thebluebaron

Thanks mate, a good reminder for the ministry. Maybe saving some of the articles onto an electronic device if you haven’t got internet signal?

The Greatest Man book and Jesus-The Way that we are currently studying. It blows my mind that someone walked the planet who was as wise and who enjoyed such intimate association with Jehovah. Come to think of it, not even the angels had Jesus in an earthly role before. It must have blown their minds seeing Jehovah’s mind in a human body. Jehovah didn’t send anyone, he sent the best!

My work colleague did a tour of duty in Northern Ireland and is one of life’s most helpful people. But sadly his cynicism about what was the point of fighting for what he believed in has led to a closed door of whether the Bible has any worth. He’s too stubborn to commit suicide, so I have time.... Funny how they all feel the same no matter what national armed forces they have served in 😔

Is that directed at me?

The crazy thing about all this was Clinton signed this into Law and every President since has enforced it including Obama. Double standards!

I am a little disappointed in how you used the scriptures to back up your arguments. In Matt 24, Jesus used the days of Noah as a spiritual warning that had nothing to do with denying climate change. Additionally, his signs of the times didn’t include global climate change. I seem to recall wars, earthquakes, pestilence, food shortages only. From the outset, I am a climate change denier. Whilst I do not attribute all negative (as seen from whose perspective???) changes in climate as originating from human sources, I readily agree with cause and effect. Pollution damages the environment, but does it really cause earthquakes, hurricanes, ice caps melting, rising sea levels? I believe that there are far bigger natural cycles at play here. Why should I listen to charities that seek to prolong mans stupidity in fighting vast natural forces that only Jehovah can manage? For instance, who is to blame that the people of low laying sandy islands stay on these islands at risk from enormous oceanic currents? They do not have a divine right to stay. In Britain, we suffer coastal erosion from the aggressive North Sea. We don’t fight it, we simply move when we need to or do not live near it. It would be stupidity to do anything else. Or how about building sky reaching metropolis on or near dangerous tectonic fault lines. On the subject of melting ice caps, there is a increasing alternate consensus that they are expanding!? Who do we believe, the person that shouts loudest and is emotionally threatening in order to get more government funding for his pet projects? Whilst I may disagree with you on current scientific interpretation. I hope we agree that when living in the Paradise, we will sustainably consume earths resources and treat our natural environments with the respect and appreciation that Jehovah expects.

Nothing to do with it having the highest debt for any State? Sounds more like a debt refinancing solution to me. Make the banks smaller, make the states smaller. Allocate bad debt into bad banks and good debt to good banks.

The article should be read with a pinch of salt especially when written by a member of Christendom who has a vested interest. However, what has not been lost on me is the lies he writes about Jehovah’s people in the article. Lies that I would have preferred not to read. When someone is disfellowshipped, they are not ostracised or persecuted. They are free to carry on with their lives and means of employment without fear of repraisals and recriminations from us.

Its funny how a couple of weeks ago I commented at the WT Study how people had turned away from organised religion. They still want spirituality, but confuse it with spiritism. On the point of young girls being naively ensnared like Eve, Satan is the biggest pervert.

Bloomin’ Republicans!

Ultimately, “it’s the economy stupid” Nuclear technology is is an indulgence that only the super rich nations can afford.

All sorted!

Is anyone still having problems downloading it on the app?

In the 2013 yearbook, we averaged 224.7hrs per publisher. Whereas our 2017 totals revealed, 241.9hrs per publisher. Around 10% increase, Jehovah is speeding it up!

Traditionally, the KotN has been more dictatorial and aggressive than the liberal KotS, so why not both of them? The last KotN was the communist bloc and they were both part of it....

Suppose that Trump creates or increases steel tariffs with Canada, the losers are Canadians. On the other hand, the beneficiaries will be American steelworkers and potential Trump voters. The main reasons for tariffs are political and not economical. Ultimately, the reduction of choice within a market damages the end user through higher prices and reduced quality. I would imagine the reason for announcing these tariff is to wind up the Chinese in the run up to their party conference and engage in a bit of currency and commodities/stock market warfare. One example of this is to say, “we are not buying your goods”, theoretical demand drops and its price. You then swoop in and buy!

Is protectionism a bad thing? Well that depends on your aims, remember there are no votes in Canada for Trump or any other political party. The one thing you must remember is that China doesn't pay its workers like the Western world does nor do they have any intention to do so and this makes it 'unfair' to the world economy. It also steals intellectual rights and mass produces them. In Europe, the EU is not as innocent at it likes to make out. Protectionism - Definition

The epicentre of the earthquake was a village called Cwmllynfell. Have a look at it on Google Satellite, you cannot help but notice one of the deepest man made holes in Europe right next to it!

Firstly, I love the thread and listening to some of your backgrounds! I would consider myself an audiophile but not having the means to buy the gear. I love listening to a radio station called ClassicFM. Very often I will excuse myself to the bedroom, lay down in the dark and just listen. No lights or sounds, just allowing the radio to take me places. Just recently, Sinfonia Antarctica by Vaughan Williams had an unnerving effect on me.

It made me think of Matt 23:29+

Brilliant story! The sister of the 'treason, treachery' fame appeared on one of our videos. Which one, I am sure you will ask me next? To which I will reply, "not a clue"!

My home congregation was Ammanford, before moving to the big smoke in Cardiff. I got married and am now in a congregation just outside Cardiff called Dinas Powys. Now I’ll assume you mean Richard Burton and not Dai ‘the Baker’ Burton that is Richard’s uncle’s second cousin removed on his mothers side after her scandalous third marriage to Morgan ‘The Milk’ Evans! If I remember correctly, Richard didn’t do too badly out of his smouldering Welsh accent?

Interesting topic from start to finish! Like some fellow Brits, I find the expression ‘the friends’ unusual, corny and/or very American. Is that because we are a bit more formal than our cousins from across the pond? As for accents, I find it difficult detecting the various nuances of American accents except if they are very strong. So I have no problem with primarily American accents on JW Broadcasting. On the flip side, it would be like saying you didn’t like the Jewish dialect of the apostles in the first century. I remember there was a sister in my home congregation who came from London. I grew up with her accent, so she sound like her. Years later, I was told she was a right ol’ Cockney through and through. I still couldn’t detect it in her accent, because I got so used of this sister sounding like herself! My dad taught me never to be ashamed of my Welsh accent when growing up, just learn to enunciate your words properly. I generally find accents interesting and a good precursor to a conversation.

John Denver, just started listening to him.

I read the list and thought that some of the word pairings weren't that difficult to spot the pronunciation difference.