Black tea is what every one in the UK calls just tea.
Slidin Fast
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Can you get disfellowship for kissing a person of the same sex?
by pistolpete ini found this on exjwreddit.
a pimo elder is in the middle of an event where a former co allegedly kissed a brother from another hall.. the co denied it so the other elders are frustrated because they can't have a judicial meeting.
if true, can he be disfellowshipped?
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Slidin Fast
Don't forget the latest standard "blatant".
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Tennis Controversy in Australia
by smiddy3 inapr 20, 2020. novak djokovic sparks a backlash after publicly opposing the covid-19 vaccine.
he says: “personally, i am opposed to vaccination, and i wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine in order to be able to travel.”.
asked by sky news australia anchor danica de giorgio why djokovic was granted the visa in the first place, the home affairs minister said: “they’re entirely separate processes”.. “to gain entry to australia you need both – you actually need the visa, which is determined quite separately, and then you have to meet the entry requirements,” she said.. “i know that people are putting the two issues together, but the visa application process and the granting of a visa is very separate to the additional entry requirements that every traveller needs to meet to be able to enter australia.”.
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Slidin Fast
I agree with you Smiddy. You have every right to be an antivaxer. You don't have the right to avoid the consequences of that decision. The bloke is an arrogant ass.
He is an excellent tennis player but his grasp on reality is a little less secure.
In his book Serve to Win, Djokovic described how in 2010 he met with a nutritionist who asked him to hold a piece of bread in his left hand while he pressed down on his right arm. Djokovic claims he was much weaker while holding the bread, and cited this as evidence of gluten intolerance.
During an Instagram live, he claimed that positive thought could "cleanse" polluted water, adding that "scientists have proven that molecules in water react to our emotions."
If you want to learn tennis strokes he is a great example, probably the best, don't go to him for medical or immigration legal advice though.
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100 Years of Watchtower Grand Totals!
by Atlantis ingrandpa's watchtower totals.
100 years of watchtower grand totals combined in a 3,518 page pdf, which is bookmarked and searchable.
(if you find my coffee creamer in there send it back!
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Slidin Fast
I think tat deserves a warming cup of luxury hot chocolate with some buttery Scottish shortbread. Whoever put all this together, well done.
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Funny JW website
by RolRod inanyone ever seen this website?
it's clone of jw.org only from xjw point of view.
jehovah’s witnesses—official counter website: accessjw.org.
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Slidin Fast
Enjoy it whilst it lasts. I can't see it surviving long. Great job though!
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2021-November-18--Pioneers!
by Atlantis in2021-11-18--pioneers.
click the image to make it larger.. .
https://postimg.cc/4nydmk0j.
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Slidin Fast
Thanks mate. I think you will have to go into a clinic to cope with caffeine withdrawal. Here's a nice mug of camomile tea, whatever that is.
On the memo,
Those who do not think that they will have the circumstances to reach the annual hour requirement once the pandemic subsides should not be approved as new regular pioneers.
Now they say it. They have signed up bucketloads of pioneers during the pandemic because there is currently no hour requirement. Such foresight eh?
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The Flip Side to WT Scientist denies evolution articles.
by Slidin Fast inhttps://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/10/26/meet-acclaimed-doctor-whose-parents-tried-block-her-college/5831248001/.
her parents tried to stop her from going to college; now, she's a world-class oncologist.
great story..
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Her parents tried to stop her from going to college; now, she's a world-class oncologist
Dr. Karen M. Winkfield, director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, still feels the pain of being disowned by her Jehovah's Witness parents 33 years later
BRAD SCHMITT | Nashville Tennessean
When President Biden appointed her last month to the National Cancer Advisory Board, Dr. Karen M. Winkfield was thrilled — and really sad.
Winkfield wanted to share her joy with her husband, but he died three years ago.
And Winkfield wanted to celebrate with her parents, who are still alive — but they disowned her 33 years ago.
For going to college.
Her parents are Jehovah's Witnesses, a denomination that warns believers against secular college because non-believer professors and students "can erode thinking and convictions." Its leaders also say the world will be ending soon, and college is a waste of time that would be better used trying to convert people to save their souls, according to videos on the Jehovah's Witnesses website.
Dr. Karen Winkfield is a radiation oncologist, researcher, and executive director at Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance in Nashville, President Biden appointed her to the National …Show more
STEPHANIE AMADOR / THE TENNESSEAN
Pew Research shows only 12 percent of Jehovah's Witnesses had college degrees in 2014, compared to a national average of about 30 percent.
When Winkfield decided to go to college, her father wrote a letter to her high school administrators saying he would disown her if she did so.
"It still hurts," Winkfield said through tears in her office on the Meharry Medical College campus. "I'm 50-something years old, and I still feel what I felt back then.
"And it's haunted me because I never fully felt like i could be my authentic self. I couldn't be who I felt like I was meant to be. I couldn't understand why a parent would cut someone off for that."
Winkfield said her parents essentially made good on their promise. She has only seen them a few dozen times since she graduated high school.
