What Trevor said about Northerns having accents so heavy that they are incomprehensible is partly correct as a part of them are indeed impossible to follow but not all are so.
Likewise there are some Scots Welsh and Irish that mince their words to the point of being unintelligible.
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Can't Americans Understand Plain English?
by Englishman ini watched an interesting film last night.
"a handful of dust" with kristen scott-thomas and alec guinness.. it wasn't bad, so this morning i idly took a peek at the write ups on the net, it being a movie made in the 80's.
to my astonishment, some american viwers were complaining that the movie didn't have any sub-titles!!!
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What was your breaking point?
by soundbox_guy inokay, i'm new as you all probably know, so my question may have been discussed several times in the past.
i'm just curious as to when some of you came to the conclusion that enough was enough and that you didn't want to attend the meetings anymore or not be a jw.
was it in field service, at home, at the hall?
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What Bonnie said about the heartless character of the JW organisation is typical not an exception to the rule, and it shows that the environment in this org is very strained and unnatural, people are here because they fear the big A and want to grab eternal life, not for real christian love or compassion and that creates a very poor and unsatisfactory atmosphere.
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Genesis 6:2 - The "sons of God"
by rocketman inwhile reading the niv study bible recently, i came across some interesting notes on genesis 6:1-4, concerning the situation before the flood in which the "sons of god saw the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.".
from what i had always understood (mainly by reading wts literature) these "sons of god" were angels that sinned by taking the daughters of men as sex partners.
however, the niv study bible, and some other bible commentators, mention that there were other possibilities:.
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greendawn
It had to be obvious that the sons of God were the angels because if the daughters of men were women then the men(males) would be the sons of men.
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What was your breaking point?
by soundbox_guy inokay, i'm new as you all probably know, so my question may have been discussed several times in the past.
i'm just curious as to when some of you came to the conclusion that enough was enough and that you didn't want to attend the meetings anymore or not be a jw.
was it in field service, at home, at the hall?
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greendawn
It was the lack of real warmth and brotherly love and the dictatorial style of rule by the GB where you couldn't make even the least constructive criticism due to the really stupid "new light in its due time" dogma.
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Who do they follow? Jesus - four pages. Faithful and Discreet Slave - seven
by jgnat inwhile searching for any stake references in the organized to do jehovah's will publication (c) 2004, i stumbled on this tidbit.
jesus gets four pages and a bit in chapter 2 under, "recognizing christ's role in god's arrangement".
by comparison, "trusting the "faithful and discreet slave" gets just under seven.
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greendawn
Down at heart they are thinking as people bound under the rigidity of the mosaic law, founder Russell was very much pro jewish.
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Who do they follow? Jesus - four pages. Faithful and Discreet Slave - seven
by jgnat inwhile searching for any stake references in the organized to do jehovah's will publication (c) 2004, i stumbled on this tidbit.
jesus gets four pages and a bit in chapter 2 under, "recognizing christ's role in god's arrangement".
by comparison, "trusting the "faithful and discreet slave" gets just under seven.
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greendawn
Jesus was to a great extent sent to the background and front stage was given to jehovah the god assosiated with the jews and the obsolete mosaic law.
What the dubs don't, or rather pretend that they don't realise is that the Father gave everything into the hand of the son including this earth and all its people. -
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Come quickly, Lord Jesus
by myelaine ini have found myself saying this more frequently lately.
do you want an end to this system, or do you want proof of god?
for myself, i am just broken hearted by the state of the world.
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The way things are in our days at least in the western democratic world are much better than what they had been 100 or 200 years ago, even though unfortunately far from perfect.
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no one to talk to
by jeeves ini guess this is my introductory post.. like many of you, i was raised as a witness.. like many of you, i'm no longer associated with them.. it still hangs over me like a plague.
it's really annoying.
i haven't been to a meeting in 4 years, i'm "out of the closet" - my parents know i'm no longer interested, my oldest brother won't talk to me... etc.
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Welcome Jeeves I am sure you will find many threads on this board helpful in shaking off the spell of the WTS and it's always good to vent feelings.
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80 more
by carla ini hit 80 more homes this morn with my brochures!
i behaved myself and used only the paperboxes.
those large sunday papers make such nice holders for these.
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greendawn
What kind of brochures do you distribute? Whatever they are I think the summer is a better time for this to be done rather than the winter.
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Can't Americans Understand Plain English?
by Englishman ini watched an interesting film last night.
"a handful of dust" with kristen scott-thomas and alec guinness.. it wasn't bad, so this morning i idly took a peek at the write ups on the net, it being a movie made in the 80's.
to my astonishment, some american viwers were complaining that the movie didn't have any sub-titles!!!
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greendawn
Pleasuredome, microsoft windows, or word have English UK and English United States. But the two versions are not different enough to be hard to understand, do any Brits have problems understanding Hollywood films?
Some words differ like: period=full stop, sodas=soft drinks, diapers=nappies
but not much of a difference.