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  Selloff update Melbourne Australia

  by jonahstourguide in

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  i've posted this here so all visitors to this site can see info relating to the great expansion.. the kealba kingdom hall in st albans will be sold.

  perhaps worth around au1.4 million dollars.

  on two blocks of suburban land with off street parking.

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  The Australian gov has set up the National Redress scheme for victims. Most churches/orgs have joined.

  JW org is lagging, nowhere to be seen as yet.
  

  In the state of Victoria the Catholic church was worth more than $9 billion, making it the biggest non-government property owner in the state – and much wealthier than it had admitted in evidence to major inquiries into child sexual abuse.
  Figures extrapolated from a huge volume of Victorian council valuation data showed the church had more than $30 billion in property and other assets, Australia wide.

  I don't think the org can match the Catholic church wealth or the Anglican - I know that most halls and churches of the Anglicans are to be sold off in Tasmania to pay out their victims.

  What the org has in real estate wealth here in Australia, kingdom halls, etc - reading through here can only mean they are in dire need to recompense their abuse victims also but telling the rank and file a different story.
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  Oz, Down Under, thanks for...

  by stillin in

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  judith durham!

  men at work!

  the proclaimers (right?

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  INXS Michael Hutchence, lead singer of the group which began in a back yard garage. Many great songs. I like Mystified.
  
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  North Korean Gift to "American Bastards" for Independence Day

  by cofty in

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  nk has taken another important step towards having a viable nuclear arsenal with the successful trial of an icbm.. kim jong-un says new missile is 'gift' to 'american bastards' from north korea on independence day.. one major hurdle left for kim jong-un is working out how to make his nuclear bombs small enough to be delivered by the missile.

  that is not an insurmountable obstacle.. the us sate department have issued a statement stating that it "will never accept a nuclear-armed north korea".

  how exactly to prevent this outcome is not clear.

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  How it's viewed here, Australia, re North Korea.

  Gareth Evans, former Foreign Minister says ""Sheer dumb luck we've avoided a nuclear holocaust".

  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-05/north-korea-less-worrying-than-donald-trump-say-south-koreans/8681700
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  We have our own Gert Wilders in Australia

  by barry in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kreptyyo6l8

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  Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has engaged one of Donald Trumps economists.

  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-16/pauline-hanson-hires-donald-trump-economist-james-ashby-claims/7854244
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  What's a word that describes the way Witnesses behave as a group?

  by paul from cleveland in

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  i can't recall the word that describes a group that keeps to itself like the witnesses do.

  i thought it was "insular" but i don't think that's the one i'm looking for after reading the definition.

  i remember an elder using the word "clannish" and that has the proper definition but it reminds me of a group of elves.

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  A 'peculiar people' from 1Peter 2:9.
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  Where are you from?

  by BeautifulMind in

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  i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

  but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

  i currently live in georgia, usa.

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  Great Southern Land

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mkidP2OUCk
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  ISIS Destruction of Ancient Palmyra Temple

  by freemindfade in

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  anyone who has read what happened here, both to the ancient site and also the grizzly murder of antiquity scholar khalid asaad, consider this.

  what religious/theocracy on earth now most resembles the stories of "god's chosen people" of the old testament?

  probably isis does.

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  Mmmm, could it be that after these ancient sites have met with destruction that ISIS have another target....the Vatican?
  
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  For All Australians Present: How are Australian JWs Reacting to the Royal Commission?

  by Littleleslie in

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  2. beliefs

  hi everyone:.

  i was just wondering how were the baptized jehovah's witnesses responding to the royal commission inquiry.. i know there must be a number of australians present here that could tell us this.. i was especially wanting to know how the jehovah's witnesses were taking the testimony of the governing body member geoffrey jackson?.

  thanks for your comments.. littleleslie .

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  Like others here, I have no contact with JWs anymore - have not spotted them out on the door knocking either in my street.

  I do see them sitting at their tables in town with magazines etc. Next time I'll ask them your question.
  
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  Is It Time to regroup?

  by John Aquila in

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  how much do you want to bet that the organization has already started preparing articles for the watchtower magazines, convention talks, circuit overseers talks and letters to bodies of elders, to refute what is happening in australia?

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  right now the most important thing for the wt to do is protect their image that they are gods visible organization.especially in the u.s. and latin american countries.

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  just fine - Here's a well worded page to aid the 'spreading this news'.

  https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2015/08/01/royal-commission-examines-jehovah-witnesses-cover/14383512002194
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  Speculation ( not theory ) on child abuse inquiries.

  by DATA-DOG in

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  most of you, like me, keep yourself informed as to what's happening in jw-land.

  like me, you make it your business to know what's going on.

  so i'm wondering why the wtbts is allowing eldubs to appear in these inquiries in australia??

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  DarioKelh 'its because lett, morris, losch, herd, jackson, sanderson and what's-his-name will NEVER sit in the hot seat themselves. They simply ignore summons and refuse to appear.'

  If so, Cardinal Pell will manage to look superior (even if he withholds evidence) as he is returning to Aust to front up again to the RC later on for further evidence. Something the gb could learn from as hiding away in their dormitories shows their complete and utter guilt more so than their Catholic church foe.
  

  
  http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/07/30/15/09/george-pell-to-appear-at-abuse-commission

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