Posts by LoveUniHateExams

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Political leaning since leaving the Org.

by Olig in

as you are completely barred from talking or being involved in politics while in the org, since leaving has anyone started any political campaigning or activism?

also what way would you lean?

left?

LoveUniHateExams

I started out left-leaning and I'm right of centre now. I try to be an independent thinker.

The left and right should talk to each other but that doesn't look like happening anytime soon.

I gotta be honest, the left is ridiculous at the moment. Most of the de-platforming, shouting down opposing arguments, and hair-brained political ideas come from them at the moment.

When someone like Milo Yiannopoulos or Dave Ruben (both gay Jews) get called Nazis by their political opponents, well, Houston we have a problem.

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Famous Movie Quotes You Like

by The Bethelite in

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the last lines from the movie platoon.

"i think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us.

the war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.

LoveUniHateExams

Clarence Boddicker (played by Kurtwood Smith) was a great villain in Robocop (1987) and had some memorable lines.

Enjoy! (Warning: contains violence and very strong language.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZqKVcI9m8

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Who shoots 223 AR15s?

by rockemsockem in

i have a few and built two 80% lowers.

just got a larue two stage trigger.

i can get 2moa out of it at 100 yards with a nikon 223 scope.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMWZJlA0QA

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Do You Have A Negative Outlook Because You Were Once A JW?

by minimus in

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it could be argued that exjws have issues in life simply because they were jehovah’s witnesses at a point in their lives.

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do you think you or we are fairly normal considering we were jehovah’s witnesses or do you think we have a lot of baggage because we are a bit messed up ( even if we don’t even know it)?.

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Do You Have A Negative Outlook Because You Were Once A JW? - no.

I'm kinda over that now. I could let myself become bitter because a small part of me is like that but I don't let that happen.

I, along with everyone else, are winners. Nobody's life is perfect but we're doing ok. We won in the race for life.

I'm 40 years old, half way through my life. But I've still got another 30 or 40 years left to achieve goals, do something with my life, and just enjoy life in general.

Life is good (free of cults).

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Boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates

by pale.emperor in

now i think i may have seen everything.. "boy crowned prom queen by schoolmates".

i'm all for people being entitled to wear what they want and live as they please as long as they're not harming anyone but - a male prom queen?

maybe there wasn't much competition in his school?.

If a man who clearly looks like a man and is dressed like a man then walks into a ladies toilet, can he claim that he is "gender fluid" - I don't know but I'm sure there'd be a lot of gender fluids anyways.

This person is 15 years old, getting to be mature but still under the age of sexual consent.

If he legally cannot consent to sex, cigarettes or alcohol, then he's too young for this.

If he's 16 or 18 then, although young, at least he'd be over the minimum age. Bigots like me couldn't complain in that case.

I'd like the UK authorities to investigate his parents' role in this shitshow.

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Who shoots 223 AR15s?

by rockemsockem in

i have a few and built two 80% lowers.

just got a larue two stage trigger.

i can get 2moa out of it at 100 yards with a nikon 223 scope.

LoveUniHateExams

If someone is legally allowed to own a firearm and uses it to defend himself against an armed intruder or very deadly snake, then fine, I got no problem with that.

But these posts by this same guy seem to be boasting about how he's put a bullet in something's head.

It's not particularly nice. Many poisonous species of snake are actually quite shy - they'd rather flee than have a dangerous confrontation with humans.

If you own a gun and you have to defend yourself then you gotta do what you gotta do but I don't think it covers you with glory.

Just sayin'

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There's nothing to watch on TV anymore ???

by RubaDub in

do you find yourself, as i sometimes do, skimming through channels on the tv remote and not finding anything interesting to watch?.

growing up, we only had four channels on our tv (nbc, cbs, abc and pbs).

and yet there always seemed to be something of interest to see.. sadly, i often find myself watching shows where some guys are auctioning off storage lockers, killing alligators, picking junk from peoples' garages or barns, catching tuna, towing cars, driving trucks on the ice, catching crabs, running pawn shops ... etc etc etc.

LoveUniHateExams

Well, I live in Boltonville, in the United British Kingdom of England-land and over here, households must pay an annual TV licence just to watch TV.

I started as a university student in September 2012 living on campus and I chose not to pay my TV licence. It's 2019 and I still haven't bothered paying.

I don't miss TV except for the Discovery channel and the BBC when it broadcasts live sports.

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Should Reparations Be Given To Relatives of Slaves?

by minimus in

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friends

some people say that’s the least we should do while others say no way!

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what do you think about dispensing reparations?

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The thing that reduced the black population in Arab countries was the practice of castrating all Male slaves - yes, exactly.

The Arabs bought black boys from black slavers. Then, they castrated the boys. The eunuch slaves couldn't have children and were thus deemed safe to serve Arab households.

The Arabs didn't bother with things like Western medicine or anaesthetic, they just lopped off the black boys' genitalia - testicles, scrotum and penis - just like that. Many boys died because of this awful, inhumane procedure. The fatalities of the Arab slave trade dwarfs that of those slaves brought to the Americas.

But the Arabs had thought of this. Don't worry, they had it all worked out. They were rich and they simply bought many more black boys, and lopped off their genitalia.

Some survived.

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Should Reparations Be Given To Relatives of Slaves?

by minimus in

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friends

some people say that’s the least we should do while others say no way!

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what do you think about dispensing reparations?

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I submit the large black population of the US compared to the non existent black population of other slave destinations that received 10x as many - exactly, spot on Simon.

I was in two minds about bringing this up but I will now.

The Arabs bought black slaves, and it happened for a much longer time than the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade started before the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born and ended in 1962 (that was the year that Saudi Arabia and Yemen bowed to international pressure and finally stopped slavery).

And yet, the Caribbean, the US and Brazil have full-blooded black people, the descendants of slaves, ... but Saudi and other Arab countries don't have full-blooded black people as a proportion of their current population.

^^^ Why is this? ^^^

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Should Reparations Be Given To Relatives of Slaves?

by minimus in

jw
friends

some people say that’s the least we should do while others say no way!

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what do you think about dispensing reparations?

LoveUniHateExams

Native Americans were not slaves as a group when Europeans arrived, but had been in North America for thousands of years, and that status made them legal owners - based on your logic, Europeans (i.e. white people) own Europe. If any people of colour own their own house in a European country, well, sorry, you gotta give it to me because I'm European and you're not.

I belong to one group, Native Americans, I am 1/8 going back to my great-grandmother. Do I qualify for reparations if that ended up occurring? I don't know but I don't need the money. But, I would like a public apology in writing in the official history of the United States government official statements - hang on a sec, why should the US government apologise to you?

You're 1/8 Native American, so what ... you don't speak an Indian language, you don't live under the culture of your great-grandmother. Your religion is not the same as your great-grandmother's tribe.

I can see that there may be a solid case to be made for an apology by the US gov to full-blooded Indians (especially full-blooded Indians of the past, e.g. your great-grandmother) ... but to you?