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  Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

  by freemindfade in

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  so sad.

  i love europe.

  i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

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  freddo

  Hang on Simon - what about the USA Catholics who didn't support NORAID?

  And what about Catholics and Protestants throughout the USA and Europe who hardly know where Northern Ireland is let alone the politics that go on there?
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  UK Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by JWB in

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  uk congregations of jehovah's witnesses[a].

  aberaeron.

  aberdare.

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  freddo

  RANT ON ...

  Click on PORTISHEAD in the first post. Read the expenditure column in the most recent 2015 return.

  £135,571 expenditure. Guess what that was for?

  OK. It was the money saved for a new hall. The money was sent to the London Branch.

  And the old hall that was shared with Clevedon is up for sale. Guess where that money will go? (Hundreds of thousands of pounds)

  And Portishead is now disbanded with it's publishers shared out among three nearby congregations.

  And Clevedon? Stuffed in with the Weston-super-Mare congregations as the 4th congregation, the poor relation forced to take over the graveyard meeting shifts of Saturdays and Mondays the other three "loving" congregations don't want.

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  Click on MONMOUTH - now comes up as (Assimilated) Ross-on-Wye West. Another victim of closure and a hall gone.
  

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  Click on CINDERFORD - nothing comes up! NADA. Disbanded, and spread to the four winds.
  

  
  

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  Think of the faithful brothers and sisters in just these congregations who scrimped and saved in the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 80's who built their own halls to serve as their centres for pure worship until Armageddon came and transported them to paradise.

  Where are they now?

  Dead. In nursing homes. In wheelchairs. On sticks. Sitting in plastic macs with their flasks of hot drink at conventions with their white haired heads bobbing at the next round of lies and promises from the magnificent 7 living in their ivory towers checking the time on their Rolexes ...

  RANT OFF
  
  
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  Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

  by freemindfade in

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  so sad.

  i love europe.

  i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

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  freddo

  Well said Caedes.

  Terrorism in the British Isles.

  A question: "Were all USA Catholics supporting terrorism because NORAID supported the IRA who killed thousands in their bombing campaigns?"

  A wider question ""Not just USA Catholics but all "Christians" - were they supportive of these campaigns because the Protestant UDA/UFF killed hundreds too?""
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  2 Requests for documents!

  by Atlantis in

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  2015 guidelines for training potential circuit overseers.. http://we.tl/tagk4vycdl.

  .. 1925 message of hope from page 141 of the 1988 revelation climax book.

  page 3 starts the reprint shown in the golden age magazine.. .. http://we.tl/wjaevwvztz.

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  freddo

  Fantastic work. Love it!
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  Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
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  so sad.

  i love europe.

  i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

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  freddo

  @prologos

  You had your throat cut in the H2H ministry? By whom?
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  Spreading the "Religion of Peace" in Europe

  by freemindfade in

  1. social
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  so sad.

  i love europe.

  i love going there not as a tourist, but just blending in and spending time with locals in non-touristy local gems.. islam seems to be spreading their religion of peace throughout the continent.

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  freddo

  @FMF

  "Hopefully the size of the attack that happened in Pakistan doesn't make its way into European borders."

  Already has FMF - with routine regularity terrorist bombings and shootings have been in the newspapers since I delivered them as a kid and on the TV I watched from the black and white years onwards ...

  Here's a few of the more notorious ones.

  1974 Dublin and Monaghan 34 deaths ... 1980 Bologna Italy 85 deaths ... 1988 Scotland (Lockerbie) 243 deaths ... 1998 Northern Ireland Omagh 31 deaths ... 2004 Madrid 191 deaths ... 2005 London 56 deaths... 2011 Norway (Brevik) 77 deaths ... 2015 Paris 137 deaths.

  
  

  
  
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  out for a long time

  by Sledracer in

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  my husband and i have been out for a long time, maybe fifteen years, i must say we are in a bit of a nowhere land spiritually, we find it impossible to attend any other church.

  we really resent so much of how they messed up our and our children's lives.

  we can't get back all those 25 years we were in.

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  freddo

  I've got a funny feeling about this thread ... can't put my finger on it yet.
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  Berkshire Circuit (UK)

  by Dont_Believe_The_Truth in

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  i'm hearing rumours of huge changes within the berkshire circuit here in the uk .

  congregations being dispanded and kingdom halls closing down and being sold off.... official announcements within the next month apparently .

  does anyone else have anymore info?.

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  freddo

  I heard about this over the Easter weekend from someone who attends a congregation in Berkshire - she has an elder relative there too. Apparently the rumour is that the elders will hear something within the next 3 weeks.

  So that fits in with the O.P.

  Interesting - as Phizzy mentioned - "Hail the Theocracy, ever increasing! Wondrous expansion is now taking place!"
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  Berkshire Circuit (UK)

  by Dont_Believe_The_Truth in

  1. jw
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  i'm hearing rumours of huge changes within the berkshire circuit here in the uk .

  congregations being dispanded and kingdom halls closing down and being sold off.... official announcements within the next month apparently .

  does anyone else have anymore info?.

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  freddo

  So if they lose one kingdom hall and just one congo per circuit and there are 60 circuits in the UK and they average 200K per KH that's ... umm ... errr ... takes off shoes to count using toes ... ...

  £12,000,000

  Then if they make London a non-printing branch after the Speshul Visit at the end of April they can sell all the London properties and make Chelmsford a branch for 100 instead of 1000.

  Loadsamoney for the Magnificent Seven and their dirty dozen helpers to live off of.
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  What's the difference between 'works' and 'fruits'?

  by TTWSYF in

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  my uber jw elder brother used to use jesus's quote "you know a tree by it's fruit" and then would speak about how jws are the only ones going door to door and restoring god's true name.. my niece was the first to point out that those were works and not fruits.

  my brother retreated for a few days to contemplate the difference between works and fruits and when he returned to address the comment, he stated that works are fruits.

  what's the take from the jw apologist?.

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  freddo

  My take is that "fruits" are also the "natural" result. So if you are a loving and kind person that will naturally show as a fruit.

  "Works" are doing things whether naturally or through duty or to save your skin or under compulsion.

  So door to door ministry is "works" and could be a fruit of loving kindness towards others but equally or more likely through self-serving desires.