Posts by freddo

Anyone want to take a bet that the next "simpleton" err... I mean simplification will be that AWAKE! will only be available on line and that if anyone needs a hard copy (Sister faithful who won't change but is leaving her house to the Watchtower) the congregation should print it out?

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Australia Branch to end magazine printing

by no-zombie in

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friends

just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.

the task being transferred to the japan branch.

while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.

freddo

@steve2

What you describe is a kind of air freight isn't it?

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Bible Visit

by Michelle in

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friends

is anyone here from imus cavite?

i need someone come to our house.

i need someone to invite my father.

freddo

Hi Michelle,

I guess you are in the Philippines - what is your father's interest in Jehovah's Witnesses?

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Another Newbie

by Drifting Away in

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friends

hello, i have been lurking for a while, but discovered ttatt for about 8 months now.

i am trying to fade out, problem is i have a big family i would lose if i got df'ed or da,'ed myself.

my wife knows how i feel, and is not thrilled but i cant hide my feelings.

freddo

Hello! Welcome to you.

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Anybody remember those brothers that would harass, and hound the elders into making them, finally, appoint him as an elder himself?

by Dunedain in

lol, for some reason, i was thinking back to all the many "characters" that were often so prevalent in kingdom halls back in the day.

they are, i am sure, still there now, but fortunately i haven't been in a kh for like 20 years.. anyway, i remembered this one brother, who was dying to be made an elder.

he could not believe he wasn't an elder yet, after sooo many years.

freddo

I've seen similar. About ten years ago an MS. He even wrote letters to the body twice a year complaining.

He moved congregations to get appointed. Hours and hours were spent on this brother because he would suck up to a couple of the dominant elders but there was always a couple of elders who did not dominate but would not be pushed around.

Even a DO and CO spent their visit discussing him with one of the bodies of elders and as always in these cases there is a good side and a not so good side to these people.

He changed congregations three times and never got appointed and on the last move they did not even make him a MS! As far as I know he still can't grasp why he doesn't qualify even as an MS.

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Australia Branch to end magazine printing

by no-zombie in

jw
friends

just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.

the task being transferred to the japan branch.

while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.

freddo

This is simply another manifestation of a worldwide phenomenon.

Less magazines need printing. Very few donate to cover the literature taken anyway.

It is that simple. So the "printing branches" can be fewer and farther between. I mean a cheap tablet that can take jwonline library and be rolled out to the masses is now £100.

Think about Australia's geographical position. Who is going to take literature and donate for it? Little old jw ladies in Oz and NZ and that's it.

Indonesia is Muslim and poor, Philippines is poor and ripe for tablets over hard copy (and close enough to Japan). South East Asia make all the tablets anyway!

All they need now is a printing branch per continent.

My money is eventually on:

USA/CANADA for North America

MEXICO for everything south including South America (Maybe Brazil for a while?)

GERMANY for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

JAPAN for Asia (India, China, Indo-China and the Pacific

SOUTH AFRICA for Africa below the Sahara

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Australia Branch to end magazine printing

by no-zombie in

jw
friends

just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.

the task being transferred to the japan branch.

while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.

freddo

Sorry if my "letter" deflected from the excellent informative first post.

@ defender of truth

Quite right. I also guess they are very nervous in London at the moment what with the gruesome twosome GB helpers of Kikot and Flodin to visit in a week or two ...

Printing going to Selters and even more layoffs is the worry ...

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Australia Branch to end magazine printing

by no-zombie in

jw
friends

just one week from the zone overseer's visit is the announcement that the magazine production by the australia branch will end in a few months.

the task being transferred to the japan branch.

while i'm not 100% certain, i understand that this effectively ends all major printing bar perhaps tracts, handbills and other loose items.

freddo

TO ALL CONGREGATIONS

Dear Brothers,

Re: Wonderful adjustments in Australia Branch!

Due to continuing world wide expansion Jehovah's organization is recruiting bethelites in Australia. We particularly need lawyers and legal executives who specialise in "defending the good news" against "professed" victims of abuse and we have ready-made facilities to accommodate them.

How happifying that these accommodations are becoming available at just the right time due to dozens of full-time servants accepting assignments to the field as regular pioneers as the work speeds up deep in the time of the end!

One pair assigned to Oombawoomba in Northern Territory were overwhelmed! Brothers Toole and Tokley could not hold back tears of joy at their exciting new assignment.

Furthermore this self-sacrificing attitude means we are able to announce the building by the LDC of a brand new translation office to facilitate an aboriginal language translation office in Alice Springs! This will be headed by a very experienced brother who is so thrilled at his new assignment. Brother Terrence O'Brien said he was determined to help the aboriginal people learn of our grand creator and His promises about to be realised soon, very soon!

This office will have a traditional "outside dunny" and several rooms underneath an aboriginal hessian sheet and tin roof. We already have brothers to help build this facility and of course your donations will be used wisely.

You have been very generous; but did you know you can now donate via jwdotorgasm? Why not try out his new provision at your next family worship evening?

Please be assured of our warm Christian love and best wishes,

Your brothers,

CCoJW's

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PS to Bodies of Elders

Please read this letter to the congregation at your next CLAM meeting.

If brothers request clarification do not engage in any negative talk about the Australian Royal Commission whatsoever. Rather encourage them to prayerfully consider what they can personally give to support kingdom interests (Acts 20:35) by way of a modest donation.

This postscript should neither be read to the congregation nor be posted on the noticeboard.