I'm glad Barbara jumped shipped before all the torpedos hit... she left with her reputation intact...
What will happen when JWActivists goes back online?
by okage 25 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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Calebs Airplane
sorry... ship
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NoRegrets
I think this observation is spot-on and I do believe Wha Happened makes a great point that the way this has all transpired is so in the stylings of Watchtower operations!
I was never interested or tempted to sign up for the infamous group because I think it was trying to corral us all into a narrow group that would attempt to be TOO organized. One of the greatest joys of being an ex-JW is having the freedom and power to disagree, to do your own thing. And that freedom is severely limited if not absent with "the group I don't want to even type the name of anymore".
The other problem I had from the very start was the idea of it being ran by someone hiding behind a pseudonym. I wondered from the start how that couldn't diminish the effectiveness of the group somehow. I by no means intend to offend current faders. I just think a person in a legitimate position of leadership in any anti-Watchtower effort needs to have truly walked in the shoes of everybody! (Especially those of us who have paid the highest price by losing all of our friends and family due to our courageous stance to no longer live a lie!)
Anyway, this post is probably a very accurate prophecy of what will unfold when the site goes back up! That means Okage already has one correct prophecy under his belt which is one more than the Watchtower has had in 140 years!
Happy Meeting Free Sunday!!!!
No Regrets
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wha happened?
My question has always been, why appoint a person who is unwilling to put his face and reputation on the line as President, but expect it of others? Couldn't someone else be the face of that organization while still including his involvement? Instead, we get a cartoon character, reminiscent of Sparlock, and a request for funds with an ambiguious plan.
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Las Malvinas son Argentinas
They might be implementing a group forum discussion feature similar to JWN in order to facilitate their remaining band of supporters and defenders who suddenly feel alienated from this site. That would explain the long time down for maintenance. It also is circumstancial evidence that perhaps the donations and volunteer applications have dried up somewhat where shutting the site down for a couple of days wouldn't have too much of an adverse effect. They also have a new Vice President to appoint.
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HintOfLime
There is rarely a reason to take a website down for 48 hours for maintenance - most websites perform changes in a development environment and then upgrade the site within a span of about an hour late at night.
Either the whole website is being handed over to someone else and they don't want it running until they are ready, or they are doing massive changes (re-theming, moving to a different software suite, etc.) and didn't want the old site online at all.
Knowing the AAWA, however... the site is probably down for something really dumb. They may have simply moved to another hosting provider, and someone took the 48-hour max DNS propogation time as something they needed to take the site down and wait for. When it returns it'll be exactly the same. :P
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okage
You're probably correct, Lime, but I find it weird that when I posted this, it said there was a day and a half left until it went up again. Though here it is, two and a half days later, and it says 18+ hours until they go back up.
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The Quiet One
I'm told 5 hours till back online, if that helps..
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The Quiet One
"Sorry for the inconvenience. Our website is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance and security upgrades. Please try back in 4 Hours 48 Minutes 15 Seconds April 23, 2013" http://jwactivists.org/