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  A State of Emergency has been declared

  by Bungi Bill in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a tropical cyclone.

  a state of emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks.

  (the floodwaters from the tropical cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).. so far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

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  Bungi Bill

  You betcha!
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  A State of Emergency has been declared

  by Bungi Bill in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a tropical cyclone.

  a state of emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks.

  (the floodwaters from the tropical cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).. so far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

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  Bungi Bill

  GrreatTeacher,

  Hey, it's a great time to be a utility worker. I'm sure they are making some great overtime right now!

  Ordinarily, that would be me. However, as I am still recovering from a broken leg, I am well and truly "grounded" for this one!

  
  
  
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  A State of Emergency has been declared

  by Bungi Bill in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a tropical cyclone.

  a state of emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks.

  (the floodwaters from the tropical cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).. so far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

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  Bungi Bill

  Hi, everybody.

  I have been silent for the last 18 hours, as our electricity supplies (and with it, my internet access) have been down for most of that time. Horizon Energy only just managed to restore the power supply about an hour ago.

  Thankfully, the danger has now passed.

  However, the cleanup has only just begun; this storm caused extensive damage to the district's infrastructure. Many of the roads have been blocked with windfallen trees and / or landslides. This includes all the main highways. Extensive outlying areas are still without electricity, and water conservsation measures are in place, with some localities having to boil their water. Much of the damage to the power supply network has been caused by trees being blown down across power lines. I guess this is rather inevitable in a district where forestry and timber are major industries!

  As far as I am aware, though (so far, at least), there have been no fatalities caused by this storm.

  LUHE

  I formerly lived in Australia (Queensland, then later Tasmania). However, since the beginning of last year, I have been living in the Eastern Bay of Plenty area of New Zealand's North Island (an employment-driven move). The Bay of Plenty area usually has a rather mild climate. However, this month, it has received the tail end of no less than two Tropical Cyclones.

  Only a week ago, it received a deluge from the tail end of Tropical Cyclone "Debbie", which had already caused extensive destruction across much of Queensland. This caused serious flooding across the district, and led to the evacuation of an entire town of 2000 people.

  These floodwaters had only just begun to recede when another cyclone, "Cook", swept down across Vanuatu and hit the entire length of New Zealand with its tail. Once more, it seemed like the Bay of Plenty area was going to catch the worst of it, and everybody prepared for another disaster. However, cyclones are not always predictable, and the heaviest rains actually fell to the west of us. At least those who had already been evacuated from their homes were spared the ordeal of a second flood! All the damage in this this district was caused by strong wind gusts; but again, this was not nearly as bad as first feared.

  As an aside, in this part of the world, the tropical cyclones are spawned in the Coral Sea, and then usually sweep along Queensland (sometimes also northern New South Wales) before often swinging off on a south-easterly course and striking the top of New Zealand's north Island. By this time, they have usually abated into "Tropical Storms", but are still quite destructive - as happened back in 1968, when ex-tropical Cyclone "Giselle" caused the sinking of the inter-island ferry Wahine, with the loss of 51 lives.

  Anyway, yesterday everybody prepared for a disaster. Today, nobody is regretful that things didn't turn out as bad as first feared!
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  A State of Emergency has been declared

  by Bungi Bill in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a tropical cyclone.

  a state of emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks.

  (the floodwaters from the tropical cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).. so far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

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  Bungi Bill

  Karter,

  I have just been looking at the "Rain Radar" on the Met Service website. It would seem that the Eastern BOP has missed most of the heavy rain (apart from a brief flutter around 4:30 - 5:00 pm).

  The wind speed is rapidly building up, though, and we are in for a severe buffetting over the next few hours..

  At least the people of Edgecumbe look like they will be spared another flooding!
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  A State of Emergency has been declared

  by Bungi Bill in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a tropical cyclone.

  a state of emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks.

  (the floodwaters from the tropical cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).. so far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

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  Bungi Bill

  Everybody here right now is busy "battening down the hatches" as they wait for the approach of a Tropical Cyclone. A State of Emergency has been declared in the district - the second one in as many weeks. (The floodwaters from the Tropical Cyclone that hit just last week have still not drained away).

  So far, the biggest hazard looks like it will be the storm surges from the ocean, and people living in some exposed coastal areas have already been evacuated.

  As for ourselves, we are all packed up ready to go should the need to evacuate arise. Being located 5 kilometres inland, we ought to be outside the reach of storm surge.

  However, we will know for sure within the next four to six hours, when this weather system is due to cross the coast (which is guesstimated to happen at a point about 40 kilometres west of here).

  According to the Met Service, this is the most intense storm to come this way in 49 years.
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  Watchtower Corporation Days Are So Numbered, Thank You Information Age!

