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  Randy's Leaked Bethel Video!--Do You Remember?

  by Atlantis in

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  randy's leaked bethel video, do you remember this post?.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/203579/watchtowers-new-entrants-get-hear-governing-body-share-their-qualifications.

  if you have a copy of that video please send me a private message.

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  Gramps You are right slimboyfat, Sydlik does look pretty trim in that video. When I look at the fat bellies of the GB today, it is enough to make you sick to your stomach. I guess Scotch will cause a "flubber-gut" condition.

  This generation of GB will not live as long as their seniors did. My mother always told me her generation will be the first to die younger than their parents despite improvement in medical science.

  Too much good living!

  I think the sparsity of the war years and walking rather than driving everywhere, plus homegrown food gave the WW2 and WW1 generation a giant headstart.
  
  
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  Mill Hill IBSA goes Holy-wood

  by snare&racket in

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  uk bethel now a movie studio.. the young jw me that visited as a kid, worked there as a teen…… never imagined for a moment it would one day be this….

  https://londonnorthstudios.com/.

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  I think they're planning on renting out the studio space, video editing, film & recording equipment, expertise etc for watchtower profit. There'll also make their own content of course.

  It's obviously a New business model.
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  Back to the Meetings------Back to Covid.

  by pistolpete in

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  2. experiences

  a lot of pimos are reporting that returning to the meetings is backfiring in that covid is spreading among the members returning.. post;.

  so last saturday was my first meeting back in person and well it completely backfired.

  last night i got a text from my group overseer saying that someone in the hall tested positive for covid and that we need to get tested(great 🎉).. honestly i kinda expected this.

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  Come on guys, I agree for most of us Omicron is a cold and nothing to worry about.

  However if I'd not had Covid previously and was elderly or on Cancer treatment, etc, there's no way in the world I would be going to meetings and it's wrong of elders to automatically expect attendance.
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  Where did Christendom go? They HATED our bible in 1950...just read...

  by oompa in

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  the articles on the jw-cd which only go back to 1950 where we fought back the attacks.

  i do not understand why they did not continue to blast our bible since it is such a fraud....down south in usa churches teach members how to refute dubs at their door.....but why did they stop blasting the nwt?

  it is sooooooo easy to show a dub there is a bunch of made up crap in it.....i may have to help my local chruches.....if you need more info about the horrible fraud parts, feel free to pm me.........................oompa......even elders dont know

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  Certainly my fellow church members often think that l am being somewhat unChristian when l speak of a cult.

  I think this is a problem jhine when speaking to Christians about jWs. They think you're being unkind and unchristian and that they need "protecting".

  What people don't understand is that the people being treated most unkindly and most unchristian is the Jehovah's witnesses themselves, by their own Church. That it's watchtower itself showing lack of Christian love toward its own members. You are merely observing that.
  
  
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  NCC Simon, we should call up Lloyd's voicemail (speakpipe) and use those questions.

  Don't!!😂🤣😭That's exactly what I was thinking!!

  Simon's hysterical, I was tempted to post his "Roy Devon's" smack down story on Reddit🤣
  
  
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  Child sexual abuse suspect arrested in T.O.

  by Tahoe in

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  https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2018/12/13/child-sexual-abuse-suspect-arrested-t-o/2305199002/ .

  a 69-year-old thousand oaks man facing multiple sexual abuse charges by the ventura county district attorney’s office was arrested last week, authorities said.. steven skyler abbott was arrested dec. 6 after months of investigation into the reported sexual abuse of two thousand oaks girls, according to the ventura county sheriff’s office.

  in november, the ventura county district attorney’s office filed multiple felony sexual abuse charges against abbott, including two counts of continuous sexual abuse, one count of lewd acts upon a child and one count of forcible lewd acts upon a child.. he is also facing multiple felony enhancements and special allegations related to his charges.. the investigation began in september, when the sheriff’s agency received a report of suspected child crimes.. a 16-year-old victim alleged that she was sexually abused by abbott when she was between the ages of 5 and 11, sheriff’s officials said.. sexual assault unit detectives subsequently identified a second, 24-year-old victim who reported that abbott had abused her when she was between the ages of 3 and 7, authorities said.. the sheriff’s agency said the victims and their families had come into contact with abbott through the kingdom hall of jehovah’s witnesses in newbury park.. investigators submitted their findings to prosecutors, who filed felony sexual abuse charges against abbot on nov. 16, officials said.. on nov. 28, an arrest warrant was issued for abbott.. the suspect was eventually arrested at his home on dec. 6 and booked into ventura county jail.

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  This dude looks familiar to me as well. Not sure where I've seen him. Maybe he's visited a congregation as an outside speaker where I attended...maybe he's been on a circuit or district part. His name also rings a bell!

  ......didn't know Phil Collins was a JW. Sorry to see he's gone to the bad....
  

  Smiddy On the other hand members of the Catholic and Protestant religions identified themselves without a doubt that prison officials and they could come and go as the need arose anytime of the day.

  And visit as many prisoners as they liked that would see them .

  Not so the JW`s.

  That was a big eye opener for me back then and I`m talking about 30-40 years ago.

  Smiddy3 Do you think that was because Watchtower could afford to be fussy back then ie there were many people coming in to the religion? It was probably their peak in terms of converts.

  Perhaps the prison ministry picked up later on, when Watchtower was searching for ways to boost numbers?? Any elders etc have any inside knowledge on that?
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  Owe Raymond Franz my life anyone else??

  by Witness 007 in

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  so imagine a governining body member faithful slave who's uncle wrote the new world translalation bible and predicted 1975 would be armagedon writes a book in 1980 that changed my whole life...thank you raymond franz for setting me and my wife free love this man forever.

  true pioneer!

  👍 love ❤️ .

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  Ray Franz took all the puzzle pieces that I kept finding down the back of the sofa and put the picture together for me.

  All those things that were bugging me during my indoctrination, the things that caused the dissonance peaked my curiosity to read the book. The rest is history.

  Thank you Raymond Franz.
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  It's been a long 9 years Lloyd Evans / John Cedars

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  , at a fundamental level if he thinks it's OK and normal to use prostitutes then surely it's OK for his daughter(s) to be on the other side of that trade? If not, why not? Because I don't believe most people, even the ones trying to excuse it, really genuinely believe it's OK and normal, and what really drives that home is whether they would want their own daughter(s) doing it.

  Bingo!!! Give that man a medal someone!
  It's not about 'judgement' of sex workers, it's not about being 'prudes' or being unable to shake our 'typical JW prejudices'!

  It's about not having the hypocrisy to advocate for a way of life that you would never wish for your own loved ones - your daughters, sisters or mother's.

  Those girls are all somebody's daughter John Cedar's....
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  Let's all bask in the reflected glory of actor Sean Penn ...

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  "i'll smelt my oscars if the academy awards doesn't let zelensky speak!".

  wow, his virtue is so good i can't look at it directly, because it would blind me, lol.. yep, it's this year's oscar's ceremony.. prepare for next-level celebrity virtue signalling .... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/27/sean-penn-oscars-zelenskiy-ukraine .

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  I actually feel sorry for Will Smith. Although I empathise with alopecia sufferers, I think there's a reason Chris Rock made that joke.

  I think Jada is emotionally abusive toward will smith.

  Out of interest the Oscars have lost 50 % of their viewership.

  Most award ceremonies have dramatically lost ratings. People are fed up with the signaling.