MeanMrMustard

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  JWs unrecognisable compared to my grandfathers time

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  my grandfather who has been dead for 37 years would not recognise the borganisation today.

  he would turn in his grave if he knew the end didn’t come by 2023.. back in the 1970s he really believed in the 75 thing.

  he was so disappointed and almost blamed everyone else why the end didn’t come.

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  The WT won't go out with a bang. It will go out with a whimper, slowly declining and shrinking. Somewhere along the way there will be a "come to Jesus" moment (pun intended), and the entire 1914/607/adventist root will be discarded. At that point the WT will be a bland Christian sect, no different than your local Baptist church, with a somewhat (but not much) larger membership, scattered about. Heck, probably people will me members of JWs and the local church.

  It will remain small, only gaining members among the truly religious.

  Probably won't happen in my lifetime. Maybe my kids.
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  Poll says Gen Xer's would like to return to pre-internet

  by SydBarrett in

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  according to a new harris poll shared exclusively with fast company, most americans would prefer to live in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media, and this sentiment is especially strong among older millennials and gen xers.. asked whether they would like to return to a time before humanity was “plugged in”—meaning before people had wide access to the internet and smartphones—77% of americans age 35-54 said they would, the highest of any group.. .

  what would you consider your ideal level of the internet?

  as a gen x'er, i would not want to go back to the per-internet world, but i would like to go back in some specific technologies.

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  I am GenX. I would not roll back the internet. People look at their phones because they choose to look. Some are addicted, yes. It's their responsibility to recognize the issue and do something about it.

  For example, I'm a software dev. I'm involved with the internet all day long. But I purposefully do not have an account for Twitter, Instagram, Faceplant, Truth, Mastodon, etc. I made a conscious decision not to engage there.

  In other words, each individual GenX that prefers a world without screens has the ability to make that happen for their own life, and should do so.
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  Door on Mars

  by MeanMrMustard in

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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Intellectual masturbation.

  Are your sure it's not just plain, old masterbation? He does have that problem - as if he has mastery over his penis.
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  It's because you are a fascist, Simon -- you right-wing biggoted pig. All you can do is spew your right-wing QAnon conspiracy theories.
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  @Riley:

  I don't think those shows characterize the populist right.. not anymore at least. I could never stomach Savage, and Beck used to be a bit over the top. He's moderated the dramatics quite a bit. Mark Levine was alright. I think he's got good ideas re a convention of the states to amend the Constitution. Some of his proposed amendments seem quite reasonable. Repealing the 17th amendment. Term limits for SCOTUS. Gut the Commerce Clause (its not an excuse to regulate everything). I would love an amendment (not sure if it was his suggestion) that would require reading all bills before passing and requiring a pause so Congress can do that - and if the bill is changed at all, the clock resets (no passing unknown bulk bills in the middle of the night).

  But as for Fox, Don't watch. Kinda watched clips of Tucker. But that ship has sailed. All legacy media is dead to me.

  I only see clips of legacy media here and there when they say something so outrageous, it ends up on podcasts. And even then all they have to do is play the clip and let them hang themselves.
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  For example, I saw one thread, allegedly by a newly-PIMO elder, complaining about specific issues in his congregation and how he was trying to exit but it looked like it had been written by a 14 year old. Call me a snob, but for me, that instantly reduced the credibility of the writer.

  I don't know. The publications also seem like they were written for fifth graders. I don't see modern elders exposed to anything rigorous. It's all dumbed down (as strage as that might seem to us).
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  MeanMrMustard

  I'm scratching my head a bit at the bizarre mental hoops you're jumping through to link Hegel and this thread topic. I'm pretty sure you just got a kick out of getting a chance to use "Hegelian" in a sentence.

  Ok. Here. There is a history to the current woke bs. It's not just kids and social media.

  https://youtu.be/xbby7yFrIxM
  
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  I'm now turned off by this site

  by purrpurr in

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  in one form or another i've been a member of this site for almost 10 years.

  in the past this was a great place for debate, news and support for ex jws.

  i logged on several times a day and posted several times a week.

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  @enigma:

  It’s all garbage. Go back to science and reasoning..

  The thing that we call the "culture war" is a philosophical divide. The "leftist" side is steeped in postmodernism, and is pushing the most incredible anti-scientific ideas you can think of.