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  Special Pioneer Couple Living at a Kingdom Hall In Miami FL, get the dreaded Letter

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just got a phone call from an older sister saying that a couple that got re-assigned from bethel 4 years ago to live at their kh apartment as special pioneers, just received a letter saying "as of january 2016, your special pioneer assignment will be discontinued".. they live in a south miami kh(snapper creek congregation).. this couple had only served in bethel for 15 years before they were sent out into the special pioneer work.

  they are now in their mid 50's and the sister said that they have to find part time jobs to support themselves.. the older sister (does not have a pc or internet), says that the couple are just devastated!

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  whats happening to the flat ? is being sold as well?
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  Lets start a "Go Fund Me" for those special pioneers being kicked to the curb by the GB,.

  by notjustyet in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  lots of great potential to help those sp that are being sent off without any financial help from the wtbts.

  i think that it would be a great way to get some exposure on this topic and how the wtbts thats those that dedicated their lives to the wtbts only to be sent packing at a late age.

  then someone can take the funds to one sp couple, possibly, and give it to them in honor of the apostates that know what is really happening.

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  no chance in hell I'd give to these idiots, it would probably go to the court case pay outs of child sexual abuse.
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  Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

  by Dunedain in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there were always all types of speakers in the org.

  myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

  other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

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  for a while there was a lot of inter congregational football matches being played across the circuit and the county they even spread across most parts of the country at times and were taken very seriously, it got to the stage the results of the matches started to be announced in the Service Meeting in a cong of a friend of mine , naturally a new CO put a stop to this, imagine the speaker making these announcements " brothers and sisters the recent inter congregational football results ;

  Farnham 3 Camberley 1

  Wimbledon 5 Woking 2

  Guildford 4 Petersfield 2

  Bracknell 6 Maidenhead 3

  and thats all the football results tonight brothers , now for the next item on the service meeting.
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  Some Recent U.K. Information ...

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ... just received!

  london bethel: last year a couple in their fifties were laid off from bethel and made special pioneers.

  in january they will be demoted to regular pioneers.

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  wondering what the stats are for the rest of Europe, probably worse, SBF calls them the biggest and fastest growing religious group on the planet
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  Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.

  thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.

  i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.

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  welcome back SBF, during the time you was gone was you watching their growth as the fastest religious group in the world?
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  No carts in Australia?

  by Festus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a friend of mine visited australia and to his surprise there were no jw carts on streets.. wonder if it was just a coincidence or is it due to media attention that arc has created?.

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  I'm seeing them less frequently as well, I usually pop into town most days and have noticed
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  Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

  by Dunedain in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there were always all types of speakers in the org.

  myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

  other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

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  after the 1987 great storm which was the very worst England had ever seen the public speaker the following Sunday said; "haven't we be having some wonderful weather lately", bear in mind quite a few people were killed in this storm.
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  Where has all the money gone?

  by gingerbread in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a number of years ago when i was still active, our service group was having a coffee break with the visiting circuit overseer.

  during the conversation he mentioned that the "society" was now being run like a business.

  being raised in the "truth" i thought that rather odd (and my eyes began to be opened!

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  the hedge funders have very expensive lifestyles to service. Just of of interest wonder what the ball park figure of the expense of Warwick really is?
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  big accident at Warwick construction site

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the wt society is fond of using the tilt-up method of construction where a network of rebar is made on the ground, concrete poured on it and allowed to cure, then the whole thing is tilted up and voila' you've got yourself a massive big-ass wall ready made.

  these walls for several stories-high buildings are indeed massive and weighty so you need a heavy-duty crane to raise into position.. i just heard from an eye-witness ldc volunteer that while there a few weeks ago they had an enormous accident.

  the crane tilted and crashed, the only one hurt was its operator.

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  jookbeard

  pay peanuts get monkeys, buy cheap pay twice.
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  Is Lying a Disfellowshipping offence?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  2. beliefs

  so, if lying or being deliberately misleading is a "disfellowshipping" offence, why haven't the brothers who lied to the australian royal commission been brought before a judicial committee?

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  jookbeard

  I know someone who was DF'ed for lying, he was telling lies about his drinking