Need a Bible? There's an App for that on iPad!

by WingCommander 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  WingCommander

  That's right! No more having to lug around some either a.) minature or b.) gigantically big Bible to church, Kingdom Hall, circuit assembly or district convention.

  Imagine, if you will..........

  You go to your Circuit Assembly, you're dressed in your suit. Instead of carrying one of those "Elder" briefcases (you all know what I mean!!!) you instead have one of those modern, 1" thick shiny aluminum briefcases. You sit down at the end of a row, and the only thing people see when you flick it open is the new Song Book and a slim leather folder. After the first song and opening prayer, you sit down and when everyone else whips out their bibles, you whip out your new 64GB iPad Wifi+3G. Then, you proceed to click on the "Bible App" and up flies the bible, for you to find scriptures in an instant, and to also zoom into and read as you please.

  Can you imagine the stares? Imagine this is Sunday, and the WT study? No problem. You've downloaded the WT magazine straight from the official WT website, and highlighted it with some iPad app that can highlight PDF documents.

  The lunch break? You can retrieve your Subway sub from the cooler of your car, return to the dining room, and plop down and browse photos of your trip to some foreign land, or better yet - look up JW stuff on the internet!! You'd be the most popular young adult in the whole place.

  What the hell are they gonna say to you? I'm seriously thinking of doing this, and I think it would be especially hysterical during the talk about the dangers and temptations that Satan uses in the form of "technology." I mean, the irony would be hysterical.

  Too bad there's not an App to magically wake everyone else up in the auditorium of mindless stupidity. Yeah, we need an App for that.

  - Wing Commander
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  undercover

  It is the wave of the future. Kids in college are given laptops and they lug them around instead of a satchel fool of textbooks.

  Now that the ipad is out it's even better for reading/viewing than a smart phone. Imagine going to the hall with your entire WT library loaded on the ipad. So when someone references the 1978 WT you can look it up right there. And you can point out to your seat neighbor, "Hey, they misquoted it..."

  Imagine seeing everyone holding up an ipad or Kindle when singing the song instead of the WT songbook...

  Of course, the WTS will have fits. They'll counsel everyone to not use these technological marvels as they are not provisions through the F&DS.
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  WingCommander

  ^^^^^ Undercover, you got that right - it IS the wave of the future, and instead of embracing it the Governing Body is making themselves look like fools!! I don't have an iPhone, or even a cell phone, and haven't in 4 years. Haven't missed it. With the isip and iwhistle app, I can make phone calls from my iPad, the very few I have to make. It is much more of a date planner, organizer, photo editor (photogene app is incredible) and everything else I need. Going to the grocery store? There's a grocery list app for that. GPS is and info at the touch of a button.

  I have a pro digital camera, so again I couldn't care less about iPhone.

  These buffons are clueless idiots. They have got be hemmorraging young people out of every orifice. Their only hope is the undeducated, poor, 3rd world countries who are dumb enough to fall for their pack of lies.

  - Wing Commander
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  thetrueone

  The inside to this new technology is Commercialized religions like the WTS/JWS could actually make software such as their NWTB

  into an App. for these devises and sell them to the public saving a huge amount of money.

  If the marketing gurus of the WTS. realized the potential of these new electronic devises they could bring in

  some easy money.
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  WingCommander

  Yeah, I thought of that as well. Imagine Brother Dufos Elder coming up to me after the meeting, and asking why I have an iPad instead of the Bible and the WT Magazine in my hand.

  My clever response? "Well, Brother Dufos think of the MONEY I am saving the Organization by them not having to print out the magazine for me! I just download the WatchTower from THEIR official WT website and I can highlight my WT with this app right here....."

  What the hell is he gonna say? What a way to shoot them down with their own ignorance and buffonery. Idiots!!

  And I agree, if they would make EVERY PUBLICATION downloadable, they'd have to print less and less, saving them TONS of freakin $$$$!!! They appear to be clueless though.

  I remember reading on here some older articles that were thoroughly bashing TV, like in the 40, 50's, etc. It was from SATAN!! Imagine my surprise in 1996 when the CO's monthly allowance increase came up to vote and one of the reasons he needed more was because his CABLE TV bill had increased. This was during the service meeting and my mother and I were fit to be tied!! We NEVER had cable our whole lives, but the CO could! My mother bought a standard cable package the next week in defiance. Fuggin' hypocrites!!!!

  - Wing Commander