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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  jookbeard

  agree with many here about the date of baptism to our leaving being the minor part of the damaging years, us "born ins" have a lifetime affected by this cult
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  Zone visit Australia?

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anyone else at this zone visit?.

  more higher education bashing, with an embellished "experience"...... more quoting prov 4:18 out of context.. faithful and discreet slave definitions etc..... all the new "understandings" since 2012...... .

  we are already in the great tribulation...?.

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  any recordings ? wait for the "egg on face to appear" what about governments turning on religions? the cry of peace and security etc?
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  Anyone attended the Bognor Regis, UK congregation?

  by truthseeker in

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  it had the reputation of being the coldest congregation on earth.

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  i remember one visiting speaker who had lunch in tescos instead of being placed with a host by the elder responsible for hospitality..

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  jookbeard

  our old cong took some beating
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  The real reason Chelmsford hasn't been stopped

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i haven't seen this mentioned yet.

  last year in the uk, shortly after the money grab that everyone had, we had a video and letter (both probably still available from atlantis) appealing for money for the new bethel and slips were handed out etc.

  this means that most uk congregations are sending a regular donation specifically for the chelmsford build.

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  They stopped Nancy Chung formerbrother, after repeated warnings this stupid idiot still proceeded to go out on D2D, 30 years in solitary confinement done the trick, yes they can and do/will stop, go to Saudi Arabia/Iran/Sudan and organise some public door knocking work and find out how quick you end up in jail never heard from again!
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  New K.Hall Design, Mansfield

  by BluesBrother in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not mansfield u k , but mansfield in u s a - it doesn't look much, does it?

  in fact even the uber dubs on j w talk are not impressed (that must be a first!

  this thread of theirs is publicly readable:.

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  jookbeard

  thats a very big KH, sure its not an AH?, maybe a design for amalgamated congregations? looks like a good few hundred could fit in there,is there an upstairs also?
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  Berkshire Circuit (UK)

  by Dont_Believe_The_Truth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  darkspilver, I thought Aldershot had their own KH some years back ? how has Aldershot survived on 3 elders?
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  Berkshire Circuit (UK)

  by Dont_Believe_The_Truth in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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  thanks for that, interesting news basically Fleet and Aldershot have been axed! wondering how many more in the UK are due to be axed?
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  Ferris Bueller, and life after the JWS

  by talesin in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  ferris bueller's day off was an huge flick when i was young, and it's a many-layered story.

  i was watching this vid, and realized that one reason i love this movie, is that it could be one metaphor for my life.

  i took the lead, did it my way, and have had one helluva lot of fun on the journey.

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  jookbeard

  was a great film, reminded me of myself in many ways
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  Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption

  by JHK in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens... [...].

  what about watchtower society's holy money?.

  https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-overview.html?goal=0_ffd1d0160d-4ddea55429-100339089&mc_cid=4ddea55429&mc_eid=bfe834e473.

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  Landy $2 billion maybe more in property sales from Brooklyn and branches sold off worldwide yet they are still begging for money and there hasn't been any clarity or transparency at all where this cash has gone and peoples suppositions are baseless? it's not their money it has been donated by the R&F for over a 100 years! I'd want to know where the money has gone.
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  gb leadership

  by johnna colins in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  who are leading the governing body?

  who is in charge of them?

  i don't mean the shareholders.

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  jookbeard

  I would have thought the current board of non anointed members of the WB&T Society of Pennsylvania are very much a front again still for the financiers and legal team that are pulling the strings, Adams is almost 90, he is hardly going to be much of a proactive role in leadership, Malenfant and Wallen were long time members of the writing committee, I dont know much about the other three at all.