This was from the BBC this week:
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US Child Marriage
by Slidin Fast ini was blissfully unaware of the child marriage laws in the us.
it seems that it is possible and relatively common for girls as young as 12 to marry men much, much older than them.
in many states it seems that child marriage is relatively easy to arrange.
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Why Jehovah witnesses don't say, "Bless you" ?
by Issa inbless you, that was a big sneeze you let out sister.. sister- ah, what does "bless you" mean?.
oh, it's pagan.
because people bless the soul of the person so they don't escape from their physical bodies.. sister- right, it is difficult to change the little things, but we can please jehovah by staying away from those things.. .... this is a scenario that happened when i accidentally (naturally) said "bless you" to the jw sister.
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darkspilver
FYI
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/66988/god-bless-you-when-you-sneeze
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/106713/reasoning-behind-no-god-bless-you-when-sneezing
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/38629/sneezes-should-say-bless-you-lol
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/78793/wrong-say-god-bless-you
etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_bless_you
https://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/blessyou.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responses_to_sneezing
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darkspilver
As a side note for background:
Before the year 2013, the legal age of consent for sexual relations in Croatia was 14.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#History_3
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darkspilver
FWIW I think John Davies and Londo111 are alluding to this?
https://en-gb.facebook.com/notes/lloyd-evans/the-gutter-of-ex-jw-activism/821188714726078/
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Why Jehovah witnesses don't say, "Bless you" ?
by Issa inbless you, that was a big sneeze you let out sister.. sister- ah, what does "bless you" mean?.
oh, it's pagan.
because people bless the soul of the person so they don't escape from their physical bodies.. sister- right, it is difficult to change the little things, but we can please jehovah by staying away from those things.. .... this is a scenario that happened when i accidentally (naturally) said "bless you" to the jw sister.
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darkspilver
Issa: Can anyone explain why the JWs don't say bless you, besides being "pagan"?
In the OP scenario: superstition
In other circumstances JWs believe it is OK, and NOT pagan, to say "(God), bless you."
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darkspilver
Fascinating, I'm just a lay-person, so this may be completely wrong (and not applicable to specific countries) but it seems that, and correct me again if I'm wrong....
Yes, you can have two Class Actions for the same thing - but both made up of different Plaintiffs.
But then the Defendant can then choose who to deal with which leads to a Class Action Reverse Auction
https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/08/class-actions-the-reverse-auction/
Each Class Action undercuts and reduces the settlement amount/deal in order to gain the advantage which becomes a Race to Judgment
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d8fc537a-9bac-42ec-8598-810f8c2e6052
It's a race as the first Class Action to reach judgment/settlement is, by res judicata, applicable to all Plaintiffs.
In addition, the Defendent can go with the Class Action with the plaintiff/s with the weakest case/s to secure the lowest/best deal via an actual judgment that, again, by res judicata, is then applicable to all Plaintiffs.
TL;DR - it seems that having two Class Actions for the same thing is possible, but this can work out to the Defendants advantage.
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Pale.Emperor Meets A Born Again Christian
by pale.emperor inof all the religions out there one religion that's always filled me with exasperation was the born again christian belief system.
to make matters worse, the street preachers i see and hear here in liverpool always tend to be crack pot, loud mouths, attention seeking and just plain annoying.. this idea that "im going to heaven, you're going to hell" is enough to make me not want to worship their god even if he did exist.
but today i met two.
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darkspilver
pale.emperor: To make matters worse, the street preachers i see and hear here in Liverpool always tend to be crack pot, loud mouths, attention seeking and just plain annoying.
Here's a typical example from Liverpool - gives a reasonable feeling for what it's like
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Change in CA?
by careful inhaving been out for a long time, i'm wondering in what year the change in circuit assemblies took place when they went from two days to just one.
anyone know for sure?.
thanks in advance..
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darkspilver
careful: Having been out for a long time
How long is 'a long time'?
The one-day 'Special Assembly Day' was introduced as a replacement for one of the two annual two-day circuit assemblies from September 1987.
Kingdom Ministry, February 1987
Simplification Helps Us to “Make Sure of the More Important Things”
ANNUAL CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY
By means of a letter from the Society, all congregations have learned that, starting September 1987, each circuit will have one circuit assembly a year.
SPECIAL ASSEMBLY DAY
For a number of years now, about half of the circuits in this country have had opportunity to hold a special event each year, featuring a speaker from Brooklyn Bethel. On such occasions a two- or three-hour program has been presented. The Society is adjusting this arrangement so that beginning September 1987, it will be possible for each circuit or section of a circuit to have a special assembly day.
This means that the first of these new one day 'Special Assembly Days' could have taken place on Saturday, September 5, 1987
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JC letter of invitation. Do they always get signed?
by StarTrekAngel ini was just shown a jc letter from a friend and i noticed that the bottom of it was signed by tree elders.
the letter specifically stated that it was an invitation to a "judicial committee" due to the brother having a marital relationship that was not aligned with bible principles.. i am asking because i remember reading experiences of brothers who demanded their jc be arranged over certified mail with signed letters to which elders refused to do.
since they could not get this done the matter was dropped and no dfing ever happened.
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DesirousOfChange: That's adultery.
No, it's not.... I believe in the OP's situation it seems that they are both single people and therefore it would be fornication.
Adultery is consensual sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse.
Fornication is consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other. When one of the partners to consensual sexual intercourse is a married person, it may be described as adultery.
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JC letter of invitation. Do they always get signed?
by StarTrekAngel ini was just shown a jc letter from a friend and i noticed that the bottom of it was signed by tree elders.
the letter specifically stated that it was an invitation to a "judicial committee" due to the brother having a marital relationship that was not aligned with bible principles.. i am asking because i remember reading experiences of brothers who demanded their jc be arranged over certified mail with signed letters to which elders refused to do.
since they could not get this done the matter was dropped and no dfing ever happened.
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darkspilver
StarTrekAngel: due to the brother having a marital relationship that was not aligned with bible principles.
StarTrekAngel: If I recall correctly he went to live with this woman without marrying her.
Ah right, solves that question: a marital relationship - ie he was 'living-in-sin', without the marriage.
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a marital relationship