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  New Appointments Are Very Fast & All On The CO

  by baldeagle in

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  the week of september 15, 2014 was the congregations cos visit.

  the midweek meeting was on tuesday, a very general bland talk was given by the co. in the past we would have had the elders & servants meeting on thursday night, and the other congregation meeting on friday.

  as you know the friday meeting is no more.

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  Now I don't see it like this (accountability) - I think this is a simple follow the dollars job.

  Here in UK - how many congs? 1500? Let's say just one appointment/deletion per CO visit on average. That's 3000 processing and rubber stamps to get though - ten/twelve a working day for one man for a year. They can save a bethelite's (and his toilet cleaning wife's) board and lodging by chucking it to the CO to do. Now take all the pioneer on and offs being done by the Service Committees - that's another bethel couple to lose.

  Now take all the appealed deletions that need branch approval - all down the COs' chute.

  In the USA times that by what 8? So lots of lolly saved.
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  Am I the youngest one on here?

  by Capstone in

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  i finally registered on here after reading on the forum for almost two years on and off (more often the last year).

  to give you some background on who i am i can say that i'm a girl in my late teens and live in western europe.

  my mom is a jw and my dad is not.

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  freddo

  You live in Western Europe, write English very well for a teenager but you call your mother "mom" and literature trolleys "carts"?
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  Plastic buckets in Paradise

  by Sour Grapes in

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  i remember one picture of a pretty little girl holding a plastic bucket in paradise next to a tame lion.. i asked my wife if there is going to be polution in paradise?

  of course the answer is no!!!!!..

  i asked her where did the plastic bucket come from?

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  AnnOMaly - Oh yes that is a classic!
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  my first post! (long read sorry in advance)

  by Letts Party in

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  2. beliefs

  long time lurker, first time poster here finally looking to get some things off my chest.

  i've always been a very curious person with tons of questions about everything, and i also care deeply particularly about societal issues like social injustice, racism, and homophobia.

  that, coupled with how boneheaded all the elders in my congregation are (except for one), led me to ask even more questions that led me to find ttatt.. .

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  I read it all. Welcome from the UK.
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  Where Are You on The Witno Scale?

  by tresdecu in

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  1 - still think it's the truth ...came to this site cause danger is your middle name.. 2 - concerned, smoething's amiss but still believe.

  3 - 98% sure it's bs, but still go for / with family.

  4 - anger / denial, inactive with minimal attendance (ie memorial, spec talk etc).

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  freddo

  3. But replace 98% with 100%!
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  Why do you come here?

  by love2Bworldly in

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  i come here to learn, but i also come here because it feels like a private club and i'm privy to be a member of the "in" crowd.

  it's a great place to socialize.

  does anyone else feel that they are a member of a special "club" when they come here, that only some people in this world will understand the jw world?.

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  1. To keep my sanity.

  Err ... that's it really!
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  Ireland and UK friends

  by Berengaria in

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  if one had but three weeks to see the best of these, what are some of the musts in your opinion?.

  besides london.. .

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  SCOTLAND - THE FORTH RAILWAY BRIDGE; EDINBURGH CASTLE, ISLE OF SKYE

  CITY OF YORK include the National Railway Museum

  NORTHUMBERLAND: HADRIAN'S WALL (ROMAN - 125 A.D.)

  CHATSWORTH HOUSE - DERBYSHIRE

  LAKE DISTRICT - CUMBRIA

  ELAN VALLEY - MID WALES

  SNOWDONIA - NORTH WALES

  BELFAST NORTHERN IRELAND - Titanic Museum

  MALVERN: Town and Hills

  BATH: The Roman Baths (1st Century A.D.) the only hot spring in Britain; The Royal Crescent and Pulteney Bridge

  BRISTOL: The Clifton Suspension over the Avon Gorge

  HISTORIC DOCKYARD PORTSMOUTH: HMS VICTORY (1800's warship) and THE MARY ROSE (Henry VIIIth's flagship 1500's)
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  Princess Diana's death.

  by quellycatface in

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  what are your thoughts?

  accident or assassination?.

  i still get upset over this.

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  It was the Queen Mother riding a Vespa scooter with Prince Philip on the back using a bazooka to blow them away. Prince Andrew flew his helicopter overhead and winched them away before anyone found out.

  True story that. Honest injun. Am I still allowed to say that or is it offensive nowadays?
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  Princess Diana's death.

  by quellycatface in

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  what are your thoughts?

  accident or assassination?.

  i still get upset over this.

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  freddo

  What cofty said.
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  JW GB MEMBER CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!!

  by ADJUSTMENTS in

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  gb member and so called "annointed" person geoffry jackson is caught red handed on video doing some worldly dancing and sexual gyrating (they have spoken against such manner of dancing on several occasions) with a woman who is not his wife!!!

  i can only imagine what they do off camera now!!!.

  i would not have even considerd doing such a thing on the dance floor with a woman, especially if it was not my wife, and i'm not even one of the so called "annointed" smh!!!

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  Adjustments - if you think this is something to get het up about you need to take a long look at yourself. Every congregation do or j.w. wedding I ever went to would have that sort of dancing and no-one would bat an eyelid and I'm from stuffy old "stiff upper lip" blighty aka the U.K.