Pudgy

My Guardian and his wife have been unloading supplies in preparation for WWIII, and I asked him what he bought.
Three lawn chairs, a Coleman chest cooler, and a case of beer.

It’s a wonder how people with such thin skin manage to keep their insides in.

dodo was probably the word you finally settled for but I'm sure there were others prior to that.  

The entire forum could be banned as far as I am concerned. A good many players here could most charitably be described as ‘real pieces of work.’ That doesn’t mean I have ever sought to ban anyone.

Do you know that thousands of JWs were Catholics at one time?  My brother and myself grew up as Catholics and became JWs.  Interestingly, we were not "shunned" by our Catholic family for making the decision. 
  What "woman in question", and who is it that is speaking for "her"?  What sort of conspiracy are you up to now?  

When I was younger the only dates I cared about was in an alley behind an Italian Restaurant, sharing a plate of free spaghetti and meatballs, with a big eyed Cocker Spaniel……

No - in your home you may try to talk to a perpetrator and get out of a bad situation (I have done it while in field service).  But taking a gun with intention to use it (because it can be fatal), is NOT following the loving teachings of Christ.  On the other hand - to join a national / political army - which has the function of killing at the command of another person who is following government orders (without personal discrimination) is taking sides with the beast.

"In the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine, despite the efforts of world leaders to avoid war."
That statement from the website is bland enough, as you say. Of course, that particular quote from the website could just as easily have been worded to the effect of:
After world leaders had spent 8 years pushing war in Ukraine and avoiding offers from Russia for negotiations to avoid war --and while those same world leaders pumped in BILLIONS of dollars of military weapons so that Ukraine could continue to bomb citizens in its own Russian-speaking regions-- Russia finally takes military action itself and invades Ukraine.
My concern goes a bit farther here. I understand why there is a need at Bethel to continue trying to identify and settle on a current candidate for the King of the North and the King of the South, but it strikes me as very arbitrary and shows a real lack of neutrality to make such statements as this in the article:
"Watch the video Fulfilled Prophecy—Daniel Chapter 11 to learn why Russia and its allies can be identified as the king of the north."

After the assassination of the American Ambassador to Benghazi, Libya ….. Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State under Obama, was highly insulted when she demanded transportation appropriate for her, and they brought her a broom.

Glad you admit the difference between "dodo" and asking to have someone banned.
When it comes to banning me, you always have something to say in defense of others, now you what to turn it around, please! 
You know exactly what I'm talking about. That woeful fool @Pudgy is as bad as they come, yet NOT ONCE have you suggested for him to be banned. Also, you haven't argued for@Patiently waiting for Truth to be banned, either. Why, because I "refuse" to be part of apostasy, here?

I wasn’t thinking about you at all when I made that remark. I meant only that I try not to argue or insult others.
Okay, okay, so you’ve got me there. Nobody has infinite patience. But even then it is only with the “dodo” word.

Please stop playing the victim. You bully and insult and pick fights an then accuse and play victim..... what a playbook!  

I meant just with me, right @TrueTomHarley. You people just want to insult, criticize, and fight with me. Didn't you just defend @Arauna bullying? I don't see you being critical with that former Jehovah's Witness @Pudgy as you are with me.
In general, you Jehovah’s Witnesses here, really don't behave like that with former Jehovah's Witnesses, now do you. Yeah, once in a while when, @Patiently waiting for Truth gets under your skin, you will insult him, but not directly "rebuking" him like you do with me. Certainly you don't ask the owner to ban @Pudgy like you do with me, even though he is FAR WORSE than me. But, you guys need to stick together, I get that, Christian.
So, your comment is none conforming.

When I was younger the only dates I cared about was in an alley behind an Italian Restaurant, sharing a plate of free spaghetti and meatballs, with a big eyed Cocker Spaniel……

:)) 

Once and for all, will you please get it right? I have not called you a “fool” or “stupid.” I have called you a “dodo.”
Not me.

I think I should have phrased that differently, as TTH POINTED OUT, perhaps it is those afraid of painful death, I have noticed in some Christians. 
I could even be wrong.
….. or (coff), be barking up the wrong tree.

Joseph had proof that Jehovah was with him - he said to his brothers that Jehovah sent him ahead of them.  Daniel was a district governor for Nebuchadnezzar; Ester served as queen to save her people (also by Jehovah's hand). IN those days one had to get on with the Job. They were faithful worshipers of Jehovah and kept faithful to his laws (like being honest and not coveting and serving only the one true God) and this helped them in their jobs and brought glory to Jehovah.
When Jesus came he taught is principles and self-sacrificing love. We are under these now and understand the principle of neutrality which especially applies to the beast and the image of the beast.  Those who have its mark will not receive everlasting life.   

By Dmitar having a long, long history of “downvoting” according to personal agenda, irregardless of content, it has earned less relevance than someone pissing in the Atlantic Ocean.
I suspect this will be permanent.
 

