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  If your Bethelite Brother Doesn't Know About It, It Musn't Be True

  by HomebytheSea in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a few weeks ago my deeply indoctrinated father who is a long time elder was wondering why we hadn't been attending meetings, and why my 8 yr old son wasn't on the theocratic school ( sounds like i almost off the hook with that one...lol).

  we live in a different state, but i came to find out that one of the elders in our hall called my father, who he never met, to see why our meeting attendance had been so sporadic (i am in my mid-40's, so that knowledge made my blood boil, to put it mildly!

  i tried not to answer, but he kept pressuring me, so i brought up the arc and child abuse cases i had heard of in our area.

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  Tell him you got your information direct from Geoffrey Jackson's testimony, who said these things are not apostate lies but have really happened.

  Ask him "How is it that you haven't heard about this? Are you not keeping up with the chariot??"
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  Watchtower Toledo buildings renovation designed by STATE-OF-THE-ART designer office

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for people who already are bedazzled by the current stream of information about watchtower / jw.org real estate planning, renovation and the emergency stop on the building programma called out, i found today that the renovation design of the (impressive!

  ) toledo buildings for the watchtower real estate staff, is designed by a state of the art designer.

  http://www.hudsondesign.pro.

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  Interesting discovery Gorby!

  The WT never skimp on expense for themselves!

  
  
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  Summary of "Imitate Jehovah" convention

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is just a brief summary of the convention this past weekend at the ah in la feria, tx .

  attendance was 1100 and 9 baptized, two of them very young.

  the elder that gave the baptism speech let out that the day before there was 6 baptisms.

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  There was also a demonstration of how to keep a simple life and avoid unnecessary expenses.
  

  Does that include that expensive new watch from Apple?
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  I went down in the first Round!

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.

  i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.

  i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.

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  Shame you didn't go back a chapter and ask what the false prophets were teaching, to deserve death at God's hand?

  (1 Kings 18:21) Then E·liʹjah approached all the people and said: “How long will you be limping between two different opinions?"

  
  

  Would have been a great time to ask about the F&DS or Generation flip flopping teachings.
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  Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

  also pulled: .

  wallkill photo gallery 2.

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  Huge project, poor planning, poor choices, volunteer workers, what could possibly go wrong?

  I knew a brother who was the Health and Safety officer at an assembly hall build.

  He told me how they had to balance some ladders on bricks to get it high enough for one job.

  I asked him why he didn't stop them, seeing as it was unsafe.

  He said he was told not to be too nit-picky about it.
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  Britain Branch Construction - UPDATE

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  definitely something going in the london bethel.. i thought i'd ask them again (and record it again) what the situation was regarding the new britain branch construction work.. i got the same sister (debbie) and here is how the conversation went: .

  me: i've been told that construction of the new branch has been stopped - is this true?.

  debbie: no, it has not ceased, it's carrying on as normal - can i ask where you're calling from?.

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  Give it a week or so and I'll take a drive past to see if there's any activity.
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  ARE WT COSTS ABOUT TO SKYROCKET?

  by mtwtf in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  what will it cost jws in australia if the arc recommends that all au.

  churches contribute to a compulsory victims compensation commission (for the want of a better name).

  it looks as if every au.

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  With 1,732 JW victims identified by the Royal Commission, at $65,000 AUS per victim, that comes to $113 million Australian dollars (£50 million GBP or $80 million USD).

  That's before any admin costs etc. and relates purely to historical Australian cases.

  Any of these (or new) cases taken to court will incur more costs and potentially higher compensation per victim.
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  Brooklyn Layoffs and Halt to Kingdom Hall construction projects

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a good source just just told me that at morning worship today that the governing body announced that a total of 1600 bethelites will be let get go and not transferred to warwich when the last property is sold in brooklyn and all kingdom hall building projects are on hold for at least a year so that all the focus will be on the preaching work.

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  Local congregations will be told to provide assistance.

  Good luck with that.
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  It's 110% impossible to deny now: Video evidence of the Chile flags

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0auklk0uq8&feature=youtu.be.

  this video leaves no doubt whatsoever.

  the person who took the video got really close and the video clearly shows that the flag is behind the glass and behind the bars protecting the kingdom hall.

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  Redvip, it's common in Chile kingdom halls because it's the law.
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  Is the WT SLOW-ly Changing the importance of the Door to Door preaching work to something more profitable?

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its been a couple of weeks since a new c.o.

  was appointed to the circuit and im starting to hear tidbits of his talks..

  one brother told me that in one of his talks he asked the question; .

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  But no d2d means no monthly reports. How will the elders assess your spirituality without a monthly report?

  They will have to find something else to measure, judge and rank you on.