertainer because you disagree with their political perspectives?

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it becomes impossible to sort it all out, and there are shades of grey in most of it. I will buy cakes from a Baker, go through checkers wearing hijabs etc.

Remember Joan Baez and Hanoi Jane? No matter what your view on Vietnam it was still beautiful folk music and a good looking woman so I didnt let vitriol ruin my enjoyment

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14 kids from the same old congregation

by StephaneLaliberte in

this week, while talking with some old friends, i realized that there were at least 14 kids from a congregation in which i grew up that all left the jws.

that is, 30 to 35 years ago, there were at least 14 kids going to the hall that were of the same “generation” (5 to 13 years old).

in the last 30 years, they have all left “the truth”.

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The upper echelon know it. That is why the special parts on retaining youngsters, caleb n Sophia, and push for baptism to lock them in.

They dont do anything about insane comments about education, getting a job, having an attractive spouse, all the things that drive anyone with intelligence away