Posts by CaptainSchmideo

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Letter Re: JW Broadcasting
by pixel in
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re: jw broadcasting.

dear brothers:.

we are writing to inform you of an exciting initiative that was announced on october 4,.
CaptainSchmideo

I can confirm that it most definitely is on Roku. Fully menu driven, allows to to watch the streaming or watch Video on Demand. Even has the three new songs (and Gawd, are they awful. The melody is stil "da da da da da da da" same note, rapidly sung.). You can also verify this, if you don't believe me, by going to the Roku website and doing a search for jw.

http://www.roku.com/channels/#!details/47791/jw-broadcasting
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The way things are going soon the R&F will be allowed to preach on the internet.
by joe134cd in
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2. beliefs
CaptainSchmideo

How about preaching on "Chat Roulette?" As long as they can find a "non-wanker" householder...
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Is the AGM today?
by hamsterbait in
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2. friends
anybody going or who can give us the noolite hot from the gb a$$?.

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CaptainSchmideo

You would think the preferred term WOULD be "narrowcasting" as in "BROAD and spacious is the road to destruction" but "NARROW and cramped is the path that leads to salvation"...
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TV.JW.ORG is coming!
by Oubliette in
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CaptainSchmideo

I remember a very strict, militarist JW elder made the following statement: "If Christendom does something a particular way, then God's people should do it 180 degrees different." I wonder what his reaction will be to this development.
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New online JW TV channel released at the AGM
by kneehighmiah in
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2. friends
CaptainSchmideo

Wow! This is definitely not the old WTBS! (Well, it is, but with new packaging...)
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What exactly do the Governing body(TM) do?
by punkofnice in
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2. beliefs
a genuine question really.. do they actually make desicions or are they simple sock puppets for the lawyers?.

are they just a front (like the queen is in the uk), with little or no desicion making input?.

do they just give talks and make appearances?.
CaptainSchmideo

A Watcher - My heart bleeds for them....
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OCTOBER 2014!!! What do these following items have in common??
by DATA-DOG in
1. jw
2. friends
1) return of the jedi.

2) back to the future 2&3.

3) terminator 2,3, salvation.
CaptainSchmideo

DD, we must be about the same age. I vividly remember hoping that the Big A would not get here before I got to see Return of the Jedi.
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OCTOBER 2014!!! What do these following items have in common??
by DATA-DOG in
1. jw
2. friends
1) return of the jedi.

2) back to the future 2&3.

3) terminator 2,3, salvation.
CaptainSchmideo

Things that we secretly were afraid we would not see if Armageddon arrived?
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Street Work is hard! Take a look.
by Wasanelder Once in
1. jw
2. friends
remember how we were told to engage people on the street, that standing and holding the magazines was not countable time?

those days are gone.

they have been reduced to the status of those guys on the street who hold huge "little ceaser" pizza signs and "homes for sale".
CaptainSchmideo

The guy sitting on the sidewalk: is that the famous "Mr. Coffee"? from outside the steps of Brooklyn Bethel?
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Is there a list of JW contradictions / double standards anywhere?
by BenRichards in
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2. beliefs
as i mentioned in a recent thread, i've relatively new here.

have been lurking for a few weeks and just started posting.. one of the things i'm finding interesting about this site is how often someone posts a set of jw published material that contradicts each other.

for example the other day someone posted about lecithin.
CaptainSchmideo

OTWO, this is a question that perhaps you, Dogpatch, Blondie, or one of the other "old timers" (heh heh) can answer-

On the link you provided, number 4 talks about the sower of the mustard grain that becomes a large tree, etc etc. Not interested in debating this parable (or any others, thank you.) But...

I remember back in 73-74 (kinda hazy, I was just about 10 years old back then), that right in the middle of studying this in the Book Study group (it was a thick, yellow book), that the explanation for this had changed. And their was a lot of backing and filling while the reader that night (who was Jack Hildreth, an old Bethel man) had to keep stopping and saying "Well, that's not right anymore", and the conductor, who was Marion Dunlap (brother to the (in)famous Ed) had to do some explaining about the change as well.

What strikes me was what a sudden change it was, and how clumsily handled it was by the Society. And given the time period, it comes very close to the Great Apostacy events that soon were to follow.
Does anyone out there know if this change to the doctrine was a by-product of the struggles going on behind the scenes at Bethel?