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  Oprah For President!

  by minimus in

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  i hope hollywood helps make her the democratic nominee.

  she sounds like she’s testing out the waters.

  good luck ms. winfrey.

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  Laika

  Minimus would never vote a TV celebrity for President, oh, wait...
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  Clue re approach to Annual Report in Jan 2018 MWB

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

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  at the agm on oct 7th, his eminence miserable morris iii stated the jw yearbook would cease publication and that the annual report would instead be released via the "about us" menu in the jw website.

  related to this, the "life and ministry meeting workbook - january 2018 (living as christians)" outlines the following item to be considered jan 1-7 2018...."annual service report: (15 min.

  ) talk by an elder.

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  Laika

  Do we know they have negative growth? I am not convinced, in Britain I could only find 9 JW charities that have closed last service year, year before I found 20 closed, and they still had growth, but I don't know how often the charities commission update their records (each separate congregation is a registered charity in Britain)

  I suspect money issues were a bigger part of the decision to end the yearbook than a desire to hide the annual report. I am pretty confident they are heading towards decline, but not sure they are yet.
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  JWs - Liberals or Conservatives?

  by neat blue dog in

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  where they stand is a strange mixture.

  yes, they don't agree with abortion and homosexuality, they believe in the bible and wear skirts and ties to church .

  but in many ways they're liberal.

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  Laika

  They are anti gun and anti war, which would tend to be more associated with liberal politics in America, and they are more skeptical of the strong nationalism of most American conservatives.

  This is asked a lot on here but I do think this is an interesting question, because of their 'neutrality' JWs have developed a politics which doesn't fit neatly along American sides, I believe this is why JWs are among the most racially diverse religions in America, their position has allowed them to avoid much of the racially charged nature of partisan American politics. If they had tied themselves to a particular party it would be an extremely different religion.
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  Award Shows and Entertainment---Do You Want To Hear Political Views During A Show?

  by minimus in

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  if i watch a ball game or an awards show or some other type of entertainment, i really don't care about politics.

  i enjoy politics but there's a time and there is a place.. i think it's getting out of hand and it's getting pretty boring...but that's just my humble opinion..

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  Laika

  I have never felt that a celebrity has any opinion that I need to hear

  Didn't you vote a reality tv star for President?
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

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  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  Laika

  Luhe, I already said that 'farming is hard' so I don't know why you felt it would be a good use of your time to explain that very thing to me. I am not taking a romantic view of the past, as if I think we need to move away from much of our current economic values for nothing other than a reactionary opposition to 'progress' - instead, I recognise that our world has limits, and many of the current 'choices and convenience' will not be an option to future generations because we are destroying much of our Earth in the pursuit of them for ourselves.

  Whatshallicallmyself, the 'indigenous' view is certainly not irrelevant, regardless of population size and the scales of farming we need, we need to have a stronger relationship to land and place in order to preserve it for future generations - "During the last 40 years, nearly one-third of the world's arable land has been lost by erosion and continues to be lost at a rate of more than 10 million hectares per year." - There is no 'method of sustainability' in this, or 'different management techniques' that take into account larger populations - there is only destruction in the pursuit of our own conveniences.

  Source for above: "Environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits" by Pimental - this is available for you to read on Google scholar if you're interested
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
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  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  Laika

  The mass destruction of our land is much more than a 'wrinkle to be ironed out' it will take a vastly different vision of our land, one that we would do well to adopt from native peoples. This will take stronger local economies and more local farming, far less greed and waste. I understand why we have abandoned the older practices of farming, I am a city boy and I can't choose this life (because I would have no chance of success - farming is hard) but I still recognise we have made a choice that is wrong. I hope we 'self correct' but I am not optimistic, not when we patronisingly insist we are superior to everyone else.
  
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  Laika

  "modern version of sustainability" is this a joke? There is no such thing as a modern version of sustainability, the only thing our land management techniques are fit for is the purpose of destruction.

  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/
  
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
  2. current

  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  Laika

  The native/indigenous view of relationship to land and cultivation of the land is far superior to the European capitalist concept of owning and dominating the land (and far more sustainable).

  I don't know what America should do with it's statues but Columbus was a horrendous man, I wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting to celebrate him.
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  White supremacy is an ideology of peace

  by OneEyedJoe in

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  i'm tired of hearing these constant attacks on white supremacists after the events in charlottesville.

  why are moderate white supremacists being lumped in together and sharing the blame for the actions of one reprehensible man that misinterpreted the ideals of white supremacy and became violent?

  clearly the motivation of such attacks on white supremacists is nothing other than racism.

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  Laika

  Oh yeah, like this forum hasn't gone mental or anything. Not at all.

  It's well off the deep end, and it's getting worse. :/
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  The most successful teaching of Jehovah's Witnesses and an amazing new book on the divine name

  by slimboyfat in

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  jehovah's witnesses have had to revise their chronology and various doctrinal interpretations due to events and scholarly corrections.

  but the one teaching where they have been consistently ahead of the curve is the importance of jehovah's name.. .

  i'm going to run through a (necessarily selective) timeline of jw events and scholarly publications that demonstrate the phenomenal success of this teaching in the last days.

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  Laika

  Asserting something does not make it so.