aligot ripounsous

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  List of Branch Offices being closed?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  15 years ago

  hi, i've tried searching for some recent posts on rumours or otherwise of branch offices being closed but cannot easily find anything.

  does anyone readily have a list of the ones earmarked for closure?

  i did read about central america but also recently some european too.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  Is it related to France and tax issue going on ?

  Gayle, I don't think this has anything to do with the French government eliminating the WTS's tax exempt satus. Those branches are simply done away with because they lack the contributive basis of the local witnesses to support their own bethel staff and building maintenance. The increase in the number of JWs in these regions (as in many european countries and probably in North America too) is due to foreign input. The new members are not so well off as the local French witnesses, who now don't contribute so much as they used to (pasted from a previous post).

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  Generation Teaching - Everyone is speechless?

  by Red Piller in

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  14 years ago

  maybe the effect of this change is bigger than realized?

  in 1995, it was discussed (positively) by everybody, during the week we studied the wt.

  one elder stepped down and was looked down upon.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  Only the Father knows "that day and hour."

  DJ, I heard a few times this silly reasoning from JWs whereby Jehovah may have hidden the day and hour from humans but must have given his servants a few clues as to the month and year of the occurrence of Armageddon. Can you please reassure me and tell me that this isn't what you meant in your post.

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  Blaming God..or just stating he's not doing anything.

  by WillowTrees in

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  14 years ago

  being angry with god...just purely...angry.... i am going to talk about god...and i'm hurting...so i just need to talk.

  i wish a lot of things...so maybe right now i just wish to be able to talk about this with someone..because i feel very alone.. .

  you can't heal yourself" ... if i go to therapy...if i work on being mindful...or eliminating fear..how is that god helping?

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  I prefer to dismiss the idea that God doesn't do anything or, worse, that there is no God, and I stubbornly cling to the conviction that He knows infinitely more than we do about the reasons for evil, misery, etc. Once a JW...

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  List of Branch Offices being closed?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  15 years ago

  hi, i've tried searching for some recent posts on rumours or otherwise of branch offices being closed but cannot easily find anything.

  does anyone readily have a list of the ones earmarked for closure?

  i did read about central america but also recently some european too.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  Which branches/islands in the French Caribbean?

  I think St Martin (half of the island, which is french) and St Barthelemy haven't got any bethels, as they are too small. They are closing bethels in the 2 Caribbean french overseas départements, that is Martinique and Guadeloupe, plus bethel in the South american french Guyana. I don't know about La Réunion island in the Indian ocean, whether they have a bethel or not and, if they've got one, if it will remain active.

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  Generation Teaching - Everyone is speechless?

  by Red Piller in

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  14 years ago

  maybe the effect of this change is bigger than realized?

  in 1995, it was discussed (positively) by everybody, during the week we studied the wt.

  one elder stepped down and was looked down upon.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  Thank you, DJ, for going into such a long development and taking a lot of your time to prove that Jerusalem was destroyed in - 607 and not in - 587. To me it doesn't really matter, that is why I mentioned both dates in my post, pending a possible third one (who knows with the WTS), which would make you feel regret for having pleaded too much for -607. In any case I'm pretty sure that the occurrence of Armageddon won't hinge on such petty calculation in Jehovah's purpose. Remember, nobody knows, except the father, so why should we be fussy about dates and quibble ?

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  Generation Teaching - Everyone is speechless?

  by Red Piller in

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  14 years ago

  maybe the effect of this change is bigger than realized?

  in 1995, it was discussed (positively) by everybody, during the week we studied the wt.

  one elder stepped down and was looked down upon.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  Leolaia wrote : "Nor did the schematic calendar have only 360 days in a year, for there were also four epagomenal days that lay between the months as markers of the four seasons (the two equinoxes and the two solstices), giving a total of 364 days in a year"

  For a while I nurtured the wild hope that Armageddon would occur in 2069, or 2089.

  (doing the calculation on the basis of 365 day years, 7 times are 2555 years and ole' 1914 turns into (- 607 + 2555) = 1948, + 1 = 1949. Adding 120 years to make room for father Noah we get to 2069 or (to one's taste), 2089 if Jerusalem was destroyed in - 587.)

  Now Leolaia tears that hope to pieces with her 364 day year, so 1914 falls on 1942 and Noah will bring A in 2062 or in 2082.

  Who will relieve us from this unbearable uncertainty ?

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  A Greek JW serves 15? yrs in prison for his neutrality position.

  by smiddy in

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  14 years ago

  i`m thinking back to the 1960`s/70s of a watchtower article who described a greek brother who was imprisoned for refusing military conscription service and was sentenced to 5 yrs imprionment by the govt.at the end of his confinement he was again ordered to serve in the military,which he declined and was sentenced to another 5 yrs in prison ,i think this occured one more time.

  ( at that time their was no way you did alternative service ) of course he was hailed as a faithful brother who wouldn`t compromise his beleifs.of course their were probably many more people who went through an experience like this.is their anybody on the board who can verify,or enlighten us to this experience?

  i would like to know what happened to the poor buggers who sacrificed their lives in this way.. smiddy.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  In France, we had, from 1993 to 1995, Edouard BALLADUR as Prime minister and it happens that his nephew was (maybe still is) a JW. I heard that (maybe before he was PM but nevertheless was in a position of authority) he just decided that conscientious objectors who were serving an alternative service within the National forestry department would no longer be managed by the Depatment of Defence but would be under the authority of the Department of agriculture. Therefore, young JWs were allowed by the french WTS branch, overnight, to serve this alternative service under the conscientious objector status, instead of rejecting this status and spending their army time in jail as draft dodgers. Thank you Edouard, Jehovah, for sure, will remember what you did for these small ones. As a side effect, he alleviated overcrowding in french prisons.

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  My Dad's passing

  by happyexjw in

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  14 years ago

  quite a while ago i wrote about my dad who has been living with prostate cancer for 13 years with secondry bone cancer for the last 2 years.

  we all thought he was going to leave us back in april when he had a bad chest infection.

  i was talking about wanting to be able to say some words at his funeral.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  My sincere condolences, Happyexjw, losing a parent is having a part of one's childhood gone for ever.

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  Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie

  by Farkel in

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  21 years ago

  it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.

  he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.

  up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  This in-depth and detailed work concerning Rutherford is really impressive and is evidence of the investigative qualities of such great sleuths as Leolaia and other keen researchers but, as a layman I wonder, isn't it according this pathetic charlatan more importance than he deserves ?

  Lady Lee, Sorry for not having been able to put it more accurately, I just meant historians, not from the WTS but writing about the WTS .

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  Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie

  by Farkel in

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  21 years ago

  it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.

  he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.

  up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.

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  aligot ripounsous 14 years ago

  Scott,

  Unless I'm mistaken, C.T. Russell died on a train, Rutherford died in Beth Sarim.

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