Posts by amicabl

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1975 and so on

by zeb in

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhn6zf1hl2a.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf8vhemlyfu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkxmqe0qzk.

amicabl

Thanks Zeb, I have noted down all this info. I often mean to check out suggested videos etc., and then forget where I saw them.

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... that this forum, which is such an amazing resource for those needing support for their journey from watchtower's clutches has an increasingly present representation of unreasoning politically charged loudmouths..

amicabl

This thread should be good for another two hundred posts yet.

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latest jw community podcast has THE best interview

by cobweb in

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no really, its golden stuff.

i just listened to it and it contains an amazing interview with an australian activist who i only vaguely have heard of called steven unthank.

he is one of the best guests i've heard on that show, competing with the governing body helper they interviewed once.

amicabl

One of the first “apostates” I heard about years ago was Steven Unthank. I imagined him as a bitter and twisted individual.

I have listened to this podcast twice in order to take it all in. He is a most amazing person who, along with others, has reduced watchtower to the snivelling defensive wreck that it appears to be now.

It is necessary to listen to fully appreciate what Steven has done to put watchtower on the back foot. More power to him as he quietly continues his work.

I intend to reference this for my “grew up in the truth” daughters to listen to, the eldest being a lawyer herself.

thoroughly recommended and very “upbuilding”.

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Blueblades Pacemaker Update.

by Charles Gillette in

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well,to all who had wished me good health before i went for my procedure,thank you.

9/14 pacemaker was inserted below my collarbone successfully.check up will be 9/18.. so, since 2012 when i was 67,i had open heart surgery to replace my aortic valve with a bovine tissue valve.

now at 73, i have an implanted pacemaker with two leads,one for the upper chamber, right atrium and one for the lower right chamber,ventricle of the heart.. so, my heart beats should now be steady and not in and out of afib.. both of my brothers died of heart attacks.

amicabl

Good to hear Charles. All the best to you for the future.

I had quadruple bypass four years ago at 66 followed by 24 hours in ICU on potassium and magnesium drips to stabilise heart rate. All good now except I often wake up and lie still for half an hour while my heart sorts itself out. The human body is a remarkable thing.

GrreatTeacher....I don’t take statins and my doctor has no problem with that. My experience is that you have a heart attack or two and then you think there might be something wrong.

Before my operation I was up a ladder pruning a tree with a bow saw in the heat when I felt extremely tired and had to lie down. I was later told I had had two heart attacks including a “silent” one a week before.

I’m back pruning trees (with power tools now) but if I feel overly tired I go and lie down. I guess the thing is not to worry about it too much. Most of the time I feel really well so who knows.

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Stuart imprisoned,tried and restricted.

by amicabl in

for the last month or so i have been watching all of stuart’s xjdub videos on youtube.. thanks to local congo’s of jws he has now been arrested and apparently mistreated and had actually quite weird restrictions placed on him to keep him away from carts, khs etc., by a court in vancouver.. he was out it would seem the next day carrying on his “ministry”.

and successfully too.. i know his activities could be considered a little extreme at times, but i have felt encouraged by him and i wondered if anyone has any information on the whole situation..

amicabl

The Jws called Caesars police to have Stuart arrested and told them that story without any proof. If it was true where is “Holy Spirit” to strengthen the sister. I can recall really unpleasant confrontations out in field service that didn’t lead to ptsd or whatever.

I don’t wish to be an apologist for his behaviour but I have watched all the videos and understand why he does what he does.

He does carry anti witnessing pamphlets and has many discussions with elders and others using the same arguments that many of us might use.

I was watching the John Ford picture “How Green Was My Valley” where the church minister faces the congregation and tells them that most of them are there out of fear and superstition, not love of God. Sometimes we have to tell it like it is and if it shakes people out of their complacency then that is too bad. The jws quite often do that when going door to door.

My concern was the apparent way he was treated after being arrested and the judgement handed down without,as he tells it, his being able to properly argue his case. Jws are quite happy to use “satan’s System” when it suits them, and in Australia at least to receive a full pension and subsidised housing even if they have never worked in their lives. Total hypocrites.

