Posts by St George of England

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Invitation

by jhine in

i just received a hand written envelope through the post containing an invitation to the online 2021 convenient.

i'm in staffs in the uk .

jan .

Once again there are no physical conventions this year. The idea is that you watch at home, the first session (Friday morning) will be watched this coming Sunday after an abbreviated WT Study. Over the next few weeks the rest of the convention will be released half a day at a time.

If you go onto the JW website and click what's new it will take you to Friday morning sessions. You can either watch or download for later viewing.

You can also download a programme and there is even a badge for you to wear to really get into the spirit of things!

I suggested to Sis England that we put our lunch in a cool box and stuff it under the seat whilst we watch but she didn't seem too enamoured by that somehow.

George

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Do You Love The Country You Are In or From?

by minimus in

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most people over the generations have taken pride in their heritage, nationality and country they are from.

it’s not uncommon to hear of “proud” italians and proud irish people , as an example.

are you proud of your country and your nationality or do you feel shame or indifference?.

St George of England

I am extremely proud to be English. As Cecil Rhodes said "To be born an Englishman means you have already won first prize in the lottery of life".

I feel absolutely no shame about England or Great Britain, even when we have done wrong in the past. It's what it is and we cannot rewrite history. Overall GB has been a force for good around the world. It can't be so bad or we wouldn't have hundreds of foreigners arriving on our shores every day.

As for those who complain about our past links with slavery and tear down statues, I would say it's too late late to help those slaves long gone. However, it's not too late to help rid our land of modern day slavery. In places such as Leicester and Bradford there are sweat shops packed with enslaved workers housed and working in unhuman conditions. Of course it may be uncomfortable to address these, along with grooming gangs as there will be a need to add the word "Asian" to these.

St George of England

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New site on reddit specifically for ---- GEN-X eXJW

by pistolpete in

yesterday or a few days ago a site started specifically for gen x -exjws.

it caters to those born in the 60s to around 70s and some 80s yesterday it had 2 members, today it has 102 members.

keep in mind that for most of these gen x, there was no internet, no mobile phone, heck, i don't think there was even cable tv.

St George of England

a chance to meet new girls i hadnt met before

Didn't you find them a bit boring Stan? What with JW girls being all so pure and innocent?..!!!!!!!!!

George

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Go Bag and Catastrophes

by StephaneLaliberte in

i live with my parents in law and yesterday, my mother in-law was very nervous about an email she got from the brothers in her congregation.

it was asking if she would be able to receive people over at our house should there be a catastrophe.

so, she asked me if i would agree with this.

St George of England

In some countries a "Go Bag" may be a good idea and in no way would I belittle any such preparation.

However, I think a "Stay Bag" is a far more useful concept especially for those of us in countries such as the UK. A good supply of food and materials kept in stock, not for some once in a lifetime event but for when there's more than an inch of snow lying outside and everything has ground to a standstill, or when you are ill and cannot be bothered to go out to the shops. I think the GB are just beginning to understand this, it was mentioned in one of their updates.

As others have mentioned, where are people going to go with their go bags? I remember in the 1970's the Fastnet Race disaster. I think about 14 or 15 people died. However, many abandoned their boats for a flimsy life raft only to die whilst their yacht remained afloat. It would have to be something very special to get me to leave the relative safety of home.

George

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Letter asking for RV’s

by wasser30 in

hello, my elder cousin from brazil wouldn’t believe they asked for rv’s here in the us.

i’ve been out for 20 years and i’m soft shunned by my family.

now my mom got sick and they are all trying to talk me into going back(no way on earth) and they keep on telling me how close armageddon is 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ i was watching kim and mikey and they mentioned the rv’s for lodging the ramapo workers.

St George of England

I thought an RV was a return visit. I had to look it up!

I don't think we use the term Recreational Vehicle in the UK, we call them Motorhomes or Caravettes.

George (older and more parochial by the day)

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The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

by Sea Breeze in

honda vfr 750.

St George of England

on my tweaked CB 750 K1 Honda 4 .

@wozza - Just imagine if you still had that bike now, what it would be worth. I know, I think that about every bike and some of the cars I have owned over the years.

George

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The First Time I Went Over 120mph (193kph) I Was In A ____________ ,

by Sea Breeze in

honda vfr 750.

St George of England

Jaguar 3.8 Mk 2, A46 Fosse Way downhill. 125mph indicated, I was 16 and the passenger.

Slightly faster since but on two wheels.

George

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Nebuchadnezzar's 37th year matches the year 588 or 568 BC?

by Vanderhoven7 in

anybody know something about vat 4956?.

nebuchadnezzar's 37th year matches the year 588 bc?

any independant astronomer can test it and it only matches 568 bc.. .

St George of England

I think the original quote above is probably from the Oct/Nov 2011 WT which was a two part discussion "proving" 607 BCE. As I recall it was written by Rolf Furuli whose academic work has long been discredited.

A couple of years ago he saw through the GB and wrote a book exposing them for which he was disfellowshipped.

There is a YouTube video that shows how to calculate Jerusalem's destruction was 586/7 using only WT sources.

George

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Did you think this was it for the Watchtower-(Covid)- Well-They are coming back with even greater ZEAL!

by pistolpete in

so you all probably heard that the awake magazine is back, .

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=g&yearfilter=.

and one of my jw relatives said they were told by some elders that meetings and field service will resume before the end of the year.. they said this covid virus was a test, like when the romans breached jerusalem and retreated, only to come back later and sack jerusalem.

St George of England

Who made the announcement above? The latest GB Update #4 didn't give that impression at all. It said that Bethelites had received the vaccination but it was a personal matter. Over 17,000 JW's have died of the virus. No mention of normal activities.

George

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Languages, Dialects, Accents

by LoveUniHateExams in

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just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.

first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.

red, arrow, break.

St George of England

The only Arabic words I know are "shufti" and "bint". Both words were in common use when I was at school.

My FIL used to say that when he was in North Africa during the war, kids would would try to sell the soldiers photos of naked women. They would show a couple of cards and say shufti bint (look at the girl) but when they had the soldier's money and they handed him an envelope of photos they only contained photos of local sights, pyramids etc.

George