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  How Do You Get Most Of Your News?

  by minimus in

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  i read a lot on online.

  i regularly read fox news, the drudge report the new york post and local newspapers and local newscasts.

  where do you get most of your news from?.

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  I subscribe to The Flip Side.

  They provide regular, email summaries of both sides of important current issues and events—from the right and the left, Republican and Democrat—in a format that can be reviewed in about 5 minutes a day.

  Additionally, I am a regular consumer of extra-national news services (e.g., news services that are from outside my country of origin, which in my case is the USA).

  It's challenging to deliberately read news and "news" reports from sources which are often highly biased, but it seems to be the only way to try and sort through the bullshit to get some sense of what the hell might actually be happening.

  It's notable that almost everyone this is highly biased on current issues only consults sources which confirm their pre-existing beliefs and biases (see Confirmation Bias).

  This is bad for anyone, but it is particularly egregious for ex-cult members such as ourselves.
  
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  Some 'Minimus' type questions

  by NoAbuse in

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  why do round pizzas come in square boxes?.

  why is donald trump the most amazing man ever?.

  do you like putting salt on things?.

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  Minimus: Jp should I just stop responding to your comments? Nah, that wouldn’t be right or fun.

  That is EXACTLY how I feel!

  Kidding aside, I just saw your other thread about your best friend contracting COVID-19. I'm really sorry to hear that.
  

  I hope he recovers completely.

  jp
  
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  My ExElder Best Friend Has Coronavirus

  by minimus in

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  this has been a horrible month.

  my best friend’s wife just called to tell me that my friend had to be hospitalized due to severe coronavirus complications.

  he has severe pneumonia, is put on a ventilator and is in a coma .

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  Hey, Min, I'm truly sorry about your friend. I hope he has a speedy recovery.

  But as we know, he may have some tough days and nights ahead.

  Please keep us posted.
  

  jp
  
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  Some 'Minimus' type questions

  by NoAbuse in

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  why do round pizzas come in square boxes?.

  why is donald trump the most amazing man ever?.

  do you like putting salt on things?.

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  Minimus: Some here might have Minimitis. It’s a very serious mental condition. It’s kinda like Trump Disorder Syndrome.

  The only thing in common is that both of you attack whenever anyone disagrees with you or criticizes anything you say!
  

  I submit your response to my previous post as evidence of that fact.
  
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  Some 'Minimus' type questions

  by NoAbuse in

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  why do round pizzas come in square boxes?.

  why is donald trump the most amazing man ever?.

  do you like putting salt on things?.

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  They're only "Minimus-type questions" if you ask them, and then immediately lead with your own opinion and do so in such a way that implies you are inherently correct and any other opinion is wrong.
  
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  Elders told: Watch for the signs!

  by ozziepost in

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  from the audio of the kms posted by kent the other day, it's enlightening to listen to the talk on the inactive.

  watch for the tell-tale signs the elders are to look for in the notes that follow:.

  congregation book study overseers assisting the inactive.

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  Elders should . . . endeavour to use discernment as to what has caused this.
  4. someone in the congregation has stumbled them

  Yep, that's it. It was the elders, particularly the GB members, that "stumbled me."

  • Jesus said to his disciples: “It is unavoidable that causes for stumbling should come. Nevertheless, woe to the one through whom they come. It would be more advantageous for him if a millstone were hung from his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to stumble one of these little ones.” - Luke 17:1–2
    
    
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  I'm interested in discussing basic JW doctrines that you believe are unscriptural

  by AlainAlam in

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  background info: although i'm an apostate, i don't hate jehovah's witnesses, or the organization itself.

  actually i find that many derogatory comments here are extremely biased.

  i think most of them are amazing people, and i wish more non-witnesses were like them.

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  jp1692

  Hi Alain,

  Welcome to this forum.

  As far as religious doctrines go, JW or otherwise, they’re all bullshit. All of them.

  Abandon belief in myths and superstition and learn to think rationally. You’ll be much happier once you work through the pain of realizing how wrong you’ve been for so very, very long. Learn to embrace reality. It’s liberating.

  jp1692

  FULL DISCLOSURE: I was a JW for 25 years, 20 of which I was an elder. I left this religion because it became increasingly obvious it was just as false as all the other religions it hypocritically condemns—in many ways it is worse.

  Leaving it came at great personal cost. For the last decade I have been shunned by two of my adult children who remain members of the cult.

  Since leaving, I have earned a teaching credential and a Master’s Degree in Education. My expertise is in the sciences where I teach: Biology, Earth Sciences, Physics, and Psychology at the secondary levels with a specialization in Chemistry.
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  2020-April-01-Announcements And Reminders!

  by Atlantis in

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  2020-04-01--announcements and reminders.

  https://docdro.id/tf7y1ic.

  petra!.

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  Thanks Petra!
  
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  What Covid-19 Has Taught Us About Models

  by Simon in

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  let's talk about predictions.

  "woooh, gaze into my crystal ball ...

  woooo!!!".

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  Simon: We should stop letting people frighten us and start asking hard questions instead.

  Excellent advice. That's just what I'm going to do.
  

  George E. P. Box; a British statistician who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference; famously wrote in various books and papers that: "All models are wrong, but some are useful."

  Simon, with all due respect, you might want to take a step back and learn what science is all about—what it can do well and what it's limitations are.

  Confusing and conflating pandemic models with climate change and political/economic struggles between competing belief systems is neither logical, accurate nor helpful.

  Your OP is so full of factual inaccuracies that I really have no idea where to begin, but you might want to take a minute, take a breath and check your facts. If you think you're right with statements like "the ones that couldn't foresee a need for extra medical equipment while a pandemic was making its way across the planet," then you should cite your sources.

  Just know it's painfully easy to show how wrong that is. There were plenty of experts that foresaw the need for "extra medical equipment" decades before this current crisis came upon on us. Plenty.
  
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  If You're Just Here to spread Your TDS, It's Time to Say Goodbye

  by Simon in

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  if all you want to do it deliver a constant whine of "orange man bad" then find someplace else to do.

  it.

  frankly, i can't be bothered with the bullshit anymore.. honestly, your politics and the whole virtue signalling woke brigade has actually started causing real deaths and was ruining life for many before that.. if you can't control your disease, then i'll do it for you.. it's not open for debate..

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  jp1692

  Thanks for clarification, Simon! 👍