Haha oh dear what have I done
Searcher - you could also put the audio as an audio track to a blank video file and upload it to youtube which can be viewed here. I'll have a go at that myself maybe...
Posts by 88JM
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59BBC Radio 4 reference to 607 Babylonian conquest?
by 88JM inwas listening to bbc radio 4 late sunday night, and in a programme about migration, they referenced the "babylonian conquest of jerusalem in 607 b.c.
" which caught my attention.. did they not mean 587 b.c., or did i understand it wrong?.
the link to the programme is below - sorry if you're not in the u.k. as you probably won't be able to listen to bbc programmes.
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BBC Radio 4 reference to 607 Babylonian conquest?
by 88JM inwas listening to bbc radio 4 late sunday night, and in a programme about migration, they referenced the "babylonian conquest of jerusalem in 607 b.c.
" which caught my attention.. did they not mean 587 b.c., or did i understand it wrong?.
the link to the programme is below - sorry if you're not in the u.k. as you probably won't be able to listen to bbc programmes.
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88JM
Oh good - I'm glad to know it's not just me then!
That's what I thought Londo.
BBC Radio 4 feeback is indeed probably the best place to write to. The "Feedback" programme is on Fridays at 16:30 I think, and repeated on Sunday nights as well I believe.
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BBC Radio 4 reference to 607 Babylonian conquest?
by 88JM inwas listening to bbc radio 4 late sunday night, and in a programme about migration, they referenced the "babylonian conquest of jerusalem in 607 b.c.
" which caught my attention.. did they not mean 587 b.c., or did i understand it wrong?.
the link to the programme is below - sorry if you're not in the u.k. as you probably won't be able to listen to bbc programmes.
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88JM
Was listening to BBC Radio 4 late Sunday night, and in a programme about migration, they referenced the "Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 607 B.C." which caught my attention.
Did they not mean 587 B.C., or did I understand it wrong?
The link to the programme is below - sorry if you're not in the U.K. as you probably won't be able to listen to BBC programmes. The reference to "607 B.C." is about 21 minutes 20 seconds on, so if you listen from about 21 minutes onwards you will hear it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048j435
I thought it was only JWs that think Jerusalem fell in 607 B.C.?
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WT Study, Sunday 6th July 2014.
by skin init might be the way i think and see, but the first time i looked at the image on pg 27 of the april 15th watchtower i was trying to figure out how it applied to this study.
this is a darkened black and white image that appears in my edition of this magazine, (its colour online).
anyway, para 9 talks about a brother that had an issue with looking at online porn.
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88JM
Why does the WTS always talk about men and boys masturbating; no masturbating sisters? No sisters viewing porn?
Can you imagine how elders would go about counselling a sister for that? If a sister ever did do the crazy thing of actually telling the elders about it, I would love to see how that conversation would go!
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JW article on BBC website.
by The Scotsman inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28166192.
mostly about the new preaching tactics - i.e.
- standing in the street holding up magazines.. i have seen them many times in and around glasgow..
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88JM
Just spotted it as well. It's #2 on the most read stories of today right now - above most of the main news stories of the day!
Edit: Another thread here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/281531/1/BBC-Article-on-Train-Station-Witnessing
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Are there more child sex predators in fundamentalists sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses
by Watchtower-Free inis there any resource that shows a higher incidence of child abuse ?.
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88JM
Similar to your thread Focus, I thought one UK ex-politician described it pretty well the other day. He said:
"Where there are children, paedophiles will be attracted. It isn't a coincidence that in the Catholic church, in the teaching profession and in children's television there are paedophiles. They are there because that's where there are children. And indeed, in a number of these environments, including television and the Catholic church - the first in the case of celebrity and the second case the need to avoid scandal - there was a pretty great certainty that they were not going to be exposed or prosecuted. So you have a lethal combination - you have a ready supply of children and you have a guarantee that people aren't going to be brought to justice. What is going to happen there? You are going to attract a lot of paedophiles."
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What Are They Studying at Congregational Bible Study?
by startingover13 inmy father is coming in town in two weeks, and i'd like to accompany him to the one meeting he'll be in town for.
i haven't been to a meeting for some time now, and i was wondering what's the book they are using for the book study.
anyone still current on that?.
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Do you tell people?
by MrFreeze inas an ex-jw do you tell people about your jw past?
how much detail do you go into when you tell non-jw's about the organization.
i usually only ever say anything if somebody asks about my religious affiliation or mentions jw's.
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88JM
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I wanted to know if this question had been covered before and this thread I found is exactly what I was going to ask.
I had an experience at the weekend related to this and it's been playing on my mind all week.
I was away down in Manchester meeting some people about some work I was doing for them. JW stuff was the last thing on my mind - one of the reasons I enjoy travelling away is because I still live near where I grew up as a JW, so there's a lot of memories around.
I was in conversation with the people I met down in Manchester, and totally out of the blue they mentioned they had someone in the previous day who "used to be a JW" who was brought up in Australia. They then went on to explain the conversation they had with him all about what JW's can't do, while I stayed quiet. Incidentally they were correct about JW's views with everything they said - blood transfusions, homosexuality etc.
It wasn't a long conversation, but I did feel that I had the opportunity to speak up and I didn't. I'm not the sort of person to volunteer personal information to people I've just met, especially JW stuff. I didn't think it bothered me at first, but over the past few days it's really played on my mind almost to the point where I'm physically hurting about it inside. In a way I'm not sure what it is that bothers me - is it because I didn't speak up so I feel like a coward, or was it the weird coincidence of the JW subject coming up when I least expeceted it?
I don't have much experience speaking to non-JW's about being an ex-JW, so I'm not sure how people react to that kind of thing, so it was interesting to read this thread.
Incidentally, I would really like to meet the ex-JW guy who was visiting Manchester the previous day, last Friday. Apparently he lives in London, but originally from Australia where he grew up as a JW. Please do get in touch if you are on here. I was really amazed that a person would be so open like he was with a bunch of strangers.
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Local Kingdom Hall Speakers To Be Replaced By Governing Body Video Feeds.
by donuthole inso we've seen as the current gb is getting more facetime in an effort to reach the hearts and minds of the rank and file.
this took a leap with video feeds at an open annual meeting.
the international conventions are taking this a step farther.. do you think that local speakers at kingdom halls could ever be replaced by headquarter approved video feeds?.
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88JM
If the economics of it were viable, I could see it happening at some point.
Most Kingdom Halls already have a telephone/internet link anyway so people can listen from home - decades ago that was probably thought of as unlikely too.
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The INTJ Personality Type, (and those close to it)
by done4good ini am compelled to write a bit about this at this late hour here in the us, because it is keeping me up.. the recent four year old thread on the briggs myers personality type test that was dug up, produced an interesting finding.
many here, (at least tested informally for), the intj personality type.
intjs also do not understand irrational behavior particularly well at all.. why does this matter?
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88JM
Not trying to de-rail anything here, but could it be that INTJ's are more likely the type of people that join a public internet forum to discuss their feelings and experiences etc.? Perhaps this is the preferred method of dealing with their feelings, for INTJ's? Do other personality types just let it go and move on perhaps?