Elvis Presley - Return To Sender [Video]
Thank you for reminding us all - lest we forget....
The music of Eviis Presley was, of course, completely BANNED in Russia in the past.
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Chairman of the St Petersburg-based Administrative Centre of JWs issues press release - Forum 18
by OrphanCrow inaccording to the latest forum 18 article, this is what happened in russia on march 15:.
http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2265.
with immediate effect, a 15 march suspension order forbids the administrative centre and all its local religious organisations from "using state and municipal news media, organising and conducting assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, processions, picketing, and other mass actions or public events, and using bank deposits, with the exception of use for making payments connected with their economic activity, compensating for losses (damages) caused by their actions, and paying taxes, fees, or fines, and making payments based on labour contracts" .
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NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'
by darkspilver inhaha!
yes folks!
it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.
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ZAPPA-ESQUE: pic snipped
Really? You think the publishers are having so much (spiritual) food now in the new format CLAM meeting they are getting spiritually fat on it??
I'm sorry you feel like that - I believe the point most of us are making is actually the opposite (and that's even if we don't believe in WT spirituality) - There's way less 'spiritual' food at the meetings now, and its mostly sweet/sugar stuff rather than actual meat like breaded chicken thighs and wings in your picture)
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NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'
by darkspilver inhaha!
yes folks!
it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.
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Will this be distributed at the KH?
I don't believe WT will be printing these new 'Reference CLAM' sheets because of the page size they are:
Magazine size is 7.00 x 9.00 inches (WT/A mags, brochures, workbook etc)
These new 'Reference' sheet are 8.27 x 11.69 inches (ie A4)
I suspect there will be a brief letter to all congreagtions to be read announcing this new provision - with an elders only PS at the end telling them to print out copies for any that don't have access to a computer/printer.
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NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'
by darkspilver inhaha!
yes folks!
it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.
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I think if they allow people to look the scriptures electronically, why not.
I don't think the scriptures (and looking them up) is the issue here - any non-tablet owning publisher with a hard copy bible should be able to relatively easily look them up.
No, IMHO the issue for the non-table owning publishers is the 'problem' / 'difficulty' of looking up the other references in the back issues of the Watchtower and the Insight books etc.
I can imagine those publishers just 'giving up' and just relying on hearing the answers from the tablet-owning publishers.
It's a catch-22 - the meeting has been dumbed down to a 'painting-by-numbers' exercise with none of your 'own' research, everything is listed, point-by-point.
Because JW Library on the tablets is actually 'so-good' in having it all available at your fingertips it has divided congregations into the haves and the have-nots of tablet owning - this is the GB trying to re-address the balance.
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NEW PUBLICATION!..... 'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'
by darkspilver inhaha!
yes folks!
it's an eight page printout from the cd-rom of the scriptures and wt reference for use during the midweek clam meeting.. 'references for life and ministry meeting workbook'.
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haha! Yes folks! Really!
It's an eight page printout from the CD-ROM of the scriptures and WT reference for use during the midweek CLAM meeting.
'References for Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook'
Has a backlash from 'non-tablet' users forced the GB's hand? - thought this kinda thing was discouraged??
Direct link for PDF: https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_mwb/76/mwbr_E_201706.pdf
But will the GB do the same for the Study WT?.... if not, why not?
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The Latest Trend in NW England: Homeschooling Your Children
by pale.emperor ini dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.
but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.
in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.
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BTTT. What employer would want. Home Schooled person as an employee, what have they as social skills that would help them contribute and fit in.
It's needs to be done properly - and it's expensive to do!
As previously discussed here:
Home Schooling is trendy - was featured last year in a big article in the glossy Sunday Times magazine - Sunday 24 July 2016 print edition - click here
https://www.enjoyeducation.co.uk
http://www.educationotherwise.org
http://www.williamclarence.com
Also The Times newspaper - Friday 3 February 2017 - Page 11
Press play if you’re too cool for school
From Ryan Gosling to JRR Tolkien via Beatrix Potter....
An investigation by The Times last year found that home-schooling had soared in the past five years, fuelled by parents missing out on places at the best schools or shunning their culture of excessive testing.
