what he said ^^^^
Eloquently put truth_b_known
millie210
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Would You Like To See Your Police Departments “Defunded”?
by minimus indo you think it’s a good idea?.
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Riots one reason to own an AR15 and several 30 round or 100 round mags.
by phoenixrising ini hear this from the leftist idiots all the time.
if someone breaks into your home 6 bullets are enough.
well if its a one of i would argue that i still my need more round for even just one person.
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millie210
I am surprised that no one is linking the world wide rioting to the being cooped up in homes for the last 3 months.
Its not really ALL about a black man being killed by police or we would have seen it before now.
People are saying "the time has come". No.
Whether the issue is valid or not its "time" is here due to the confluence of circumstances the virus brought about.
Out of work = loss of social identity
Fear of loss of income/disease/ lack of routine = restlessness/heightened anxiety
Police do something gravely injurious caught on camera = match to dry tinder.
People out marching re-establish a social identity at warp speed. It "feels" right to be gathering together and the "fighting back" replaces the sense of powerlessness people felt with the virus with an immediate and potent sense of power.
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Would You Like To See Your Police Departments “Defunded”?
by minimus indo you think it’s a good idea?.
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millie210
I am all for smaller government and I guess that would include smaller police forces.
Having grown up kept largely ignorant of most social issues as a JW, I am not really qualified to address deep reform.
Having said that, I see a lot of things that seem like they should be decriminalized (such as prostitution as an example) freeing law enforcement for serious matters that affect life and safety.
A smaller force would by definition be a more accountable force.
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Riots one reason to own an AR15 and several 30 round or 100 round mags.
by phoenixrising ini hear this from the leftist idiots all the time.
if someone breaks into your home 6 bullets are enough.
well if its a one of i would argue that i still my need more round for even just one person.
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millie210
the girl next door
500C 20GA with leather carry. Had a 12GA 8 shot Winchester and while fun, I did not fill nimble with it. I have other little friends too but the internet doesn't need to know.Well put!
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The National Anthem
by BluesBrother inrecent controversies in america brought this to mind , although i don’t want this to become a political thread , rather to discuss the wts rules that stop a jw showing respect for the national anthem.. the watchtower says that doing so is an act of idolatry, giving worship to the state or its icon.
as such witnesses remain seated when the anthem is played.
in britain people simply stand quietly to show respect, there is no hand gesture.. when i was a boy, every cinema show and theatre concluded with the anthem,being played .usually it was orchestrally with no words sung.
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millie210
Ah, you are bringing back forgotten memories Blues!
As a witness child I got used to killing time standing around waiting for an event to start so I would ALREADY be standing and thus could remain standing until the anthem was over.
Such a to-do about nothing.
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According to History
by Gorbatchov inaccording to history, now only a reichstag fire is needed to eliminate democracy.
it is very likely that this will happen.. g..
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millie210
I think a lot of us are feeling the residual effect that fear and uncertainty (I am referring to the virus) can have when people have to live with that in a sustained way. What's it been now, 3 months?
Really all that's needed when the situation becomes that stressful on people is a precipitating incident. Then, the incident becomes like a match to dry tinder. I think that is what we are seeing now
In the next few days, we should see a tamping of the fire on the looting and acting out. That kind of activity is not sustainable in a static way.
It either has to gain a lot of momentum or it dies out.
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Organized Rioting Across America Due To A Black Man’s Death
by minimus incities across america have been pillaged and destroyed these last few days.
a white policeman has been charged with murder of a black man.
protests have been organized across major us cities and horrible riots have occurred.
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millie210
Minimus I love your questions!
I read all the posts and come away with a lot to think about due to other perspectives.
Personally I think at least a small part of this is due to people being cooped up and unable to use their fight/flight response against the virus.
They're using it now.
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Gorby has to admit
by Gorbatchov infor the first time in my life, i have to admit that the world is rapidly deteriorating.
first i saw a decline in democracy worldwide.
elections were a tough battle every time, unfair too.
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millie210
I have felt the same as you Gorby, I would guess many of us are feeling very similar emotions as you have so well expressed.
Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, has been quoted as saying “change is the only constant in life.”
This was written long before the Bible book of 1 Corinthians.
The irony is that we like things to stay the same if they are good or even tolerable. So we experience negative feelings if the status quo is seemingly disrupted but at the same time, we know growth requires tumult.
Times of war result in times of peace. Sickness results in greater awareness of how to ensure the biological survival of the species. Governments rise and fall. Checks and balances.
We are experiencing tumult and change right now. Whether it will result in a better world scene remains to be seen.
This present climate has me thinking about how people must have felt during other times of great tumult such as WW 1 and WW2 which were relatively recent in human history.
I was so awake and aware of everything when I first left the JWs. Over the years since, personally, I think I had gotten soft, a little complacent.
I am awake now. I find myself sniffing the air so to speak trying to discern which direction the winds of change are going to blow. I am eating, supplementing and exercising better and I am also thinking harder. I don't think I was in as much danger from the virus as I was from complacency.
I feel a personal responsibility to come out of all of this better.
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My parents died from the corona virus
by Hotpepper inboth my 84 yr old jw father and my never my jw mother 82 with both together died from the the corona in 24 hours of each other.
i can tell many fighting i have had here in the last 20 years.on this site .
i juy hope they rest in peace.
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millie210
Im so sorry for your loss Hotpepper.
You have a double sadness and my heart goes out to you.
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Do You Think We Will Ever Get Back To “Normal”?
by minimus ini hope that within the next several months we will get back to some type of normalcy.
will restaurants ever get filled again?
will you ever be able to sit at a bar or go to a concert or broadway show?.
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millie210
I agree anony.
I think taking people who live piled on top of one another in apartments (NYC) and encouraging them to stay inside will eventually be proven to have been the worst of ideas.