Thanks, Rub a Dub. I remember a bro in a Spanish-speaking cong in S. Calif. telling me that once. He'd been a Bethelite in NY and told me how bad the Spanish was at HQ. The Society's translations of the publications were all being done by Puerto Rican bros and how different that was from what he was used to in Calif. So then this getting "a rev. Spanish NWT" may be a problem. That leads to the question, however, how they pulled it off before, with the previous editions of the NWT? And what about the current publications? Are they being translated into all these different dialects of Spanish?
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Revised NWT in French released yesterday
by careful inhttps://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .
it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..
is the german next?.
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Cotton wool jws
by purrpurr inthere was a talk i heard recently given by a top bethel bro, he was complaining that the type of young jws that have been joining bethel in recent years has been totally unfit for work or even life.
he called them "cotton wool jws" as he says that the parents of these young ones have kept them so sheltered from life that by the time they are of age to strike out on their own they are completely unable to cope socially, emotionally, mentally and that they have no practical life's skills or instincts of common sense or responsibility.
he said that the brothers at bethel have to work at peeling off the layers of cotton wool these ones have come wrapped in and that often when exposed to the reality of life away from mummy they quite literally go running back home.. for once i actually agree with a brother on the platform, i've met many a young teen or young adult whose life has been one long warm bath as it were.
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purrpurr, what a nice thread. Thanks. Some of the comments are choice:
LHG: "the enforced stupidity I witnessed at the Kingdom Hall"—excellent. I've got to remember that one!
PP: "Simpering empty headed mummies boys who were incapable of forming an independent thought or opinion" Love it.
VVL: 'his 5th rule "Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them".'
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Proof that naughty watchtower does watch apostate videos
by joe134cd inhttps://youtu.be/f_wvcvooxlo.
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watching Kim and Mikey and cedars videos is like when you were a witness. You have to sit through hours and hours of talks to get one nugget of scriptural knowledge you find useful.
Thank you, nowwhat? !!!
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Revised NWT in French released yesterday
by careful inhttps://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .
it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..
is the german next?.
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Thanks SL and FC for the info. So it is a printed copy. Perhaps they "tackled" producing the French version before the German and Spanish ones. If they're making a higher quality binding for the bros in the islands and African nations, then they must have some funding for such "robust" copies.
The new term for "congregation" en français is interesting. I wonder what's up with that. A Splane quirk? Some legal manoeuvre?
Morph, you'll just have to quit predicting the org's imminent demise! Or wait a minute, was that Morph? ...
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Delaware case
by careful inhas this been posted here?
sorry if this is "old news.".
the local elders were punished for hiding the abuse and the amount of the org's fine was made public.. https://www.theworldnewsmedia.org/topic/58649-jehovah%e2%80%99s-witness-elders-fined-for-failure-to-report-child-abuse-watchtower-settles-with-delaware/.
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Has this been posted here? Sorry if this is "old news."
The local elders were punished for hiding the abuse and the amount of the org's fine was made public.
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Ireland
by berrygerry inhttps://www.businesspost.ie/news/concerns-grow-jehovahs-witnesses-irish-child-sex-abuse-files-421695.
concerns grow over jehovah’s witnesses irish child sex abuse files.
the sunday business post (ireland), sunday, july 22, 2018 - page 11. the jehovah’s witnesses have been urged to give the authorities potentially hundreds of documents related to child sex abuse in ireland over fears the organisation could be forced to delete them after a recent european court of justice ruling on the religion’s data-handling practices.. this month, the european court of justice ruled that the jehovah’s witnesses church was not exempt on any religious grounds from certain elements of the newly introduced gdpr data protection laws.. the jehovah's witnesses had argued that its practice of door-to-door preaching was covered by an exemption to the data protection law, but the court upheld an earlier decision by the finnish supreme court.. it now leaves the religion's irish and british headquarters - known at the watch tower - with a conundrum in relation to the potentially thousands of documents related to child abuse allegations in both countries, according to jason wynne, a former jehovah's witness who is now a campainger for awareness about instances of abuse within the religion.. wynne told the sunday business post that while the new law allows current and former jehovah's witnesses to request the deletion of files containing sensitive personal information, it could also "have a knock-on effect to their child abuse policies.".
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This is an interesting development, using the recent GDPR law and court decision to access the org's hidden child abuse records. This bears watching to see how it will play out.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are fleeing Russia
by James Mixon injw's fleeing russia crackdown, seeking shelter in finland.
today in my local paper under faith, by andrew higgins the new york times..
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JM, your Seattle Times link came up 404. No results with this topic on their search either. Google, however, provides this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/world/europe/putin-trump-russia-jehovahs-witness.html
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Revised NWT in French released yesterday
by careful inhttps://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .
it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..
is the german next?.
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SBF, Who's talking about Dutch? The topic is the French rev. NWT being released, evidently in electronic format. So what's to prevent an electronic only format being announced in Spanish? What would that have to do with money any more than the French rev. NWT being released?
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Revised NWT in French released yesterday
by careful inhttps://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .
it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..
is the german next?.
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SBF, Well, if they could "afford" to produce an electronic version in French, then why not an electronic version in Spanish?
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Revised NWT in French released yesterday
by careful inhttps://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .
it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..
is the german next?.
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Yeah, the lack of the Spanish rev NWT is really strange. What's up with that? Aren't there plenty of Spanish translators? Maybe Morhp is "right"!