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  Will the 'Make Good Use of Our Official Website' discussion backfire?

  by jw07 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  good day everyone,.

  i'm a born in jehovah's hostage, and am still a hostage until i can wake my family up (wishful thinking i know).

  i'll formally introduce myself later.. for now i have some burning concerns about the service meeting part for the week of december 24, 2012.

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  Doubting Bro

  Same amount of gushing over the website took place at my meeting as well. In one demo, the brother texted the URL that pointed to an article he was trying to share with the householder. The problem I see is that people will not just take the url but will goggle JWs and then run across a host of sites that contain TTATT.

  There is no way this is going to help them in their recruiting. I can see why the need to have a web presence and have had one for years. But, to encourage its use in preaching seems to be a bad idea for them.

  There is no doubt in my mind that they are going to discontinue the public WT & Awake in the not too distant future and move to a tract work similar to what the LDS does. At least the LDS has an interactive section on their website that missionaries will engage with people. There's no way the WTS will do that.

  Now, if they really want to make some cash, they need to establish Warwick as the JW version of BYU. Maybe Rutherford University?
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  JW.org reports on the Sandy Hook shooting...

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  from the official jw website.... .

  school shooting in connecticutdecember 17, 2012 | united states.

  on friday, december 14, 2012, a shooting took place at an elementary school in newtown, connecticut.

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  Doubting Bro

  pathetic
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  The Early Morning Field Service Scam.

  by I quit! in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  early yesterday morning i was driving through town on a street that rearly has any foot traffic and never at 7:30 am on a sunday morning and there they were.

  a group of jbubs milling about counting time.

  i drove a little further and there was a second group walking slowly down the street in the morning drizzle.

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  I used to do that at least once a month. Start at 7am, ride around to landromats, convience stores, gas stations. Drop off mags. You'd end up getting around 10 placements (depending on how many dropoffs there were). Then count your time straight through the FS meeting at 9:30 and by noon, you'd be setting at a sweet 5 hrs.

  It especially helped when aux pioneering. You could get an 8 hr day in by 3pm.

  What a colossal waste of time!!!
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  HELP!!! Need Contacts in Portland-Gresham Oregon

  by Juan Viejo2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a very special request for help - not money - just information!!!.

  i normally would not ask this kind of a favor, but this really is important.. i am working with portland area investigators and journalists who are doing research on the whitney heichel /jonathan holt murder case and one other case involving other serious criminal activity.

  they are particularly interested in anyone who might have attended kingdom halls in or around gresham and might know some of the members, former jws, or other related contacts in that area.. if you are from that area, or have connections there, please contact me via pm.

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  Bump
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  If you are fader, how do you handle assignments etc.

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  Doubting Bro

  I'm sort of in the same boat. I give talks maybe once a quarter and if it's a subject that I'm not comfortable with, I'll switch with someone saying I think I'm traveling on business that week. So, I try to do that early enough that if I happen to be there that night, I can say that the trip fell through at the last minute. So far, so good.

  I can't bring myself to comment anymore. I used to try to make a comment that didn't bother me but the tone of the WT studies and CBS is so Obey the GB that I had a hard time doing that without resorting to childlike answers. But, no one has ever said a word to me about it.

  They don't ask me to read, pray or carry mikes which is great since I don't want to do any of that.
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  France : no more local bank accounts for congregations

  by fifth.column in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just joined a few days ago.

  still in (physically, not mentally...) for family reasons... how many attendees at the kh in the same situation ?

  currently living in france, wont say more on me for the moment.... .

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  Doubting Bro

  Seems like it will be difficult to manage for the WTS. They would need an accounts receivable department for the local congregations to handle the payment of bills. I guess you could have the locals scan in every bill/receipt and have payment issued directly from the branch. But, that seems to be taking on more responsibility for the WTS instead of pushing it away.

  I see the obvious cash grab but it's going to cost them something as well.
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  Last night in the Jeremiah Book

  by BroMac in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i dont understand when this happened: .

  *** jr chap.

  2 pp.

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  Doubting Bro

  Jeffro,

  Thanks so much for the information. Very helpful!
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  Last night in the Jeremiah Book

  by BroMac in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i dont understand when this happened: .

  *** jr chap.

  2 pp.

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  Does anyone know at what point the WT sneaks the 20 years into the timeline? I was at the meeting last night and started googling some of the events discussed and they were all 20 years off. Is there a point where WT chornology and real history actually are in synch?
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  WatchtowerWatch.com - a new online resource for Jehovah's Witnesses (a brief tribute to the work of John Hoyle)

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as many of you will know, juan viejo2 (john hoyle) is a tireless worker behind the scenes when it comes to launching, running and assisting websites that help to expose the many fallacies of watchtower doctrine.

  not only is he the genius behind ex-jw.com and insidethewatchtower.com, he also gave me a huge helping hand (before he even really knew me) by setting up jwsurvey.org, thus giving me a platform on which to run my survey and write my articles.. recently, john has also been helping randy watters (dogpatch) with a new improved version of freeminds.org (yet to be released) that will help to ensure the longevity and usefulness of that flagship jw website for many years to come.

  if there is an unsung hero of the ex-jw community working behind the scenes to keep everything ticking, quietly tightening the bolts and oiling the joints of the apostate internet juggernaut, in my humble opinion it simply has to be john hoyle.. always looking for the next new project, and not content with already running an impressive portfolio of ex-jw sites, john has now launched watchtowerwatch.com - a website that will hopefully serve as a one-stop resource for some of the best jw-related content and stories on the web.

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  Doubting Bro

  Nice looking site. Bookmarked it

  Thanks to both of you for your hard work.
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  Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, Service Dept; Legal team,all Elders MS, are encouraged to watch the Documentary,' Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God'.

  by Sol Reform in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  each and every organization that deals with children should have its president, board, and all employees watch this film, and then read this column so that they can identify the players, the machinations, and the mistakes that institutions make when it comes to children and pedophiles.

  december 3, 2012 marci a. hamilton.

  a review of the documentary mea maxima culpa: silence in the house of god, which reveals the paradigm of institution-based child sex abuse.

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  Doubting Bro

  Looks like it will be on HBO in Feb

  Thanks for the link