Posts by freddo

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Restructuring Bethel

by LaFrancia in

an announcement to all congregation in italy :.

the project of a new bethel in italy was allocated .

the number of temporary special pioneers will be reduced significantly.

The Angels will guide a nuclear bomb away from the Governing Body!

by John Aquila in

this is one major reason why i dont try to wake up anyone anymore.

they need to take the first step, and then i will help---- if they ask.

otherwise i just listen and marvel at how some of them think.

freddo

What's frightening is that if the GB told him to kill babies he might actually do it.

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2015 10-20-BOE!

by Atlantis in

2015, 10/20/boe.. .. re: making wise use of printed magazines.. .. page 2: .

this postscript should neither be read to the congregation nor be posted .

on the information board.. .

freddo

@DATA - DOG - page 2

This is to encourage less placements of higher ticket items like books and 32/64 page brochures.

Sister mega-mag route pioneer doesn't need to place a bazillion mags each month. She can place tracts and "video showings" it still goes to her placements and looking good on her report.

It's all about saving the dosh.

THANK YOU SO MUCH ATLANTIS!

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new letter about cuts london

by rege brazzy in

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2015-10-29_boe-making_the_best_use_of_dedicated_funds.pdf source jwleaks.

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freddo

Old news. This was read out at our last service meeting. It's been PDF'd here for days.

And it's not even BOE only. It's to the congregation.

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Teaching Committee Helper blames weighed down feelings on "perspective"

by wifibandit in

he mentions changes in assignment at 1:14 and 7:09.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1uufpx8jqk.

freddo

Don't urinate on my leg and tell me it's raining.

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I gave the elders some ammo to use

by atacrossroads in

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i was having dinner at olive garden with my cousin who was disfellowshipped for apostacy.

a holier than thou pioneer couple saw us.

if that was not enough i saw her take a picture of me with my cousin.

freddo

You cannot (officially) be df'd for associating with DF'd - especially when it was an urgent and extremely private financial/business matter which it was of course!

But ... there is the "catch all" brazen conduct and causing divisions which can be wheeled out by zealot elders to back up their action by stating you are disturbing the peace of the congregation. You will also get stick for publicly meeting and eating with said df'd person.

If you want to tell'em to do one and take the consequences of shunning and initial loneliness (it can hit you like a ton of wet sand especially if you haven't really prepared for it) then fine but if you want to play the long game then DO NOT MEET WITH THEM and tell any enquirer you are not prepared to discuss "a private financial/business" meeting under any circumstances. You might also be a little contrite and say yes maybe I shouldn't have met in public but It needed to be done.

Any twinges of guilt can be suppressed by remembering you are playing the theocratic warfare game back at them.

Best wishes.

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Letter to be read at meeting this week about the downsize

by dropoffyourkeylee in

a family member who is a bethelite informed me today that there is a letter to be read soon ( this week or next) concerning the downsizing.

so probably someone who has their midweek meeting early in the week will be able to fill in the details.

freddo

@jwleaks

In your first post where you have typed the content you have missed out the important paragraph at the top of page 2.

It is there in your later post in the PDF on PAGE 2 which does contains the important bit about reducing the bethel families and how "heartwarming" their response has been!

This has been read out at our meeting this past week.

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Acronyms

by Distracted in

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reading through a lot of the forum posts and wondered what tatt stands for (?).

any more acronyms that are special to this site?

freddo

Borg = The Organization (As in you will be assimilated from Star Trek)

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The Shit Has Just Started Hitting The Fan For The WT Corporation, Nightmare Stage!

by Brokeback Watchtower in

as with any course which is based on pure wishful thinking(which is the wt corporation based on) has different stages.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wishful_thinking.

some psychologists believe that positive thinking is able to positively influence behavior and so bring about better results.

this is called "pygmalion effect".

freddo

@DarioKehl

You forgot the "don't let deaf people wank" video.

Oh, and we have the Jan 2016 WT study article with more "if you think you're anointed your nuts" stuff and the February 2016 WT "rat on your mate for smiling on facebook" study article.

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One day assemblies

by Sour Grapes in

this may have been discussed before.

the costs for using the assembly hall for a one day last saturday was $12,000 with another assembly for the other half of the circuit on sunday, which will ring up another $12,000.

if the assembly was for two days the friends might roll their eyes if it were announced the costs for the two days was $24,000.

freddo

It's a friggin' joke isn't it?

Twenty years ago - let's build an assembly hall so we can have a dedicated place of worship and not have to use worldly facilities and it will be cheaper too!

Donate/free labour/more donations/more free labour/more, more, more ... TaDaa! A lovely new assembly hall.

Early years it's run by a local assembly hall committee with a caretaker and local teams chipping in, we all get a low per capita of £3.50 which builds a nice pot locally of half a million quid. Everyone is happy with "our" assembly hall.

About ten years ago the per capita goes up a bit - fair enough and the replacement hall/refurbishment pot is up to £750,000.

Then the scam artists at the branch get their greedy paws involved - per capita is £6.50 then £10.50 (one day less but more sucked into use it). And then the Assembly hall committee is disbanded and most of the rebuild/refurb pot (now approaching 900K) gets "requested" by the branch.

No sooner do they have the dosh then they start laying off bethelites and special pioneers.

Did any of that assembly hall pot go to reducing circuit assembly costs? Will it go to older bethelite being booted to the curb? Not a chance.

Annanias and Sapphira have nothing on this bunch!