By now, Leolaia, you have gotten all the information thanks to our British JWD friends. I've known about Gail Trimble only through English e-papers, no more. By the way, this young Gail has a terrific word flow on the BBC interview video, her synapses are obviously quite well irrigated. Makes me feel so clumsy, let alone in English.
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Has Leolaia moved to Oxford, England ?
by aligot ripounsous incan't help being impressed by similar profiles of our leolaia and that young british student, gail trimble, who won the university challenge on bbc 4: they both are linguistic scholars in latin and greek and, yes, they even look alike, imo.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/22/university-challenge-trimble.
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Has Leolaia moved to Oxford, England ?
by aligot ripounsous incan't help being impressed by similar profiles of our leolaia and that young british student, gail trimble, who won the university challenge on bbc 4: they both are linguistic scholars in latin and greek and, yes, they even look alike, imo.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/22/university-challenge-trimble.
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aligot ripounsous
Can't help being impressed by similar profiles of our Leolaia and that young British student, Gail Trimble, who won the University challenge on BBC 4: they both are linguistic scholars in latin and greek and, yes, they even look alike, IMO.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/22/university-challenge-trimble
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How Many Here Had To Go Into "The Backroom"?
by minimus inwere you ever called into "the backroom"?
why??
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aligot ripounsous
About three months ago, after the WT meeting, an elder said to me that he wanted us to have a chat in the backroom, because I was decidedly too much of a stumbling block in my comments. I told him I was ready to talk but didn't see any reason to go in the backroom as if I were a sinner. Instead, I asked a wider minded elder to join in the conversation in the hall, so that everybody could hear us and I made sure that I was speaking loud enough. The conversation actually took place exclusively between that second elder and me, the fisrt one felt he was 'de trop' and slipped away. Came back to my place on a sheperding call 2 weeks ago with the same elder but that's another story.
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Do You still Believe Some of the Doctrines?
by cameo-d ineven if you have left the jws are there still bits and pieces of the doctrines you still believe?.
what doctrines do you still believe that are taught by the wt?.
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One unique god, no trinity, Jesus sacrifice, no eternal torments, paradise earth hope, maybe heavenly class (but who belongs ? don't know).
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Is it possible that we are ruining the earth?
by Bubblie insaw robert f. kennedy, jr. give a lecture on "it's not easy being green" and "crimes against nature" last night at utc.
he really knows his stuff about what is going on with the environment.
he talked about how the coal mining in west virginia has torn down large mountains because they dump the rocks and soil into the rivers then the mountains are gone.
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Wouldn't you think Jehovah would be very oppressive...especially if he allowed the likes of Watchtower bullies to run the show?
Cameo,
I know all too well that this organization is oppressive and the last thing I want is living eternally under its rule, 30 years have been enough for me, thanks. The fact that they claim to represent Jehovah doesn't mean it's true. Now, in true JW way, I think that since Jehovah created a beautiful earth for mankind to live upon, He can't be oppressive but we can do little more than wait and see what He will do. I said I've hope, that doesn't imply having answers to so many question marks.
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Is it possible that we are ruining the earth?
by Bubblie insaw robert f. kennedy, jr. give a lecture on "it's not easy being green" and "crimes against nature" last night at utc.
he really knows his stuff about what is going on with the environment.
he talked about how the coal mining in west virginia has torn down large mountains because they dump the rocks and soil into the rivers then the mountains are gone.
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Well, I'm quite convinced (30 years JWism ?) that men will simply never be able to make it as far as managing resources of the earth in responsible and equitable ways is concerned, because the rich want to remain rich and the poor think that they have a right to drive 4WD too. Amazonian forest is reported to have shrunk by 17% between 2000 and 2005 and who is acting in a practical way to prevent it ? American troops swept through Iraq for less than that. And if a planetary authority were set up to rein in greediness, it would soon become oppressive. That's why I keep hoping that Jehovah will step in, but how and when, if ever ?
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Guide to the UK for Americans
by besty ininspired by a recent post and a long standing amusement at the various ways some americans display their geography skillz with regard to my home nation and their country of origin in some cases.. defintions:.
geography.
1 - the british isles geographically describes the archipelago lying off western europe and includes 'everything'.
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aligot ripounsous
In some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is.
They say the same with the way Quebekers pronounce French, which would be close to 16th to 18th century historic language.
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Your favourite wise quote? Mine is...
by Newborn in"don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened".
(do i dare to think what may come from oompa, joe d, outlaw etc).
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aligot ripounsous
When you've got the teeth, you haven't got the bread,
Once you've got the bread, you haven't got teeth anymore
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Guide to the UK for Americans
by besty ininspired by a recent post and a long standing amusement at the various ways some americans display their geography skillz with regard to my home nation and their country of origin in some cases.. defintions:.
geography.
1 - the british isles geographically describes the archipelago lying off western europe and includes 'everything'.
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aligot ripounsous
[Airbus] are great aircraft.
and so handy when it comes to safe ditching
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Guide to the UK for Americans
by besty ininspired by a recent post and a long standing amusement at the various ways some americans display their geography skillz with regard to my home nation and their country of origin in some cases.. defintions:.
geography.
1 - the british isles geographically describes the archipelago lying off western europe and includes 'everything'.
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aligot ripounsous
That explains why the EU's operating language is German. er no actually , it used to be French, but now is English
English is the operating language within the UE, no question about that. Now, in working committees and assemblies where interpreting is needed, there are 3 pivotal languages, English, French and German, owing to translating cost pressure, so that if the portuguese member wants to understand the finnish representative, he will hear him translated through these 3 languages. Same thing with working papers.