Topics Started by snugglebunny

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450,000 UK child abuse cases in 2yrs
by GodZoo in
1. social
2. current
my lawd... filthy britain.. as many as 450,000 children are thought to have been abused in england in the two years up to march 2014, according to a major new report.. some 50,000 cases of sexual abuse were recorded by police and local authorities during this period, but the office of the childrens commissioner (occ) believes this is a major underestimate.. a study by the occ found that around 85 percent of sexually abused young people are not receiving help and treatment.https://www.rt.com/uk/323321-child-abuse-rise-family/.

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heart troubles
by zeb in
1. jw
2. friends
dear all,.

my health took a beating over the years with stress from various sources, not a little from the wt; and dangerous areas of work involving fumes and so on.

the arc also took its toll and i have had recently a heart attack.
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The most widely distributed magazine in the US !!!
by Calebs Airplane in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1. watchtower & awake - under review as these is now a 16-page anorexic pamphlets (not magazines) .

2. espn: 42.9 million 3. people: 28 million 4. allrecipes: 24.5 million 5. forbes: 21.6 million 6. time: 18.1 million 7. entertainment weekly: 14.3 million 8. cosmopolitan: 13.7 million 9. bloomberg businessweek: 11.2 million 10. new york: 9.8 million .
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So How'd you like your Last Resting Place?
by snugglebunny in
1. jw
2. friends
like this perhaps?

it is pretty cool after all... .

(i took both of these pics and the difference was, well, obvious!).
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Never Bring a Knife to a Drone Fight
by LoveUniHateExams in
1. social
2. current
apparently, it's good news, everybody - mohammed emwazi (aka jihadi john) has been targeted by a us drone strike.

the location was in raqqa, syria, a few yards from isis hq, near a clock tower where crucifixions are carried out.

there are conflicting reports, some say he died instantly at 11:40pm yesterday, others say that he was badly injured and taken to a nearby hospital.. from what i've previously read about emwazi, he was apparently terrified of being targeted by drones - yesterday it seems his nightmare was made reality.
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Are You Easily Offended? 😠
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm sick and tired of everyone claiming to be "offended".

if you are not politically correct, you will need to apologize for some perceived slight.. when i was an elder, i purposely avoided as much as i could, anybody that got easily offended.

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Is it true? Heard a rumor WT postphones Disfellowshipping until further notice!!??
by Olivia Wilde in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i am not sure if it's true but i heard from a good source that wt has given instructions to elders to postponed disfellowshipping members from wrong doing/gross sin until further instructions given by headquarters.

i heard some jws were just reproved either privately or publically.

has anyone else heard anything like this recently?
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Pop Trivia
by Simon in
1. social
2. entertainment
so many serious topics lately ... so for anyone who wants a break, it's trivia time and the subject is pop music.. which act is the only one to have a top 100 hit both before, during and after the beatles had theirs?.

no googling.

if you guess, you also need to add a trivia question for others to answer..
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It's official - JWs have least common sense of any religious group in US
by slimboyfat in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
some fascinating results in the latest pew research.

(how did i miss this before?

) including that jws rely on their religion the most of any group to tell right from wrong and rely on common sense the least.
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Coordinator of Elders Problems in One Southern England Circuit!
by The Searcher in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
information just passed to me.

let's hope this becomes even more widespread.

i wonder if the britain branch suspects a conspiracy?