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  Anyone else selling stocks?

  by mickbobcat in

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  i hit the highs yesterday and sold deep in the money calls.

  this will protect my stocks while i still draw dividends.

  anyone else hedging their stocks.

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  fulltimestudent

  What DOES the future hold financially?

  Who knows, but I follow the writings of a guy called David P. Goldman, a former N.Y. Financier who know owns a newspaper called, The Asia Times' in Hongkong (Goldman bought it from a Thai billionaire) I'll post Goldman's biography in a second post. Just one addition from me - he claims to have voted for Trump in 2016 and I'd think of him as a Republican.

  His P.O.V. being close to both the USA and Asian interests is interesting - he has the view that inflation is going to be a huge problem and that changes in the way the world trades may see the USA lose all the free loans they have been getting from world trade being based on the US dollar,

  On May 12, the AT published his article:

  Few places to hide from the inflation train wreck

  Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong

  Link: https://asiatimes.com/2021/05/few-places-to-hide-from-the-inflation-train-wreck/

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  US fiscal profligacy and the impending crisis Gold man writes - Massive demand-side stimulus combined with constraints on the supply-side in the form of higher taxes is a sure recipe for inflation and eventual recession. "It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Biden administration’s fiscal irresponsibility arises from a cynical political calculation." ---------------------- I've been telling friends (in Aust) who have recently borrowed money at historically low interest rates to prepare for much higher rates. Biden has stated (as reported in Aust. news) that he will implement a plan to spend 2 trillion dollars to repair the USA's infrastructure. The only way he can get that sort of money is to borrow. What do you think that will do to interest rates?
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  Jesus Creates a Monster

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i recently found this image of jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that kind, loving jesus, would (on behalf of old yhwy) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.. .

  in case you're wondering i found it on a pinterest page.. proverbs 8, of course.

  personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g.

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  fulltimestudent

  The Komodo dragons live on an island in Indonesia. Their saliva is so poisonous that they usually bite their victim and wait for it to collapse.

  If you've been a JW, do you really want to pat and cuddle one of these animals in the new system?

  So think it over - could the biblical loving god YHWH or his loving son Jesus really be the creator of such monsters?
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  Jesus Creates a Monster

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i recently found this image of jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that kind, loving jesus, would (on behalf of old yhwy) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.. .

  in case you're wondering i found it on a pinterest page.. proverbs 8, of course.

  personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g.

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  fulltimestudent

  Before you view the video, think! If Proverbs 8: 22-30 is true (and the witnesses say its true, would not the 'works' of Jesus reflect his love and compassion?

  Well, think about what Jesus is supposed to have made - with YJWH's approval. (nd sensitive people - likely including the little children that sing church hymns, maybe shouldn't watch)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FyFPwHriKI
  
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  Jesus Creates a Monster

  by fulltimestudent in

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  i recently found this image of jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that kind, loving jesus, would (on behalf of old yhwy) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.. .

  in case you're wondering i found it on a pinterest page.. proverbs 8, of course.

  personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g.

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  fulltimestudent

  I recently found this image of Jesus, with a caption, a reminder of past stupidity in believing that KIND, LOVING JESUS, would (on behalf of old YHWY) look after me when he 99% of the people on this earth.

  

  N,B. In case you're wondering I found it on a Pinterest page.

  Proverbs 8, of course. personifies wisdom - and the passages are controversial and the subject of some academic analysis (e.g. = https://www.jstor.org/stable/27638373?seq=1 ) - but to our former, hold spirit filled brothers there is no doubt that the text refers to Jesus in his pre-human existence. You can link that image, if you like, with the common church hymn which children are taught, that starts with the words, "gentle Jesus meek and mild.)

  So in both the churches and the JWs, Jesus is so wonderful - but is there another side to him - a side that is more psychotic?

  Consider the video in the next post.
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  The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping

  by FFGhost in

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  so, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.

  a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.

  13 a peg should be part of your equipment.

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  Thank U FFGhost for a great analysis.

  Considering the contemporary situation in shit-splattered India it's quite appropriate. I read quite fast in order to cover 4 pages of comments, but I don't recall any mention of how anyone with diarrhea would have coped with that instruction.

  Once again, as an uncouth and unrepentant unbeliever .I can only say - Aw Shit !!
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

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  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  fulltimestudent

  Maybe the full horror of an out-of-control Covid19 pandemic can be seen in this SBS news video.