Figures obtained through freedom of information requests showed a 45 per cent increase in home-education in five years, with almost 33,000 children now taught at home.
Experts said that this could be the tip of the iceberg because the actual number was unknown. Not one local authority of 80 that responded could say exactly how many home-schooled children were in their area.
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Shocking JW murders - now they want jail time reduced!
by darkspilver insunday 6 april 1997 - 20th anniversary - thursday 6 april 2017. the greeneville sun, 25 march 2017.
2 defendants in lillelid murders want sentence reduced.
all are now adults and serving prison sentences of life without the possibility of parole.
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Sunday 6 April 1997 - 20th Anniversary - Thursday 6 April 2017
The Greeneville Sun, 25 March 2017
2 Defendants In Lillelid Murders Want Sentence Reduced
All are now adults and serving prison sentences of life without the possibility of parole. Two of those defendants spoke out this week about the events leading up to the deaths of three members of the Lillelid family, and permanent injuries suffered by the survivor, who was 2 years old when he was shot.
The shootings of four members of the Lillelid family in 1997 drew worldwide attention. Developments involving the six young case defendants from Eastern Kentucky played out on a national stage.
April 6 marks the 20th anniversary of the Lillelid murders, considered by many among the most horrific crimes ever committed in Greene County. -
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The Latest Trend in NW England: Homeschooling Your Children
by pale.emperor ini dont know if this is becoming a national thing or even globally.
but im hearing more and more people i knew from my jw days have taken their kids out of school to home school them instead.
in my sisters case she's taken her 8yo and 6yo children out already and her 3yo wont ever start a school.
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I heard yesterday that two families from my old congregation have taken their kids out of school too.
Ah, the 'wacky warehouses'!
Maybe the 'schools' are leaving the children instead - they only atttempt to teach up to 16 year-olds anyway!
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/29/knowsley-education-catastrophe-a-levels-merseyside
The making of an education catastrophe – schools in Knowsley were dubbed 'wacky warehouses'
The Merseyside (Liverpool) borough is at the top and bottom of every league table whose top or bottom you would be anxious to avoid. Last year it became the first British local authority to stop offering A-levels. (ie 17 and 18 year-olds)
In some households, unemployment has become trans-generational: children are growing up in families where the parents, the grandparents and even, sometimes, the great-grandparents have not worked.
Ethnically, meanwhile, Knowsley is the least diverse corner of Britain. According to the census, around 97% of its population are white. In other words, it is the most white working-class place in the country.
It is also the area where the greatest proportion of people – some 81% – describe themselves as Christian.
More than 15% of the working-age population of Knowsley have no educational qualifications, compared with a national average of 8%.
And there is worse: in September, Knowsley became the first local authority in the country to cease to offer its young people A-level education. None whatsoever.
Seriously - take the time to read the full Guardian article from January 2017:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/29/knowsley-education-catastrophe-a-levels-merseyside
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Chairman of the St Petersburg-based Administrative Centre of JWs issues press release - Forum 18
by OrphanCrow inaccording to the latest forum 18 article, this is what happened in russia on march 15:.
http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2265.
with immediate effect, a 15 march suspension order forbids the administrative centre and all its local religious organisations from "using state and municipal news media, organising and conducting assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, processions, picketing, and other mass actions or public events, and using bank deposits, with the exception of use for making payments connected with their economic activity, compensating for losses (damages) caused by their actions, and paying taxes, fees, or fines, and making payments based on labour contracts" .
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*** w11 10/1 p. 14 “Defiance That Commands Respect” ***
Did Hitler receive letters of protest from church officials concerning the outrages perpetrated by the National Socialists, or Nazis?Thanks for highlighting the German letters
There's also Greece et al
Proclaimers Book, pages 694 to 695
Global Publicity Brings Some Relief
Other governments too have dealt harshly with Jehovah’s Witnesses, prohibiting their meetings and public preaching. In some cases these governments have caused the Witnesses to be forced out of secular employment and their children to be barred from the schools. A number of governments have also resorted to physical brutality. Yet, these same lands usually have constitutions that guarantee religious freedom. With a view to bringing relief to their persecuted brothers, the Watch Tower Society has frequently given worldwide publicity to details concerning such treatment. This is done by means of the Watchtower and Awake! magazines, and these reports are at times taken up by the public press. Many thousands of letters making appeals in behalf of the Witnesses then flood into the offices of government officials from all over the world.
