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  Sometimes I am very puzzled ...!!!

  by fulltimestudent in

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  recently the extremely smart (so he tells us) but comparatively inexperienced person, elected by the very smart people who live in the usa, to be their president, announced that he was limiting ties with qatar (a small arab state in the middle east) on the grounds that they were supporting terrorism.. and yet, the very next day, he authorises the sale of twelve billion us dollars worth of modern american fighters (f15s) to that small state, in which is located ... .

  " ... the biggest us military base in the middle east, al udeid.

  ten thousand american personnel are there, many of them prosecuting the air war against isis in syria and iraq.

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  What evidence is there that Qatar promotes terrorism more than say Saudi Arabia?

  Not much, but we learn that one of the demands of the alliance of Arab states attacking Qatar, is that the Qatar govt. should close down the Al Jazeera News Agency (which some regard as one of the most independent News sources in west Asia). Now given Mr Trump's bias against independent news sources that may explain a lot.

  Now think about this BBC news item today:

  Saudi Arabia has 'clear link' to UK extremism, report says.

  Link to that story: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40496778

  Where does that leave Mr Trump? Is he supporting a nation (Saudi Arabia) that has promoted Muslim extremism in the UK?
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  Child Abuse Charges Laid Against a High level Catholic Cardinal

  by fulltimestudent in

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  its taken a while for this to happen, but the victorian (australia) police have decided there is sufficient evidence to charge cardinal george pell with multiple sexual abuse charges.. .

  pell was once the highest ranking catholic in australia, but once the accusations of child abuse started to surface, he was shipped off to rome where, since 2014 pell has been prefect of the secretariat for the economy, (the vatican’s treasurer).. he is generally seen as no 3 in the world catholic heirarchy.. full story: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/29/cardinal-george-pell-charged-with-multiple-sexual-offences?cmp=soc_567.

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  Its taken a while for this to happen, but the Victorian (Australia) police have decided there is sufficient evidence to charge Cardinal George Pell with multiple sexual abuse charges.

  
  

  Pell was once the highest ranking Catholic in Australia, but once the accusations of child abuse started to surface, he was shipped off to Rome where, since 2014 Pell has been prefect of the secretariat for the economy, (the Vatican’s treasurer).

  He is generally seen as No 3 in the world Catholic heirarchy.

  Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/29/cardinal-george-pell-charged-with-multiple-sexual-offences?CMP=soc_567
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  Using Technology to discover the past

  by fulltimestudent in

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  an excellent example of the use of technology to map an archaeological site before digging commences can be found in this account of a (so-called) "lost" city in uzbekistan.. the city was once a likely trade mart - part of the east-west trade network (that some call the silk road) that existed across eurasia.. quote: "lost and abandoned for a thousand years, the ancient medieval city of tashbulak lies buried inches below the close-cropped grass of an isolated pasture high in the mountains of uzbekistan.once a bustling mountain stronghold of the qarakhanids — a nomadic civilization that conquered and controlled a vast central corridor of the silk road trade network — tashbulak and its ­inhabitants have remained unknown and overlooked by modern archaeology.".

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzxh5gbefby.

  full account from a washington university in st louis journal: .

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  An excellent example of the use of technology to map an archaeological site before digging commences can be found in this account of a (so-called) "lost" city in Uzbekistan.

  The city was once a likely trade mart - part of the East-west trade network (that some call the Silk Road) that existed across EurAsia.

  Quote: "Lost and abandoned for a thousand years, the ancient medieval city of Tashbulak lies buried inches below the close-cropped grass of an isolated pasture high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.
  Once a bustling mountain stronghold of the Qarakhanids — a nomadic civilization that conquered and controlled a vast central corridor of the Silk Road trade network — Tashbulak and its ­inhabitants have remained unknown and overlooked by modern archaeology."

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzXH5GbeFbY
  

  Full account from a Washington University in St Louis journal:
  

  https://source.wustl.edu/2017/06/target-excavating-leads-lost-city/

  NB: The East West trade network cops a bashing in the Revelation in ch. 18. start reading as Vs 11.
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  Uh!oh! Serena - where to now?

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
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  appearing among other things that waste my time on the web today, was this vanity fair cover featuring a naked pregnant serena.

  surely evidence that she no longer sees herself as even a jw associate, what's more likely does not give a stuff what her fomer loving brothers and sisters may think.. .

  more info on the vf web-site: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/06/serena-williams-cover-story.

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  Appearing among other things that waste my time on the web today, was this Vanity Fair cover featuring a naked pregnant Serena. Surely evidence that she no longer sees herself as even a JW associate, what's more likely does not give a stuff what her fomer loving brothers and sisters may think.

  
  

  More info on the VF web-site: http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/06/serena-williams-cover-story
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  Sometimes I am very puzzled ...!!!

