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  The Confederate Flag

  by Simon in

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  the latest controversy over the confederate flag just sums up to me the state of dysfunction that exists in american society.. in summary: a white supremacist nutter shoots 9 black people dead in a church.

  he's clearly inspired by the messages of others which the confederate flag is often a symbol of.. it seems like a no-brainer to remove it.

  not only isn't it removed, it isn't even lowered at all as a mark of respect.. and of course now there are the people who want to defend their right to have it.

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  About the flag not being lowered. Confused me why they didn't. This article which I copied and shortened sums up why...

  But, it seemed, no one — particularly not South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) — could do anything about it. This was a matter of law.

  “In South Carolina, the governor does not have legal authority to alter the flag,” a Haley spokesman told ABC on Thursday. “Only the General Assembly can do that.”

  That seemed strange. On public property all across America — not just at state houses but at schools, libraries, DMVs and tollway plazas — flags are presumably raised and lowered without reference to or permission from legislative bodies.

  But South Carolina has been fighting about its capitol’s Confederate flag for decades. Indeed, the flag first went up on the capitol dome in 1962 in defiance of the burgeoning civil rights movement. A cultural war fought a century after the first battle of Fort Sumter followed.

  So, it seems legally they can't. Doesn't that just fly in the face of all logic?
  
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  The Confederate Flag

  by Simon in

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  the latest controversy over the confederate flag just sums up to me the state of dysfunction that exists in american society.. in summary: a white supremacist nutter shoots 9 black people dead in a church.

  he's clearly inspired by the messages of others which the confederate flag is often a symbol of.. it seems like a no-brainer to remove it.

  not only isn't it removed, it isn't even lowered at all as a mark of respect.. and of course now there are the people who want to defend their right to have it.

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  Just a little history...
  

  The Confederate States of America went through three different flags during the Civil War, but the battle flag wasn’t one of them. Instead, the flag that most people associate with the Confederacy was the battle flag of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.

  Designed by the Confederate politician William Porcher Miles, the flag was rejected for use as the Confederacy’s official emblem, although it was incorporated into the two later flags as a canton. It only came to be the flag most prominently associated with the Confederacy after the South lost the war.

  In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the battle flag was used mostly at veterans’ events and to commemorate fallen Confederate soldiers. The flag took on new associations in the 1940s, when it began to appear more frequently in contexts unrelated to the Civil War, such as University of Mississippi football games.

  In 1948, the newly-formed segregationist Dixiecrat party adopted the flag as a symbol of resistance to the federal government. In the years that followed, the battle flag became an important part of segregationist symbolism, and was featured prominently on the 1956 redesign of Georgia’s state flag, a legislative decision that was likely at least partly a response to the Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate school two years earlier. The flag has also been used by the Ku Klux Klan, though it is not the Klan’s official flag.
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  Guns. Well said Mr President, if only your countrymen had the same courage to consider changing course.

  by nicolaou in

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  ive had to make statements like this too many times.

  communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times.

  once again, communities [were harmed] because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no problem getting their hands on a gun.. lets be clear: at some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.

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  Hahaha! Note to self, do NOT post after working all night. Come on nicolaou, you can't tell me you UK'ers don't like "riffles?" Hahahahaha.
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  Annointed 144k only male?

  by JerryTX in

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  i was told there was new light by a former jw.

  i wanted to verify if it was true.

  the new light claims the annointed class/144k is always male.

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  Nope...I haven't heard of that. Still active...
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  Guns. Well said Mr President, if only your countrymen had the same courage to consider changing course.

  by nicolaou in

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  ive had to make statements like this too many times.

  communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times.

  once again, communities [were harmed] because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no problem getting their hands on a gun.. lets be clear: at some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.

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  I have over 40 riffles and pistols. Love to shot and consider myself a marksman. Don't mind a tax. Don't mind laws to keep criminals from obtaining them. Don't mind at all. What I mind are know it all on both sides telling what I can or can't do. What I mind is sensational news flaming mistrust on both sides. Most legal gun owners that I know are VERY responsible and want safety first for themselves, their families, their neighbors et all.
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  Has anyone had a jw hack into their email/tablet/phone etc to spy?

  by purrpurr in

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  i note stillin has had a recent problem with this.

  i also know of two cases were an elder went through a brothers phone to get dirt on him.

  and another were a sisters email was hacked into to get dirt on her.. in both cases apparently it was for their spiritual protection (!

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  I fix computers as a hobby. I had on numerous occasions Elders ask me if I saw anything inappropriate on computers of some individuals in our congregation. I usually just tell them that I fix problems not make them. If someone is doing what is "wrong", that is between them and God...none of my business.
  
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  KH Libraries Redundant?

  by The Searcher in

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  i heard from an elder that his kh library is to be terminated when a refurbishment takes place.. is this now standard policy?

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  Actually was brought up at our last Servants meeting. We had a recent surge in babies born at our hall and there is not enough room in the woman's room or the small closet they call the Babies room (nursing room.) The CO suggested to "Get rid of the library and make it a babies room and put the congregations computer in the old babies room with all the latest releases on it." He said we don't need to keep printed copies if we have digital. I think that is what they are going to do here in about a month.
  
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  when you were a JW what did you do with your fortune cookie?? LOL

  by James Mixon in

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  someone who is not familiar with jw none sense would think, are you.

  serious, a fortune cookie.

  is there a scripture that say you will be destroyed when.

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  When I go to the Sunday meeting I always get a group to go afterwards to a local Chinese restaurant. Now remember, most of the people I hang out with are like my sister, questioning or on the fence types. We have a blast with the cookies. One sister keeps saying she is going to sneak one into the Kingdom Hall and put it into this one sisters purse when she is not looking, This sister in question is a hard line born in who actually councils other sisters about hem lines. I keep goading her to do it. God I hope she does!
  
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  How many times were you told, "You Just Don't Qualify Yet to be an Elder"

  by John Aquila in

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  you think it's the holy spirit that appoints the elders, at least that's what new jw males are told.

  the culture within the organization dictates to all young male jehovah's witnesses that unless you are an elder, you will not get the sultry, passionate- brunette, the voluptuous, curvaceous,- blond, or the seductive, erotic, red headed-vamp..

  so unaware of the social forces that are shaping your mind, you succumb to the dictum issued by the governing body to conform to the structure already in place- if you want to be successful.

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  I was told I was appointed as an Elder but I refused it because I was just waking up. Couldn't/didn't want the bs involved. Now I am trying to slowly fade as a MS. Not as easy as it seems. I actually have a couple of "real" elders in my congregation and when you say you are missing because of sickness or something, they really try to help. I think I am going down the anxiety route again. Worked once before, and the brothers aren't trained to deal with it.
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses 2015 Regional Convention Saturday PM experience parents shunning children

  by Watchtower-Free in

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  clip 3 minutes long.

  ron and brenda sutton ................warwick 3 children

  it was the missed association with family that brought them back.

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  Imitate Jesus Convention. Question, "Did Jesus ever SHUN anyone?" Answer, NO! Then why do you? This Convention is really waking up my sister. Thank you GB 2.0! Thank you!!!!!!!