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  Mill Hill IBSA goes Holy-wood

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  uk bethel now a movie studio.. the young jw me that visited as a kid, worked there as a teen…… never imagined for a moment it would one day be this….

  https://londonnorthstudios.com/.

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  Even if God exists…….

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  i’m an atheist.. let’s assume i am wrong, i am willing to be.. let’s give people a god, let’s even make him the god of the bible…... does he deserve to be worshipped and obeyed?

  if so, why does his abhorrent actions not morally make you question allegiance to him?.

  does his authority alone allow him to murder and drown and order war, to throw people into a lake of fire?.

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  UK JW's and child abuse BBC

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  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58420270.

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  JW Net and Politics

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  this site was and remains instrumental in assisting people that want to leave the jw's.. there has been political discussion here for some time now, a good couple of years and it makes me feel a little uneasy.

  i just opened up the site for the first time in some weeks, of the 10 posts being discussed, 4 were by the same poster, about politics, promoting their right wing beliefs.. this has been the trend for some time now, the same name behind a peppering of posts stirring the right v left of politics.. i remain forever grateful to the site and it's founders simon & angharad, i appreciate that simon shares some of these these political beliefs.

  it would be a shame to see the site evolve from a place for jw freedom of thought and escape, to political squabbling, that the world is frankly tired of right now.. just to clarify, politics is my hobby, whilst my friends read the football scores, i'm reading polling data.

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  The Mysterious Missing Islam.....

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  i've discussed this before but not in this context alone.. i remember being about 14 years old, 1994 and starting a study in the uk with a charming muslim from the congo.

  he was a very pleasant middle aged guy with a big family, two wives, always the most hospitable.

  at the time the watchtower had a book on many religions, a thick red book called 'mankind's search for god' so i would read and discuss the section on islam with him.. interestingly, but not surprising, many details they had were wrong about islam and he would explain how and correct me.

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  Another Rainbow explained....

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  due to the many variables involved it has been difficult for science to predict how proteins fold to form their uniquely functional state.

  proteins are built from individual amino acids up, coded by dna.

  protein function is dictated by its shape and amino acid make up.

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  Pand€mi£ Contribution$

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  hi everyone, hope all are well :).

  just wondering, with all these zoom meetings and cancelled assemblies, just how the financial contribution system works in 2020?.

  i obviously am wondering if it will have a huge impact on the wt org.. can someone kindly summarise how contributions are managed nowadays, both officially and anecdotally in kh's.. i was last attending around 2004, where there were x2 contribution boxes, the world wide work and kh fund.

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  Coronavirus Positive

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  hey all,.

  i'm day six of isolation, confirmed to have coronavirus.

  i have been seeing very sick cv positive patients over the last month in my a&e role (emergency physician) it was inevitable i would contract it.. just wanted to give some symptom and treatment advice, it's anecdotal but may help.. started as sore throat and headache, then croaky voice, then dry cough, then episodic transient fevers, all this over the first few days.

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  Never been so ashamed of the JW's

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  just wait until this is done!

  excitedly awaiting the deaths of potentially millions, to get their log cabin by a lake and a tiger is reprehensible!

  disgusting!

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  JW.Org data

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  to think they have hung the blue and white sign on every building they own in the world and that this was a publicity campaign with the presumed backing of the god of the universe....... it's not going well.. despite the 8.5 million followers, who through design have to visit the site......it isn't even in the top ten..... top fifty..... top one hundred ......top two hundred visited sites globally.. users on average click through 7 pages per visit and don't stay long, averaging about a minute a page.. as for the data on its search over time 'jw.org' is now googled globally at a rate less than 25% of its peak and is usually associated for a search for the daily text.. .

  between this and the carts, the only message getting through to real people is 'child abuse' and that woman from king of queens taking an interest!.

  i sincerely think we are seeing evidence of what has been anecdotal decline...... waited long enough for it!.

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