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I despise noisy anti-JW complainers. It's the same w/the evangelical rabid-atheists. Both of these groups are intolerant of diversity of viewpoint and want that these be silenced or converted.

9 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

Wow…. I had no idea we were talking about that …. I don’t even remember thinking that!

You said Belgium, and I barked.

9 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

All Belgians?

All Pudgys. (ask a dumb question, get a dumb answer).  We're talking about the EU and it's jihadist-loving members who have ruined europe.

Just now, Pudgy said:

Why do you have that opinion?

They love jihadists.

Belgians are the worst sort of French.

https://humanize.show/2022/04/study-chinese-doctors-executed-prisoners-by-organ-removal/

Every village needs it's idiot. Dimwit is ours.

8 hours ago, Arauna said:

I surely know that there are many people who think they are so wonderful that they surely think they are anointed.... or they could have this psychological epiphany that they are anointed.....almost like a supernatural event outside themselves.....  similar to people who have the emotional experience in the churches when they "receive the holy spirit"  - sometimes it is not the real thing because this "miracle" can be psychologically induced.   Or if a person was truly anointed ..... it does not mean they remain true wheat - they can become opposers of jehovah.... the Bible says, those who remain faithful to the end will be saved.  Being anointed does not mean they are automatically sealed.

While I am not denigrating your personal experience - it does not seem to me that you have remained in the fold of those participating in pure worship.   Your knowledge seems to have dwindled since I first met you here...... sad to say.  There is still time to repent and update your knowledge.

It could be that such "anointing" is just the eggs hatching.

Garbage on the qpq w/Trump & Ukraine.

16 minutes ago, Thinking said:

If only the average person understood…frightening !

It makes for a compelling narrative to be sure, yet I know that there are no such things as "governments", but only individuals acting on the information they have in what appears to be their own personal best interests. This so, I'd need to know who personally stands to benefit and how they benefit themselves. Putin's actions are not unexpected. He behaves as if all other people have the same morals and motivations that he has. He's not a genius, and he's not an idiot. Just who these nameless, faceless bureaucrats in Brussels are and how they are personally benefited is not known to me.

55 minutes ago, Arauna said:

I just saw this - It is an interesting perspective

https://greatgameindia.com/ukraine-crisis-germany/

...well that was interesting

...all I have to say is that being able to block some posters is like having someone run ahead of you on a walk or a run and bag up all the garbage before you get there.

6 hours ago, Pudgy said:

On a related note, did you ever see the episode where Mr. Bean is it is stuffing a very large turkey and he loses his watch inside the turkey?

 

Just now, TrueTomHarley said:

I wonder if @xeroread that book by the former Mormon that he recommended here. I did. They do some strange doings. (the anti-cultists would go ballistic at the pressure brought to bear on missionaries wanting to leave their assignment before their two years are up.) I tried to take into account that it is written by a former Mormon, not a present one, but even so. It does not have any ‘grinding one’s ax’ feeling to it, though neither does it try to whitewash any rather peculiar procedures and beliefs.

I did. It made me wonder that perhaps the sci-fi aspect of mormon beliefs may have contributed to his later sci-fi writing.

Incidentally, I've also noted how even though certain beliefs are demonstrably wrong about mormonism, the effects on them seem in many cases to be positive. Consider that they believe in having large families forces any male mormon to think seriously about doing all he can to acquire the skills needed to get paid or make enough money to support a large family.

Similar things I've seen among JW's...a lot of entrepreneurial activity borne of the desire to be free to better be able to pursue the ministry. Like the brother who invented/patented the propane buffers you see in stores(he wanted to speed up his floor work). I also know of a brother who indexes textbooks (lives out near Copperas Cove) and other books like this for a living. Brilliant brother. 

I had a feeling someone would have to scratch that itch.

Correction. In most cases Hybrids can't breed.

11 hours ago, Pudgy said:

As usual, Dimitar, your understanding is agenda driven, and demonstratively faulty.

Charles Taze Russel was not speaking favorably about Satan …. He was speaking favorably about TRUTH.

Scanned copies of the first issue of the Watchtower are almost instantly available on the Internet. If memory serves, the article title is “What Is Truth?”.

As usual, you gave your disassociative diatribe BEFORE you read the article, and as usual were wrong and blusterous.

You could at least TRY to be funny. Occasionally that in itself is  inadvertently funny.

If sad and pathetic is what you were looking for ….. you NAILED it!

 

I wonder...if I unmask the comments from people I've reasonably blocked and look. Will I turn into a pillar of salt?

3 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

Huh?

Some people imagine they have an idea when it's just the eggs hatching in their brains.

Not sure, but generally speaking all the banned stuff is on rumble.

https://rumble.com/vrtdku-joe-rogan-jre-1757-robert-malone-covid.html

On 1/30/2022 at 2:32 AM, Dmitar said:

This is your misconception of free will. God never intended for man to know between good and evil.

I love it when low-IQ trolls overdrive their intellectual headlights.

1 hour ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Too funny. This may be in response to a series of ads Mormons began running about this time. The ads broke new ground in that they emphasized trendiness, totally lacking in anything spiritual. I had a lot of fun wroting up a few posts on them:

https://carriertom.typepad.com/sheep_and_goats/2010/08/the-new-cool-mormons.html

I suppose the fact that in our territory I kept running into them made me a bit more sympathetic to them and in my googling I found this ex-mormon guy who wrote an amusing story about being a missionary (he's a good writer...not as good as you of course... )

https://www.shunn.net/terror/

Funny name too, considering that he's "shunned".

39 minutes ago, Srecko Sostar said:

Okay, but these are just personal feelings of that person that the rest of us can and should understand. But what is the ultimate goal? Make documents available to the public. At the Military Museum or the Private (WTJWorg) Museum? Well, I guess everywhere where more people will be able to look at it.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/04b1b958-20be-4605-a376-c3e8fe72e571

Because I know this is going south. It reminded me of this old clip. (now wrap your head around how ADD works)

I'm not sure how you could be confused as it does indeed point out clearly who wrote the article "Catherine Hickley". It is, the NYTIMES, not some unknown publication. Also I think your adjective "despicable" isn't consonant w/the matter, nor does the case deal w/"profit[ting] off of a genocide".

This is dealing w/the archive of a specific family who suffered at the hands of the Nazis and which family legally passed the archive on to the society and an individual who had no right to profit off the sales of the archive. (the only one making money here).

Think again. You can dislike the organization all you like, but do it for legitimate and rational reasons. Tell the truth when you criticize otherwise all your other criticisms are devalued. (Were you high or drunk when you stumbled on this?)