Posts by jookbeard

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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

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.

jookbeard

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

... 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.

jookbeard

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

jw
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.

jookbeard

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

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?.

jookbeard

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

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.

jookbeard

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

jw
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!

jookbeard

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

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.

jookbeard

pay peanuts get monkeys, buy cheap pay twice.

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Is Lying a Disfellowshipping offence?

by stuckinarut2 in

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?

?.

jookbeard

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

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If there is anything to bible prophecy, keep an eye out on Israel

by EndofMysteries in

what will be the end game whether in a few years, our lifetime, or hundreds + years from now.

bible prophecy did say israel / jews would be scattered then eventually brought back.

russell was declaring that and it was believed before being changed shortly before it happened.

jookbeard

laughable really, there isn't one single so called Bible prophecy that has been fulfilled or will ever be fulfilled, forgetting about the Bible is probably the best thing

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Did an EX-JW wake you up to TTATT or did you put the effort to wake up yourself?

by John Aquila in

how many of us were woken up by some apostate yelling false prophets at a convention?.

how many of us were woken up by someone holding a sign and yelling, what happened to 1975.

how many of us were coerced to investigate the wt because some ex-jw pulled up a bunch of old watchtowers magazines and told us to read the false predictions?.

jookbeard

when I would see the placard waving protesters at the DC I would take a look and wondered what all the "dates" were about and didn't pay any further attention to them, I though they were a load of loons, one particular day I walked over to where they were positioned and walked over to a guy handing out their leaflets , I gave him a tirade of angry rhetoric and told him that members of the true religion would find themselves persecuted by the Evil Slave Class, I think it left him speechless as he had no answer whatsoever, so I would say the anti jw protesters had very little effect on my current standing as a jw. The real shaker for me came around the time of the WACO siege in 1993, although I had been expressing a lot of doubts about my faith the siege was huge news across the world, local radio station here in London was conducting a phone in show about cults and sects and the guest on the show was an expert in the subject, there was an appeal at the end of the show to anyone who is concerned about friends or families in cults etc to phone the show and some advice could be passed on , I phoned the show and was guided locally to some resources , that was the beginning of the end for me.