Posts by ezekiel3

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Can anyone help with a song number?

by ballistic in

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friends

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please enter the first song number of the service meeting as listed in the august 2005 kingdom ministry for the week of the 22nd:.

ezekiel3

August 22 Service meeting opens with song 161.

Closes with song 204.

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QUESTION ABOUT LITERATURE HAND OUTS AT HALL

by juni in

jw
friends

i would really appreciate help with this question.

a friend said that he noticed that they are stingy about handing out literature (also tracts) at the literature counter.

would only give out 4/5 tracts to a sister who has ms for her at home witnessing work.

Not heard or experienced this myself. My hall has a wall-hanging tract display, no issue on how many I take. Magazines are provided as you request in advance and books are not held back, although the stock is usually pretty low on non-promo items.

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The Anointed, the Numbers and the GB

by thinker in

have you ever considered the anointed, the number of partakers at the memorial and the governing body together?

if you examine the number of partakers you can clearly see that sometimes the numbers increase.

i asked some jws about this and their reply was, "those are replacements for unfaithful ones".

ezekiel3

Don't forget that some of the "anointed" have to be around when the Great Tribulation strikes.

Otherwise there would not be a FDS.

Its a catch 22 for the WTS: Increase/stable partaking buys time VS decrease to null means doctrinal crisis.

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Quotes PR: Watchtower Sues Website

by ezekiel3 in

cute little piece:.

source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26149.

watchtower sues website .

ezekiel3

Cute little piece:

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26149

Watchtower sues website

Quoting it brings it into disrepute

By Nick Farrell : Wednesday 14 September 2005, 07:28 A SITE which quotes bits of the Jehovah’s Witness rag Watchtower for the general amusement and edification of its readers has been sued by the magazine for bringing it into disrepute.

The magazine, which is usually seen in the pious paws of a Jehovah’s Witness knocking on your door, is apparently miffed at the antics of site.

According to the writ, which can be seen here, Watchtower is claiming that the publication of selected quotes embarrasses the outfit.

The site provides a search engine of quotes about what has been said in Watchtower. When we tapped in the word ‘the Inquirer’ we found the quote “idi"ot"es, 'one without understanding,' the 'inquirer' are both in the unbeliever class in contrast to the saved of the Christian church".

Besides the obvious claim that the site breaches its copyright, Watchtower says the site might be confused with the real Watchtower because it has the domain name "watchtower.ca" which is trademarked.

Watchtower also wants the site to hand over some CDs of material that are only given to Jehovah Witnesses and is not made available to the general public. The site has been generating some interest by quoting some of this material.

Watchtower wants a donation of $100,000, the site name transferred and a quiet chat with a cup of coffee with the site owners about the end of the world. Wwe (sic) made the last bit up.

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Google and Quotes litigation -- conspiracy in common?

by Fatfreek in

there are two ongoing and unrelated events (or are they?

) in the publishing world.

there is a class action suit against the google folks because of their effort (postponed till november) to digitally scan entire libraries of hard-copy books at several university libraries.

ezekiel3

Source: http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=251654 Writers sue Google for copyright infringement A group representing more than 8 000 United States writers is suing Google, alleging that the company's attempt to digitise the book collections of several major libraries represents massive copyright infringement.

The lawsuit, filed by the Authors' Guild in the US district court in Manhattan, is the first to arise from the Google Print Library programme, the fledgling effort aimed at creating a searchable library of all the world's printed books.

The lawsuit seeks class-action status, allowing multiple plaintiffs; asks for damages; and demands an injunction to halt further infringements.

As well as the Authors' Guild, the largest society of published writers in the US, three writers are named as having brought the action: Daniel Hoffman, a former poet laureate of the US; Betty Miles, an author of children's and young-adult fiction; and Herbert Mitgang, a former New York Times editorial writer and the author of a biography of Abraham Lincoln as well as novels and plays.

Each of the plaintiffs claims copyright to at least one literary work that is in the library of the University of Michigan -- one of the libraries, along with Harvard and Stanford, that agreed to let Google create a database of their entire collection.

