Posts by RubaDub

I would not buy from Chick-Fil-A no matter how good some people say it tastes. I guess they think people don't eat on Sundays. Plus just about everyone else sells chicken sandwiches.

Oh, and Dominos Pizza. I never really liked it that much anyway.

Rub a Dub

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San Francisco authorities go co-co bananas

by LoveUniHateExams in

authorities in sf have decided to 'sanitise' language around criminals.. because, yeah, that's the big problem facing san francisco, not drug abuse, gangs, violence, people crapping in the street or illegal immigrants.

glad to know they've got their priorities sorted.

under this stunning and brave new scheme, a criminal who's served his sentence will be referred to as a 'returning resident who was involved with the justice system'.

RubaDub

L U H E ....

Sounds like you must live in or near SF if it is bothering you.

I've been to SF several times as a tourist and enjoyed it.

Sorry about the problems in your backyard.

Rub a Dub

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2024 A View Into The Future

by The Bethelite in

jw
friends

after many tv specials were the watchtower bible & truck society have been exposed as the biggest religious haven for pedophiles on the planet and the loss of hundred of court cases including (the last and biggest one involving the supreme court) the society finally files chapter 11.. the society must turn over all of their files of all known pedophiles.

this turns out to be bigger then anyone could have ever imagined with tens of thousands of their members being named many of whom have been in positions of power.. over 80% of their followers leave the mother ship and contributions slow to a trickle.. most of the society's properties are sold off and people are meeting in private homes and basements.

just like they did when the church was founded a 150 years ago.

RubaDub

some JWs might meet in homes the way it all started ......

L H G ...

Yes, and men will grow goatees and join the Masons. The symbol of the organization, the Watchtower, will have a creepy Pyramid on the top like the one on the back of the US 1$ bill.

Rub a Dub

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Greenland For Sale

by Poztate in

the donald has recently suggested that he would like to look into buying greenland from denmark in the same manner that alaska was purchased from the russians.

i think the danes would be smart to look into selling it as it is costing them money every year with very little returns for their investments so far.. the alternative might well be that donald declares greenland a national security threat and invades them so that the world remains safe for democracy.

i would suggest to the danes that as any other real estate transaction that they put it on the open market and see how much russia or china are willing to offer .

RubaDub

I think the people should vote on whether or not they want to live under King Trump.

The ones I saw on TV were laughing their asses off just thinking about it.

Rub a Dub

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Boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates

by pale.emperor in

now i think i may have seen everything.. "boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates".

i'm all for people being entitled to wear what they want and live as they please as long as they're not harming anyone but - a male prom queen?

maybe there wasn't much competition in his school?.

RubaDub

The Prom Queen does have a nice shape.

Rub a Dub

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Publisher numbers versus baptised witnesses.

by amandm in

i grew up as a witness, and left about 10 years ago, i'm currently researching witness numbers for a project i'm working on, and i can't seem to get an accurate number of baptised witnesses - hardly a surprise!

from their website it looks like they list the number of publishers instead of the number of baptised witnesses, so it totally works to obscure how many actual witnesses there are, apart from the fact it's morally dubious to class a publisher as a minister of god as they refer to publishers on their uk section of the site.

i also am trying to work out how many leave every year, even approximate figures would be great, from their own website it just looks like they try to massage figures to make them look as favourable as possible.

RubaDub

Actually the JW numbers published are generally lower than most other religions.

The JW Publisher numbers do include a large number of non-baptized ones, mainly young ones whose parents are JWs. Once a young one "participates" in the preaching work, they are, by default, publishers and can count time. Just to throw a number at the wall, the age would be somewhere around 5 years old or so, depending on the child and the BOE.

On the other hand, many people claim to belong to a particular religion and have little if anything to do with it and the numbers are greatly inflated. Think about how many people claim to be Catholic but may never have set foot in their church since they were a child ... if at all. The same goes with many other religions.

Rub a Dub

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Who really is the faithful and discreet* slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

by Alex Williams in

this statement was answered in a form of a question to a question posed by one of his followers;.

jesus realized that composite slave had to qualify for such an appointment when he came into power of his kingdom promised by jehovah god.

[and they came to life and ruled as kings with the christ+ for 1,000 years].

RubaDub

I think his name is Sidney Goldstein... he goes by Sid.

He was in charge of the kitchen.

Rub a Dub

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What would happen to your country if you could exchange your president for Trump?

by Wonderment in

what if we could exchange one president from another country to yours?...

say trump for trudeau, trudeau for trump, trump in exchange for your respective european country, etc -- for a few years?

would you consider it a win or a loss for your country?.

RubaDub

Imagine trading Trump for Trudeau !!!

Then we could tell all of the undocumented people coming into the country to pass through the US and just go straight to Canada.

Then Trump could campaign throughout Canada wearing hockey jerseys and a MCGA hat.

Rub a Dub

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Who really is the faithful and discreet* slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?

by Alex Williams in

this statement was answered in a form of a question to a question posed by one of his followers;.

jesus realized that composite slave had to qualify for such an appointment when he came into power of his kingdom promised by jehovah god.

[and they came to life and ruled as kings with the christ+ for 1,000 years].

RubaDub

I did some research on this a number of years ago.

In the end I found that the FDS first mentioned by Jesus is later the one who was following the four horsemen of the apocalypse as detailed by John in Revelation 6:8. John refers to it as Death in that verse.

Some have suggested the FDS is actually riding on the Death horse but the scripture is unclear on that matter.

So whether the FDS was actually riding the horse or running alongside the horse is up for conjecture. Perhaps the fact that the horse was called Death may indicate the horse was sickly or nearing death so that it would be impractical to be riding on something that is very sick or weak.

While the details are not complete, we still can see the harmony that permeates the Scriptures.

Rub a Dub