Posts by talesin

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Surrey B.C. Congregation of JW's - Elder - Official FUNDRAISER ?

by LogCon in

below are pasted pages from website landoffree.com - canada with information about registered charities.

the one i direct attention to is the tynehead park congregation of jehovah's witnesses.. note several items.. rick worsley - elder - is identified as fundraiser.. has anyone seen this title applied to other jw's.

tynehead park congregation of jehovah's witnesses, surrey b c from british columbia, surrey, surrey has not been rated yet.

talesin

Richard_I

That's what I figured the assets reflected, but I keep hearing people say on this DB, that the congregations sign over the Kingdom Hall to the Society, but I guess that even if they have a leasehold agreement, the building would be considered an asset on the FS? It's been about 20 years since I studied, but it also seemed to me that their assets shoud be the same as their liabilities, but that is not an annual report in details. Kind of interesting, how much they 'took in' in one year, in one of Canada's poorest areas. That's a lot of bucks

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Danish TV series on Netflix shows shunning of protagonist by her JW parents in the first few minutes of the opening episode.

by oppostate in

"dicte" a danish tv series on netflix shows shunning of protagonist by her jw parents in the first few minutes of the opening episode.. it's similar to wallander if you're into that type of detective series you're sure to find this one interesting.. netflix description of the series is that:.

"a crime reporter starts a new life by returning to her hometown, where she finds herself at odds with the police when she tries to solve their cases.".

it opens with a young girl giving birth, her child is taken away, her parents helping to give the baby up.. ahead to 24 years later a woman gets out of her car and approaches a group of people entering a kingdom hall.. she calls them father and mother but they say nothing to her.

talesin

I see that the library has one of her books "THree Dog Night", and another "Dead Souls", on order. I shall put them on hold. Thanks! Elsebeth Egholm is the author.

:)

t

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Welcome to all "lurkers" and new forum members!

by stuckinarut2 in

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it seems like we have had quite a few new members join up over the last few months!.

has anyone else noticed this?.

i guess that most of us "lurked" here for some time before we got the courage to actually join up and start as a proper forum member?

talesin

Welcome! Come on in and set a spell. :)

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Randy Bchman

by berrygerry in

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as a kid, my fave band was bto (bachman turner overdrive).

randy bachman (a somewhat devout mormon) was the driving force.

randy had separated from the guess who (american woman, these eyes, no sugar tonight).

talesin

Oh, and Bad Company - first song I learned on my guitar "Feels Like Makin' Love" :D

10 from 6 is a really "Bad" compilation album of theirs - my fav is "Shooting Star"

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Randy Bchman

by berrygerry in

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friends

as a kid, my fave band was bto (bachman turner overdrive).

randy bachman (a somewhat devout mormon) was the driving force.

randy had separated from the guess who (american woman, these eyes, no sugar tonight).

talesin

No, I did not, but I see there's vids on youtube. I'll check it out. At first, I thought you were referencing the Vinyl Cafe on CBC. :P

Well, it *is* kinda cool to meet a rock icon, but an MLM, really? Okay, I have to admit that I sold Mary Kay for a while. *hangs head*

t

PS. I have an ear worm now, but it's that moody "blue collar' .. yeah ...

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Randy Bchman

by berrygerry in

jw
friends

as a kid, my fave band was bto (bachman turner overdrive).

randy bachman (a somewhat devout mormon) was the driving force.

randy had separated from the guess who (american woman, these eyes, no sugar tonight).

talesin

I agree about that riff, and Bachman is up there in the top, for sure. My own thoughts, are that we can say there are xxx top guitarists, but I couldn't pick the 'best' as their styles are all different. I do love Jeff Beck, Eddie and, well the Stevie Ray Vaughan/Colin James style is great as well. I would like to have seen he and Burton in their reunion. And No Sugar Tonight is my fav Guess Who as well, as long as we follow it with the New Mother Nature, as it is meant to be! :)

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News Follow-up on 2002 Beheading and Kidnap of Jehovah's Witnesses.

by Balaamsass in

witnesses fail to identify abu sayyaf suspectsphilippine daily inquirer.

4:41 am | tuesday, december 4th, 2012 <span class="postauthor">posted by <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/author/besguerra" title="posts by besguerra" rel="author">besguerra</a></span>0665start share this /metas suspected abu sayyaf terrorists wrongly arrested for the 2002 abduction of several jehovahs witnesses in patikul, sulu, may be released before the end of the month.. twenty-one accused claiming innocence were presented at a hearing on the reinvestigation of the kidnap-for-ransom case conducted by the department of justice on monday, but eight of them were pointed to by two witnessesone of them a former hostageas being members of the terror group.. it was the third reinvestigation of the aug. 20, 2002, abduction of four women and two men who were members of the religious group in patikul.. the two men were beheaded by the abu sayyaf while the women were rescued by police and the military.. at the start of the hearing, senior assistant state prosecutor peter ong said it was the prosecutors themselves who pushed for the reinvestigation.. we noticed, for instance, two persons being arrested under one name and we noticed an injustice there, said ong, adding that the pasig rtc ordered them to conduct the reinvestigation in 60 days.. all 21 abu sayyaf members who were handcuffed were made to line up for identification in batches to face two of the three witnesses who were brought in, their faces concealed.. of the 21, the eight who were pointed to by two witnesses denied the accusation.. one of the eight, julhassan a. jaani ybanez, was identified by the female witness as the one who beheaded her husband.. but ybanez denied this, saying he was an imam (muslim leader) and an assistant of col. akho san juan, the military chaplain of the western mindanao command.

he said he was arrested in 2006. christine o. avendano.

talesin

That's so true, smiddy. I just think of those folks I knew, 2 came back with ruined health (malaria), 1 who will always consider Africa her home never readjusted to living back here, and the third .... I'm not sure what happened to him.

