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  Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!

  by pistolpete in

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  yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

  😭😢😓😰😡.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.

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  BluesBrother

  This announcement yesterday surprised me and a lot of others . I understand that in the U S the pandemic is viewed as nearly over , perhaps that is the driver of it, but that only proves the accusation that the Borg is too USA centric.

  In the U.K. new infections have risen this week by a staggering 50% ! We have 12000 in hospital with it and deaths are between 100 and 200 every day. The government have relaxed restrictions but that is seen as due more to do with politics and the economy, than medical advice

  So it is the timing that surprises and it being a global thing rather than gradually as conditions locally allow. I know of at least two older ones who separately say they flatly refuse to attend until it’s over.
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  Anyone else remember the Awake saying this?

  by BottanicPepper in

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  2. bible

  i may have put this in the wrong thread.

  if so, i'm sorry.. my conundrum is this.... i am almost completely certain that an awake back in the 80's/90's mentioned a group of rock bands we shouldn't listen to and i seem to remember them actually naming guns and roses.. i can't find anything now, and i'm wondering if it's the mandela effect, or if it's another case of the cdrom versions of the awakes being doctored again.. does anyone else remember this?

  or am i crazy?

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  BluesBrother

  I well remember the articles against heavy rock “metal” music. I was an elder at the time and I loved heavy rock music...it was my release from the stresses and anxiety of life. I believed the Org. Was the truth then , but I could see that this was just human reasoning largely culled from other religious writers.....

  I still bought G&R c ds , played them in headphones. Actually they were a band that had a lot to offer, not just thumping rock. Their version of “Knocking On Heavens Door” and songs like November Rain and Civil War , show that they were a cut above the others.
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  Back to the Meetings. It's Offical!

  by pistolpete in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yep, the vacation is over, it's time to go to work------for free!

  😭😢😓😰😡.

  https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/.

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  BluesBrother

  Oh S#**@###!
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  Informal Witnessing

  by Iamallcool in

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  2. friends

  since i have been out for years, i am wondering how often do the watchtower encourage r&f to do more informal witnessing?

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  BluesBrother

  Especially during the pandemic, they have done it more than ever..
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  2022-02-17-Watchtower Defense Manuals-Loss of State Support--Norway!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  2022-02-17-- watchtower defense manuals on the loss of state support in norway.. .

  the english manual is 32 pages long and the norwegian manual is 40 pages long.

  both manuals are in this file folder.. .

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  BluesBrother

  They ought to read “Crisis of Conscience “ where Ray Franz describes in detail how he was d/f’d for having association with a person, his employer, who had d/a’d himself.

  How can an organisation that upholds truth and honesty as a sacred command from God, resort to these distortions of the truth when it suits them? Words fail me
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  So why didn't Jehovah/ GB/ watchtower warn the brothers in Ukraine to get out before before the war started?

  by nowwhat? in

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  if that had occured wouldn't that have given us confidence and faith for when the big one comes?

  just sayin'.

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  BluesBrother

  There are strong rumours that I have heard from multiple sources , that they were advised to leave the country if they could……. And a good many did.

  Of course with something like 120,000 of them it was never going to be 100% so they fear for the ones who could not get out.
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  WATCHTOWER extracts 104 million from Trust in U.K. Plan to ditch Kingdom Halls at play??

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  {brother ?, a copy of this is being passed around here in bristol, kent, london, etc.

  to “certain” elders by way of heads up.

  feel free to ignore it or investigate it.

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  BluesBrother

  We have known for a long time that most Halls are now owned by the Kingdom Hall Trust and they no longer are separate charities.

  Does this mean the end of Kingdom Halls and local meetings? I doubt that very much

  As soon as they believe it to be Covid safe they will be back to meeting together and the all important Ministry....
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  Hi people!

  by ozziepost in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi guys, owyergoin?

  (that’s australian for youse foreigners!

  haven’t called in quite a while but just called by to say “i’m still standing and still enjoying shiraz !.

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  BluesBrother

  Hi Ozzie , you are well remembered... Sorry to read of the passing of your good lady . They must have been dark days

  I have no Shiraz but I will raise a nice English cup of tea in your honour

  Now that you have returned, why not stick around?
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  Any in-house word on Ukrainian Witnesses form HQ?

  by careful in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone heard any word on active witnesses inside the ukraine and what has been happening with them the last week or so?

  i checked the official org website but there was just the expected "fulfilling bible prophecy" stuff.

  perhaps someone here has bethel contacts who have leaked some info on what the gb is trying to do for these victims of putin's madness?.

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  BluesBrother

  Just had a look on JW Talk, the forum for active Witnesses. There is a lot of rumours about saying that all the dubs in Ukraine were instructed to Leave just before the invasion. No one knows how true that is. To be practical, with over 100k in Ukraine it was never going to be all of them

  The JWtalkers are most concerned for their brothers but we can see a larger picture and feel for millions of citizens affected.
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  A little something you have not yet heard.

  by lastmanstanding in

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  2. scandals

  i hope to make a very interesting post here, and informative.

  i’m quite sure no one here has heard this content.

  i would like to finally make known some heretofore undisclosed details concerning something that has affected probably everyone on this board to some degree.

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  BluesBrother

  Involved? At the time I took a print of the list of NGOs , from the UN website. There as clear as day was the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society. There among the supporting organisations..... that is what I call involvement.