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  Splane's "Apostate" talk transcript

  by FFGhost in

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  for any who can't (like me) muster the masochism necessary to sit through an 18-or-so hour commentary on a 30 minute talk from a certain famous/infamous commentator, here is a link to a transcript from splane's saturday afternoon "apostate" talk:.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/ot7z2e/splanes_apostate_rant_transcription/.

  there are many topics worthy of consideration, but this particular section really stood out to me:.

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  waton

  wt writers, reading the bible, like Song of songs 8:8, could not imagine that the world, heavily influenced by 60 + old ladies and their dependant partners would peg a 18 year old female, 6 years into child bearing age as a child, like in child molestation.

  legal marriage age of female: 12, child touching offence on 17.99 year old by 25 year old: prison time.

  sad as these stories are, and some seriously disturbing, nothing compared to the catholic, boy scout legacy. not a unique wt problem. get over it.
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  Virtuoso classical duo guitar performances

  by Wonderment in

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  “nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, save perhaps two.” — frederic chopin.

  that said, here are a couple of classical duo guitarists at their best.

  both guitar duos play with distinguished musicality:.

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  https://youtu.be/FUPx42UmSng

  https://youtu.be/NBrCa6GXzrU
  
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  Before you judge anti-vaxxers

  by David.L.Henson in

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  waton

  as a non vaccinated person you represent a health risk to your fellow workers

  Still waiting for someone to logically and intelligently explain exactly how that works.

  FUJ: There is a big difference from the virus being carried into a fertile facility, like a meat plant, on skin that has not be scrubbed, and/or

  exhaled into the air by a person that is infected and carries the replicating virus.

  vaccination limits the development into that virulent stage, where it damages you and those that you potentially share the virus with via ventilation or the lack of it.

  I do not judge anti vaxxers, but stay home, in isolation and create and enjoy your safe cocoon.
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  Before you judge anti-vaxxers

  by David.L.Henson in

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  waton

  go read about thalidomide.

  f: remember it well, people still working with no arms. yes, medical treatments can turn out to be hazardous, think of the billions paid out in the tainted blood scandal. but in the long run, vaccinations have been a boon to all of us. yes,

  Thalidomide came from the same country as the novel vaccine, yet it was only a 'feel better' pill, not a live saving preventative.

  as a non vaccinated person you represent a health risk to your fellow workers. your employer may be sued for letting you loose among the herd.
  
  
  
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  Before you judge anti-vaxxers

  by David.L.Henson in

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  A couple of large businesses where I live are mandating the vaccine ("take the jab or lose your job")

  f: Businesses have the right to expect a certain standard from their employees.

  A basic one is to behave in the safest manner possible. It is a safer world now, since we have vaccines. fellow employees too have the right to work in a virus free surroundings, virus carrier free that is.
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  Before you judge anti-vaxxers

  by David.L.Henson in

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  it could be that the virus has new mutation, against which the original vaccines the are only marginally effective, so the next round of [anti]vaccines is needed for protection.
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  “Well at least he doesn’t make mean tweets”

  by minimus in

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  i asked a tennis friend this morning what he thought about what’s going on in afghanistan and he said it was terrible.

  he was a military man and identifies as a middle of the road republican.

  he supported most of trump’s policies but voted for biden because he couldn’t take trump’s mean tweets.

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  the real tragedy is the girls, woman caught in a military conquest again.

  we need the angel that dealt with all the firstborn at passover night in Egipt to be on standby and alert.

  sorry to mix irony with a very serious looming situation.
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  ''Deliverance at Hand''. Now 15 years on &....

  by Beth Sarim in

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  ....and still no big 'a'.

  armageddon.. it was 15 years ago dubland was in lala dream-like almost trance-like state hanging on the notion the big 'a' was imminent.. it was ironic.

  ironic at that time was when.... i was starting my long waking-up process.

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  you forgot the spurs on the riding boots.

  spurs: sure punishment under religious systems. or better:

  s for supposed punishment
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  A conversation that could have occurred between Jesus and a crowd he taught

  by BourneIdentity in

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  jesus: "so that is why you all get sick and die, because adam and eve grabbed an apple from the tree that god told them not to.".

  a man from the crowd: "but why are we punished for something we didn't do, we don't even know that man and woman, that was thousands of years ago!".

  jesus: "my father exercises perfect justice, believe me when i tell you when i say you got what was coming to you.

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  These days wt inc is supposed to have taking on the role of teaching the great[er] crowd.

  When Nasa was building the space center on merritt island FL,they were boasting they will go to the moon, and there I thought, still giving wt chance after chance,: " no you will not , Your god is confined to the earth as per wt illustrations, and his subjects carrying their flags, idols will be too.

  well, the voyageurs are now past the heliopause, and flags are planted on the Moon, Mars, Venus.

  humour: can you picture Bezos, Musk, Branson with hoofs and tails? reaching for the heavens?
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  YHWH's Magnificent Killing Machine

  by fulltimestudent in

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  the remains of what may be one of the largest pterosaur's yet found have been discovered in outback queensland.

  the palaeontologists that have been examining the discovery describe it as having been a fearsome beast, with a spear -like mouth and a 7 metre wingspan.. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-10/dragon-like-pterosaur-outback-queensland-identified-named/100361038.

  for more on australian dinosaurs see this video (also included in the above news story).. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6dquboi_qi&t=36s.

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  the naive wt reply was that it all happened because of creatures rebelling in Eden ~ 6000 years ago, well, it looks like the creation of mischief by demons, or punishment by the deity, (take your pick), reaches 100 000 times longer into the past.

  re: 7 meter flapping wing creatures taking of by jumping

  1) only the young flew ( see sci forum) or

  2) they were water creatures, manta rays of sort.