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Relative technical sophistication of religious websites

by besty in

jw
friends

a quick summary of website trackers used by:.

jw.org - 0 trackers (not even google analytics - wow - they really are in broadcast mode) pagerank 5. mormon.org - 5 trackers - incl.

2 kinds of visitor analytics - they are spending $$ on this as a pro-active campaign with measurable results - pagerank 6. churchofgod.org - similar to jw.org - pagerank 4. adventist.org - google analytics only - pagerank 6. catholic.org - 26 trackers incl.

besty

just thought I would revisit this after a few years - and guess what - the JW techies couldn't resist a wee bit of visitor tracking...seems in general there is tracker inflation going on....

jw.org - 8 trackers on the home page - need to check this as they disappeared when I browsed back to the home page

mormon.org - 20 trackers incl Google Analytics

adventist.org - 2 trackers incl. Google Analytics

churchofgod.org - 2 trackers incl. Google Analytics

scientology.org - 14 trackers incl. Google Analytics

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Jehovah's Witness meets a Born Again Christian on a Train. Oh and a Muslim

by passwordprotected in

a couple of saturdays ago i and my girlfriend (who happens to be baptised into the greek orthodox religion, but practises greek catholic...no, she's not greek) were on the virgin train from glasgow to london.. we had reserved seats on the quiet zone of the train, because y'know, a 5 hour train journey shouldn't be sullied by mobile phones ringing and noisy conversations.. somewhere around the lake district a very tall woman sits at the table across the carriage from us, a table already occupied by a very chatty, bearded man in his late 50s, along with his wife.

this man was directing people where to stow their luggage and asking random travellers questions about their journey to the point where i sent my girlfriend a text message (easier to communicate that way without others overhearing us) asking if he was the "train boss".. he struck up a conversation with this new passenger about his travels, but i wasn't really paying attention as i was watching a movie on my ipad, wearing noise cancelling headphones.

after a little while i noticed they'd stopped chatting and the woman was now reading.

besty

3 scots on this thread - thats a riot right there...

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Jehovah's Witness meets a Born Again Christian on a Train. Oh and a Muslim

by passwordprotected in

a couple of saturdays ago i and my girlfriend (who happens to be baptised into the greek orthodox religion, but practises greek catholic...no, she's not greek) were on the virgin train from glasgow to london.. we had reserved seats on the quiet zone of the train, because y'know, a 5 hour train journey shouldn't be sullied by mobile phones ringing and noisy conversations.. somewhere around the lake district a very tall woman sits at the table across the carriage from us, a table already occupied by a very chatty, bearded man in his late 50s, along with his wife.

this man was directing people where to stow their luggage and asking random travellers questions about their journey to the point where i sent my girlfriend a text message (easier to communicate that way without others overhearing us) asking if he was the "train boss".. he struck up a conversation with this new passenger about his travels, but i wasn't really paying attention as i was watching a movie on my ipad, wearing noise cancelling headphones.

after a little while i noticed they'd stopped chatting and the woman was now reading.

besty

ah you should have weighed in Mark ;-)

I think you could have argued they were in breach of the 'do not make unnecessary noise' instruction for the Quiet Coach

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Fun at The WT This Morning

by OneFingerSalute in

so ofs was at the wt this morning, and on par.

14 the question was, "what trust can a faithful christian whose relative is disfellowshipped have?".

after awhile when no one else raised their hands ofs did, and was called on.. ofs commented, "one of jw can have the trust that god will lovingly give them the ability to uphold the disfellowshipping arrangement by totally shunning family members.".

besty

google this:

site:jw_dot_org shunned

edit - obviously use the proper domain name and not the underscores :-)

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2015 Regional Convention Anthony Morris Governing Body encourages coerced baptism of unwilling children ...again

by Watchtower-Free in

this is from the last talk of the convention ......... clip 1:30 minutes longhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrej8tlyiso&feature=youtu.be.

besty

"unless you're a toddler"

toddler

ˈtɒdlə/

noun

a young child who is just beginning to walk.

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The Watchtower are Right About Blood...

by cofty in

... but, they fail to take note of one important detail.. i believe that if we are going to have any chance of reasoning with a jw about blood, this is the place we need to begin.. don't try to convince them that it was only a dietary law.

it wasn't, and they will never go along with it.. don't tell them that saving a life is more important than obeying a law, even a seemingly trivial one.

they take pride in obedience.

besty

great thought process Cofty - thank you.

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WT loses appeal in UK!!!!!!!

by Viva la Vida in

the wt lost its appeals regarding the charity commission inquiry.

here is the ruling:.

http://www.charity.tribunals.gov.uk/documents/decisions/watch-tower-ruling-03mar15.pdf.

besty

what the Watchtower says:

"Child abuse is abhorrent.”

what the Watchtower does:

19. The period of delay in making the application to the Tribunal is one of over six months. I consider that this to be a significant and serious period of delay, especially in the context of the nature of the Respondent’s concerns in this case. I give weight to the fact that the Respondent’s inquiry and Production Order relate to safeguarding matters which could, as I have noted above, logically concern on-going risks to people who are still children.

They have planned a litigation strategy which a judge states involves ongoing risk to children.

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Who Is Engineering the Re-branding of Jehovahs Witnesses

by millie210 in

is it an outside source?.

an inside job?

maybe the younger gb "helpers"?.

besty

If they abandon shunning and permit whole blood transfusions it's significant

The rest is just window dressing and a reminder who is holding the leash.

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Jehovah Witness promotion of JW.org as the place to get answers to all of lifes important question is the height of arrogance

by Brokeback Watchtower in

we are hearing reports of this promotion of the website by the jw and it seems to be a resource for them to dodge questions of their faith, when they don't have or want to give an answer to a question they direct the house holder to the organization/corporation's website to get the answer as if it really existed.there.. i think soon they are going to drop the door to door work all together as completely unprofitable, i mean their donation arrangement is a complete flop and has cost them i'm sure so they are in the process of shipping as many as they can into building up real estate for the corporation, because that is where the money is right now.. the whole jw.org is just a complete failure as a source of good information and only scare away people except the most vulnerable/gullible.. .

.

besty

"wait, you are suggesting I entrust my spiritual welfare to a...website....????? really?"

"can I ask why you think that makes sense? <in your own words>"

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Stephen Fry says everything I believe in two minutes

by cofty in

"it is perfectly apparent that god is monstrous, utterly monstrous, and deserves no respect whatsoever.

the moment you banish him, your life become purer, simpler, cleaner; more worth living in my opinion.".

....

besty

success has many parents, Kate. Failure is an orphan.

Perhaps that explains why this site is so successful :-)