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  Anyone in the UK know about this?

  by punkofnice in

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  one of my jw spies told me that a us jw speaker was visiting the uk.

  some bigwig, on a tv screen, i believe.

  sorry, that's all i have.. anecdotal i admit, but i was told he said, "you british think you are superior.".

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  freddo

  Reminds me of the old Navy anecdote.

  One US Navy group (like one tenth of your Navy) and the whole Royal Navy on manoeuvres together and the US group is still bigger than the Royal Navy ...

  US Admiral Randy Blowhard calls over the radio to Royal Navy Admiral Sir Nelson Cholmondeley-Smythe.

  "Say buddy! Hi there from the biggest Navy in the world! Howya doin'?"

  R.N. Admiral Cholmondeley-Smythe.

  "Well hello back to you old chap, with a ding dang spillip from the very best Navy in the world."

  Delusions from a once great past!
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  Chelmsford is green-lighted

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

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  looks like chelmsford is going ahead after all.

  here is the text of a letter to be read out this week:.

  to all congregations in britain and irelandre: branch relocation project updatedear brothers:we rejoice to inform you that in june of this year, the governing body gave approval for thebritain branch to relocate to new facilities that will be constructed just south of chelmsford.

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  So who will go in to work on this project? All the gold star metropolitan "carties" of course! More time away from the preaching work and local meetings by the jw elite, even less bums on seats at the kingdom halls outside the immediate area.

  And I bet loads of the booted bethelites will be going back in on their own dollar or pound sterling to help out - gotta be better than pioneering surely!

  Crazy crazy stuff.
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  here i am

  by notalone in

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  i was a 4th gen born in.my adult children were the 5th.

  my mother was one of the newly'anointed' we have all left.

  i have been lurking since october.i was really too terrified someone would find out who i was and what would happen.well we are out now so here is a part of my story.

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  freddo

  Wonderful wonderful news! Best wishes to all of your family from me in the United Kingdom.
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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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  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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  2. scandals

  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?)