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  Older JWs who go Overseas to Live

  by LongHairGal in

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  i know of two older couples who have gone overseas to live in recent years.

  one could be classified in my opinion as a “need greater” although i think it might also have to do with getting more for their money.

  the other i think was seeking out a cheaper and more naturally beautiful environment to live in their retirement years.. what i wondered is if these people are disenchanted and bored with life in the states.

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  stan livedeath

  i live " overseas" from England UK....on the isle of Wight. but its only a 20 minute fast ferry ride away. like most who moved here--it started with summer holidays. i moved when i was 23--most wait till they retire.

  when i did move here--i was stll attending meetings--and within 12 months other families also moved in, the congregation doubled in size.

  its a peaceful place to live..mild climate most of the year. the reason many retire here is financial downsizing. anyone selling up in London can buy similar here for a quarter of the price--yet its only 70 miles away.
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  Jehovah's house for Sale?

  by JohnTron72 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  when i drive by the kingdom hall i grew up attending at but, was sold directly to a church, i get angry.

  the elders who handled the sale didn't even remove the watchtower shaped bricks on each side of the sign near the street so, now they advertise for a baptist church.

  how many times as i grew up i heard things like: you should not do work ( such as clean carpets for a church) you wouldn't want to work at a cigarette making plant or a facility that makes bombs for the military.

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  stan livedeath

  jehovah has left the building.

  (good first post by the way )
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  Gangs brawl in a Birmingham Cinema UK

  by punkofnice in

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  2. friends

  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10409135/birmingham-star-city-fight-evacuated-blue-story-gang/.

  i don't normally bother with the gutter press, but this was interesting.. what they didn't show was that the faces of the kids, probably due to their age.. i saw the picture before it was pixelled out.

  interesting that the kids with the machettes looked like members of the religion of peace.. just sayin'.. interesting to see what low life scum the film was about.. good grief, can't the jobos be right and armageddon(tm) come?.

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  stan livedeath

  these violent kids are not "immigrants"--they are all born here--even their parents--and probably grandparents. they are beyond the law and any parental control. so we need a radically different control method.

  like this:

  widely publicise an inter-gang fight..to take place on a specific date--at a vacant football stadium. sell lots of tickets to spectators. gangs then fight each other on the pitch. sounds familiar ? but no firearms allowed--only hand held weapons of each gang members choice. when the whistle blows--the gangs have at each other. any left standing after 90 minutes are shot.

  the romans would have loved this.

  any better ideas ?
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  Gangs brawl in a Birmingham Cinema UK

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10409135/birmingham-star-city-fight-evacuated-blue-story-gang/.

  i don't normally bother with the gutter press, but this was interesting.. what they didn't show was that the faces of the kids, probably due to their age.. i saw the picture before it was pixelled out.

  interesting that the kids with the machettes looked like members of the religion of peace.. just sayin'.. interesting to see what low life scum the film was about.. good grief, can't the jobos be right and armageddon(tm) come?.

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  Gangs brawl in a Birmingham Cinema UK

  by punkofnice 11 hours ago 12 Replies latest 2 minutes ago jw friends

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    stan livedeath32 minutes ago

    so--whats your solution Cofty ?

    these fights were obviously pre planned.

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    cofty8 minutes ago

    24 violent incidents in VUE venues in one day all around England. I submit this is just what happens when wannabe little gangsters encounter each other.

    Solution?

    How would I know?

    There is a cultural norm in the black community of kids with absent fathers running feral and joining gangs to make fast drugs money because stuff like studying at school and learning a trade isn't cool.

  in fact--i saw the fore runner of all this 50+ years ago--in birmingham. many areas were no-go even then.
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  Gangs brawl in a Birmingham Cinema UK

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10409135/birmingham-star-city-fight-evacuated-blue-story-gang/.

  i don't normally bother with the gutter press, but this was interesting.. what they didn't show was that the faces of the kids, probably due to their age.. i saw the picture before it was pixelled out.

  interesting that the kids with the machettes looked like members of the religion of peace.. just sayin'.. interesting to see what low life scum the film was about.. good grief, can't the jobos be right and armageddon(tm) come?.

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  stan livedeath

  I think part of the solution is zero tolerance by police and local communities.

  
  

  agreed.
  
  
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  How old is old?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  having a conversation with a pimi elder and i asked him how he deals with the fact that he never expected to get old.

  i get the feeling that some dubs still have the original generation explanation hard-wired, even though they claim to accept the new version.

  so my question is, how old do you have to be to be considered old?

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  stan livedeath

  i'm 71..and feel great. ive got CHD and COPD ...but ive also got a lovely wife 23 years younger than me--who looks half her age--and keeps me fit. shes also a trained carer so ive no worries.
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  Gangs brawl in a Birmingham Cinema UK

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10409135/birmingham-star-city-fight-evacuated-blue-story-gang/.

  i don't normally bother with the gutter press, but this was interesting.. what they didn't show was that the faces of the kids, probably due to their age.. i saw the picture before it was pixelled out.

  interesting that the kids with the machettes looked like members of the religion of peace.. just sayin'.. interesting to see what low life scum the film was about.. good grief, can't the jobos be right and armageddon(tm) come?.

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  stan livedeath

  so--whats your solution Cofty ?

  these fights were obviously pre planned.
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  Gangs brawl in a Birmingham Cinema UK

  by punkofnice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10409135/birmingham-star-city-fight-evacuated-blue-story-gang/.

  i don't normally bother with the gutter press, but this was interesting.. what they didn't show was that the faces of the kids, probably due to their age.. i saw the picture before it was pixelled out.

  interesting that the kids with the machettes looked like members of the religion of peace.. just sayin'.. interesting to see what low life scum the film was about.. good grief, can't the jobos be right and armageddon(tm) come?.

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  stan livedeath

  just leave em to fight it out. nothing new about youth gang fights.
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  Everybody's getting old

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  at an assembly in texas is it me or are there not too many young folk about 😉.

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  stan livedeath

  Oh, except that strange guy that has come for years and everyone tries to avoid because he is a pain....

  
  

  and what about all those who only show up for the passover memorial or whatever its called now.

  we used to call them the nisan kids: just getting their armageddon card stamped.
  
  
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  Anyway coming back from my blunder?

  by Crazyguy2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my oldest boy got pissed that i started going back to meetings so i had one last conversation with him as he moved out.

  (only went back to try and not loose whole family) during the conversation things got a bit heated and i mentioned a couple of false prophecies in the bible the rest of family heard so now they think i don’t believe at all.

  guess their right think my going back was just a ruse, yes that’s true to.

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  stan livedeath

  further to my above post, let me explain..

  i had been a pioneer in my teens--and a servant in my early 20's. i gave public talks both home and away. i had a few parts at circuit assemblies.

  i resigned at a jw in 1971. i told the overseer i no longer wanted to be considered a jw because i didnt believe in god--therefore most of the doctrines were meaningless to me. but i would attend some meetings for the sake of my wife, but take no part in it. he accepted this--no announcement was made..i was not d/f. i still had many friends who were still jw's. i did attend occasional meetings when my wife nagged or bribed me into going. no one shunned me.

  i wonder if this would work nowadays ?