New Worldly Translation
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Strange days
by New Worldly Translation ini haven't had chance to post on jwd recently but reading some posts the last few months it seems that many friends on the board are going through rough times because of the jehovah`s witness cult.
my heart goes out to them and hope everything turns out well especially those who have been rejected by spouses, children and family or maybe have the prospect of being shunned if they act according to their conscience.
i don't know what`s going on at the meetings as i haven't set foot in one for 4 years but it seems jw's are being whipped up into another armageddon frenzy and are therefore putting pressure on ex-jw's to rejoin.
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Is the UK failing it's children?
by New Worldly Translation inthere was an interesting program on bbc's newsnight about the recently released unicef report on child well-being.
the uk came bottom of the list with scandanavian countries and the netherlands top.
this report comes after another list placing the uk 37th in the best countries to live in the world, below such places as latvia and panama (no offence to those respective countries but we in the uk, maybe being delusional, expect to be higher).
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Infidel Guy interview
by New Worldly Translation inthe always excellent infidel guy, aka reggie finley has a new interview on his site with harry hardwick the pastor of landover baptists.. http://infidelguy.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=177565.
hilarious stuff for freethinkers and fans of the landover satire .
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Just finished a great book
by New Worldly Translation ini've just finished the prince of the marshes by rory stewart.
it's an account of his time as deputy governer of provinces in iraq and his disillusionment with the direction of the coalition and their misunderstanding of the middle east.
he's one of the few western writers who gives an honest and knowledgable account and opinon of what's going on and he manages to do it without seeming judgemental to either side.. for people not interested in politics his book the places in between is one of the best travel accounts i've read.
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Parents congregation disbanding
by New Worldly Translation inmy parents told me that the do has advised the cong that it's going to close due to there not being enough publishers in it (why didn't he just say people .
it is a very small cong with about 35 people in it but they have enough elders and everyone was happy being in it.
apart from being dubs they actually are a genuinely nice bunch of people and i feel a bit sorry for them having to get split up against their wishes.. the hall is split into two congs, with the other half having about 140 publishers, and i asked why they didn't just ask some from the other half to support theirs.
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WT magazines in different territories
by New Worldly Translation inwhen i was a jw i always had a question that i don't think i ever got to the bottom of.. it was do the jw's in different countries get different versions of the watchtower and awake magazines?.
it always struck me that the magazines were always very america-centric and a lot of the issues addressed wouldn't be applicable to jw's overseas.
living in the uk i found some of the articles to be extremely patronising and i could only imagine what an african or russian jw reading them would be thinking.. there were articles about conserving money by only taking one holiday a year or only having one car in the family.
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Disfellowshipped anointed
by New Worldly Translation init's not very often my mother brings up jw stuff with me cos she knows my opinion on it.
tonight however she mentioned that she had answered up incorrectly at the book study this week and she wanted to know what my take on it was.. the question was can disfellowshipped anointed ones come back into the org and still claim they are of the anointed?.
my mum said no and i thought no too, but apparently they can or so the group leader said.
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2006 Drama
by New Worldly Translation ini just heard that my brother has been picked to be one of the main parts in the drama at this years district convention .
i thought this was hilarious when my mother told me tonight.
i said was he gonna be jezebel so my mum thinking i was been sarcastic and derogatory about it changed the subject.
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Hello, hope everyone is fine and dandy
by New Worldly Translation inhi dudes & dudesses,.
i haven't posted on here for a while, so i thought i'd say hi.. i left off visiting the forum last year cos i figured i needed to forget all about the jw's and re-invent myself and my life.
harder than i thought though as all my family are jw's and infuriating as they are, they're pretty much the only friends i have at the moment.
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Aversion to Polo mints
by New Worldly Translation ini don't know if anyone else has this affliction along with an aversion to trebor extra strong mints.
it goes back to my days attending the kingdom hall and taking a packet of mints to suck on and pass the time.
mints being the only food type allowed at meeting time i seem to recall.
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