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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited May 2021
    Well yes, @Hostafan1, but if they chose for themselves, I'll not have an issue. I object to them imposing that choice on others including their children, which is where it gets a bit complicated. But ultimately, the fact they don't believe in evolution doesn't undermine it. I'm a lot more bothered by the leader of a UK government being a creationist. If JWs opt not to have blood transfusions, it just means there's more blood available for someone else in need who doesn't share their views - as far as I know there aren't any places where you or I couldn't have a blood transfusion because the JWs don't like it. I could be wrong on that.
    I do mind them persecuting people for their gender identity or sexual proclivity. I was very angry about them trying to 'get' my Dad after Mum died, assuming he would be vulnerable to their simplistic answers to his sorrow. Dad was confident in his opinions and so they got nowhere, but that's not the point.
    They aren't the only sect I have issues with, I should say. I'm just closer to the JWs than to most of the others so have more direct experience of their collective behaviour


    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm not religious but how many non JWs knock on the door of a lonely person or someone who needs help? The milkman and even the rent man were   some kind  of human contact. They would at least notice if someone hadn't answered the door or took in their milk.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Same here, @pansyface. There are so few of us, we are all always aware when someone goes awol for a few days and news runs right round in no time flat if someone needs help or has some good news. Apart from the one who never offers help and is usually first to ask for it, everyone keeps tabs on the others to some extent.

    We haven't seen the JWs through the lockdowns, although one did hand write a very nice letter to each of us with a copy of their magazine. I assume they haven't felt confident enough in their God to go knocking on strangers' doors in a pandemic. That and people have more excuse than usual to ignore them.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    We used to live in the next road to a JW temple I am not rude to people at my door,so in the end,they actually used to go In doors,we also lived near the biggest Mormon temple in Europe,they were Americans but they were polite and respectful.we also had the big Scientology's what ever they call it,Tom cruise seen around in his Red Ferrari,but come on a religion Invented by a sci fi writer. I had a hairdresser I really liked called Ron,he said religion was invented to keep the populus in order,or telling them they would burn in hell,God fearing
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    IMHO bikers should be fined if there is a cycle lane and they don’t use it! Our council here in Buckinghamshire laid a beautiful one like a wide pavement in a black spot area at extreme cost and inconvenience, but still the cycle clubs ride two abreast on the roadđŸ€·â€â™‚ïž
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Haven't seen a JW since I was under the bonnet doing an engine tune in about 1988 or 89 one Sunday pm.  Told them it was rude to interrupt a busy woman.  Had one or two Mormons in Belgium and one or two wanting to talk to me about god.   No thanks.

    Round here, the immediate neighbours are friendly and keep an eye on each other but the ones after the are 2nd homers but now we have some new builds in a former field.  One couple is outgoing and has taken the trouble to get to know us and we expect to meet the others on Saturday 29th which is, in France, the fĂȘte des voisins or neighbours day.    Outdoors so it should be OK but fingers crossed for the weather.  

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    A fĂȘte des voisins - I love that. We have (pre-Covid) ‘Final Friday’, a social gathering in the church on the last Friday of the month. Our only pub closed about 8 years ago (inherited by Harry Styles’s dad who sold it as a private house) so now we gather in the church with a particular emphasis being on engaging with newcomers.
    Rutland, England
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's a national thing @BenCotto and some local councils promote it to build communities.  They help with lending tables, chairs or benches, marquees large and small.  Our village is too small to fund that sort of support but that doesn't stop people organising their own get togethers.   

    I was thinking of organising one last year but Covid got in the way and this year isn't any better but I'm happy to support this couple cos OH and I will both have had both jabs.   

    I have no idea who Harry Styles is, or hid dad.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Obelixx said:
    I have no idea who Harry Styles is
    He's probably like Mickey Bliss, someone just made up to make Cockney rhyming slang easier.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    One Direction, a popular beat combo, mi’lud.
    Rutland, England
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