Amelia Ashton

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  Merry Christmas 🎄

  by snare&racket in

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  2. friends

  it’s that awesome time of year again...... food.

  drink.

  tree.

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  Amelia Ashton

  

  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.

  Amelia xxx
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  Languages, Dialects, Accents

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Old English?

  My daughter is tri lingual after meeting her partner who is German in Spain. They communicate in Spanish but then after the crash of 2008 she moved with him to Germany where she had to learn German to work. My granddaughter is also tri- lingual.
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  Chaos at Gatwick Airport

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754.

  perhaps all major airports will eventually employ their own industrial sized drone, operated by a trained/authorised pilot who can track and pinpoint the nut-jobs who cause such disruption and possible catastrophe..

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  They now have a male and a female helping the Police with their enquiries.

  Originally they said "a rifle could accidentally hit Doris walking her dog 2 miles away" but then they did get a sniper in so who knows.
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  What JW Beliefs Did You Find Difficult To Explain?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are a lot.

  anything blood related was difficult to reasonably prove from a witness perspective.. 1914 was another one.

  what can you add to the list?

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  Amelia Ashton

  Everyone except JWs were going to die if they rejected their message.

  If no one knocked on the door for you to reject God read your heart so you might still make it.

  Dead people (even bad dead people) got a free pass to paradise and were resurrected because the wages sin pays is death...but good Jdubs may not make it even on the back of Christ's sacrifice.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses... Who sent the Star of Bethlehem?

  by JW Answers in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses... who sent the star of bethlehem?.

  the watchtower teach their followers that the star of bethlehem was sent by non other than satan... however as we take a look at the scriptures by comparing spiritual things with spiritual we begin to see that the star of bethlehem was not sent by satan, but used for the glory of god.a seasonal message to end the year.. watch now here :.

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  The smallest known star right now is OGLE-TR-122b, a red dwarf star that's part of a binary stellar system. This red dwarf the smallest star to ever have its radius accurately measured; 0.12 solar radii. This works out to be 167,000 km.

  The smallest theoretical mass for a star to support nuclear fusion is 0.07 or 0.08 solar masses, so smaller stars are out there.

  Don't you just love Google?!

  So, the smallest star is still much too big and too HOT to be close enough to earth to mark out a single house in a small town or village on planet earth as it is roughly the size of Jupiter.
  
  
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  Chaos at Gatwick Airport

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754.

  perhaps all major airports will eventually employ their own industrial sized drone, operated by a trained/authorised pilot who can track and pinpoint the nut-jobs who cause such disruption and possible catastrophe..

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  Amelia Ashton

  Simon, your backyard, unspoiled by man, is beautiful.

  My decision to move to Fuerteventura came after a WT talk on how the speaker imagined "paradise earth" to be and the picture he was painting was not my idea of paradise at all. My idea of paradise was the golden sands and aqua seas of my recent holiday.

  I decided I didn't want to wait for Armageddon and when I found out moving there I could be mortgage free and have a swimming pool and money for a brand new car and a whole year before i needed to find a job a For Sale sign was erected in our front garden and I car booted and ebayed everything we weren't taking in a suitcase.

  9 weeks after my holiday we landed in El Matoral, me, 2 young children, 14 suitcases and a bike!

  £750 worth of excess baggage. Lol

  A decision I will never regret.
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  "Jehovah will satisfy all our desires in the new system!" Are you sure about that?

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bill ,a non witness is killed driving home after work, providing for his family.

  he left behind his wife and 3 kids all under 8 years of age.

  armageddon comes the very next month.

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  Amelia Ashton

  No modern teen will want to live without the internet and so nothing, not even promises of tame pandas can substitute or counteract the prospect of eternal life without social media and games. The GB are not so stupid they can offer a promise of modern tecnology and living life like the Amish has no appeal whatsoever to anyone I know.
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  2018-Annual Service Report!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if this has already been posted just disregard.. 2018 annual service report one in english and one in spanish.

  other news included.

  zipped folder.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Our territory was supposed to be worked approximately every 2 weeks. It was nearer monthly but that was 20 years ago.

  I've had Mormons here twice and JWs 3 times in the last 10 years. Hardly urgent.
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  Chaos at Gatwick Airport

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754.

  perhaps all major airports will eventually employ their own industrial sized drone, operated by a trained/authorised pilot who can track and pinpoint the nut-jobs who cause such disruption and possible catastrophe..

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  Amelia Ashton

  I cannot see to what purpose they would deliberately ruin so many travellers holiday plans. What are they hoping to achieve?
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  "Jehovah will satisfy all our desires in the new system!" Are you sure about that?

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bill ,a non witness is killed driving home after work, providing for his family.

  he left behind his wife and 3 kids all under 8 years of age.

  armageddon comes the very next month.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Back in the early 80s I used to joke if my parents died before the Big A then toxic people get a free pass but even if I am the best JW I can be I still might not get thru and that seems very unfair. My father died this year but my mother is still clinging on so even if I was still in Armageddon came too late for me.