Anyone (of any color) who commits a felony and subsequently resists a police officer (of any color) after behaving like a complete fool by walking down the middle of a street in broad daylight risks getting shot (however many times). If Michael Brown had been as street-wise as he thought he was, he would have known that. Just like the 20-year old kid who died the same week because he didn’t know any better than to get out of his race car and run into the middle of the race track while a race was in progress. Both young men died as a result of “natural selection,” or “survival of the fittest.”
Rufus T. Firefly
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Ferguson Shooting (Is my thinking on this all wrong.......)
by out4good3 ini think everyone here can agree that walking down the street, even in the middle of the street, is not cause for having a clip emptied in your ass......... i can understand how the black community would be outraged by the injustice of seeing another black man dead in the street at the hands of the police under mysterious circumstances....... i hope that i'm not succumbing to the attempts to assinate the already well impuned character of the dead man...... however.
i can't help but think that this could all have been avoided by exercising the proper discretion with fore-knowledge of the disadvantages people of color have when they are dealing with law enforcement in the united states.
it is not as if this disadvantage has only since recently came to light.
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Have you seen "Knock! Knock!"?
by compound complex ini thought it was a genuinely old silent movie.
it was prepared for the delegates of the international conventions.
a young man in a sound car goes to different homes in the neighborhood, and comes upon a bereaved husband with two young daughters.
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Rufus T. Firefly
Having said that....the video is very well done. Is there a YouTube link to the video?
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Hubby's tempted to go back
by jgnat intoday he kept bumping in to (or rather dodging and weaving from) fellow witnesses.
he's talking about returning but can't figure out a way to do it without enduring a fair amount of humiliation.
i did not panic.
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Rufus T. Firefly
<<He does not want to do the Witness thing. He just doesn't want to feel guilty either.>>
“Stanley Milgram . . . pointed out that people who disobey destructive authority suffer psychologically, too. Often a person who disobeys finds himself at odds with the social order, and may find it hard to shake the feeling that he has been faithless to someone or something to whom he pledged allegiance.” (From the book The Sociopath Next Door by Dr. Martha Stout.)
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Have you seen "Knock! Knock!"?
by compound complex ini thought it was a genuinely old silent movie.
it was prepared for the delegates of the international conventions.
a young man in a sound car goes to different homes in the neighborhood, and comes upon a bereaved husband with two young daughters.
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Rufus T. Firefly
As many here already know, the context of "millions now living will never die" was Rutherford's claim that the end would come in 1925, just one of many failed prophecies by the false prophets at the WTS.
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GREAT SONG FOR THOSE OF US STRUGGLING TO LEAVE THE JW CULT!
by ADJUSTMENTS inthis is a song by lauren hill she had family ties to the jw cult, so it is very touching and moving, she even gets choked up in the middle of the song.
i like to share this song with new ones or old ones and those who have heard it before every now and again, it so refreshing and hopefull!
enjoy it!!!.
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Rufus T. Firefly
Oh, that's GOOD! I cannot live a lie. Never could. Once I awakened to the truth about JWs and the WTS, I had absolutely no desire to associate with anyone remotely associated with them. My respect for those who willingly left the WTS has skyrocketed, and I view those who remain as willfully ignorant and pitiable. This includes a lot of people whom I dearly love.
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Scriptures that now seem to apply to JWs
by Magnum inin the last year or so, many bible passages that i used to strongly and confidently apply to non-jws, began to seem to apply to jws.
this change in my thinking was shocking and disturbing.
i can best describe the feeling by comparing it to the feeling i got in 1981 when i watched the movie dead and buried starring james farentino.. in that movie there are murders committed in a small town by dead people reanimated by a doctor doing experiments.
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Here's my favorite: "By your words you will be condemned." (Matt.12: 37)
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GOVERNING BODY PATTERNS OF DECEPTION
by Terry inpattern of excuses.
" zion's watch tower 1894 jul 15 p.226.
(compare isaiah 8:11-13.
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marked ... Thanks Terry!
