Pete Zahut

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  Another suspect JW experience

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the latest jwdotorg experience tells of using video conferencing to hold congregation meetings inside jail for prisoners.

  it says that the prison director himself and his wife have also started attending the zoom meetings and quotes him as saying.

  “these meetings are of great importance for the spiritual and emotional well-being of the prisoners during this period of social isolation.

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  Also, it’s remarkable how the meetings contribute to creating a peaceful environment among them.

  They’re all asleep!
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  Hillary is telling all Americans to NOT CONCEDE IF TRUMP WINS----FIGHT! What will you do if you are put in a corner.

  by pistolpete in

  1. social
  2. current

  hillary clinton is telling all democratic supporters to be ready to fight if trump wins.

  other democratic leaders are telling the masses to destroy everything in their cities and cripple the economy if trump is elected president.

  other democratic leaders are appealing to the military who support the democratic agenda to step in and stop any arm citizens on the side of trump if he is elected, and remove the president by force if he wins the election.. hillary clinton is making it clear to the democratic supporters, that joe biden will become president -after president trump becomes elected.. looks like a dictator coup d'état,to overthrow the usa government by non-democratic means is now in the making.

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  Everyone knows full well that no Republican voters will follow her directions to NOT CONCEDE, if Trump wins. Only her "AMERICAN DEMOCRAT SUPPORTERS" will follow everything she says.

  Again, she is SPECULATING that the Trump camp will do something(s) unethical and is advising JOE BIDEN not to succeed IF that were to happen. Lots of people vote non partisan so she’s talking to anyone who supports Biden not only Democrats however she is only advising HIM not to succeed. She is not calling for a unilateral revolt and it is doubtful that anyone will be pushed into a corner as your original post title stated.

  To me, your original post seemed as if it might be intentionally trying to use the most feeble evidence to stir things up. It's good that your posts on this and other sites will be more inclusive as you say and will hopefully seem less influenced by your own bias.
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  Hillary is telling all Americans to NOT CONCEDE IF TRUMP WINS----FIGHT! What will you do if you are put in a corner.

  by pistolpete in

  1. social
  2. current

  hillary clinton is telling all democratic supporters to be ready to fight if trump wins.

  other democratic leaders are telling the masses to destroy everything in their cities and cripple the economy if trump is elected president.

  other democratic leaders are appealing to the military who support the democratic agenda to step in and stop any arm citizens on the side of trump if he is elected, and remove the president by force if he wins the election.. hillary clinton is making it clear to the democratic supporters, that joe biden will become president -after president trump becomes elected.. looks like a dictator coup d'état,to overthrow the usa government by non-democratic means is now in the making.

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  Pete Zahut

  Hillary is telling all Americans to NOT CONCEDE IF TRUMP WINS----FIGHT! What will you do if you are put in a corner.

  The title of your post is "Hilary is telling "All AMERICANS" Not to Concede If Trump wins. What Will You Do If You're Put In A Corner? ". You have distorted her words.

  She is speaking to Biden supporters and is SPECULATING that there COULD be corruption from the Trump camp. At the 2:00 mark is telling only JOE BIDEN, not to concede (not "Americans" in general as you say ) and that's only "IF " Trump actually does use intimidation etc outside the polling places as she speculates he will. He likely won't.

  Again....you have to LISTEN to the entire context of what is being said and you have to do it without confirmation bias so that you only hear what you want to hear and then jump to the wrong conclusions.

  Again....she did not tell ALL AMERICANS not to concede if Trump wins. And what "Corner" are you talking about?? Sounds like you are trying to create hysteria.

  You have demonstrated why people have to be really careful about what they hear and what they say.
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  Do You Think We Will Ever Get To “Normal” Again?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  will we ever be able to congregate together for a concert or a theater?

  will we forever be wearing a mask at walmart?

  will restaurants and bars allow people to eat drink and simply hang out?.

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  I fear that all the x-tra hand washing and sanitizing may be making our immune systems weak or lazy and more susceptible to the regular germs and bacteria that we were once able to fight off because we were exposed to them on a day to day basis.

  I remember a few years ago I was going on winter vacation to a sunny tropical place and I wanted to make sure I didn't catch a cold or the flu before we left and ruin the vacation. A few weeks before we left I was super diligent about washing my hands and using hand sanitizers and not touching my face. I even went so far as to wipe down the armrests and tray table on the plane with a antibacterial wipe.