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
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  recently the extremely smart (so he tells us) but comparatively inexperienced person, elected by the very smart people who live in the usa, to be their president, announced that he was limiting ties with qatar (a small arab state in the middle east) on the grounds that they were supporting terrorism.. and yet, the very next day, he authorises the sale of twelve billion us dollars worth of modern american fighters (f15s) to that small state, in which is located ... .

  " ... the biggest us military base in the middle east, al udeid.

  ten thousand american personnel are there, many of them prosecuting the air war against isis in syria and iraq.

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  fulltimestudent

  As a further response to Morpheus, who posted,

  "Hmmmm whats more passe.... fulltime students posts (about) his new found hatred of trump...."

  He may like to consider the significance of this statement in the UK Guardian (Australian web edition)

  More than three-quarters of the world has little or no confidence in Donald J. Trump's global leadership and his signature policies, with support for the American presidency collapsing fastest among America’s traditional allies, new polling by the Pew Research Centre shows.

  Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/26/trump-world-global-pew-research-study?CMP=soc_567

  For me, its not a matter of 'hating', but of analysis. Is he (or any other poliie, in any country) making sense?
  
  
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  Fewer christians (and other religions) and more with NO RELIGION in Australia

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the results of the last australian census are trickling out, and the results offer an insight into the changing concepts of contemporary aussies.. in 1966 only 0.8 % marked 'no religion' on their census form.. in 2001 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 16%.. and in 2016 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 29.6%.. so more non-believers than any other group.

  catholics (the previous largest group) were now only 22.5% of australians.. ________________________.

  the other interesting change is language,.

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  • Hairtrigger : What is the Muslim population at present?

    OK! It seems like it numbers about 2,2% which makes it about 500,000 out of a population of 25 million.

    But in my opinion, its the wrong question, the better question should be, "How many radicalised moslems are there in Australia?"

    But an accurate answer is unlikely to be forthcoming. But it could be that there are only a few thousand. But only one is needed to commit an act of terror.

    You may find this undercover story interesting:

    http://www.smh.com.au/national/my-year-undercover-with-australias-islamic-radicals-20160615-gpjtoi.html
    

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  Fewer christians (and other religions) and more with NO RELIGION in Australia

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the results of the last australian census are trickling out, and the results offer an insight into the changing concepts of contemporary aussies.. in 1966 only 0.8 % marked 'no religion' on their census form.. in 2001 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 16%.. and in 2016 those marking 'no religion" had grown to 29.6%.. so more non-believers than any other group.

  catholics (the previous largest group) were now only 22.5% of australians.. ________________________.

  the other interesting change is language,.

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  The results of the last Australian census are trickling out, and the results offer an insight into the changing concepts of contemporary Aussies.

  In 1966 only 0.8 % marked 'No religion' on their census form.

  In 2001 those marking 'No Religion" had grown to 16%.

  And in 2016 those marking 'No Religion" had grown to 29.6%.

  So more non-believers than any other group. Catholics (the previous largest group) were now only 22.5% of Australians.

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  The other interesting change is language,

  Of course, English remains the most spoken language at home- 2016 - 72.7% of the population, but the second most spoken language (Mandarin Chinese) is now 2.5% (against 1.6% in 2011) reflecting a major change in the ethnic background of Australians.

  If more results are of interest to you, they can be found at this Guardian (Australian web edition) at:

  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/27/australian-census-religious-affiliation-falls-as-population-changes-rapidly
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  Sometimes I am very puzzled ...!!!

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently the extremely smart (so he tells us) but comparatively inexperienced person, elected by the very smart people who live in the usa, to be their president, announced that he was limiting ties with qatar (a small arab state in the middle east) on the grounds that they were supporting terrorism.. and yet, the very next day, he authorises the sale of twelve billion us dollars worth of modern american fighters (f15s) to that small state, in which is located ... .

  " ... the biggest us military base in the middle east, al udeid.

  ten thousand american personnel are there, many of them prosecuting the air war against isis in syria and iraq.

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  _Morpheus : _Hmmmm whats more passe.... fulltime students posts regarding how great communist china is or his new found hatred of trump....

  What an interesting insight into your mind, _Morpheus. Apparently you think that asking a question, is an expression of hatred? Why do you think that? Most of the world is genuinely puzzled by this man, so why cant I be puzzled? Particularly so, when there seems little evidence to back his claim

  You link that statement with an observation that I post "how great communist China is." Aside from the fact that China can hardly be called 'communist,' (except in the name of the governing Party) do you think that everyone should ignore the rise of China? The USA certainly does not. Just two examples:

  Ford have just announced that the factory they cancelled in Mexico (when Trump leaned on them), will not be built in the USA, but that they will now expand one of their factories in China and ramp up production of cars there, and also ramp up production of another car in Europe and both those factories will export to the USA.

  The second example is Boeing. Boeing have not (it seems) ever produced planes outside of the USA, but the Chinese aviation market is forecast to be so large and Boeing risked being left behind by Airbus, who have been making planes in China for some years, So Boeing have agreed to start making planes in China, a factory site has been purchased, and I understand construction of the factory is underway.

