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  Apostasy: The Movie - Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo

  by darkspilver in

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  daniel kokotajlo's new film apostasy has it's world premiere at the toronto international film festival in september 2017. apostasy.

  family and faith come into conflict for two jehovah’s witness sisters in manchester, when one is condemned for fornication and the other pressured to shun her sibling.. this fresh, unadorned first feature from director dan kokotajlo carries an unmistakable note of authenticity from its very first scenes.

  set in a jehovah's witness community in england, the film's strength and power lies in its directness.. apostasy depicts the growing rift in a family — a mother and two daughters — who are rigorously devoted to their religion.

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  freddo

  Welcome Exelder and AnnaB!

  The nearest place to me in the UK that is showing it (where I saw it about ten days ago) has extended its showing days. Today was supposed to be the last but it has been extended until at least next Tuesday.
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  Circuit Overseer's Outlines

  by AverageJoe1 in

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  here's the outlines in english and spanish, grouped together in order for september 2018-february 2019.. english: https://we.tl/6orrqltrya.

  spanish: https://we.tl/6w0acsdefr.

  as per usual, these links will expire in 7 days from the date of this post so get them whilst they're hot!.

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  freddo

  And the reason that the CoBE contacts the CO?

  Because for the past 5 years the CO will put a "circuit heavy" as chairman of the judicial committee to ensure the child's needs are met lovingly and caringly and so that the child is protected from further abuse and any perpetrator is brought to book so that every "i" is dotted and every "t" is crossed to ensure WT is not legally responsible for ANYTHING.
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  Stats just out: JWs in Wales decline (-3.4%) - COs primed for zero baptisms!

  by Darth FayDehr in

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  figures from that latest 2-weekend convention in caridff (wales) reveal jw “growth” now in decline.

  baptisms are discouragingly low (21, combined), and circuit overseers have been primed to deal with assemblies where there are no baptisms; see these leaked 2018 instructions:.

  pdf summary: https://1drv.ms/b/s!arekzxkzlp8ybsl45pov7y6k26a.

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  freddo

  Just another note that will falsely inflate the "Wales attendances" and in fairness has done at Cardiff for decades.

  Cardiff also gets cities and town's from England assigned to it - such as the Avon circuit (whatever it is called now) which has about 18-20 congregations and includes the city of Bristol and towns such as Weston-super-Mare and Clevedon.

  This adds in about 1200-1500 attendees.
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  S 147 for august 2018

  by obarac in

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  anyone have s 147 for august?.

  rumors about big announcement.. any hear about that..

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  freddo

  Seems like a Britain Branch version to me - resolutions etc. to keep the charity commission sweet. Don't know what happens in US/Oz etc.

  A meeting off during the memorial week - yay! Not that I would have gone anyway.

  Saving on Memorial Invitations by using same artwork as this year. Cheapskates.

  No "congregation" picnics or gatherings - if it goes tits up you'll carry the can for arranging it brother "much too kind". They suck the tiniest amount of joy that the dubbies had going for them don't they?
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  WT productions - suggestions for a name???

  by sparrowdown in

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  how bout ..... jehollywood or just jollywood.

  mad sacred cow productions.

  big brother productions.

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  freddo

  Hannah-BarJesus Productions Inc.
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  tommy Robinson --update

  by zeb in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8b_xqi_nm.

  this is self explanatory.

  please if you are in a commonwealth country write /phone /fax your local member to support tr release from his current place of imprisonment.. you may not receive any reply but do so anyway.

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  freddo

  Well the interview by the BBC I highlighted predated Yaxley/Lennon's arrest. You did say " the state-funded broadcaster REFUSES to cover and report on these crimes. "

  In answer to points in your last post -

  From the Telegraph 20th June 2017

  "Earlier this year he was convicted of contempt of court after using a camera inside Canterbury Crown Court, receiving a suspended sentence. "

  Now this latest case I understand may well go to another case - let's see what transpires.

  As for your allusion to - I guess - Sir Cliff Richard - my view was that the BBC went far beyond what they should have done - perhaps the pendulum swung too far from "hand-wringing" and cover -up in the Savile case to "gotta catch 'em all" in Sir Cliff's case.

  They got egg on their face and had to pay substantial fines and compensation - quite rightly - to Sir Cliff.
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  Congregation Reassignments in Ohio?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

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  from what i understand, a letter was read this past week in regards to congregation reassignments and that the elders want to meet with people at their homes to tell them where they have been reassigned.

  obviously, this would be due to the merging and dissolution of congregations.

  can anyone confirm this?.

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  freddo

  Yes Morpheus and booting bethelites puts more deluded man power in the boonies too. (At the expense of the London/New York congregations of course)
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  Congregation Reassignments in Ohio?

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. watchtower
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  from what i understand, a letter was read this past week in regards to congregation reassignments and that the elders want to meet with people at their homes to tell them where they have been reassigned.

  obviously, this would be due to the merging and dissolution of congregations.

  can anyone confirm this?.

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  freddo

  DD said ...

  "Also, we’ve all seen the new commercial style buildings that can be easily flipped and turned into a Kinkos or CVS."

  Yes. Here in the UK in the list I put in my post on the previous page, the halls being sold in Bath and Bristol are the older valuable listed buildings from the Victorian era - the buildings bought and converted by the earliest congregations in the UK - bought cheaply just after WW2 and now in prime property spots fetching 500K up to £1 million pounds. And this is not the real prime area of London where the old branch is being stripped to pay for Chelmsford and then SOME £££££!

  The congregations that are being moved from them intact (as opposed to the ones being dissolved) are being moved out to share 3 or 4 to a hall into the 1980's "quickbuild" halls about five to ten miles away - further in rural areas.

  These are much less valuable - may be £100/150K.

  No new builds round here. (West of England and South Wales) Just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic but slowly enough to make millions from it.

  And of course every dissolved congregations assets go where? Every moved congregations assets go where? LONDON then NEW YORK
  
  
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  tommy Robinson --update

  by zeb in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8b_xqi_nm.

  this is self explanatory.

  please if you are in a commonwealth country write /phone /fax your local member to support tr release from his current place of imprisonment.. you may not receive any reply but do so anyway.

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  freddo

  Thank you for engaging with me, Simon. However I take issue with ...

  "He was r-e-p-o-r-t-i-n-g on it because the main-stream media, the state-funded broadcaster REFUSES to cover and report on these crimes. They have shown themselves to have an agenda, they need to go."

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-43385049

  If you go back to my last post, what I said was that I believed "political correctness" stimied these investigations. I still do. But in the last five to ten years this has started to be addressed.

  Because decent people don't sit on what they know for fear of being labelled racist or anti-Muslim by left wing "hand-wringers" these things are coming out.

  Go back ten years earlier and it was decent people fearful of speaking out against the Saviles and Weinsteins of this world.

  And there are many many decent people on your forum who would like to scream from the rooftops about the shunning and child abuse cover ups of the JW's - but they don't - for fear of the consequences.
  
  
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  Regional Convention Stat. from the UK

  by freddo in

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  another fantastic increase i mean stagnation for the jborg chariot .... cardiff, wales, uk convention july 27-29th 2018. attendances 3500/3600 (friday) - 4150 (sunday) approx.. baptisms - wait for it ... drumroll ... 10..

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  freddo

  Well half a stat this time.

  Second of the Cardiff conventions and I don't have the attendance stats but likely 3,500/4,000 like last weekend. But I do know that 11 were baptised - so 1 more than last weekend.