As a result of such a campaign in 1937, the governor of Georgia, in the United States, received some 7,000 letters from four countries within a two-day period, and the mayor of La Grange, Georgia, was also deluged with thousands of letters. Such campaigns were likewise conducted in behalf of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Argentina in 1978 and 1979, Benin in 1976, Burundi in 1989, Cameroon in 1970, the Dominican Republic in 1950 and 1957, Ethiopia in 1957, Gabon in 1971, Greece in 1963 and 1966, Jordan in 1959, Malawi in 1968, 1972, 1975, and again in 1976, Malaya in 1952, Mozambique in 1976, Portugal in 1964 and 1966, Singapore in 1972, Spain in 1961 and again in 1962, also Swaziland in 1983.
As a recent example of what is done by Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide to bring relief to their oppressed brothers, consider the situation in Greece. Because of the intensity of persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses at the instigation of the Greek Orthodox clergy there, in 1986 both the Watchtower and Awake! magazines (with combined international circulation of over 22,000,000 copies) reported details of the persecution. Witnesses in other lands were invited to write to officials of the Greek government in behalf of their brothers. They did; and as reported in the Athens newspaper Vradyni, the minister of justice was deluged with over 200,000 letters from upwards of 200 lands and in 106 languages.
The following year, when a case involving the Witnesses was heard in the appeals court in Hania, Crete, representatives of Jehovah’s Witnesses were present from seven other lands (England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United States) as parties in the case and in support of their Christian brothers. Then, following an adverse decision in 1988 in the Supreme Court of Greece in yet another case involving the Witnesses, appeal was made to the European Commission of Human Rights. There, on December 7, 1990, 16 jurists from almost all parts of Europe were presented with a file of 2,000 arrests and hundreds of court cases in which Jehovah’s Witnesses in Greece had been sentenced because they spoke about the Bible. (Actually, there were 19,147 of such arrests in Greece from 1938 to 1992.) The Commission unanimously decided that the case should be heard by the European Court of Human Rights.
Proclaimers Book, pages 315 to 317
In the Face of Vicious Persecution
The apostle Paul compared the Christian congregation to the human body and said: “Its members should have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the other members suffer with it.” (1 Cor. 12:25, 26) That is how Jehovah’s Witnesses react when they hear reports about the persecution of their Christian brothers.
In Germany during the Nazi era, the government took harsh repressive measures against Jehovah’s Witnesses. There were only some 20,000 Witnesses in Germany at the time, a relatively small band despised by Hitler. United action was needed. On October 7, 1934, every congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout Germany met secretly, prayed together, and sent a letter to the government stating their determination to continue to serve Jehovah. Then many of those in attendance fearlessly went out to witness to their neighbors about Jehovah’s name and Kingdom. On the same day, Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the rest of the earth also met in their congregations and, after united prayer, sent cablegrams to the Hitler government in support of their Christian brothers.
In 1948, after the clergy-inspired persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Greece was laid bare, the president of Greece and various ministers of government received thousands of letters from Jehovah’s Witnesses in behalf of their Christian brothers. These came from the Philippines, Australia, North and South America, and other areas.
When Awake! magazine exposed the inquisitional methods being employed against the Witnesses in Spain in 1961, letters of protest deluged the authorities there. Officials were shocked to find that people around the world knew exactly what they were doing, and as a result, even though the persecution continued, some of the police began to deal with the Witnesses with greater restraint. In various African lands too, officials have heard from Witnesses in many other parts of the world when they learned of cruel treatment being meted out to their Christian brothers and sisters there.
If no favorable response is forthcoming from the government, the persecuted Witnesses are not forgotten. Because of persisting in religious persecution for many years, some governments have repeatedly been deluged with letters of appeal and protest. That was true of Argentina. On one occasion in 1959, the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cults took one of our brothers to a room where there were several bookcases filled with letters that had poured in from all over the world. He was amazed that someone as far away as Fiji would write appealing for freedom of worship in Argentina.
