Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY (page 2)

therevealer

http://www.wol.org/

try this instead. not much different.

therevealer

should have added a haha. I was not trying to get traffic for that site.

@diamondiiz: No, my friend, I don't have any proof the WTS is altering or revising documents for its online library. I was speculating more than anything else about the library's content. But given how the WTS has certainly done this with respect to both The Watchtower and Awake!, it would come as no surprise if it did likewise with other materials. It would all be part of the same pattern that has already been established.

But it would be better to present incontrovertible proof of this rather than speculation. I don't have access to what little WTS literature and materials I owned nowadays but maybe one of our friends on this board would be willing to do a cross-check and analysis. We did have a thread a while back in which someone showed a change between the text of an Awake! bound volume and the Watchtower Library CD version of that same magazine. I'll see if I can't find it.

I would be very surprised if older material was added to the online library. This organization has a shameful history and I believe the Governing Body is doing everything in its power to conceal it. Publications have gone out of print and in some cases the hard copies are very difficult to secure. Witnesses are actively discouraged from reading the writings of Russell and Rutherford as well as anything written in the first years of Knorr's presidency.

Transparency is anathema to this organization. I agree with the thought that the real purpose behind producing this online library is to stop producing the Watchtower Library CD with its abundance of twentieth century material and force Witnesses to rely exclusively on the online library for any research needs. The carefully selected and edited material that will be made available there will better suit the WTS's purpose to keep the door to its past shut and locked as it would seem that only twenty-first century publications will be made available.

I hope that the more thoughtful among the rank-and-file can see through this charade of openness the WTS is playing. In the last days of the Soviet Union, glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) were the buzz words used to signify that true reform was coming to that country to save it from disintegration. The USSR imploded anyway despite all the effort expended to save it. Well, the WTS needs both glasnost and perestroika also, but I don't think its leaders will adopt either until it is too late.

Quendi

wallsofjericho

Could it be the WBT$ can no longer afford the CDs?

YES! that's it!! this will mean the death of the WTL on CD. They may produce a "limited supply for those unable to access the internet but these will be made available by special request by the COBOE"

Good call Fernando

I don't doubt for an instant the WTL on CD for general distribution will go the way of the dodo with 2 years

Balaamsass

NUU NUU NUU light. When I was a kid I grabed the Studies in the scriptures off my mothers "display" bookcase and began reading them. A few days later my mother saw me reading them and the look on her face was priceless..she looked like I was reading porn, as she grabed them out of my hands and scolded me for reading that "old light crap" ! LOL

Greybeard

WOW,

Here is one of my favorite articles in the last 10 years out of the WT: http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2006127?q=fool&p=par

I am glad it is online now!

"What, then, did the expression “despicable fool ” signify? The word used here sounded similar to a Hebrew term that means “rebellious,” or “mutinous.” It designates a person as morally worthless, an apostate and a rebel against God. So the person addressing his fellow as a “despicable fool ” is as much as saying that his brother should receive a punishment fit for a rebel against God, everlasting destruction. From God’s standpoint, the one uttering such a condemnation against another could merit that severe sentence—everlasting destruction—himself.—Deuteronomy 19:17-19."

Notice that calling someone a "despicable fool" is equated to calling them an "apostate"!

" In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ warned his followers: “I say to you that everyone who continues wrathful with his brother will be accountable to the court of justice; but whoever addresses his brother with an unspeakable word of contempt will be accountable to the Supreme Court; whereas whoever says, ‘You despicable fool !’ will be liable to the fiery Gehenna.”—Matthew 5:22."

Open mind

Marking for later.

Thanks to TheTruthBR.

om

sir82

Actually, it does make the annual update to the WT-CD obsolete. It was pretty silly to issue a whole new CD every year when 99% of the contents were unchanged from the year before.

From a cost-cutting standpoint it makes perfect sense. Now they can produce just a single WT-CD for information prior to 2000 and just update the online site annually. Much cheaper (not that producing new CDs was all that expensive to begin with).

Of course, as 2000 recedes into the distance, the "WT-CD for years prior to 2000" will eventually go "out of print".

sd-7

"Un-believable." I found out about this from my wife showing my mom, before I even knew this thread was here... Interesting. It does make a nice way to erase the past, but I don't think that's 100% necessary anyway. If they really felt a need to do that to a serious degree, then they would never have bothered to create the Watchtower Library CD-ROM to begin with, because they would've had to do a heck of a lot of erasing. The main stuff JWs care about--JHVH's name, sovereignty, the organization, how awesome JWs are compared to those "Christians"--all of that is still going to be there, so...almost no one will notice anyway.

But...this is cool, in its own way. In the long run, maybe I can delete the CD-ROMs off my computer altogether and eliminate a few hundred MB of clutter off my hard drive. Also, it's easy to mine for quotes, and the last couple of years have so many classic moments, so...this is literally hours and hours of fun. I'll be up all night drawing close to Jehovah...and no doubt this will help many Christian youths in their struggle to flee from Internet pornography.

Said Andre, a Christian youth who struggled for years with the habit of viewing pornography: "Using the Watchtower Online Library really helped me to focus my thoughts on spiritual things whenever I was tempted. I added it to my Favorites folder, and I read from it daily to keep my mind fortified to resist the lure of pornography." He also sought the help of congregation elders to adjust his viewpoint. If you are struggling with some bad habit, can you make use of Jehovah's fine provisions as Andre did? Such a wise course will greatly help you in your struggle.

--sd-7

00DAD

Here is a copy of the June 18th, 2012 Letter to All Congregations regarding the WT Online Library.

Notice the vague and weasely, "the electronic text may contain grammatical or technical adjustments from what appears in print" in the second paragraph.

Hmmmm, why might THAT be?

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

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