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  Dutch Elections

  by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

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  voters are going to the polls in the netherlands in the first of three crucial eurozone elections this year.

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  the voter turnout might set a new record.. what do you hope will be the result?.

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  slimboyfat

  Maybe the high tide mark for worldwide political insanity has already been reached.

  The United States said: we'll see your Brexit and raise you a Trump.

  And the rest of the world says: no thanks, we will fold.
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  Were You Ever A True Believer?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i was raised in the religion and for the most part believed that my religion was truth.

  i recognized some mistakes were occasionally made but felt that nobody is perfect.

  then i smartened up and realized how dumb so many of the beliefs are....was there ever a time that you truly believed you had the "truth"?.

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  slimboyfat

  Yes I would say so, until about 1999, and then gradually less so.
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  ARC - Case Study 54 - All Exhibits have been released

  by jwleaks in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  all exhibits for case study 54, jehovah's witnesses and watchtower, have been released by the arc.. http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/exhibits/10908a67-70c5-4103-94cc-dac096fdb585/case-study-54,-march-2017,-sydney.

  exhibit list.

  joint statement of o'brien and spinks.

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  slimboyfat

  Wasn't there an awful elders letter a few years ago that lumped this kind of porn together with gay porn as being the same gravity of sin? Totally ignoring that one is concesual and legal and the other is non consensual and illegal.
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  Dutch Elections

  by Yesu Kristo Bwana Wangu in

  1. social
  2. current

  voters are going to the polls in the netherlands in the first of three crucial eurozone elections this year.

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  the voter turnout might set a new record.. what do you hope will be the result?.

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  slimboyfat

  Any exit polls or early results?
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  Why is Trump so effective???

  by Coded Logic in

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  i think trump is an absolute idiot.

  his tactics, however, are undeniably effective.

  thought i'd just put together a short list of some of the things he does.

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  slimboyfat

  Apparently Trump's spokesman is now saying Trump didn't "literally" mean to say that Obama personally wire tapped him. This despite Trump's tweet calling Obama a "bad (or sick) guy" for wire tapping him.

  You are right that Trump's tactics have worked really well for him, including outright lies. But his success with lies has bred an awful sense of complacency that he can get away with anything. I think he will become unstuck by his lies at some point. Fatigue is bound to set in as the public simply don't believe a word the president says, even his supporters. And he's no doubt broken many rules, which will come back to haunt him at some point,

  All this assuming he doesn't start some terrible civilisation ending confrontation first of course.
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  This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.

  various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.

  i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.

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  slimboyfat

  As I said in my OP "If the god of christian theism did exist a lot of simple things would just make more sense."

  An ambiguous statement that I think could easily be taken the wrong way. (And apparently was by David Jay)

  The easiest way to read the statement in isolation would be: the world would make more sense if we interpret it in the light of God's existence along the lines of Christian theism.

  But in context it is clear you must mean something like: if the Christian God really eixisted then the world would be different in a number of ways so that many simple things would fit better with that version of reality.
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  What are some things JWs re-name to make themselves different than Christians?

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jws re-name things so they seem like they are different than other religions.

  (of course we know they are different but that's another story).

  i was just thinking about those things where they are like most everyone else in christendom but the re-name it to seem different.. for example god forbid they have a church, it's a "kingdom hall".. they don't have pastors and deacons they have "elders" and "ministerial servants".. they don't have tithing but they will have family heads fill out a paper saying how much they can contribute on a monthly basis (not sure if there is a name for that...unless it's tithing.

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  slimboyfat

  Hymn - kingdom song

  church - Kingdom Hall

  New Testament - Christian Greek Scriptures

  grace - undeserved kindness

  God - Jehovah

  service - meeting

  sermon - talk

  member/communicant - publisher
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  The follow me/follow you TWITTER thread.

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would love to stalk you guys on twitter and be stalked in return.

  if you're up for some mutual twittering post your handle here.. i'm @undubbed.

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  slimboyfat

  Only thing I go on twitter for is support independence, so used it for the first time in months today. Would probably bore you.
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  What food are you grateful for?

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'll start: stilton cheese.. (it was a toss up between that and sweet pickled beetroot).. thank you folks..

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  slimboyfat

  Pork belly, chicken katsu, French onion soup, chicken noodle soup, warm goat's cheese salad, mozzarella and tomatoes, chocolate, pumpkin pie, kaiserschmarrn, chicken schnitzel, Persian chicken kebab, strawberries, blue cheeses, mussels, whitebait, seabass, potatoes all ways, humus, pancakes with maple syrup.
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  Was/Is Religion Useful Even if it isn't True?

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in his book "the righteous mind" jonathan haidt proposes that religion served - and continues to serve an important role in bringing about cohesion within non-kin groups.. to put it very briefly haidt advocates a form of group selection but only insofar as it applies to humans.

  our unique brains have made it possible for us to cooperate in groups in ways that are impossible for all non-human species.

  despite their intelligence you will never see two chimps helping each other to carry the same log or one chimp pulling down a branch while the other removes the fruit.. his description is that humans are 90% chimp and 10% bee.

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  slimboyfat

  Darwin himself mused that the implication of natural selection is that the human mind is not equipped to perceive reality:

  "with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy" (letter to William Graham 3rd of July 1881, Darwin Correspondance Project [online]) [quoted in Gary Gutting, Talking God (2017)]