Posts by freddo

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New Video Series On Courtship May Open Some Eyes

by JW_Rogue in

so the wife was watching the latest installment of jw broadcasting and near the end there was a new segment on dating and courtship.

it starts at about the 39 minute mark:.

https://youtu.be/vuir-azsdm0?t=38m52s.

freddo

The good news is that the GB are utterly, utterly, utterly out of touch.

They show a Spanish family, dubbed with some northern English accented girl's voice - "Eeeeh! Ecky thump! Micky wants a Beemer! Not on yer nelly as 'eck as like!"

The girl is portrayed as living - as pointed out - in a house that only 10% of the world's population can dream of and is concerned about the lad's "materialism"!

Perhaps if he aspired to be on the GB and buy a lakeside apartment in upstate New York, have a big comfy office chair and a shiny TV studio from which to beam patronising sugary drivel to 8 million minions then she'd see his true spiritual worth.

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The Great October 2016 Invite to the Sunday Meeting campaign ...

by freddo in

jw
friends

well how's it going round your way?

massive increase of interested ones?

did you even know it was supposed to be happening?

freddo

@steve2

It's not a big chart - it's just the hall servant's job to "do the count" and he puts the figures on a little chart on a small slip of paper which remains on the noticeboard until the end of the month then is handed to the secretary or put in the report box for him to put the figures wherever he puts them for the CO to beat up the elders with at the CO visit!

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Which Org 'directives' did you blatantly ignore

by Tallon in

i remember that we were always encouraged to let everyone at work know that you were one of jw's and therefore would not participate in any of their functions, parties etc.. this i outrightly refused to do.

my reasoning was that i was employed and paid to do a job and therefore my religious beliefs were a personal matter and therefore had nothing to do with my work.

secondly i had to work with these people.

freddo

@scratchme1010

You had sex at the memorial????

How did you manage that? Enquiring (aka nosey, not minding their own business,) minds want to know ...

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The Great October 2016 Invite to the Sunday Meeting campaign ...

by freddo in

jw
friends

well how's it going round your way?

massive increase of interested ones?

did you even know it was supposed to be happening?

freddo

Well how's it going round your way? Massive increase of interested ones? Did you even know it was supposed to be happening? No? Well put your experiences up in this thread please.

Round my way the congregation puts its numbers up on a slip of paper on the noticeboard. We now have two results in and this is our results for October so far ...

Cong has 75 publishers

Sunday October 2nd - Drum roll please ... 45 in attendance! Plus "twelve listening on line".

Sunday October 9th - Drum Roll and baboom Tish! ... 55 plus ten!

Theocracy's great increase is truly astounding. These are even worse than our normal figures Bwahahahahaha!

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Which Org 'directives' did you blatantly ignore

by Tallon in

i remember that we were always encouraged to let everyone at work know that you were one of jw's and therefore would not participate in any of their functions, parties etc.. this i outrightly refused to do.

my reasoning was that i was employed and paid to do a job and therefore my religious beliefs were a personal matter and therefore had nothing to do with my work.

secondly i had to work with these people.

freddo

I ignored the directive not to masturbate.

(Not that I didn't have a conscience to start with but what with no mention of it in the bible - Onanism doesn't count, sorry - I soon stopped feeling guilty.)

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Spain: A group of elder requires clarification to Ministry of Justice regarding sexual molestors

by sp74bb in

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friends

letter sent today to the ministry of justice... .

spain bethel sent a letter recently last oct 3 interpreting that no elder or sm should request a certificate of sexual offenses as other churches or persons in contact with kids.

again jw.org interprets the law to their behalf.. a group of elders in madrid has sent this letter to ask clarification !!.

freddo

Fantastic news! It seems that some elders are breaking ranks in Spain.

Can you tell who this group of elders are? Is it one congregation, several? Or what? How many in the group?

I just hope that this is a sign things are beginning to unravel for the bastards in Brooklyn.

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22 fascinating maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US

by blondie in

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friends

http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/22-fascinating-maps-that-show-how-americans-speak-english-differently-across-the-us/ss-bbwqtug?li=bbnb7kz&ocid=iehp .

everyone knows americans don't agree on pronunciations.. that's great, because regional accents and dialects are a major part of why american english is so interesting.. josh katz, a former ph.d. student of statistics at north carolina state university, published a group of awesome visualizations of professor bert vaux and scott golder's linguistic survey, which looked at differences in american dialects (via detsl on /r/linguistics).. his results were first published on the abstract, the nc state university research blog.

the complete set of katz's maps, updated with the results from more than 350,000 new survey responses, are compiled in the new book "speaking american," publishing october 25 from houghton mifflin harcourt.. katz gave business insider permission to publish some of the coolest maps from his collection..

freddo

Yup. That is a trolley. Just maybe a Shopping trolley.

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CO visit... Circuit is not growing at all, he said during midweek meeting

by StarTrekAngel in

so that was a "shocker".

i was not able to attend the meeting.

i had a more important one with my other apostate friends in the area.

freddo

@slimboyfat

Brilliant! Keep 'em coming.

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Brother with a beard on jw.org!

by neat blue dog in

ok, slight exaggeration: specifically, an official recording of the july 25th, 2016 midweek meeting in german sign language downloaded from stream.jw.org, (log-in required), includes a brother with a beard giving one of the talks:.

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freddo

Here in the UK some congs are ok with them, others aren't. Ours was ok. We have had Elders and MS's with beards from time to time, one actually appointed with a beard. I am talking before the latest article over the past 30 years or so.

But in our circuit about half the congs were ok for appointed men to have beards and half weren't. When I arranged public talks in the days of pre email letters were exchanged and some stated no beards, other stated well trimmed beards were acceptable.

I did hear that as a result of the new article that a nearby die-hard body of elders who wouldn't appoint any man with a beard as MS or Elder had changed their stance as recently as this summer due to the article.

Not allowed on the circuit assembly platform, but about ten years ago we did have the sound operator who would come on and adjust the microphones for everyone being allowed a full beard.

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Young Ones Leaving

by pale.emperor in

in the congregation that i grew up in there were about 30 children under 16 (myself included).

as time went on they one by one slipped away from the meetings and most never got baptized.

of those 30 children only myself and two other girls stayed and got baptized.

freddo

But pre-2011 there was something of substance to come back to. No gurning Lett; no ARC; no huge Bethel layoffs and money grabbing; no overlapping generations. And there was still the diminishing possibility that the real "generation of 1914" might last until say 2014.

All gone.

In my area we've had one long time DF come back after 20 years. He is - and has been - in and out of mental health in-patient facilities all that time and his aging mother has been desperate for him to "come back". He's back and living with Mummy at the age of 40.

That is the quality of the borg's version of Luke 15 ...