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  Saving Money While Stuck At Home

  by Simon in

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  so you're stuck at home, you may be worried about your income, welcome to the world of filling your stuck-in-the-house time with saving some money!.

  here in canada, our energy costs are going up because we have a carbon tax.

  today, in the middle of the crisis, trudeau is raising it by 50%, probably as some perverse "thank you" to all the truckers delivering vital goods.

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  Phizzy

  Very good advice on this Thread ! Thank you Simon for starting it.

  We have put much of it in to practice, and have ended up saving money, and getting better quality food etc at the same time. I thought that Lock Down would cost me money, instead we have been living cheaper, but better, and are now not so lazy !
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  Meet George Floyd

  by cofty in

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  his murder was a crime and justice must be done, but it's sobering to learn more about the man who is being lionised by millions.

  thanks as always to the courageous candace owens.. ....

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  Phizzy

  Exactly T.D. Once that Principle, in all its parts, or some, have gone, and I believe it has in the USA. and to a slightly lesser extent here in the U.K., then it simply becomes "us and them ".

  For those not familiar, here are The Nine : ( Just read, and think how many we may have lost)

  The nine principles were as follows:

  1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
  2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
  3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
  4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
  5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
  6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
  7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
  8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary, of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
  9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.
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  Bucket List for the years A.C.

  by Phizzy in

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  2. entertainment

  what things, modest and attainable, will be on your bucket list to do after covid ?

  preferably post things you would not be allowed to do if you were still a jw!.

  i will start, i want to go to an actual horse race, and have a small flutter on each race..

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  Phizzy

  I am already a Blood Donor, have done so from right after I left, I Vote, though at present in the U.K there is not a Party I would Vote for, I am a Democratic Socialist, and I smoke, small double filter cigarillos. I will try to give up after this Pandemic is over.

  So, a Horse race it is,.... so far. I may think of something else, frowned upon , if not even actually forbidden, that I will add later.

  Any ideas for me ? I do find it amusing to do such things, and sort of Cathartic, to exercise my new freedom more fully.
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  Bucket List for the years A.C.

  by Phizzy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  what things, modest and attainable, will be on your bucket list to do after covid ?

  preferably post things you would not be allowed to do if you were still a jw!.

  i will start, i want to go to an actual horse race, and have a small flutter on each race..

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  Phizzy

  I think that going to a Horse race and betting would be frowned upon at least, and I would not have done it as a J.W in my day for that reason, whether the Elders in most Congregations would actually view it as serious I don't know these days, I know my Elders back in the day would just have laughed, they were a laid back lot, not typical at all.
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  Is it me or is John Cedars channel becoming a self important circle fest

  by phoenixrising in

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  i still like the commentary on the jw.org monthly’s, i can skip through some parts.

  but it seems like he is pushing too hard to put out videos and the quality is getting very low on the content..

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  Phizzy

  I think Lloyd's motives are O.K. I also think he is a bit of an attention seeking narcissist, maybe. He certainly left this Site in a Hissy Fit one day, over what was , yes, a personal attack, an Ad Hominem, but it didn't seem to me that distancing himself from here was very productive for his main work of waking up JW's, at the time.

  His work is valuable, as many have testified, he helped them wake up, and to successfully follow the Road to Freedom.

  Keep up that good work Lloyd !
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  Bucket List for the years A.C.

  by Phizzy in

  1. social
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  what things, modest and attainable, will be on your bucket list to do after covid ?

  preferably post things you would not be allowed to do if you were still a jw!.

  i will start, i want to go to an actual horse race, and have a small flutter on each race..

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  Phizzy

  What things, modest and attainable, will be on your Bucket List to do After Covid ? preferably Post things you would NOT be allowed to do if you were still a JW!

  I will start, I want to go to an actual Horse Race, and have a small flutter on each Race.
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  Witnessing Work to Stop?

  by Sea Breeze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my 87 year old dad called me for the first time in 16 years the other day .... just to chat.

  i was floored to say the least since he didn't even bother to call me when my mom died several years ago.

  he called again today to inquire how i felt about jehovah's witnesses.

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  Phizzy

  JW's and active preaching are synonymous, it is deeply embedded in their Culture, in their DNA probably. But most do not like actual Cold Calling on Homes, which is why the Cart Work was a perceptive move.

  I can see that doing the actual " Knock Knocks" as we used to call them will die out, not just because of the preference of most JW's, but because the GB will see they are happy with alternatives, and the Org will save money by producing not one shred of printed matter.
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  Do you think you will ever see News like this ?

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this sort of thing ?

  "jehovah's witnesses state that black lives matter, as all lives matter".

  " jehovah's witnesses join black lives matter rally".

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  Phizzy

  Yes alanv, and as a born in, I was brought up with the attitude we were all humans and equal before god. Because my parents were unusual in their attitude to people from other ethnic groups and cultures, even before they became J.W's, our Home was " Open House" to all sorts of people, from different backgrounds, and different politics even.

  Because of benefiting from these aspects of my upbringing, I could never have become a Racist ! As you rightly say this is one thing we can praise JW's for.

  It became clear to me thinking on this matter, that until I was about 10 I was not even aware of Racism, growing up in a White Rural Community. Then one day I was standing in a Field with a friend, and two farm workers were passing, standing up in the back of a pick-up truck, and they remarked " Yea, West African", they were wrong about her ethnicity, but I became aware they thought of her as a mere specimen, like an animal in a Zoo, to gawp at, and show no respect. I was hurt and shocked.

  So Racism was there in my little Community, but I had not experienced it in action in my life before. I have always hated Racism in any form ever since.
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  Do you think you will ever see News like this ?

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this sort of thing ?

  "jehovah's witnesses state that black lives matter, as all lives matter".

  " jehovah's witnesses join black lives matter rally".

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  Phizzy

  This sort of thing ? :

  "JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES STATE THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER, AS ALL LIVES MATTER"

  " JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES JOIN BLACK LIVES MATTER RALLY"

  " JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES JOIN WITH OTHERS IN "TAKING THE KNEE" FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER"

  No, neither do I. Because ?? " Oh no, we cannot get involved in Politics", etc. (This is not a political issue, true Politicians must make the changes that matter, but it is an issue with Society as a whole, Racist people need to "put on the new personality". )

  It has truly been stated that it is simply not enough to claim not to be racist, we have to fight against Racism with all our might, and in any way we can.

  Therefore if there is nothing from J W Org, not even a statement on this, they are a racist Organisation.
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  JW imprisonment

  by BourneIdentity in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is on the jw news site.

  news alert | crimean supreme court sentenced brother artem gerasimov to six years in prison.

  on june 4, 2020, the crimean supreme court sentenced brother artem gerasimov to six years in prison for his peaceful christian worship.

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  Phizzy

  " According to the investigation, together with others he conducted divine services, which is interpreted as "organization of the activities of an extremist organization" (with reference to the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate all 396 registered Jehovah's Witnesses organizations). "

  So, he went against "Caesars Law", whatever we may think about the Law, and got a heavy sentence for ignoring the law, and ignoring the Scripture.

  The Russian Law that defines the J.W. Org as extremist, I cannot really disagree with, as to it's definition of Extremist, and JW Org as fitting the definition. Yes, the Russian Orthodox Church may well be behind all this, the sentence was unnecessarily heavy, but he took a silly, foolhardy chance.