Posts by talesin

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Restructuring Bethel

by LaFrancia in

an announcement to all congregation in italy :.

the project of a new bethel in italy was allocated .

the number of temporary special pioneers will be reduced significantly.

Please keep in mind that English is not everyone's first language. Online translators don't work for idiomatic expressions. I figured allocated meant exactly that ,,, changed, etc.

Thanks for the update from Italy, LaFrancia. The WTS is shutting down a lot of its operations, and it seems to be affecting all western countries.

I had a talk with my JW relative who is secretly in touch. S/he said that in the last year or so, there have been more changes in the b'Org than there have been in 25 years. Agreed!

Is the Tower crumbling? Indeed.

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One Year Later - A Thank You to Tony Morris.

by cappytan in

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dear anthony morris, iii:.

i wanted to send you a note of "thanks" on this special day.. why is this day special, you may ask?

one year ago today, you, tony, woke me up to the fact that the governing body could not have jehovah's blessing or direction.. last year, on november 8th & 9th, 2014, the united states branch visit was broadcast to over 1,000,000 jehovah's witnesses across the country.. as i sat at the kingdom hall listening to the "historic occasion," i was ignoring certain doubts that had surfaced in the few months prior.

talesin

Congratulations, Sean. That was a quick exit, and very happy to hear that your spouse and children are with you. Good News!

(re yoga pants - no one wants to see camel toe, that's just wrong!)

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Where are you from?

by BeautifulMind in

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i know we are all anonymous for our own personal reasons, so i understand if you would rather not say.

but if you don't mind sharing that would be cool.

i currently live in georgia, usa.

talesin

from the mists of a magikal land ... Nova Scotia.

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On respect for the belief of others. Sorry for the long post

by StarTrekAngel in

i am inclined to start this thread in response to some comments made in other threads.

i have been coming around these forum for quite some time now so whatever you find in here is not just related to something someone may have said this week.

it can go months back as well.. i have seen many who claim to respect the belief of others but when it comes down to applying it into practice, things take a whole different tune.

talesin

Always keeping in mind that, when a person is trying *so* hard to show their intellectual superiority, they are cowering inside. That person is to be pitied, not feared. *shrugs*

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Did you like hymns as a jw?

by jean-luc picard in

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i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".

of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.

i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".

talesin

haha, love Hank Hill...... and yeah, who doesn't like Collective Soul?

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US TV Show 20/20 Interviews Leah Remini about Scientology - Oct 30, 2015

by TheListener in

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tonight on the abc network (in the usa) they will be doing an in depth interview with leah remini who was a scientologist for 30 years.

i saw a preview and there is a lot of talk about shunning.

talesin

She is a brave person. Not only confronting the cult, but bucking a lot of powerful people in Hollywwod.

I'm looking forward to seeing her interview. She seems to be a person who finds it hard to deceive, and speaks truth. GO LEAH!

xx

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Scientology loses Tax Exempt status in Netherlands!

by talesin in

the hague court has made this ruling ......... i searched, and no topic showed up, so hope this is not 'old news'.. if a cult loses its tax-free status, does anybody care?well, yeah!

*pumps fist in the air*.

it's about time.

talesin

The Hague Court has made this ruling ......... I searched, and no topic showed up, so hope this is not 'old news'.

If a cult loses its tax-free status, does anybody care?

Well, YEAH! *pumps fist in the air*

It's about time. Thanks to the Netherlands for getting this ball rolling! One more thing to admire, wow.

http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/10/22/hague-court-deals-blow-to-scientology-tax-free-status/

The Dutch branch of the Church of Scientology has lost its tax status as “public welfare institution”, and the tax benefits that go along with it, in a ruling made by the court in The Hague on Wednesday.
The court decided that the sales of the Church’s expensive courses and therapy sessions are clearly aimed at making a profit, and thus it does not belong on the tax authorities’ charity list.

Would love to see the WTS be scrutinized by the Hague Court.

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Did you like hymns as a jw?

by jean-luc picard in

jw
friends

i was just explaining to mrs picard........ never a jw, and not english, how we used to celebrate the harvest festival, when i was 7 and younger, before my parents converted to jw'ism.. i loved to sing "we plough the fields and scatter".

of course, singing such hymns is, to a jw, paramount to apostasy,with the death penalty like punishment the ensued.. how really stupid their harsh rules.. did you have any favourite hymns?.

i think we would all agree, that they beat the pants off the "kingdom melodies".

talesin

Amazing Grace and the Huron Christmas Carol - haunting melodies.

Clambake - I remember our local band .... they spent about an hour or two 'tuning up' their instruments before they played at weddings and 'get-togethers'. : P I did love the fiddling music, when they finally got started.

t

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Grandparents take disfellowshipped daughter to court to insist on right to preach to four year old

by usualusername1 in

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jehovah-s-witness-grandparents-ordered-to-keep-faith-to-themselves-1.3282193 .

a pair of devout jehovah's witnesses have been ordered by a b.c.

provincial court judge not to talk about religion in front of their four-year-old granddaughter.. the couple lost their bid for unsupervised access to the girl because they insisted on taking her to worship at their faith's kingdom hall despite the repeated objections of the child's mother.. the girl is identified only as a.w.

talesin

OY - the father was a JW and told his parents about the child 3 weeks after the birth. Then, HE was disfellowshipped.

Mother NOT a JW, nor is she married to the biological father (check the initals!) but let grandparents have visitation until .................

Reading comprehension ...... ack.

It sounds like the grandparents are trying to 'replace' their son, lost to Satan (hahaha) with their grandchild (not hahaha, but manipulative and disgusts me.)

The battle is the culmination of a saga that began when the child's biological dad, L.R., told his parents he had fathered a child three weeks after A.W. was born.
L.R. was "disfellowshipped" from the Jehovah's Witness faith, a type of religious excommunication. He testified that he has little contact with A.R. and B.R. He also pays no child support and has no parental responsibilities.
A.R. and B.R. were determined to have contact with their granddaughter, and the child's mother felt it important for them to be part of their lives. She previously allowed them unsupervised access.

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My First Birthday.....

by The Marvster in

i awoken today and realised immidiately i'm 44 today... and after 3 years of being out, decided to acknowledge my birthday.... i'm off out to treat myself to a big hearty breakfast with cup of tea in the local weatherspoon's by the massive pond full of weird bird-life, later today i'm giving myself a gift of a 90 minute relaxation session in a float tank down by canary wharf in london.... only really have 2 close friends (it's a slow process trusting people agian) and they probably won't be able to see me today, but i'm sure i'll have a belated surprise from them both.... the first thing i did when i remembered was to rush to the computer, connect to the web and put on stevie wonder's 'happy birthday', as i listen to it, tears stream down my face... all those years of my life stolen ' but..... i'm free....'.

talesin

Happy Special Day! and for the rest of your life. :...... freedom! : ))