In certain instances increased freedom has been granted when rulers realized that people worldwide knew what they were doing and that there were many who really cared. That was true in Liberia in 1963. Outrageous treatment had been meted out by government soldiers to convention delegates at Gbarnga. The president of Liberia was deluged with letters of protest from around the world, and the U.S. State Department intervened because a U.S. citizen was involved. Finally, President Tubman wired the Watch Tower Society’s headquarters expressing willingness to receive a delegation of Jehovah’s Witnesses to discuss matters. Two of the delegates—Milton Henschel and John Charuk—had been at Gbarnga. Mr. Tubman acknowledged that what had occurred was “an outrage” and said: “I am sorry this thing happened.”
Following that interview, an Executive Order was issued notifying “all people throughout the country, that Jehovah’s Witnesses shall have the right and privilege of free access to any part of the country to carry on their missionary work and religious worship without molestation from anyone. They shall have the protection of the law both of their person and their property and the right to freely worship God according to the dictates of their consciences, observing in the meantime the laws of the Republic by showing respect to the national flag when it is being hoisted or lowered at ceremonies by standing at attention.” But it was not required that they salute, in violation of their Christian conscience.
However, as of 1992, no such official pronouncement had yet been forthcoming in Malawi, though violence against the Witnesses there had subsided to a considerable extent. Jehovah’s Witnesses there have been the victims of some of the most vicious religious persecution in African history. One wave of such persecution swept the country in 1967; another began early in the 1970’s. Tens of thousands of letters were written in their behalf from all parts of the world. Phone calls were made. Cablegrams were sent. On humanitarian grounds many prominent people of the world were moved to speak out.
So extreme was the brutality that some 19,000 of Jehovah’s Witnesses and their children fled across the border to Zambia in 1972. The nearby Witness congregations in Zambia quickly gathered food and blankets for their brothers. Money and supplies donated by Jehovah’s Witnesses all over the world poured into Watch Tower branch offices and were channeled to the refugees by the headquarters office in New York. More than enough came in to care for all the needs of the refugees in the camp at Sinda Misale. As news spread through the camp of the arrival of trucks bearing food, clothing, and tarpaulins to provide covering, the Malawian brothers could not help giving way to tears of joy because of this evidence of the love of their Christian brothers.
When any of their number are held in detention, fellow Witnesses do not forsake them, not even when personal risk is involved. During the ban in Argentina, when a group of Witnesses were detained for 45 hours, four other Witnesses brought food and clothing for them, only to be imprisoned themselves. In 1989 the wife of a circuit overseer in Burundi, upon learning of the plight of her Christian brothers, tried to take food to the prison for them. But she herself was arrested and held hostage for two weeks, because the police were trying to get their hands on her husband.
Along with whatever they can do in all these ways, love for their Christian brothers moves Jehovah’s Witnesses to raise their voices in prayer to God in their behalf. They do not pray that God put an immediate stop to wars and food shortages, because Jesus Christ foretold such things for our time. (Matt. 24:7) Nor do they pray for God to prevent all persecution, because the Bible clearly states that true Christians will be persecuted. (John 15:20; 2 Tim. 3:12) But they do earnestly petition that their Christian brothers and sisters be strengthened to stand firm in faith in the face of whatever hardship comes upon them. (Compare Colossians 4:12.) The record testifying to their spiritual strength gives abundant evidence that such prayers have been answered. -
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Chairman of the St Petersburg-based Administrative Centre of JWs issues press release - Forum 18
by OrphanCrow inaccording to the latest forum 18 article, this is what happened in russia on march 15:.
http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2265.
with immediate effect, a 15 march suspension order forbids the administrative centre and all its local religious organisations from "using state and municipal news media, organising and conducting assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, processions, picketing, and other mass actions or public events, and using bank deposits, with the exception of use for making payments connected with their economic activity, compensating for losses (damages) caused by their actions, and paying taxes, fees, or fines, and making payments based on labour contracts" .
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In the Italian JWorg site, still there is not written anything about this campaign
sorry you haven't been able to find it - here is the direct link to the page - it is featured on the Italian front page
https://www.jw.org/it/news/notizie/per-area/russia/iniziativa-mondiale-contro-minaccia-proscrizione/