Tijkmo!!
Bloody hell how ya doing?!!!
hi pepeep am attempting to get a current list of uk travelling overseers.
left 4 years ago and have heard rumours of many new ones.
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Tijkmo!!
Bloody hell how ya doing?!!!
jehovah's witnesses and spiritual healers top complaints to charity commissionby ian griggs, third sector online, 7 january 2013. charity commission.
the rspca and national trust are also in top 10 most-complained about charities, the regulator has revealedthe central body for jehovahs witnesses in britain and a spiritual healers organisation were the charities about which the charity commission received the most complaints in the two years to march 2012.. the regulator said it had received 13 complaints about both the watch tower bible and tract society of britain and the nfsh charitable trust during the period.. the figures were revealed in response to a request under the freedom of information act, made by the conservative mp simon hart in july, for a list of the ten charities about which the commission received most complaints.. the rspca and jnf charitable trust, which is concerned with israel, were the next most complained about, with 12 complaints to the commission over two years.. hart, a former chief executive of the pro-hunting charity the countryside alliance, was one of a group of cross-party group of politicians that has called on the commission to investigate the rspca after it spent more than 320,000 on a successful private prosecution of the heythrop hunt.. the commission's list does not include complaints made to charities themselves or to other regulators such as the advertising standards authority and the fundraising standards board.. the commission said none of the complaints against charities in the top 10 resulted in any formal action against those organisations.
it also said the number of complaints would not necessarily mean that a charity had acted wrongly or contrary to its charitable purpose.. begin ad tag c501 end ad tag c501 "an internal dispute within a membership body could result in several letters of complaint or dissatisfaction, but may not be be a fair indication of the level of service that is being received by beneficiaries," said liam carroll, the commissions complaints manager.. .
Fair to say that Brits don't complain that much
continued from: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/241969/3/greetings-from-an-existent-jw.
a repost from re: greetings!
from an existent jw.
Ethos said
"Unity is a recurring scriptural mandate and a lack thereof can be greatly distributed to the varying denominations and sects in Christendom"
This is just repeating the totally incorrect impression that the Watchtower paints of 'Christendom' and is certainly not based on any actual research, investigation or accurate information. They make sweeping statements about the different denominations which create the image of a constantly squabbling group of different churches at loggerheads with each other because of their differing interpretations which they jealously guard in isolation from each other for fear of contamination. They base these statements on historical origins of some denominations with their schisms from another but totally fail to consider hundreds of years of dialogue and reconciliation which have brought about the state of love and unity that Londo describes. Many JWs, certainly in the UK, think that Henry VIII is responsible for the Protestant Reformation!
As is usual, unity is confused by uniformity. And the assumption is that unity cannot exist while different interpretations and traditions are tolerated.
was a jw for 40 years.
stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.
awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.
Arrakis1 should know!
Still one of my favourite books
was a jw for 40 years.
stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.
awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.
the new light (tm) is on jw.org.
not had time to digest it but it's looking pretty much whathas been divulged already.
looking forward to seeing the responses from the forum and the brothers and sisters now it's in the open.
Surely a landmark moment. 'New Light' via the website.
I suspect that they hope most of the rank and file miss this . . .
I wonder if they are actually going to put this in the Watchtower.
As usual, the HUGE implications of this will be lost to virtually all JWs.
I was actually wondering if was legal. Or would it fall foul of 'discriminating on religious grounds?'
I honestly don't know . . .
This was an advertising banner on my Facebook . . .
watchtower representatives (jehovahs christian witnesses) are once again attending the osce, organization for security and co-operation in europe,meeting in warsaw on september 24 - oct. 5, 2012. http://www.osce.org/hdim_2012to see jehovahs witnesses listed as a non-governmental organization, click on http://www.osce.org/hdim_2012?view=conference_documents&display=page_2&arg=92455.
please scroll down under non-governmental organization and click on administrative centre of jehovahs witnesses in russia as well as european association of jehovah's christian witnesses.
once you click on them, you will be brought to a page with a list of all of their presentations at the osce.
Presentations about what?
here is something tha thas just amazed me.
i had two witnesses at the door.
i invited them in for a few minutes because of the cold.
So why are you stunned?