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  Changes In Canada

  by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

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  2. friends

  i am surprised no one has mentioned what is going on in canada.. maybe they have but i missed it.

  so here are some of the facts as i know them.

  ontario only.. sault st. marie had their six congregations whittled down to two.

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  The Big Machine

  They don’t necessarily have to build a couple of Kingdom Halls if they sell Aylmer. If they get rid of a few congregations that go there, plus Meadowlands and Blossom Park, then the remaining congregations can combine and meet in the existing Kingdom Halls. IMO, they wouldn’t delete congregations if they weren’t going to sell at least one Kingdom Hall. Based on what congregations you hear are being deleted, that Kingdom Hall could be the Long Island one, the Quinn Road/Albion one, or the Aylmer assembly hall. They would obviously make the most money from Aylmer.
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  Changes In Canada

  by LetTheTruthBeKnown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am surprised no one has mentioned what is going on in canada.. maybe they have but i missed it.

  so here are some of the facts as i know them.

  ontario only.. sault st. marie had their six congregations whittled down to two.

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  The Big Machine

  “There are really no Kingdom Halls to sell in Ottawa as they were sold years back to build the Assembly/Kingdom Hall building. They were offered 25 million for it years back. Not sure how much they can get for it now, as there is a lot of mold.”

  I think that the Long Island hall in Barrhaven could be sold. Especially now that Meadowlands has been deleted. Long Island would be the only English congregation left in it. The Kingdom Hall isn’t that big and would be incapable of holding a congregation of 150 publishers. Also it’s in a pretty prime spot along Prince of Wales near the bridge connecting Barrhaven to Riverside South. They’d probably be able to sell it pretty quickly
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  Watchtower Corp of New York worth over$ 2 billion

  by Diogenesister in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  in the montana sex abuse court case for the first time watchtower has been required by the courts to give a financial statement to the court to assess awards of punitive damages for negligence and (for the first time)malice in non compliance of mandatory reporting laws.. watchtower corp of new york has finances in excess of $2 billion while cc of jw is worth $49 million.

  this doesn't include the pensylvania corp or what overseas branches may have.. pretty healthy bank balance by any standards..

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  The Big Machine

  Didn't Watchtower in the past couple of years make 1 billion dollars from selling their Brooklyn properties? That could be how they're worth 1.6 billion dollars. But with all the cutbacks they've been doing, they're probably shedding money and the 1 billion dollars just bought them time.
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  WARWICK

  by Phoebe in

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  2. friends

  as it's highly unlikely i'll ever go to warwick, i found lloyd evans latest video fascinating.

  i had no idea that the whole 'museum' (if you can call it that) was so big.

  notice the credit card machines by the entrance.

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  The Big Machine

  I was surprised to see them turn up without a pre organized tour booking and they were accommodated. He gave them his real name and they held them up for a short while to see if they could organize it.
  Not only has he announced a number of leaks and is an activist but he also managed to get AMII's direct phone number and prank called him.
  They might want to put more effort into their security.

  The security guard was probably just checking if they had enough space to accommodate 4 more people rather than doing a background check on Lloyd.
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  2018 Memorial and Special Talk Speculation

  by SplaneThisToMe in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so we all know that the special talk titled "who really is jesus christ?

  " will be given before the memorial next year which is very new.

  also new this year is that the special talk will be prerecorded and given by a branch committee member rather than a brother from the local congregation.

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  The Big Machine

  It is strange that this year it's before the Memorial rather than after like it always has been in the past. They usually invite everyone to the Special Talk at the end of the Memorial.
  
  It's probably nothing, but it's still strange that they're having it before the Memorial.
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  2017 Special Conventions.

  by ToesUp in

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  2. friends

  jw special conventions.

  who's going?.

  are you "special" enough to be chosen?.

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  The Big Machine

  For those confused as to what a special convention is, it's just an international convention with a new name. Similar to how regional conventions used to be district conventions. One extra day of boring talks and experiences
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  So what caused you to have doubts in the first place?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. friends

  i had no doubts at all about the 'truth' untill a friend of mine in the cong' began falling away.

  in trying to help him i had to ask questions and do research and that of course cracked the doors of my mind open for the first time in over thirty years.. years ago, when jwd allowed members to have signatures, i used the following quote from voltaire as mine.

  i still love it.. doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous..

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  The Big Machine

  There were a bunch of things I always didn't agree with: no beards, what music you should listen to.. basically any rule that existed that was not in the Bible. Then in my 20s I became more interested in history and science saw for myself that the Bible does not support science (like the org says it does). How can you believe in dinosaurs based on bones uncovered by paleontologists but refuse to believe human remains found by archaeologists that are much older than Adam and Eve? By then I was becoming an atheist and ready to start figuring out how I should leave.

  Around this time, Canada had a zone meeting that my congregation was invited to and Tony Morris was the guest speaker. It was the first talk I had ever seen a Governing Body member give. It served to open my eyes fully that JWs were a cult. I can't remember anything specifically he said, but he basically implied that no one was going to make it through Armageddon unless you were spending all of your waking hours in field service. Truly putting God first. I couldn't believe everyone around me didn't realize he was implying that no one in this auditorium was going to make it through Armageddon. This is a Governing Body member who supposedly is inspired by God and you are supposed to take what they say as seriously as anything in the bible. I realized at that moment that I had to get out.

  I ended up still attending until shortly after the new bibles came out. At this point I was a full-blown apostate still attending the meetings and putting on a good show. I was in charge of the literature counter and we had run out of bibles. There were rumours about this on the exjw forums possibly meaning that a new bible was coming out so I started "jokingly" saying it to people who wanted a new bible that they're all back ordered because a new one is coming out. Of course, no one believed me. How can there possibly be a need for a new bible? A year later, at the assembly hall watching the live-streamed annual meeting, I was the most smug person in the room.
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  Reveal releases outstanding audio w/Trey Bundy doing interviews. One is with a former Bethelite who cared for old GB members

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/secrets-of-the-watchtower/?utm_source=reveal&utm_medium=dist&utm_campaign=zalkin.

  not only will you hear howie tran, former-bethelite, but irwin zalkins talks about watchtower's child abuse secrets.

  debbie mcdaniels talks about her child abuse and you will hear trey actually talking to the jw who molested her..

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  The Big Machine

  This was a great listen, thanks for the link! I'm very curious about the apostate library. Wish they explained that more.
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  2016 annual meeting

  by obarac in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just a few minutes till the start ..... we hope for a news from absalom and wifibandit very soon.. wifibandit, any tread on reddit for am?.

  also there were some info about live stream.

  any news about that..

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  Yeah, very disappointing since previous years so much more happened. I don't think a new GB was announced either. We'll know for sure once someone posts detailed notes from the meeting.
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  2016 annual meeting

  by obarac in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just a few minutes till the start ..... we hope for a news from absalom and wifibandit very soon.. wifibandit, any tread on reddit for am?.

  also there were some info about live stream.

  any news about that..

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  The Big Machine

  On the exjw Reddit, Absalom said that next year's annual meeting will be broadcast to all assembly halls at the same time. Something big coming next year?