i remember a little over 15 years ago, one of my first jobs at a grocery store, the manager was happy that they passed a new policy allowing them to grow a beard.
previously they were not allowed.
among the usa, i guess beards were considered not very professional still.
@Data-Dog
Yup.
The comments on beard are about right.
Trouser suits/Pant suits smart trousers on women in business or general settings has been normal in the UK since the 1980's but just try wearing them to your KH and watch the petty clipboard carriers break out in a sweat.
does anybody know how many district overseers there used to be either in the us or the uk ?
I think it was 8 overseen by the "Britain" branch. May have been as low as 6.
I believe Northern Ireland comes under the jw Ireland Branch (Dublin) so I'm not including that.
hi i've been a jw my whole life and i'm 17 now.
i've never had a mine of my own and recently i started thinking more open minded and i know the being a jw isn't for me.
i feel like i've been in a bubble my whole life.
If you have a sister out and an aunt inactive that is really helpful.
I know a young man who got reinstated and after the announcement he never attended one more meeting! But he can have some contact with his mad uber-dub mother!
just see it advertised on tv--with photo of our friend from south wales
Brilliant. Channel 5 is national in the UK - not in the league of BBC1 or BBC2 or ITV but very good to "mention" to mainstream dubs. Shame its title isn't a bit more subtle!
Just looked at the schedule and it says Inside Scientology and Escaping The Witnesses. So maybe half hour of each.
If its our friend Sewell I think that's the one that the UK WT got sued over for about £700.000? Anyone confirm ...
hi i've been a jw my whole life and i'm 17 now.
i've never had a mine of my own and recently i started thinking more open minded and i know the being a jw isn't for me.
i feel like i've been in a bubble my whole life.
Is your job a full time job or part time?
You might want to have a "concern" to feed to your parents. How child abuse is handled in the organisation is great because it gives you the high moral ground. Loads on here can help you tactfully use that to stave off your parents and maybe even get through to them.
Have you got siblings?
so in "your" cong/circuit/regional area how are all things jw?.
baptisms this year?
assembly attendances?
So in "your" cong/circuit/regional area how are all things jw?
Baptisms this year? Assembly attendances? Halls closing? Money grab?
at 20:00 - 21:30 in his testimony, mr. geoffrey jackson - in answer to mr. stewart's question about the governing body claiming to be god's spokespersons - claimed that it would be presumptuous of them to say that they were the only spokespersons which god was using.
mr. jackson doesn't seem to know what he and his fellow g.b.
members - and the providers of his lifestyle, the wtbts - actually teach as "bible truth.
mornin',.
not feeling too clever at the moment...so sent off to the hospital for more tests....off the bus, round the corner......run slap bang into my first one...its witnessin'cart himself!!
right outside the hospital gates!
D'you know? I actually think the cracks are beginning to show! Really.
I can tell you this - a lot of elders who are "careful what they say" are moaning to each other about all the demands for cash. I heard this weekend of an elders meeting in which one of the few "lets give 'em all our lolly types" got told by the rest that if he was so keen then send his own money while they (the rest) said to hang on to the congregations dwindling reserves for a rainy day!
Apparently it got quite heated. (In the UK this one)
a gb helper was at the rc.
this guy was decked out.
fancy expensive suit and cuff-linked shirt, super fancy cuff-links.
at the regional convention (national!!
) for scotland, mark sanderson elicited 13 rounds of applause during his closing talk, (for the least little things!
) plus a final one for his closing prayer!
Wouldn't that be funny? Instead of going with a placard or shouting out and getting chucked out a group of five or six could go and behave impeccably and then all clap together at a really inappropriate moment ...
Sydney Australia convention:
"So brothers Terrence O'Brien was going to give the next discourse but he is in the slammer for misleading the Royal Commission and .... (rapturous applause) "
