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  BRITAIN - 23 April 2013 - Criminal Damage to Jehovah's Witness building in Felpham

  by jwleaks in

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  criminal damage to jehovah's witness building in felpham .

  23 april 2013. .

  police are appealing for witnesses after the jehovah's witness kingdom hall, flansham lane in felpham was subjected to religiously aggravated criminal damage overnight between thursday 11 april and friday 12 april.

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  When we had some cars vandalised outside our KH it made us more nervous leaving the KH at night and certainly worried some of the older JW's. Anything that adds even more stress onto the old ones has got to be a bad thing - they have given their lives to a lie. mmxiv
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  Those who went to University whilst being a JW

  by MMXIV in

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  i've read a number of posts in the brief couple of years i've been on jwn of those that were brave enough to go to university whilst being a jw.. clearly this is a small fraction of those that wanted to go but couldn't or had the grades to go but accepted pioneering instead.. for those that did go to uni despite all the advice and pressure, why did you go?

  what was the response when you broke the news?

  how did it affect your relationships?

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  Sir82 - commuting to Uni and a supportive parent - sounds like the ingredients that were more acceptable in the congregation. Well done for finishing - you certainly had enough reasons to justify dropping out.

  I heard a lot of the anti-education messages during the eighties and they didn't seem to let up during the nineties or naughties.
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  Those who went to University whilst being a JW

  by MMXIV in

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  i've read a number of posts in the brief couple of years i've been on jwn of those that were brave enough to go to university whilst being a jw.. clearly this is a small fraction of those that wanted to go but couldn't or had the grades to go but accepted pioneering instead.. for those that did go to uni despite all the advice and pressure, why did you go?

  what was the response when you broke the news?

  how did it affect your relationships?

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  That's very interesting RubaDub - so it didn't create a big issue to go to Uni because you effectively stayed in the JW community and under the eye of your parents. From the trades people that's a pretty decent outlook too.

  With 25 years hindsight I hope you found Uni worthwhile.

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  Those who went to University whilst being a JW

  by MMXIV in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've read a number of posts in the brief couple of years i've been on jwn of those that were brave enough to go to university whilst being a jw.. clearly this is a small fraction of those that wanted to go but couldn't or had the grades to go but accepted pioneering instead.. for those that did go to uni despite all the advice and pressure, why did you go?

  what was the response when you broke the news?

  how did it affect your relationships?

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  I've read a number of posts in the brief couple of years I've been on JWN of those that were brave enough to go to university whilst being a JW.

  Clearly this is a small fraction of those that wanted to go but couldn't or had the grades to go but accepted pioneering instead.

  For those that did go to Uni despite all the advice and pressure, why did you go? What was the response when you broke the news? How did it affect your relationships? How did the course/ teachers/ students differ from your expectations or picture painted by the WBTS? Did you continue to go to meetings and what sort of comments did you hear about higher education?

  thanks

  mmxiv
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  BRITAIN | WTBTS and IBSA Financial Reports for year ending August 2012

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jw leaks has published the 2012 financial reports for the watchtower bible and tract society of britain and the international bible students association that were submitted on 21 march 2013 with the charity commission of england and wales.. also published is a copy of the submission receipt received by the watchtower bible and tract society of britain in relation to their online submission.. .

  financial highlights.

  average current conversion rate (2013) for gbp to usd.

