Posts by LoveUniHateExams

i was listening to a radio show about a jw women who had been disfellowshiped , her daughter cut off all contact ,must admit at the time i thought so what.. then this man phoned up and explained he was disfellowshiped for asking about jws being ngo in the united nations during 90s till early 2000s when a newspaper exposed them , i still thought he's a apostate but looked it up found the article then found this forum and even more info..

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I'm the same as Jimmy Young and LHG - it was the 1995 generation change that first opened my eyes.

The Watchtower mag that announced that change also had an article about child abuse. The article said something like 'if a child says Brother Creep abused him/her but Brother Creep denies it, then there's nothing you can do. You just have to wait on Jehovah.'

The generation change made no sense. It only made sense if you considered the view that the Governing Body didn't know what the hell they were talking about and were just making it all up as they go along.

And the child abuse article - I was 'in' but I could see this was wrong.

I stayed with the JWs for another 11 years because 'where would we go?', etc.

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Greta Thunberg, Worse than Plague

by Simon in

so greta thunberg thinks the world pollutes too much.

specifically, the parts of the world that pollute the least and have the cleanest industries.

she doesn't seem to care about india or china who are the biggest polluters by far.. "how dare they".

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@Recovering - I don't think Simon or anyone else on this thread is denying scientific evidence of pollution. Just read his last post carefully - he says reducing Carbon emissions is an important thing.

I think I can identify three main issues with Greta Thunberg and her backers:

1. People generally don't like being lambasted by a 16 year old kid.

2. People are maybe wary about the politics of Thunberg's backers. From where I'm standing, it looks like Greta Thunberg and her backers are radical Left, Marxist or Cultural Marxist types. I'm very happy for people to prove me wrong.

3. People are wary of this narrative that Thunberg is trying to spin, e.g. 'you stole my childhood!' <--- it doesn't pass the sniff test for a lot of people.

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Languages, Dialects, Accents

by LoveUniHateExams in

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just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.

first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.

red, arrow, break.

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Here are another two things about Gaelic that are odd:

1. There are two different words in Gaelic that are translated into English as am/are/is, and these are tha and is.

Tha is used when it describes a circumstance that can change. So:

Tha mi sgith - I am tired. Tiredness changes, comes and goes.

Tha is also used to form the present continuous:

Tha mi a' taidhpeadh anns a Ghàidhlig a-nis - I am typing in Gaelic now.

And the word is is used for circumstances that are fixed, e.g.

Is mise Iain - I am John/Ian. For some reason, the emphatic form of mi (which is mise) is used with is.

Is is often shortened to 's …

'S mise Iain - I'm John/Ian.

2. Gaelic doesn't actually have words for 'yes' and 'no'.

If you want to answer a question in the affirmative you just echo the verb but in the positive form:

A bheil thu sgith? - Are you tired?

Tha - Yes.

To answer in the negative: Chan eil - No.

The full answer would be:

Tha, tha mi sgith - Yes, I am tired.

Chan eil, chan eil mi sgith - No, I am not tired.

So, there are more forms of yes/no than in English.

An toil leat biadh Innseanach? - Do you like Indian food?

'S toil - Yes.

Cha toil - No.

Re this lack of straight yes/no, I think it's the same in all the other Celtic languages.

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Transgender sues - because they were ALLOWED to change sex!!!

by The Fall Guy in

you couldn't make this up!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51676020.

the emperor's transgender's new clothes syndrome = don't dare define their problem as being psychological, otherwise you're transphobic!.

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@Joey Jo Jo

That kid in the MTV video misunderstands respect and its place in society.

Respect is earned, not demanded.

Transgender people, like cisgender people, have to earn my respect.