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  Daisy Ridley (the actress who plays Rey in Star Wars) faces an SJW backlash

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  so, it's been said before how the left ends up eating its own.. and now we have the case of star wars actress - can i say 'actress'?

  - daisy ridley ('rey').. in a recent guardian article, she essentially denies her privilege by saying that her star wars co-star john boyega ('finn') is just as privileged as she is.. daisy ridley descends from the fitz-corbetts (landed gentry) on her mother's side; her paternal grandfather was high up in the bbc and she went to a fee-paying school.

  and john boyega grew up on a peckham council estate.

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  How is she part of 'The Left' exactly?
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  Cart Witnessing....They deserve the same ''cold shoulder''

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here is a man named jerry.

  on a public sidewalk, he asks attendees leaving a jehovah's witness convention in san diego a simple question, ''do jehovah's witnesses have the truth.

  not one person acknowledges him.

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  Jerry looks to be outside Qualcomm Stadium, the location of the only outdoor convention I attended.

  On the Sunday afternoon I was waiting at the bottom of one of the ramps and observed several sisters being positioned around exits to man 'donation points'. It was stinking hot and oppressive and after a few minutes one of the clearly uncomfortable sisters located a nearby chair and pulled it to her station.

  An elder raced over and jerked it off her, so she had to continue to stand in the heat. Hardly anyone came over to donate, people were ignoring them and just milling around waiting for their rides so they could get the hell out of there.

  The sisters looked bored beyond belief, bedraggled, resentful, tired. I actually cringed watching their discomfort,

  It was a strong 'This Is Pathetic' moment for me.
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  Looking back at the people I knew in the Jobos.....

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ...there are very few if any, that i would have willingly associated with.. my 'worldly(tm)' friends are all brilliant people.

  they are nothing like the weirdos i had to put up with in the congregations.. what is your take on the people in the jobos as opposed to your associates now?.

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  I think as we age, most of us reduce our circle of friends, sometimes deliberately, mostly just through attrition.

  When we are younger our insecurities and our need to belong makes having lots of friends, and making sure we get invited to whatevers happening etc, seem important. We are joiners and our self esteem can be dependent on the size and status of our social groups.

  I've traded that for quality over quantity and wish I had done it sooner.

  Back closer to the topic, JWs act in this regard exactly as if they are in a cult - they need like minds to reassure them that their crazy beliefs are real, so everyone that shares that view is a friend. Everyone that doesn't - essentially doesn't exist. That the only people they choose to associate with beyond a superficial level are other JWs is sad beyond belief when it splits families and former friends.

  As someone said, some good people trapped. But, unless born in, they chose that trap, so I don't waste too much sympathy on them. I met some well-intentioned people, as I knew I would, but in this case the path to madness was paved with good intentions.

  I cant really think of any that I could see myself being friends with. The ideologies are just too opposing.

  As always, its the born ins I genuinely feel for. It's child abuse via the imposition of a harmful lifestyle and mind conditioning.
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  First On-Screen Crush?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  many years ago, we lived in a world where the one tv in your house might be black and white, perhaps color if you were lucky, but either way the screen was small and the arial on your house would struggle to deliver a decent signal but often fail in a fuzzy mess.

  most of the movies you saw were old, there was no home video or rental - you got a chance to see something and then it was gone.

  planning your viewing was important to make sure you didn't miss something so you'd carefully scan the tv guide to pick out your favourites ... good job there were only 2 or 3 channels to look through.. but you could still see quality if you went to the movie theatre and there you got to see glorious film on a giant screen (which is only now being equalled quality wise).

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  Judy Robinson (Marta Kristen) - Lost In Space. Marta is on the right ;p

  Close 2nd - Jane Parmenter (Melody Patterson) - F Troop
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  Hourglass app

  by solomon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  all of the local congregations are going to use hourglass app for publishers to report their time.

  i’m not sure if this meets privacy laws in our province.

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  They poo poo higher education.

  But LOVE the technology higher education has created.
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  The Apology Tour

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everyone seems to be hitting the apology circuit.

  if you ever said anything inappropriate or what might be considered offensive, then you must apologize.

  if you possibly could have hurt someone’s feelings, you need to say sorry.

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  The Not Being Sorry For Anything trend also brings out a lot of assholes and gives them a platform. And often political office.

  People are better off just practicing some humility, empathy and kindness and stop trying to make headlines.
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  Why does he stay in?

  by Probablyshouldrun in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i was seeing a jw man for about a year and a half until l broke it off with him last week.

  we met on a dating site.

  he shouldn’t have been on there, of course, but he was lonely.

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  Some of these on the fencers are quite disingenuous and pretentious in their daily social interaction with others.
  

  Ne'er a truer word and in fact in many cases an understatement.

  Once you crack the seal to a box of lies you just cant stop eating.

  The JW person in my life just kept piling them on. What's another lie when you've already told so many? What a life - covering your tracks all the time, looking over your shoulder.

  Becomes a running joke when they simultaneously rabbit on about being in the Truth.
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  Hourglass app

  by solomon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  all of the local congregations are going to use hourglass app for publishers to report their time.

  i’m not sure if this meets privacy laws in our province.

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  Does it have a Countdown To Armageddon feature?

  One that can't be reset? :p Probably not.
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  Why does he stay in?

  by Probablyshouldrun in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i was seeing a jw man for about a year and a half until l broke it off with him last week.

  we met on a dating site.

  he shouldn’t have been on there, of course, but he was lonely.

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  Some small parts of this story parallel my own, at least in terms of the nature of the person I was involved with.

  A really poor JW, Prior to our meeting led a secret life of cheating, bad behaviour, and kept being forgiven as 'we are all imperfect'. Sin - forgive - sin - rinse and repeat. No learning curve whatsoever. Still hasn't got one. Always falls back on the imperfect excuse. Wasn't even DFed for her affair with me. They are really handing out 'slap on the wrist' level stuff now.

  She stayed in because her family and friends are there. Doesn't have the mental or emotional ability to let go and live a normal worldly life that her character is much better suited to. Occasionally overindulges in 'worldly' vices then crawls back. Is a born in who never knew a normal existence. That's the only thing I can use to find some level of forgiveness in myself. She was given no choice, but boy did she turn out to be a terrible Christian.

  At 50 yrs of age she would either know right from wrong by now, but she's brainwashed.

  You have to run from these types or you become a victim too.
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  Prince Andrew & Jeffrey Epstein, WTF

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  in fact, several "wtf"s, not least - why were you visiting a convicted pedophile after his release from prison, never-mind having any contact with him in the first place when his preoclivities seemed to be an open secret.. and the best he can some up with is "i don't remember"?

  you don't remember?

  there's a fucking photo of you with one of the victims and accessories to the crimes you dumb fuck!.

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  Always puzzled me why this grubby family has gotten away with so much and operate within a vulgar level of decadence.

  They have no innate leadership qualities whatsoever.

  Meet the Windsors - Biggest Welfare Frauds in the World should be a TV show,

  The argument is that they bring in so many tourist dollars from those who love the pageantry etc etc bleh bleh.

  But surely society can do better.

  The fawning over them from some circles is vomit inducing.

  Off with their heads.