Not yet, but there surely will be, after all this publicity.
It looks a bit strident for my taste (Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave - style) just looking at the table of contents.
slimboyfat
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Goodbye Jehova
by UnshackleTheChains injust wondered if there might be an english translation of this book.
just read on jwsurvey how watchtower has brought legal action against the publishing company.. sounds like it has touched a raw nerve at watchtower.
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When did Watchtower writings start becoming anonymous?
by Wild_Thing ini think most people know that authorship was credited in the old watchtower literature, but at some point everything became anonymous.
i still do not know exactly when this started, but i found this in charles taze russell's last will and testament.
his will was not honored in other respects, so i doubt they would have honored this request.
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slimboyfat
The sole exception after 1942, as far as I'm aware, being the booklet "Defending and Lagally Establishing the Good News" in 1950 which bears the Watchtower imprint and names Covington as author.
Some have suggested that Knorr made the books anonymous because he didn't write them and didn't want to give others prominence. It's also been suggested that Knorr disliked Convington in particular for the prominence that resulted from his legal work for JWs.
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2018 Convention videos leaked by brave insiders
by Room 215 inanopther coup for cedars: http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/leaked-2018-convention-videos-celebrate-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-unquestioning-obedience-doomsday-fear-mongering
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slimboyfat
Unrealistic doesn’t even begin to describe it. It’s shocking that this is not the fleeting fancy of a deranged mind, but the product of sustained and coordinated effort of many people over a period of time. Did no one at any stage question or try to steer away from the madness?
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What’s the most effective way to wake the largest amount of JW’s up?
by Farmer Jim1 inwhat can one person do to save as many people as possible from this organisation?.
youtube videos?.
mail shots?.
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slimboyfat
jwfacts probably
Until I develop my own website of course: jwinterpretations
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Why do (did) the majority of the general population see the JWS is a decisive fraud ?
by Finkelstein inthe jws /ibsa have been going door to door now for over 100 years in many lands and countries, with numerous pieces of supporting literature counting in the millions.. you would think after all of the publicizing that the jws faith would have grown leaps and bounds but to date the jws has only 8 million following adherents.. other christian based faiths have grown vastly more but never publicly proselytized their faith to the extent the jws have... my basic concise guess is that they see this organization as a bit of commercialized fraud, orchestrated by a religious publishing house namely the watchtower corporation, trying to get people to purchase and read the wts's literature.. and yes the wts did place a set price on its literature including yearly subscriptions.
was it just too obvious ?.
did the wts not think that many people who they called on were from even bigger and older established christian faiths but didn't say or preach what the wts was preaching in their apparent version of the gospel ?.
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slimboyfat
Are the only two options 1) join JWs or 2) see JWs as a decisive fraud? Looks like a false dichotomy to me, since there are a variety of responses to JWs including joining, sympathising, disagreeing, apathy, indifference, opposing, undecided.
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Do you know any good novel about faith crisis?
by paradiseseeker ini'm looking for something to read.
i'm interested in ecclesiastical settings like churches and gothic cities.
but the most important thing i look for is the inner thoughts and evolution of the main character: his/her feelings of guilt, regular visits to the confessor, self-comfort drawn from faith, praying god/saints, relapses and self-loathing as well as his/her process of "waking up".. i know it's something very particular and there's a lot of junk literature about the topic with poor writing and archetype characters, but if you have read anything of good quality, i would be very glad to know.. thank you in advance..
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2018 Convention videos leaked by brave insiders
by Room 215 inanopther coup for cedars: http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/leaked-2018-convention-videos-celebrate-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-unquestioning-obedience-doomsday-fear-mongering
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slimboyfat
Conventions probably do still make Watchtower some money, but do they make as much money as they used to?
One huge source of revenue was the food sales. The second huge bump in revenue came from literature sales and latterly donations following the new literature release.
Now that there's no food, and no new books handed out, I wonder how much revenue it generates.
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Personal opinions spouted from the platform?
by purrpurr inhave you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?
perhaps off brand or crazy ones?
some that i've heard is:.
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slimboyfat
Oh I vaguely remember a meeting part where an elder strongly discouraged using tablets at the meeting because some people can't afford to buy them and it was showing off. I can't remember exactly when that was, but obviously in the period in between tablets becoming popular and Watchtower sanctioning/promoting their use at the meetings. Maybe around 2010 or so? I wish I had a recodring of that for posterity.
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Personal opinions spouted from the platform?
by purrpurr inhave you ever heard some brothers own ideas and opinions spouted from the platform?
perhaps off brand or crazy ones?
some that i've heard is:.
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slimboyfat
Bizarrely a recent CO had something against local JWs meeting up in the supermarket for a snack after the Sunday meeting, I don't know what exactly, but he was quite agitated and sarcastic about it.
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Internet Search Engines And Some Of The First Things I Typed
by Brokeback Watchtower init was back in mid nineties 93,94 or 95 before it became what it is today.
anyway they had a bunch of search engines and the first thing i typed in it was jehovah witness, then jesus christ, next came lsd, magic mushrooms, nude pictures.
i think in that relative order.. i remember reading a different story about jws in germany during the nazi era, not anything like the 74 yearbook's depiction.
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slimboyfat
Among my first Internet searches in 1999, using AltaVista, were "Doug Harris" and "Reachout Trust", followed by many years of arguing with him about JWs on his Reachout forum. I can't argue with him any more, since he died a few years ago, too young. After that I think I read most of what there was on the Internet about JWs: everything on freeminds, Watchtower Observer, H2O, here, Greg Stafford, Jehovah's Witnesses United, Beyond Jehovah's Witnesses (anyone remember that?), Channel C, dozens of yahoo groups, later Watchtower Information Service, Johannes Wrobel's website, JW Studies by Ken Raines, and much more. That was when pretty much everything on the Internet was text based. Does anyone actually read websites any more, instead of watching videos or short forum messages?