Posts by jookbeard

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How many have read 'Crisis of Conscience'?

by tornapart in

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for me it was the book!

it opened my eyes.

i started it thinking it would just enlighten me about how the organisation works.

jookbeard

I read it, I was inactive though , but my mind was complelty made up by their lies , arragance and dishonesty the Malawi/Mexico scandal was particularly shocking, a must read.

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ex-jw-uk

by bigmac in

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i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

i've already found several by reading older posts..

google spell check

by jookbeard in

hardly ever works on here, perhaps just 1 in 10 attempts.

jookbeard

hardly ever works on here, perhaps just 1 in 10 attempts

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Simon, Would it be possible to not have the "Logout" right next to the little blue envelope

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

where we send and receive our pm's.. sometimes, my mouse acts "shaky" and i have caught it just in time so i do not accidently, logout.. just a thought.. maybe i am the only one with a shaky mouse at times.. loislane.

i actually never logout.

i don't remember all the passwords, etc, i made up, to enter.

jookbeard

my mouse is shakey as well

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What Was Your First Experience In Exposing Yourself To "Apostasy"?

by minimus in

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as a young teenager, i would look at "apostate" books at the city library.

i was always intrigued as to what was sooo bad and other than a few writings of some that seemed like they hated the witnesses, i would clandestinely look at literature, especially in "christian" bookstores.. it took years for me to finally disconnect.

i will say that ray franz' books enlightened me the most!.

jookbeard

I listened to a local radio(Radio London 94.9) programme on cults and sects probably early 1993( already inactive and ceased meeting attendance), the programme had a guest from a London University and I dont believe the WTS was being spoken about, I think it may have tied in with the WACO seige, the Moonies were mentioned and the presenter mentioned that if any listeners had concerens about cults and sects that a number will be avialiable to call at the end of the show, naturally I called it and the rest they say is history.

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Relocation of UK Bethel

by krejames in

i heard a rumour that the uk hq is moving from mill hill in london to a location in essex near chelmsford.

explanation being that it's closer to the transport networks.

anyone know anymore?.

jookbeard

70wksfyrs; where would the Bethelite workers have been moved to ? surely if a new residence had been built the R&F would have known about this and it would be common knowledge, I thought that the old Ridgway was used as residence when Bittacy Hill was built, if there are 650 plus in the Mill Hill family who are on limited funds paying transport costs from Chelmsford or Milton Keynes daily would not be ecconomiccly viable?

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Relocation of UK Bethel

by krejames in

i heard a rumour that the uk hq is moving from mill hill in london to a location in essex near chelmsford.

explanation being that it's closer to the transport networks.

anyone know anymore?.

jookbeard

they are sitting on real estate value with Bittacy Hill and The Ridgway that equates to some of the highest in London, maybe a deal will be done with their Jewish friends ? (Mill Hill is a huge Jewish area) the transport links being used as an excuse is another example of how deceitful they are when Mill Hill offers the best transport links of any London suburb.

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The Real Aftermath of the AGM...

by raymond frantz in

i didn't go to the agm nor was i invited .i didn't go to the sunday meeting either.i received a text though from a long standing ministerial servant that echoes the sentiment in my congragation at least.he was present at the meeting.no elder was there and all parts ,watchtower and public talk were handled by ministerial servants.he was incensed that he was not invited allthough he's been a servant for many years and always volunteered at the assemblies etc.

the absense of all these elders was very noticable .most of the congragation was uninformed for the "dog & ponny show" (sorry agm) and the reason i think was that they were embarrased to admit that only they were going to go.but the most upsetting thing for many is that only the ones that went to the agm got the new bible ,the rest will have to wait till january when the first supply arrives at the congragation.

also many have found out that the instruction is that the new bible has to be used from the congragation straight away at the meetings and field service .imagine the embarrasment to be sitting next to the in crowd with their new flashy bible !.

jookbeard

I would have been raging if I hadn't been invited , I got angry enough when the Proclaimers book was released, anyone know excatly where the UK venues were?

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Any Fader Disfellowshipped in later Years?

by braincleaned in

hi!.

hey, did anyone here ever get disfellowshipped after years of fading, because of having been discovered online saying crap about the wts and/or the gb?.

just wondering... you know they are following these sites....

jookbeard

they caught up with me a couple of years into my fade with a loaded speaker phone conversation that completly caught me off guard with the usual "do I believe the WTS is the channel/ do I want to still be asscociated with them etc" I was shortly DA'ed not that it made much difference

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Email conversation with a colleague

by zakharijah in

i just wanted to share this conversation i had by email with a jw colleague last year at easter.

(on my professional email address).

or how can you say to your brother, allow me to extract the straw from your eye; when, look!

jookbeard

I would have turned it around and focus on some concerrns you had about her , perhaps she's becoming way too materialistic, I've noticed you dont seem to be out in the FS so much these days, and that you dont seem to have your hand up match at meetings , or you've not got that Kingdumb smile on very much, they want to judge you with their self rightous BS give it staight back to them