A French-speaking friend gave an example of how picturesque French is in comparison to English or German.
English: Potato
German: Kartoffel
French: Pomme de terre (Literally "apple of the earth".)
"Pomme de terre" is my vote for this thread.
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favourite words...in any language
by new hope and happiness ini mean " courting" certainley sounds more dignified than " hanging out with a new squeeze".
" comely" is a word i think should be used more often".
i am going to try and use " jabberwockey" in a sentece today.. anyway do you have any favourite words, in any language?.
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I was 36 when I started posting here. This weekend I celebrated my 50th birthday!
by nicolaou inand i mean celebrated!
it was a cracking barbecue party for around 40 good friends and neighbours as well as my 'never jw' cousins and one of my brothers and his family.. .
drank a bit too much, embarrassed my kids with some 'dad dancing' and laughed until 2 in the morning.
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Happy Bday Nic!!
Glad you had a great time with family and friends and (I'm assuming) no beheadings.
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How long have you known TTATT and continued to participate?
by LostGeneration ini continue to be stunned by posters reporting on the convention, lamenting the convention, complaining about going in serve-us and meetings, and yet continuing to participate in these activities.. a simple question.
how long have you done these things, fully knowing it is absolute bullshit?.
i couldn't handle it for more than six months before i basically outed myself.
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Learned TTATT approx 7 years ago. Kept my elder hat (but slid out of almost all elder duties, including JCs) for approx 2.5 years. Used that time to educate myself on JWN and JWFacts and do strategic seed planting with my JW wife and unbaptized teenagers.
For us, it was 2.5 years VERY well spent. YMMV.
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Anti-Semitism & Wealth of Jewish Individuals
by objectivetruth inin a recent email conversation that i had with a jw friend, he brought up,the holocaust, as proof that jws were the true religion.
he said something to the effect of... "hitler targeted, jws because they serve jehovah.. hitler wanted them to renounce their faith as witnesses, if the witnesses didn't have the truth why would satan have hitler target them so brutally".
i responded "hitler put 6 million jews to death, and a few thousand witness's to death, what does this mean?".
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Pew Research points out a correlation between income and education for both Jews and Hindus.
The more religious Jews aren't as well off financially as the more secular Jews, but still do quite well compared to the US population in general.
Here's a link:
http://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/income-distribution-within-us-religious-groups/
If you download the PDF of the entire report, you'll see Jews broken out into two groups: conservative and reform.
It also depends on how you interpet the stats as to which group does better.
If you say that $75,000/year and above is doing well, then the Hindus win out. 65% of Hindus vs. 58% of Jews (conservative & reform combined) make over $75k/yr.
If you decide to focus on those who make over $100,000/yr, then Jews (once again including the higher-earning reform Jews) beat out the Hindus. 46% of Jews vs. 43% of Hindus make over $100k/yr.
The stats I enjoyed the most from Pew Research relate to JWs. JWs are almost at the bottom of the pile when it comes to education and income. But, they're #1 when it comes to adults who were raised in a religion and then left it.
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Anti-Semitism & Wealth of Jewish Individuals
by objectivetruth inin a recent email conversation that i had with a jw friend, he brought up,the holocaust, as proof that jws were the true religion.
he said something to the effect of... "hitler targeted, jws because they serve jehovah.. hitler wanted them to renounce their faith as witnesses, if the witnesses didn't have the truth why would satan have hitler target them so brutally".
i responded "hitler put 6 million jews to death, and a few thousand witness's to death, what does this mean?".
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"Jews are the wealthiest National Group on Average in America,"
Source? Methodology?
From my reading of the latest survey by Pew Research, Jews run a close second to the Hindus.
Particularly if you're trying to attibute their wealth to their adherance to the Torah. Now you're talking conservative Jews and they definitely were behind the Hindus. Reform Jews, who don't take the Torah as seriously, substantially edged out the Hindus for people making more than $100,000/yr. But conservative Jews were neck and neck with Hindus on the $100,000/yr category. And the Hindus totally came out ahead on people making more than $75,000/yr.
I'm curious where you got your numbers.
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Disturbing Footnote in Tomorrow's Study Article...
by HeyThere inarticle is basicqlly about families where a spouse is working away from home for an extended period, etc...a foot note says basically that some studies have shown that working away from home can cause serious consequences, such as infidelity, homosexuality, or incest.
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pull it up on jw.org...that is what it says.
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..A New TV Show About exJW`s??!!..
by OUTLAW in.. do you want to be on tv?.
reposted to help tv producers of ex-jw series: my name is shauna woods and i work for hot snakes media, an acclaimed television production company based in new york city.
we have developed and produced hit content for tlc, discovery, and travel channel among many others.
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Great news for Watchtower if Rick Fearon makes it onto this show.
He is the online equivalent of the sign-waving apostates at District Conventions.
He's got every right to do what he does, but it's HIGHLY counter-productive.
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c'mon USA !
by Simon inhoping you beat portugal and make it through to the last 16 !.
go usa !!
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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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c'mon USA !
by Simon inhoping you beat portugal and make it through to the last 16 !.
go usa !!
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TOUCHDOWN!!! USA!!!
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"Hello from Phats"
by phats inhay out there.. wife got back from her thursday meeting & now she's setteled down with the dog, a v large g&t (maid be me) & watching terminator 2 on the telly with her ipad on her lap looking up places to go for our holiday (& googling symptoms of to many antibiotics as my 16 year old is getting signs of ibs).
so now is a good time to say hello.. well hello.
my name is phats & i'm an ex jehovah's witness.. there, i've said it.. this must be like it is going to your first aa meeting.. i've already used up some of my posts for a newbe but i'm not in to the whole long story thing.. basically i've been out now for 8 years (mentally out for all but four or five of those years of my life when i made the commitment, got baptized & married.).
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Q: What would you call them if Phats was able to influence his ENTIRE FAMILY to wake up to TTATT?
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A: Phat's Dominoes!
(Groan, rimshot.) I'll be here all week.
Oh, and, WELCOME TO JWN!
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