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Stuart imprisoned,tried and restricted.

by amicabl in

for the last month or so i have been watching all of stuart’s xjdub videos on youtube.. thanks to local congo’s of jws he has now been arrested and apparently mistreated and had actually quite weird restrictions placed on him to keep him away from carts, khs etc., by a court in vancouver.. he was out it would seem the next day carrying on his “ministry”.

and successfully too.. i know his activities could be considered a little extreme at times, but i have felt encouraged by him and i wondered if anyone has any information on the whole situation..

amicabl

waton....all I have done so far is view his videos on YouTube. I also checked his Facebook page. I do not know how to post actual links but the following is some info.

XJDUB. 76 plus videos. A lot to watch and the more I watched I found that I could emphasise with him. He knows most of those he approaches on the carts as he was a regular pioneer in inner Vancouver.

a video I would recommend to anyone interested is number 37 starting at 15 minutes. Videos 75 and 76 document the police arrest and what followed.

I hope this is helpful. His full name is Stuart LeFebvre

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Stuart imprisoned,tried and restricted.

by amicabl in

for the last month or so i have been watching all of stuart’s xjdub videos on youtube.. thanks to local congo’s of jws he has now been arrested and apparently mistreated and had actually quite weird restrictions placed on him to keep him away from carts, khs etc., by a court in vancouver.. he was out it would seem the next day carrying on his “ministry”.

and successfully too.. i know his activities could be considered a little extreme at times, but i have felt encouraged by him and i wondered if anyone has any information on the whole situation..

amicabl

For the last month or so I have been watching all of Stuart’s XJDUB videos on YouTube.

Thanks to local Congo’s of jws he has now been arrested and apparently mistreated and had actually quite weird restrictions placed on him to keep him away from carts, khs etc., by a court in Vancouver.

He was out it would seem the next day carrying on his “ministry”. And successfully too.

I know his activities could be considered a little extreme at times, but I have felt encouraged by him and I wondered if anyone has any information on the whole situation.

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Welcoming Our Latest JW Apologist JTrottigy

by pale.emperor in

i'd like to take this opportunity to warmly welcome our newest jw apologist jtrottigy.

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he'll likely only be here for a few days like most jw defenders before he runs away when presented with his own doctrine.. so far he's already said some hilarious stuff, like "there's no such thing as nepotism in jehovah's organisation", "confidentiality is paramount to elders" and, my personal favourite "the overlapping generation is so simple to understand".. yh don't think i don't remember you from jwtalk..

amicabl

Welcome JT

I hope you come to an accurate knowledge of truth by visiting here regularly and contributing.

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Selloff update Melbourne Australia

by jonahstourguide in

i've posted this here so all visitors to this site can see info relating to the great expansion.. the kealba kingdom hall in st albans will be sold.

perhaps worth around au1.4 million dollars.

on two blocks of suburban land with off street parking.

amicabl

I have posted this before but it deserves repeating. I live north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The Kingdom Hall in the local town, Caboolture, was sold about nine years ago.

Since then a large block of land was bought in a good position near the town.

A Kingdom Hall was promised about twelve months ago after the cash grab by the organisation which netted them over one million dollars from the two Congs who have an interest in this.

First we were promised a kh, then I left for good, then my still in wife, D, told me that the hall had been cancelled.

We bought a five acre “bush block” with a house on over thirty years ago and raised our three daughters here. We have grandchildren now and we look after chickens for one who is three years old and visits us us and her chickens and sits in the pen holding and playing with them to see that they are OK.

down the road from us is encroaching suburbia with three thousand houses being built.

This is a ramble were I am hoping that someone from Caboolture cong reads this and comes out to see me where I can reason with them on facts not emotion and perhaps wake them up. I have had elders and others out here before but got nowhere. I feel however that I am not doing so bad for someone with a diagnosed anxiety disorder. Are they afraid of me for some reason?

Sorry for the rant.

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tommy Robinson --update

by zeb in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8b_xqi_nm.

this is self explanatory.

please if you are in a commonwealth country write /phone /fax your local member to support tr release from his current place of imprisonment.. you may not receive any reply but do so anyway.

amicabl

Nice post humbled. You got it right. And I don’t even live in the UK.