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  MMXIV

  What can we understand from these numbers? 1) Grants overseas continue to increase to £26.3m (2011: £24.2m, 2010: £11.9m). These funds don't all go to the Americas, about a third do, but this has increased to £10.2m from £7.9m in the prior year. So £10m of uk funds are donated to WBTS in America! 2) Loans to congregations to purchase or renovate has increased by over 50% in two years to £7.1m (2011: £5.3m, 2010: £4.3m) So is pressure being put on congregations to borrow? Some have identified the policy behind this to them take over the title deeds. 3) Congregation funds deposited with the WBTS increased again by nearly 10% to £35.6m. So have congregations in the UK received donations of £3m in one year or are they being encouraged to put more savings with the WBTS Britain? 90% of these funds are then held in America with WBTS NY. One good piece of news... Legacies are down from £2.5m to £1.0m so despite the WBTS printing an article almost expecting it's members to give their assets to the society on death instead of family - this has initially been unsuccessful - although we'd likely need to observe a decade of figures to understand this properly. mmxiv
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  BRITAIN | WTBTS and IBSA Financial Reports for year ending August 2012

  by jwleaks in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jw leaks has published the 2012 financial reports for the watchtower bible and tract society of britain and the international bible students association that were submitted on 21 march 2013 with the charity commission of england and wales.. also published is a copy of the submission receipt received by the watchtower bible and tract society of britain in relation to their online submission.. .

  financial highlights.

  average current conversion rate (2013) for gbp to usd.

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  The reserves policy smacks of propaganda - certainly unusual for in this part of a set of financial statements. So they have given America £4m of it's reserves (profit of the charity) and will give more next year too...

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  I have just been disinvited to my brother's wedding - Thanks AAWA!

  by Sic Semper Tyrannis in

  1. watchtower
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  i am an inactive jw.

  i havent been on this forum for a few months and have been lurking in others.

  i have met a few people in real life and online, both on this forum and on others.

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  Simon, the only reason why many (including me) are on this forum is because it is anonymous. You know this. thanks for keeping it that way

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  Watchtower says:You can be Disfellowshiped for being FAT!!!!!

  by Witness 007 in

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  watch 1974 p.167 "by disobediently overindulging in food and making a glutton of himself, he fails to show love for jehovah...is food a big thing in his life?

  in the presence of others does he selfishly ignore their needs and take far more than his fair share?

  is he grossly overweight?

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  Noni1974's mum got a reproof for being overweight:

  (I don't think you can click on the link - you need to copy it)

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/199901/1/Can-you-get-Dfd-for-Gluttony

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  In response to Cedars re: I have just been disinvited to my brothers wedding- thanks AAWA

  by l p in

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  hi cedars,.

  re: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/scandals/250655/1/i-have-just-been-disinvited-to-my-brothers-wedding-thanks-aawa .

  i completely agree with the mission and intentions of aawa.

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  MMXIV

  Hi Cedars,

  I value greatly the work you have done, and believe that pooling our resources can have the greatest impact against the WBTS. However I do think lp is right that we need to ensure a secure environment to do so. JWN has mostly afforded us anonymity if we choose so for people like me it's been possible to enjoy a measure of contact.

  I'm more than happy to offer my support but can't risk being outed (I do not use facebook).

  mmxiv
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  Mathematical equation for working out witness divorce rate using the national average.

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi folks.

  i have noticed that there is a lot of speculation on how well witness perform in marriage.

  there is a simple equation that can be used as a guide to work this out.

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  MMXIV

  Hi joe134cd,

  I think your equation is sound but again we do need a much larger poole. I would also say with some level of confidence that there is virtually no divorce among witnesses as the following divorces do not count towards witness divorces:

  1) if one of the marriage partners is an unbeliever then the divorce must be the fault of the unbeliever as they are not applying the bible's divine advice on how to make a marriage work.

  2) if one partner falls away from the true religion then they no longer have God's favour and will not succeed in the marriage

  3) if one partner is a CO and he runs off with a younger sister then this matter is confidential and should not be counted

  4) if the wife leaves her husband and he is an elder, then no matter what the reason (incompatability or abuse) she is not respecting his God given headship. If she had submitted to him then the marriage would be fine.

  5) if a marriage fails between two young witnesses who only got married because they couldn't keep their hands off each other and had to wed before a wrong doing was committed. This obviously doesn't count as they didn't get married for the right motives

  I may have missed some further categories

  mmxiv