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  The Current State of the Watchtower & The Cynicism of Soviet Communism

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
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  i am reading a book by victor sebestyn called "revolution 1989 - the fall of the soviet empire".

  if you lived through the astonishing collapse of communism in the late '80s i highly recommend it.. what has struck me is the description of life under communism in the six soviet satellite states of east germany, poland, czechoslovakia, hungary, romania and bulgaria.. here is a couple of paragraphs that really stood out to me as a possible parallel to the current climate in the regime of jw.org.. ---------------------------------------------------------.

  once idealism or revolutionary fervour had disappeared - certainly by the soviet invasion of czechosloakia in 1968 - the system stagnated.

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  besty

  I agree - the good news they are now out on the streets and we can ask them :-)
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  Something NEW is happening with Jehovah's Witnesses on the internet

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  dramatic growth is being reported on facebook.

  groups of xjws.. .

  ex-jehovah's witness recovery group 3 admin.

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  besty

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php
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  Third from the top

  by stillin in

  1. social
  2. current

  not being a very technical sort of person, i don't know what it is that makes the "results" from a web search change from day to day, but i have noticed this site sometimes on the first ten "results" and another time very close to the first "results.".

  today it is the third result offered on my google search.

  first is the official jw website.

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  besty

  comatose and emeth - neither of you know, so give it a rest.
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  Third from the top

  by stillin in

  1. social
  2. current

  not being a very technical sort of person, i don't know what it is that makes the "results" from a web search change from day to day, but i have noticed this site sometimes on the first ten "results" and another time very close to the first "results.".

  today it is the third result offered on my google search.

  first is the official jw website.

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  besty

  its quite to easy to disable Google personalisation - click Search Tools and then change from All Results to Verbatim - boom - natural results (ish)

  Here's what i see for "jehovah's Witness" :

  1. Jehovah's Witnesses—Official Website: jw.org

     www.jw.org/ ‎ Fast Facts—Benin. 9,100,000—Population. 11,005—Ministers who teach the Bible. 168—Congregations. 1 to 827—Ratio of Jehovah's Witnesses to population ... ‎Publications - ‎Magazines - ‎What's New on JW.ORG? - ‎Online Bible

  2. Jehovah's Witnesses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses ‎ Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The organization ... ‎Millennialism - ‎Nontrinitarianism - ‎Charles Taze Russell - ‎Restorationism

  3. BBC - Religion: Jehovah's Witnesses

     www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/witnesses/ ‎ Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a Christian-based religious movement probably best known for their door-to-door evangelistic work. ‎Religions - Witnesses: Beliefs - ‎Jehovah's Witnesses at a glance - ‎Customs - ‎History

  4. Jehovah's Witnesses | Jehovah Witness | Christian Apologetics and ...

     carm.org/jehovahs-witnesses ‎ The Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door, distribute the Watchtower and Awake magazines, deny the Trinity, the deity of Christ, and deny his physical ...

  5. Jehovah's Witnesses - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

     www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005394 ‎ Jehovah's Witnesses were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime. The Nazis targeted Jehovah's Witnesses because they were unwilling to ...

  6. Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchers of the Watchtower World

     www.freeminds.org/ ‎ JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ... keeping a critical eye on the Watchtower (Jehovah's Witnesses) ... Consulting on all matters regarding Jehovah's Witnesses

  7. Jehovah's Witness Exposed Home Page

     www.bible.ca/jw.htm ‎ Start here · Questions Jehovah's Witnesses don't like to be asked · History ofJehovah's Witnesses · Inspiration of the Watchtower · Jehovah's Witnesses abuse ...

  8. Man opens fire 19 times because female Jehovah's Witnesses were ...

     www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Man-opens-19-times-female-Jehovahs-Witnesses-l... 2 Oct 2013 - Man opened fire 19 times because female Jehovah's Witnesses were 'lolly gaggin' around' when he told them to get off his property.

