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

  by Diogenesister in

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  🤦‍♀️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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  markweatherill

  Oh my goodness, here is the link:

  https://www.jw.org/jam-x-jcr/

  But it's an excuse to have a lavish 'remote translation office', I bet.

  I'm waiting for watchtower to release an Ebonics, oops AAVE, 'translation'.
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  Pidgin English

  by markweatherill in

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  https://www.jw.org/hwc.

  i just discovered this translation into 'hawai'i pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.

  they even dubbed the caleb and sophia cartoons into this dialect.. not because i look down on pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways..

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  markweatherill

  https://www.jw.org/hwc

  I just discovered this translation into 'Hawai'i Pidgin' and for some reason found it very amusing.

  They even dubbed the Caleb and Sophia cartoons into this dialect.

  Not because I look down on Pidgin speakers in any way, more about the way translations like this are revealing and telling in unintended ways.
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  Is it just me, or is Watchtower lowering its standards?

  by ukpimo in

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  2. beliefs

  in the past, we used to hear talks on:.

  avoiding sexual immorality and porn, as well as masturbation and other sexual practices.

  why evolution cannot possibly be true.

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  markweatherill

  Lowering standards? Never!

  Someone not rightly minded could, however, misinterpret certain recent, minor, adjustments made regarding the placement of the goalposts.

  Addendum: the goalposts were found not to have moved at all. The space between the goalposts was merely reassessed in line with updated understandings about measurement.
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  Biden calls Trump supporters garbage

  by moomanchu in

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  2. current

  a comedian in a comedy sketch at a trunp rally joked that the island of puerto rico is a floating island of garbage.. what to do???

  potus pappy joe to the rescue!!

  he sounds the alarm, comes out swinging and calls trump supporters, actual people, garbage.. .

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  markweatherill

  All the pots are calling all the kettles black.
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  The perfect tool for Glock magazines

  by Wonderment in

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  2. experiences

  those of you who own glock pistols know that it takes a bit of know-how or work to open a glock magazine for cleaning, or for adding a magazine extension to increase round capacity.

  the reason why glock chose this method of retaining is to prevent accidental release of the magazine springs and cartridges in case they are dropped.

  the military and law enforcement agencies appreciate this system more than the average joe.

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  markweatherill

  It's a shame there aren't enough gun enthusiast forums on the internet, eh.
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  New book

  by Levislet in

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  manuscript :  knowledge book.

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  markweatherill

  Hmmm.

  What executive? What knowledge, specific, general, esoteric, gnostic or otherwise?

  What kind of 'eternal life'?

  Going by the first three chapters, this one will take a while to get going.
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  Alien: Romulus

  by nicolaou in

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  2. entertainment

  i never start topics like this normally but this has really wound me up.

  romulus is getting great reviews and i just don't understand it.

  it was predictable, formulaic fanfiction.. it brought nothing new, quite the opposite in fact.

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  markweatherill

  It's so 'meta' if you think about it. Big corporation tries to extract the essence of Alien, ends up in disaster.

  Imaginary pitch meeting for Alien Romulus:

  Exec: I got a great idea! Let's do Rogue One, but with Alien!
  Studio head: Sounds good! Just don't do that Peter Cushing thing again, OK?
  Exec: Oh but it'll be cool! Please??
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  The evidence that fluoride lowers IQ is stronger than what was thought

  by What-A-Coincidence in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  fluoride action network.

  http://www.fluoridealert.org.

  fan bulletin 997: new video: vyvyan howard's toronto presentation.

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  markweatherill

  Surely the anti-fluoride lobby could raise a big enough donation to get Donald Trump to state conclusively that there's a link between fluoride and autism?
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  League of Nations as the disgusting thing that causes desolation

  by xaminewt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so, the organization says the “disgusting thing that causes desolation” in daniel 11:31 is the united nations being set up in 1945, but in daniel 12:11 when they interpret the 1,290 days they say it’s the league of nations in 1919. please could someone play devils advocate and tell why this could be anything but inconsistent?

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  markweatherill

  Not to state the obvious, but the League of Nations was the precursor of the United Nations. So 'naturally' they amount to the same thing in Bible prophecy.

  Interesting to imagine a resurrected Daniel in the new system looking at this stuff in amazement.
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  I just heard.......

  by BoogerMan in

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  .........that little miss muffet sat on her tuffet eating only curds!.

  no way!

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  markweatherill

  I wonder if this rhyme has ever been translated into Kurdish.