Posts by OneGenTwoGroups

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Looking for Podcast recommendations.

by nicolaou in

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i'm a postman so i get 4 to 5 hours every day with my headphones on and i'm really chewing through some stuff.

i'm after science (evolutionary biology and anthropology especially), history of religion and comedy.

old sci-fi audio books are also a favourite.

I was surprised today by what I saw a JW driving

by days of future passed in

i was out thrift shopping where my sister lives.

before i went in to the store, i went to donut shop a few doors down.

as i walked up, there by the window was a family and others eating donuts.

OneGenTwoGroups

This is not the greatest of OPs, I concur, but it raises a great topic.

I've known JWs with Hummers, Lambos, Ferraris etc.

Anyone on here remember the guy that used to drive a Rolls Royce to the assembly hall in Monroe NY and then give talks on the platform, usually the bigger parts because he was such a great speaker? Circa late 80s early 90s.

Personally I think it is a good thing for the R&F to see. Someone not living the simplest of lifestyle yet being well used by the cult leadership. Red flag boys and girls, not everyone needs to make huge sacrifices to be loved by Jehovah's awesome organization, obviously.

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Do You Think People Should Be Scorned For Wearing A Red MAGA Hat?

by minimus in

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do you support free choice to wear a political hat or article of clothing?

if someone wants to put a bumper sticker on their car in support of a political candidate or party, should they be able to do it without fear of being maligned or abused?

?.

OneGenTwoGroups

My wife is a true believing JW, my approach towards her isn't one of treating her like s***.

I disagree with about 80 percent of Trump administration policy, but it's not with the vehement hatred that I have of 99% of JW policy.

I defer to Megan Phelps Roeper's Ted talk on how to disagree with people, she has some good ideas there, name calling and shouting doesn't help. This is something that I continue to work on.

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Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

by minimus in

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i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

OneGenTwoGroups

No, this is not correct. This line wasn’t a distraction or red herring. The point: If you can tick off all the criteria for “Malignant Narcissism” simultaneously for both Hillary and Trump (and probably a whole host of other politicians, if we want to be honest), and then assert Trump has the problem and Hillary does not, then it tends to show TDS is alive and well.

Notice: it is not agreeing with the assessment in any way for Trump or Hillary. It’s a test to see if his world view is internally consistent.

It wasn’t a fallacy.

If anyone is asserting that Hillary is ethically better than Trump, then they are wrong. I believe Trump doesn't like people dying, Hillary's a little more comfortable with killing people, a total war hawk, making her more evil than him in that regard. Trump pulled back a strike on Iran because of the body count, that never stopped Obama and wouldn't stop Hillary for damn sure.

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Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

by minimus in

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i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

OneGenTwoGroups

Regardless of how much you hate Trump (and I’m not saying he’s ‘awesome’) - he just got in because many thought he was the lesser of two evils.

He got in because he got enough votes of a sufficient amount of lesser populated states, and that swung the electoral votes. Who's the most evil? It might be Hillary.

You may not like the Electoral College (because your candidate didn’t get in) but it’s there for a very good reason. Read up on it.

Read up on the electoral college? What a wonderful idea? Oh wait, I did that like 20 years ago. Voters in lesser populated states have more power than larger states. When it comes to the presidency and the Senate, lesser populated state folks have greater power. Should voting power be equalized? Probably, but I don't lose sleep about it.

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Trump explains this generation

by eyeslice2 in

glad to see the president making good use of visual aids again after his hurricane debacle.. .

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What is this about? Obama was photo'd with the JWs and received a signed copy of the revised NWT or some stupid book. It was all over the news - as if he wasn't delusional/corrupt enough.

Hey, let's see that photo!

I'll grant that Obama was a center right moron, what does that have to do with Trump's re-directing Dorian to Alabama with a Sharpie?

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Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

by minimus in

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i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

OneGenTwoGroups

What could possibly be fair with 3 or 4 over populated states running the country when the rest of us taxpayers should have rights, also. GET A CLUE! Hard to imagine the dems want their crooks no matter no matter.

Constitution haters --- get over it until it's changed. It's the law for a purpose.

What is the "over populated" threshold?

Side note: Have you forgotten that South Dakota and California both get two Senators?

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Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

by minimus in

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i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

OneGenTwoGroups

PeacefulPete - the problem with your checkbox is you can tick all the boxes for Hillary as well and probably write some extra ones on the back.

Whataboutism fallacy. Hillary sucks, I agree.

The lefts unwillingness to accept the election result is almost unprecedented and is a very sinister development. They suggested that the danger to democracy was from Trump, but it's the democrats that are really undermining it. It's their candidate that wouldn't accept the result and went on a whining tour. It's their president that used the state spy agencies to try and tip the balance in the election and then undermine the incoming presidency. Obama is the most corrupt president ever, doing what Nixon did x100.

You mean that thing where most Americans voted for Hillary but Trump was put in office by the minority vote by means of the electoral college? Hillary whined? Ok. Obama is worse than Nixon? Ok, sure whatever. This makes Trump awesome? This makes him smart? This makes him not corrupt? Not sure how any thing follows this? Many of us out here hate the DNC as much as or more than the RNC.

Their platform for the next election now seems to be utter madness - last night their main candidates were deciding whether they liked plastic or paper straws better and exactly how many African babies they should kill to save the planet. The last one, coming from a multi-millionaire with multiple houses was pretty stunning to be honest ... yet the simpletons watching CNN clap like seals at the Nazi-esque "final solution".

Straws, killing African babies, Nazis.. ok ... if all the Democratic party were card carrying members of NAMBLA, this doesn't necessarily mean anything about Trump and those that love him dearly.

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Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

by minimus in

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i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

OneGenTwoGroups

I'm waiting to see any evidence that Trump's not a moron.

I keep seeing evidence that he is. Though he hasn't mocked a handicapped person lately. Maybe there's a chance.

Money? yes Fame? yes, he has those

Was he born rich by any chance? Yes he was.

Can you be an idiot and run a multi-billion dollar organization? See GB of JWs.

The plutocracy has led to Trump's being elected, too bad he's part of it.

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Trump explains this generation

by eyeslice2 in

glad to see the president making good use of visual aids again after his hurricane debacle.. .

OneGenTwoGroups

Yeah, he's a very stable genius.