Posts by Gentledawn

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Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

by wifibandit in

the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

also pulled: .

wallkill photo gallery 2.

Gentledawn

OrphanCrow

Nope, I'm in agreement with you.

I've done my fair share of construction and automotive work long before becoming a JW. In fact, a guy asked me to grab the other end of an engine block (minus the head, valves and pistons... it was being taken in for an acid dip) in order to help him carry and load it into the back of his truck. There were other guys standing around. IMO, the only reason he asked me for help and not the other guys milling around is because I would do it. It had very little to do with actual capabilities. Again, this is my opinion. Those other men were pretty well known for being a gaggle of gossiping lazy asses. Ha.

And yeah. I'm a woman, too.

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Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

by wifibandit in

the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

also pulled: .

wallkill photo gallery 2.

Gentledawn

Vidiot

@ cappytan...

"Perpetually offended" would be a terrific username.

Yeah, because calling someone out for their bigotry is wrong. In fact, let's flip it over to the person who actually called em out on it - the ~~apostate~~ non-conformist, who doesn't buy the explainerating, bullsh!tting, or 'oops, I was talking numbers, not qualifications'.

Here's a fun illustration: Can you imagine if the TV show "Roots" had been made into a campy farce /comedic romp about how the black folk just stumble-bummed around and enslaved themselves, instead of how slavery actually occurred historically?

Would you be upset with a black person calling out the campy production for what it really was: a fucking bigoted farce, made to white-wash history?

Now imagine someone making a statement/claim that there are a large number of unqualified people on a list, after making note out loud that 35% of the number are black people. They are the only subset on that list enumerated by the claimant before making the statement.

Is that okay? To insinuate that someone is disqualified for a particular field of work, based solely on the claimants bigotry / preconceived notions? No facts, evidence, or anything else to back up why that subset of the work group is unqualified.

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Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

by wifibandit in

the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

also pulled: .

wallkill photo gallery 2.

Gentledawn

So what? You didn't do the same with mine or OrphanCrows comment. Why don't you practice what you preach, "bro"?

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Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

by wifibandit in

the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

also pulled: .

wallkill photo gallery 2.

Gentledawn

It's not about men's rights or misandry or redpills or even political correctness. Or so-called "dank memes".

Yeah, most of us reddit, too. How 'bout that?

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Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

by wifibandit in

the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

also pulled: .

wallkill photo gallery 2.

Gentledawn

Listener : There is no insult it's highly unlikely that a great number of them would be qualified unless the org went on a special recruitment drive specifically for females.

Didn't the bOrg have ~~work~~ volunteer applications, in order to sift out the unskilled and unqualified?

Do you have any evidence to suggest that females are 'almost always' ("Thats got to mean a lot of unqualified workers", followed by "great number of them [the women]") unqualified for construction, engineering and building work?

Listener: Under one of the photo's is a comment that states females make up 35% of the workers. Thats got to mean a lot of unqualified workers.

Sooo misogynistic. Doesn't matter if you're a woman or not. Making sweeping derogatory generalizations about a specific subset of the population usually flags the speaker as a bigot of one sort or another.

OrphanCrow:Yeah..but you didn't say numbers, you said qualified. Big difference.

Yup.

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Invisibility - Not Just For Jesus, finds the Royal Commission.

by alfred newman in

so shocking!

the u.k. seems a bit on fire over the scandal there too.

people are upset about what the children have had done to them.

Gentledawn

"Alfred E. Neuman" is the name of the smiling geeky guy on the covers of "MAD" magazine.

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What are the current rules about vaping from the GB?

by purrpurr in

jw
friends

i mean e cigs and vaping.

not even tobacco inhaling but inhaling other stuff like herbs etc.

is this allowed?

Gentledawn

The fact that adults have to ask what they're "allowed" to do is pretty insulting, imo.

They don't say anything about GMOs? Pesticides? Cloned animals sold in the meat market?

.. Nothing? Not a word? Not even a "use your bible-stained conscience"?

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The Confederate Flag

by Simon in

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.

Gentledawn

"Battle Cry: 150th Anniversary Edition" has now been pulled from Amazon because the Confederate flag is used in a Civil War game!

Discussion at BoardGame Geek:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1391328/amazon-bans-battle-cry

GroupThink is going on strong in this country at the moment.

Oh, by the by - I never mentioned tea. That's a strawman argument. But, if you can point out to me the US colonial representatives in British parliament back then (you know, so the colonists would have a say-so in the laws being passed on their behalf), that'd be great.

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The Confederate Flag

by Simon in

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.

Gentledawn

It's a part of USA history.

Denying history and dictating what people can and cannot do (including something as innocuous as owning and/or displaying the Confederate flag) is what the Watchtower does.

If it's doing no harm, then it's doing no harm.

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Where are the Young Elders?

by James Jack in

i was appointed as an elder when i turned 30, 25 years ago.

which was the norm back then.. now, i very rarely here of a young man becoming an elder.

in our town we have 2 english congregations.

Gentledawn

As a women one of the things that trully revolted me was seeing young males appointed elders and pontificating over sisters in there 50's plus who were, in terms of humility experience knowledge and compassion vastly their spiritual superior.

The mental gymnastics to maintain "male superiority" is astounding when peering closer at their made-up rules: