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Tribunal hears Satan was using people in a “spiritual battle” within an Arbroath Christian group

Tribunal hears Satan was using people in a “spiritual battle” within an Arbroath Christian group
by Rob McLaren
May 12 2018, 8.10am
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Wilma Swankie was dismissed from her role as centre manager of Arbroath Town Mission last year.

Satan was using people in a “spiritual battle” within a Christian group based in Arbroath, an employment tribunal has heard.

The extraordinary minutes from a board meeting of the Arbroath Town Mission emerged as its former centre manager and town citizen of the year Wilma Swankie took legal action over her dismissal last year.

Mrs Swankie, 79, who had been employed by the organisation since 1987, brought the action on the basis of the Protected Disclosures Act.

The legislation encourages people to report serious wrongdoing in their workplace by providing protection for whistleblowing employees.

The tribunal, being held in Dundee in front of employment judge Ian McFatridge, heard Mrs Swankie had raised concerns with Scottish charity regulator, OSCR over the Town Mission’s constitution.

She had been a vocal opponent of it being a requirement that Town Mission members belonged to a church, despite this position being confirmed in a board vote.

OSCR did not uphold Mrs Swankie’s complaint and she was subsequently dismissed from her £20,000 a year job as centre manager.

Mrs Swankie, who was named Arbroath’s Citizen of the Year in 2015, is proceeding with the legal action on the basis that she was fired for going to the charity regulator.

Her solicitor Nick Whelan quizzed the centre’s current manager, Moira Milton, about the minutes of the board meeting she attended on March 21 last year, prior to disciplinary proceedings starting.
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https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/new...al-battle-within-an-arbroath-christian-group/
 
After reading that, I wondered where the Satan nonsense came into it.
 
Monstrosa said:
Did you read the actual article? It was brought up in that.
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Yes, I did. Satan was all in their imaginations! It's easy to denounce someone who disagrees with you, by saying 'she's working for Satan - sack her'.
 
Well, quite, the correct form is Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
 
AlchoPwn said:
I bet you are just "dying" of anticipation for the royal wedding, huh? :hoff:
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To be honest, I only really zoomed in on the fact that it's imminent this weekend when I logged on and found that CNN had a whole section with daily updates devoted to it!

That said, I do enjoy the pageantry and in this hard and cynical world I'm perfectly happy to wish them well and enjoy the spectacle. Prince Harry is transparently a good egg and his wife is going to need all the luck in the world to run the gauntlet of the British media and come out on top.
 
The story's not as interesting as the headline

Residents lose battle to keep Knockin shop open
Georgia Macey
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PB019-2018-2The Knockin Shop, KnockinShirely McDermott who has started a petition to save the Knockin post officepictured l-r Gareth Lovell , Vanessa Keay , Campbell Keay (Chairman of Knockin Parish Council) Sandy Norton (Shop Owner) Daphne Lovell , Shirl


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Residents of Knockin have lost a battle to keep the towns' shop.

The Knockin Shop will be closing on Thursday (May 17).

Shirely McDermott, a Knockin resident, launched a petition a few months ago against the possibility of losing the post office which is in the shop.

Shirely said it is "such a shame" that it will be closing. She added: "It's all a bit too much. I know a lady who lives in the village and she's nearly 102-years-old, she said 'there's always been a shop in Knockin!'

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http://www.bordercountiesadvertizer...idents-lose-battle-to-keep-knockin-shop-open/
 
Yithian said:
That said, I do enjoy the pageantry and in this hard and cynical world I'm perfectly happy to wish them well and enjoy the spectacle. Prince Harry is transparently a good egg and his wife is going to need all the luck in the world to run the gauntlet of the British media and come out on top.
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I too don't wish the kids any ill, but I have little time for monarchy. I view the media as the necessary punishment for privilege.
 
