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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
MeanMrMustard

Bump for joey jojo.
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The elephant in the room post
by joey jojo in
1. jw
2. friends
is it ok to talk about the ongoing post about 'he who must not ne named"?.

my perspective: im a neutral observer.

i dont know lloyd evans, im not an active member of any ex-jw group (except this one i guess).
MeanMrMustard

We definitely shouldn't bump that thread any longer...
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
MeanMrMustard

Thread bump... because... reasons.
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Who do you think leaked the Trump documents location to the FBI?
by GabeAthouse in
1. jw
2. friends
was it melania?

don jr?

or gary busey's son, eric trump?.
MeanMrMustard

What real story is this a smokescreen for?
I like Robert Barnes' take: near the end of his term, he asked the alphabet agencies if there was anything he shouldn't, under any circumstances, declassify. They gave him a list, and that's exactly what he declassified and took with him. Insurance.
But that's just a guess.
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Who do you think leaked the Trump documents location to the FBI?
by GabeAthouse in
1. jw
2. friends
was it melania?

don jr?

or gary busey's son, eric trump?.
MeanMrMustard

Haven't you heard? The real damaging documents (the ones detailing all his collusion with Putin, and the nuclear codes) were buried in his late ex-wife's casket - right out on the golf course.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
MeanMrMustard

If I was the WTS, I would be using Steganography to identify leakers. It's easy to do and difficult to detect.
It's a two-edge sword, though. If you can discover the location of the message and how it's encoded, likely the information encoded is some ID, a user GUID perhaps. If you know the ID of some other user, a GB member perhaps, you can sub that value in and pass the file around - which would be highly entertaining.
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It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars
by Newly Enlightened in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
original reddit post (removed).
MeanMrMustard

when I sign into my jw account I know there are imprint security in my personal account so if I screenshot or send to someone then it could be linked back to me
they have software wiz kids working at fish hill which is the IT capital of bethel world headquarters, now they are fiercely going after any moles
Now that's super interesting. Question: did the WT ever require you to install any software as a prerequisite to getting an online elder account?
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A group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations
by Disillusioned JW in
1. social
2. current
a group of 136 countries set a minimum global tax rate of 15% for big corporations.

that is a major goal accomplished by the biden administration.

seehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-agree-to-global-deal-to-curb-tax-avoidance-11633709979 .. if corresponding legislation gets passed into law in the usa it will be much harder for corporations doing business in the usa to move their operations out of the usa to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
MeanMrMustard

Talking about paying a "fair share" is just bullshit. The mafia is going around collecting protection money and your response is to make sure some of the larger local businesses pay a bit more. The problem is that the mafia shouldn't take anyone's money - it's theft.
Corporations do not pay taxes, people do. You might steal ... err, collect... the money from the corporations, but they don't actually pay, people do. Either prices rise, production falls, or the employees absorb the cost (lower wages or even less jobs).
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My Prediction Regarding New Space Telescope That Will See Back to 100 Million Years From the Big Bang
by Sea Breeze in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
a new space telescope launched a few days age that will supposedly be able to see to within 100 million years of the big bang.

wow... only 100 million years from the big bang.

that is pretty early given the 12 billion year age of the universe assigned by scholars who adhere to naturalism.
MeanMrMustard

The scientific process, by definition, is going to yield incorrect results most of the time. It's an inductive process. The errors normally come to light when new measurements, or new information, invalidates or refines a previous view.
It's probably not the best strategy to rely on the 'can't explain X' / god-of-the-gaps argument. From a sheer strategy standpoint, theists really should stay clear of this game plan.
Theories will be refined, more information will be found, and refined again. Explanations will be formulated, applied to other aspects of life, and verified. When that happens, it does 10 times more damage to the theists credibility (regardless of which side is correct) than any atheist on a forum, spouting off names, could ever do.
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Is burying someone on a golf course tacky?
by GabeAthouse in
1. jw
2. friends
trump's first wife and mother of his children died recently.

they had her buried on his golf course.

do you think this is tacky or a savvy business move since it'll now get them some tax breaks as a cemetery?.
MeanMrMustard

Might be a good exercise to go through. Can you list an example of BDS?