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  Broadcasting move part 2

  by Gorbatchov in

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  i think this is not an unimportant observation.. with the move of the broadcasting channel to the library part of jw.org the broadcasting are away from the general public.

  so the obscure gb video's about strange mathers are not out to the open anymore with a simple click to tv.jw.org.

  only the rank and file will find them easily.. i think this was the objective of the change.. g..

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  I don't understand this:

  So the obscure GB video's about strange mathers are not out to the open anymore with a

  simple click to tv.jw.org

  Why is it "simple" to click tv.jw.borg but not simple to click jw.borg?
  
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  tv.jw.org offline and merged into restyled jw.org

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since now tv.jw.org is offline and merged into a restyled jw.org.. the whole page has changed, and broadcasting is a small part of the jw.org page.. g..

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  Plus I tried to find the first ever broadcast and can’t find it. Is it no longer available?

  It looks like all the old monthly broadcasts are here:

  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/categories/StudioMonthlyPrograms
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  Confession Time - Music You're Embarrassed to Admit Listening To

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  admit it, we all have things that we reel off when people ask what our favourite music is, just the same as if people ask what our favourite movies are.

  we're meant to say "citizen kane" and "casablanca" and not "battleship" or "pacific rim" but we know what we're going to watch if they are ever on tv at the same time (and which ones we've never actually seen).. so how about some confession time?

  what do you listen to when no one else is in the house?.

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  sir82

  Roger Whittaker

  Marty Robbins

  Pretty much anything that was ever on the US TV show "Hee Haw"

  Basically, anything my parents listened to when I was a kid, which made me roll my eyes. Now, 40+ years later, it brings up powerful feelings of nostalgia.

  I don't think I particularly "like" it now, per se, but to hear things that you used to hear 20 million times a week 40 years ago, that you haven't heard for 30-40 years, kind of brings back the whole experience of being a kid again, at least for the 3-4 minutes the song lasts. It's a bit of a rush.
  
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  Where are the funds going to come from? Warwick Expansion

  by HiddenPimo in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so with the news that they are remodeling patterson and expanding warwick, where are the funds going to come from?.

  could this be a ruse like the need for thousands of kingdom halls proclaimed a few years back only to be replaced with the we realized the halls were not at capacity and the great sell-off began?.

  maybe the hope is going to be that the sheep will give give give and then all of the sudden, after prayerful consideration the gb have determined that the current resources are sufficient to create the needed media and content.. my bet is that in 10 years it will all be consolidated to warwick and walkill and patterson will be sold to who i have no idea, but they own a ton of property in upstate ny..

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  sir82

  If we assume that WT has a billion in investable assets, (they have much more in total assets), and we assume

  a realistic average return of 5% (they DO invest) that means they get at least $5 million in earned interest

  every year

  1,000,000,000 X 0.05 = $50 million per year

  And if you've got $1 billion, and you're only getting 5%, it's time to look for a new investment manager.
  
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  New building

  by asp59 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  you think the new building addition to warwick ,that will house 1000 audiovisual and art production volunteers is a push to go online with the meetings?

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  Meetings and assemblies serve only one purpose that is to keep the rank and file in line.

  Two purposes.

  You forgot, that's where the contribution boxes are.

  Old timers prefer dropping physical money in a slot, vs. contributing online. And old timers are pretty much the only ones who contribute nowadays.
  
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  1975 and 1981?

  by Steel in

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  2. beliefs

  is it true that in 1975 the watchtower falsely predicted the end of the world and a great number of the membership quit and just a few years later they turned disassociation into disfellowshipping?

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  Yes on all counts.
  
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  Removing Mr. Trump from office.....

  by mikeflood in

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  2. current

  former fbi deputy director mccabe confirms: there were discussions within the department of justice about invoking 25 th amendment to remove trump from office.... .

  i mean the us democracy isn't a third world country, a least the people involved should be reprimanded, they acted like trying a coup d'etat..

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  I remember this! Back when the silver bullet was Cohen.

  All in due time

  https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/politics/michael-cohen-new-york-interview/index.html
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  Thirty years a tower slave

  by rickroll in

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  2. bible

  i was with my brother in law when we were in service and given this book.

  i have posted on this before but it got me to thinking.

  it was taken from us by the local elder we talk to about it.

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  There's tons of reviews of it on Amazon - that should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.

  https://www.amazon.com/s?k=thirty+years+a+watchtower+slave&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
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  Our Spiritual Heritage of Failed Expectations

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last sunday's watchtower tells the story of a man who:.

  was baptized in 1908 at the age of 20. he was very confident that he would soon receive his reward.

  in fact, when he proposed marriage in 1911, he told his prospective bride, pearl: “you know what is going to happen in 1914. if we are going to get married, we better do it soon!” did this christian couple give up the race for life when they did not receive their heavenly reward in 1914?

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  What Half Banana said.

  It's really quite sad - I'm on the far end of middle age, and I think of all the JW adults that I knew as a kid, hundreds of them, all believing they would literally "never grow old".

  Now, they're all dead, or dying, or suffering from dementia. It's probably worse for the handful still mentally aware - imagine that you literally believed you'd never grow old - and here you are, 80 or 90, broken body, pain, grief, knowing you've got at most a year or 2 of misery & pain left before you too die....
  
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  U.S. Supreme Court Denies Watchtower’s Certiorari Plea

  by Jerome56 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-40.html.

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  sir82

  Another anti-WT precedent.

  Betcha this one doesn't make "Proclaimers Vol. 2".