You have a man who boasted on tape he assaulted women.
You have many women who say he assaulted them just as he said he did.
Why isn't this man in jail?
The fact he isn't in jail is in itself more than enough reason to protest.
slimboyfat
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So, the Womens March ... What Is It For?
by Simon init seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.
i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?
... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
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Russia to liquidate Jehovah's Witnesses' organization
by processor inhttp://starconnectmedia.com/2017/01/19/russia-gets-go-ahead-to-liquidate-jehovahs-witnesses-organisation/.
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slimboyfat
Man is this fake news. What on earth is going on completely Trumpified.
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Dose Wt really have that much cash.
by joe134cd ini realize that wt has got a wind fall of cash through various means.
so my question is in the greater scheme of things is it really that much.
for example let's say with all their real estate and cash on hand they are worth about $20 billion dollars.
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slimboyfat
I remember sitting in a field service group on a Saturday morning at 10 a.m. in 1997 when the new yearbook just came out. I think it was the first time the yearbook was published in paperback instead of hardcover. In those days they had the practice of "considering part of the yearbook" as part of the preparation for field service. I don't know if they still do that. Anyway we got to talking about why the yearbook was now paperback. One brother chipped in and said he heard the society was short of money and needed to cut back production costs. In fact he heard this from Jack Barr no less while on a trip to Brooklyn just a few months before. I was in awe at the amazing contacts this brother had in God's organisation and was sure this was a sign the end must be near. Because everything was a sign the end must be near, even if there was no logic to it.
Anyway I think the organisation has been struggling for money for a long time. Ever since they stopped charging for literature in fact. The paperback books were an early sign, but the cutbacks have escalated since then at an increasing rate. Their main source of revenue pretty much dried up. Their financial investments may have taken an added hit in the 2008 crash. On top of that you've got aging bethelites to care for, abuse settlements, building the new headquarters, development of online presence. Billions of pounds from property sales might sound a lot, but it might just be plugging a hole. In the worst case scenario, who knows they may have borrowed against the property already before they even sold it.
All I know is Lett looked pretty convincing when he said they were running out of money, and Herd looked scared when he announced necessary cutbacks. There are many good circumstantial reasons to think they are short of revenue and have increasing costs. Plus they themselves say and act as if they are short of money. I think they may be in real trouble.
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Dose Wt really have that much cash.
by joe134cd ini realize that wt has got a wind fall of cash through various means.
so my question is in the greater scheme of things is it really that much.
for example let's say with all their real estate and cash on hand they are worth about $20 billion dollars.
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slimboyfat
I think they are short of money. Stephen Lett said they are short of money. I believe him.
Was it also him who said the revenue from the sale of a building only covers a couple of months operating cost?
Plus the $200 million in the yearbook only covers travelling overseers, missionaries and special pioneers. Apparently is doesn't include the cost of bethelites. Unless they are considered under one of those categories?
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Russia to liquidate Jehovah's Witnesses' organization
by processor inhttp://starconnectmedia.com/2017/01/19/russia-gets-go-ahead-to-liquidate-jehovahs-witnesses-organisation/.
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slimboyfat
Bad news for everyone. Can't Trump have a word with his friend Putin?
If JWs start decreasing in numbers they'll probably blame it on the Russia ban.
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Thoughts on African Americans and Slavery
by Simon inlet's start by saying that slavery is of course a terrible thing, one of the worst crimes imaginable, and that "slavery" rarely implies good treatment, anything noble or defensible.
nowadays, even god doesn't escape judgement from our enlightened views with passages about slavery in the bible usually glossed over because they are shameful.. but not all slavery was equal.. because of the media, movie industry, racial tensions in the us regularly shown on the news and our taught history, i think most people's knowledge and idea of slavery is that of the north atlantic slave trade where white people took africans to work in cotton fields.
this idea is probably also re-enforced because the largest group of descendents of slaves we see today are african americans (usually in the us or places they subsequently migrated to).. but it's incomplete.. it's only when you look into it more that you discover that there was much more to the slave trade than that, otherwise it would have been just called "the slave trade" and not "the north atlantic slave trade".. some 12.5 million slaves were taken from africa to the us with just under 11 million surviving the trip so it obviously took a terrible toll immediately, even before any maltreatment once they landed in the americas where conditions and treatment were truly awful.
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slimboyfat
Simon you don't think black people are more likely to be stopped and searched or more likely to be shot? One fact that's hard to dispute is more black people are in prison. How do you account for that?
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A quote from Wikipedia to send shivers down your spine.
Journalist Ron Rosenbaum has pointed out that the operational plan for nuclear strike orders is entirely concerned with the identity of the commanding officer and the authenticity of the order, and there are no safeguards to verify that the person issuing the order is actually sane.[10] Notably, Major Harold Hering was discharged from the Air Force for asking the question "How can I know that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?"[11]
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slimboyfat
Trump has the football and the biscuit. Layers of security above? We wish.
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Why the resurrection must be true
by slimboyfat inokay i was thinking about it.
and it is a transhumanist argument and nothing new, i do realise that before anyone points it out.
but it struck me afresh today that the resurrection must happen.. firstly, to state the obvious, a rational materialist conception of reality seems to exclude resurrection.
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slimboyfat
Things like laminar flow make me reach for Google.
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slimboyfat
She's from Kilmarnock. The competition she won was in New Zealand.
Apparently I missed the end, which is the best bit. A reference to Scottish politics.
So USA, in ma conclusion,
Know we Scots feel your confusion:
We are also chained ti those
Not of oor choosin’.
Stand firm fur unity will break
Through Trump’s delusion.I am loath to link such a unionist rag but here it is for the rest of the poem and recited.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/burns-inspired-comic-lament-walloper-9637480