Posts by DJS

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Do You Think Jehovah's Witnesses Are Typically Ignorant People?

by minimus in

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i think most witnesses are simple minded.many are ignorant.

there are a lot of basically "good people "in the religion but i believe many are kind of dumb, including many elders.

do you agree with my thoughts??

DJS

Hey minimus, we agree!!! Hoodathunkit?

Definition of ignorant: Merriam Webster

. 1 a : destitute of knowledge or education an ignorant society; also : lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified parents ignorant of modern mathematics b : resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence ignorant errors 

Dubs are fundamentalists. Note the following article regarding fundamentalist religious people, from a study conducted by Northwestern University, and intelligence: 

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/study-finds-link-between-brain-damage-and-religious-fundamentalism

The researchers define fundamentalism as a cognitive approach that “embodies adherence to a set of firm religious beliefs advocating unassailable truths about human existence.“ They write in their paper that the appeal of such a rigid way of thinking is in promoting “coherence and predictability” within a religious group.

Other studies have suggested the same thing. Not only are less intelligent people more likely to be drawn to fundamentalism, intelligence appears to be negatively impacted by fundamentalism. It makes sense. Use it or lose it. Duh.

The Pew Research Center publishes an exhaustive survey of US religions each year. And each year the Dubs rank last in educational attainment.

So whichever definition of ignorant you want to use, either educated/informed or intelligence, yes, Dubs would rate more highly on average in the ignorance factor based on multiple empirical studies. Averages, people, don't have a fit pitch. Of course there are a few smart dubs. For now.

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10 years on.....

by snare&racket in

jw
friends

i was a window cleaner, i was at the time unemployed, homeless.

i had no education to be proud of (high school one a two b's rest c's) i was a jehovahs witness.

i had been a pioneer.

DJS

Snare,

I logged on to this site today, after being away for 7 months, read your OP and had to tell you again how very proud I am of you. You are an inspiration to all of us, as well as my favorite poster ever (Cofty, don't get mad. Your'e my second favorite poster ever. If you would talk to the judge about that restraining order you took out on me you might make it back to no. 1)

See you guys in another 7 months.

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

mini me. you made this OP. Own it. You don't give a rip about media fairness. If they are unfairly lying about the Dems you're standing behind them giving high fives and fist bumping.

Hypocrite.

I've asked you to provide evidence that refutes the media's fact checking of Lying Donald and you provided none.

Hypocrite.

I've asked you why you had no moral outrage at the media when they lied about Obama and HRC., and you remain silent.

Hypocrite.

Your true colors are showing. Again. You should be viewed as a troll and ignored.

Hypocrite.

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

@mini me: "Be impartial if you can"

What the eff? You're the most partial person on a site of biased partisans. And the biggest hypocrite.

Fact check all media. Every one of them. Believe nothing until you have.

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

Such as? I can't effing believe you typed that into your keyboard Simon. You're losing touch with reality.

Obama is a Muslim. Obama is Gay. Birther conspiracies. The Clinton connection to pedophilia and the pizzeria. Et al.

Radio host Sean Hannity on Tuesday embraced a piece of fake news about President Obama deleting endorsements of Hillary Clinton from his Twitter account.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michael-flynn-conspiracy-pizzeria-trump-232227

An empirical view from Stanford U:

https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf

"For example, during the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump and various online media outlets reopened speculation that Bill Clinton aide Vince Foster had been murdered, whereas the five investigations into his death had concluded that it was a suicide (Kessler 2016). Four official investigations were completed between 1993 and 1995, all of which concluded that his death was a suicide (Kessler 2016). In 1997, independent counsel Kenneth Starr released a fifth report on the matter, concluding that “In sum, based on all of the available evidence, which is considerable, the [Office of Independent Counsel] agrees with the conclusion reached by every official entity that has examined the issue: Mr. Foster committed suicide” (Kessler 2016). Figure 7 illustrates how divergent conclusions on factual issues predates the social media era: as of 1995, 20 percent of Americans reported believing that Foster had been murdered."

There are dozens, if not hundreds more. And you well know it.

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

bohm,

Yes, The Orange One, in addition to being a pathological liar, is a hypocrite like mini-me. His homeboy Flynn was one of the most active fake news creators and spreaders, but that didn't seem to matter to him when he appointed him to one of the most powerful positions on planet Earth. Where was The Orange One's sense of moral outrage? Where was mimi-me's sense of moral outrage when a white, under educated, younger DF version of themselves walked into the pizzeria with a gun a few months ago ready to kill someone due in large part because of Flynn's fake news.

The Dislike button, all you white, under-educated, septuagenarians and octogenarian echo chambering, flaccid circle jerking misfits, is just a l-i-t-t-l-e bit below>

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

Mini me,

Where was your sense of outrage about the media when there were dozens of fake and completely inaccurate stories floated about Obama and HRC?

Strangely and tellingly silent you were.

Hypocrite.

You're an echo chamber, without an original thought. A brain dead Ditto Head of Rush, Hannity and Michael Savage.

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

Another salient point for all you lower living confirmationallly biased maggots to consider:

You whine and bitch about media inaccuracy or bias, but one think I can take to the bank. None of you DFs with your heads stuck up your asses will ever question any news article that confirms those biases. Ever. Whatever FoxNews, Hannity, Rush or O'Reilly - or the Orange One - spews you lap up like the trained slaves you are.

You will shake your head, uh huh, that's right. Yep, that's right. Just like the front row sitter in a snake handling church. Just like the amen corner. The only thing you ever question are articles that do not confirm those biases.

And immediately feel better about yourselves as that tiny little place in your brains that's having an orgasm that you are confirmed.

Hypocrites.

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

Trump is unhinged. His supporters, The Trumpeters, believe everything he says, even though he has consistently shown himself to be the biggest liar in all of our lives.

So it's more than a bit hypocritical for the Trumpeters and the mini-me's to question media when they swallow every lie The Orange One spews.

Did you see the response last night from the L and the R news media and have you followed the responses from L politicians and the silence from the R? There is a growing swell of a large cross section who believe The Orange One is unhinged. Played the media like a trumpet? Dear god, mini me, he came across as a complete, unhinged idiot.

491

What is your opinion of the news media?

by minimus in

to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

DJS

mini-me,

You post ridiculous things; you will be ridiculed. You show pride and a lack of humility; you will be humiliated. You lack self control; others will control you.

I am of course talking about Saturday Night Live, Steven Colbert, Twitter, Seth Myers.

And me.

You can mitigate all of this by conducting some research and giving some thought before you post BS.

None of us should accept the media. Of course that's right, especially with the Internet, fake news, CTs, etc. But we can fact check rather easily to determine who is lying, but only if we get rid of our biases.

Now I see how Trump was elected. The Blonde leading the Bland; The Orange leading the Brain Dead.