  You suggest in your post, that noting such events is somehow wrong. Why so?

  No other country has ever lifted so many out of poverty in such a short time. China just cannot be ignored.
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  Sometimes I am very puzzled ...!!!

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  recently the extremely smart (so he tells us) but comparatively inexperienced person, elected by the very smart people who live in the usa, to be their president, announced that he was limiting ties with qatar (a small arab state in the middle east) on the grounds that they were supporting terrorism.. and yet, the very next day, he authorises the sale of twelve billion us dollars worth of modern american fighters (f15s) to that small state, in which is located ... .

  " ... the biggest us military base in the middle east, al udeid.

  ten thousand american personnel are there, many of them prosecuting the air war against isis in syria and iraq.

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  just fine: You tried to insult the intelligence of millions of American people with a false narrative about how Trump made the deal to sell weapons to Qatar.

  First, there is no 'false narrative" about Trump.

  I posted:

  "And yet, the very next day, he authorises the sale of twelve billion US dollars worth of modern American fighters (F15s) to that small state"

  The only possible error in that comment, is just when Trump authorised the sale to Qatar. As I previously posted, he could've refused to honor the deal, just as he has refused to let other deals go ahead. So if the Qatar government is aiding 'terrorists,' why not refuse to let the deal stand?

  On his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, Mr Trump negotiated a huge arms deal with the Saudi Arabia. But in an Australian newspaper owned by one of Mr. Trump's wealthy media friends in the USA, (Mr Rupert Murdoch), Saudi Arabia is named as the source of funds to build Jihadi schools in Indonesia.

  See: http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/university-of-terror-the-jihadi-school-on-australias-doorstep-funded-by-donald-trumps-friend-saudi-arabia/news-story/267fcd2904925182cc3092833efff0f2

  So why doesn't Mr Trump name Saudi Arabia as a supporter of terrorism? And, if the Saudi's are building and financing Jihardi schools in Indonesia, why sell them so many arms? Is it because the Saudis are the source of so much western oil?

  2. Your claim that I insulted the intelligence of the American people.

  Umm! I'm sure you understand that 'intelligence' is not distributed evenly through any population group. Hence in the USA there will be people with a high IQ (Intelligence Quotient) some with an average IQ and some with a below average IQ.

  I should clarify the term IQ. Here's one definition:

  intelligence quotient
  noun: a number representing a person's reasoning ability (measured using problem-solving tests) as compared to the statistical norm or average for their age, taken as 100.

  I do not know the statistical average IQ of Trump voters. Do you? But if we think of the words, reasoning ability, problem-solving skills, and perhaps cognitive skills. Do you imagine that the people who voted for Mr Trump, would fit into a 'high IQ level, an average IQ level, or a low IQ level?
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  What is the biggest sexual scandal to hit the top of JW tree ?

  by Chook in

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  elders ,co ,do ,branch overseers ,gb ,missionaries has "sinful" lust got the better of them..

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  There's always something to gossip about. ....

  My favourites - as briefly as I can state the details that I knew.

  1. Long ago in Sydney (while I was a young man), a Stuart Edwards was the congregation servant in Sydney Central cong., and also city servant. He was running a financial fiddle , asking brothers to give him their money to invest, with the promise that the WTS would get a proportion of the interest (apparently with the tacit knowledge of the WTS - btw Teddy Jarascz was the Branch Overseer at the time) and he would still pay an above bank interest rate to the investors. Well, of course, the whole thing came unstuck and he was disfellowshipped. His wife divorced him and married one of the Slarke brothers who was later appointed as a Circuit Overseer.

  A brother (whose name escapes me) was appointed as cong. servant in his (Edwards') place, but fast forward some years and this brother leaves his wife and runs away with his wife's sister, the wife of the cong. servant of Granville Congregation.

  Their illicit love affair had been going on for 20 years, but YHWH's holy spirit had never got to learn of their adulterous escapades. (Does the holy spirit go to sleep sometimes?)

  2. North of Sydney, in Brisbane, the sleepy capital of Queensland, a young catholic man, by the name of Vince Mcnee was converted and became a zealous witness. Gifted with the usual glib Irish tongue and charm, he quickly became a pioneer and then Circuit Overseer etc.

  Invited to Gilead, everyone thought he'd have a wonderful career in YHWH's ever-expanding theocratic org. But look!.Halfway through the Gilead course, Vince lands back in Australia in disgrace. Never found out clearly why. Soon pioneering again though and then again on the circuit and then as a district overseer. And, apparently YHWH forgives him again and off to Gilead for a second time. And whaddayaknow he's sacked from Gilead a second time. Still no clarity on what he had done wrong.

  This time it took longer for him to pioneer again and then become an elder etc. But now a hint of what was the possible reason for his sacking twice from Gilead. One day his wife came home early from the field, to find Vince and a younger male friend (a former Sydney Bethel brother) naked in the shower together, with some obvious white substance on their bodies that was not soap. And this time (as far as I know) there was no more (smile) forgiveness.