Yea the iridology thing made the rounds here in the washington dc area as well. Imagine, people in cults eschewing modern medicine ;)
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Again - another measles exposure at Watchtower locations in New York
by OrphanCrow inhttp://abc7ny.com/health/heres-how-to-find-out-if-youve-been-exposed-to-measles/3376832/.
two tourists from europe sparked a local measles scare.new york state health officials say anyone who visited the following locations may have been exposed:- kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses in brooklyn (april 15th)- watchtower facilities in orange and putnam counties (april 16th and 17th)health officials say the risk of developing measles is low for anyone who has been vaccinated or is immune.symptoms include fever, rash a cough and runny nose.anyone who thinks they may have been affected should call their doctor if they experience symptoms.. this is the second measles exposure at wt locations in ny.
the last one occurred 2 months ago:.
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Again - another measles exposure at Watchtower locations in New York
by OrphanCrow inhttp://abc7ny.com/health/heres-how-to-find-out-if-youve-been-exposed-to-measles/3376832/.
two tourists from europe sparked a local measles scare.new york state health officials say anyone who visited the following locations may have been exposed:- kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses in brooklyn (april 15th)- watchtower facilities in orange and putnam counties (april 16th and 17th)health officials say the risk of developing measles is low for anyone who has been vaccinated or is immune.symptoms include fever, rash a cough and runny nose.anyone who thinks they may have been affected should call their doctor if they experience symptoms.. this is the second measles exposure at wt locations in ny.
the last one occurred 2 months ago:.
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The anti vaccination thing among witnesses is well more than 60 years ago. Im in my mid 40’s and was vaccinated by my witness parents. The cult hasnt had an anti vaccination screed published in my lifetime. There may be pockets of witnesses who hold on to it but its not been an official or even unofficial position in a very long time
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2018 Courage Convention video invitation
by Listener inthe video invitation for the 2018 convention is just creepy.
i thought it was some parody at first as it seems 'dark'.it begins with a young man being pushed whilst standing at his locker and the voice over says that 'in critical times we need courage more than ever'.
next, comes a clip of a male putting his hand on the shoulder of a female worker, the look she gives him would be enough to give him nightmares for the next year.
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I assume its a reference to the storm on the sea galie when the apostles thought they were going to die and jesus calmed the storm. It suppsed to evoke the stormy times they think we live in and comfort the dubbies with a reminder that jesus can calm the storm.
pardon me while i puke
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2018 Courage Convention video invitation
by Listener inthe video invitation for the 2018 convention is just creepy.
i thought it was some parody at first as it seems 'dark'.it begins with a young man being pushed whilst standing at his locker and the voice over says that 'in critical times we need courage more than ever'.
next, comes a clip of a male putting his hand on the shoulder of a female worker, the look she gives him would be enough to give him nightmares for the next year.
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Lol wooooow! Weird. Weird weird weird! And how in the world would this qualify as a “public service announcment”? Im not saying it dosent, mind you, but who benefits from this?? God its so..... icky. Just plain weird and icky.
Also did you catch where that regional was being held...? Not in a rented statium. It looked like an assembly hall. And it wasnt very many people. It looked like a circuit assembly. I imagine that was for production purposes but why send the message of “small” when they are inviting people? Why not make it look big and impressive? Im so glad not to be associated with this crap.
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Watchtower growth ?
by pepperheart inin perth western australia the watchtower have sold a kingom hall to hindus for $2 million aust dollars and they have a second one up for sale in the same area embleton .
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The kh scam burns me up for the reasons that stuck mentioned. For whatever its worth here is a link to another topic where i explained what happened locally. I have no illusions that the selling of kh’s will be the issue that wakes people up en mass but it certainly has helped. Melano park being a big one but there was hall in texas that created a huge stir as well. People dont like theft, even when its gods organization doing the stealing.
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Are the 8 superstar Popes planning a purge?
by Sour Grapes inthere are over 8 million jdubs and i would venture a guess that at least 20% to 30% are pimo.
in my opinion, the kingdom hauls are only half full for two reasons....many have left but the majority are pimo and any little excuse will keep them home and they will report their token ghost hours in service.
all it takes to stay home is being tired, too much school homework or i will go next week, no doubt many have taken part-time jobs and the fear of working the second shift and the guilt of missing meetings is gone.
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Are you aware that your comments have twice as many dislikes as they do likes, while Sour Grapes has far more likes than you and almost zero dislikes? Just FYI, that means a lot more people agree with Sour Grapes than you
Oh no!!! Random internet people like ridiculous ideas more than sense! People didnt say nice things to me *morpheous begins sobbing* whatever shall i do??? I didnt receive validation from as many random internet people as some other random internet clown *morpheous begins crying uncontrollably* woe is me! And to top it off nevuela thinks this matters *morpheous curls into a fetal position and dies from shame*
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Grace Gough ( RIP ) left the JW cult in her 70s and went on to help 1000s to escape the cult
by Not_Culty inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7ilnoxvu4.
she helped me.
sent me my first copy of crisis of conscience (free) grace has been featured on many talk shows, including sally jesse raphael, raising awareness of support for cult abuse survivors.
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A life worth remembering.
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New World Translation REVISED Editions
by Wonderment ini have noticed some posters (with frustration) asking for information regarding the nwt in various language editions.
here is a list of some of the nwt revised language editions published so far:.
albanian; arabic; armenian; chinese traditional 2017; danish 2017; dutch-netherlands 2017; estonian; haitian creole; italian 2017; korean 2014; modern greek 2017; norwegian 2017; portuguese 2015; romanian; russian; swahili 2017; swedish 2017; ukrainian; vietnamese.. not yet published: .
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I agree 50 million is way to high but, at least in america, most dubs want two or three bibles. One for the meeting bag one for the service bag etc. although the digital app would decrease that. At the memorial 90% of the audiance was using the jw app for the bible.
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New World Translation REVISED Editions
by Wonderment ini have noticed some posters (with frustration) asking for information regarding the nwt in various language editions.
here is a list of some of the nwt revised language editions published so far:.
albanian; arabic; armenian; chinese traditional 2017; danish 2017; dutch-netherlands 2017; estonian; haitian creole; italian 2017; korean 2014; modern greek 2017; norwegian 2017; portuguese 2015; romanian; russian; swahili 2017; swedish 2017; ukrainian; vietnamese.. not yet published: .
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Well slim, first thank you for bringing this thread to my attention!
While this may be a supprise, let me say we actually have no disagreement on this topic. Rumor was spanish was already done (the new bible translation, that is). I would bet its a purposeful decision not to release it, and one based on money. After the english was released they likely ‘counted the cost’, that is they extrapolated the cost based on the results of the english release, and they dont think the spanish witnesses will carry the cost.
Bare in mind, ive never said the org didnt have problems and didnt need to make changes. Ive said they arnt collapsing, where as SOME people say they are currently collapsing or have collapsed or may one day collapse, depending on the thread ;) They simply cannot afford to live large in the way they did through the 1990’s. They are cutting costs everywhere they can and this translation release seems to be an area they have calculated to be not worth pursuing.
My bet is that the juice isnt worth the squeeze. In languages that didnt have a nwt already they just move forward with the “new” version. The english got released because they felt the english witnesses would make it financially viable (probably not how it worked out). Remember too that the proof readig was done by random bethelites, including people working in the laundry. In was rushed and sloppy. Here on the forum we found glaring errors in the headers. It was half assed and poorly done from the start. One wonders what the motivation to redo it was from the begining. Whatever their intent clearly it hasnt worked out for a lot of reasons and they dont see benefit in releasing in other major languages.