Posts by AudeSapere

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JW came to door

by gma-tired2 in

jws don't waste time talking today.

she knocked on door, husband answered, she said were doing a world wide work and shoved a pamplet in his hand and left.

i remember the days when we actually try to get the householders in a conversation.

AudeSapere

Bruja-del-Sol asked: And why the hell did they put an ENGLISH tract at our house???

Sorry, but I do not know your details or situation. If your primary language is English and you are currently living in a non-english area, someone in your neighborhood may have pointed you out to them. In my area, several years ago, there were Spanish-speaking JWs that went door simply asking if anyone in the house spoke spanish. If the answer was 'no', they they asked if I knew anyone in the area who *does* speak spanish.

Simply another marketing/prospecting tactic.

-Aude.

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Does anyone remember what year...

by satinka in

jw
friends

does anyone remember what year the word "servant" was replaced with "overseer" as in circuit servant overseer, district servant overseer ... and up the hierarchal lineage of the jws?.

much appreciated,.

satinka.

AudeSapere

I think it was early- to mid-'70's.

-Aude.

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JW came to door

by gma-tired2 in

jws don't waste time talking today.

she knocked on door, husband answered, she said were doing a world wide work and shoved a pamplet in his hand and left.

i remember the days when we actually try to get the householders in a conversation.

AudeSapere

Special Tract Work was done in a 'blitzing' style.

I remember from the platform our entire presentation was suggested to be: "Good Morning, I'm taking part in the worldwide distribution of this tract. This is your free copy. Thank you. Good-bye!"

I think we had 10 days to get rid of place 50 tracts.

Maybe there is s blitz-type promotion happening now?

I don't know, just guessing. It *has* been one of their promotional strategies.

-Aude.

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WT gearing up to dump Russell and come clean on early history?

by Comatose in

we've discussed this on lots of threads, but i've noticed a few things lately.

they seem to be talking about the early days on a very regular basis, almost constantly.

the change to fds happens and this involved a dive into early history and a few knocks on russell.

AudeSapere

wearewatchingyouman wrote: Did anybody notice the usage of "about" in regards to 1914 in the"Silver Sword"?

QUESTION: What is the 'Silver Sword'? Is this something that a JWN poster came up with or is it a real JW phrase?

-Aude.

14

Deactivate My Account

by villagegirl in

how do i deactivate my account and.

erase all mail and messages get out of here ?.

i see no option to deactivate or to trash messages.

AudeSapere

Wow. VillageGirl - what happened??

I've enjoyed your posts and hope things are OK with you. If you need to remove something specific from your post(s), send a copy of the link to Simon or Angharad. To remove your entire account, it's not usually done. Best to send a pm to Simon if that's what you really need.

I hope you decide to stay. But if not, it's been nice having you here with us.

-Aude.

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Does anyone know what is happening with Italy's (Rome) Bethel???

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

jw
friends

there are rumors out, that the italy (rome) bethel is being shut down and putting out to pasture a large portion of the bethel staff.. has anyone heard anything... ?.

the word is that everyone but the most senior members will be let go.

the senior bethel family members will be reassigned.

AudeSapere

LaFrancia asked: what is MARKED and MARKING ?

It is a personal note to myself (and apparently another poster) that we find the thread interesting and want to be able come back to it later on. Either there is information already presented or we expect more content and it's a way to remind ourselves to come back at a later time.

By 'marking' it, we can quickly and easily find it when we click on our own personal profile and select 'Topics Posted On'.

For me, I have nothing to add to the conversation so did not want to interrupt the discussion. But I wanted to leave my 'mark' for later.

Thank you for your efforts and contributions to this forum and the other site.

-AudeSapere (meaning: Dare to Know; Dare to Have Wisdom/Understanding)

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Does anyone know what is happening with Italy's (Rome) Bethel???

by LoisLane looking for Superman in

jw
friends

there are rumors out, that the italy (rome) bethel is being shut down and putting out to pasture a large portion of the bethel staff.. has anyone heard anything... ?.

the word is that everyone but the most senior members will be let go.

the senior bethel family members will be reassigned.

AudeSapere

(marking)

15

My friends visitation is tonight all of her JW family will be there

by troubled mind in

today i need some encouraging support ..i will be attending my friends funeral visitation tonight .. we had been jws together since childhood ,and then three yrs ago she was dfd .

we have supported each other these past few yrs with encouragement .she comes from a huge jw family, and they all plan on attending tonight.

i have known them all my life ,and they hate me for leaving the cult.

AudeSapere

Just saw this now and so glad it went well. Maybe even 'better than expected'. (??)

It's nice that you got to sit with the normal people. That part made me smile.

*hugs*

-Aude.

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In Response to a Dare from Besty, Dagney and Aude

by DNCall in

http://s1123.photobucket.com/user/dncall/media/photo.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0.

besty made a business trip to california last week.

naturally, i had to get together with him.

AudeSapere

That was a fun evening! I was trying to figure out what was up with your 'mustache'. Oh! It's the cigar.

@VillageGirl - yes, this is the right sight. We had a quiet, unadvertised mini-apostafest last week. So far this is the only photo to surface - that I'm aware of. But I don't think this particular photo was taken by the meth-head. I think it was the 2nd volunteer that took this one. I say that because it's not blurry!

Good times! Thanks again~!! I hope WhoKnows and SweetPea can make it next time.

-Aude.

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Independent verification of Mexico Vs. Malawi

by Knowsnothing in

i posted on manki's crisis of conscience thread the following, and decided it deserves a thread of it's own (giving it was completely ignored, lol).

i'll give you a head start, manky.. http://tearsofoberon.blogspot.com/2009/10/mexico-military-and-jwsthe-truth.html.

under the subheading 6.0 lies and exaggerations, he goes on to say this:.

AudeSapere

(marking for later)