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  Wimbledon Kingdom Hall

  by truthseeker in

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  i just heard that wimbledon kingdom hall is being or about to be sold.

  it is 60 years old and worth half a million pounds.. has anyone heard anything more about this?.

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  Laika

  Nicholaus, you are right, Morley was the PO (May still be?) and the one who Otto sued, I was not in the hall long enough to make a judgement on how he ran things, though I know lesterkite was not a fan.

  The story when I was there was that a lot of people were moving out the Congregation due to JWs finding it difficult to afford housing in the area, which I find somewhat plausible (Wimbledon is expensive and JWs don't tend to have a lot of money of course) though perhaps it was a combination of things. Again, Lester might know more.
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  Wimbledon Kingdom Hall

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just heard that wimbledon kingdom hall is being or about to be sold.

  it is 60 years old and worth half a million pounds.. has anyone heard anything more about this?.

  truthseeker.

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  Laika

  I attended this hall for a few months 6 years ago and it was not a particularly thriving congregation then, there's also the big hall on Haydon's Road Station only a few minute drive away which is pretty new so I am surprised the Wimbledon one has been going this long.

  I just checked the JW.org website and the address of the Wimbledon cong is showing as Haydon's Road so this news seems to be true.
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  Diane Abbott XD

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  diane abbott has often given me moments of amusement throughout the years.. whenever i'm feeling depressed, 30 mins of watching her varied gaffes on youtube usually cheers me up.. the following is a clip from this week (feb 2008) in which she seems to wonder out loud whether mao did more good than harm.

  it's great to hear michael portillo's initial reaction ("whaaat!

  ") and then watch him and andrew neil belly-laugh at diane abbott's comments at the end of the clip.. perhaps she'd been at the blue nun xd.

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  Laika

  Diane Abbott is in the shadow cabinet because her political views align closely with the Labour leader's views (more so than the majority of the party's Mps) and because she has shown loyalty to the Labour leader when the other party Mps tried to force him out.

  Black women have been highly underrepresented as Mps and in the cabinet, being a black woman is not a path to easy street, white people who tell them their achievements are down to 'colour' is one of the extra obstacles black women need to overcome to achieve political ambitions that white men never have to face.
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  Diane Abbott XD

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  diane abbott has often given me moments of amusement throughout the years.. whenever i'm feeling depressed, 30 mins of watching her varied gaffes on youtube usually cheers me up.. the following is a clip from this week (feb 2008) in which she seems to wonder out loud whether mao did more good than harm.

  it's great to hear michael portillo's initial reaction ("whaaat!

  ") and then watch him and andrew neil belly-laugh at diane abbott's comments at the end of the clip.. perhaps she'd been at the blue nun xd.

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  Laika

  Luhe, you agreed with Simon she was only in her position because she was a black woman, don't try to gaslight me.
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  Diane Abbott XD

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  diane abbott has often given me moments of amusement throughout the years.. whenever i'm feeling depressed, 30 mins of watching her varied gaffes on youtube usually cheers me up.. the following is a clip from this week (feb 2008) in which she seems to wonder out loud whether mao did more good than harm.

  it's great to hear michael portillo's initial reaction ("whaaat!

  ") and then watch him and andrew neil belly-laugh at diane abbott's comments at the end of the clip.. perhaps she'd been at the blue nun xd.

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  Laika

  It seems pretty common to have people rise up into significant political positions whilst being clearly unqualified for the role, the majority I can think of throughout history are white men so if we're going to blame skin colour/gender for unqualified politicians I would think we should blame token hand outs to white men first.
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  Diane Abbott XD

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. current

  diane abbott has often given me moments of amusement throughout the years.. whenever i'm feeling depressed, 30 mins of watching her varied gaffes on youtube usually cheers me up.. the following is a clip from this week (feb 2008) in which she seems to wonder out loud whether mao did more good than harm.

  it's great to hear michael portillo's initial reaction ("whaaat!

  ") and then watch him and andrew neil belly-laugh at diane abbott's comments at the end of the clip.. perhaps she'd been at the blue nun xd.

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  Laika

  John mcdonnell has made quite a few silly comments in his time too, do you lot think he is only in his position because he is a white man?
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  More head-in-the-sand nonsense of the worst possible kind ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  whenever a hollywood actress has been propositioned or touched up, we know all about it.. but a story - mostly suppressed by the mainstream media - is emerging of far worse abuse of human females.. telford appears to have a grooming/sex abuse scandal of its own to rival the ones in rochdale, oxford and other uk towns.. it appears the msm, police and politicians and other authorities are very slow in learning their lesson from rochdale.. unbelievable that this case hasn't made the guardian or the bbc.. i guess the sisterhood thinks hollywood women are much more important than telford girls.

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  https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/the-bbcs-shameful-silence-on-the-telford-sex-scandal/.

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  Laika

  The UK banned actual white nationalists from the country, this isn't a slander or dismissing 'conservatives' with an alt right label, Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone and Lauren Southern are connected to Generation Identity.

  If you think that leftists are too quick to brand standard conservatives as 'racist', going on to claim the Tommy Robinson types are standard conservatives is not going to help.

  And you can't preach and promote Islamic extremism in the streets, the UK government takes terrorist threats and incitement to terrorism very seriously.
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  Oprah For President!

  by minimus in

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  i hope hollywood helps make her the democratic nominee.

  she sounds like she’s testing out the waters.

  good luck ms. winfrey.

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  Laika

  Minimus would never vote a TV celebrity for President, oh, wait...
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  Clue re approach to Annual Report in Jan 2018 MWB

  by Nicholaus Kopernicus in

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  at the agm on oct 7th, his eminence miserable morris iii stated the jw yearbook would cease publication and that the annual report would instead be released via the "about us" menu in the jw website.

  related to this, the "life and ministry meeting workbook - january 2018 (living as christians)" outlines the following item to be considered jan 1-7 2018...."annual service report: (15 min.

  ) talk by an elder.

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  Laika

  Do we know they have negative growth? I am not convinced, in Britain I could only find 9 JW charities that have closed last service year, year before I found 20 closed, and they still had growth, but I don't know how often the charities commission update their records (each separate congregation is a registered charity in Britain)

  I suspect money issues were a bigger part of the decision to end the yearbook than a desire to hide the annual report. I am pretty confident they are heading towards decline, but not sure they are yet.
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  JWs - Liberals or Conservatives?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
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  where they stand is a strange mixture.

  yes, they don't agree with abortion and homosexuality, they believe in the bible and wear skirts and ties to church .

  but in many ways they're liberal.

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  Laika

  They are anti gun and anti war, which would tend to be more associated with liberal politics in America, and they are more skeptical of the strong nationalism of most American conservatives.

  This is asked a lot on here but I do think this is an interesting question, because of their 'neutrality' JWs have developed a politics which doesn't fit neatly along American sides, I believe this is why JWs are among the most racially diverse religions in America, their position has allowed them to avoid much of the racially charged nature of partisan American politics. If they had tied themselves to a particular party it would be an extremely different religion.