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  Do Jehovah`s Witnesses still Advertise Public talks for their Sunday Meetings ? For the General Public ?

  by smiddy in

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  i have been out for 23 years , so i`m not up to date with current practices.. however i was "in" for 33 years and belonged to 7 congregations in two states of australia in that time 1960-1993 , and not once could i say the general public ever attended a public talk.. in our witnessing back then we would distribute invitations to a public talk on a bible subject given before the wt study.every week.. some of the congregations i attended had between 80 to 100 active publishers , and most would give at least 10 hours service pw.,so that means hundreds of invitations would go out , week after week , for the public to attend talks, and nobody and i mean nobody shows up , year in and year out.. sure , now and again maybe ,one or two bible studies would have attended , but that does not constitute the public attending .. what are your thoughts on this ?

  was it the same in congregations you attended ?

  smiddy.

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  freddo

  Half a world away in the UK and exactly the same smiddy ...

  Of course with jaydubyadotborg and its self promoting leaflets those little public talk tracts are old news and so don't get used so much.
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  If you live in England . . .

  by compound complex in

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  would a jehovah's witness ask you, the householder, "does christ dwell in this home?".

  i have recently viewed the lady in the van, which was filmed principally in north london.

  i am currently reviewing a transcript of alan bennett's play of the same title, looking for the exact quotation (the above may not be verbatim).. also, in the movie's subtitles, the word "curb" is spelled "kerb" in the original transcript.

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  And we have jewellery not jewelry so we're not even consistent with our double "L"s!

  Great fun with auxiliary counselor and auxiliary (which we sometimes spell auxilliary!) counsellor too. We go double L on that and for a time the British Kingdom Ministry printed in London was in British English.

  All other literature from the borg was in American English so we had to suffer that. Funny really when they go to so much trouble producing stuff in Canary Island whistling pidgin or Basque separatist Spanench or whatever!
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  How the Kevin Class started...

  by Stumpy in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djtu_mozj5y.

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  freddo

  Call in more often Stumpy!
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  At a regional convention today....

  by Nobodyspecial in

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  it really stands out to me just how phoney the bonds of forced brotherhood are.

  the smiles are paper thin when they see each other in hotels.

  the laughs forced.

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  Regional convention in the south of the UK this weekend ... drum roll ...

  Attendance: 3,332

  Baptised: 10

  Yes you read that right. Ten. 0.3% baptised.
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  Letter # 4 to the Governing Body of Jehovah's witnesses

  by WITNESS-FOR-WATCHTOWER-REFORM in

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  the governing body.

  service department of jehovah’s witnesses.

  2821 route 22. patterson.

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  freddo

  And somebody will be assigned to read them. I doubt it is a GB member or GB helper of course but more like a Service Dept lackey who simply has to scan read and sort into one of three piles.

  Pile 1 "To be forwarded up the food chain"

  This pile is for the correspondence that the lackey feels needs to be read by someone with more authority. This pile is small.

  Pile 2 "Recycle"

  This pile is for letters that are obviously apostate or questioning. This pile is growing and binned. This is where your letter is headed.

  Pile 3 "Accounts"

  This is for fawning/gushing letters with cheques attached. This pile is too big sadly.
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  Contempt of court, case in San Diego county really disgusts me!

  by Crazyguy in

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  this case has to be talked about by ever awake jw every apostate everyone.

  this case because they refuse to hand over documents the court already knows they have because they handed them over before but heavily redacted, is the icing on the cake!

  this case shows thier evil plain and simple.

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  @cognac

  Thanks, I look forward to what you can tell us.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses face £1m legal bill after young girl was sexually abused by one of its members

  by Researchedandenlightened in

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  hopefully more financial trouble for them to come in uk !!.

  jehovah's witnesses face £1m legal bill after young girl was sexually abused by one of its membersread more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/jehovah-s-witnesses-face-1m-legal-bill-after-young-girl-was-sexually-abused-by-one-of-its-members/story-29491614-detail/story.html#ixzz4dqkbhccq follow us: @leicester_merc on twitter | leicestermercury on facebookread more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/jehovah-s-witnesses-face-1m-legal-bill-after-young-girl-was-sexually-abused-by-one-of-its-members/story-29491614-detail/story.html#hel6rjg74wdprrdh.99.

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  So can they appeal this judgement? If so where would it be heard (i.e. what level of court would it go to?)
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  Bethel Economy

  by sp74bb in

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  revelation 6:6 kjv.

  6 and i heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.. this prophecy starts to be true in south europe bethels..... according to our sources, bethel families have been asked to reduce their food allowance and even been informed that monthly contribution might not be paid.. meantime, one of these branches is sending millions of € every year as donation to other wt structures, not to mention the 7 digit number on their bank account.

  bethel members are not blind ;).

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  I'll have some of what you're smoking.
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  Jesus Knows the Day & Hour Now?

  by KillerJones in

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  i was skimming the july 2016 wt study article and came across a paragraph indicating that, despite scriptural evidence, the governing body indeed feels that god's son now knows the exact day and hour of armageddon.

  is this 'new light'?

  from the second study article, page 14, pgh 4:.

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  "In the 1st Century Jesus would have upheld that Christians abstain from ingesting blood as it represents life and a life was always taken when blood was obtained; however with medical advances and the fact that no one dies donating blood and it actually saves lives it is reasonable to conclude that Jesus would approve of the medical use of blood."

  (Book of Freddolossians Ch1. vs 1.)
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  To UK members that go to meetings - did Brexit cause a spike in meeting attendance last weekend?

  by freddo in

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  i went to the mid week meeting and looked at the attendance figures on the noticeboard for the three congregations that share the local kingdom hall.

  i wrote down the three previous sundays attendances and this sunday (after the referendum) too.

  cong c. (95 pubs) 74/82/73/90.

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  @ alanv

  Sorry for late response. I was already mentally free before the ARC and the flipchart on the mount of olives exSplane-ing the overlapping generation.

  The ARC just confirmed my own experiences as an elder to how the borg wants nothing of child abuse reported to the secular authorities and the 1995 generation change should have told me the gig was up let alone the several since then.

  Just treading carefully for family.