The people of the South should have a right to memorialize their dead. It doesn't matter if you agree with what those dead people did or thought.
Attitudes were different about a great many things at the time.
Posts by TD
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41Removing Historic Monuments and Statues - Does the Term "Historical" Make it Right or Wrong?
by RubaDub inafter further review and thought, i really don't see how removing a monument or statue that may be truly offensive to a large group of people is in some way rewriting history.. i think of germany or other parts of europe.
you don't see swastikas on buildings or statues of hitler or mussolini or other upper level generals in public.
would it be good for a person (think jewish) to drive around a city and see hitler in a public park, even though it is "historical?
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Noah’s flood
by dothemath ina few years ago at one of the conventions, there was a talk on gods remarkable creation.
one of the slides showed a giant sequoia tree, approximately 5000 years old!.
later another talk was about noah etc.
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I remember Splane reasoning how they can’t be dated correctly.
Funny....
Spence argues that they can be dated to +/- 5 years based on astronomical orientation. (i.e. The north/south alignment follows the earth's precession.)
Even if she's off by 10 times this amount, the pyramids at Giza where still there well before JW's and kindred groups believe the flood happened.
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Stockholm syndrome and religion
by menrov inbased on a discussion i had with my wife, i started to compare the situation of people who are a member of a religious organisation or are devout to a belief, to the so-called stockholm syndrome.
the stockholm syndrome is where feelings of trust or affection is felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim towards a captor.
in such a situation, the person being kidnapped is not free to leave and is held against their will but over time takes that situation as a "new normal" and even starts to see their kidnapper(s) as normal people.
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Or as Dolgun said, "People love power in the hope that it will love them back."
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why did jehovah create corona virus?
by stan livedeath inwhy did jehovah create the strains of corona virus ?.
is it part of the great tribulation that is closer than ever now ?.
what if lots of his people die from it ?.
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spanish flu--which didnt originate in Spain..is a strain of corona virus. there are many
Stan,
Influenza is caused by an RNA virus (Riboviria) in the family Orthomyxoviridae. The virus responsible for Spanish Flu was a strain of type A (Alphainfluenzavirus) called H1N1
Covid19 is also caused by an RNA virus, but it comes from an entirely different family. The family is Coronaviridae, the genus is Betacoronavirus and the strain is SARS-CoV-2
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Noah’s flood
by dothemath ina few years ago at one of the conventions, there was a talk on gods remarkable creation.
one of the slides showed a giant sequoia tree, approximately 5000 years old!.
later another talk was about noah etc.
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Recorded history (Historical narrative in written form) should not be confused with the history of writing (Language in written form) which goes back to the Neolithic period.
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Lloyd Evans exploitation videos.
by phoenixrising ini used to watch his videos on the monthly gb talks.
he has went over the top a few times doing one video on why being liberal idiot is a good thing.
he has made comments on the usa not knowing shit about what he was desperately trying to talk about.
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Forgive me if this is a silly question, but when you say "liberal" what exactly do you mean?
"Liberals" in the U.S. are the political left. "Conservatives" are the political right.
There's a saying: "Liberals believe good government produces good people; Conservatives believe good people produce good government."
It's a little corny, but does capture a little of the ideological divide between the two groups.
Liberals tend to favor collective rights over individual rights. Conservatives tend to favor individual rights over collective rights.
Liberals tend to favor larger government and more social programs. Conservatives tend to favor smaller government and fewer social programs
Personally, I think the truth is somewhere in the middle, which tends to anger both sides.
Libertarians, despite the name, are not liberal. They are an offshoot of conservatism who hold individual rights as paramount. The want the government to stay the hell out of everybody's life
Both sides have their fringe groups. Radical environmentalism is mostly a liberal movement. The Christian Right is mostly a conservative movement.Both Liberals and Conservatives characterize each other by their fringe elements, so arguments tend to be about extreme positions that aren't completely accepted by everyone even within their respective groups.
There's whole books on the subject, so none of us can do much more than scratch the surface here.
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Lloyd Evans exploitation videos.
by phoenixrising ini used to watch his videos on the monthly gb talks.
he has went over the top a few times doing one video on why being liberal idiot is a good thing.
he has made comments on the usa not knowing shit about what he was desperately trying to talk about.
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Violent protests reliably turn a population conservative.
I'd agree that violence by protesters reduces public support for their cause.
At the same time though, I'm not sure if some of the younger conservatives here understand the militia movement of the 90's, Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc. and therefore don't understand how strongly the right itself is opposed to police overreach.
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“White Privilege”
by minimus inlately that’s all i’ve been hearing about!
i’m sick and tired of listening to white people begging for forgiveness simply because they are white.
in a nearby town, a six year old girl asked her mom, “ why don’t we have a black lives matter march here?
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Harris dislikes Trump's disrespect/distain for facts.
"He lies more than any person has ever lied in human history" (His words, not mine.)
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Overlapping Generation
by pandorasbox1914 inthe september 2015 broadcast had david splane explain matthew 24:34 “truly, i say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place”.
his explanation of this scripture was by means of a chart to indicate an overlapping generation.. .
no scripture was used to show the overlapping generation concept, and as a result it makes no sense.. to illustrate how crazy this concept is, look at the lyrics of the song my generation.. my generation.
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Yes..
The temporal preposition, "until" demands posteriority of the condition(s) it introduces. When that logic is broken, the only way to salvage the thought is to ditch the proposition entirely, switch from a near to a far demonstrative pronoun, redefine one or more of the other terms, or just rewrite the sentence from scratch.
Or all of the above.
It this case however it was the Bible itself they were talking about and that degree of paraphrase would have amounted to an implicit admission that the passage really isn't translated properly in the NWT and that the literal approach to translation, which the JW's are all about, doesn't even necessarily work.
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Overlapping Generation
by pandorasbox1914 inthe september 2015 broadcast had david splane explain matthew 24:34 “truly, i say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place”.
his explanation of this scripture was by means of a chart to indicate an overlapping generation.. .
no scripture was used to show the overlapping generation concept, and as a result it makes no sense.. to illustrate how crazy this concept is, look at the lyrics of the song my generation.. my generation.
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They could have just stuck with the 1995 definition of “wicked generation”—at least that made some sort of sense.
It struck me as a nonsensical tautology:
"The wicked generation who takes no note of the sign will not be destroyed at the end until the entire sign of the end (of which they take no note) has occurred."