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Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Kinnell.
I'm really glad that the JWs now recruit through city centres stalls. When they used to knock on doors I was sure they kept coming back to my house more than the neighbours'. I eventually realised it was probably due to my always being fairly polite and respectful even as I edged the door closed on them, as some of them at least came across as having suffered a lot in life. It got that way, for a time, that I was always dashing upstairs to peer from behind the front bedroom curtains before I'd answer a knock on the door.
In contrast to these types, those who stand at their city-centre stalls usually appear self-assured, and well-dressed in a conservative-cultish way
We had the JWs come to the door in Canada once. My mum just said "look, we're Irish" (this was the 1970s) - to which the JW lady said, "oh, you won't be wanting a new religion, then."JWs still knock on doors round here. North London.
The day WPofB start coming to my door here is the day I leave the country!They still occasionally come to my house. Someone from my synagogue said I should debate with them and that pissed me off because one, I have no interest in debating with them and I don't know my theology that well, and two, they'll think I'm a potential convert.
Maybe in the hope of being able to turn up at the pro-Palestine student camps without being driven off as rape apologists?WTF why now?
Seems a little absolutist. They're Workers after all. The landlord might have sent them round to do something useful like unblock the toilet.The day WPofB start coming to my door here is the day I leave the country!
I used to try debating them, and the Mormons - it never bloody works, they'll just think "we've got a live one here".They still occasionally come to my house. Someone from my synagogue said I should debate with them and that pissed me off because one, I have no interest in debating with them and I don't know my theology that well, and two, they'll think I'm a potential convert.
All good questions: and notice Smith isnt even namedHas there been a change in the composition of the Central Committee making it possible to discuss the issue publicly? Or is this just the political equivalent of a deluxe anniversary box set of one of their 'albums' to keep the brand alive? Or would that be too cynical even about swappies?
I note the statement refers to ''decisions made by the SWP in 2013". The Martin Smith affair began in 2010 and the decisions about how to 'handle' it took place over the next couple of years. 2013 was when the 'launch' of the disputes committee report was mishandled leading to mass resignations. Is that mishandling of the outcome what they are really apologising for? Are the failures listed in the statement merely the "good reason" for issuing it rather than the "real reason"?
That is interesting re Counterfire: any sources?Counterfire is busy splitting over its awful take on trans stuff (essentially agreeing wholeheartedly with the CPB). Not seen any mention of it in RS21, but chances of a merger and slightly lower than those for Sunak winning a majority in the next election.
Or have you just been redirected there?Don't some people/transexuals/transvestites identify as Ladyboys?
E.G. Kathleen Riot (previously. dead name D.I.Y Steve)
Yeah I have been going through a bit of a transition recently politically and spiritually!
I'm now pretty active in and a member of Workers Party Of Great Britain.
I don't necessarily see myself on the British Left anymore and can't in all honesty claim to be Anarchist for decades!
If the the Mormons think you have an interests, they are likely to invite you around for massive feasts.I used to try debating them, and the Mormons - it never bloody works, they'll just think "we've got a live one here".
Mormons don’t drink tea or coffee unless you’re talking about another sect.If the the Mormons think you have an interests, they are likely to invite you around for massive feasts.
Few years ago I was on the bus and behind me two blonde blue eyed young men were speaking, what to my ear sounded like fluent Chinese.
They invited myself and girlfriend around to their paternal overseer for what was basicially a banquet that they all had as shared meal; obviously the women di all the cooking and cleaning up.
Did this several times until they got around to attempting to convert us, although we did go to their services a couple of times to be polite, where we also got fed and given umpteen teas and coffees!
Pretty sure if you pushed it you could scam money off of them if you pushed and tried hard enough.
There is definitely something quite intriguing about the Russian Orthodox Former Anarchists for Galloway sub-tendency. I wonder how things would've turned out if that person from Bristol Class War had converted to the Greek church instead?I must say that I am pleased that we have discovered the Former Anarchists for Galloway tendency.
I don't know. I quite like a bit of biblical debate, so if I have time will always have a little chat, but it's been at least a couple of years since they last visited me.I used to try debating them, and the Mormons - it never bloody works, they'll just think "we've got a live one here".
Mormons are Church Of Latter Day Saints?Mormons don’t drink tea or coffee unless you’re talking about another sect.
TBHI must say that I am pleased that we have discovered the Former Anarchists for Galloway tendency.
Genuine and very loud LOL! Mary came to see what I was laughing at, so that is LOL! x 2.In my 20s, a friend and I once invited in some mormons/JWs/elim pentecostals (can't remember the sect). So I played them the tracks Stand Up For Judas and Abbeizer Coppe from Leon Rosselson/Roy Bailey's Love, Loneliness and Laundry album. At some point half way through one of the songs, they abruptly stood up, made their excuses and left.
I told my mate that they couldn't handle the "blaspemy". He pointed out that as I was still in a dressing gown and the record player was on the carpet, when I'd bent down to sort out the record, I'd accidentally exposed my hairy bollocks to the god botherers
Funnily enough they never came back.
Say what?TBH
I would have thought that the direction that some leading members of, 'what was' IWCA would have found a home in Workers Party Of (Great) Britain?
For example being sympathetic towards some Spiked journalists, Christopher Hitchens, crtitical of mass immigration and multiculturalism.
Slogans such as, 'For The Working Class Whether Left Or Right.' etc.
It was on Blackbird Leys IWCA leaflet.Say what?
(And where did you get that slogan from?!)
I'm pretty sure it wasn't.It was on Blackbird Leys IWCA leaflet.
No I haven't got a reference to it.
There's both a Polish Catholic and a Ukrainian Orthodox church there tooThere is definitely something quite intriguing about the Russian Orthodox Former Anarchists for Galloway sub-tendency. I wonder how things would've turned out if that person from Bristol Class War had converted to the Greek church instead?
There is definitely something quite intriguing about the Russian Orthodox Former Anarchists for Galloway sub-tendency. I wonder how things would've turned out if that person from Bristol Class War had converted to the Greek church instead?
Tbf I could see them both having a good old time talking rubbish at each other. Pub bores of a feather those two for all the differences.Galloway and Christopher Hitchens, famous comrades in arms.
The Kamenev and Zinoviev of the early 21st centuryGalloway and Christopher Hitchens, famous comrades in arms.