Posts by berrygerry

mr penton, the author, says he has included jws attempt to deal with 1914 and their new light on the governing body being faithful and discreet slave in this new edition.

berrygerry

biblio.com is a good site for used books.

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WTS Throws Hail Mary Pass with Major Paradigm Shift

by Socrateswannabe in

let me begin by stating that i have no insider information, this is merely my observation.

i believe that some time ago in watchtower land, somebody at hq posed these questions (probably an outside consultant because i don't think the gb is this hip): .

what would happen if we cut in half the average age of the responsible brothers in the organization?

berrygerry

They can't get back the feeling that the end is so close because all those people that we're born in 1900 are so old. Their becoming less and less relavent to the rank and file and I think it's becoming easier for people to leave as well.

Stumbled on this while looking for info for another thread.

Apr 15, 1996 WT

Article - Increasing Incidence of Bad News
Heading - Escalation in Recent Years
So while it is true that bad news has been a fact of life throughout recorded history, recent decades of this 20th century give evidence that bad news is on the increase, indeed it is escalating rapidly.
Undoubtedly, war news has been the worst kind of bad news our present century has heard. The two greatest wars in history—aptly called World War I and World War II—certainly saw bad news reported on a horrendous scale. But that really has only been a fraction of the bad news this unhappy century has furnished.
Consider just a few headlines selected at random:
September 1, 1923: Quake razes Tokyo—300,000 dead; September 20, 1931: Crisis—Britain devalues the pound; June 25, 1950: North Korea marches into the South; October 26, 1956: Hungarians rise against Soviet rule; November 22, 1963: John Kennedy is shot dead in Dallas; August 21, 1968: Russian tanks roll in to crush the Prague uprising; September 12, 1970: Hijacked jets blown up in the desert; December 25, 1974: Cyclone Tracy flattens Darwin—66 die; April 17, 1975: Cambodia falls to Communist forces; November 18, 1978: Mass suicide in Guyana; October 31, 1984: Mrs. Gandhi shot dead; January 28, 1986: Space shuttle explodes on takeoff; April 26, 1986: Soviet reactor is on fire; October 19, 1987: Bottom falls out of the stock market; March 25, 1989: Alaska hit by oil spill; June 4, 1989: Troops massacre protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Yes, history shows that bad news has always been plentiful, while good news has been comparatively scarce. As bad news has escalated in recent decades, good news has diminished as each year goes by.
Why should this be? Will it always be so?
The next article will address these two questions.

When all of the factors that indicate increase / decrease of civilization are not just observable, but readily searchable, it is impossible to get away with trying to exploit the Bad News Everywhere card as they did in the past.

(That having been said, many of those references in 1996 are very lame by most people's standards - eg. 1931: Crisis—Britain devalues the pound - SERIOUSLY?.)

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Who is Bob McKeown? (CBC Reporter)

by UnDisfellowshipped in

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bob mckeown .

dateline nbc correspondent .

and remember belva ventura, who said benny hinn cast out cancer from her and her son?.

berrygerry

He creeped me out too.

When I was still-in, he was the worst, never watched Fifth Estate as a result.

Watched an old episode a while ago that was about Dubs - he's just not the guy you want on your side. When you look up "snide" in the dictionary, you find him.

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WTS Throws Hail Mary Pass with Major Paradigm Shift

by Socrateswannabe in

let me begin by stating that i have no insider information, this is merely my observation.

i believe that some time ago in watchtower land, somebody at hq posed these questions (probably an outside consultant because i don't think the gb is this hip): .

what would happen if we cut in half the average age of the responsible brothers in the organization?

berrygerry

They have definitely consulted for a number of changes - whether Dub consultants or outside, they are not just talking to Bethel ladder-climbers.

Their online strategy has been good. However, online success is measured by sales, not by number of languages. So, their website is successful in a sense, but not in reality.

Metro witnessing and Ipad-video showings seem to be ideas from old-timers reminiscing about the good old days of Rutherford. Rutherford's growth came from selling his ideas to a world in, not just a recession, but the Great Depression, followed by WW II. Not only is today's world not Rutherford's world economically, it is a far, far different world socially.

Lastly, as has been posted here many times, the only growth has been in impoverished countries (I note that almost all Youtube comment apologists, who have photos, are black). As noted in the Tanzania post, WT cannot afford any more loss-leaders.

Giving "privileges" to the young as a cult-carrot? Might work for some, but not for a lifetime IMO.

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Is it worth upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7?

by nicolaou in

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i'm running vista home premium on my dell inspiron.

dell custom build to your requirements and i went for 4gb of ram from the start (almost 2 years ago).

i know vista has been much maligned but honestly, i've had no problems with it.

berrygerry

I'm still running the same laptop with Vista

This makes me laugh - I have a desktop plugging away on XP (hope this isn't a jinx - I expect a blue screen of death every morning).