Posts by Jeffro

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How long will it be

by joe134cd in

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just wanting estimations on "how long do you think it will be before the society allows internet witnessing as another avenue of preaching".

i feel it will only be a matter of time.

they have to do something to counteract all the negative stuff.

Jeffro

Because JW preaching is self-reported, there's already nothing to stop JW apologists from counting the time they spend 'preaching' on forums such as this one.

That said, much of the time of 'actual' 'preaching' reported by JWs involves transit rather than actual preaching, especially in rural or semi-rural areas (as well as time spent in a great many coffee shops).

The number of 'peak publishers' is also distorted in JW 'preaching' figures because individuals who fail to report in a particular month can submit two reports the following month, artificially inflating the count.

For all they do to increase the purported number of hours spent 'preaching', it just makes their conversion ratio look worse.

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Tiny procedural change

by Caminante in

since i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).

i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.

first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.

Jeffro

Caminante:

The crappy quality is because the PDFs uploaded to JW.org have all images reduced to 150 ppi.

That sounds pretty ridiculous for a large publishing company that has always claimed to be on the forefront of publishing technology. They managed to come up with unnecessarily large files and still have crappy quality. Genius. It's quite odd that they haven't since replaced the large files with smaller files of better quality, at least in the more common languages.

And the Greatest Man book probably needs some 'New Light'™ updates anyway...

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Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

by Nathan Natas in

i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

how "real" do they seem?

is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

Jeffro

Comatose:

because I knew what I was going to say and what she would say and then I would say

This may be delayed memory formation, resulting in remembering it before the actual memory of experiencing it has fully formed, giving the impression that you knew about it in advance. The earlier dream would only need to be superficially similar to the subsequent conversations where the actual delayed memory formation was taking place.

Or it could just be a distorted memory of a dream which is later incorrectly recalled as 'exactly the same'.

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Tiny procedural change

by Caminante in

since i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).

i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.

first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.

Jeffro

Caminante:

No, it's not scanned. The old version of MEPS Composition (pre-1997) generated text as a separate layer of black and white (1-bit) bitmap. Current reprints use the latest renditions on file.

Seriously? Well the glyphs are crappy quality (these could have been output to the bitmap at a higher resolution but weren't), and there's no text recognition apart from the re-done covers and the table of contents. Very poor.

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Tiny procedural change

by Caminante in

since i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).

i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.

first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.

Jeffro

I was just doing some checking on the JW.org downloads site, and found it amusing that whilst most of the publications are 'proper' generated PDFs, the Greatest Man book is a dodgy scanned version. They haven't even done text recognition on the actual content of the book.

Bible Stories book is also a dodgy scan.

I looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month

Moving away from the re-scanned versions to PDFs generated from scratch is probably the reason.

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Tiny procedural change

by Caminante in

since i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).

i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.

first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.

Jeffro

Just a guess, but it's probably because they say (elsewhere) that the literature is "published by Jehovah's Witnesses", which - unlike the Watch Tower Society - isn't a corporation.

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Suggested Contribution Rate 1 Cor 16:2

by jonahstourguide in

in case you were in doubt, the suggested weekly rate is.

au$50.

page 8 nov 15 2013 study edition .

Jeffro

jonahstourguide:

1.4% of the minimum monthly wage in Australia is $56

the real figure for average weekly wage in oz not the government and employers dream of the poverty australians should be living in

Okay... so which is it? Minimum monthly wage, or average weekly wage. (In either case, the claimed correlation doesn't exist.)

i was incorrect, my figures are in fact too low

In fact, your figures for Australia were too low and your figures for Togo were too high (and on the wrong ends of the scale to be 'corrected' by you 'realising' your error). Ergo, there is no correlation.

the intent was to show the subliminal suggestion in the wt that others noted as well

As already stated, any 'subliminal suggestion' is only relevant to people who recognise the specific currency depicted.

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Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

by Nathan Natas in

i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

how "real" do they seem?

is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

Jeffro

TweetieBird:

I was slipped something at a party once when I was a teenager (maybe LSD) and for years after I would have hallucinations when I slept.

Years after? Probably not associated with the drink spiking. More likely a sleep disorder.

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Suggested Contribution Rate 1 Cor 16:2

by jonahstourguide in

in case you were in doubt, the suggested weekly rate is.

au$50.

page 8 nov 15 2013 study edition .

Jeffro

jonahstourguide:

your a bit of a wiz so i reckon you could do it easy

I hardly need to. Your premise for the comparison was invalid to start with. I've done more than enough to prove that your correlation is wrong, so it was only necessarily to show the math only as long as it amused me.

I used current Fair Work Australia figures, rather than previous statistics. However, if you used old values, the minimum wage would have been lower, so it should have taken even longer than your supposed 2.7 hours for Australia, which was already not long enough to earn the supposed $56 on minimum wage. And yet it takes less than 1 hour to earn the amount you claimed for 2.7 hours on minimum wage in Togo.

You're just wrong. If I cared enough, I would demonstrate with a third currency, but I've well and truly made the point already.

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Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

by Nathan Natas in

i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

how "real" do they seem?

is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

Jeffro

NewYork44M:

I would suggest that most hallucinations are drug induced.

Apart from illicit or prescription drugs, hallucinations can have various causes, including fatigue, various sleep disorders (or even interrupted deep sleep), dehydration, feverish illness, cancer, brain injury...