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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  Amelia Ashton

  If I decide to sell my collection of Watchtowers 1951-1999 including the generation May 84 one would anyone be interested?
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  UK migrant "crisis"

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46725343.

  "writing on twitter on sunday, labour leader jeremy corbyn said: "we have a duty to reach out the hand of humanity, support and friendship to people who are in danger and seeking a place of safety.".

  yes jeremy, i know exactly what you mean: i was in france on holiday a few years ago, and the lack of humanity & friendship from those frenchies really made me feel that i was in danger.

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  Amelia Ashton

  Where I live there are very few doctors, nurses, dentists or veterinary surgeons who have English as their first language.

  I remember 40 years ago when you could get a same day appointment for your GP or vet and i wasnt aware of any non English ones but now a non urgent appointment for doctor, dentist or vet is 3 weeks or longer and it is never someone with English as their first language.

  I don't know if Brits qualify and leave or we just aren't training enough but without immigrants UK health services would collapse
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  Interesting days text today

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sunday, december 30. asa’s heart was complete with jehovah all his life.—1 ki.

  15:14.. each of us can examine his heart to see if it is fully devoted to god.

  ask yourself, ‘am i determined to please jehovah, to defend true worship, and to protect his people from any corrupting influence?’ for example, what if someone close to you has to be disfellowshipped?

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  It was the days text that got me seriously thinking.

  It was the scripture about expectation postponed making the heart sick and I thought how sick I was of waiting for Armageddon.

  It reminded me of when I was being recruited. They had told me my then toddler was unlikely to start school the end was so close and yet here she was, an adult and bringing her own 8 year-old daughter for a holiday with me in Spain!
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  Library now cleared out

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well, it looks like the axe has finally fallen on our kh library.

  during a deep clean of the local kh, a brother suddenly informed everyone 'whikst cleaning' that all the old books including bound volumes of the watchtower etc was to be chucked in the skip.. from what i heard, some were taken aback by this and quite annoyed that no announcement was made; that no one was given the choice of taking some of these books home to keep.

  i mean the entire collection of studies in the scriptures and others that go back an entire century.

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  Amelia Ashton

  I've got this lot plus bound watchtowers between about 1975 to 1985. I dont know if to keep them or not any more.
  
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  This is an absolute classic

  by joe134cd in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this is an absolute must see for any exjw.

  so we'll done and absolutly halerious.

  enjoy peeps.

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  Amelia Ashton

  The JWs bang on about how there will be no natural affection in the last days but I think they exclude themselves from that "sign".

  How they can hear someone recently lost a parent and their immediate response isn't "sorry for your loss" or some other words of comfort beggars belief.
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  Question for PIMOS but all welcome

  by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so once pimo how do you deal with going to the meetings, ministry, social getotgethers, conventions assemblies?.

  for one you know it is all off key,.

  two your 2 hours or more so just wasted (not counting the time getting ready,travelling etc).

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  Amelia Ashton

  While I was still PIMI but struggling with the hypocrisy and lack of love I felt very alienated from everyone. The last few months I found I could only get inside the KH if I had a drink first.

  I was POMI for quite a while not realising that queasiness I had felt was cognisant dissonance. I only discovered it was the natural psychological reaction to my awakening after I started looking for evidence JWs were not "the truth".

  I greatly admire all those who are PIMO. I don't know how you don't throw up. X
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  Question abouth wrong doing

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some years ago watchtower wrote that some arrangement in the organisation, they probably made wrong.

  some months ago tony morris said that faithful slave is not perfect and could have done some arrangements organisation wrong.

  do you think they meant the two witness rule, the disfellowshipping arrangement or anything else?

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  Amelia Ashton

  They demand blind obedience to them, imperfect men when the bible very clearly states Christians should not follow men.

  JWs cannot see it tho.
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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

  The whole situation has made UK a laughing stock. Arresting an innocent couple whose innocence could have been proved with one phone call that the Police never bothered making.

  Keeping them locked up long enough for the media circus to plaster their faces over the front pages of their nasty little rags also seems deliberate.

  Now there may not have been any drones in the first place? So what was there if there was anything at all?

  Any less cynical than me might suspect it was orchestrated as a distraction from the shambles that is Brexit.
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  Merry Christmas 🎄

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  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.