But is it the case that 1950s and 1960s Watchtower magazines were dropped in the 2004 CD?
Goodbye 1960's WT & Awakes on 2004 WT CD-ROM
by ithinkisee 20 Replies latest watchtower bible
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EvilForce
Watchtower / Awake 2014
Nineteen Seventy What?
Ban on blood transfusions? No that was apostates trying to demonize Jehoba.
1914 was the start of the 70 years of destruction so the end started 1984 - 30 years deep into the end
Malawai? Malarky!
New CD's from Society come with web blocking software (filters out www.silentlambs.com, jwd.com, ewatchman.com, etc)
4 million Jehoba's Witnesses Can't be Wrong - Worldwide work still increasing 5% a year -
Midget-Sasquatch
But is it the case that 1950s and 1960s Watchtower magazines were dropped in the 2004 CD?
They're still on it. And the cd even has some coloured maps now.
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ithinkisee
I think you'll find that although the Awakes only go back to 1970 the Watchtowers still go back to 1950.
Sorry, I jumped to early conclusions, Nic was right ... the 50's 60's Watchtowers are still on there. Sorry for causing a ruckus. I'll crawl back into my hole now ... -ithinkisee
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ozziepost
ozzie: What was that that George Orwell wrote about removing history?
You'll have to go to the library and read 1984 and Animal Farm. So many parallels to the Borg.
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jgnat
You got me looking for online Orwell stuff. Here's what I read this morning. Sound familiar?
Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style. The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestoes, White Papers and the speeches of under-secretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech. When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases?bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder?one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker?s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance towards turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity.
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/politics-english-language2.htm
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jgnat
Some more. Replace Communist with Jehovah's Witness and see how it reads:
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. Although the point of emphasis may vary, the writer who refuses to sell his opinions is always branded as a mere egoist. He is accused, that is, of either wanting to shut himself up in an ivory tower, or of making an exhibitionist display of his own personality, or of resisting the inevitable current of history in an attempt to cling to unjustified privilege. The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. Each of them tacitly claims that ?the truth? has already been revealed, and that the heretic, if he is not simply a fool, is secretly aware of ?the truth? and merely resists it out of selfish motives. In Communist literature the attack on intellectual liberty is usually masked by oratory about ?petty-bourgeois individualism?, ?the illusions of nineteenth-century liberalism?, etc., and backed up by words of abuse such as ?romantic? and ?sentimental?, which, since they do not have any agreed meaning, are difficult to answer. In this way the controversy is maneuvered away from its real issue. One can accept, and most enlightened people would accept, the Communist thesis that pure freedom will only exist in a classless society, and that one is most nearly free when one is working to bring such a society about. But slipped in with this is the quite unfounded claim that the Communist Party is itself aiming at the establishment of the classless society, and that in the U.S.S.R. this aim is actually on the way to being realized. If the first claim is allowed to entail the second, there is almost no assault on common sense and common decency that cannot be justified. But meanwhile, the real point has been dodged. Freedom of the intellect means the freedom to report what one has seen, heard, and felt, and not to be obliged to fabricate imaginary facts and feelings. The familiar tirades against ?escapism? and ?individualism?, ?romanticism?, and so forth, are merely a forensic device, the aim of which is to make the perversion of history seem respectable.
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/prevention-of-lit1.htm
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FairMind
I think it is because of the article about women's brains being smaller than men's and the 1968 Awake on 1975.
Blondie, I would find it hard to believe your brain is smaller than any mans.
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robhic
That, plus their legal department shutting down the Quotes internet site yesterday (see other thread),
Say what?! What other thread? I can't find anything about the site closing. Please give more details. This is sad.
Robert
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Fatfreek
Sorry for not providing the link in the first place. The one below is not the original but it'll give you what's happening now, like a forth-coming press release we can all take part in if we wish. You'll see there is a mirror site going but it is not as complete.