I stand corrected and defer to your alertness. I should have said "many already share a hall and the few that don't, appear to be getting moved into other K.H.'s." New light provided.
Thanks for highlighting the error.
according to the org's website, various congregations will be moving in with other congregations, effective january 1st 2017.
(i've only highlighted a couple) in all probability, their own k.h.
is/has been sold.
I stand corrected and defer to your alertness. I should have said "many already share a hall and the few that don't, appear to be getting moved into other K.H.'s." New light provided.
Thanks for highlighting the error.
the crime is ,condoning the removal of and shunning of jw children ,who when older want to express freedom of religion and attend another church.
god created family unit ,gb destroys lives on all levels of family tree.
can this be the unforgivable sin?.
Perverting, twisting and bending scriptures in order to "prove" their dogmas, pretty well covers Matthew 12:31,32 IMHO. Their Pharisaical-type attitudes, treatment, and practices towards the "flock" are now so blatantly obvious.
according to the org's website, various congregations will be moving in with other congregations, effective january 1st 2017.
(i've only highlighted a couple) in all probability, their own k.h.
is/has been sold.
Hi darkspilver - if you click on JWdotOrg - About Us - Meetings - Find a Location Near You - Location to Search Near, you can find all of the K.H.'s which serves only one congregation - at the moment!
Perhaps some/all of those congregations being relocated on January 1st 2017 were in that group.
according to the org's website, various congregations will be moving in with other congregations, effective january 1st 2017.
(i've only highlighted a couple) in all probability, their own k.h.
is/has been sold.
(sorry about the formatting!)
7 Pratt Mews Pratt Street LONDON NW1 0AD
121 Heath Road Clapham LONDON SW8 3BB
11 Monmouth Road Paddington LONDON W2 4UT
197a Coldharbour Lane Camberwell LONDON SE5 9PA
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses 1A Fassett Road LONDON E8 1DQ
1A Scylla Road Peckham LONDON SE15 3NY
1A Poplar Grove Hammersmith LONDON W6 7RF
Kingdom Hall 23 Pond Place off Fulham Road LONDON SW3 6QR
Rear of 1A Dyne Road LONDON NW6 7XG
184 Grove Road LONDON E3 5TG
London, Bermondsey (Effective January 1, 2017)
200 New Cross Road New Cross Gate LONDON SE14 5PG
Rear of 16-32 Stamford Hill LONDON N16 6YA
33 North Hill LONDON N6 4BS
26 Glenburnie Road Tooting Bec LONDON SW17 7PJ
5A Glenwood Road LONDON N15 3JS
Kingdom Hall 1 New River Avenue LONDON N8 7QD
679 - 685 Seven Sisters Road LONDON N15 5LA
16 Rutford Road Streatham LONDON SW16 2DH
27 Brockley Rise Forest Hill LONDON SE23 1JG
Kingdom Hall Acton Lane LONDON W3 8NX
Whiteley Road Upper Norwood LONDON SE19 1JT
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses 349 Haydon's Road LONDON SW19 8LA London, Blackheath Invicta Road LONDON SE3 7HD
173 Venner Road Penge LONDON SE26 5HX
Rear of 24 Gladstone Road Wimbledon LONDON SW19 1QT
6A Sansom Road Leytonstone LONDON E11 3HE
119A Norbury Avenue THORNTON HEATH CR7 8AN
1 Shelbourne Road Tottenham LONDON N17 0JX
5A-7A Hoe Street LONDON E17 4PH
2A Ashley Gardens LONDON N13 5EW
Avion Crescent Grahame Park Way LONDON NW9 5NZ
The Kingdom Hall The Ridgeway Mill Hill LONDON NW7 1RN
64 Stayton Rd SUTTON SM1 2PU
Queens Road WALLINGTON SM6 0AG
77A East Barnet Road
BARNET EN4 8RN
original thread here.
update: so, after the meeting i had with elders a few weeks ago as outlined in my original thread, they met as a body and once again called to tell me that after considering my case they still thought a judicial committee should be held against me and asked to be there "thursday at 7:30".
all of this, i remind you, because of posting coc on facebook.
Well done Sanchy.
The wolves hate it when someone proves that they've "gone beyond what is written" - in their own "Sacrifice the Flock of God" manual!
with the proliferation of social media, more people have been reached by the watchtower organization than ever before in history.
it sure took them long enough!.
at the same time, anti-jw activism has caught fire to counterbalance the propaganda.. there are all sorts of activists operating "out there" using books, videos, podcasts, facebook, and incidental un-witnessing to puncture and perforate the false message and counterfeit codswallop of the governing body.. __________.
Good topic.
Al lot more could/should be done to rip off the veneer of the WTBTS/JW cult and expose its lies and corruptions.
Personally I feel that the priorities are to try and hit the org financially as well as to warn potential converts of the very real risks they face by becoming a J.W.
Since the org wallows in its charitable status based on its "Bible education" work & free literature, perhaps their qualifications for charity status should be revoked due to the fact that their raison d'ĂȘtre is nothing to do with charity, and everything to do with self-promotion and self-enlargement - both financially and in converts.
In the UK, the government can be obliged to debate a topic in parliament if 100,000 signatories sign up to an e-petition. https://www.gov.uk/petition-government
Separately, complaints/questions could be submitted to the UK Charities Commission to highlight the glaring absence of charity work by an organization which has tax-free status, receives taxpayers' money via gift-aid, and which will avoid paying a fortune in taxes when it sells off it Branch Office properties in London - as well as any multi-million pound London Kingdom Halls which almost certainly will be "consolidated." (include all the other UK K.H.'s which will be sold off)
Individually we can help individual ex/J.W.'s - but to deal with the org, we need the services of an "Equaliser."
ok so i was stupid and looked at the text for today, i do not know why i did it.
i lost a couple of brain cells and put myself into an even deeper depression over it.
it was just that my husband had it out and i thought what can it hurt, wondering what they are up to.
The message from the governing is loud and clear, and is going to get even louder;
"The organization rules your life - get used to it!"
They are tightening the noose round the publishers' necks.
and how long will it last?
and who will come after that, yahweh, as the old testament says or jesus, as the new testament says?
the scriptures say he'll come to the mount of olives, but surely that's a spiritual mount of olives.
According to WTBTS/JW dogma, Armageddon will be triggered via "an attack on Babylon the Great" (every religion except J.W.'s) by the world's governments, thereby causing a "greater fulfillment"of the great tribulation which Jesus described at Matthew 24:21.
According to the Bible, the great tribulation of Revelation 7:14 is a reference to the tribulation spoken of earlier at Revelation 2:22 - one which is directed solely at corrupt elders/Christians throughout Christianity. No other religions are involved. Just as 1st Peter 4:17 says, "The judgement starts first with the house of God."
the wife told me it was more like 20-22 years since i seen or talked to her.but since that visit we.
we have not spoke to one another, not a word.
my family members (not jw) ask me have i called.
What a dilemma to face! Would writing an honest, heart-felt letter prepare the way for a conversation or a meeting? It may at least break the ice before you meet face to face. I wish you a peaceful result, whatever transpires.
so not having turned in a time-slip in a loooooooong time and making fewer and fewer meetings, and from time to time attending a local church service... the majority of local dubs are overtly shunning me.
there are those who i talk to and who visit our home from time to time, but this last meeting i went to hardly anyone made eye contact, when i greeted folks passing by me, they ignored me.
it actually felt good.. i was surprised at my reaction.
Isn't it a weird paradox that we may actually appreciate being shunned/ignored in the J.W. world, but in our normal day to day life we'd be disturbed at such treatment by so-called friends/relatives?