Grandma get your gun!
79-year-old Valentyna Konstantynovska takes part in basic civilian combat training organized by Ukraine’s National Guard amid warnings about Russia possibly invading further into Ukraine. Mariupol (the city near the border with Russia), 2022. Like a lot of people, I saw repeated reports about 79-year-old great-grandmother, Valentyna Konstantynovska, learning how to shoot the enemy in the event of a Russian invasion, organized by Ukraine’s National Guard.
However, it has been pointed out (by Fox, Vice, etc.) that this “National Guard” is officially wearing a Nazi symbol on their uniform.  And members display other Nazi and Neo-Nazi symbols on their person:
The Neo-Nazi symbol used by the Azov Regiment who staged the “media event” as picked up by NBC The yellow swastika-like symbol of the Azov Regiment showed up in the news reports (NBC, MSNBC, etc.). Members of the battalion show themselves to be proud of their Nazi heritage. Some wear additional SS symbols and swastika tattoos. Ukraine is usually presented as “an embattled pro-Western seeker of liberal democracy.” So how did it also become “a haven for fascists and Nazis.”
It is not only “leftists” like Mark Ames, Aaron Maté, and Max Blumenthal, who have reported on this. Writing on “The Bulwark,” Cathy Young, a reporter for Newsday, my local newspaper, includes the following sources where this story is now recognized more generally:
Vice, in fact, was well aware of the Ukrainian connection to Nazis back in 2019.
What the Hell Are Ukrainian Fascists Doing in the Hong Kong Protests?
"Nobody here knows who they are. Nobody invited them."
www.vice.com
  Quoting from that Vice article:
The above story by Vice was meant to sound surprising, but it fits a larger pattern of similar stories (for a later time). Therefore, without getting into the reasons they were in Hong Kong for protests in 2019, it might be significant to note that the CIA has historically found that supporting groups with right-wing, nationalist ideologies is usually more effective in producing the necessary levels of “violence” to bring about coups, regime changes and civil wars. The same CIA-sponsored organizations that were caught training Hong Kong protesters had also openly trained Ukrainian protesters.
Of course, Cathy Young, quoted above, and others have tried to minimize the relevance and significance of right-wing ultra-nationalists and Nazis in Ukraine. After all, the president of Ukraine is himself Jewish. Some of the right wing parties in Ukraine have lost relevance since the “coup” in 2014. And many Ukrainians themselves condemned the anti-Semitic, white supremacist speeches during the 2013 and 2014 protests. Some go so far as to say that these ideas about “Nazification” in Ukraine is just “Putin propaganda.”
Still, there is a very real and relevant significance to this idea that Ukraine is often considered a haven for Fascists and Nazis. To help understand how and why, I’ll consider a quick review of major political events related to Ukraine in the next section. I’ll focus on events since 2014, but the roots go back at least to the 1930’s.

Just saw a Youtube episode of Jimmy Dore (below) who hits many of the same points that I (and others) have made about Ukraine. A little too defensive of Putin, and too snarky in general, but accurate on most of the points he does present. Some of the best points are about the hypocrisy of the U.S. rhetoric, a point he actually understates.
 

Case in point:
It's not just NATO pushing westward, which was a "line in the sand" that Putin has consistently held against. More directly, it's the Minsk accord(s), as agreed to by Ukraine, Russia, France, US, etc.
In them, the Luhansk and Donetsk regions would be considered part of Ukraine, but would be treated as autonomous regions with their own presidents and autonomous ability to negotiate trade, etc. But right after agreeing to this, the Ukrainian military (using the plausible deniability of its rogue Nazi forces) began bombing Luhanks and Donetsk, including schools, hospitals, bridges, etc. There was no real attempt to control these "rogue" elements. After all, they are represented in parliament and other parts of the Zelensky government. Remember that many Russians are living in these regions, and it was mostly because of the antagonism against Russians that Ukraine was bombing their own regions. This bombing escalated greatly in the days just before Russia responded.
In fact this is what's behind a curious bit of misinformation that immediately went viral, even though it really showed the opposite of what it was intended to show:
Note the claim on this Twitter video:
Although it's heartwrenching, it's a lie. It was actually posted by the mayor of Gorlovka Prikhodko on February 21, well before the invasion. But during one of the horrendous attacks while Ukraine was shelling the Donbas region. It was showing the evacuation of kids from Donbas as Ukrainian troops attacked. If you read Russian (I don't) you can actually tell that this is not Ukraine even from the Russian words on the bus that Ukraine would consider illegal. 
And the journalist who began posting this video under a new, false context and promote it to the tune of tens of thousands of likes? It was one of the same Syrian "white helmet" journalist who got so much Western traction by producing fake videos of supposed poisonous gas attacks to fuel Assad hatred around the world. (Not for nothing, the USA actually still occupies a huge portion of Syria due to the civil war, directly stealing oil from large sections of Syria since that time several years ago, and continues to steal the oil from Syria even today.)

Understanding some of the misleading information often requires a more detailed understanding of the overall problems. Otherwise anyone who even slightly contradicts the existing narrative in the West will just be seen as a Russo-phile or Putin puppet, etc.
And then there are the American and British leftist voices who just can't stand it when US or UK intelligence services get something right, because their greatest hope (I guess) is to poke fun at the foibles of the West and pretend they knew all along that their own voices were right and big Imperialist/Capitalist voices were always wrong. It's sad and funny to watch some of these Marxists apologize for getting it wrong almost as if they were sure that Putin would only do something that would be completely defensible, or that he would show more morality than the US.  Putin may have had many reasons for doing what he did, but that doesn't mean there is any reason to try to defend him. As usual, leaders like him go well beyond anything that might be considered just and moral, usually to score points for their own nationalism, home politics, personal ego, etc.

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