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  Watchtower SlangJamaican Patois: Gods son came fe mash up the world😂

  by Diogenesister in

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  2. humour

  🤦‍♀️this 25 million different languages thing is getting ridiculous.

  this link is hilarious!

  they've only gone and translated into jamaican patois and boy this isn't just translation, they're literally using slang....what next?

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  The problem with these translations is that you can have 3 million people who speak these dialects but no one reads them. Haitian Creole is a different beast.

  3 million people speak patwa, but no one reads it. It’s frowned upon in school and in professional environments. Please go find your nearest Jamaican and ask them to write any sentence you choose in patwa. If you ask 3 people they will all be different.

  30 million black Americans speak AAVE but none of them write it or would even know how. They are wasting ink and paper creating literature that people are laughing at because they can’t understand why someone is doing it.
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  Watchtower SlangJamaican Patois: Gods son came fe mash up the world😂

  by Diogenesister in

  1. social
  2. humour

  🤦‍♀️this 25 million different languages thing is getting ridiculous.

  this link is hilarious!

  they've only gone and translated into jamaican patois and boy this isn't just translation, they're literally using slang....what next?

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  silentbuddha

  The idea of Jamaican patois being considered something that should be put in its written form is funny to me because where does this stop?
  Is there going to be a Trinidadian patois next then a St. Vincent patois, a Nevis patois, a Bahamian patois, insert any other Caribbean island thereafter.
  Each one of these islands has a very distinct patois, the only reason that the Jamaican patois is the focus is because Jamaica is considered the most popular Caribbean island, and they have the loudest voices of any island in the Caribbean.
  There is no school in Jamaica that you can go to where you would be able to learn this currently. You can’t even use patois in school in the class. It’s literally considered the same as AAVE or Ebonics in the United States.
  The average person who picks up that magazine knows exactly what’s being said if they already speak English.
  Wi waahn yu fi kom a tuu speshal miitn we yu no afi pie no moni
  
  We want you to come to a special meeting where you don’t have to pay money
  We wunt yuh tuh cum tewa speshul mee’in wer yuh ain’t gotta put up no bread
  
  
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  Watchtower SlangJamaican Patois: Gods son came fe mash up the world😂

  by Diogenesister in

  1. social
  2. humour

  🤦‍♀️this 25 million different languages thing is getting ridiculous.

  this link is hilarious!

  they've only gone and translated into jamaican patois and boy this isn't just translation, they're literally using slang....what next?

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  silentbuddha

  My wife is Jamaican, and the vast majority of her family still live there. When she saw this, she asked me after a quick glance why I wanted her to try to read something in Spanish. I’ve been told her to look closely at it and it took her close to 30 seconds to realize what it was.

  She said this makes no sense because everyone in Jamaica learns to read in normal English. This would be the equivalent of learning another language. She then sent it to most of her family members who died laughing because most of them had no idea what they were looking at, and when they realized what it was, they were offended.
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  What made you look behind the jw curtain?

  by Touchofgrey in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was listening to a lunchtime call in radio show about jws and the personal experiences of being disfellowshiped, and a former elder called in saying he was disfellowshiped for asking about jws and their involvement in the un in the 1990s ,and he just said look it up.. thinking that it was a made up lie ,so i looked it up and it was true even a letter confirming it from the un itself and that led me here and to jwfacts and further research into the history and teachings of jw and walked out the door about 5 years ago.

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  I kept wondering why the all powerful god liked and dealt with only one group of people. The bible seemed weird to me when i really focused on the fact that it all took place in a very small area when there were obviously people all over the planet that he chose to ignore.

  God supposedly created Europeans, Africans, Asians, Tribal people yet for some reason he only seemed concerned with such a minute portion of people for so long. Seemed rather foolish. That plagued me. The final straw was when I was at an elders school and a grown man broke down during the part about pornography and admitted to everyone there that he watched porn for like a few days. The shit just seemed like a giant clown show.
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  L.A. D.A. Announces His Office Is Reviewing The Menendez Brothers' Conviction

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if anyone really remembers this case, it was huge at the time.

  the very interesting point though about this was that at the time the parents were known to be very active in the jw religion.

  i also believe that the father may have been an elder(i could be mistaken, though).

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  All these years I swore it was the Menendez. It wasn’t. My bad.
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  L.A. D.A. Announces His Office Is Reviewing The Menendez Brothers' Conviction

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if anyone really remembers this case, it was huge at the time.

  the very interesting point though about this was that at the time the parents were known to be very active in the jw religion.

  i also believe that the father may have been an elder(i could be mistaken, though).

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  I was told years ago that they were JW's and very active in JW Land. I am wondering if I am geting them crossed with someone else??? Well, I guess i was mistaken all this time. MY BAD
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  L.A. D.A. Announces His Office Is Reviewing The Menendez Brothers' Conviction

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure if anyone really remembers this case, it was huge at the time.

  the very interesting point though about this was that at the time the parents were known to be very active in the jw religion.

  i also believe that the father may have been an elder(i could be mistaken, though).

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  Not sure if anyone really remembers this case, it was HUGE at the time. The very interesting point though about this was that at the time the parents were known to be very active in the JW religion. I also believe that the father may have been an elder(I could be mistaken, though). Either way, the husband and wife were very well-known and wealthy. Also very active in the congregation.

  The D.A. in this case has said that they have found a letter that said the boys were being molested by their father. The note was written 8 months before ethe murder took place. They also had a member of the huge boy band at the time "Menudo" who said that the father had molested him when he was a teen. The father was apparently a high-powered record executive.

  With all the CSA issues that Watchtower is having, I can imagine bringing this high-profile case up once again is going to look real bad for them.
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  Where is Tony?

  by Athanasius in

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  on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

  in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

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  Wow, the anger in this thread is something serious LOL. Mason I assure you I saw the man. I also saw the company that he was waiting to come inside his home from his driveway. I have no reason to make this up. Trust me, it would probably be more interesting to believe that he was whisked away to Narnia to never be seen again
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  Where is Tony?

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

  in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

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  Also he has a Brand New Honda Accord in his driveway as well. SO I am guessing he got a nice little chunk of change when he left. Maybe he is leasing it, im not sure - but he seems to be moving on pretty well
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  Where is Tony?

  by Athanasius in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on february 22, 2023, anthony morris iii was officially removed from the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  a few months later it was revealed that the watchtower bought him a house in lumberton, north carolina.. however, and correct me if i am wrong, since leaving the gb nobody has reported seeing tony attending jw meetings or participating in field service.

  in fact nobody has reported seeing him anywhere, not even at a local liquor store.

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  silentbuddha

  "Silent Buddha you really saw him out and about?"

  I didn't see him out and about. I saw him when I drove through his neighborhood on my way back from TractorSupply. He was actually holding the door for someone that was coming to visit him I gather because they were in the driveway getting out of a car and he was holding the door for them while it was raining.

  I drove back around the block with my phone this time to snap a picture, but they were inside. The screen door was closed but the door behind it was wide open. I decided it made sense not to take a picture inside of his home.

  I am sorry if you don't believe me, but this would be something really foolish to lie about LOL