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  As an Ex JW now, how would you react if you met your Bible study conductor?

  by EverApostate in

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  i was a jw for 11 years , came to know ttatt and wrote my disassociation letter 5 years ago.

  since then i had been an atheist and trying all i can to spread awareness for “still in” members.

  my wife and mom are still jws and i do get along with them perfectly.

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  freddo

  If I met my study conductor I'd run for the hills - he's been dead over five years!
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  Should a JW accept Veteran payments?

  by Tantalon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello people,.

  i was born in but long time faded.

  i think i hold current jws to a higher standard than they now maintain.. here's the thing; my father is very old, in his nineties and been a jdub for over 60 years and even made it to elder till he got too old.on a recent visit my siblings and dad were saying how wonderful that veterans affairs were.

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  freddo

  Old boy in my hall who passed away about ten years ago and who became a jw quite late in life - in his seventies I think - was a WW2 army veteran.

  In the UK there is the British Legion which is a charity mostly linked with the "poppy" appeal and which looks after servicemen in their time of need.

  He was a wily old bird and happily accepted handrails being installed and cash payments for things he "qualified for" such as a comfier mattress etc.

  He never really got the army out of his system and if I went to visit on a Saturday after the ministry he often would get his campaign medals out and start yacking about "the war".

  Funnily enough there was another younger guy who was in the British Army in the 1970's in Northern Ireland who got blown up by the I.R.A. and had alcohol and mental problems (not surprising really) before being a JW and he would tell me how the first veteran spent his army life as a stores clerk and never saw any action.

  It was quite funny really where the WW2 guy felt his six years outweighed the other guys two years and invaliding out. They would often needle each other.

  Both dead and gone waiting for Armageddon - hey ho.
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  UK Child banned from seeing JW videos

  by usualusername1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/11/jehovahs-witness-agrees-not-show-son-religious-cartoons-risk/.

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  freddo

  A good balanced decision by the judge.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  2. current

  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  @Slimboyfat

  The SNP got 7 MP's in the first 1974 election and 11 in the October 1974 election ...

  Not that well considering oily stuff was pouring in from the North Sea.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  freddo

  Nicola "nice legs shame about the face" Sturgeon is deluded. Too many Scots are fed up with her and she hit the high water mark in 2015 and she is now on the slide downhill.

  There won't be a "Neverendum" for Scottish independance within 5 years. As Brenda from Bristol famously said when "Maybe" called this ill fated general election - "Not another one!"

  Scotland has Tourism, makes fine whisky and has Haggis hunting in due season along with a bit of traditional Mars Bar frying. Rejoice over that and enjoy life.
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  No Divine Protection in Kingdom Halls.

  by Tony Browning in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  sad case in honington, devon, uk.. http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/man-charged-with-murder-over-stabbing-at-jehovah-s-witness-hall/story-30378569-detail/story.html.

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  freddo

  So the arrested man is named as "Keith Beviss" (aged 55 or 54 depending upon which article I read) from Honiton who from the artist's court sketch looks like a non-descript overweight balding white man that I would pass in the street without a second glance.

  A couple of the articles mention that one line of enquiry is a religious hate crime and another article mentions that one nearby interviewed shop worker said that they had noted several with mental health problems in Honiton since moving to the area.

  My take on this is that Honiton is a "sleepy" market town that is unlikely to have any terrorist knifings such as from extreme Muslims. (If there were I believe it would be in the main shopping area where more people could be found to attack.)

  I suppose it could be a burglary and that the alarm was set off and the installer went to investigate but the distance from Westward Ho! (where Philip Ryan's business was based) to Honiton is at least 50 miles so I cannot see it being an alarm going off and the perpetrator being disturbed.

  So I lean towards mental health issues. The fact that the arrested man seemed to still be in the area and there was no apparent police hunt makes me wonder whether there was an altercation ending in a stabbing and whether the man himself called the authorities or waited around (a camper van was mentioned) and gave himself up.

  But I do wonder if this is a random chance occurrence (wrong place, wrong time) or whether it might have been exacerbated by unhappy dealings between Keith Beviss and Jehovah's Witnesses. But as Philip Ryan was an elder in a different part of the county I doubt if the two were known to each other.

  Who knows at this stage?
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  Hold The Front Page! JWs Fold in Port Dover

  by darkspilver in

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  2. friends

  yes, it was front page news in simcoe...... .

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  http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2016/10/21/jehovahs-witnesses-fold-in-port-dover.

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  You want me to help with Kingdom Hall maintenance brother?

  No thanks - that would like be polishing the brass on the Titanic.
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  *dumb American scratches head*

  You're not so dumb Grreat Teacher - your post is pretty much on the money. I would just add that Theresa May thought she could get a large majority - and when she called an election at Easter I too thought that she probably would.

  *dumb Englishman gets it wrong*

  
  
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  Sudden General Election in UK to be held June 8th 2017

  by freddo in

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  2. current

  theresa may the british p.m. has called for an election.. the house of commons has to vote tomorrow and have a two-thirds majority to agree and the main opposition parties want it to happen too so it looks pretty certain to go ahead..

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  hothabanero

  Being English I do not have a strong view about what the Scots do in Scotland - but whereas Kansas is intrinsically part of the USA, Scotland is a country in its own right.

  Perhaps Alaska voting to leave the U.S. would be a more appropriate analogy?
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  So how come Jehovah can do anything but he still needs angels.

  by zigua in

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  2. bible

  as the title says :p.

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  freddo

  "How do you know that A Watcher?"

  God sent an angel to tell him.