Posts by TonusOH

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Chessa Manion: When A Victim Becomes The Perp

by NonCoinCollector in

this is a hard one for me to write and words can't describe my frustration in seeing this.

from wbko news: .

bowling green, ky. (wbko) - bowling green police have arrested two people on multiple charges following a rape.. police say the victim told them she was kidnapped, raped, and assaulted.. police also say the rape was recorded by a man named colton hogendorn, who was arrested after police found him on 25 chestnut street.. hogendorn is charged with rape first degree, kidnapping, strangulation, assault, sodomy, and video voyeurism.. police also arrested chessa manion, who was present during the events, and arrested and charged with complicity to the same charges.. both were taken to the warren county regional jail.. .

TonusOH

It's not that prosecutors are unsupervised, it's that a grand jury is only hearing from the prosecutor's office; neither the defendant nor their lawyer are allowed to be part of those proceedings. The DA presents its case in order to get the jury to agree that felony charges can be filed.

The DA may be tempted to bring a lopsided case to the grand jury, if they feel that a felony indictment will make them more likely to plead to a lesser charge. If the case seems weak, they may push for a felony indictment even though they plan to drop the charges if the defendant won't agree to a deal. If the case has made headlines and the public expects action, they may be forced to indict regardless of the probable outcome.

I think this case has the latter as one of the factors. Complicity in a crime that is so horrifying isn't something they can wave off, though they might be using the indictment as a way to pressure her to cooperate against the other defendant, who appears to have perpetrated the actual assaults.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

Thisismein1972: Lloyd would do well not to say anything

Let's be grateful for the fact that he never follows this advice. His downfall is only possible because he wouldn't stop talking, and his embarrassment is mostly possible because he never stops talking. This is not an attempt at reverse psychology- he really can't stop talking, even when it is detrimental to him.

His lack of control of his weenie would not have been an issue for him, if not for the lack of mastery he has over his tongue.

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Ecclesiastes 9:5 -"the dead know nothing at all"

by aqwsed12345 in

the narrator of the book of ecclesiastes had very little knowledge of many things that jesus and his apostles later preached.

the author does not make statements, but only wonders (thinks, observes, often raises questions, and leaves them open).

he looked at the world based on the law of moses and found nothing but vanity, as the earthly reward promised in the law did not always accompany good deeds and earthly punishment for evil deeds.

TonusOH

Ecclesiastes 10:19 "Bread is made for laughter, and wine makes life enjoyable; but money answers every need."

It seems like a basic comparison. Food and drink have specific uses and benefits, while money can provide for a broader range of needs. This does not contradict any Bible teachings about money, IMO. Money is good, and money is useful, and obsessing over money can be harmful-- these are not exclusive statements.

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Why are aqwsed12345 post`s so long ?

by smiddy3 in

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there is no way i will even try to read such long posts and i`m sure many others here would agree with me.. smiddy3.

TonusOH

I get the same impression as FFGhost, that it's copy/pasted from somewhere. I'd rather see a short explanation with links to the larger text. Sea Breeze will usually give a concise answer with links to longer explanations with more detailed info, for example.

I see a long post (10,000+ words) and I just move on to the next topic.

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Are we living in the LAST DAYS?

by Fisherman in

are we living in the prophetic last days that will climax into armageddon?

if this is true then how long should it take?

as jw saw it, wt compared timing to within a generation using 70 ad as a parallel.

TonusOH

jhine: why does it have to be about America. ?

Hey, if it's good enough for Daniel...

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"My book of bible stories" is child abuse!!

by Witness 007 in

i once gave this book to a woman with kids at the door...to my shock my next visit she gave it back saying it was discusting and full of violence and sex!

this book was clearly written by some bethel loser with no kids.

i don't understand why witnesses don't have a separate kids school..

TonusOH

Does that book have images of Jesus nailed to a stake? If so, was that one of the images that the parent in question objected to?

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

Linus Sebastian runs the Linus Tech Tips channel, which he grew into a large and quite successful media company, which runs a number of channels and employs 90 people. You are correct, that any similarities are dwarfed by the differences- Linus created a massively successful business, which has probably fed his ego and led to overextending himself and creating the controversy that he is dealing with now.

Lloyd created a channel and skipped past the success part and straight to being a controversial character whose ethics and reliability are being questioned.

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

by Newly Enlightened in

original reddit post (removed).

TonusOH

Linus and his wife still own LMG. The CEO position was handed to someone else, which means someone else is doing the boring-yet-vital task of running the mundane day-to-day stuff. Linus gets to make videos and rake in the money.

He's doing a pretty good impersonation of Evans, all told.

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Are we living in the LAST DAYS?

by Fisherman in

are we living in the prophetic last days that will climax into armageddon?

if this is true then how long should it take?

as jw saw it, wt compared timing to within a generation using 70 ad as a parallel.

TonusOH

Here's a prediction: when all of the new and current predictions fail, someone will come along with a new set of predictions and insist that those are reliable because they're based on an accurate interpretation of a book that people haven't been able to reach a consensus on after two-thousand years of study and discussion (and lots and lots of bloodshed). All previous predictions were flawed and those people simply did not have the requisite "new" light to understand what was really written.

And I didn't have to interpret a book to come to this conclusion. I just had to look at the past two-thousand years of human behavior. Because the more things change...

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No more judicial committee if maybe suicidal

by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

the new direction in the new elders book is very clear.

absolutely no jd if there is a suspicion of suicidal thoughts.. this is obviously due to the high number of suicidal attempts after the announcement that someone is no longer a jw and the shunning that accompanied it.. so what will happen now going forward if situations arise where there would formerly have been a jd and they say there is suicidal thoughts?.

i can’t see it working, but elders stick rigidly to what it says in the book.

TonusOH

The woman in the blue jacket/blouse in one of your earlier pictures looks very familiar.