Topics Started by steve2

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Child Sexual Abuse: The Organization Oozes Self-Congratulations over Non-JWs Tireless Work
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
wow - the may watchtower study edition is out.

who could have anticipated entire watchtower study articles devoted to child sexual abuse?

an appreciative shout out to all the people who worked tirelessly over so very many, many years to call the organization to account over its defiantly self-serving policies and practices on responding top allegations of child sexual abuse.
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Apostasy’s continued good run at the box office
by steve2 in
1. social
2. entertainment
daniel kokotajlo’s movie continues its good run at the uk box office.

although the takings dropped in its second week, from 11 to 15, it has still brought in nearly £170, 000 - which is a fantastic result for a limited release independent film.

the budget was £500,000.
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Daniel Kokotajlo’s Apostasy enters UK Top 15 box office films
by steve2 in
1. jw
2. friends
fantastic news just in: daniel kokotajlo’s film apostasy about a jw family facing the blood issue and - ahem - a daughter who apostatises - was released late last week in the united kingdom.

even though it received limited release in its first weekend and is going to be in more cinemas this weekend, it has entered the top 15 films at no.

12 - a magnificent result for a highly acclaimed film made on a shoe string.
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What Do Elderly JWs Reminisce About When They Get Together?
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
old people are allowed to be grumpy,eccentric and outspoken.

i think of the old-timer jws in my local congregation during my childhood and youth.

some of them were very critical of “the brothers” but the presiding overseers and later, the elders, tolerated their ravings, seeing them as still loyal but eccentric.. i even recall a watchtower article or two in the late 1960s that talked about the disappointment many older ones felt as this system of things wasn’t showing any signs of imminent collapse.
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Drop Off in Mentioning 1914
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
videos from the summer jw conventions ("be courageous) show the "urgency" about the end racheted up several notches.

paranoia rules supreme!.

curiously, though, very few, if any, statements in the convention program about 1914 and the overlapping generations.
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Deliberately Avoiding the "G" and "L" words in their Videos
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
now that we have had a "sneak" preview of some of the videos for the upcoming 2018 jw regional conventions, we have opportunity to stand back and ponder their content, including their use of language - or in this case, their avoidance of certain words.

in this post, i focus on what i think is a "quaint", if not peculiar, avoidance of certain words that seems to have become a jw organization practice: they avoid use of the actual words "gay" or "lesbian" in any of the videos - even in people playing the roles of being gay- or lesbian-friendly.

a case in point is the preview of the video featuring the jw woman purchasing an item in a store where wrist bands are given away with purchases.
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The "Imperfect Men" Argument
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
one of the most common "defences" of jw organization is that "the brothers" are imperfect yet still strive to follow god's word.

"sure, they make mistakes," so the argument goes, "but so did god's people in the past, including in bible times.

" the key point is their readiness to keep studying god's word and learning from their mistakes.".
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Latest JW.org Statistics Are Confusing & Lack Context
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
earlier this week a new post on this forum announced that the 2017 worldwide annual service report was available on jw.org.

wow - that's earlier than the statistics for the 2016 service year which appeared in the 2017 yearbook last january!

good effort, jw organization!
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Reposting old posts as new
by steve2 in
1. forum
2. tech-support
i cannot find the report feature on the forum or has it been removed?.

in the past week or so poster jehovah lol appears to have re-posted as new his topic on jw talk.

i have checked and the posts are identical - perhaps not a big deal, but it's a little like internal spam.
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gb, PLEASE, PLEASE UP THE ORGANIZATIONAL HARSHNESS IN 2018
by steve2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
sometimes i have expressed a longing for jw organization to tone down its rhetoric and become, well, nicer and more loving.

i have not been alone in my hope.

some posters have even said that if a wave of kindness washed over jw organization and, say, the shunning doctrine was modified (e.g., left up to the individual's conscience without fear of retribution from elders), they'd go back.