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  Serena William is 'fighting for women'?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  2. current

  so serena williams lost the us open final 6-2, 6-4 to naomi osaka, her japanese-american opponent.. williams received three code violations from the umpire, carlos ramos: .

  1. a warning for illegal coaching (subsequently admitted by williams's coach).

  2. a point penalty for smashing her racquet.

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  I follow this dictum in my life:
  

  I don't feel sorry for rich people.
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  2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

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  My son went to one of the best schools on the planet, got in through a combination of hard work, great grades, a terrific attitude, and other more nebulously defined factors.
  Graduated in June of this year, and makes twice as much money as I do right now, at the age of 54, with a salary and benefits that I never would have dreamed of having when I was his age of 23.
  
  He is self sufficient, fortunately has little debt, has the love of a fine young woman with a career of her own, and, only the most twisted and hateful mind on the planet could term his life at this point "a failure".
  
  Oh, and he decided as a young teenager that the Bible was a bunch of dingo's kidneys, especially after reading Genesis, and is pretty much an Atheist.
  
  Gosh, I am jealous of how his life turned out!
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  Blade Runner mentioned in the Watchtower

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. friends

  can anyone remember or point me to a quote in either the watchtower or awake where they spoke adversely about some of the violent scenes in the original blade runner film.

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  thanks.

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  You haven't even mentioned the Awake on comic books...
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  Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate

  by Whynot in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  did anyone else watch the bill nye versus ken ham debate?

  it happened february 4, 2014 and just watched it a few months ago.

  i thought it was interesting but must confess that i felt extremely embarrassed for ken ham.

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  If you saw the Bill Nye documentary, you would see that he did not have the support of the atheists that were protesting Ham's "Ark project" because it would only lend credibility to Ham.
  
  And they were right.
  
  Once the debate was over, contributions to Ham increased dramatically, allowing him to fund his bullshit further.
  
  I like Bill Nye, but that was a serious misstep on his part.
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  Anybody else notice the NWT bible on the cover of June 1, 2018 Newsweek?

  by Wild_Thing in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it was supposed to be a striking image to portray how persecuted they are.

  it looks like just another elder using his bible to me.. read more about it, here: http://www.newsweek.com/behind-scenes-newsweeks-international-june-1-cover-art-960456.

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  And the first thing I thought of when I saw this cover:
  
  
  
  

  https://youtu.be/d-6kuVhKzmk?t=32s
  
  
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  My son graduated last Friday

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have talked about him before on this forum.

  he is now a graduate from mit!.

  it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.

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  Xanthippe: You got that right! I decided to break the cycle with my kids. I love my parents, but I really feel they held me back, and didn't aggressively pursue higher ed for me like they could have. I could have gotten scholarships, I had the grades to be at the top of my class in High School, but that Witness mentality and that fear of other people's opinions in the congregation pretty much ensured that I would never meet my full potential as a student.
  Ironically, both parents are now inactive, and those "friends" of theirs never call. So, there ya go!
  
  I made it my goal that as long as I had it in my power, I would make sure that both of my sons got the opportunities I never did. Now they both have Bachelor degrees, my oldest lives in China teaching English, and seems to have a real calling for it. His company likes him enough to keep renewing his contract, with raises, so he must be doing something right.
  
  The downside is that we don't get to see them in person as much, and that saddens us at times (I also think that is a reason why most JW parents don't want their kids to get too far from the nest. And why you see so many "clans" of JW's in so many Halls). But, I am so proud of the adults they are becoming!
  
  
  
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  My son graduated last Friday

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have talked about him before on this forum.

  he is now a graduate from mit!.

  it was a lovely weekend.. i got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.. they were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people.

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  I have talked about him before on this forum.
  He is now a graduate from MIT!

  It was a lovely weekend.

  I got to meet some of the friends he has made in the past four years, and some of their families.

  They were very nice, decent, friendly, and enjoyable people. Spent an evening at a parents house for an outdoor meal and the weather and surroundings were great.

  One chapter of my son's life ends, and a new one begins (well, sort of. He is going for his Masters now, so he is still in school). But, I feel certain that he will continue to grow, to seek out companions that are a positive influence in his life, and he is an adult that I am glad and proud to know!
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  JW Parents in bad shape with no retirement.

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my wife's parents are in very bad shape.

  they are both 2nd gen jws.

  my father in law worked for a large american manufacturing company in the 60s and early 70s.

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  "A few grand" sounds like less than 5k. One medical emergency later, that money is wiped out, and it didn't even pay for the aspirin at the hospital.
  
  Many of us, even with decent paying jobs, will never be able to really retire. Not even on Social Security, since the a$$holes in Congress want to get there hands on that and hand it over to their cronies on Wall Street. But, for those that worked as minimally as possible, people like my Mother In Law, who never worked, never contributed to SSI, whose monthly maintenance is solely dependent on the fact that her husband (not a Witness) gets a pretty big check based on his past earnings. If he goes first, she is going to get a very harsh reality. But, quoting her,"I don't need money, I have Jehovah!" (Who, while he loves taking money in, never seems to dish any of it back out to his faithful "sheep".)
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  I just watched the final video from this years convention. OMG!!!

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am shaking all over right now.

  i think it's worse that the bunker video.. i used to think there was no way that these people would actually "drink the cool aid" if you get my drift, but seeing this video i am now not sure it could never happen.. having a wife who i love dearly trapped in this cult is really freaking me out right now...

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  I think it's meant to be metaphorical, in the same way that many of the illustrations are.
  However, dubbies, like Drax the Destroyer, do not "get" metaphors. So many of them will see this video and translate it into their fevered minds as God's Literal Truth.
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  Movie Apostacy

  by blownaway in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  where can i watch this?

  i saw it was limited release last sept. but it should be out now.

  anyone know?

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  For all you "Downton Abbey" fans out there, the mother in this movie is played by the same actress that played "O'Brien", the maid to Lady Crawley. She looks much different here!