Headline from my local paper: "Westlake businessman killed by deputy told cops he was being chased by three witches"

it's also a strange death, a successful businessman with no apparent history of issues crashed his car on the highway, attacked good samaritans who stopped to help him, wasn't stopped by multiple stun gun shots, gets shot in the chest with a policeman's gun, and tries to get up from that before the policeman repeatedly kicks him back down. He died later at a hospital

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/05/westlake_businessman_killed_by.html
 
kamalktk said:
Headline from my local paper: "Westlake businessman killed by deputy told cops he was being chased by three witches" it's also a strange death, a successful businessman with no apparent history of issues crashed his car on the highway, attacked good samaritans who stopped to help him, wasn't stopped by multiple stun gun shots, gets shot in the chest with a policeman's gun, and tries to get up from that before the policeman repeatedly kicks him back down. He died later at a hospital https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/05/westlake_businessman_killed_by.html
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Actually this takes on a new dimension of unusual. Most people are unaware of the fact that tasers (stun guns) were designed specifically with the intention of stopping people who had overdosed on PCP, where firearms had repeatedly failed, with often lethal consequences to both the overdose victim and police. Shrugging off a taser is extremely unusual unless none of the shots actually connected properly, but the notion of multiple shots, suggests that they hit and did very little. Now, was Brett Luengo wearing a carbon fibre suit? That will stop a taser. I also suggest that perhaps a person whose brain was experiencing a powerful episode of epilepsy might be unaffected by further electrical stimulation, though such people are normally on the ground already. I wonder what the poor guy's autopsy said?
 
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This is what I am getting dear
 
Shady said:
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This is what I am getting dear
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The fortean part, or amusing part I guess.
"A Council Bluffs man who has pleaded guilty to operating while intoxicated after police said they found him next to his upside-down car will be sentenced in July.

Benjamin Beer, 21, was arrested March 16 about a month before his birthday."
 
The Fortean headline we've all been waiting for
Doncaster psychic evening cancelled due to 'unforeseen circumstances'

Clairvoyant and psychic Andrew Beasley.
DARREN BURKE Email Published: 14:44 Wednesday 11 July 2018

A psychic evening due to be held in Doncaster later this month has been cancelled due to 'unforeseen circumstances.' Medium and clairvoyant Andrew Beasley was due to host the event at Arksey's Old School Tea Rooms on July 21 - but the event has been shelved. A spokesman for The Old School Tea Rooms said on Facebook: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Andrew Beasley evening is unfortunately cancelled.
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Read more at: https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.u...led-due-to-unforeseen-circumstances-1-9246474
 
a) this bloke lives up the road from me
b) as a piece of incisive journalism, this is the Bristol Post at its glorious best


Former porn star and election candidate Johnny Rockard fundraising to pay for a 6ft penis-shaped coffin for his funeral

A former porn star turned politician and activist has launched a fundraising appeal to pay for a coffin in the shape of a penis for his funeral.

And not only will Johnny Rockard’s final journey be undertaken in a penis-shaped coffin, but it will also be on wheels and be remote-controlled - because he admits no one is going to want to be a pallbearer ‘carrying a 6ft long c***’
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..and he wants it to be hydraulic so it will rise up during the service, as it were. So far, so good. But here the narrative becomes fabulous:
John Langley, better known in the world of internet porn as Johnny Rockard, has announced this week he has a terminal lung condition and has months, maybe years to live...“I have been diagnosed with a chronic lung condition which means my demise could be imminent at any time - not that I’m expecting it, of course, it will be quite some way off."
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..eh? and better yet..
“I decided that when I go that I want to have a fitting ceremony to the life I’ve led. I need realistically to raise £5,000 so that I can have a bespoke penis shaped coffin and the reason for this is that I figured out I should leave the way I came in. I will be encased in a 6ft-long penis. The back end of it will be like a pair of balls and under the ball casing will be two wheels and one wheel here at the front,” he added.
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Is that really how he came into the world? Strewth.
 
stuneville said:
a) this bloke lives up the road from me
b) as a piece of incisive journalism, this is the Bristol Post at its glorious best


Former porn star and election candidate Johnny Rockard fundraising to pay for a 6ft penis-shaped coffin for his funeral



..and he wants it to be hydraulic so it will rise up during the service, as it were. So far, so good. But here the narrative becomes fabulous:

..eh? and better yet..

Is that really how he came into the world? Strewth.
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I dread to think what the grave is going to look like.
 
Or the headstone! Begging for grafitti. But what would be appropriate without looking superfluous?
 
I shall report progress. Might not be for a while yet though - as he said himself, he's been diagnosed with a chronic lung condition which means his demise could be imminent at any time, not that he's expecting it, of course, it will be quite some way off.

So that clears that up.
 
Pornstar?

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Not a Coronation Street extra?
 
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