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  How Do You Feel About Completely Open Borders?

  by minimus in

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  whether you are in the usa or another country, are you for it or against it?.

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  kramer, it's a different situation. Even if it weren't, though, uncontrolled immigration can't continue. My wife and I rescue animals. We currently take care of about 50, and we're at our limit; we just can't take in anymore. Even if the current immigrant situation were the same as it was with the settlers who built this nation, it wouldn't change the fact that there are limits as to what a system can support.

  I used to live in a state where, a few years ago, anybody could be a general contractor. All one had to do was get a building permit from his county for a house, build it or have it built by subcontractors, and sell it. The problem is that way too many people started building houses to sell. The market was flooded with lower quality houses. The state finally changed the situation; one now has to have a state-issued general contractor's license with liability insurance and a worker's comp policy.. At first, maybe it didn't matter so much; houses were needed; but, then it got out of hand.

  Similarly, at first, the field was wide open for settlers to come here and build a nation, but the situation is not like that now. I could go on and on about how wrong what you said is. Take, for example, some new gym or athletic club. At first, it might advertise and cry out for members, but, then it might reach a point where it has to turn people away or put them on a waiting list because it has a limit as to how many it can handle.

  You do realize that the situation is not the same now as it was with the settlers who built this nation or those who came in a controlled, legal manner, don't you?
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  Rotator Cuff Surgery: Anybody Have Experience?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  my husband is going in on tuesday to have surgery to repair a badly torn rotator cuff on his right shoulder.

  he is right handed.. he's 51 and is great about exercising and staying in shape.

  however, while doing push ups, his shoulder just snapped.

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  he's not to move his arm or he will do unfixable damage.

  ???

  I know somebody who had shoulder surgery a few (10?) years ago. I thought it was rotator cuff surgery, but he had to rent a machine that he sat in every night for, it seems, like 30 minutes or so. The machine continuously moved his arm in a certain controlled way. So, his arm was moved after surgery. Maybe it was a different kind of surgery.... or maybe the after-surgery recommendations have changed in the last few years?

  Anyway, he seems to be doing fine now; haven't heard him complain at all.
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  I turned 38 Feb 16th!

  by Joliette in

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  i can't believe it.

  it doesnt even seem real.

  my mother told me that the world would gone by the time i was 25. .

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  Why do you think you might not make it into your fifties or sixties? Do you just simply think you might die due to sickness or accident? Or, are you depressed?
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  How Do You Feel About Completely Open Borders?

  by minimus in

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  whether you are in the usa or another country, are you for it or against it?.

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  I am vehemently opposed. I think immigration should be STRICTLY controlled. I think the U.S.'s having open borders would rapidly turn it into a third world country. Hell, I'm even for controlling our own internal population growth.

  I hear there are a lot of jobs that people in the U.S. don't want and that immigrants will do those jobs. Well, I say offer those jobs to people who are on government assistance, and if they don't take the jobs and do well at them, then cut off their assistance. Why should we let more people in when we have citizens who are unemployed? I also say make prisoners do some of the work like picking fruits and vegetables, and if they don't work, they don't eat.

  I'm sick of people flooding here. If they have problems in their own countries, they need to fix them - not come here and try to change our country. They also need to quit fuc&ing or use birth control if they can't take care of their own children.

  "the DPC cites data from DHS and the Department of Health and Human Services to warn that the Biden administration is 20,000 beds short of what it needs to properly house the 117,000 unaccompanied child migrants expected to cross the border this year." -Migrant children border crossings to surpass record by 45 percent: report (nypost.com)

  I'm sick of it, and I have a right to be. My wife and I work our a$$es off for not much money. I'm sick of people flooding here and of seeing my tax money spent on them.

  If they don't stop coming, wages will be driven down and our already shrinking middle class will be gone.
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  I turned 38 Feb 16th!

  by Joliette in

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  i can't believe it.

  it doesnt even seem real.

  my mother told me that the world would gone by the time i was 25. .

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  38 will seem really young when you get into your sixties (where I am). I, too, was told that I would never graduate from high school. I was also told that the end would come before I could get a driver's license. Damn false prophets! Happy birthday!
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  Why do some people who were trapped in the WT and wake up, still believe in the Bible God who allowed them to be deceived for years.

  by pistolpete in

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  why do some people who were trapped in the wt and wake up after much frustration and anger that they were lied to, still believe in the bible god who allowed them and their families to be deceived and trapped for years.

  i have an acquaintance who is a lot older than me and for the past 30 years he has been out of the watchtower religion and is sola scriptura.

  sola scriptura is a theological doctrine that posits the christian scriptures as the sole infallible source of authority for christian faith and practice.

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  pistolpete, very interesting OP.

  HowTheBibleWasCreated, you wrote:

  "As a desert God of the Shashu people. In fact the archaic Jah or YHW is a throwback. The israelites only pickled up worship of YHWH very late likely after 900 bce judging by the name of Ahab's children."

  Do you have any recommendations for books on that subject and similar subjects?
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  Genesis 1:16 and apologists- vegetation before the Sun?

  by joey jojo in

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  gen 1: 11 says: .

  11 then god said, “let the earth sprout [j]vegetation, [k]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to [l]their kind [m]with seed in them”; and it was so.

  12 the earth produced [n]vegetation, [o]plants yielding seed according to [p]their kind, and trees bearing fruit [q]with seed in them, according to [r]their kind; and god saw that it was good.

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  I had that question decades ago, when I was in my late teens / early twenties. Wasn't baptized yet, and an older female JW was studying with me. She was probably 60 at the time. I asked her about that, and she said that the sun had already been created, but that the light from it couldn't reach the earth yet. I said, well, how then could plants survive without sunlight? They need it for photosynthesis. She said that the heat from the sun could have driven photosynthesis.
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  “Do not gaze about!”

  by slimboyfat in

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  so many changes in the 2013 nwt seem needless and spoil familiar phrases.

  take isaiah 41:10 in the nwt classic rendering:.

  do not be afraid, for i am with you.

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  The change that I really don't like is their removal of "sheol" and "hades" and use of "grave" and whatever else they might have used. I liked the transliterations of "sheol" and "hades", and I think it was educational and enlightening to see and learn those original language words in their contexts. I think because of my exposure to the older NWT, I have a far greater grasp of the Biblical concept of what happens after death than newer JWs and most churchgoers. I've been talking with a few churchgoers lately and have found that they are clueless as to the original language words for "hell", etc., and can't defend their views with any authority at all.
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  Should A Covid Stimulus Bill Be Helping Other Countries?

  by minimus in

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  i think it should simply be there to help us citizens.

  and besides giving money to other countries, stop giving money to the arts and entertainment..... give money to help taxpayers struggling with debt .

  period!!!

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  No. It seems to me that the U.S. has sent a lot of aid to other countries that didn't aid anybody but rich crooks. The U.S. needs to focus on itself. I am all for helping others, but in an appropriate way. In order for the U.S. to be in a position to help others, it has to take care of itself first. If a hole is blown in a plane with ten infants, one pilot, and only one oxygen mask, it would be better for the pilot to get the mask so he can land the plane; otherwise, nobody survives. If the U.S. sinks and/or becomes more of a third-world country, it won't be able to help anybody. It has to take care of itself. It needs to improve, yeah, but it is a light to the world - with freedom of speech, etc. That light needs to keep shining.
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  What do you see?

  by Simon in

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  do you see a man with a backpack running into the woods?.

  do you see a dog running out of the woods?.

  i saw the man running first .... .

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  Man first; then dog.