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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Simon

  Sorry, but WTF? Who has photos of the governing body in gilded frames on their desk?

  It's. Beyond. Weird.

  Even for a JW, but for an "anti-WTS activist"?

  
  
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  Serena Williams thinks she is a JW LMAO

  by jojorabbit in

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  i saw a post pop up on some click bait where serena williams saying she was praying for armageddon to come and that the jws have said we are living in critical times hard to deal with.this was her response to the texas school shooting.

  another cult catch phrase.

  i am sorry williams you aint no jw.

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  If more sisters were like this, I might have stayed

  Really? That's one ugly woman IMO.

  She also seems like an ugly personality (was it her that ruining someone's first grand-slam win?). If you watch F1, there are often celebs doing the grid walk and there seems to be a mix of some who are friendly, approachable, real humans and those who are ... well, arrogant entitled self-important pricks / bitches.

  She seems like the latter.
  
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Or go shoot up a grocery store. Or go shoot up a night club. Or go shoot into houses at random. Or go do some drive-by shootings. Or go shoot at a birthday party. Or . .

  All places more likely to have someone else who could shoot them.

  The aim should be to remove schools as the obvious soft target.

  I'd rather have half a dozen adults shot than 20 kids, and the evidence is that they rarely shoot that many because people can and do shot back.

  No infamy, no one remembers you, no incentive.

  But a person advocating for gun rights while the bodies are still warm is perfectly acceptable and reasonable?

  Again, it's not advocating for gun rights. It's being practical. You are simply not going to remove weapons from the US, so any solution that involves waving a magic wand to remove them is childish and unhelpful. You certainly don't get to be critical of people who are putting forward workable solutions and impugn their motives.

  Start with the problem and goal:

  • You cannot remove the guns from society, ao assume that "bad guys" will get access to them
  • You want to prevent massacres of school-children who are a soft target

  The only options are to protect them more, by making schools more secure and / or have someone there to make them less of a soft-target by letting them fire back.

  You are assuming that if someone can't attack the soft-target of a school that they will go attack someplace else. Which means you ignore WHY they go shoot up a school, which takes us to the media - why did we see this shit-stain's photo? Sports media don't show pitch invaders because it removes one of the incentives for people doing it. They shouldn't be allowed to be irresponsible ... but then does anyone believe they don't really want things like this? They rub their hands 'cause it will be a ton of clicks and views.

  Take it to an extreme: do people ever try to do mass shootings at police stations? If not, why not?
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  Mark Toutjian International Gilead Child Molester...

  by cyberjesus in

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  2. child-abuse

  in the 80s there was an bethel elder in the mexico branch, he was graduated along with his wife ruth becerril from gilead school.

  he was in charge of meps and the whole computer department... he then started had sex with a 14 year girl in his congregation in the city of texcoco mexico.... he was then df and kicked of bethel but his wife stayed.

  he then moved to usa took the girl with him and married her and a couple of years later was re appointed an elder again.. i saw a news article that an elder ex bethelite computer consultant from concord ca with the same name was charged on 1999 by the fbi for having sex with a minor in texas.. both from the same city elders jw and computer consultants.... i wonder what happened with his case..

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  That he's allowed to marry her just boggles the mind.
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  What Ended in 1914?

  by BoogerMan in

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  1913!.

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  What ended in 1914?

  Something way more impactful than any religious nonsense.

  The classical gold standard.

  Money became fiction, to be manipulated and devalued at the whims of politicians.

  Now they can steal your wealth without the inconvenience of having to knock on your door.

  https://www.gold.org/history-gold/the-classical-gold-standard#:~:text=The%20classical%20Gold%20Standard%20existed,specie%2Dbacked%20bank%20issue%20notes.
  
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  police in general will not engage because they get accused of racism or brutality. We have an increase in large scale shoplifting too, same reason.

  It's because people refuse to acknowledge the real trade being made.

  Those kids died so someone didn't feel the hurts of being labelled, or shot. I don't care which. But if that guy had been locked up or shot there would be the same people now whining about guns whining that the police shouldn't have them and that everything is unfair.

  I call 20 dead elementary kids more unfair than 1 dead asshole shot by a cop.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  So you did want armed security guards in all the schools but now you want armed parents in the schools? Maybe armed children?

  No, it's very simple, let me explain it so that even a democrat should be able to understand it:

  Picture anywhere that keeps valuable things. What do they have?

  • Controlled entry to where the things are kept
  • Someone on guard at the entry

  Have those things for kids, because they are valuable.

  In this case, the doors were open, no one was on guard and the gunman walked right in.

  The police then actively prevented anyone else taking action, handcuffing and tasering them, while the gunman executed the kids.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  As more information comes out it's sounding more and more like the cops fucked this one badly.

  They were more interested in keeping parents away from the school, even to the point of pulling tasers on them, than doing the recognized right thing which is to go in hard and go in fast.

  They sat back while he slaughtered the kids.
  

  I think the idea that you shouldn't be able to defend yourself but instead wait for the police to come and save you can be torn up and burned. It's done.

  Some of it is likely them wanting to protect themselves, but another aspect is that the last few years must have surely make the police afraid to act and pull a trigger. It could end their life if they make a mistake.

  We need to go back to people having a personal responsibility for their own well being which involved not being a dick by doing something that could get you shot.

  Everyone of the witch-hunts for police contributes to change. It affects how many police are experiences and how quickly they are likely to act. Not all change is good.
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Not sure what medical business helped cover up for Jimmy Savile. That disgusting act was carried out by BBC bosses , who were making a fortune out of him and other showbiz people who were scared of being ostracized.

  The hospitals that he raised money for. They have him a flat to stay in on-site and allowed him to take troubled girls out for the day (who were then raped by him).

  They knew, and allowed it. The police were also in on it. Watch the documentary.
  
  
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  Ex JWs who use the catch phrase "Friends"

  by jojorabbit in

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  2. experiences

  its a personal pet peeve to me but i hate it when ex jws use the catch phrase friends.

  this was used at every convention and many meetings i went to.

  the friends, mother and others.

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  I always grates on me too. I see it as subtle manipulation, as though "we're all one, you have to agree with what I'm about to say". Especially when people use in on Twitter, it usually proceeds a call-to-pile-on.

  Nah.