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  Berkshire Circuit (UK)

  by Dont_Believe_The_Truth in

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  i'm hearing rumours of huge changes within the berkshire circuit here in the uk .

  congregations being dispanded and kingdom halls closing down and being sold off.... official announcements within the next month apparently .

  does anyone else have anymore info?.

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  jookbeard

  interesting , I'll try and get some info out
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  Hello Everyone!!!

  by Christian Gutierrez in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my name is christian and my wife is katja, and we have been out of the organization for a year and a half.

  we were both regular pioneers and i was a ministerial servant.

  we were very much happy to be witnesses and doing our best to do more for the organization.

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  jookbeard

  welcome C&K, your work has been welcomed in the recent months and probably helped many to wake up, keep up the good work.
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  Commercial activism.

  by Ben131895 in

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  in his last couple of vlogs, john cedars is wearing a t-shirt saying shunned.

  some people liked it and asked him if they could purchase one.. in his last vlog (#111) he is advertising it and mentioned the link www.apostee.com, based in the us.

  comments attached to vlog # 110 mentioned the fact that this company will close in april and that the business will be continued by cedars itself, who has also a stock of anti-witness items.. besides that, he was not the owner of jwsurvey.org, but since january 16, 2016 he is.. it looks (as mentioned before by simon in an earlier thread), this guy is making a living from his activism, a paid career.. one should seriously question his true motives, demonstrated in his activism.

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  jookbeard

  that tee shirt company have been around years, it was around when Cedars was still a jw
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  Disturbance during Memorial 2016.

  by Ben131895 in

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  two documented disturbances during memorial 2016. type 'memorial 2016' on youtube.

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  jookbeard

  Derek O'Hare? he certainly made a disturbance this year!
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  Rustle of Spring in Chelmsford?

  by Lostandfound in

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  any sign of spring in chelmsford, or is it still being "rescoped" or simply hugely reduced but no activity anyhow.

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  jookbeard

  the hatchet men?
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  Changes in the last 7-ish years?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  what has changed in the last 7 years?

  just curious .... 1) do they still shun?

  what's the policy on da's, df's and a?.

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  jookbeard

  D2D work has been almost wiped out where I live in a suburb of London, makes sense with the reduction of the WT/Awake mag and since the introduction of carts, I've seen them once recently on D2D for the first time in many years but I believe it was the build up to the memorial I do see them sometimes walking around the neighbourhood but it only seems to be on RV's. Increasing apathy from the R&F declining meeting attendances, congs being merged and liquidated,meetings reduced and you see a burnt out,demotivated,bored workforce.
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  jookbeard

  the alarming aspect is the treatment of faders/inactive ones, truly appalling
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  jookbeard

  yep with a vengeance, last year my mother died, her dying wish was that I was'nt permitted to attend her funeral, by BiL was screaming down the phone to me like a madman informing me of it.
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  How much of the Society's publications just get stored away in the garage?

  by donny in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  almost a year ago i moved back to the dallas - fort worth area after spending 16 years in the northern california area.

  the area i live in has several nearby parks and walkways and these areas have several "share a book" pods mounted on a pole spaced about 1/2 mile from one another.

  people are encouraged to add books they no longer use to these pods and to take one if they are interested.. i have been diligent on removing watchtower publications from them and what has surprised me is how many old publications in pristine condition are added almost on a daily basis.

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  tons upon tons upon tons, many millions of tons, how many times would we place rags and books on the FS and go on the RV and ask if the home-owner got to read the particular rag/book? the majority of the time the answer was no, add the amount of unread stuff in the homes of the R&F and householders worldwide and it really is a criminal waste, I still laugh when they claim the WT is the most distributed mag in the world.
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  Johan Cruijff R.I.P.

  by fulano in

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  the greatest soccer player ever of my country died today.

  only 68 years old.

  he meanta lot to many people because of his skills, as a player and trainer.

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  jookbeard

  wonderful player a true world class legend, in the all time top 3 RIP