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  RUSSIA: Many meetings raided and evidence planted

  by ZAPPA-ESQUE in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  raids on jehovah's witness premises now take place more than three times per month.

  these raids on doctrinally pacifist* religious communities often involve many heavily armed and camouflaged officials, with the "discovery" of apparently planted banned "extremist" literature.

  legal dissolution of communities can follow.. http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2228.

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  Raids on Jehovah's Witness premises now take place more than three times per month. These raids on doctrinally pacifist* religious communities often involve many heavily armed and camouflaged officials, with the "discovery" of apparently planted banned "extremist" literature. Legal dissolution of communities can follow.

  http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2228

  For sure the Ruskies are being dick-heads - as per usual - but this really does smack of a bit of Kharma !
  

  *Exception being the treatment of their own members eg Disfellowshipping etc/ shunning and related ...

  WT should not think it is exclusively they who are targets in Russia - Many if not most non-Orthodox groups have come under the Kosh-sack /
  
  
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  Music very special music

  by zeb in

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  music that left me thunders struck.. yani.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ez-e8spbu4.

  one soul in 20 bodies..

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  Harpist is a killer ! Wow !
  
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  Hold The Front Page! JWs Fold in Port Dover

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes, it was front page news in simcoe...... .

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  http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2016/10/21/jehovahs-witnesses-fold-in-port-dover.

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  I recall a time when WT made took much delight in pointing out how churches are closing down and the buildings being converted into commercial properties and that this was a sign of disenchantment with false religion and the money-making greediness of the Clergy{ and impending Armagedonnic Doom ! ............................................................."The wheels of revolution go round and round...round and round .....round and round "

  
  
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  WTS Rich or Hurting for $$$

  by Zeds Dead in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  seen a few discussions asking if the wts are hurting for $$ or still sitting on a mountain of gold.. regardless of their child abuse legal fees and ongoing broadcasting for more dough, i believe they have piles and piles of cash.. talked with a diff'd accountant who sat in the accounting dept.

  at the conventions for years.. a football stadium (or the like) costs them about $70 - 90,000 to rent for a 3 day dub show.

  they take in $400,000 in donations from the r&f.

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  I don't think the sell-offs have anything to do with potential costs of lawsuits from Pedo cases - Were all the pedo cases to be revealed in one glorious moment of Apocalysis and All the victims commenced legal proceedings at the same time ...................no ...its not the case...imho !

  But membership fall-off could be a factor.

  I had reason to discuss the construction programme taking place at the South African Bethel - just this morning with someone [South Africa - where I am located] And this Bethel is now a major campus - it seems to be going balls to the wall there!

  Otherwise the GB are just highly deluded and convinced of the imminence of the Big-BuggerUp ....or there is some strange "Third Force" factor at play ????

  http://jw-branchoffices.blogspot.co.za/p/branch-expansion-south-africa.html
  
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  Just a little bit depressed .... so I went for a walk - a walk into the beginning of my JW life

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i seldom feel depressed, but i did yesterday.

  possibly, its because i'm likely going to graduate next year and i feel somewhat lost.

  the goal i've had for the last 8 years to improve my understanding of the china-asia nexus, will have been accomplished.

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  I agree with LisaRose - What you have been through is merely a Wintery period of life .........After Winter comes Spring ........regardless of our age ! I was taught this valuable lesson by a Buddhist at a time when I was trapped in a severe depression [30 months] in 2010 ! She was right - I am now in the Summer /

  The season of your life will change.

  btw If I or any here on this forum can assist and support you further don't hesitate to communicate ! Just PM and I will link you to my contact details.
  
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  An old Kingdom hall now a church?

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  have any of you heard of anything like this.

  i remember an ex jw from ohio taking video of a former kingdom hall that is now a church.

  apparently the society sold it to the church.

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  In South Africa the JW sold their original compound located in the city of Germiston to the South African Defence Force ! It was subsequently resold etc etc
  
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  If I Became a JW, Could I Have My Cat on Paradise Earth?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  would i?

  i wouldn't mind if he slept through eternity (he sleeps most of the time anyway).

  i'd just like to be able to move him around occasionally.

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  Sorry but Pussy will not be tolerated in the New World !
  
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  Why cant Judicial Committees be taped?

  by HereIgo in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i have never understood this.

  was it because of legal reasons?

  i cant think of any other reason why it wouldn't be allowed, but i know the elders ask you repeatedly that you are not taping.

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  Fat Boy got his ideas from WT !
  
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  How to get rid of that unwanted drone.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as thousands of drones are being bought by all kinds of people, sooner or later we may face a drone controlled by a moron annoying us.

  here's one solution.. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37528390.

  or, you can become a drone hunter, as in this yt video:.

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  Secretary flying a drone to fetch your Field Reports / Or Elders spying our your activities - why you were not at the meeting.
  
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  Don't touch ark of covenant

  by Chook in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i raised an issue with a co once about an elders qualifications, he visited my house and in no uncertain terms said don't touch ark of covenant ( referring to elder as ark ) , i was gob smacked then he said to wife and i that if we pursued such an avenue we could be grieving gods holy spirit.

  so ther you go elder are on par with god ..

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  Why didn't you get up an bop him in the teeth ?