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  Applause in your disfellowship announcement

  by elkatire1980 in

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  2. experiences

  has anyone done this before?

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  freddo

  Now of course such announcements are right at the very end of the CLAM meeting.

  Perhaps get your phone to play "I'm Free!" by The Who as you march to the exit?

  Even better if the sound department unwittingly played it instead of the closing song!
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  Leaked Elder's Video: How to deal with a suicidal sister

  by cappytan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this video will be played at one of the clam meetings in march 2016.. the content is kind of old news because it is a recut version of a previous video produced for the elder's school.

  however, it's still significant because it shows that the organization still has dissenting brothers in positions of leadership.. my thanks to the leaker.

  feel free to claim credit here.

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  freddo

  So we can pray to Jehovah without invoking his son's "through me" telephone exchange?
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  Jehovah’s Witnesses Respond to How They’ve Failed Child Sex Abuse Victims With a Call For … Lawyers and Accountants

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  australian royal commission inquiry 2015 .

  jehovahs witnesses respond to how theyve failed child sex abuse victims with a call for ... lawyers and accountants.

  by alex james on december 2, 2015 ( 2 comments )

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  freddo

  Does anyone know what the next step for the ARC is in relation to jw's?
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  Stats for assembly in La Feria TX - Saturday 2/6/16

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  attendance was 1200 in the morning, 1146 in the afternoon.

  5 baptisms, mostly young girls (18-20 range) and one that look older (over 20).

  cost of the assembly $8500.

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  freddo

  Thanks for the stats STA

  1200 attendance with 5 baptised with a GB member present. Not too hot.

  I wonder if there will be a slight bounce back from last year's low figures. We had a zero out of 1000 for the first time in 30 years at a CA I attended in April 2015. And 3 out of 1000 last November. Next one is end of March - will be interesting.
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  Where are they now?

  by Sabin in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  geoffrey jackson.

  terrence o'brien.

  vincent toole.

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  freddo

  The millstone wheels of the ARC will grind slowly but I believe they will grind fine.

  Justice McLellan did say last summer that the investigation would take another two and a half years. They are working their way through.
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  I have too much crap!! How to declutter/dehoard.....

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.

  and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.

  and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.

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  freddo

  ebay?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses 'ordered destruction' of notes which could have been used during child sexual abuse inquiry

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jehovahs-witnesses-ordered-destruction-notes-10848053.

  jehovah's witnesses 'ordered destruction' of notes which could have been used during child sexual abuse inquiry.

  06:21, 7 feb 2016. by huw silk.

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  freddo

  @ the girl next door

  Konceptual99 is spot on.
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  What were Satan and his demons "doing" up in heaven, before being "cast down" in 1914?

  by Dunedain in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just thinking about how the wts has been spouting off for years that satan and his demons were cast down to the vicinity of the earth in 1914, but really, when you think about it, what was the difference before 1914 or after 1914?.

  its not like satan and his demons did not have access to the earth.

  satan and his demons always were messing with earth.

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  @TheWonderofYou

  Satan must have got bored with enjoying using war to kill humans after "lobbing the atomic bombs" - apparently 80 million (3.5% of a world population of 2.3 Billion in 1945) were killed from 1914 - 1945 and "only" 20 million (0.29% of a world population of 7.0 Billion) in the 70 plus years since.
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  A JW experience

  by Saintbertholdt in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this is a quick experience i have recently had and i have two questions at the end.. a couple of weeks ago, the dogs were barking at the gate on saturday morning and wouldn't you know it, it was some witnesses.

  there was a father with his lovely wife and their young daughter.

  the father did all the talking as mother and daughter just dutifully smiled and watched.

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  freddo

  You weren't "sighing and groaning" or "greatly distressed" over "the terrible world conditions."

  In other words you weren't susceptible and vulnerable to the fantasy panda petting with your dead loved ones he was offering.
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  Will the GB ever do this?

  by why144000 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, not sure if this has been covered.. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-13/peter-hollingworth-says-sorry-to-victims-child-abuse-brisbane/6939804.

  i don't have much time for peter hollingworth.

  he has always acted like a pompous prick when i have met him or seen him on tv however he humbled himself and made an apology for his actions and the actions of the church.. any bets on if the gb would ever do this?.

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  freddo

  We abhor child abuse. We abhor the fact that we have been found out in that our policies on handling child abuse have been self serving.

  Most of all we abhor paying out money set aside for the worldwide life saving work (a.k.a our top class lifestyle in our retirement lakeside complex and a few thousand ineffectual trolley carts) to victims of child abuse even more.