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  What novels would you recommend?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).

  three by john ajvide lindqvist:.

  let the old dreams die.

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  @Punk - yeah, Dracula is really good. I like the first four chapters, where Jonathan Harker travels to and experiences Castle Dracula. It's a great introduction and setting of the scene.

  Probably one of the few novels I'll entertain - I've always been a great reader but not necessarily of novels. The first novel I really liked was The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross. In year 5 our teacher read it to us and I liked it so much I borrowed it from the school library. I still think it's a great read.

  I like horror, thrillers, or otherwise edgy novels.
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  What novels would you recommend?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i used to have a large-ish novel collection but my current collection is scaled-down because i was forced to move back to bolton 4 years ago and didn't have enough room for them all in my suitcases.. i currently own just 9 novels.. salem's lot (stephen king).

  three by john ajvide lindqvist:.

  let the old dreams die.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  So I bought Dracula the other day, bringing my grand total of novels to ten. (This must be the third time I've bought this book, lol.)

  Here are a few more on my radar

  Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist

  The Martian by Andy Weir

  Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

  The Demon Headmaster and the Prime Minister's Brain by Gillian Cross
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  Better off PIMA than POMA or POMO.

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the situation is many of us are pima and all putting on a front, sometimes saying something we don’t fully believe.

  or at least are actually agnostic about but a hope that it’s true.. but it can be useful if someone is really going through a hard time or has something they are very worried about, to say things like well let’s hope there is not much longer of this old system.. this can be useful in an awkward situation where you just don’t know what to do or say.

  it’s a little bit of hope that can help when there is nothing else.. my agnosticism just means i won’t look back over decades thinking i wasted my life.

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  When I was a true believer, the one thing I feared more than anything was being destroyed by Jehovah God at Armageddon. Thank goodness it's all a load of bullshit.

  I've got my life to live, and when I die, I die. I can take that. Any kind of afterlife is a bonus. I kinda hope there is an afterlife. Not for me, but for my mum. She was paralyzed from the neck down due to a stroke at age 44, and died at 51. She didn't deserve that. If I die at 70 or 80 then fine, I will have had my life.

  BTW, I don't believe in evolution, I accept it because I value intellectual honesty.
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  Zoom Ministry

  by XBEHERE in

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  i saw this post on ex-jw reddit so i thought i'd bring here.

  zoom service, what are your observations/opinions of it?.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  It's something new, something for True Believers (TM) to get 'excited' about.

  I can't see it becoming popular, TBH.

  Where I live, there are JWs in the town centre, idly standing by carts. The carts ask people if they want a free Bible course, and direct them to JW,org. When people go on the website, it tells them to ask JWs for a study.
  

  I think this is the way things will go, the street witnessing crap.
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  England v Ukraine

  by BoogerMan in

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  so nice to see thousands upon thousands of fighting-age ukrainian men managed to escape the war and reach wembley to support their national football team yesterday.

  things must be improving, eh?.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  There is footage circulating the internet of a captive Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by a Russian fighter.

  It needs to be authenticated, but if true it's absolutely sickening.
  

  Whoever did this is a fucking animal ...

  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11964189/Kyiv-compares-Russia-ISIS-sickening-video-Putins-soldiers-beheading-Ukrainian-POW.html
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  original reddit post (removed).

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  Ridiculous the way Roy Devans blames his wife for being influenced by 'monogamous societal norms', as if that's a bad thing.

  Yes, most people are monogamous. There's nothing wrong with this whatsoever.

  What is important here is honesty. Roy Devans promised his wife he'd be faithful to her when he married her. He has broken that promise.

  If people are looking for relationships and declare at the outset that they're looking for open relationships, then ok.

  But Roy Devans didn't do that.
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  Ramapo

  by Mit123 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how much is ramapo going to cost?

  my daughter in africa meets in a cow shed for her meetings.

  i wonder how many khs in africa they could build if they dropped ramapo?.

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  Just for me, what is ramapo?

  My first reaction to this post was 'I like Ramapo: First Blood Part 2'
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
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  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Although, thinking about it, there is a construction that French uses in place of a continuous tense:

  Je suis en train de marcher - I am in the process of walking.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
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  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  @Scully

  There is no present continuous tense in French.

  Je marche - I walk/am walking.

  Ditto the past continuous.
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  Is English a hybrid language?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the short answer is no, it is not.. i have heard one or two proposals that it is, including from langfocus, a usually excellent youtube channel.. but no, english is actually a germanic language which has borrowed many words from other languages.

  here are several reasons why english is germanic at its core .... 1. verb forms.

  i play - ich spiele.

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  LoveUniHateExams

  Ok, I take your point about gerunds.

  But, it's simply a fact that Old English (the language spoke in England before the Norman Conquest) use to have -s ending plurals.

  There were two types of plural endings in Old English.

  daeg - dagas (day)

  nama - naman (name)

  Sorry, this is just a fact. The influence of French, especially from 1066 onward, may explain why the -s plural ending became more popular than the -n ending, but it's just a fact that English always had -s plural endings for some nouns.