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  What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

  by pseudoxristos in

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  my first thought when seeing this headline was; "how could trump be right?

  " even though i am registered as a republican, i don't really care for trump.

  after reading the article, i still don't care for trump, but i had never considered many of the points brought out by the article.. january 17, 2018. what i learned in the peace corps in africa: trump is right.

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  I know that sticks in the throat of some to admit that Trump can actually do positive things but so far he is killing it in a way that Obama never came close.

  Bottom line Trump is a fighter, not a politician, and the fact that he can be offensive is the worst sin imaginable now in this era of "speech is violence". In the now internet famous exchange between Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman, he finally said what so many of us think,

  “In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive,”

  This new culture we have of speech is violence, victimhood is everywhere, equity of outcome is paramount, and identity politics is going to put us on the fast track to a dystopian shitshow that has been laid out time and again in literature and history as a massive failure.

  
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  What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

  by pseudoxristos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my first thought when seeing this headline was; "how could trump be right?

  " even though i am registered as a republican, i don't really care for trump.

  after reading the article, i still don't care for trump, but i had never considered many of the points brought out by the article.. january 17, 2018. what i learned in the peace corps in africa: trump is right.

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  Question: Why would the Romans torture & kill 10's if not 100's of thousands of people who chose to belong to an ideology that they themselves "engineered"?

  *sigh*

  ok... you are talking about what I would essentially consider a myth.

  Just like most all of the "Jesus" story and everything associated with it, it was written later on to give substance to "fake news".

  For instance, Tacitus a Roman Historian who wrote about the persecutions of the early “Christians”...these writings supporting the persecution were mysteriously found in the 15th century in the forests of Germany, following a reward offered by Leo X for old writings, and following a history of forgeries in Catholicism.

  There are actually a lot of other references we could talk about for days on here to the myth of Christian persecution as you describe it. You are also assuming early Christian cults pre-Constantine are what we consider "Christian" today, what a very JW thing to think lol.

  Whatever Christians were before Constantine, there was likely no great state-sponsored persecution as you claim, and the form that Christianity took post-Constantine (today as we know it), was an exercise in propaganda for political reasons.

  can you imagine, someone lying for political reasons and making up stories???
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  What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

  by pseudoxristos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my first thought when seeing this headline was; "how could trump be right?

  " even though i am registered as a republican, i don't really care for trump.

  after reading the article, i still don't care for trump, but i had never considered many of the points brought out by the article.. january 17, 2018. what i learned in the peace corps in africa: trump is right.

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  Negative on that, did not serve
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  What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

  by pseudoxristos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my first thought when seeing this headline was; "how could trump be right?

  " even though i am registered as a republican, i don't really care for trump.

  after reading the article, i still don't care for trump, but i had never considered many of the points brought out by the article.. january 17, 2018. what i learned in the peace corps in africa: trump is right.

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  What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right

  by pseudoxristos in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my first thought when seeing this headline was; "how could trump be right?

  " even though i am registered as a republican, i don't really care for trump.

  after reading the article, i still don't care for trump, but i had never considered many of the points brought out by the article.. january 17, 2018. what i learned in the peace corps in africa: trump is right.

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  Christian fundamentalism = Islamic fundamentalism.

  This may be one of the stupidest things I've heard on here... amazing.

  Christianity was likely an engineered ideology of the Romans to create a religion that held elements of the past Jewish religion mixed with pagan religions and promoted pacifism for a reason.

  Turn the other cheek

  Love your neighbor

  Pay your taxes!

  The fundies on Christianity are on the fringe, the fundies in Islam are the whole center. It's so simple. You can't excuse Christianity from its own flaws, but you can't compare it to a religion that venerates a pedophile warlord.

  please.....
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  The FISA Memo, To Release Or Not To Release

  by freemindfade in

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  was the doj, nsa, and fbi weaponized?

  the biggest scandal of this era, or a false alarm by the gop?

  i am skeptical what will come of it, however, some very strong reactions and words are coming from its existence and those who read it, also the fight to keep it secret is telling (reminds me of any cult trying to prevent people from reading damaging information).

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  Will anything come of this? What do you think is in it?

  Was the DOJ, NSA, and FBI weaponized?

  The biggest scandal of this era, or a false alarm by the GOP?

  I am skeptical what will come of it, however, some very strong reactions and words are coming from its existence and those who read it, also the fight to keep it secret is telling (reminds me of any cult trying to prevent people from reading damaging information).
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  Sweden May Call in Army to Deal With Immigrant Violence

  by cofty in

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  in 2016 there were over 300 shootings in sweden, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.. “people are shot to death in pizza restaurants, people are killed by hand grenades they find on the street,” sweden democrat leader jimmie akesson said in parliament on wednesday.

  “this is the new sweden; the new, exciting dynamic, multicultural paradise that so many here in this assembly ... have fought to create for so many years.” reuters....

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  Uncontrolled immigration based on idiotic feel-good ideology instead of common sense

  Simon, how dare you. Common sense is no-longer politically correct. Along a growing list of other things

  Free speech

  Evolutionary biology

  Difference of opinion

  Being a white male

  Facts

  Capitalism

  And on and on....
  
  
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  Sweden May Call in Army to Deal With Immigrant Violence

  by cofty in

  1. social
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  in 2016 there were over 300 shootings in sweden, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.. “people are shot to death in pizza restaurants, people are killed by hand grenades they find on the street,” sweden democrat leader jimmie akesson said in parliament on wednesday.

  “this is the new sweden; the new, exciting dynamic, multicultural paradise that so many here in this assembly ... have fought to create for so many years.” reuters....

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  Toasted daughter: Why Jephthah almost certainly sacrificed his daughter to a complicit Jehovah

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
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  jehovah's witnesses insist that jephthah did not sacrifice his daughter to jehovah.

  this is important to them because, rarther than jephthah just being a random bad person, jehovah was very much in on the deal.

  after all, he made the promise to jehovah that he would "offer up as a burnt offering" on his return the first thing to come out of his house if jehovah would give the ammonites into his hands in battle, and since they were this makes jehovah complicit.. the isrealites had been getting a good thrashing of late, and the gilead elders (oh boy) had come out to ask jephthah, the rejected son of a prostitute (wouldn't you know it) and renown soldier, if he would lead the isrealites into battle for them.. this is when jephthah makes the deal with jehobo, and it all centres on the word for "burnt offering", which is given as "olah".

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  Yep. This was one I always felt they twisted. Part of my early waking up to the bible being an atrocious piece of garbage.
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  Why "Most high"?

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if there were only one god, why do we encounter the expression, "most high god"?.

  is this not indicative of polytheism, and of levels (or degrees) of god-ness?.

  doug .

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