  9. Jehovah Witness Beliefs - Learn About Distinctive ... - Christianity

     christianity.about.com › ... › Denominations › Jehovah’s Witnesses ‎ Baptism - Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs teach that baptism by total immersion is a symbol ... Jehovah's Witnesses use the New World Translation of the Scriptures.

  10. History of the Jehovah's Witnesses | Catholic Answers

      www.catholic.com/tracts/history-of-the-jehovahs-witnesses ‎ Fifty years ago the Jehovah's Witnesses numbered fewer than 100,000. Now there are several million of them around the world. They don't have churches; they ...

  Official site is top as you would expect - they have a massive library of publications in numerous languages online and are the official site, no doubt with huge numbers of backlinks - difficult to compete without some serious SEO dollars. Noted what a crap job they are doing with SEO though - look at the meta description beginning 'Fast Facts' - this is a golden opportunity to suck people in to clicking the link without scrolling down - duh - who cares about Benin...? The other results are sites that Google view as authoritative on the subject - this site shows on the 2nd page at number 11 for me.
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  Overheard some JWs on the train today- going to be interesting this year

  by lrkr in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  cruising down to the city this afternoon we were behind a group of j-dubs on the train.

  part of the conversation centered around the "generation" teaching.

  all of them clearly trying to wrap their heads around it.

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  besty

  This overlapping thing seems to me most similar to 1995.

  It could take years for the full effect on the membership to be realized, although the Internet will accelerate this.

  My guess - 2018 when the compound in the backwoods has been occupied will unleash some new batshit crazy ideas and jw.org will be the main recruitment tool...
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  Mac Book Pro with Retina or Dell XPS 15? (both with new Haswell processors)

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been in need of a new laptop for a long time.

  no, i mean it - a really long time.

  the old dell that we have has a floppy lid and is woefully underpowered although it does build up my upper body strength every time i pick it up.. the last 6 months has been a bad time to buy something new though with the haswell processors on the horizon promising better battery life and also screen technology seems to have been leaping ahead recently to a new hi-dpi standard.. so apple finally released their mac book pro and at the same time dell has released an xps 15 ultrabook which looks like a pretty good alternative and probably better 'value'.. pro's and con's?

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  Mac with Parallels + MS whatever - best of both worlds...
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  Simon

  by Berengaria in

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  thank you!!!

  love the pm notification!.

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  besty

  2023 - ignore button - you heard it here first
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  Blood sausage

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while visiting our neighbors across the pond, i visited a butcher store to rustle up something for supper.

  that was the first time i had ever seen blood sausage.

  we just never see it over here in the states.. when a witness leaves the organization over there, do they all eat blood sausage once again?

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  besty

  the moral of the story is don't go to irish pubs outside of ...erm....Ireland?

  cofty - yep true dat or you may also like - haggis, egg (fried) and cheese with brown sauce on a roll - now that would put anyone to an early grave...
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  Elder blows a head gasket

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok so today while at breakfast get a phone call fom my daughter asking were i am because an elder/ friend had stoped by my house hoping to see me.

  its been a few months since ive seen this guy and the only one that seems to actually care.

  so anyway he meets me at were i was having breakfast and we start to talk.

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  besty

  I know an elder who blew a gasket after seeing the masturbation video on YouTube.

  Did you hear the one about the Eskimo with car trouble? He blew a seal....ba-boom boom :-)
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  Blood sausage

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while visiting our neighbors across the pond, i visited a butcher store to rustle up something for supper.

  that was the first time i had ever seen blood sausage.

  we just never see it over here in the states.. when a witness leaves the organization over there, do they all eat blood sausage once again?

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  besty

  fried bread is a seriously guilty pleasure - maybe get a tattie scone involved as well

  

  note the square sausage to the right - sometimes known as Lorne sausage - look no further than this picture to see why Scotland is the heart attack capital of the world - although I believe there may be signs of improvement recently