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  Tribute to John Thaw (Inspector Morse)

  by ozziepost in

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  here in oz one national tv station is broadcasting an evening of morse as a tribute to the late actor john thaw.. thought you uk posters would like to know that morse's popularity was worldwide.. vale john thaw.

  cheers,.

  ozzie.

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  Like him a lot in his role of Kavanagh as well.

  

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  My visit to WT official site

  by larc in

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  englishman has a thread about the generation idea and the apostates - most interesting.

  after reading this, it occured to me it would be interesting to go to the official watchtower internet site and use there search function on different words and see what they had to say.

  here is what i found out.. first of all, they do not show complete articles.

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  To: Farkel

  Fact: it is hardly any more difficult to do this on a web site than it is on a desktop, and they've already been doing it for years with their desktop CD ROM.

  Fact: once the very basic code is written, no more programming is needed for an application to find "JWs in Spiritual Paradise" than it is to find "The Man in the Moon."

  Fact: since the Society's search engine isn't finding matches for quotes and topics we KNOW exist in the publications, they have made their search criteria selective and not universal.

  Fact: I'm a professional programmer with 20 years experience and know what I'm talking about.

  Therefore: they are dishonest and deceptive and are trying to hide information in their publications which is embarrassing and even damning.

  Do you have any examples for this? I mean where you use their CD-ROM and software, type a search term and no or too little results come up, and you can manually bring up a page that should have been found, even when you use document scope?

  I know they have done this with the published indices but I'd like to see an example that they do it in their software as well. Maybe that explains why they moved away from Folio-views (remember the floppy NWT?) and went for home grown software.

  If the above assertion can be illustrated by some example I will put some effort in trying to reverse engineer their CD to plain ASCII or HTML and use an unbiased search engine to compare.

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  My visit to WT official site

  by larc in

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  englishman has a thread about the generation idea and the apostates - most interesting.

  after reading this, it occured to me it would be interesting to go to the official watchtower internet site and use there search function on different words and see what they had to say.

  here is what i found out.. first of all, they do not show complete articles.

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  Yoyo! Who moved your rock? You still owe me some answers I guess in our little 607 discussion, one you have referred to so far as 'easy'.

  Anyway, care to explain why the WTBS decides to 'change' some of their printed artifacts once they make it into 'bound volumes' or get published in electronic form on a CD-ROM? Have you ever wondered why they publish WT-indices that leave certain materials out from the lemma's where you'd expected them? Examples of that have been given here in the past if I remember correctly.

  Probably not a consipiracy (borderline maybe) but it's what we call 'information management'. See the Insight-lemma 'LIE', 2nd sentence, 1st paragraph.

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  My visit to WT official site

  by larc in

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  englishman has a thread about the generation idea and the apostates - most interesting.

  after reading this, it occured to me it would be interesting to go to the official watchtower internet site and use there search function on different words and see what they had to say.

  here is what i found out.. first of all, they do not show complete articles.

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  HS: I often wondered why the bOrg seems so willing to give ample room to technical amateurs: whether it's in construction, electronics (sound systems anyone?), CAD/CAM, computers etc. I've seen many an occasion where pretty solid and sage advice from professionals was ignored so utter profoundly that at that time it made me decide not to get involved with any such things anymore.

  And all that apart from interference of commercial interests: the cases where some "brother's" business involved in purchasing and installing the required stuff, be it lighting, alarm systems, cabling, mikes, amps, speakers, gardening, etc.

  It made me wonder when I read their boastful yearbook stories about MAN, Heidelberg, Linotype and Heller (and what other postwar German Wirtschaftswunder-companies you have) are more truthful in that respect. Personally I've zip experience in largescale industrial printing but some here may have had to do with it in their pasts. Care to shine a light?

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  My story is to long to tell......

  by zugzzwan in

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  i am new to this forum but i have for the past several days been reading posts from people that for the first time in 26 years have pasts, memories and feelings like my self.

  suffice to say that i too was born and raised in "the truth".

  i have at one time or another been, a ms, a vacation pioneer, a regular pioneer, a disfellowship individual, a re-instated individual, publicly reproved, privately reproved and finally for the past 7 years a man who they don't even come on my property cause he's a nut who might shoot you and will at the very least call the police and have you arrested for trespassing individual.. unlike so many others though i find no personal desire to rant or rage against the machine.

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  But do you play chess?

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  Best National Anthem

  by Mulan in

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  okay, let's do a poll.. since it looks like many of us are watching the olympics, let's vote on which country has the best national anthem.. i love canada's.

  i find myself hoping a canadian will win, so i can sing along to their song.. when the russians win, i get a cold disquieting feeling, since they adopted the old soviet anthem again.

  too many memories of the old ussr.. marilyn (aka mulan).

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  The French hymn is great, but ex aequo with the Italian. Germany strong on third, and (sorry Mulan) Russia definitely on fourth.

  http://www.national-anthems.net/

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  Which Hand Is Yours???

  by Mister Biggs in

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  during our previous or current stint in the org, we all know that each congregation had a publisher who had a peculiar way of raising his or her hand.. do you remember.... 1)...the 'black power' one?

  i know the answer!

  4)...the 'yosemite sam' one?

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  VERY interesting (April 1, 2002 WT, p.19)

  by stevieb1 in

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  this statement is prety interesting.

  it's taken from the very latest watchtower article (april 1, 2002) the final sentence of paragraph 14 reads:.

  "if jehovah's organization knowingly endorsed false teachings, advice to read the bible would never be given to jehovah's witnesses and those to whom they preach.".

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  Nelly, PLM: until I see it in print I think Stevie is having a field day with his/her rather early April Fools joke this year...

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  Grandfather died

  by Cygnus in

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  and now there is a debate between my father and his sister whether there should be a memorial service at the kingdom hall.. is there a rule whereby an elder who gives a memorial service at a kingdom hall must use the society's outline?

  because my father and my grandmother have made it quite clear that he under no circumstances do they want that.

  (i'm very blessed to have jw family who do not shun me even with the long hair (yes it is growing back), earring, and, oh yeah, disfellowshipment).

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  Cyg, sorry for your loss.

  FWIW my elder-dad did a lot of funeral talks, some with Bethel-brass around. He always refused to use the outline. Same for wedding talks, memorial talk, and his Sunday public talks. Still he had a busy talk schedule, about three Sundays out of four. Yet for some reason he never did CA or DA talks... Not sure whether such liberalism would be acceptable State-side as well, but I'm pretty sure there's no rule.

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  What's the latest on "The Danni X-Files&qu...

  by Bendrr in

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  looks like it's just disappeared.

  no more posts from danni.

  no more posts from mymy.. just to add my own little tidbit here, has anyone heard of a park hills (or parkhill) congregation?

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  Still don't know who Danni, Mark or KylishLee are. But I now do know what a Sam BrownE is:

  

  :)

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