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  Family gathering before disfellowshiping

  by Mattieu in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  if you were/are in the sydenham (melbourne/victoria) congo you may be very familiar with this a few years back.

  a prominent elder who likes the sound of his own voice (hint, his initials are william saad) yes of quite a well connected family, was on a judicial committee who was disfellowshiping one of his own male relatives for repeated marijuana usage.. this story by the way shows how corrupt the whole system is.

  as williams family (elders and c/o) had covered up the previous few sorrid outcomes of his drug usage, they couldn't contain the last public viewing of his drug dependency, witnessed by many witnesses ironically... so they held a jc to disfellowship him.

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  Australian Football player Alex Rance

  by Mattieu in

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  2. current

  how can i describe alex rance?

  if i was from the uk or europe, imagine your best football goal keeper.

  if from the usa, imagine your best defence player in the nfl.

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  Not just elders in Victoria who need wwc

  by Mattieu in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  in reference to the comments that it should not just be the elders getting the working with children check in victoria, i just caught up with my mate who is still an elder and his 2 buddies (who were also elders), one who turned out to be the p/o (sorry, still stuck with the old lingo).

  3 elders and a so called apostate, and yes we were all drinking beers, ok, i wasnt, that nz sav blnc was too good to pass up.... the direction from bethel is that all elders/ m/s's and pioneers in victoria have to get the wwc, so its not just for elders.. the deadline for all elders, ms's and pioneers to get this check passed a few weeks ago.

  in my mates congo, there was still a few m/'s and pioneers who had not yet submitted their application yet as well as 1 elder.

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  Letter read to Victorian congregations re WCC

  by Mattieu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  had an interesting chat with my ex re the current debate over working with children checks - of which she has one due to her volunteering at our childrens primary school.

  i remember when she had to apply that i made the comment elders & mss should be having background checks due to the history of abuse in the borg and covering up (these discussions normally dont go down well as she is well and truly blinded, well meaning, but blinded).. anywho, she told me about the recent letter that was read to all the victorian congregations, she couldnt tell me verbatim what it said, though the gist was that is no real need for elders to get this check, but rather they are complying with what has been asked legally.. now i dont know if what she said next was based on the letter read or the after discussions at the k/hall, but she made the comment the elders do not need the wcc as they are not strangers, they are our brothers... i tried reasoning that another elder who moves in from interstate is certainly a stranger, until you get to know him on a personal level.

  didnt matter how i reasoned or what incidents i bought up, the view amongst her and the other mums that she hangs around in the cong is that the elders getting a wcc check is totally unnecessary and that the jws are being picked on.. next week, i am meeting up with a mate who is an elder here in victoria and trying to step down, so will pick his brains and see if he can get a copy.... .

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  Ireland Bethel up for sale

  by Mattieu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.wicklowpeople.ie/news/jehovahs-witnesses-hq-goes-on-market-2910987.html.

  whenever a new branch or k/hall is built, its always proof that supposedly j is blessing his people and speeding up the work.

  does that mean when they have to close a bethel branch it means he is pissed off with "his people"????.

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  Poor Smurfs....

  by Mattieu in

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  2. friends

  apart from being demonised, they are also meant to be anti-semitic...... http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/outrage-as-smurfs-called-racist-20110606-1foom.html.

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  Moral Dilemma

  by Mattieu in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  excuse me so called holy spirit directed governing body; what do you do when you discover that a long term hospital liaison committee elder who gives talks at all1 day assemblies, 2 day assemblies & district assemblies and is quite prominent n the victorian/nsw circuit, is addicted to pornography, particularly under age and bestiality porno?

  and oh, if you have print outs of his internet log ins and internet history fully detailing his log ins from his work computer???

  and im not talking breach of privacy, im talking his breach of work usage of computers, of which im in charge of the it.

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  Smurfs are demonised, they were right all along!

  by Mattieu in

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  2. friends

  http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/weird/police-hunt-rasta-bashing-glaswegian-smurf/story-e6frep26-1225948789740.

  naughty naughty smurf......

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  Does the average American get to meet a past/present President?

  by Mattieu in

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  2. friends

  just wondering..... i had the opportunity to meet former us president george bush snr (we still had to address him as mr. president) and his wife barbara.

  i was emcamped with their entourage for a week on an australian visit some years ago.

  real eye opener as to the workings of the secret service, i got an invite to the secret service wind up party at a night club the day the bushes left oz, straight out of a movie that night ;-).

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  Vale Tony Curtis

  by Mattieu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  screen legend................. http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/actor-tony-curtis-dies-at-85/story-e6frfmvr-1225932539056.

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