Angharad

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  How (not) to destroy a thread and turn it into a battleground

  by Terry in

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  we are adults here and don't want jwn to reflect a hostile enviornment for lurkers who may.

  wish to learn about the watchtower.

  many first timers might be very curious to discover whether.

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  Angharad

  Apologists are welcome here, as long as they stick to the rules of debate

  Surely this goes both ways? I could point to many examples where someone is labelled a troll after making only 1 or 2 posts because people disagree with them.

  Sometimes we get people here who only want to rile people up and pop in and out of threads making off topic comments etc but there are many times when new people are not even given the chance to have a debate because some people take offense over their first post and they are labelled from that point on.
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  How (not) to destroy a thread and turn it into a battleground

  by Terry in

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  2. friends

  we are adults here and don't want jwn to reflect a hostile enviornment for lurkers who may.

  wish to learn about the watchtower.

  many first timers might be very curious to discover whether.

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  Angharad

  Calling "witness apologists" idiots and eggheads and all manner of insults does nothing to forward the discussion, except to satisfy some urge to beat up on some (hopefully) sincere poster that the group doesn't agree with. Debate ideas. Don't attack posters. Such behaviour is what almost prevented me from joining this board in the first place.

  I completely agree, people should not be so quick to throw around the "troll" label. Just because you disagree with what someone is saying does not make them a troll. There seems to be a few people that make it their mission to sniff out apologists and then hound them off the board - weren't many of us apologists at some point?
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  JWN Is Not The Same Place It Was Years Ago . . .

  by PublishingCult in

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  td made the following statement over in another thread, and so i thought it would make a good topic of its own.. jwn is not the same place it was years ago and years from now, it won't be the same place as it is today.. how has jwn changed over the years, old timers?

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  No there used to be a chat room, but we ended up having to take it down. You never know it may come back at some point
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  Bill Bowen of Silent Lambs?

  by PublishingCult in

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  apparently, i am so out of the loop and did not know bill bowen has been disfellowshipped from jwn.. could someone kindly give me the short version or post a link that lays out the narrative so that i can understand what happened with him .

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  Angharad

  No one is "disfellowshipped" from this forum. People who break the posting guidelines however can have their account deactivated, as happens on thousands on non-JW related internet forums everyday.
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  Six Screens

  by minimus in

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  any opinion that you'd like to share regarding six screens?.

  (i don't get the fascination, but rick has succeeded in making us know his site, hasn't he?

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  I think most people have given their opinions on the mulitple other threads, so I'm wondering what the point of this one is !
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  Help me understand the burning of the Qur'an

  by jam in

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  the us embassy over ran, 12 kill in retaliation for the burning.

  of the qur'an by that nut job here in the us.. a few questions, first of all the qur'an that was burn, was.

  it the original copy, no.

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  I think some of the comments on this thread are disgusting and offensive, so you would happily bomb a whole country over the actions of a few extremists?

  Please refer to Guideline 2

  Inciting hatred on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality or sexuality or other personal characteristic
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  Angie THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

  by mouthy in

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  sorry to be a dumb arse!!!!!

  thanks again i love you for all you have done for me .

  in the 10 years we have contacted each other.

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  Angharad

  Glad you're back !!!
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  looky looky - A 'real' J-dub forum! (are they becoming normal???)

  by Reality79 in

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  so did the 'da society' give these dub internet savvies permission to start a forum?

  because last i checked, the ole boys in their oversized brooklyn bunker didn't want their members on the internet unless it was to view their own official websites.

  i thought maybe it was an apostate forum until i read their long winded, typically condescending jdub style membership guidelines:.

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  Angharad

  Mr Mustard - I have removed your posts containing personal information, you cannot use this forum as a means to organise harrassment of others, because you disagree with their beliefs.
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  Anyone from Canada? Thinking of emigrating there...

  by teel in

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  title almost says it all.

  i'm sure there are some canadians here, so please voice your oppinion - am i out of my mind to move there, or is it the best decision of my life?

  - of course the answer is somewhere in between, but feel free to be extreme if you want to .

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  There's a weird cultural phenomena called "Tim Horton's". It's a coffee and doughnut shop. Nothing special, except that nearly every Canadian is addicted!

  hmmm Tim Horten's in the morning, does that make me a real Canadian now?

  I love the I am Canadian advert!

  Yes, as Jgnat say we moved over at a really bad time as the house market had rocketed but we had to take the opportunity while it was there, things aren't quite so crazy now though.

  On that note thought one thing that can be a challenge is when you first arrive you will have zero credit history and so it can be difficult to secure a mortgage / car loans etc might not be so bad now though, even if you can show you history from your home country it counts for nothing really . It doesn't take too long to get things going but they make you jump through a lot more hoops in this respect so make sure you have lots of documentation and are prepared for a lot of questions !
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  Anyone from Canada? Thinking of emigrating there...

  by teel in

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  title almost says it all.

  i'm sure there are some canadians here, so please voice your oppinion - am i out of my mind to move there, or is it the best decision of my life?

  - of course the answer is somewhere in between, but feel free to be extreme if you want to .

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  Angharad

  Best thing we ever did when we moved from UK to Canada

  We also were in the position on not having degree's so we both got our degrees through the Open University (not sure if you are currently in UK). Simon secured a job offer and we moved over on a work permit, we were then able to fast track our permanent residence application. Getting a degree will also give you extra points on the application to move here.

  The Winters are a shock to the system but you get used to it (sort of !).