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  YOUNG PEOPLE ASK Should I Grow a Beard?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. social
  2. humour

  ok, ok, so the actual title of the article released today on jw-org is "young people askshould i get a tattoo?

  ", but i thought i'd replace some words and phrases from the actual article, as follows:"regardless of the motive, you should think long and hard before deciding to have anything growing out of .

  your skin!

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  YOUNG PEOPLE ASK Should I Grow a Beard? - er, not if you're a Spanish woman ...
  
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  Daisy Ridley (the actress who plays Rey in Star Wars) faces an SJW backlash

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  so, it's been said before how the left ends up eating its own.. and now we have the case of star wars actress - can i say 'actress'?

  - daisy ridley ('rey').. in a recent guardian article, she essentially denies her privilege by saying that her star wars co-star john boyega ('finn') is just as privileged as she is.. daisy ridley descends from the fitz-corbetts (landed gentry) on her mother's side; her paternal grandfather was high up in the bbc and she went to a fee-paying school.

  and john boyega grew up on a peckham council estate.

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  So, it's been said before how The Left ends up eating its own.

  And now we have the case of Star Wars actress - can I say 'actress'? - Daisy Ridley ('Rey').

  In a recent Guardian article, she essentially denies her privilege by saying that her Star Wars co-star John Boyega ('Finn') is just as privileged as she is.

  Daisy Ridley descends from the Fitz-Corbetts (landed gentry) on her mother's side; her paternal grandfather was high up in the BBC and she went to a fee-paying school.

  And John Boyega grew up on a Peckham council estate.

  Er, yeah, nice one Daisy.

  TBH, I don't really think she deserves much of a backlash or to be 'cancelled' ... it's just pretty amusing when the 'Liberal-Left' eats one of its own.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSffGblEB6I
  
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  Friday 13th - UK political-mageddon!

  by The Fall Guy in

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  2. current

  far from uniting the british people, the election result on black friday will go down in history books as the day the brexit chasm got wider & deeper imo.

  whatever the result, thanks to the past 42 months of unprecedented political bitterness many people's attitudes will harden.

  there won't be many "good losers.".

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  Expect a huge amount of postal votes and proxy votes (cough, cough) ...
  
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  What Do You Think About Organized Sit Ins That Are Disruptive?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  marches, sit ins, traffic blocking is the new normal for people to demonstrate.

  they block highways, state buildings and roadways.

  they may even get arrested but invariably get turned loose by the courts.. i think it’s disgraceful to demonstrate this way.

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  @Min - well, people have the right to peaceful protest.

  Are people from Extinction Rebellion who sit in the road and glue themselves to lamp posts 'peacefully protesting'?

  Well, they're seriously pushing the boundaries as they disrupt everyone else's lives.

  Peaceful protest shouldn't disrupt ordinary citizens and commuters as they go about their daily lives.
  
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  What Do You Think About Organized Sit Ins That Are Disruptive?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  marches, sit ins, traffic blocking is the new normal for people to demonstrate.

  they block highways, state buildings and roadways.

  they may even get arrested but invariably get turned loose by the courts.. i think it’s disgraceful to demonstrate this way.

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  Bring out the water cannons, I say ... hose these b*****ds down! XD
  
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  Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays & a Safe & Prosperous New year to all of you for 2020

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was just looking at some happy holidays / xmas cards some of us sent each other at the close of 2016 of the cards i received only a few of them have your jwn name on them ,the other `s gave me their real names which i cant reveal here.. however this post is for everybody that is on this forum not just to the few i`m referring to.just to clarify .. and i was going to send greetings to you all this year for 2020.. one was from hawaii.

  milwaukee.

  berlin.

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  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  كل عام وانت بخير

  Kull 'aam wa-antum bikhair ('every year and you are well' - may you be well every year).
  
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  JW's revelling in their online statistic...

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...that their web site is the most translated in the world.. https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-website.php.

  do jw's genuinely believe that statistics prove divine backing?

  you can fool some of the people some of the time...there are lies, damned lies, and statistics!.

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  Some good posts making decent points.

  If statistics is really evidence of God's blessing ... well, think of the billions of Catholics and Muslims the world over.

  Yes folks, God really is speeding up His message due to the sheer number of adherents of Catholicism and Islam!
  
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  Looking back at the people I knew in the Jobos.....

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...there are very few if any, that i would have willingly associated with.. my 'worldly(tm)' friends are all brilliant people.

  they are nothing like the weirdos i had to put up with in the congregations.. what is your take on the people in the jobos as opposed to your associates now?.

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  I don't think it's fair to say all JWs are weirdoes. I had some decent friends.

  But I agree, my 'worldly' friends I left behind are much better.

  I've since friended 11 of them on FaceBook. Some of them, I asked, some of them asked me to be friends.

  One woman who's the same age as me, asked to be my friend on FB ... she was my friend from age 12 to 15 - we hadn't spoken in 24 years!
  

  But not one of my JW friends have hit me up on FB.

  Not one, and I did a gentle fade, I didn't become an Evil Apostate TM. That says something.
  
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  Johnson and the NHS

  by jhine in

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  we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

  another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

  what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

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  Conservatives consistently underfund the NHS when they are in power - yes, I mentioned this in an earlier post. I said the Tories may usually underfund it. But Jhine's OP asked whether the tories would sell it off. All available evidence says no, they won't do that.

  The Scottish NHS performs better and the Conservatives don’t control the NHS in Scotland - that may well be a factor but it doesn't cover the state of the NHS elsewhere, outside of Scotland.

  The reality is that immigration levels shot up in the late 90s under Labour, and that this has an effect, and the tories haven't properly sorted it out, either.
  
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  Johnson and the NHS

  by jhine in

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  we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

  another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

  what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

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  The NHS has gotten worse over time, under the fag end of the last Labour government, under the coalition government, and under the Tory governments since 2015.

  Unmanaged immigration - legal and illegal - puts pressure on public services, including the NHS. That is just a fact that cannot be swept under the carpet.

  A good proportion of those who will depend on the NHS in coming years will figure this out and vote accordingly.

  And please withdraw your accusation of me blaming immigrants - I did no such thing.

  I actually blamed the UK's high population density plus the immigration policies of successive UK governments, not the immigrants themselves.