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  One Thing I Don't Get About Brexit

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how did such a weighty decision get put directly in the hands on the average citizen?

  and with only a simple majority required?

  in the usa the biggest thing that people vote on directly is city building projects or infrastructure.

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  Gargamel: Many people's "research" consists of skimming through a highly-opinionated tabloid newspaper whose owner has a history of jumping into bed with right-wing governments.

  Indeed. I did this google search for front pages of the daily mail:

  https://www.google.com/search?q=daily+mail+front+pages+EU&safe=off&biw=1365&bih=681&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiphsyJwcrNAhWCFiwKHRvtDxUQ_AUIBygC

  Pure FUD. Very few people have any idea about what the EU does as evidences on this thread. Boris Johnson still appears to be selling the idea that the UK can get a much better (in his view) agreement with the EU than Norway, meanwhile I have not seen a single person outside the leave-campaign who even suggests such a thing.
  
  
  
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  One Thing I Don't Get About Brexit

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how did such a weighty decision get put directly in the hands on the average citizen?

  and with only a simple majority required?

  in the usa the biggest thing that people vote on directly is city building projects or infrastructure.

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  Qcmbr: I agree. The UK should sign article 50 ASAP and get the hell out before they do more damage. That Cameron/Boris Johnson is dragging his feet is a sign the leave campaign have no clue what should follow.
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  One Thing I Don't Get About Brexit

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how did such a weighty decision get put directly in the hands on the average citizen?

  and with only a simple majority required?

  in the usa the biggest thing that people vote on directly is city building projects or infrastructure.

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  Bohm that is exactly what the commission does, it creates binding regulations and it determines all legislative proposals. But you are wrong it is not 'democratically' elected by the 'people'. Effectively the people's elected representatives do not get any determination on policy.

  The commission is not elected democratically, true, but it is appointed every 4 years by democratically elected heads of state and confirmed by the EP. You have to compare this state of affairs to other non-elected (but appointed) positions in every single western democracy.

  That "peoples elected representatives do not get any determination on policy" is FUD. The commission cannot make final decisions on EU law or policy. I would strongly advice you not to rely on the leave-campaigns talking points.
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  No Wonder That the WT Bean-Counters are Scared

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
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  https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=exjw.

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  https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=jw.org.

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  To be fair, exjw is properly mostly driven by the big subreddit that uses this specific term. jw.org is more interesting however...
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  Breaking news: Subcontracted logistics in US and Canada, more layoffs coming...

  by sp74bb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  more changes in us and canada operations.. new "arrangements" in jw.org to get more benefits and less costs.

  logistics in canada and the united states will be managed by a new arrangement.. confidential: a famous supermarket and logistics company will take care of sending literature, keep an eye not getting your wt supplies together with a butter cream pot.. read well: wal **** logistics .... more layoffs.... headquarters in canada of this famous company only at 37 km away from watchtower canada..

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  Logistics -- that would be sending magazines from the printing place to KHs? (not sure how the arrangement works right now). Do you have any idea/guess about the time frame for when this will be announced and implemented?

  I guess that under the great tribulation the secret supermarket will be the last thing to go under lol.
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  Here's a view on homosexuality for you...

  by konceptual99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...right from a pro-jw site in response to a post about the relative seriousness of homosexuality.

  all you can do is reason from the scriptures, which you appear to have done.

  homosexuality is as serious as bestiality, or adultery and fornication.

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  The idea that what others do in private requires or is any way interested in your "endorsement" is not only bizarre. It's actually what I would call perverted or abhorrent.

  I am thinking about including my endorsements into every-day conversations, they are a biographical fact I don't think people can do without:

  "Despite you and your wife both being quite fat, Sir, I must say you are both very fine people. I will allow for you to carry out sexual acts even though I cannot endorse them"

  
  
  
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  One Thing I Don't Get About Brexit

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how did such a weighty decision get put directly in the hands on the average citizen?

  and with only a simple majority required?

  in the usa the biggest thing that people vote on directly is city building projects or infrastructure.

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  Johnfree: i am sorry, but that is not what the commision does. I am on an ipad but i recommend you read about it on the net. Briefly, the commission draft legislation which is then voted on. The commission has to be selected and confirmed democratically every 4 years. Compare to role of other appointed officials in democratic systems
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  One Thing I Don't Get About Brexit

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how did such a weighty decision get put directly in the hands on the average citizen?

  and with only a simple majority required?

  in the usa the biggest thing that people vote on directly is city building projects or infrastructure.

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  Simon: i tried to look into the claims about EU waste and unelected members its really difficult to demonstrate its any worse than in the local governments, ymmw
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  One Thing I Don't Get About Brexit

  by JW_Rogue in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how did such a weighty decision get put directly in the hands on the average citizen?

  and with only a simple majority required?

  in the usa the biggest thing that people vote on directly is city building projects or infrastructure.

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  bohm

  I agree many felt that way tornapart, but were they?
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  Observations: If man is merely a machine and the universe is merely a mechanism .

  by Believer in

  1. jw
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  observations: if man is merely a machine and the universe is merely a mechanism .... if men were only machines, they would react more or less uniformly to a material universe.

  individuality, much less personality, would be nonexistent.. materialism reduces man to a soulless automaton and constitutes him merely an arithmetical symbol finding a helpless place in the mathematical formula of an unromantic and mechanistic universe.

  but whence comes all this vast universe of mathematics without a master mathematician?

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  Okay Believer, so the principle you are following is that if I don't know how something works that means your explanation is correct?

  If not, please explain what principle you are following because I am confused...