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  2. scandals

  i think if we could have a graph of how the change rate of technology has sky rocketed during the last century or perhaps the last three centuries, the point would be clearly made.. say we had a huge graph of technological progress of man since his ability to make fire, about 600,000 years ago, we'd see that a new techno advancement in the species happened every 50,000 years or so, then doubling every so often till we reached the say 14th century then the doubling must have got into high gear, till now in the information age where light speed sets the limits.

  now we have information at our finger tips and no need for making a laborious trips to library.

  case in point type in jehovah's witnesses in any search engine.. ignorance is in a down turn no matter how hard the governing body demonize higher education, the internet, and whatever.. as this younger generation with information at your finger tips becomes of age no matter how young you get them committed by being baptized, it spells doom for these clowns running this corporation.

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  Bungi Bill

  Much as I would like to believe this to be the case, I have my doubts. If you go back over posts on this and similar topics over the past decade or more, you will read many predictions that would have had the WTS dead and buried by now.

  Hasn't happened though! Like the cockroaches and rats that always survive a nuclear blast, this thing is most reluctant to fall over and die.
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  1970's Fred Franz prophecy books and current events

  by Gorbatchov in

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  i am convinced that world history will go on and on, and don't believe in an end time scenario.. but... and... .

  when events occure like trumps tomahawk strike on syria, putting bombing a place and many, many coalitions are made with friends and enemies, my thought are going back to a 40 years ago, when i was a litle boy raising up in a cold war naval harbour town in northwest europe.

  my jw grandfather learned me to investigate history.

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  Bungi Bill

  Do you still have this feeling with current events?

  
  

  Not at all - woke up to that one long ago!

  Admittedly, Crazy Fred could tell a good story - and some of it might have been true, too! (e.g. Your Will Be Done On Earth).

  The fact is, every generation - almost every decade, even - has had its "doomsday" scares, which groups like the JWs are quick to capitalise on.
  steve2 has listed one such example (out of many), when Ronald Reagan was elected US president. When that happened back in 1980, the WTS was quick to inform us that a device known as "The Doomsday Clock" automatically moved itself forward to just several minutes before midnight. (Nobody seemed to know where exactly this device was located, but it very definitely rolled the time forward to almost midnight !)

  
  
  
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  Has Anyone Ever Just Gotten Mad and "Popped" an Elder?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it has to have happened.

  people get stressed out, an elder or overseer takes just two steps over the line and gets a fat lip for his trouble.. does that ever happen?

  or maybe someone "counsels" a brother at the wrong time and tempers flare at the old kingdom hall?.

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  Bungi Bill

  I only ever knew of one case in which an elder was physically assaulted by another brother. By all accounts, this elder received a very sound beating. Not knowing the details of what led to this incident, I can't comment on the rights or wrongs of it. I do know, however, they the guy who administered the beating did have a problem with anger management (or lack of it) - and came a family that was quite renown its brawling.
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  1928 mansion built for Christ's return sells for $6.2 million

  by jwleaks in

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  2. friends

  the home was built in 1928 by a group known as the outer court of the order of the living christ, which operated under the belief that when jesus eventually makes his glorious return to earth, he will want to live in a palatial setting in… the bronx.

  interestingly, beth-sarim was built in 1929 by a group known as the watch tower society, which operated under the belief that the holy ones when resurrected will want to live in a palatial setting in... san diego.. https://therealdeal.com/2017/04/06/divine-intervention-bronx-mansion-built-for-christs-return-finally-sells-for-6-2m/.

  compare with beth-sarim below.. .

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  Bungi Bill

  Village Idiot

  Good question. I understand that the building was quietly sold off sometime in the late 1940s.
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  1928 mansion built for Christ's return sells for $6.2 million

  by jwleaks in

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  the home was built in 1928 by a group known as the outer court of the order of the living christ, which operated under the belief that when jesus eventually makes his glorious return to earth, he will want to live in a palatial setting in… the bronx.

  interestingly, beth-sarim was built in 1929 by a group known as the watch tower society, which operated under the belief that the holy ones when resurrected will want to live in a palatial setting in... san diego.. https://therealdeal.com/2017/04/06/divine-intervention-bronx-mansion-built-for-christs-return-finally-sells-for-6-2m/.

  compare with beth-sarim below.. .

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  Bungi Bill

  In fact, the only purpose Beth Sarim served was somewhere to exile JF Rutherford to. He was then - for the winter months at least - out of everyones' way in New York, where his drunken habits had become an embarrassment.

  (According to James Penton, anyway)

  It is alleged that the only "King David" who attempted to take up residence there was a street person of the same name!