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  What's happening in the Australia Branch right now?

  by freddo in

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  branch committee member (hung out to dry by gb) soliloquy: (looks at sheaf of documents in front of him).

  hmmm, so i've got to present this pos so that i can stay in my board and lodging and get all the perks of being at the top of the organization in australia and my wife likes being queen bee around bethel and wants to see her mother in the resurrection poor deluded soul (or was she anointed i don't know it changes so often, if you're up there ma-in-law then thank you so very much for not interceding with jah and getting me off the hook) so i daren't say what i truly know to be true.

  but i've got to look my brothers and sisters in the eye.

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  The "Ice Cream Video" - is it real?

  by freddo in

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  the "don't buy ice cream give us the money video" that is the subject of other threads.. i am not very good with computer stuff - would someone tell me where it is to be found on jworg please?

  i can't find it.. thanks..

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  Memorial attendance up or down on last year?

  by freddo in

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  as per the title.

  and was the one you attended at an early or late time of the evening.. any partakers?.

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  "REGIONAL" conventions for 2015 - anyone been assigned yet?

  by freddo in

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  usually by this time in the year we are getting km's through telling jw's what to wear, where to eat, where to sleep, how much to tip (and not to take all the breakfast food to the assembly as your packed lunch) and how to get to their summer conventions - nothing coming through here in good old england - how about where you are?.

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  Convicted Pedo and Rapist Ex-elder Mark Sewell on BBC Wales News

  by freddo in

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  2. child-abuse

  i don't know how to put this up on the forum but if anyone goes to the bbc news website and clicks on wales/south east there is an interview with one of the victims of sewell who gave up her anonymity and who is decrying the cover up by elders she endured in cardiff wales.. this brave woman is interviewed for over two minutes - you can see all the watchtower bound volumes in her room.

  it is dated july 3rd 2014.. i don't live in her area but typically this would have been on the local bbc news for south wales area including the capital, cardiff and so i reckon over half a million people might have seen the item broadcast.. if you can put it up on here please do.. .

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  How many ex elders attend your meetings still.

  by freddo in

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  when i resigned from a body of about ten elders (jumped before pushed.

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  if you still go, how many ex elders in your congregation?.

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  "That Letter" about sisters not allowed to spiral-bind the new elders manual

  by freddo in

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  you know, the one from the usa branch/brooklyn.. well i ventured a question to a relative who is an elder here in the uk to see if a similar letter had been sent to elders here.

  he knows i was an elder and he lets me joke with him to a certain level about how controlling the society is lately.. he confirmed that one has been received and he laughed because it says you can use a d-ring binder (which i guess is the equal uk term for the us "spiral bound" as long as you don't let worldly people do it and that you have to watch the brother do it.).

  i asked whether sisters were allowed to do it and he said even the society wouldn't go that far and smiled.. sooooooo .... i am wondering if this uk letter has had the "sister" stuff pulled because it is such an embarrassment?.

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  End of Pioneer Assist - real reasons?

  by freddo in

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  2. beliefs

  i reckon that the sentence at the start of paragraph two of the letter to elders that says "in view of the good results and for other practical reasons, it is now felt that the pioneer assist others program has accomplished its purpose.

  " (italics mine) is legal cya because if a pioneer goofs up and injures (while driving?

  ) or molests an assistee then there is a direct link to the wts because a pioneer is society appointed.. follow the dollars ....

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  Is it my imagination or is there more Apostasy about?

  by freddo in

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  here in the uk over the last couple of years i hear more about people leaving/being removed due to apostasy?

  do you think this is true or is it because my radar is up and listening?.

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  Dissension spooking the Watchtower Leadership?

  by freddo in

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  apparently the current round of co visits (in the uk) includes (from an outline in the co meeting with elders and possibly also mss) much talk of tightening up the rules on associating with df/da, apostates and that they are to take the lead in clamping down on this.. they also focus on the view that apostates have nothing else to offer jw's.. sounds like anti-wt tactics are having an effect!

  but it looks like it's going to get tougher before it gets easier .... anyone else confirm?

  my sources are elders/ms's in two seperate nearby congo's..

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