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  Fall camping is the best...

  by MeanMrMustard in

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  waton

  It will require airfare to visit

  GT. if you have a month summer vacation, as most great teachers have, take a camper or a van across the land. great sights and sites to see, Niagara, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, the Redwoods.

  Even Yosemite has some respectable walk-in with sky light Sequoias (a highlight of my life with my then 9 year old daughter standing inside a thousand year old living giant) beats Jonah et al.

  skip the fake shows, disney and the rollercoasters and drive . it is better to travel than to arrive.
  
  
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  protecting the oldest generation.

  by waton in

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  this tree is named after a general, because the us called in the army to protect these oldtimers; now wrapped in a fire proof blanket.

  (it has already a 4 feet fireproof bark).

  when will canada do the same, on it's west coast and brazil in the amazon?

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  logging and mineral/oil/gas extracting rights might not be controlled by the ownership. These licenses are inside jobs between politicians and their relatives/friends./ contributors. YOU WOULD HAVE TO BUY THE POLITICIANS WHO ARE ALREADY OWNED.

  I understand the "owners" are a tribe, with elder's opinion split between those that want the payout and others that see the trees as heritage.

  If you have seen the Sequoias, and seen the vast devastation scenes after the loggers are done, you would approve the protest, the army protection too I hope, hoser.

  afterthought: plants big and small make life possible for us.
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  protecting the oldest generation.

  by waton in

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  this tree is named after a general, because the us called in the army to protect these oldtimers; now wrapped in a fire proof blanket.

  (it has already a 4 feet fireproof bark).

  when will canada do the same, on it's west coast and brazil in the amazon?

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  The forest service wants to protect this old Sherman tree for money.

  h: of course they are paid. but the US cavalry that fought off the loggers, did so on orders by far sighted, altruistic officials.

  The last giant trees of Canada ( always 10% in size of the US in every way) deserve the same protection. These trees are symbols of our hope for a long life; for life on this planet - period. they are the ultimate evolutionary survivors, producing the best offspring, with the thickest light bark, engineered like shuttle tiles.

  It take millenia to create trees like that, minutes to kill, with modern equipment. gone forever.

  Google Port Renfrew, looks like great surfing, black sky astronomy too. so:

  identify your precious heritage in canada and post the army. name them "Methuselah tree" as they do in the US for the real old one.

  retrain your loggers as computer programmers.
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  This is what - just about every Border in the United States looks like today.

  by pistolpete in

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  biden ordered the ffa to stop all cameras from taking pictures or recording this mess.. the doj is fighting to allow millions of immigrants into the country with covid.

  all immigrants don't have to take the vaccine or be tested.. terrorists from countries that hate america are entering the country.. guns are disappearing from the local stores, everyone is buying them out.

  there is no doubt that this administration wants to destroy america.

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  I’m not sure about you waton,

  Hoser, neither am I, My family has a recent immigrant history, waiting years in line to come legally, doing work in designated industries. In the US, it would take me decades to get an immigration visa with the legal quota of my birth nationality. .

  We have a long history of total integration, not the multi-culti- tribal ghettoization, what we see today.

  What many are objecting to, is the illegal immigration industry, with the abuse of laws that were designed to deal with honest people, and crying out loud cases, such as the attempt of the Jewish people to escape Europe's slaughters.

  illegals will create a lawless society, liars will do the same. so, I am not sure about me , of what will happen. Hoser.

  
  
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  Another Kingdom Hall Burned!

  by Atlantis in

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  kingdom hall burned.. .

  someone mentioned that this could be the same kingdom hall that was in a recent 4 corners video.

  https://bathurstonlinenews.com.au/raglan-kingdom-hall-of-jehovahs-witnesses-destroyed-in-suspicious-fire-western-advocate/.

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  in other places sold khs are turned into churches.

  The early christians destroyed, burned valuable religious objects to prevent their abuse. kh should be burned rather than passed on to Babylon the Great, the GP.
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  This is what - just about every Border in the United States looks like today.

  by pistolpete in

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  biden ordered the ffa to stop all cameras from taking pictures or recording this mess.. the doj is fighting to allow millions of immigrants into the country with covid.

  all immigrants don't have to take the vaccine or be tested.. terrorists from countries that hate america are entering the country.. guns are disappearing from the local stores, everyone is buying them out.

  there is no doubt that this administration wants to destroy america.

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  not the northern, the border with Canada, there the illegals after having arrived in the safe US from Nigeria, Haiti, etc, leave America, continue north to the more generous canadian welfare system. years of living off the taxpayer, legal help to the supreme court, great.
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  Fall camping is the best...

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  Great teacher, to link the 2 threads, trees and camping. a lesson to learn: On one of our visits to the giant sequoias, we slept in their campground perched in one of their their steep sites. dry country. SLEPT WHERE THEY DID FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. awe inspiring. GT, MAKE THE TREES A MUST VISIT. AWE INSPIRING TO BE IN THE PRESENTS OF SUCH ANCIENT LIFE, THAT IS PARTNERS WITH US ANIMALS, BALANCING OXYGEN INTAKE BY US, with EXHALING BY THEM. AWSOME TO TOUCH LIFE THAT WAS LIVING IN MOSES' DAYS.

  camping there: can cap that.

  UNBELIEVABLE THAT IN CANADA THEY ARE CUTTING THE GIANT OLD GROWTH DOWN. police protecting the predators.
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  Not sure where I want to live!

  by Iamallcool in

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  since covid have forced many stores not to be open 24 hours a day like wal-mart, etc…i do have one 24 hour kroger near my home.

  if you want to know where it is, message me but i might not tell you if you have not been here long enough or i feel that i can’t trust you yet.

  do you have 24 hour grocery stores near you?

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  no surfing waves.
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  1995 generation change

  by Gorb in

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  now, many years later, i remember the 1995 generation change, very well.. since early youth, hearing my father explaining in field service the 2520 years.

  it was his main theme in the field.. with the change my doubts started.

  with some jw friends we did not trust the organization anymore.

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  The wt's 1995 Great Crowd Hope idea can be illustrated as water particles that are lifted in a moving tidal wave, with high hopes, to crest, but that sinking low, , disappear in the froth, as the wave passes along in time. Only when the wave gets caught behind the breakwater, in the tidal pool, will it become the retained mass of the "great crowd,"

  The wave energy is the wt push for prosylation, service, service. service.

  preaching of empty promises. the next promise is the resurrection, but is it more believable than the failed fleeting first high hope of becoming part of the Great Crowd?
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  1995 generation change

  by Gorb in

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  now, many years later, i remember the 1995 generation change, very well.. since early youth, hearing my father explaining in field service the 2520 years.

  it was his main theme in the field.. with the change my doubts started.

  with some jw friends we did not trust the organization anymore.

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  But if you are looking for a major wt study article explaining the whole thing, JW don’t do things like that. Sometimes they do but sometimes wt gradually or subtly makes change such as the Awake article on earthquakes

  FM. yes to be precise, it was on page 31 of the April 15 wt mag. 1995 (to answer Proton's earlier question page 1). I still have it pasted in my 1984 study NWT. to show speakers that they are not following wt new light protocol. made me very popular.