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How can you tell someone they have bad breath without offending?
by James Mixon ini told someone and they became very angry with me.
we have been friends for many years but lately his breath is eye burning.
he is single so he doesn't have a wife to tell him, dear you need a mint.
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Universal sovereignty on trial
by Factfulness ini just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.
they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.
god failed to prove his right to rule.
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Dreaming about Trump and Kim
by Gorbatchov inhow indoctrination works: i was dreaming tonight about the summit between trump and kim.. heard the bible text about "peace and security" and "disqusting thing at a holy place"in my head and my brains were calculating with the number 666 (=6/12, date of today).. this is no joke.
since 1995 mentally out and since 2008 realy out, educated and reading quality stuff and still my brains do this crazy stuff.
amazing!.
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Austria Begins Closing Mosques and Deporting Imams
by cofty inaustria, a member of the eu since 1995, is a country of 8.8 million people with a muslim population of around 600,000 mostly turkish immigrants.
in 2015 it passed an 'islam law' prohibiting foreign funding of religious groups and creating a duty for muslim organisations to have 'a positive fundamental view towards state and society'.. many mosques in austria have continued to receive money from turkish muslim organisations so the new right-wing government have decided to enforce the law.
seven mosques have been identified for closure and 60 imams are to be either deported or refused visas.
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Death's in Noah's flood
by Are you serious inhas the wt ever come out with an article that indicates how many people died during the mythical flood?
i searched on their site but couldn't find anything.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Baker Who Refused to Bake Cake for Gay Couple
by Simon inseems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.
it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.
it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.
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So What Drastic Money Change is Next?
by OnTheWayOut inokay, they cheapened the product by getting rid of hardcover books.
they reduced printing of mags.
they drastically reduced the number of pieces of printed paper that members would "place" in people's hands in various ways, the biggest one being that they put them on a cart and don't encourage people to take them.they cut d.o.
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separation church&state
by waton inottawa -- the supreme court of canada says a jehovah's witness who was expelled from his calgary congregation cannot take his case to a judge.
canada ctv news.
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The Ride
by eyeuse2badub inthe ride!.
about 2 weeks ago i went on a one day motorcycle ride with about 50-60 other jw’s.
(at least most of them claimed to be dubs) it’s an event that 2 jw fleshly brothers put on every year.
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We bought a pipeline that leaks like a sieve
by hoser init looks like justin trudeau and his comrades caved in to kinder morgans artificial deadline and bought the transmountain pipeline for 4.5 billion taxpayer dollars.
its not a bad deal if they actually finish the expansion.
if not we just bailed out an american company and are on the hook for 4 and a half billion.