Her parents weren't there for her medical school graduation or her wedding or her daughter's high school or college graduations. (Her parents did show up for her college graduation weekend, but not the actual graduation, and her parents also visited her shortly after the birth of Winkfield's daughter.)
Even as a kid, though, the Jehovah's Witnesses proved to be challenging for Winkfield because the family first belonged to another denomination when she was a little girl.
No birthday party cupcakes
She grew up in a racially diverse part of Long Island, N.Y., but went to school with mostly rich, white kids. Before going to elementary school, Winkfield remembers birthday parties and big, fun holiday family celebrations.
That ended when she was 5 when her father declared it would be the family's last Christmas. Her mother decided to convert from Episcopalian to Jehovah's Witnesses, which meant some confusing changes for the kids — no more pagan holiday (like Halloween or birthdays), no more pledging allegiance to a flag instead of to God.
And no more hanging out with non-believers outside of school.
Dr. Karen M. Winkfield at her office on Meharry's campus: "There's still a part of me that simply just longs to hear my parents say, … Show more
STEPHANIE AMADOR / THE TENNESSEAN
"I very much lived two lives," Winkfield said. "We were all in on holidays and the hard stop.
"There were times where I’m sitting in the corner in first grade because I couldn't celebrate birthdays, and I always felt like I did something wrong, so that’s why I couldn’t have a cupcake," she said.
"I felt different, ostracized, and other. I’m already different enough, being Black in a predominantly Jewish school."
Still, Winkfield was both smart and competitive, and she was in the running to be valedictorian of her high school class when it dawned on her that she likely wouldn't go to college.
After all, her older siblings didn't. So senior year, Winkfield started cutting class and hanging out in the cafeteria. That's where one of her favorite teachers tracked her down one day and tapped her on the shoulder: Why aren't you in class?
"I started crying right away," Winkfield said. "I told her, what's the point? I'm not going to college anyway."
Dr. Karen M. Winkfield talks about how it feels to be disowned from her parents because of her decision to go to college, Tuesday, Oct. … Show more
STEPHANIE AMADOR / THE TENNESSEAN
That's when her teacher and kind, supportive guidance counselors pushed her, and they asked her dad for that letter explaining why he wouldn't sign signaling his consent for her college applications.
The letter — the one that said he would disown her if she went — was painful, but it proved to be helpful in having her declared independent.
She went to Binghampton University, then to Duke University for a combined medical school/Ph.D. program
By then, Winkfield was a single parent, and she learned how to ask for help. On the first day of medical school, she stood up in class, explained her situation and asked for classmates to sometimes be babysitters.
More than 30 of the 100+ students volunteered.
Winkfield met her husband, Jeff Walker, in a nondenominational church in North Carolina, and he loved her and supported her in her successful career as a radiation oncologist — until he got sick and died three years ago.
Her late husband is the first person she thought of when Winkfield got an email from the White House saying President Biden was considering her for an appointment.
She thought of her parents, too.
"It's funny. Despite the fact that I have colleagues and friends who offer congratulations," Winkfield said, "there's still a part of me that simply just longs to hear my parents say, oh my goodness, I'm so proud of you."
Reach Brad Schmitt at [email protected] or 615-259-8384 or on Twitter @bradschmitt.
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The Flip Side to WT Scientist denies evolution articles.
by Slidin Fast inhttps://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/10/26/meet-acclaimed-doctor-whose-parents-tried-block-her-college/5831248001/.
her parents tried to stop her from going to college; now, she's a world-class oncologist.
great story..
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Her parents tried to stop her from going to college; now, she's a world-class oncologist
Great story.
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For New Ones!
by Atlantis inevery day someone somewhere is being disfellowshipped.
after the trauma of being cast out and shunned by relatives and friends, many exjw's start an investigation of the watchtower society.. they begin to collect every scrap of evidence they can get their hands on to prove they were lied to.. some of these archives may come in handy.
if you need something and it is not in an archive somewhere, send me a pm and i'll see if we can get it for you.
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Slidin Fast
Atlantis, you are a star. I hereby appoint you as the official curator of the WT museum of horrors. Have a shot of Blue Mountain Pea. You deserve it.
I nearly said "Have a shot of Blue Mountain Pea on me" but I decided it was unbecoming to a christian.
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Fawlty Towers (1975) & (1979) - still laugh-out-loud funny after all these years
by LoveUniHateExams inso, i went and bought series one and series two on second hand dvd for one pound each.. i first saw series one of fawlty towers when i was about 11, then i saw series two a year later.. it's a little dated now, but that doesn't really matter because it's still making people laugh.
that's all comedy is.. there is one episode - the kipper and the corpse - which i think is a bit rough around the edges, it's not as polished as some of the other episodes.
but it still has some great lines in it, e.g.. the two old ladies: you're in a good mood today, mr fawlty.. basil: yes, well one of the guests has just died.
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One of the funniest moments from memory.
Basil tries to turn a light on from the corridor by feeling his way along the wall in search of the switch. Polly is in the way and Basil ends up grasping her chest.
Sybil "If you are going to grope someone, at least be in the same room".