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  WT loses appeal in UK!!!!!!!

  by Viva la Vida in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the wt lost its appeals regarding the charity commission inquiry.

  here is the ruling:.

  http://www.charity.tribunals.gov.uk/documents/decisions/watch-tower-ruling-03mar15.pdf.

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  I just thought, there is actually one thing in their favor if they lost - as a non-charitable organisation, they wouldn't be required to openly declare their finances, so they could shift money around much more easily, especially in light of the recent huge cash grab from the congregations. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit though.

  Also, Half banana - you're maybe underestimating how much gift aid is worth to them. I don't think it's been mentioned on here, but gift aid these days isn't quite like it used to be where publishers had to make out a form and specifically declare that they wished their donations to be gift-aided (and very few publishers bothered to do it).

  There was a new rule brought in over a year ago where they could say that any donation under £20 in the congregation box can be claimed back with gift aid. In the congregation here, even if there is more than £20 in the box, they will make out separate, individual receipts if it looks like the money could be from more than one person. (i.e. if it's two ten-pound notes rolled together, then that's obviously just from one person, but otherwise it gets divided into amounts smaller than £20 and put on separate receipts)
  
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  WT loses appeal in UK!!!!!!!

  by Viva la Vida in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the wt lost its appeals regarding the charity commission inquiry.

  here is the ruling:.

  http://www.charity.tribunals.gov.uk/documents/decisions/watch-tower-ruling-03mar15.pdf.

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  They'd also lose the 20% boost on gift-aid donations or any contributions under £20 (i.e. most contributions)

  Also, I think they'd start paying V.A.T. (20%) on anything purchased?
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  WT loses appeal in UK!!!!!!!

  by Viva la Vida in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the wt lost its appeals regarding the charity commission inquiry.

  here is the ruling:.

  http://www.charity.tribunals.gov.uk/documents/decisions/watch-tower-ruling-03mar15.pdf.

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  Shame it's only for England and Wales.
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  Their delusion run-ith over in today WT study rag mag.

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i noticed that in paragraph 13 they mention the girl sheryl that i believe was the same girl that was in their video about the typhoon that hit the philippines back in 2013. they talk as if she's so happy and thankful to jehovah even mention that she lost most of her family in that typhoon.

  what they don't mention was her family members that were killed in that typhoon were inside a kh thinking they were going to be protected by jehovah since they were in gods house and his people and all.

  they also fail to mention that the government authorities were telling people to get out of town but the elders were most likely telling the people in their congregations to stick around and just come to the hall.

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  If that is Jehovah's idea of "blessing" people then I think I'll be better off without it, thanks!

  Of course, the JW's are waiting for Jehovah to "bless" the whole earth, i.e. kill 99% of the population.
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  Search function Snafu!

  by rip van winkle in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  hello simon.

  i'm using chrome on android and cannot access the search function.

  i tap on search and am returned to the home page.. for why, simon?

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  88JM

  Yeah I meant to mention it too - the mobile menu closes when you click on the search, presumably because it's set to do so onblur.

  I just hack it by going to the search page address and adding my search query to the URL:
  
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/search/?q=

  (Also an empty search gives a "Server Error" message rather than a slightly nicer "You didn't search for anything!" message.)
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  UK Guardian-Candace Conti article

  by anglise in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/02/jehovahs-witnesses-silencing-techniques-child-abuse

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  Very powerful hearing in the first person narrative - much more so than a journalist reporting on it.
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  Circuit Overseer's Cars - Anybody got the answers?

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  atlantis provided a uk branch letter regarding a 3 levy per publisher to pay for the britain branch c.o.s 85 new cars.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/126700001/2-new-boes-watchtower-begging-money-volunteers.

  with approximately 120,000 publishers in the uk, that will rake in 360,000. .

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  That's not to mention there are a fair few temporary/trainee C.O.'s around at the moment who use their own cars anyway until they're appointed permanently.
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  The floodgates are about to open in the UK.. Sunday Times article

  by defender of truth in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  jehovah church faces flood of sex abuse cases.

  "a woman who was abused from the age of four by a senior officer of the jehovahs witnesses has lodged a 500,000 claim for compensation in a test case that could open the door to hundreds more suits involving members of the religious organisation in the uk.".

  http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/crime/article1525363.ece.

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  It's not in the Scottish version of the Sunday Times, sadly, so readers north of the border won't see it except online

  And now I feel dirty because I just gave £2.50 to the Murdochs.
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  New "donation" arrangement begins to FAIL

  by Tech49 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so here we are, almost a year into the "new" congregation donation arrangement.

  and its beginning, as was predicted, to fail miserably, and to have direct negative consequences on the poor sheep.. let me give you a little experience, directly from our congregation of about 80 publishers.

  back in may, after reading the letter about the "new" arrangement, the elder body decided to "donate" the extra funds on hand to wt, as directed.

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  DesirousOfChange - I know of a pioneer brother who had a very fancy custom-bound leather NWT with a large section from that old Watchtower including that quote pasted into the inside cover of his fancy leather binding. Ironic that the WTBTS has got rid of that translaton and also pretty much breaking that promise.
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  First 27" 2560 x 1440 144Hz G-sync IPS-type panel

  by glenster in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  acer predator xb270hu current champ of the gaming monitors http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_xb270hu.htm http://www.overclock.net/t/1536499/official-acer-xb270hu-27-1440p-144hz-g-sync-ips-ulmb-monitor-thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2f9myd0qy.

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  Also hopefully monitors with AMD's FreeSync will be coming out later in the year too and they might have HDMI as well as DisplayPort - maybe best to wait on this one, but nice to see monitor manufacturers at least trying to keep pace - they've been very stagnant lately.

  I'd much rather have an AMD/ATI card anyway - I still haven't forgiven nVidia for the "bumpgate" fiasco and lying.