MeanMrMustard

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  Critical Race Theory…do you think kids should be forced to be taught this in schools?

  by minimus in

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  i do not support crt.

  but having said that i find it disturbing that schools are teaching children whatever they want to teach.

  if parents object or even teachers refuse to teach something, anything that violates their conscience or morals, i don’t think government or schools have the right to push these people to accept it.

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  It's real, actual racism.

  To answer the OP's question, just replace "CRT" with "real, actual racism".
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  Vaccine Deaths

  by Sea Breeze in

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  it is reported that in the usa, 30 people are dying per day after receiving the corona vaccine.

  anyone else hear about this?

  - article.

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  Causation is tough.

  But I do thing there is something to be said about consistency here. The deaths due to COVID itself used the same logic. Can't have your cake and eat it too..
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  Vaccine Deaths

  by Sea Breeze in

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  it is reported that in the usa, 30 people are dying per day after receiving the corona vaccine.

  anyone else hear about this?

  - article.

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  Exploding microchips

  Nano... everything is nano these days. The people dying are the ones the nano bots can't sucessfully genetically manipulate into the next stage in human evolution.
  
  
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  Has anyone still in or otherwise heard anything about JWs think we only have 12 months before Armageddon?

  by blablabluh in

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  i’ve noticed a change in family attitude recently, like there is just something extra on their mind.

  i even had to call my brother to check if he was dying and too scared to tell me.

  anyway, i saw a video last night my saying jws think we only have 12 months left before armageddon so thought maybe this is the reason for changes attitude.

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  Just thought I'd leave this here …

  Good lord. He talks as if his audience is mentally retarded.
  

  ....or.... as if he is mentally retarded. One of the two... or both.
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  British BLM activist has been shot in the head - media bias?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  sadly, british blm activist sasha johnson is critically ill in hospital after being shot in the head.. first, i'd like to wish her a recovery if this is possible.. but i also think this could be a good test case of how the british media report this event.. i think it could be good to explore media bias.. so, we have the right-wing daily mail saying that, according to her friend, sasha johnson was shot in the head due to being in the cross-fire of a gang shooting, and that she wasn't the intended target, neither was she targeted because of her politics.. at the other end of the spectrum, the left-wing guardian is saying that she was shot after receiving death threats, according to her political party that she founded.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9612115/drive-gunmen-shot-black-panther-oxford-sasha-johnson-head-fired-house-party.html.

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/blm-activist-sasha-johnson-in-critical-condition-after-gunshot-to-the-head.

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  This is fake news. Guns are banned in the UK, therefore there was no gun. Fake.
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  Interesting Find with Chronology

  by Kelley959 in

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  i hope this is in the right area.

  i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

  for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

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  Does this comment indicate your skill in linguistics and in Hebrew and Greek?

  No. Not sure what Greek has to do with Jerimiah, buuuttt... I figure it's a safe bet to lean on the hundreds, if not thousands, of qualified academics that have translated these verses into English.

  I suppose you could make the claim that pretty much all of them, professional linguists that they are, couldnt help but botch Jerimiah 25 so terribly again and again. So strange that these hundreds, if not thousands, of experts all understood that the 70 years was desolation and exile, but for some reason kept rendering the verses in English in ways that grammatically separate the desolation of Judah and servitude of "these nations".

  Is that what we have? A world of terrible translators? Including the NWT committee too? Because they render it the same way...

  
  
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  Jewish Hatred Is Nothing New

  by minimus in

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  jews have been vilified for centuries!

  they were nomads looking for the promised land.

  they have been nearly exterminated and yet they are still in the middle east as well as a brotherhood throughout the world.

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  This makes them an easy target by those that aren’t successful, you can just point and say: look, they are rich while you are poor, they must be taking from you.

  Sounds familiar.
  
  
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  Interesting Find with Chronology

  by Kelley959 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope this is in the right area.

  i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

  for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

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  MeanMrMustard

  In the end, if you read the relevant scriptures grammatically, then the plain meaning that comes from that grammatical reading, as opposed to reading into the scriptures an ideology, is easy to see, and there are no contradictions with the historical evidence.
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  Interesting Find with Chronology

  by Kelley959 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope this is in the right area.

  i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

  for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Unfortunately, 'scholar' is a lost cause, but other readers of the forum can see through his nonsense.

  Yyyeeeaaap. He's been going around in these illogical circles for two decades. At least on this forum..
  
  
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  Interesting Find with Chronology

  by Kelley959 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i hope this is in the right area.

  i've been studying the 2520 days/years 607/587/586 debacle.

  for a while now i have felt 1914 was wrong.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Impossible for the land was not in a desolate state at that time but only after the Fall in 607 BCE.

  It's seventy years of servitude, not desolation. The land doesn't need to be desolate to be a vassal (to serve). Not only is it possible, but common place.
  
  

  Well the land was not made desolate was it in 539 BCE was it? So your interpretation does not agree with the prophecy in vs.12.

  It doesn't have to be. Verse 12 states the land would become desolate. It does not state it would become desolate corresponding with the end of the seventy years. That's all added in your head.
  
  

  Vs 10-11 are about desolation and servitude in connection with the fall in 607 BCE.

  Yes, and if read grammatically, the verse states that Judah would become desolate. The thought ends (compound sentence). Then the statement "these nations" would serve the king of Babylon seventy years. The seventy years attaches to the servitude, not the desolation.
  
  

  ...and the following verse which now turns its focus on Babylon after the 70 years had ended in 537 BCE would now experience judgement.

  Same grammatical problem. Reading the verse grammatically, 70 years ends, Babylon called to account (overthrown), and it will become desolate (a statement that could be true anytime in the future). It is simply not required by the verse that the "calling to account" equals desolation. In fact, the grammar indicates otherwise.