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  Cache Creek BC Kingdom Hall

  by darkspilver in

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  don't think it's been mentioned here before, but it seems like the cache creek congregation is no more?.

  http://www.ash-cache-journal.com/news/379870421.html.

  http://www.ash-cache-journal.com/ourtown/398472601.html.

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  Cache Creek has been Cashed in!
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  What Were Your Elders Real World Jobs?

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  we all know that education is severely demonized in this religion.

  and that the elders are appointed based on how many meetings they attend, hours they put in on the ministry and general attitude to other elders (as apposed to, you know, actual theological training and counseling) - so my question is, what were your elders occupations outside the kingdom hall?.

  in my old congregation our elders consisted of:.

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  COBE - Retired Double Glazing Salesman

  Service Overseer - Retired Builder

  Secretary - Retired Insurance Broker Branch Manager

  WT overseer - Window Washer

  CLAM (TMS) overseer - Alarm Installer

  Other elder one - Retired Telecoms Engineer

  Other elder two - Retired self employed Courier "Man with a Van"

  Other elder three - Window Washer

  Other elder four - Just died (Retired Janitor)
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  Some recent baptism figures in the UK - is there a "bounce back"?

  by freddo in

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  2. friends

  well, round my way (south of the uk) all the way up to and including the regional conventions this summer, baptism numbers have been extremely low.

  but i have just received news of three recent circuit assembly days where the figures seem to be higher.

  (all have been across the last three weekends at a uk assembly hall in october).

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  @ steve2

  No it wasn't written by me with a sense of irony. But seeing all the responses I'm reassured that it should have been. I forgot how low the baptisms had become pre 2014, let alone just after.
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  Petr Muzny: A Law Professor Explains His Faith

  by konceptual99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this is absolutely feckin' priceless.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/videos/viewpoints-origin-of-life/petr-muzny-law-professor/.

  in yet another appeal to authority, jw.org has trotted out a professional to vouch for creation.

  this guy is a law professor.

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  It's rather easier for a lawyer to do a "good job" when the law of the land (or EU in the cited case) and morality are on your side.

  Stick him in front of the incisive Angus Stewart and "iron fist in a velvet glove" Peter McClellan of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse and watch him blanch and turn to mush like Toole and Tokley - the WT legal boys.
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  My Ex Wife Admitted She Doesnt Believe It's The Truth

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  my ex-wife actually opened up to me today over the phone.

  she was quite anxious and, i could sense, i little upset.

  for those that dont know my situation im separated from my wife.

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  DJS

  A combination of Judge Judy and Nathan R. Jessup.

  And that may not be a bad thing ...
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  Some recent baptism figures in the UK - is there a "bounce back"?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, round my way (south of the uk) all the way up to and including the regional conventions this summer, baptism numbers have been extremely low.

  but i have just received news of three recent circuit assembly days where the figures seem to be higher.

  (all have been across the last three weekends at a uk assembly hall in october).

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  @Hernandez

  An excellent post!

  Thanks for the slap upside of the head. I'm a little older than you and all you say is so true. I hope you are right again - I'd like to hope that this tiny increase in local baptisms is like the final twitchings in 1945 of the talons of the Nazi eagle.
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  Some recent baptism figures in the UK - is there a "bounce back"?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, round my way (south of the uk) all the way up to and including the regional conventions this summer, baptism numbers have been extremely low.

  but i have just received news of three recent circuit assembly days where the figures seem to be higher.

  (all have been across the last three weekends at a uk assembly hall in october).

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  @nicolaou

  I agree - but locally it's back to where things were pre-all the 2014 hoopla.
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  Some recent baptism figures in the UK - is there a "bounce back"?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, round my way (south of the uk) all the way up to and including the regional conventions this summer, baptism numbers have been extremely low.

  but i have just received news of three recent circuit assembly days where the figures seem to be higher.

  (all have been across the last three weekends at a uk assembly hall in october).

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  @stan

  In one case yes; in another definitely not; the other I don't know. You have a pm

  @Sanchy

  Huh?
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  Some recent baptism figures in the UK - is there a "bounce back"?

  by freddo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, round my way (south of the uk) all the way up to and including the regional conventions this summer, baptism numbers have been extremely low.

  but i have just received news of three recent circuit assembly days where the figures seem to be higher.

  (all have been across the last three weekends at a uk assembly hall in october).

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  freddo

  Well, round my way (South of the UK) all the way up to and including the Regional conventions this summer, baptism numbers have been extremely low. But I have just received news of three recent circuit assembly days where the figures seem to be higher. (All have been across the last three weekends at a UK assembly hall in October)

  Assembly 1 Attendance 975 Baptisms 8 (Oct 2015 2)

  Assembly 2 Attendance 948 Baptisms 6 (Oct 2015 4)

  Assembly 3 Attendance 926 Baptisms 7 (Oct 2015 Unknown)

  How about where you are?
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  Disassociation revealed what type of man my father really is.

  by Paul Mooney in

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  2. experiences

  i began my exit from the jehovah’s witness organization about 5 years.

  i was a 4th generation born-in, with all the baggage that comes with having the “spiritual heritage” attached to the group.

  i was an elder/bethelite/pioneer/whatever other useless privilege there was, i had no family or friends outside of the organization… my entire life was that org.

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  Fantastic Paul and welcome! Please stay and post often - you cannot know just how encouraging this thread is!

  Your sister who delivered the letter to you ... can you get a letter back the same way?

  Or get her to read a letter to him and then and destroy it? Or if your mother is hovering all the time could your sister just wait 'til she takes a comfort break and quickly tell your father how you feel and become a clandestine "message - girl"?