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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

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  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  Simon

  Canadians pay too much for dairy because of the protectionism due to lobbying by the dairy industry.

  Then they gaslight people into thinking it somehow benefits them or makes them "team canada" for overpaying ...

  They rely on people having zero knowledge of trade economics ... which is why the government wants to be in charge of "teaching" your kids. The biggest risk to them is an informed populace.

  It's OK not to be informed, but don't come here just blindly repeating the gov propaganda and that reality isn't what we can all see.
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  I think I may be becoming an X-X-JW

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i think i may be moving on shortly.

  i officially joined this web-site 12 years ago as pimo about to exit the organisation.

  i had spent about a year before that, as just a none commenting member.

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  Happy onward journey ... becoming an ex-ex-JW should be everyone's goal.

  You once belonged to a club, but don't anymore. Don't make it your life and entire community.

  That said, it's nice to pause to give a hand to the people behind you on the climb, like those before helped you.
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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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  It was a phoney manufactured war to enable massive amounts of money laundering. It's only gone on as long as it has because people could profit from it. Money flowed back to members of the Biden administration and his crime family - so many dem politicians with kids working for Ukrainian companies despite no relevant expertise other than their relation to politicians in power, what are the chances ...

  Stop the crime and you stop the war. Arrest the democrats and there is no crime.
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  U turn on LGBT

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  feb broadcast they have a drama about someone who works with a colleague who is gay.. they actually make it sound like the jws are the only ones who support him and is tolerant of him and everyone else is against him🤣.

  after all these years they try gaslighting and saying we are the ones who are tolerant and everyone else is not!!!.

  you couldn’t make this up.. after this monumental u turn now, what about all the gay people who were born in’s who have been shunned by their own family?.

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  They haven't read the room very well - all the DEI pandering that were required for NGOs to get funding is going the way of the dodo.
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  American Primeval and the Mormons

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  just finished season 1 on netflix.. holy crap, i had no idea of the history of the mormons!.

  i always thought they were like the jws, or the quakers, but they were full on fascists committing massacres.. i'm sure they are hating having more people be aware of their past, but i gotta say, it is more event-filled than the jw history..

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  Just finished season 1 on Netflix.

  Holy crap, I had NO IDEA of the history of the Mormons!

  I always thought they were like the JWs, or the Quakers, but they were full on fascists committing massacres.

  I'm sure they are hating having more people be aware of their past, but I gotta say, it is more event-filled than the JW history.
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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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  The more you hear the more it seems like whacky Californian politics played a huge part in this.

  Lots of DEI hires - how many fire chiefs can be lesbian women, really?

  A push to get rid of white male firefighters ... who were they replaced with?

  Fire services massively defunded.

  Hydrants and reservoirs emptied.

  Brush not cleared due to environmentalism.

  Lots of left-wing nut jobs starting fires.

  How is this anything todo with Trump? Unless you didn't hear, he's not the president yet ... Biden is (still). And this is a state issue and California is the model of 100% democrat control.

  One way or another, when the dems are in charge, lots of things burn to the ground.
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  Canada exploring changes to tax rules that exempt religious organizations

  by Scully in

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  2. friends

  https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelicals-oppose-removal-of-tax-status-in-canadian-proposal.html.

  the proposed change will revoke charitable status of canadian churches who have an anti-abortion position, and will not give tax exemptions to organizations whose sole claim is to promote religion, which is the basic claim for all jw related entities in canada.

  this will be interesting!.

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  Nothing is insane to the current Liberal government of Canada, they are past insanity.

  Many charities don't really do charitable work, and religions are usually on the lower end of those. Tax them all, they are all scams.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars (continued)

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  uh oh, looks like the mega thread gave up the ghost, so while i investigate / fix it just continue the discussion here .... it's been a long 9 years lloyd evans / john cedars.

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  I can't believe Croatia still hasn't launched a task-force to round up those who committed gross insult against their glorious nation.

  Lloyd notified them about it, don't they know who he is?

  LOL
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  Is it just me, or is Watchtower lowering its standards?

  by ukpimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in the past, we used to hear talks on:.

  avoiding sexual immorality and porn, as well as masturbation and other sexual practices.

  why evolution cannot possibly be true.

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  The Watchtower had standards?!
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  follower of Eric Wilson, abusive to single women covered by paying sums of money to support Beroean Pickets tourism trips.

  by buzkid in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  susanne eigenheer is an ex-jw and suffered religious abuse in eric wilson's group.

  her personal statement and experiences within the beroean pickets study groups was one of betrayal where she was taken advantage of financially.

  in one text conversation, wendy wiens disfellowshiped susanne and demanded an apology from her.

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  I don't understand the need of ex jw's to get themselves so involved in these groups. After coming out of a high control group, the last thing anyone should do is get themselves involved in another group, literally from the frypan into the fire.

  Shows the importance of "doing the work" after leaving Watchtower to avoid simply jumping into another cult.

  A sad truth is that people who are most likely to fall for a scam and those who have fallen for scams before. If people don't learn and don't step back and evaluate their mindset to change how they think, they just end up repeating the same mistakes again. It applies in all manner of situations - investing, picking partners, and following religious leaders.

  How do you know if someone isn't suitable to be a religious leader?

  If they are one. It's that simple.