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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

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  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  I think the property sales just indicate streamlining business and the GB fur-
  ther isolating themselves for security. The HQ (25-30 Columbia Heights, DUMBO)
  and two other properties are expected to sell for over 1 billion dollars. The
  Watchtower is expected to move from the Brooklyn headquarters to upstate Warwick
  (Orange county in southern NY) in 2016-2017. Wallkill (printing
  operation) was expanded.
  http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/12/4/sales-watchtower-headquarters-and-two-other-jehovah%E2%80%99s-witnesses-properties-could
  http://www.warwickadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140617/NEWS01/140619969/Jehovah-Witness-World-HQ-project-moving-forward-
  https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/construction/wallkill-warwick-projects/
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick,_New_York

  I can only guess what they have in mind about Special Pioneers--some kind of
  replacement?
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  ^ The latter was my reaction. I didn't know about the former.

  If this v is Toole what's the A.R.C. issue?

  The Watchtower Society conceded to the Australian Parliament that blood transfusions are at times essential to save lives. In the Hansard Committee, Vin Toole, representing the legal department of the Australian Branch of the Watchtower Society, makes such an admission.

  "What we have said is that there may well be circumstances arise where it does become an absolute life and death issue." aph.gov.au as at 27th May 2006

  http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/blood-transfusions.php
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABSbzZt7Xw&ebc=ANyPxKrxPN89PKOg-SUP8tMhzSPJWczbJzDb4vW0LyfRdc-Hd8_CISnKCxgYi_2ax0NOWDAFUTAvcgYD-jovWRlAPm7lzrMSWQ

  Vin Toole and G. Jackson were caught lying under oath at the A.R.C.

  What's the A.R.C. and what are the related issues? (Who's Vin Toole?)
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  Thanks! Should I interpret the first guy as savvy (to be allowed in the GB) but condescending?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgf4v8d_ol4
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  Is there a link to a video of the GB? I'd like to see that. It sounds weird.
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  Ha!

  Here's another one I ran into today. Did you have this one yet?

  Rama Singh, Professor of Biology at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada,
  was quoted out of context in the Jan., 2015 "Awake!" to leave the false impres-
  sion that he supported the JWs leaders' stance to doubt evolution.

  "Rama Singh, professor of biology at Canada'a McMaster University, says:
  'The opposition to evolution goes beyond religious fundamentalism and in-
  cludes a great many people from educated sections of the population.'"

  So he wrote to the editor of "Awake!" asking for an apology.

  "So I am asking you first to remove the misquotation from your article
  immediately and second print an unconditional apology for what I consider
  is a deliberate damaging action on your part to my reputation."

  Subsequent Internet and .pdf versions removed the quote but the professor
  didn't recieve an apology.
  http://jwsurvey.org/cedars-blog/jw-org-does-partial-u-turn-over-awake-magazine-rama-singh-misquote
  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201501/evolution-vs-creation/
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  - Maybe it's because I'm not up on things but I thought the GB made the rules
  and the followers didn't have any say in it before. Whats the big difference
  now?

  - The Internet thing doesn't surprise me. It just had to take them a bit to
  think of a way to make money from it like literature.

  - Are they allowing flags without calling it idolatry now?

  - Whats the money grubbing? I thought the followers were kept too low on
  money to grub for it.
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  Notable changes of the JWs org, in the last five years or so

  by glenster in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been updating the links at my web site and i'm working on the gtjbrooklyn pages now.

  what would you say are the several biggest changesin the jws organization/rules in the last five years or so?

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  glenster

  I've been updating the links at my web site and I'm working on the GTJ
  Brooklyn pages now. What would you say are the several biggest changes
  in the JWs organization/rules in the last five years or so?
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  Where to get a painting like Ben Carson got

  by glenster in

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  see 9:26 2:07 action park 6:03 kingdom of the little people 7:01 dismaland (banksy) 9:26 holy land experience "top 10 bizarre theme parks" by watchmojo.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sau37iinvgk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/action_park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kingdom_of_the_little_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dismaland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/holy_land_experience

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  glenster

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hukbuy36QRU

  "Rope" Hitchcock
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  " Truth is the Most Beautiful Thing " ..... debate.

  by Phizzy in

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  "truth is the most beautiful thing" is a quote from andrea camilleri, author of the montalbano novels among many other writings.. what do you think about that statement ?.

  is there anything more beautiful ?

  or do other things top it, or come further down the list of beautiful things ?.

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  glenster

  Glen T. Winstein

  "True" is my middle name. It was my mother's maiden name, Margaret Ann True, and I'm named after her

  brother Russell Glen True (who died in the Battle of the Bulge).