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    hgp got a reaction from Arauna in Why doesn't the Society translate and provide the Russian Court Transcripts for us?   
    One point before answerig the question: Why would a sane person knowing the points that are contained in your question,  ask for a costly translation of court transcripts that obviously are without worth when taking into account your points?
    Or more directly: Why do you ask for a costly translation of court transcripts that you yourself think worthless?
    Now answering the question: The question contains an obviously false assumption: No one thought this to be an effort to lobby the outcome of a court trial or some sort of bribe. No one really thought that these letters would convince the Russian government to stop persecuting their peaceful JW citicens. No one did really suggest that it would do this.
    The letter, where the Governing Body asked the JW to write those letters contained the following goals:
    1. drawing international attention to the situation.
    2. giving evidence of one's love for their brothers in Russsia
    3. support fellow Christians who face persecution
    Since these goals are obviously sensible and were achieved by the campaign there is no need to look for other hidden agendas that contain obviously not sensible reasons.
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    hgp reacted to TrueTomHarley in The 144k and the GB...gnostics?   
    They were mountains in my back yard. I was always tripping over them, I had to weed whack around the base, the local teenagers would congregate on the dark side to smoke pot, and they were a general eyesore.
    I prayed and prayed that they be moved. I don’t care where you put them, I said, I just want them gone. Next day I looked out the window and they were nowhere to be seen.
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    hgp got a reaction from TrueTomHarley in Watch Tower Ups Pressure on YouTube & Facebook To Hand Over Infringers’ Details   
    I don't know about everyone else, but JW are constantly reminded, that we should love all people, even self declared enemies. And this works (within the bounds of human imperfection) for JW.
     
    I think you are mixing several incompatible ideas: You like what you like and you (hopefully🙃) tolerate, what you don't like. So "religious animosity" as a feeling towards other religions cannot be "a display of intolerance": Only if someone starts hateful acts against what he doesn't like, intolerance starts. And while most religions show hateful acts against other religions that they don't like, JW don't go there.
    The kind of tolerance that let's other people do their thing without interfering, even if I don't like it. I'm not supposed to have to show support for stuff I don't like, do I?
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    hgp got a reaction from TrueTomHarley in IN RESPONSE TO A LETTER FROM A JW   
    Or "Eric" by T. Pratchett, where every act of torment is preceded by (mandatory) reading out aloud ALL the safety regulations(!) (thousands of pages), which makes devils and tormented souls look ahead to the actual torment as some kind of relief.
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    hgp reacted to TrueTomHarley in IN RESPONSE TO A LETTER FROM A JW   
    Practically speaking, how does that work? What’s it like there that some would choose it for their future?
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    hgp reacted to TrueTomHarley in Not that I care, but the argument "I have to wear a beard for medical reasons" always reminded me of the case when Moses was delaying   
    Nathanial Hawthorne is a writer who wrote some books. It is another example of my LISTENING to MEN.
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    hgp reacted to TrueTomHarley in Not that I care, but the argument "I have to wear a beard for medical reasons" always reminded me of the case when Moses was delaying   
    I get it that some people dislike reading, and I have no issue with it.
    But usually such ones are modest enough to know that lack impedes their ability to take a lead role in a debate forum.
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    hgp got a reaction from Dmitar in Watch Tower Ups Pressure on YouTube & Facebook To Hand Over Infringers’ Details   
    Even if your conclusions were correct, saying, that some organisation(s) will get destroyed in the future is not an act of intolerance. As a reminder what intolerance looks like:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNTMNTKmsY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-QEfdMH3Y
    That is intolerance. And JW don't go there. Not even near. In fact they are as far removed from intolerance as possible.
    I think you have your own definition of "tolerance" that differs quite a lot from the dictionary. What does "tolerance" mean in your dictionary?
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    hgp got a reaction from Dmitar in Watch Tower Ups Pressure on YouTube & Facebook To Hand Over Infringers’ Details   
    Just trying to understand where you come from: were you sexually abused yourself? Or someone in your family?
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    hgp reacted to TrueTomHarley in Watch Tower Ups Pressure on YouTube & Facebook To Hand Over Infringers’ Details   
    First of all, it was Paul who said that, you dodo, not Jesus. And pass this bit of info along to KickFace, Srecko, and Witness, who also don’t know the first thing about the Bible, but who do know how to press an approval gratification button like a Pavlov lab rat.
    As to Jesus, what did he say?
    Why, you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake, for a witness to them and the nations.  However, when they deliver you up, do not become anxious about how or what you are to speak; for what you are to speak will be given you in that hour;  (Matthew 10:18-19)
    I wonder what it is they would be given by Holy Spirit to say in that hour? What sort of words would be given “as a witness to them?”
    ”Your Honor, upon consultation with my attorney, PatientlySittingOnMyHands, I plead that you beat us and plunder all our belongings.”
    It all makes for a witness when you publicly expose a liar, and THAT is why you do it. If it leads to a reversal of unjust policies, that is icing on the cake. Word on the street is that, while the friends in Russia are obviously distressed at the villainies visited upon them, they also take consolation that their own undeserved suffering serves to focus world attention on Jehovah’s kingdom.
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    hgp got a reaction from César Chávez in Watch Tower Ups Pressure on YouTube & Facebook To Hand Over Infringers’ Details   
    Even imagining these accusations to be one hundred true, can any sane person say, that this is in the least comparable to flying planes into the WTC?
     
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    hgp got a reaction from Patiently waiting for Truth in Watch Tower Ups Pressure on YouTube & Facebook To Hand Over Infringers’ Details   
    Even imagining these accusations to be one hundred true, can any sane person say, that this is in the least comparable to flying planes into the WTC?
     
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    hgp got a reaction from TrueTomHarley in Watch Tower Ups Pressure on YouTube & Facebook To Hand Over Infringers’ Details   
    Even imagining these accusations to be one hundred true, can any sane person say, that this is in the least comparable to flying planes into the WTC?
     
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