The company is also scanning books stored at the New York Public Library and Oxford University, but those two libraries are providing Google only with "public domain" works -- material no longer protected by copyright. Oxford University's Bodleian Library will initially make an estimated one million books from its 19th-century collection available to Google.

At the time the project was announced in December last year, Reg Carr, director of Oxford University Library Services, commented: "We hope Oxford's contribution to this project will be of scholarly use, as well as general interest, to people around the world."

The overall project will involve scanning millions of titles -- many of them rare and delicate -- and making the text available on the internet via Google searches. It is a process that experts have predicted could take as long as 10 years.

The lawsuit is the latest round in the battle between Google and publishers that pit copyright holders' interests against the company's mission of "organising the world's information and making it more universally accessible and useful".

In August, Google said it planned to scale back plans temporarily to make the full text of copyrighted books available on its internet site, while discussions with publishers and authors continued.

A Google spokesperson said the company regrets that the Authors' Guild has chosen to sue rather than continue discussions.

"Google Print directly benefits authors and publishers by increasing awareness of and sales of the books in the programme," Google said in a statement. "Only small portions of the books are shown unless the content owner gives permission to show more."

But Nick Taylor, president of the New York-based Authors' Guild, said: "This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law. It's not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied." -- Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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Where are the JWs active

by Triple A in

i keep reading all these threads that talk about the jws knocking on their doors.

we live in southern california and there has not been a visit at door in well over a year.

my business is on the main drag and their has not been a visit there either.

ezekiel3

Thats because less JWs are actually going out. Recent Saturday morning at the KH where 3 book study groups meet: 6 JWs at the service meeting out of 35 publishers.

Zzzzzzz....

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define Irony

by stillajwexelder in

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the wtbts is suing somebody (quotes) for putting in the public domain what is already in the public domain (well perhaps not boe letters etc) information and publications etc from an organization which distributes this literature free (well in most of the world) and has fought numerous supreme court battles for the right to free speech.

i am obviously concerned in case quotes loses his battle but this case has so much irony

ezekiel3

At least Quotes credits his quotes, unlike the WTS

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What The Bible Really Teaches- NEXT

by stillajwexelder in

just to let you all know if you did not already, it has been announced in october km that the book "what does the bible really teach " will be studied next at the bookstudy after the daniel book

ezekiel3

Shocking

I will now have to put up with another three months of JW Alzheimer's: "Is that a new point? I don't remember reading that before."

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Quotes story is on popular news website!!!!!!

by rebel8 in

jw
friends

sorry for starting yet another "quotes" thread, but i thought this was cool/unusual news.

i submitted it and they published it!

www.fark.com watchtower sues webmaster for $100k, claims quoting their literature causes them loss of reputation and embarrassment.

ezekiel3

From the link above:

One time: I saw two of them coming down the street towards my house. I quickly put a little note on the front door which said "Quiet Please, Satanic Ritual in Progress, thanx."

The two walked to the door, saw the note, and just stood there for a minute. Apparently stunned. Then they walked away. I took the note off the door.

A few minutes later there were four of them standing across the street talking and pointing at my house. They all walked over together and left a big pile of "The Watchtower" on the doorstep but they didn't ring the bell.

Good times,,,

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Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000 plus plus plus...

by Quotes in

court file no.

superior court of justice.

watchtower bible and tract society of .

ezekiel3

Effect of the Dealing on the Work Is it likely to affect the market of the original work?

There is no "market" for publications provided free of charge.

mar·ket (source: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=market)

n. 1) A public gathering held for buying and selling merchandise. 2) A place where goods are offered for sale. 3) A store or shop that sells a particular type of merchandise: a vegetable market. 4)

a) The business of buying and selling a specified commodity: the soybean market.
b) A market price.
c) A geographic region considered as a place for sales: grain for the foreign market; the West Coast market.
d) A subdivision of a population considered as buyers: cosmetics for the upscale market.

5) The opportunity to buy or sell; extent of demand for merchandise: a big market for gourmet foods.

6)

a) An exchange for buying and selling stocks or commodities: securities sold on the New York market.
b) The entire enterprise of buying and selling commodities and securities: The market has been slow recently.