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  Disturbance during Memorial 2016.

  by Ben131895 in

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  two documented disturbances during memorial 2016. type 'memorial 2016' on youtube.

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  Derek O'Hare? he certainly made a disturbance this year!
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  Rustle of Spring in Chelmsford?

  by Lostandfound in

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  any sign of spring in chelmsford, or is it still being "rescoped" or simply hugely reduced but no activity anyhow.

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  the hatchet men?
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  Changes in the last 7-ish years?

  by FinchAndWeston in

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  2. beliefs

  what has changed in the last 7 years?

  just curious .... 1) do they still shun?

  what's the policy on da's, df's and a?.

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  D2D work has been almost wiped out where I live in a suburb of London, makes sense with the reduction of the WT/Awake mag and since the introduction of carts, I've seen them once recently on D2D for the first time in many years but I believe it was the build up to the memorial I do see them sometimes walking around the neighbourhood but it only seems to be on RV's. Increasing apathy from the R&F declining meeting attendances, congs being merged and liquidated,meetings reduced and you see a burnt out,demotivated,bored workforce.
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
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  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  the alarming aspect is the treatment of faders/inactive ones, truly appalling
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  yep with a vengeance, last year my mother died, her dying wish was that I was'nt permitted to attend her funeral, by BiL was screaming down the phone to me like a madman informing me of it.
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  How much of the Society's publications just get stored away in the garage?

  by donny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  almost a year ago i moved back to the dallas - fort worth area after spending 16 years in the northern california area.

  the area i live in has several nearby parks and walkways and these areas have several "share a book" pods mounted on a pole spaced about 1/2 mile from one another.

  people are encouraged to add books they no longer use to these pods and to take one if they are interested.. i have been diligent on removing watchtower publications from them and what has surprised me is how many old publications in pristine condition are added almost on a daily basis.

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  tons upon tons upon tons, many millions of tons, how many times would we place rags and books on the FS and go on the RV and ask if the home-owner got to read the particular rag/book? the majority of the time the answer was no, add the amount of unread stuff in the homes of the R&F and householders worldwide and it really is a criminal waste, I still laugh when they claim the WT is the most distributed mag in the world.
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  Johan Cruijff R.I.P.

  by fulano in

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  the greatest soccer player ever of my country died today.

  only 68 years old.

  he meanta lot to many people because of his skills, as a player and trainer.

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  wonderful player a true world class legend, in the all time top 3 RIP
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  Why did Jesus have to suffer?? Something I never thought about.

  by ttdtt in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  something dawned on me last night.

  jesus was suposed to be a corresponding sacrifice for adam right?.

  a perfect life for a perfect life.

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  the ransom for the sins of A&E is flawed anyway because A&E were not perfect and they were destined to fail , the whole thing is a fraud.
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  I would rather be in the JW cult than the ex-jw cult

  by questioningmyfaith in

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  i have posted one other time on this website.

  just for the mere fact that i wasn't anger and bitter and ready to declare the gb the sociopathic criminals that so many here ascribe to, my initial question digressed to bickering over ad hominem attacks against the gb and not my beliefs that i'm questioning.

  some did give me some help on my questions.

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  I seem to be hearing this term "exjw cult" or a particular exjw has created a cult of exjw's which really is nonsense, there are vast subgroups where people are welcome to believe what they want, weather they be atheist, christian, groups for gay exjw's bible student groups and they are free to support whatever group they like, there is no "membership" of any of these groups, I would like to know about all these so called lies though, a world wide child abuse cover up policy?, ,membership of the UN?, holding investment stock in companies what produce military hardware? former GB members who were predatory abusing homosexuals? please respond.
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  To those who attended, attendance up or down at your memorial?

  by Crazyguy in

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  2. friends

  interesting to see if there's a noticeable trend in memorial attendance.

  also did they talk more then usual about ones not to partake?

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  still waiting on my contact from my old cong