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Jehovahs Witnesses and New Light
by smiddy incharles taze russell was chosen by god jehovah to reveal to mankind the way to salvation in this time of the end.. charles taze russell embarks on a public speaking program that takes him all over the world with him giving lectures in many countrys .. my question to jehovahs witnesses : was that holy spirit , inspired revelations that he gave ?
was that new light from jehovah ?
new truths ?.
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Rufus T. Firefly
Why is the Watchtower always the LAST to "receive" so-called "NEW light?" Consider just a few examples.
Two GB members asked Edward Dunlap in a private conversation what he thought about the F&DS. He said it appeared to him the F&DS was the GB, and they disfellowshipped him. Today, the Watchtower embraces what Dunlap had observed more than 30 years ago.
In 1947, the Watchtower said the practice of disfellowshipping was of pagan origin, adopted from the Druids by the Catholic Church. Five years later, the Watchtower embraced the practice.
Thousands of JWs spent years in prisons during wartime because the Watchtower considered alternative service to be a violation of Christian neutrality while Quakers, Mennonites and other religious groups accepted alternative service. Suddenly in the mid-1990s, alternative service became a matter of individual conscience for JWs.
I could go on, but you get the idea. The Watchtower is always the last to receive what they consider to be new light.
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Transfusing blood is NOT eating blood
by Rufus T. Firefly inwatchtowers official view:.
you also ask why one can be disfellowshipped for taking a blood transfusion but not for taking blood fractions.
while both may affect the life of an individual, the expression "life-sustaining" in connection with blood transfusions is synonymous with the idea of taking in food for nourishment.
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Watchtower’s official view:
“You also ask why one can be disfellowshipped for taking a blood transfusion but not for taking blood fractions. While both may affect the life of an individual, the expression "life-sustaining" in connection with blood transfusions is synonymous with the idea of taking in food for nourishment . In this regard both whole blood and major components of it carry nutrients, oxygen, and other nourishment to the body. It is this aspect of taking in blood, that is, to provide nourishment that links blood transfusions with the Biblical prohibition . Note that "Questions From Readers" of the July 1, 1975, issue of The Watchtower stated: " The Bible specifically forbids the taking of blood to nourish the body .-Gen 9:4; Lev. 17:1-14; Acts 15:28, 29." The motive or reason for taking a serum is significantly different. It is not to feed the body, as would be the case if there was an eating of whole blood (or a major component thereof) by mouth or by having it transfused intravenously. Rather, the antibodies that have been separated out are administered for the purpose of immunizing the body against a certain disease. While blood fractions in certain situations can be lifesaving, they do not operate to feed and nourish the body and in this way sustain life but, rather, utilize other mechanisms.” [From March 23, 1998 letter from Watchtower Bible & Tract Society to R. Jensen.]
Another view:
“A major question, then, is whether it can be demonstrated that the transfusing of blood is an “eating” of blood as the Watch Tower organization claims. There is, in reality, no sound basis for such claim. There are, of course, medical methods of “intravenous feeding” whereby specially prepared liquids containing nutrients, such as glucose, are introduced into the veins and provide nourishment. However, as medical authorities know, and as the Watch Tower Society has at times acknowledged, a blood transfusion is NOT intravenous feeding; it is actually a TRANSPLANTATION (of a fluid TISSUE), not an infusion of a nutrient. In a kidney transplantation, the kidney is NOT eaten as some food by the new body it enters. It remains a kidney with the same form and function. The same is true of blood. It is not eaten as food when “transplanted” into another body. It remains the same fluid tissue, with the same form and function. The body cells cannot possibly utilize such transplanted blood as food. To do this the blood would first have to PASS THROUGH THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, be broken up and prepared so that the body cells could absorb it—thus it would have to be actually and literally EATEN to allow it to serve as FOOD.” [From IN SEARCH OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM, pages 297 & 298, by Raymond Franz.]
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Checkmate WT!
by ILoveTTATT inas a lot of you know, i am making a catalog of all the articles and quotes that the wt used to make the creation book.
i want to see all the quotes for myself, if possible.. i went to my university today, and i got some more books.. checkmate, wt!
i can now check every single quote, almost without regard to how obscure or rare the book is!.
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Rufus T. Firefly
Here's a time-saving suggestion. Simply Google any article or quote used in Watchtower publications. The Internet is marvelous!