Okay, let me try to rephrase that. I'll remain loyal to the principles of the orginization, but not to the people that run it, who seem to be skewing the original idea. Is that better?
Indelcio
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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Indelcio
Then you don't know me very well (of course you don't; I just got here). I'm very stubborn. I never give up my beliefs, and usually don't give up debates. I'll remain loyal to the organization and its principles, but to the people that run it, that's another question entirely.
To let you know, this is the quickest I've dropped a debate ever. Then again, I also didn't have a support to stand on, being new and not knowing anyone. But you can expect some more debating from me in the future.
Something that occured to me. Is it just me, or is my post count not displaying right? *points up at other posts* It shows 5 of 5, then 6 of 6, and this will undoubtably be 7 of 7. Shouldn't the latter number change with my post count? -
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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I am inclined to agree with you that their minds seem to be elsewhere. I see it in this town's congregation, that some things are going on that really shouldn't be (one elder has made himself a control-freak), and the CO doesn't do anything about it. As far as I know, nothings even reached the Governing Body about it, or maybe I should say been allowed, since people are mysteriously being run out of the congregation.
If only it was possible to contact the branch offices with something faster than snail mail... -
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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Indelcio
*sigh* This was sort of a pointless exercise. There's no way I can defend myself against everyone at once. I only meant to come here to post that one thing (which I'd have done as a guest if I could), and now this comes out of it. Why do I even bother...
BTW, my father and a group of others spent a month down in Florida doing relief work, so it isn't just local relief... -
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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Indelcio
If you look at the update log, you see a big gap in the dates of updates. From March to December, with only one update in December. Even though they have recently updated it, it doesn't remedy the fact that it is out of date.
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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Indelcio
Well, I've looked around the jw-media site a bit, and noticed a few things.
1) Most things are centered around pursuits for Jehovah's Witnesses.
2) The last update in Humanitarian Efforts was last year.
3) It doesn't list September 11 relief efforts (which I KNOW happened, they were on their front doorstep on the news), or any other relief efforts that I know happened, most notably the hurricane blitz in the south eastern US.
The last two points point to the fact that they don't update humanitarian efforts too frequently (a shame really). Something else noticed is that the other two official sites they list (French and German) are PAINFULLY out of date. Which points to... something no doubt... -
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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Their most recent announcement on jw-media.org is of December 22, 2004.
Considering I didn't even know that site existed until five minutes ago, I can't explain that. It does profess to be an official site though...
Do they only have PCs in Brooklyn that can be worked on to assist JWs who need to hear from their mother?
Will mother be bragging about how advanced the WT is by using computers that can translate the WT & Awake into how many languages and yet they cant do a simple update to offer their traumatised some sort of comfort?
See the thing about this sort of mother is, she always abandons her children in the time of need.
The only computer(s) that can be used to update watchtower.org are in Brooklyn. Since they're moving offices, they wouldn't be hooked up to anything useful. And since I don't know whether the servers are theirs or hosted by someone else, I couldn't tell you whether they'd be able to edit the pages. If the servers are theirs, then they must be hooked up to SOMETHING in which case they should still be able to connect to it from the same place. If they are hosted remotely, then probably not.
As for the bragging part, I think you might be confusing bragging with factualness. I could say that I beat the crap out of the person I played in the first round of my Worms tourney (I did). That's not bragging, that's making a statement. Bragging would entail various insults/tones of voice/repetitively stating in every message that I won. Like this:
W00T! I won the friggen first round of the torurney. Those losers didn't lack the skills to take me on. I totally pwned their asses. They can go throw themselves in the garbage, because they couldn't beat me even if I was blindfolded and had one hand tied behind my back. Haha, I won! etc
Notice the difference?
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Only One Religion's WebSite Ignores the Desaster in South Asia
by GermanXJW into whatever religion's website you surf, all have a comment on the tsunami in south asia: be it catholic, protestant, adventist, mormon, new apostolic or whatever.
they try to give comfort and encourage people to donate for the suffering people there.
but if you go to http://www.watchtower.org or http://www.jw-media.org there is no mention of it (at least by now).
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Indelcio
Nice find there. It does seem awfully strange doesn't it, let's check the site a bit.
The copyright date says 2004, there is no specific day/month listed there. Well, that wasn't a help.
Check the source code, there's no time stamp there, so that doesn't explain much either.
Go to the Current Events page. Ah, now we're getting somewhere. Notice the date of all articles included there are earlier than April 1, 2004. This easily says that the last site update was before April.
Since WatchTower is moving printing presses, and other neccessities, they're slowly abandoning buildings in New York, mostly for security issues. Thus, there isn't much in they're old offices. Since the new buildings havn't been completely set up yet, they also havn't got access to a computer (or if they do, they lack one with admin access) to update the site (the server is mysteriously up and running though). Thus, without a computer, especially one with admin access to the server, there is no way to update the site, and by extention, no way to list any releif efforts to in Asia.
Further proof to the lack of updating comes from the fact that the publications released at the 2004 DC are not listed.