Congratulations to you, LUHE!
All the very best in your future endeavors!
So happy for you!
... they've accepted me!
finance is already sorted - they're waiting for me to give them my new student number so that they can start paying me.
just need to formally accept bristol's offer and sort out accommodation.. accommodation should be ok - i've been told priority is given to new students, plus i'm enrolling onto a program for a real degree as a postgraduate - i won't be studying gender studies or some crap like that.
Congratulations to you, LUHE!
All the very best in your future endeavors!
So happy for you!
https://international.la-croix.com/news/jehovahs-witness-leader-urges-elders-to-destroy-sex-abuse-records/8188#.
a california court fined only $2,000 to the wt for not releasing records of 775 sex abuse cases?
they should have made the fine 20 million +.
OMG hahaha
Imagine. The WT's dreaded CATHOLICS, reporting in their own newspaper, La Croix International, "The World's Premier Independent Catholic Daily" date line August 1, 2018 written by their International staff for the USA, truth about Jehovah's Witnesses and their cover up of child sexual abuse.
And the dishonest JW.Borg aka WT, the ones that blasted Brooklyn with their sign, Read the Bible daily, are no different than any other religion.
Hypocrites. BUT, The Catholic International daily newspaper, is at least REPORTING this horrid way WT handles perperators and children. Dismiss and deny, deny, deny and then WT continues to beg for MONEY to cover their sorry asses with their on going payouts for their covered up child abuse cases. All the while, JW.Borg aka WT, claims innocence, never happened, all of Satan's lies. JW.Borg aka WT... Who is LYING here??? NOT the Catholics but Jehovah's Witnesses are!!! And who is head of Jehovah's Witnesses??? The GOVERNING BODY. Liars, fakes and cheats! The GB does not care about children. Never has. They don't care about the lying way they coerce the adults into DONATING their hard earned cash to pay for WT's sex abuse cover ups.
WT aka Governing Body you are disgusting filth, hiding in your upstate New York compound, paid for by who? More donations to keep you feeling like intitled elitist's??? Narcissists to the core. Only care about yourselves and your supposed "spot less" image.
Well WT aka Governing Body, the Catholics are reporting on you! Under WT aka GB's rules, shouldn't all of the Governing Body, Legal department, all Circuit Overseers, and who ever else is involved in this sex abuse cover ups... wouldn't that be ALL ELDERS???... should all be disfellowshipped for lying, cheating and obtaining donations under false pretences. They are not building kingdom Halls. They are selling them off!
it's hard for me to think that the watchtower it department must be fully aware of wt duplicity as in they are experts in using the internet and are fully aware of what the internet is saying about their boss.. so why not hack them and make more public their utter bullshit in a humanitarian concern expressed by what ever powers he has to reduce guilt.. as the reputation of the watchtower goes south and more dirt is revealed the more likely it is for those in position of trust like watchtower it department to be forced into a very precarious position of helping a bunch of frauds and so why should it be of any surprise that some type of corrective vengeance is planed by many members of the it..
The WT lawyers get paid. They know NOT to sign a vow of poverty.
The WT IT specialists? Does anyone know any personally?
What perks do they receive? Are they going to IT exotic seminars on WT's dime? Are they getting an extra degree paid for by WT?
Besides being WT elders, what prestiage do they receive that they would want to stay loyal to WT?
just got word one of my favorite friends died a year ago!
only now have i heard about it.
he remained a devout jehovah's witness--so--he could not/would not speak to me.
Terry, So very sorry for your loss.
I used to like a lot of people, most everybody in fact. I was a people person, caring and interested.
Several weeks ago, I decided my old friends are not going to show up here on this site.
For obituaries, I did them by the whole country by only using one key word in the search. I used Jehovah. Never less than one hundred deceased members of US KHalls show up when I did a weekly search.
Some people I have yearned to talk to, to see once again, to hug but the fickle way life really is, I have decided, I most likely will only hear of them when I read of their demise from their obituary.
How many ways can I say I hate you WT for your controlling, stupid rules. Your man made up religion that messes with human beings lives.
WT you are shameful.
just had to share some good news in our family - my granddaughter has her car packed and she's getting moved into the dorm at her university tomorrow morning!
all day i've been thinking about how fantastic it is when you know without a doubt that a precious kid has absolutely made the right decision for their life.
we have hoped so much that she would be able to attend college.. she graduated high school this past may and qualified for a scholarship to a wonderful school.
So HAPPY for all concerned!!!
Hugs and Best Wishes all around!
according to its own statistics, the jw organization in germany had 1075 kingdom halls in august 2011, 997 khs in november 2016, and 940 ones in august 2018. .
the average decrease was 1.25 khs per month in 2011-2016 and 2.7 khs per month during the past two years.. .
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16znuhftwpwq1nf_9jidc_srarst0errjssgcuxkbl8a/edit?usp=sharing .
Do you know how the "work" is in Frankfurt?
Maybe 20 years ago there was a small street in that city that had numerous kingdom halls built next to each other.
not really sure in what forum this topic belongs -- trying to find out where kh or other jw org sells the jewelry that is donated to it..
One of the posters on this forum wrote a story and posted it several years ago.
It was a tantalizing read. It was entitled "The Opal Ring".
The ending was a real possibility.
It was dealing with the OP's premise of what happens to donated jewelry.
i was recently given a gift of ancestry.com and i’m curious if anyone else has used this service?.
When you get your results back and see you are related to someone with only 6.2 cM, centimorgans, it is not futile.
If your Line is long, you can find them.
I am on a FB closed Family website and there is a know it all that says, something that small is dismissive. His Line must be short. We are not a DNA match. My Line is from Oyster Bay, NY and his is not.
I have helped 2 DNA cousins who we matched at the 6.2cM level.
It was of interest to me that I had a 4th great grandmother 1748-1820 who was granted a divorce from her bigamist husband Uriah in 1798. He was a big landowner in two different states where he had kept two different wives and children. He was only charged $500.00 and granted a divorce. He lived and died 1740-1817, so I am glad she outlived him.
my father would have started college 49 years ago this week.
about three months earlier, the week he graduated high school, the awake!
magazine came out with some very clear direction to teenagers.
@Virgochik,
The 2 different families I mention is because they are all DEAD.
#1. Had a beautiful home in Huntington Beach, Calif. Sold it and moved North to pioneer until... "this old system of things came to an end... ". The husband ended up dying with dementia. His wife died of cancer. Both had Jdub funerals but lived their last years in poverty.
#2. He was an engineer and made good money. They lived in Claremont, close to Pomona. They "heeded the call... " sold and moved North to Redding, Calif out to a mountainous acreage. He told me at their 50th wedding anniversary, that The Society told the ones way back when to ... flee to the mountains for safety, so they did. Sitting their in a grand hall with all old family and friends, John sat in a poop filled diaper because his wife Mildred was having such a good time visiting with everyone, she forgot to take him out and check. Shortly afterwards, he was diagnosed with dementia.
did you see the performance of stephen lett on august broadcasting?.
the illustration of painting the kingdom hall?.
used for explaining that you have to listen to elders even when they are totaly wrong?.
All those older people in the video above are DEAD!
Did they not feel like fools, when it came their turn at the end of life's conveyer belt?
Just because a bombastic speaker tells you he has god's blessing and he knows, millions now living will never die! Just follow him! No, we don't pass a plate for money, we have conveniently placed boxes! But, it is not a plate! See! We have god's blessing. We are not like the rest!
What a honky tonk religion.