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  China About to Screw Your Life Again

  by Simon in

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  china's economy is wobbling as one of its largest companies, evergrande, is teetering on bankruptcy.. there's a good chance it's collapse will have a knock-on effect on other markets.. so more to thank them for than just the covid virus.. no one should have any dealing with china..

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  has banned bitcoin the super polluting, criminally loved payment vehicle

  You may want to do some research instead of spouting the institutional propaganda.

  Bitcoin is surprisingly green and can enable renewable energy to be economically viable. It uses waste energy whenever possible because it's incentivized to do so which makes direct energy-usages vs green-ness not obvious.

  Start by looking into how much energy the traditional financial systems use.

  Also, the "used by criminals" has also been debunked. The things that criminals use most are high denomination US dollars, the notes that serve no purpose to regular society. Most crypto is on an open ledger which makes tracing payments easier.

  China don't like it because it gives people economic freedom and removes their ability to control people and the whole financial system. It provides economic freedom and wealth transfer to people who are unbanked or disadvantaged by the current financial systems and from political control.
  
  
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  Where to flee Covid mandates and restrictions?

  by Kosonen in

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  at the moment there does not seem to be any place to flee to from covid mandates and restrictions.

  we are stuck like the first century christians in jerusalem.

  but jesus said when the disgusting thing would stand in the holy place, it was time to swiftly flee to the mountains.. will jehovah god open a path to security where we can be in safety?

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  The whole thing is insane.

  Leadership has failed.

  They both lock everything down too much when not required and then open up too much before it's over. Nothing is really backed by science, it's just reactive idiocy.

  The worst thing is that any proper debate about thing is not allowed. People's opinions are silenced and often they are valid opinions.

  I know the argument, that unvaccinated make up too much of hospital admissions, but you can equally claim that fatty-bum-bums make up too many of admissions as there is a huge correlation between Covid impact and obesity.

  Isn't obesity just as much of a personal choice? Can we ration healthcare to those people? How about smokers? How about those who do dangerous sports? How about people with aids from risky promiscuity? Why are we all paying the same taxes but some are more of a burden to society?

  Why are only people who don't trust the latest messaging from the liars of the century being labelled as the enemy to society?

  What they resort to is authoritarian control. You see that in Australia.

  Resist.
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  What Congregation Scandal Still Troubles You?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
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  i was appointed as a regular pioneer in a certain congregation.

  in that congregation, a very obese male pioneer seduced a nice looking married pioneer sister who had two teenage sons.

  her husband was a ms. both were df'd.

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  Simon

  Yeah, ours had financial scandals, money missing from a congregation account, investors in a JW-owned company ripped off, an elder having an affair with the wife of someone who went for him to support, unmarried teenage pregnancies, car thieves. You name it, we had it!

  The "spiritual paradise" never was.

  The funny thing is that you discover people are way more clean living and moral outside of the religion. Maybe it's TODO with those who it appeals to all wanting forgiveness? Whatever it is - we have nicer friends with stable marriages and well brought up kids away from it.

  The WTS and those who go are often bad association!
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  I remembered something I had forgotten a long time ago.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i was about 17 there was a elders son i used to hang out with.

  he was 16 but close to my age.

  his family was a kool aid drinking cult followers.

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  Tell him you remember him saying it, and you think he's a shit.

  Really, it's the very very least you can do.
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  Why do Men just want to control each other, and have control over you.

  by pistolpete in

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  it seems like the moment someone attains some type of power, whether it's money, political power, or religious power, their first agenda is ---to control others.. bill gates is a good example of this.

  another is george soros and michael bloomberg.

  and let's not forget all the politician and religious leaders like the governing body.

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  It's the Dinning Kruger effect and a generation brought up at school to believe they are right, and their opinions are valid, even when they are wrong and complete dumb fucks.

  Participation medal winners finally put in charge of something ...
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  I remembered something I had forgotten a long time ago.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i was about 17 there was a elders son i used to hang out with.

  he was 16 but close to my age.

  his family was a kool aid drinking cult followers.

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  I know him well and I have no reason to believe he is a child molester.

  What, apart from him telling you that he is?!?

  Report it, or bear the guilt if your silence enables him to victimize other young girls.

  Not trying to make excuses for his behavior but I also don't want to say he is evil

  Not trying to make excuses and then doing just that. Isn't whether he is evils based on what he does? Not whether he seemed like a funny guy to hang out and have beers with?
  
  
  
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  China About to Screw Your Life Again

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  china's economy is wobbling as one of its largest companies, evergrande, is teetering on bankruptcy.. there's a good chance it's collapse will have a knock-on effect on other markets.. so more to thank them for than just the covid virus.. no one should have any dealing with china..

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  Measuring economic success based on "growth" makes these things inevitable, or at least more likely.

  Whatever you measure you get more of, and at some point if it can't be real then it will be faked.

  Spain had the same thing where they were building places that were just ghost towns.

  It's a form of economic fraud. Someone took at that money.
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  Where does the cult fall on sexually touching each other for married couples.

  by mickbobcat in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so its wrong for married couples to have oral sex and anal but what about touches to arouse?

  to climax i would assume it was wrong.

  but what if you go too far getting ready for sex and climax, do you need to go to the cult to confess..

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  Simon

  Don't go lubin' the toobin' (named after the CNN presenter who was caught doing just that on Zoom)
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  China About to Screw Your Life Again

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  china's economy is wobbling as one of its largest companies, evergrande, is teetering on bankruptcy.. there's a good chance it's collapse will have a knock-on effect on other markets.. so more to thank them for than just the covid virus.. no one should have any dealing with china..

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  This describes the scale of the Evergrande threat and what a bubble the Chinese property market has been:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5g46Nk4PuM
  
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  Good news and bad news --- pandemic and Kingdom Halls.

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  u/aposta-fish from exjw reddit.

  good news bad news pandemic and kingdom halls.. first the bad news, coming out of israel - one of the first countries to push total vaccination.

  the news is the vaccine especially the pfizer one looks like it wears off and hospital rates have gone up for those that have been vaccinated.

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  Simon

  hospital rates have gone up for those that have been vaccinated

  The problem with statistics is that they often don't provide the full data and even if they do, people don't know how to interpret it.

  I'm guessing this is based on some stats that the majority of those in hospital with Covid are vaccinated?

  The knee-jerk reaction to that is often "OMG, see - vaccines DON'T WORK!!!"

  But is that what the stats really tell you?

  How many people are in hospital, and happen to have Covid, but are not hospitalized due to covid?

  How many are in hospital due to Covid but are not in the morgue due to Covid?

  If the people who didn't get vaccinated all die, then the stats for the vaccinated look really bad by comparison, but at that point we're probably comparing the wrong thing.

  What really matters - hospital occupancy or deaths?