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  Do You Think Trump Will Make A Comeback?

  by minimus in

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  do you think he could get reinstated as president?

  do you think trump will run again for president or do you think he will just be a force for the republican party behind the scenes?.

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  I think he could definitely make a comeback politically.

  Reinstatement? There is no Constitutional provision for that.
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  Strong female characters in film before the 'Woke Era'

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  since about 2015, hollywood has congratulated itself and circle-jerked over the 'strong women' characters they've written.

  i'd say this roughly began with rey in the force awakens (2015).

  what hollywood forgets is that strong characters have to have a personality, otherwise audiences don't really relate to them.. well, hollywood should really stop patting themselves on the back as if they've done something special.. strong female characters have been a staple for decades.. here's one: private vasquez, from aliens (1986).

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  Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) in Gravity.

  Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts)

  Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) in Mad Men. --A little more mundane, but definitely a strong character.

  Even in the Woke Era, I think Emily Blunt has done a lot of strong characters that do not fall into that pattern (Edge of Tomorrow, A Quiet Place, Sicario, etc.)
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  Remembering Rutherford

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.

  rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.

  [220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .

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  Yes.

  Fred Franz declared in a 1940's court case that Jehovah was the editor of The Watchtower when in truth old Freddie was really the editor. So here you have the single most important member of the JW organization from the 40's clear up through the 70's claiming that he was for all practical purposes, inspired. And that idea was never repudiated

  It really comes down to the fact that JW leaders and policy makers want it both ways. They want to be regarded as more than sincere students of the Bible because all Christian religions have an identical and equal right to that claim. So they play fast and loose with definitions. They wrap themselves up in the notion of spirit direction, but deny that this qualifies as inspiration.

  That's semantic legerdemain because direction is a defining term of the word inspiration. The fundamental meaning is that the person or group has thought or acted in a way that would not otherwise have happened without at least a nudge in the right direction from God.
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  Strong female characters in film before the 'Woke Era'

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since about 2015, hollywood has congratulated itself and circle-jerked over the 'strong women' characters they've written.

  i'd say this roughly began with rey in the force awakens (2015).

  what hollywood forgets is that strong characters have to have a personality, otherwise audiences don't really relate to them.. well, hollywood should really stop patting themselves on the back as if they've done something special.. strong female characters have been a staple for decades.. here's one: private vasquez, from aliens (1986).

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  Doesn't that honor go to Mon Mothma? (I'm not up on Star Wars, so apologies if I've got that wrong...)
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  Strong female characters in film before the 'Woke Era'

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  since about 2015, hollywood has congratulated itself and circle-jerked over the 'strong women' characters they've written.

  i'd say this roughly began with rey in the force awakens (2015).

  what hollywood forgets is that strong characters have to have a personality, otherwise audiences don't really relate to them.. well, hollywood should really stop patting themselves on the back as if they've done something special.. strong female characters have been a staple for decades.. here's one: private vasquez, from aliens (1986).

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  Jackie Brown and Clarice Starling
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  The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

  by Sea Breeze in

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  honda vfr 750.

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  Just want to say that there's a helluva difference between 120+ on an urban freeway, beltway, expressway versus a straight and perfectly flat desert highway with neither a tree nor vehicle nor anything else visible for miles and miles....
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  What Do You Think About New York City?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i have been to the city hundreds of times.

  i’ve always loved the vitality of the city and no one could ever say that you could get bored in nyc.

  i regularly went for business during the day and in the evenings go to local bars and restaurants as well as the village.

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  Sadly, I've never been there

  --Could kick myself because I lived in D.C. for 13 years....
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  What made you walk out on the "Truth"?

  by Overrated in

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  i had a legal divorce from my ex wife( law of the land).

  i was told not to expect to get remarried because my divorce was not legal to watchtower.. my divorce and situation seem to be a talk of gossip and even a many local needs talks.

  i wanted to take some more schooling to get a better job, there was a local needs talk on higher education and it's dangers.

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  and they ask most people to be untrue to themselves.

  Well said.
  
  
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  Remembering Rutherford

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.

  rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.

  [220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .

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  I wonder what caused Jan Haugland to have enough interest in Rutherford and the WT to motivate him to write the article.

  Jan Haugland was a gung-ho JW years and years ago. It was through interaction with Alan Feuerbacher and others on the Friends mailing list (Around 1992) that he changed his mind.

  Jan has mostly broken with his JW past and is interested in other things today. (Who can blame him?)

  I would also add that there were pitched debates back then on what the use of the phrase, spirit direction actually meant in practical terms. Both gentleman regularly lambasted apologists who attempted to minimize the gravity of the claim.
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  Remembering Rutherford

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  he seems to me to be the angriest and most ill-tempered of all the wt presidents, especially after his stint in prison and failed prophecies.. “regarding his misguided statements as to what we could expect in 1925, he [rutherford] once confessed to us at bethel, “i made an ass of myself.”” watchtower 1984 oct 1 p.24.

  rutherford died at beth sarim on january 8, 1942, at the age of 72.

  [220] cause of death was...carcinoma of the rectum..."[21] .

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  There are other ways to convey a thought besides the explicit statement thereof:

  
  

  The meaning of this picture is unmistakable. JW literature literally comes from God's hands to yours. This falls well within the JW definition of a prophet insofar as the organization that produces this literature is concerned.