Funny story though .... he had never gotten his driver's license, having gone to Liberia before that milestone happened in his life. So I was letting him drive my car, on the highway, on a short trip. At just over 30YO, he finally had his 'beginners' license. We were going faster and faster and I looked over - the speedometer was just over 100 mph, and I said WHOA, slow down !

We had signs in kilometers per hour - 100 kph, and he thought it was 100 mph............ phew! Scared the livin' daylights out of me, coming around that well-known dangerous curve. Male drivers! smh

tal

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Danish TV series on Netflix shows shunning of protagonist by her JW parents in the first few minutes of the opening episode.

by oppostate in

"dicte" a danish tv series on netflix shows shunning of protagonist by her jw parents in the first few minutes of the opening episode.. it's similar to wallander if you're into that type of detective series you're sure to find this one interesting.. netflix description of the series is that:.

"a crime reporter starts a new life by returning to her hometown, where she finds herself at odds with the police when she tries to solve their cases.".

it opens with a young girl giving birth, her child is taken away, her parents helping to give the baby up.. ahead to 24 years later a woman gets out of her car and approaches a group of people entering a kingdom hall.. she calls them father and mother but they say nothing to her.

talesin

Okay, I was wrong - no English subs, just Dutch & Swedish, but I'm sure they can be found. I read the premise of the show and it does sound good. Also, recognizing the actress, I'm sure I saw her in a Scandanavian movie a couple of years ago. Well, I'll just see what can be done about those subs. Thanks. :)

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Dylan Boe - another dead miserable wretch

by Kent in

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victim hung on to faith .

by mike o'brien.

dylan boe held on to his faith until the end.. the 19-year-old was the only one of four young friends who wasn't immediately killed in a two-vehicle crash near melville, saturday.. like preston presiloski, adam anderson and elisha stasiuk, boe was a jehovah's witness.

talesin

J-DUBBED - Palmtree is not here anymore, but I think there are one or two others from that area.

So sorry to read about your son. This cult destroys families, and causes so much heartbreak. If you use the search engine at the top of the page, you can find threads that you will find helpful. You can also start your own topic. That is at the top of your page, too. Just click "New Topic" ,, type in the heading --- fill in some text in the block, and let us know!

Welcome.

xx

tal

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News Follow-up on 2002 Beheading and Kidnap of Jehovah's Witnesses.

by Balaamsass in

witnesses fail to identify abu sayyaf suspectsphilippine daily inquirer.

4:41 am | tuesday, december 4th, 2012 <span class="postauthor">posted by <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/author/besguerra" title="posts by besguerra" rel="author">besguerra</a></span>0665start share this /metas suspected abu sayyaf terrorists wrongly arrested for the 2002 abduction of several jehovahs witnesses in patikul, sulu, may be released before the end of the month.. twenty-one accused claiming innocence were presented at a hearing on the reinvestigation of the kidnap-for-ransom case conducted by the department of justice on monday, but eight of them were pointed to by two witnessesone of them a former hostageas being members of the terror group.. it was the third reinvestigation of the aug. 20, 2002, abduction of four women and two men who were members of the religious group in patikul.. the two men were beheaded by the abu sayyaf while the women were rescued by police and the military.. at the start of the hearing, senior assistant state prosecutor peter ong said it was the prosecutors themselves who pushed for the reinvestigation.. we noticed, for instance, two persons being arrested under one name and we noticed an injustice there, said ong, adding that the pasig rtc ordered them to conduct the reinvestigation in 60 days.. all 21 abu sayyaf members who were handcuffed were made to line up for identification in batches to face two of the three witnesses who were brought in, their faces concealed.. of the 21, the eight who were pointed to by two witnesses denied the accusation.. one of the eight, julhassan a. jaani ybanez, was identified by the female witness as the one who beheaded her husband.. but ybanez denied this, saying he was an imam (muslim leader) and an assistant of col. akho san juan, the military chaplain of the western mindanao command.

he said he was arrested in 2006. christine o. avendano.

talesin

This is quite the militant fringe group. Kidnappings, extortion, bombings, all in the cause of establishing an independent Muslim province - can we all say 'fanatical crazies'?

It's really disgusting that the Tower sends their slaves into these dangerous areas. I remember having missionary friends in Africa - one was in Liberia and had to flee the country in late 79 or was it early 1980? He barely got out, what with the political situation there, it was very dangerous.

Those poor people.

t