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  2016-08-30 TO ALL U.S. C.O.'s Re: Securing Rental Facilities for Circuit Assemblies

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  august 30, 2016 to all circuit overseers in the united states branch territory re: securing rental facilities for circuit assemblies.

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  Yep its out there ! the CO handbook Circuit Organization Guidelines - PM me
  
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  So I just watched Jackson's ARC interview...

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thank you, everybody here, for introducing me to this.

  no, no i had not heard of this.

  child abuse issues have been roundly dismissed as apostate attacks in the congregations i've attended in the last decade.

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  You were not very schnell about getting onto the ARC ..............................lol !

  Now you are on steroids !

  As mentioned this was "soap-opera' compelling stuff - even got up in the early hours to "tune-in" [ I am in South Africa] and of course having a local boykie as the lead counsel [ Angus Stewart] performing in high-gear ...it was like the Springboks beating the All - Blacks in a rugger world cup ....................! {ok ...all AnZacs take the piss ! }
  
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  I got a voicemail from an elder about meeting with me.

  by schnell in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  yesterday, i missed a call and got a long voicemail from an elder who would like to meet with my wife and i some time this weekend, with another elder who dealt with my brother.

  i haven't responded.

  it's meeting night tonight, and my wife has already talked about staying home to do yoga with me instead.. yeah.

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  I told them I was suffering ADD [ Acute Doctrinal Distress]

  Then later I told them to **** - off or I would enter the hall and go amok ! [ I am a Depressive in remission - maybe they are scared]

  Although totally shunned we are not DF'ed yet !

  But .........go the route of peacefulness - be Gandhian in your dealings - you will feel triumphant and mentally healthier. .
  
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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

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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 !