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  WTS buys £1,000,000 luxury sea-front property in Wales, UK

  by Simon in

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  2. scandals

  shower room.

  office.

  games room.

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  freddo

  That house at half a million pounds is nothing - a tiny house in West London costs that any day. Just one of the JW 4 bed bethel dormitory detached houses in Mill Hill would fetch over a million.

  North Wales is stunning and the views are spectacular; but it rains there like it does in Ireland. The weather can be pretty miserable and the wind and rain will lash around that house much of the time. Sure it will be nice in summer some days but it will be unusual to top 75F and often a wet 60/65F at best.

  From a business point of view they've got a lot of property for their money and it sits right in centre of the most Welsh-speaking part of Wales. I guess the big wigs will holiday up there on the pretext it's a "speshul vizzit" - being 250 miles from the UK branch "ice-box" will be nice.

  Supporting the Welsh language is a waste of UK resources and as mentioned above if I lived there and had kids I would rather my child learned a major language instead.
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  Letter to BOE: Adjustment in process for appointing elders and ministerial servants

  by pixel in

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  2. beliefs

  hello, you read it here first!.

  governing body of jehovah's witnesses.

  to all congregations.

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  freddo

  Loads of branches have closed. This means service departments in the big branches cater for more traffic. Just like pioneers aren't overseen by the branch anymore- as in sending in reports etc. - nor will e&ms appointments be. Takes away the workload and means the org can:

  1. Take useful branch service dept members and put them on profitable building projects, pedo defence and money related activity.

  2. Take useless branch service dept members and kick 'em to the curb or send them off to East Nyack as a special pioneer.

  CO's can access WT megacorp's database of pedo's, weirdo's and face-doesn't- fit-o's before appointing and can be the fella the buck stops at for deleting.
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  A farce elder here

  by His Excellency in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just to share a little about me:.

  i was recently appointed an elder, about 6 months ago now, and that is exactly two years after my awakenning, but funny that the appointment came also about 2 years after i had completely lost all faith in god and had been leading a full time anti-jw life .

  makes you wonder the role of the holy spirit in the entire nomination or appointment process.. .

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  freddo

  HE - You are one twisted self serving piece of work.

  I call bullshit. A JC is formed that you are on but not until May? Over two weeks away? With a self proclaimed little goosestepping elder like you involved? And you have used JC's to turn 7 publishers against the organization? In the six months since you say you were appointed? Right.
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  Classic repost from AlltimeJeff; recently completely - Free!

  by WingCommander in

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  2. friends

  i wanted to give this very public shout-out and congratulations to alltimejeff, who i have come to find out had turned in his letter of da, twice, then was read out at the meeting recently.

  for those not knowing, atf was a 2005 gilead graduate, bethelite, missionary.

  they mean the leadership.

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  freddo

  ATJeff's post is his personal experience relayed for us.

  It has the ring of truth about it. It feels right. It chimes with my own experience as a one time small fry congregation elder and born-in.

  As a kid and teenager it was all "type and antitype" as crazy freddie franz's drivel and 1975/generation that saw 1914 with understanding/born in 1914 etc. kept me at the behest of my parent in a kingdom hall every Sunday and in some ones private home on a hard chair on a Tuesday evening.

  If only I had seen the inner workings and woken up sooner!
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  US Official Predicts End Of World Power Status

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/03/28/americans-must-adjust-to-a-world-dominated-by-china-feds-bullard-says/.

  an alliance could emerge that suddenly upsets the balance of power , making anglo-america number 2. already, the brics nations seem to be moving towards a loose alliance on many issues.

  either way, things are moving in china's direction.

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  freddo

  You yanks needn't worry about losing superpower status - we brits lost it after WW2 and it hasn't done us any harm. Only your pride gets hurt.

  No one will defeat China, Russia, USA or India and no one will try.
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  SECRET SIGN FOR FADERS

  by Bob_NC in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  faders need a secret sign to use at the khall.

  the thought came to me after reading replies to datadogs post on stopping singing at the meetings.. i can suggest a few secret signs for faders to use and to look for at the khall, but it would be better that current meeting attenders make suggestions here.

  if readers on this site can agree to a secret sign to use at the meetings, just imagine the power that would have at your kingdom hall.

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  freddo

  I like the "Friend of Ray" thing.

  How about carrying a copy of the interlinear for the greek scriptures?
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  FUNERAL OUTLINE

  by freeatlast36 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i knew it.

  march 28, 2014 at 9:57pm.

  nobody seemed to notice that i wasn't sitting with my immediate family.

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  freddo

  Recent JW funerals I have attended in the UK have a smaller reference to doctrine and belief and a lot more to do with the person - thank goodness! There is an outline but if you can eulogise or simply spend much time saying nice things about the GB members when they die then why not Bro. Faithful Min. Serv. or Sister Cakemaker (or even Bro. weird but harmless) too?
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  My Window Cleaner

  by happy@last in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my window cleaner is a jw and as i am always working when he comes to my house i haven't seen him or spoken to him in years.

  the other day i was in my local town and went into a cafe for some lunch.

  who is sitting there but my window cleaner and his wife.

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  freddo

  Take his money to the Kingdom Hall on meeting night go up to him, smile, loudly call him by name and ask him how he is and say "Here's your window cleaning money! By the way I won't be needing you to clean my windows anymore. Have a nice meeting! Byeee!"
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  Scriptures for brother taking field service group

  by FL_Panthers in

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  2. bible

  i have recently been given the privilege of taking the field service group.. .

  can anyone give me some scriptures i can use to encourage the group?

  can you also give a reason as to why these scriptures are helpful to our ministry.. .

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  freddo

  @FL Panthers

  You have a pm.
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  Do you think not having the book study in private homes has had much effect?

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  it's been a few years since the organization ended the book study arrangement in private homes.. gone was the last opportunity to have tea and biscuits and a natter with the friends afterwards.. do you think people regret losing the book study?

  for some, it may have been the only time they were able to get some "associaton".

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  freddo

  "Greatest Man" book study was the best. "Revelation" was awful first time, worse second time and boring/cringing when we had to paste in "new light" - what a crock. Cedar Point Ohio = the seven bowls or some nonsense - helped me wake up.

  The new 3 in 1 mid-week meeting is just a rush of garbage. And now the bethel sends its announcements by jw.orgmail to the elders we get more than ever - here in UK instead of costing them 1500 letters at a £1 each (post and paper and ink) it's given free!

  We get crappy announcement/letter after crappy announcement/letter, all the auxiliary "pioneers" doing 30 hrs get announced, the accounts report gets announced and yet they did away with the announcements!

  And the boys on the sound desk tell me they have to shave a minute or two off of every service meeting item to accommodate it all.

  Still it's an evening off like you say.