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Does anyone remember a district overseer Joe Slaiman?

by stuckinarut2 in

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joe slaiman and his wife jean were in the travelling work in australia throughout the 90's... ( i may have spelt the name incorrectly).

anyone remember them?

they were very well liked by many of the brothers and sisters.. i wonder what happened to him?

Listener

Great to hear that you are still with your wife and therefore able to work this out together.

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Does anyone remember a district overseer Joe Slaiman?

by stuckinarut2 in

jw
friends

joe slaiman and his wife jean were in the travelling work in australia throughout the 90's... ( i may have spelt the name incorrectly).

anyone remember them?

they were very well liked by many of the brothers and sisters.. i wonder what happened to him?

Hi Joe, welcome to the forum. I would love to hear the reasons for you leaving. I haven't heard the rumours and cannot be bothered to look them up. It seems that it is common for rumours to be spread by JWs who like to justify why a person is no longer a JW, it's pretty sad really but something that they could be sued for.

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Eyebrows up!... Eyebrows down!...

by Splash in

today... i'm going to talk to you..... about "sisters!!".

now our dear sisters... have a place ... in god's organisation.

they are not permitted to teach!.

Listener

Very funny.

As a side it made me wonder why we never see more than one GB member at a time in video's. Lately they have been showing a GB member seated next to a GB helper but not another GB member. Maybe they feel it would diminish their individual authority in some way but it would show them working as part of a team which is what the FDS is supposed to be all about.

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2014 increase in Memorial Partakers to 14,121

by jwfacts in

i have updated the article at memorial partakers with the figures released for 2014. no surprises here, it has risen yet again, this time by 6% over last year, and is now 14,121.. .

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Listener

You're right Hairtrigger. How are we to work out who the chosen ones are when the Governing Body can't even work out who they are?

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2014 increase in Memorial Partakers to 14,121

by jwfacts in

i have updated the article at memorial partakers with the figures released for 2014. no surprises here, it has risen yet again, this time by 6% over last year, and is now 14,121.. .

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Listener

They could easily come up with some new wacky explanation incorporating their idea about 'this generation'.

It could go something like this - since the number was going down until 2007 we can see this would have been the first and second overlapping group of anointed but now that it is rising from 2007 this must be the third overlapping group. So we know that Armageddon must be coming very soon because the number of the second group would naturally still be going down.

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Seriously, Why Can’t Jehovah’s Witness Women Wear Pants?

by Watchtower-Free in

i found this.

http://jwvictims.org/2014/02/05/seriously-why-cant-jehovahs-witness-women-wear-pants/.

seriously, why cant jehovahs witness women wear pants?.

Listener

So from that article it is not alright for women to look like men by dressing in pants, but it is okay sometimes and in some circumstances. Obviously there is no way they are going to look like a man when cleaning the house because spiritual JW men don't do that.

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New LDC Meeting KH Video

by wifibandit in

been away from the site for a few days...because i have been busy getting these!!!!!!

(pixel, thank you!

) they did not make it easy, plus technical difficulties.. for the main attraction:.

Listener

Many of the speakers don't talk about the expansion of people, they just mention expansion of the building activity.

Regarding the maintenance of the buildings, they are being very clever here. They are going to have a detailed manual and provide training to ensure the congregations have a scheduled program of maintenance. Rather than let the building run down to a stage that it requires a number of updating at the one time (and therefore would be considered a major renovation for which the Society would have to pay) they will, no doubt, require modifications at a certain point in time. That might be repainting in Year 3, replacing carpets in Year 4, servicing electrical items in Year 2 and so on. Doing it this way means that the Society will not fork out the money but expect the congregations to finance these.

They are going to train the brothers in the congregations to carry out work such as Electrical and Plumbing. I don't know about the US laws but here in Australia qualified and registered Tradesmen can only carry out these duties.

I love the way that they give very little explanations as to why the commercial building type was more desirous than previous designs, yet they expect everyone to support the idea because the GB said so. They even pretend that there was some sort of democratic process to decide on the design.

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Quick introduction

by OzGirl in

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friends

only have a few minutes to spare so thought i would throw this together.. been in for about 30 years.

questions and doubts gathered over that time.

i have a keen interest in the legal and financial matters of the watchtower.. came across this site about 5 years ago.

Listener

Welcome OzGirl, I live in WA but don't hold that against me.

A suggestion is to start a new thread as the points you bring up aren't reflected in you thread title and it is an important that you appear to have done your own research on.

They made a lot of money when they were charging for publications. Now that it is on a donation basis we have seen the frequency and number of pages being reduced in the magazines and there are less books being published. Nothing is hard bound these days except for the bible. I remember asking for payment of the publications from the householder and saying that it was only to cover the cost of printing, what a lie that was.

Now they have had to find new means of making money which is pretty normal for any religion but the problem is that they are so secretive about how they go about this and resort to some questionable means.

There hasn't been a lot of discussion about it here but the Org. set up a new website to take bookings for Hotels, unfortunately you need a password to get into the website but I think it would be another source of commission.

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The Adventures of JWCart and "I-Am-The-Cart" TWITTER, SOON! I will up-build you till you return to our Loving Organization!

by JWCart1975 in

i talked with my pusher, puller i mean, she's really pissed off i opened up a twitter account she's threatening to drive her car over my frame if i misbehave and more, so much for my point of view.

after much deliberation, we decided she could count her field service minutes only if people see my pretty logo (jw.org), finally she took me off the roof-rack and returned me to my right place, passenger side.

in the passenger's seat of our car, i smile at the homeless people walking the streets, "can we pull over and talk to them, can you buy them something to eat?

Listener

At lease you are being looked after and she keeps feeding you with publications.

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I was shy on my first JW.ORG Video, I am so happy sharing God's Organization with you!

by JWCart1975 in

jw.org is the fastest growing media outlet in the world, our local cobe said we are going to take the media from satan's wicked world!

repent before it's too late and come back to the kingdom hall with all your loving brothers and sisters!

you won't find happiness without jehovah's organization and you know it!

Listener

Hi JWCart, I loved the song you just came out with. I was wondering when the movie was coming out and can you get me a seat to the preview?