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"I swear, it's like he's a WT plant, out here running amok and doing everything you'd expect a crazy protesting ex-JW apostate to do! Total nutter!"
This goes back a few years, but what was the guy's name who was like the walking cliche of an apostate? Holding placards in front of buildings and at one point pepper sprayed some JW's at his door? Drawing a blank on his name...
james o'brien must be one of the most deluded f**kwits on planet earth.. he works as a radio host for lbc and he seems to genuinely reckon that his job is harder than manual labour.. what a smug tit .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduw2lb5kve.
Meh...radio talk show host. Our radio in the U.S is filled with these blathering self important twits. Almost all from a conservative point of view screaming about the latest injustice done to poor old 'real americans' (ahem..white middle class conservatives) or whatever.
nasa plans return to moon by 2020
"this vision aims to return humans to the moon, and then to use it as a staging point for a manned mission to mars.
i wonder if jws will be required to canvas those areas too.
"Why not fix the problems here on earth before we go and mess up somewhere else."
Because there will never be a time when all problems on Earth are fixed. Fix a problem, new problem pops up.
NASA is currently 0.48% of the US budget.
If you want to get upset at waste....The cost of the Iraq war was around $2 Trillion. Talk about pissing money to the wind......
If in 2002, if someone had proposed a $2 trillion plan over the next 20 years for say Universal Healthcare as you mentioned..oh the cries and wailing and gnashing of teeth from Republicans and lectures about fiscal responsibility and calling such a plan "socialism " would have been endless. Destroying the country they would have said.
But....such money was apparently available for the clusterfuck that was Iraq.
the real gorby has died today.
he was my inspiration for change, with perestroika and glasnost.. that is why i chose the name gorby at jwn.. see the man at the background.
he was there also.. g..
"I have always held that the negotiations and leadership which defused
the cold war was one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th
century. Kudos to Reagan and Gorbachev."
Reagan I suppose learned from his mistakes. But the combination of a paranoid Politburo and Reagan's chest thumping rhetoric (in his first term) got us within a hair's breadth of Nuclear War in the autumn of 1983. Some say the closest since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Once he learned how freaked out the Soviets were in thinking we were about to launch a first strike and some in the Politburo were urging Andropov to preempt, he was horrified and toned it down.
The scary thing is that in the Cuban Missile crisis, both sides at least knew what was going on. During Able Archer in 1983, the U.S was oblivious that the USSR was in a panic until it was all over.
Then of course, the good fortune to have Gorbachev take office who he was able to do business with to turn down the heat.
This is a great book about that particularly frightening year:
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"Hess was a bit insane and should have served some time for being
Hitler's right hand in the early war years but life was a stretch given
that he surrendered himself to the British and tried to broker an
unauthorised peace deal. The Soviets insisted he serve his life term
whilst the British, Americans and French wanted to release him to West
Germany."
Keeping him as the sole geriatric prisoner for decades after everyone else was gone was pointless, i agree. But the peace deal he wanted to broker was with the British. Not a deal to end the entire war.
If by some magic he had been successful, The battle of the Atlantic would be over along with the undeclared war at sea with the US. The US would never have entered the european war and that would also mean no lend-lease to the USSR. It also would have freed up about 30 additional divisions for the eastern front. No need to guard for an invasion of the west if they made peace with Britain.
This would have been bad news for the Soviets.
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"BettyHumpter, I'm clueless. Please explain the photo to me."
It's a photo of the surviving Nazi leadership on trial at Nuremberg, with Lloyd taking the place of Wilhelm Keitel.
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Lloyd Evans based on the length of this thread:
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"I had
recently started a new job as a part time secretary at a local real estate
office. When I asked my boss for a
two-month leave of absence to
attend a Bible course, predictably
she did not share my enthusiasm.
My request was refused. I
responded by handing in my notice.
This, in turn, left me with another
problem: I had just signed an
agreement that tied me to paying full
monthly rent on my apartment"
The cost of living must be amazingly low in that part of England to be able to meet rent on a part time entry level job. I had a halfway decent full time job in my early 20's but still needed roommates if I wanted to live somewhere decent and not be penniless at the end of each month.
Also, even if he was granted the 2 month leave of absence, it wouldn't be with pay, so he'd have been in the same bind regarding his lease.
watchtower basketball guidelines.
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https://postimg.cc/btgxcgcb.
"Give a donation! Out of what? Their next to nothing allowance??"
I had 2 cousins who went to bethel and my parent's would send them the odd $50 or $100 so they could have some spending money. I'm sure their parents and my other JW relatives did the same. I guess the leadership assumes that's the case with all bethelites and expect donations from that.....
watchtower basketball guidelines.
click image to enlarge.
https://postimg.cc/btgxcgcb.
Maximum game time is 20 minutes? No arrangement for winning team to hold the court? How boring.
