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  The UN Security Council is a disgrace

  by fukitol in

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  the syrian conflict and lack of action by the un basically proves to me the un is a failed model.. that prick bashar's army is dropping barrels bombs on schools, hospitals, killing little children etc, but russia and china with their vested geo-political interests just veto any resolution proposed by the un security council to intervene.. circa 5 years of suffering by millions of women and children living in deprivation and misery in refugee camps, with all manner of atrocities and war crimes still occurring in syria itself.

  all the meanwhile this disgusting asshole bashar and his military cronies continue in power and live in luxury.. it absolutely breaks my heart and makes me sick to my stomach.

  i don't give a toss about all the rationalisations and counter-arguments people may make defending the bashar regime.. as far as i'm concerned, the un security council is a broken and failed entity, a spineless, essentially corrupt model with grossly conflicting vested interests that are blockading fundamental moral and humane principles and obligations enshrined in it's charter.

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  krejames

  The mess in the middle east is largely of the West's making (US and UK). We financed what became ISIS during the Afghan war to fight the Russians. We interfered with Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein for our own economic interests (interestingly Saddam Hussein protected Christians) now the place is one bigger violent cess pool than it ever was under Saddam. We helped the Libyans to rise against their government, creating a power vacuum, giving ISIS another territory in which to flourish. When the terrified population try and make their escape to Europe, from the hell we helped create, we have journalists like Katie Hopkins saying those immigrants are cockroaches and we should set the gunships on them (at least the UN waded in on that one and rightly pointed out that this was the same kind of language used in 1930s Germany and 1990s Rwanda).

  And then, as you say, there's Syria who shares an interest in defeating ISIS, so to that extent Bashar is useful to the West, though they can't officially be seen to work with him to defeat them.

  The whole thing is one big tsunami of violence with no obvious solution. Yes the UN model is not working in this situation, but I think the problem is too big for it to deal with when the cause of the problems are its most influencial and powerful members. The hell that the people of Syria are going through is probably seen as being the lesser of the evils when taking ISIS into consideration.

  I guess none of us know the true story and all of the causes - we only know what we read and watch - but I don't see this as something for which the UN can realistically do anything to bring it to an end - and until someone comes up with an alternative model to the UN, there isn't an easy answer. (This is where the JWs would say "what we need is one big world government" ). Meanwhile we feel distressed and impotent at the suffering we see in that region and, if we're from the US or Europe, more than a little ashamed that the lack of solution probably has something to do with protecting the lifestyle we currently enjoy.
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  Is disfellowshipping as popular as it was years ago?

  by minimus in

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  i seldom hear of people getting df'd anymore.

  years ago it seemed there were a few per year in a congregation.

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  krejames

  It's quite difficult to get disfellowshipped in the UK I think. You don't really hear if it so much now. I mean, c'mon, I had five judicial committees within a space of 3 years and never got disfellowshipped. There were some watchtower study articles about five years ago directed at the elders, that said they had to be more merciful and use disfellow shipping as a last resort. One of the elders in my judicial committee said the aim was to discern between "weakness" and "wickedness" lol.
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  Does everyone here know they are on record with JW's forever?

  by runForever in

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  richard ashe a full-time special servant of the order of jehovah's witnesses testified in the lopez case that every single disfellowshipping and disassociation and other things have all been scanned in 2011 and are and will be on permanent record with jw's forever.

  is this legal?

  another completely ironic and warped thing is the disfellowshipping form is called the s77 form.

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  In the UK an organisation can be fined up to £500k for each breach of the data protection act so it does have some teeth. The hard bit is proving a breach (which is why most fines have been for the obvious security breaches such as leaving unencrypted lap tops on trains etc as they are easier to prove).
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  Does everyone here know they are on record with JW's forever?

  by runForever in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  richard ashe a full-time special servant of the order of jehovah's witnesses testified in the lopez case that every single disfellowshipping and disassociation and other things have all been scanned in 2011 and are and will be on permanent record with jw's forever.

  is this legal?

  another completely ironic and warped thing is the disfellowshipping form is called the s77 form.

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  krejames

  And as our data protection law in the UK is based on the EU data protection directive, there will be similar rights in other EU countries. Will also be interesting to see what happens when it's all replaced with the apparently stronger new European Data Protection Regulation (if the respective countries can stop arguing and just get on with it).
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  Happy at Bethel. Can't believe what I'm seeing.

  by Pubsinger in

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  apologies if this has already been posted but i am speechless.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbmyudrwgs&x-yt-ts=1422327029&x-yt-cl=84838260#t=72.

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  It's clearly a recruitment video. "We have a wonderful time at Bethel, surely you want to come and join us?!" A bit like those army adverts on the TV that show all the glamorous bits but none of the blood
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  Poster country flags and privacy

  by Simon in

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  the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

  before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

  first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

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  krejames

  I like the idea of the country being shown. If anyone doesn't want the country they are posting from to be known, there are plenty of proxy/browser add-ons that can display an alternative in order to protect privacy.
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  New forum 'parousia' is upon us! (software version)

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  the time has nearly come to switch over to the new forum software.

  of course it's not completely finished yet (and never will be) but i think it's good enough to go live with and probably already better than the current one.

  i'll give you a quick overview of what to expect and post more detail about the changeover process later.. cloud platform.

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  krejames

  Great work Simon! adding a massive thanks if my own to all the others here :)
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  As a JW Did You Often Feel "Guilty" About Something?

  by minimus in

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  if muslim is supposed to be the religion of peace, jehovah's witnesses has to be the religion of guilt..

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  Yep all the time for everything. Apart from the whole gay thing, there was not being spiritual enough, not going on FS enough, not doing return visits, my public prayers not sounding as impressive or being as long as other brothers', not fitting in with the spiritual superstars, despite spending hours preparing meetings, still not finishing that preparation or falling asleep in the middle of it, not being as good a ministerial servant as the others, having a few non witness friends whose company I enjoyed more than jws, oh and did I mention the gay thing? ;)
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  Your most memorable Kingdom Hall meeting disruptions!

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. friends

  i remember about twenty years ago some teenagers were caught fornicating in one of the additional schools.

  the schools were downstairs, essentially separated from the rest of the kh.

  they weren't just happened upon, though.

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  krejames

  We had a brick thrown thru the window and it landed in a middle-aged sister's lap. She wasn't hurt I think her bible protected her. Lol. As for the book study, I could write a book on the interruptions we had virty every week due to the freaky people assigned to our group.
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  Counting time to build bethel.

  by krejames in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  visited jw family yesterday.

  conversation turns to bethel's recruitment drive for volunteers to help build the new complex in essex and how many pioneers and holding back from volunteering directly with bethel but willing to volunteer thru what was the regional building committee (can't remember what the new name for rbcs is).

  the reason?

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  @objectivetruth: exactly! How legalistic can one get? Either Buiding bethel counts or it doesn't. WTF does it matter if the work is done via the RBCS or directly for Bethel? (Sorry for my language I just think this is so ridiculous yet I didn't think much of this kind of thing while I was in)