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  Mill Hill Disfellowshippings

  by BorgHater in

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  a few months ago there was a thread about a couple of elders at the mill hill bethel being disfellowshipped because they disagreed with some wt doctrine (i can't recall exactly what it was) and that several other betheliteswere under 'investigation'.

  i haven't heard anything since, does anyone know anything more about this?.

  borghater xx.

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  is Mel Parkin still alive? and does he reside at The London Branch?

  I knew him as a CO in Chelsea around 1978 or 79, he was already all white, looking about 60 of age. Would then be more than 90 by now. I've been told by an English elder that the branch has built special homes for their old faithful servants.

  btw, and off topic, I had a look at Chelsea cong accounts for 2009. The hall is quite small so it must not be a big congregation, unless they merged, say maybe with Fulham (couldn't find the accounting report for the latter) but anyway, they have garnered some £ 62 000 in 2009 and their expenses were less than £ 20 000. Makes a hefty surplus of £ 42 000 !! what on earth have they done with all that money in excess, has the whole of it been funnelled to the branch ?

  http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1065860&SubsidiaryNumber=0
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  Two mounting proofs for Armageddon in 2034

  by slimboyfat in

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  as mentioned by narkissos a couple months ago, doubting bro yesterday, and no doubt others.

  is this where they are headed?

  i say "evidently" it is.

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  armageddon could well come on my 100th birthday!

  Not so sure because at the very time you think you will get hold of the "prize", a kid will overlap your life and He will see Har Magedon, some time around 2150.
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  news from the jw's in haiti

  by highdose in

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  this is an email going round the jw's, contains several accounts.

  here are some new reports that i received today about our brothers in haiti.

  for those unfamiliar with the geography of the area, haiti shares the island with the dominican republic which is referred to as "dr" in the report.

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  aligot ripounsous

  can't we skip the Watchtower study for once, a quick prayer okay, but, my goodness.

  So true, EI, fortunately some JWs, individually, think that "their relationship to Jehovah" will be better expressed by showing mere humanity toward their neighbours
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  Two mounting proofs for Armageddon in 2034

  by slimboyfat in

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  as mentioned by narkissos a couple months ago, doubting bro yesterday, and no doubt others.

  is this where they are headed?

  i say "evidently" it is.

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  That's old light, Slim,

  If the 7 times between the fall of Jerusalem and God appointing Jesus as king were calculated out of 365, and not 360 day years, and assuming we keep the - 607 date as the start of the period of time, we would get 7 x 365 = 2555 years, and 1914 would become 1949 (607 + 1949 - 1 = 2555) as the beginning of the last days ! and if we agree with historians who say that Jerusalem fell in - 587, the last days began in 1969.

  Just add 120 years to make room for anti typical Noah's days and you expect ARMAGEDDON FOR 2089, or 2069 (about the date Issac NEWTON foresaw) if you stick to - 607.
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  Satan Takes a Trip

  by Farkel in

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  jehovah ushers satan into his presence.. jehovah: "listen satan, the thousand year reign is just about up, and according to the bible, i've gotta let you go back to earth and tempt the people, so you'd better go down and see what's happening before you get to work.

  damn.

  i wished i had picked another book to endorse besides that bible.

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  Very good, Farkel, hope you have recovered and are now as fit physically as you keep intellectually, with your full capacity of wits. Many thanks, so, bonne année et bonne santé à toi. A small detail which could make a big difference in your vision, though, Paradise will be run, not by the WTS, which nobody wants, but by God, whom a few still stubbornly and against all odds, want to see as loving. Don't ask me about Haïti, please.
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  Quick, easy way to get started helping Haiti

  by SixofNine in

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  ...and it's looking like they're going to need a lot of help.. .

  http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/disaster_haiti.

  for those interesting in helping immediately, simply text "haiti" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the red cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill.. .

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  We have 2 nice Haïtian sisters in my (wife's) congregation whom we are fairly close to, so for this time I prefer giving them hand to hand money because they have their own channels to forward this money or goods to their relatives and friends who live in Port-au-Prince and have been affected.
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  Mill Hill Disfellowshippings

  by BorgHater in

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  a few months ago there was a thread about a couple of elders at the mill hill bethel being disfellowshipped because they disagreed with some wt doctrine (i can't recall exactly what it was) and that several other betheliteswere under 'investigation'.

  i haven't heard anything since, does anyone know anything more about this?.

  borghater xx.

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  aligot ripounsous

  (posted previously on the wrong thread)

  Welcome Paulapollos,

  I read your posts and find them very interesting. As a long time bethelite, you obviously have an excellent insider knowledge of the organisation. Judging from the acute awareness you've reached about power process within this org, I suppose that you haven't gotten it overnight and it matured as you were still at Mill Hill, which must not have been an easy thing for you to live with. You must indeed have experienced a terrible inner stress due to cognitive dissonance.

  As for your prediction that the GB will soon claim to be the FDS, I can tell you that I heard this assimilation from the platform at the last district assembly I attended 18 months ago in Paris, plainly laid out by a french heavy bethel member you may know, bro. COUSY. I pointed out this afterward with various JWs, nobody seemed to bother. Tells a lot about how mentally dull JWs have become, as regards their own theology.
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  Watchtower sez....Napoleon's generation is still alive today!

  by sir82 in

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  based on their new defintion of a "generation" from the 4/15/2010 wt, that is:.

  understand jesus words about this generation?.

  he evidently meant that the lives of the anointed.

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  aligot ripounsous

  Welcome Paulapollos,

  I read your posts and find them very interesting. As a long time bethelite, you obviously have an excellent insider knowledge of the organisation. Judging from the acute awareness you've reached about power process within this org, I suppose that you haven't gotten it overnight and it matured as you were still at Mill Hill, which must not have been an easy thing for you to live with. You must indeed have experienced a terrible inner stress due to cognitive dissonance.

  As for your prediction that the GB will soon claim to be the FDS, I can tell you that I heard this assimilation from the platform at the last district assembly I attended 18 months ago in Paris, plainly laid out by a french heavy bethel member you may know, bro. COUSY. I pointed out this afterward with various JWs, nobody seemed to bother. Tells a lot about how mentally dull JWs have become, as regards their own theology.
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  The Probabilty of there being an Intelligent Designer

  by cantleave in

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  i have been thinking a great deal about where i stand at this moment in time in terms of a belief in a creator verses a belief in an evolutionary process.

  i think the best way to describe it is an exploratory path.

  i look at what is around me and i acknowledge it is remarkable.

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  What puzzles me is : does the rejection of an abusive organisation have to entail the rejection of a creator in whom we, having been deceived by the WTS but not being totally stupid, had believed wholeheartedly ?
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  Some Conclusions I Have Reached

  by AllTimeJeff in

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  i wonder if everyone here who has kept up with me since i left jw's realize why i have been coming on here.

  it certainly has been cool to know that some of my experiences and opinions have helped some.

  i hope they know that i have been equally helped by others.. i come here primarily for me.

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  aligot ripounsous

  Many thanks, ATJ, for the most informative input you bring into this board. Thanks to your personal experience you impart a real insider knowledge to us about the functioning of this organisation. You have every right to be bitter but I appreciate your not being hateful , as far as I remember your posts, which sound plain honest.