  Two days after we arrived, I got some sort of flu and it just about knocked me out. I have never been so sick before or since. My wife, who is in the medical field, says it was because I had weakened my immune system by killing every germ and bacteria instead of having built up a resistance to them.

  Who knows ?
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  The Most High

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. social
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  saw this on a friend's facebook page.

  of course all the jws were quick to say that it must have been the apostate israelites.

  bbc news - 'cannabis burned during worship' by ancient israeli test.

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  Makes sense since religion has been likened to the "opium of the people" and Marijuana is considered a "gateway drug".
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  Hillary is telling all Americans to NOT CONCEDE IF TRUMP WINS----FIGHT! What will you do if you are put in a corner.

  by pistolpete in

  1. social
  2. current

  hillary clinton is telling all democratic supporters to be ready to fight if trump wins.

  other democratic leaders are telling the masses to destroy everything in their cities and cripple the economy if trump is elected president.

  other democratic leaders are appealing to the military who support the democratic agenda to step in and stop any arm citizens on the side of trump if he is elected, and remove the president by force if he wins the election.. hillary clinton is making it clear to the democratic supporters, that joe biden will become president -after president trump becomes elected.. looks like a dictator coup d'état,to overthrow the usa government by non-democratic means is now in the making.

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  I would like to know the exact context around Hilary's statement before I drew any conclusions. Surely people must realize that video's can be edited . What she may have said two seconds before or after her comment about Trump, could change the whole meaning of what she said in this clip, if it were to be edited out.

  
  

  I always have to examine the possible motives behind the use of clips like these.
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  Why Do Intelligent People Still Believe In The Jehovah’s Witness Religion?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i understand it’s a cult.

  but what makes an intelligent person actually believe they have the “truth” as taught by jehovah’s witnesses??

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  Why Do Intelligent People Still Believe In The Jehovah's Witness Religion?

  It's likely we all think of ourselves as reasonably intelligent so all we have to do is look back at our own JW experience and think about all the various reasons we stayed in. Same old reasons....different people.
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  How Often is 1914 Openly Spoken of at the Meetings?

  by Number 6 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as someone who left in 1991 aged 21, one of my overriding memories of growing up in the watchtower was being able to "prove" the end times by referencing 1914.. major change in 95 then again after that.

  if i'm being honest i could not even tell you now what the current teaching is.. for those who still attend the meetings, is it still openly spoken about?

  i genuinely curious as i wonder if the teaching will be altogher dropped eventually, and one of the easiest ways to achieve that is to stop speaking about it.

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  It's to the point where younger JW's can't understand why the inaccuracy of that date would even bother us former long time JW's.
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  Poll/ So Who Do You Think Will Win The Presidency?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have always felt trump will win again.

  i just don’t see biden winning.. what’s your prediction?.

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  It seems to me there are a lot of (moderate) people who don't necessarily like Trumps image but are put off by the obvious bias in the media toward him and are leaning in favor him more and more. They're becoming more willing to consider him as a possibility.

  Those who are against Trump feel quite free to be LOUD about it. From what I can tell, there are a lot of folks who are leaning his way but are hesitant to say so, out loud.

  Either way, as we've seen heavily all throughout Trumps Presidency, there are checks and balances in place that would prevent whomever wins, from doing anything too "out there". To me, that's why things stay relatively the same, no matter who is president.

  I'm not too worried about the outcome of the election but what do I know ??
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  Do You Think We Will Ever Get To “Normal” Again?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  will we ever be able to congregate together for a concert or a theater?

  will we forever be wearing a mask at walmart?

  will restaurants and bars allow people to eat drink and simply hang out?.

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  Pete Zahut

  Surely there are more virus out there that have always been poised and ready to cross over into the human population but didn't because they died out before they got too far.

  Let's hope not but I fear that because the world has become so small, what we're seeing now will become a regular thing unless serious sanitation precautions worldwide are enforced. In the meantime, I'm guessing that along with the usual security checks before boarding a plane, there'll be some sort of health screening process and at the very least, you'll be required to be wearing a face mask and have your temperature taken or proof that you've been tested for whatever the virus of the month is. Who knows, mandatory quarantining of travelers before they are free to roam, may become the norm.

  The left over old JW mindset makes me wonder about the Bible prophesy regarding pestilence and disease in the last days