Posts by freddo

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Special Talk from the GB?

by punkofnice in

a current jw told me there was going to be a special talk (tm) from the governing body(r) next month.

apart from the usual hilarious jw tv stuff, i haven't heard of anything.. any info any one?

the jw didn't seem to know much either.

freddo

Am I putting two and two together and making five? I hope this prediction is true!

So GB "Helpers" Flodin and Kikot AKA Flo-down and Kickout are in London doing their special zone visit stream to the UK on April 30th and Germany (thanks Crazy_Flickering_Light) gets their stream on May 14th?

So in London it's ...

Bye bye old chap to Full English Printing with all the trimmings.

And in Selters Germany it's ...

Bring on zer Bratwurst unt Lederhozen and take over zer Englanderz printing rezponzibilitiez! Break out zer steins of lager!

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what do you think is the main reason why so many young ones are waking up?

by Crazyguy in

seems as though the number of baptisms even for the young ones is down from what people report here.

at my former hall the young ones are all in totally sheltered even while going to school.

expressing thier desires to pioneer etc.

freddo

Internet access for early teens is no longer on the family PC in a room where everyone looks over your shoulder like it was just ten years ago.

A relative of mine has two kids with an age gap of ten years. The older one aged 25 had on line access only via the family computer from age 14 - the same year he got baptised. He didn't get a laptop or smart phone until about 5 years ago aged 20.

The younger - aged 15 now who is not baptised and who is thankfully showing a waning interest in becoming a jw had his own smartphone aged 12.

Chuck jwtvorgasm.online in the mix and it's got to accelerate the waking up process!

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Im wondering...maybe the GB are truly mentally damaged, not just deceivers.

by sowhatnow in

has anyone by chance read the latest issue of pshychology today?

april issue, article title' moment of impact'.. i havent fiished reading it yet, but it got me thinking, how likely is it that many born in jws [ teens in particular since thats the age these issues start to appear] will end up with these problems mentioned in the article?

i know of a few adults that have this problem, schizophrenia, bi polar, ect.

freddo

Actually zeb, Morris the turd has sons. He crowed in an article about his life that they "make me look good" - which is of course all that GBTV and GBdotorgasm is all about in the same way as a whitewashed grave "looks good".

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One Person Baptized at Circuit Assembly

by Simon Templar in

i went to the circuit assembly with my wife yesterday.

i have to keep peace in the family.

there were less than 1,000 people for both the morning and the afternoon sessions.

freddo

I can report from the UK one circuit split over two days.

Yesterday - Saturday assembly 4 baptized 1005 present (used to get 1100 a few years back)

Today - Sunday assembly 4 baptized 897 present (used to get 1000 a few years back.)

And of course there was a "deficit."

A few years back 6 per side was the norm. But it's been lower since the 2014 hoopla died down - one assembly day in 2015 had zero baptisms and another had 3.

So a bit of a bounce back in baptisms, but not to pre 2014 levels. And a bit of a drop in attendance - the lowest I can recall.

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I was disfellowshipped because of Satan

by elbib in

during co visit, i took him for a bible study i was conducting.

during the session, the householder said he believed satan was not a person, but personification of evil within us.

i left co to handle householder’s doubt.

freddo

@elbib

I guess this was the culmination on top of other things you had said in the past like the 144,000 not being literal and stuff?

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Embellished assembly interviews/"experiences"

by ab.ortega in

oh how wonderful those experiences at assemblies and "schools" are - not.

at times it seemed as if these "experiences" were scripted.

the speaker gets criteria in the outline regarding what the experience or interview has to be about.

freddo

@ab.ortega

No. That was at every rehearsal I ever went to here in the UK.

Welcome by the way.

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Embellished assembly interviews/"experiences"

by ab.ortega in

oh how wonderful those experiences at assemblies and "schools" are - not.

at times it seemed as if these "experiences" were scripted.

the speaker gets criteria in the outline regarding what the experience or interview has to be about.

freddo

My experiences - and I only gave talks at circuit level - were the same as ttdtt's.

I was at a rehearsal for a demo in a talk and waiting my turn and listening to a demo in another brother's talk - and the DO and the CO were there.

The guy being interviewed said how he had stood aside as a MS and later re-qualified. The DO, in front of everyone in the room said it was too negative and tried to re word it so the brother didn't tell that he had resigned. The brother bravely said he felt that wouldn't be accurate and he didn't want to do that.

The DO went as red as a beetroot and said he shouldn't do the part! Then he (the DO) told another toady brother in the room to give a different experience that the DO obviously had prepared instead!

The poor brother was embarrassed and angry but he kept his dignity and sat down and waited for his ride home.

But there was an excellent result. The badly treated MS resigned a few months later and a few years after that the DO got demoted in 2014 to CO when they got rid of the position.

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October 2016 Campaign

by rosesinbloom in

hello.

does anyone know what the campaign in october is going to be about?.

freddo

Okay, Okay. Let's imagine that they get a couple of extra people come along to visit.

Now let's imagine that the planets line up and they hear a good talk from a skilled speaker and they enjoy the half-hour presentation.

Then they'll sit through some whacky Watchtower about overlapping generations or studying with pirates in the resurrection or Abraham trekking up a hill to sacrifice his only son and that will really keep 'em coming won't it?

... ... ...

Or ... imagine they go completely nuts and decide to beam in a talk from HQ and they get Steven Lett gurning all over the place!

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! They must be running round in HQ with their heads cut off at the moment all coming up with any idea other than to mention the elephant in the room which is that the GB have lost the plot!

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October 2016 Campaign

by rosesinbloom in

hello.

does anyone know what the campaign in october is going to be about?.

freddo

"The large number of visitors they anticipate ... "

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHa!

COBE to Hall Servant:

"Well Bill we have been asked to prepare for large numbers of visitors to the Kingdom Hall in October so what do you think we can do to accommodate them?"

Bill the Hall Servant to the COBE:

"Well Brother, as the hall is half empty anyway I don't see the need to do anything really ..."

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Jehovah’s Witnesses’ lock down deal for $700M Brooklyn plot

by defender of truth in

the jehovah’s witnesses appear to have achieved a handshake with their bffs: jared kushner, aby rosen and lvwrk.. the pricing is roughly $700 million for the witnesses’ 733,000-square-foot world headquarters at 25-30 columbia heights and a 1.1-million-square-foot as-of-right development site at 85 jay st.. the same group purchased 1.2 million square feet in dumbo heights for $375 million in 2013 from the witnesses and are now leasing to such companies as wework and etsy.. tech outfits have been circling the brooklyn waterfront properties — and the large “watchtower” on the sign could someday be swapped for a name like “facebook.”.

bob knakal of cushman & wakefield has been running the sale for the witnesses, who are moving to warwick, ny.. multiple contracts were handed out for the properties and, so far, all are unsigned.. there has been interest globally, and local bidders have included l&l holding, east end capital, equity one and vornado realty trust.

when reached, the parties declined comment.. .

freddo

Today I thought - "Damn! WT has been let off again in the Lopez case in the $13.2 million award." (At least for the time being ...)

But looking at this thread - on the basis they were hoping for $1 Billion and they "only" get $700 million then that is definitely a "missing of the mark" in their accounts!

A $300,000,000 hole.