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  Tell me this is not more locker room talk!

  by JaniceA in

  1. social
  2. current

  https://thetab.com/uk/warwick/2018/05/09/named-and-pictured-the-warwick-boys-who-made-rape-jokes-in-their-group-chat-28615.

  these look like nice, middle class boys going to uni, involved in sports, government, etc.

  they are pretty much standard college kids.

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  freddo

  No not at all. They are a bunch of disgusting wankers. In all senses of the word.
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  tommy Robinson --update

  by zeb in

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  2. current

  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

  I believe curiousconfused makes a valid point - Robinson AKA Laxley is poacher turned gamekeeper.

  However I would like him to validate his "violent/self proclaimed racist/white supremicist" with a source.

  edited to add: I don't think he is in any risk in jail.
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  Why didn't I leave back then???

  by silentbuddha in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  sunday my old bethel roommate came up to visit me.

  he left a couple years ago and he wanted to catch up and reminisce.. while we sat back remembering crazy things we saw take place at bethel he reminded me of a creepy instance with bro.

  swingell.. it was a saturday morning and we decided to actually go get breakfast.

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  freddo

  Sorry Orphan Crow - you said Lyman had dementia - any verified source for that or are you simply projecting a personal view?

  Because he turns up in a Kimono over jeans and asks for jello? Unusual yes? Unorthodox? Sure. Dementia? I'm not so sure.

  When you have power to do what you like you might just be a cantankerous old bastard having some fun because you can.
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  The biggest news of the year for Mr. and Mrs. Totally ADD

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is bigger than christmas and birthdays wrap into one.

  thanks to the australian royal commission our youngest son has woke up.

  we received a e-mail from him tonight where he apologized to us for shunning us all these years, how bad he felt for doing this.

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  freddo

  Wonderful news Mr. ADD and Mrs. ADD!

  Better change your forum profile (and ADD the better news!) soon then!
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  New brother to have a bible study with

  by Akid48 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  well i moved to a new congregation, and i have no one to study with and i didnt have a bible study in weeks and i was loving but one meeting my aunt said ''im going to set up a bible study with brother bob (dont his name)''.well come to find out brother bob is a man that puts a lot of pressure on you to join the school etc.. well right now im like fuck,because i dont know how to deal with brother bob so i just wanted to know if any could help me..

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  freddo

  Not sure if you should do this but what hell would break loose if you said "Thanks for agreeing to study with me Bob, but I don't want a bible study. It's my aunt who wants me to have a bible study, but I don't. I'm only here to please her and I don't believe Jehovah's Witnesses have ever predicted anything of significance that has come true."

  "Furthermore, I do not want to waste my school years swotting to join a cult and so won't make any effort to do so."

  
  
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  Org's Data Protection Document - Question

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are "inactive" publishers being asked to sign it, or is it only for "active" ones?.

  i haven't been troubled by any of the local jw stasi about it.

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  freddo

  That is a very good question and I think it depends upon the keenness of the local BoE (especially the Secretary) in the UK. I know in my hall all the baptised publishers were supposed to get a form although one irregular but still nominally active brother I know was given a form by it being handed to his PIMI wife.

  I know he hasn't been chased up for it (as of when I last spoke to him last week in early June) and that he hasn't signed it.

  If you aren't at meetings and haven't reported for six months you will likely not be chased.
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  Musical Chairs in Bristol England = £1 million sterling!

  by The Fall Guy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the congregation shuffle rolls on in bristol england, and a cool £1million is to be made for watchtower britain.. bristol - hengrove has been disbanded as of may 2018 and is now merged into one of the prime real estate parts of the city in an area called clifton, with bristol-redland congregation of jw's.

  the hall is an old victorian building, bought and paid for by redland since the late 1940's, although since then, bristol has seen expansion up until the 1990's to about 12 plus congregations in about 7 kingdom halls, and then reduced to 5 kingdom halls and 10 congregations.

  redland has always stood alone with one congregation in it's hall.

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  I recognise that hall - it's been a well known jw hall in Bristol since before I was born (early 1960's) - that photo is taken from a road bridge over the local commuter railway line and the hall has a basement which is down behind the hedge in that photo.

  It's a posh part of Bristol too - near the University and on the borders of Redland and even posher Clifton.

  A really good site for developing even if a new developer has to keep the exterior looking the same.

  The world famous Clifton Suspension bridge is just over a mile away.

  
  
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  Reassigned, ...to complete erasure from memory and near poverty.

  by Lostandfound in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  a complete scandal is the reassignment to nothing of the thousands (?

  ) of bethelites, over age cos etc, .

  out on the street atfter decades of unpaid service in very many cases.

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  freddo

  Congregation about 30 miles from me (that has a PIMI relative of mine in it) last year had a fifty five year old booted bethelite and his wife move in. Story goes he was in a Bethel for twenty five years and when it closed he got moved to London; then last year he got booted out of London to a rural England congregation.

  So a foreign national, with no pension, at age 55 has to find accommodation and work for him and his wife. The congregation has a "wide boy" who runs "self employed" (not on his books as employees with proper benefits) teams of cleaners and window washers and so our Booted Bethelite is washing windows, paying £600 a month for rental of a small flat and with no pension contributions. His wife is working as a part time NHS assistant and pioneering.

  They still put on a brave face and "love Jehovah" but word is he especially is disilllusioned (but quiet about it) as the delusion runs deep with his wife.

  They remind me of an old proud couple who have been conned out of their life savings but who are too proud to admit it or at least cannot bear to face up to it.
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  JW Convention Bingo

  by Tallon in

  1. social
  2. humour

  came across this on exjw reddit and i cracked up laughing.. for those who are still required to attend the convention for one reason or another here is something that could liven up the day - jw convention bingo.

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  it would be hilarious if someone were to jump up and shout bingo!

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  freddo

  Brilliant! I've heard of a version called "Bullshit Bingo" for conventions with words and phrases such as ...

  Faithful and discreet Slave

  Listen, Obey and Be Blessed

  New Light

  Adjustment in our understanding

  Apostate Lies

  Trouble is you'd have all of those within the first two hours!
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  Disfellowshiped- reinstated- damaged

  by Damaged in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  don’t know how i ended up here but no one who understands will listen, or any one who will listen doesn’t understand.

  i grew up in the “truth”, i was baptised at 17 as it was encouraged by the elders.

  i really didn’t understand what i was getting into.

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  freddo

  Good move Simon. And I'm glad that (for the time being at least) you have left him on the board because when he posts he can be replied to; so any lurkers or those that have not made their minds up yet can analyse what he writes and the responses.

  "Black Spirit" (BS) will waken up more searching, honest and thinking people to the hypocrisy, money hungry and double talking behaviour of jw leaders than he could ever realise.