  SBS is a semi independent government owned media sesrvice.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0fiKbOvCCA
  
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  European Christian Involvement In Using Mutilation as a Punishment

  by fulltimestudent in

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  this is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.. mutilation as gendered punishment: state violence and sexual transgression in medieval europe - keynote lecture by ruth mazo karras .

  ruth karras is a professor of history at trinity college dublin.

  her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality.

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  fulltimestudent

  Yes Biahi, quite barbaric - but the perpetrators were 'faithful' christians zealous in insisting on obedience to what they saw as commands from Jesus.

  Footnote: This was a talk (lecture, if you want) NOT a film.
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  European Christian Involvement In Using Mutilation as a Punishment

  by fulltimestudent in

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  this is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.. mutilation as gendered punishment: state violence and sexual transgression in medieval europe - keynote lecture by ruth mazo karras .

  ruth karras is a professor of history at trinity college dublin.

  her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality.

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  fulltimestudent

  This is a long video, but it may be of interest, as its difficult to reconcile physical mutilation with a god of everlasting love.

  Mutilation as Gendered Punishment: State Violence and Sexual Transgression in Medieval Europe - Keynote lecture by Ruth Mazo Karras

  Ruth Karras is a Professor Of History at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on medieval women, gender and sexuality. Click here to visit Ruth’s university web page or follow her on Twitter @rmkarras
  

  Ruth Karras spoke at at the Women’s History Association of Ireland Annual Conference, University College Dublin, on March 21, 2021

  Excerpt: It probably won’t come as news to anyone that mutilation was used as a judicial punishment in various societies across the globe, and it can serve several different purposes. Sometimes it’s just a punishment short of death. Sometimes it’s retributive justice – an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, or the loss of the limb – with which a crime was committed such as chopping off a hand for theft, which can also be a symbolic inscription of the crime on the body. I want to talk today particularly about the use of mutilation as punishment for sexual offenses and particularly those involving same-sex activity in medieval Europe.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PfiRscu8g&t=27s
  

  
  
  
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

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  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  fulltimestudent

  This post references PistolPete's first post on this thread, (That's post 4 from the start) with a al jazeera video examining the lack of toilets (both private and public) in India.

  That video was posted on YT in 2010. I did back there sometime post quite a lot of information about that situation. It was (and still is) a huge problem. Neither the British Colonial government, nor subsequent Indian government's had ever tried to do anything about.

  It was and is a huge health problem, to what extent open defecation plays in the spread of the coid19 has not been analysed (as far as I know) but it likely does. But it is also a safety problem for women in particular, has having to both piss and shit in public, often leads to rape.

  So when I saw the al jazeera video that PP posted my curiousity was aroused, because i knew that the Modi government had started a program in 2014 to build toilets for everyone in India ( the Swachh Bharat - Clean India Program) and in 2019 had declared victory - so was it still true that lots of people still had no access to working toilets?

  Sadly, it appears that the Modi goverments claims are another kind of SHIT- (i.e. bullshit). The situation is better, but it is still a big problem.

  I found this article, published by a media groups named C/net, with the Headline:

  India spent $30 billion to fix its broken sanitation. It ended up with more problems

  The Swachh Bharat mission, launched in 2014, was an ambitious effort to stop open defecation. It's far from reaching that goal.

  Link: https://www.cnet.com/news/india-spent-30-billion-to-fix-its-broken-sanitation-it-ended-up-with-more-problems/

  and this video, made by a community action group called Video Volunteers* that posts videos on public problems in India>

  Link: (the video was posted in 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elEkUFtTrII

  * Video Volunteers (VV) is working to create an alternative media landscape in which thousands of people around the world, living in slums and villages, are producing high quality video content that brings awareness to communities and empowers them to take action. - We create models of sustainable, locally owned media, and devise training programs that give communities the journalism, critical thinking and creative skills to run them.
  
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  Covid / India

  by stan livedeath in

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  its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

  the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

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  fulltimestudent

  iXav: i doubt that the situation is as cold-blooded as that. If we need to know that India is class ridden by the caste system.

  Quote: (from a BBC article) "The caste system divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras. Many believe that the groups originated from Brahma, the Hindu God of creation" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35650616#:~:text=The%20caste%20system%20divides%20Hindus,the%20Hindu%20God%20of%20creation.

  and, "The main castes were further divided into about 3,000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes, each based on their specific occupation. - Outside of this Hindu caste system were the achhoots - the Dalits or the untouchables."

  So the upper castes think they become unclean if they touch the untouchable and generally are not paticularly interested in any group below their status.