It would save them alot of money , they are always looking for ways to cut spending such as the move to not use the post office and mail the publications but instead they use a tractor trailer to move their publications throughout the country . The problem is that in third world countries people would not have web access so works better to print up material and send it where it needs to go . Of course the control issue is always there but it is their material and they have the right to do what they want with copy writ .
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How much will Watchtower publish online?
by jonathanconway ini've noticed that they have a small selection of articles online.. however the majority of their stuff is only accessible through either the watchtower cdrom or dead trees.. has anyone yet asked them about putting their entire library online?.
if their aim is to "spead the good news", then what possible reason could there be for not making the content publicly accessible?.
since they already have it in electronic form (i believe the content is already in html format on the cd), the cost of doing this would be minimal, and it would probably make their website rank better in google.. of course, the flip-side is that this would allow others to link to their content and discuss it openly and, anonymously, which might expose them to much more criticism than they've ever experienced before.. but i'm wondering what their excuse would be if someone asked them "why not"?.
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Bad press is putting the Watchtower org. in a defensive mode
by koolaid-man inthe squeaky clean image of the jehovah's witnesses as of late is becoming tarnished.
the news media is reporting many stories connecting the jehovah's witnesses to horrific, terrible crimes, as well as other odd behavior in their religion.
the recent murder and cannibalism of a young baby in texas as reported by the media suggested that the mother, who was the alleged murderer, was a jehovah's witness.the breaking story of phillip and nancy garrido in antioch california and the evil act of kidnapping a young girl and keeping her a prisoner in their back yard as well as his raping and having two children by her is extreme evil.
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I think the point that was trying to be made is that the WTBTS does excomunicate people that are proven to engage in immoral behaviour where as say these people were in the catholic ,the church would not take action at all just like in the case of adolph hitler or pedophile preists that they just moved them to a new location . Of course I've never been in the JW religion like many on the board so don't have personal experiences of what politics are involved with remaining in good standing .
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Blood Fractions - following quote from the Reasoning Book
by insearchoftruth inwhen i asked the elder about blood fractions he said that they are allowed because the bible does not speak directly to fractions....well if the bible does not speak directly to fractions, upon what did they base the below statement in the reasoning from the scriptures book....... .
animal flesh may be eaten, but not the blood.
gen. 9:3,4: "every moving animal that is alive may serve.
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The WTBTS will never give up it's position on blood since they are a legalistic corporation that would no doubt look into the legal situation first before it concerns itself with the lives of it's members . Remember the end is so very nye you will only be dead for a short while .They would leave themselves open to law suits for coecing it's members into subjection to it's rules . It's obvious to me that the mosaic rules are not aplicable since the apostle Paul always refuted the unnecessary compliance to the law in reguards to circumsizm . All that remains of the law is peace , love and unity , the new laws in place are based on Love especially.
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The Faithful Steward and it's Governing Body
by Mickey mouse inthis will be studied in two weeks time but it's such a special .
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donuthole- If you read the public version of the WT and awake they recently had an article on how the anointed are chosen by God . When you get baptized at some point after God give you holy spirit which would make it obvious beyond a doubt that you are in the flock but only to you today , back in the first century they had gifts from the spirit such as speaking in toungues , prophesy , healing and such but today they don't claim any such power , even tho the scripture does state ," in the final part of the days men servants would prophesy and have visions and female slaves would prophesy and old men would dream dreams," (I'm guessing it's to do with dream interpretation). Now I do know an "anointed" that claims to experience nothing out of the ordinary .
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The Faithful Steward and it's Governing Body
by Mickey mouse inthis will be studied in two weeks time but it's such a special .
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Just looks like another of those articles where they want to claim infalibility yet won't come out and say it . Since God apointed them we have to accept their inconsistancy as the perfect will of God . Of course they won't say that all "anointed" are equal since women are yet a sub group of the anointed and not allowed to lead the organization nor preach or hold any authority in the congregation . I don't like the part where they make it sound as if the "anointed" were always good christians , the apostle Paul was clear that they were just as immoral as everybody else prior to their conversion and many did leave to start their own sects . Some returned after commiting gross sinful acts .
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jesse jackson,cnn now, i am going to hurl
by orbison11 injesse is saying katherine knows she will see mj again, due to her faith.
(where is my hurl icon).
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allow me, this is as close as it gets. It even made me sick whenever cnn showed the cloud cover in NY city and people thought they could see MJ in the clouds , give me a break please.
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that makes about no sense . Just because his name has six letters in first middle and last doesn't make him the beast . ridiculous .
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M. JACKSON FUNERAL WILL BE AN EXCELLENT WITNESS!!!!
by whereami inwas at the hall and all the dubs were talking about was that michael jacksons funeral will serve as a "huge witness to the world".. do you really think the boys in brooklyn will use this as a perfect opportunity do make a "good witness"?.
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I would doubt it since he was not actually a devout witness, didn't he convert to islam during his second trial?
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beards are from satan!
by Adrianoblue init is illegal to wear a beard.
(matthew 24:45-47).
but it is legal to wear a mustache.
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Some good points being made about beards. God and christ are both seen as having beards in heaven even , the WTBTS depicts all angels as having beards where as I don't recall seeing any pics of the devil with a beard . I think the hair situation was more about being separate from the world but the apostle Paul tried to say that only women could have long hair but in the mosaic law the rite of the nazarite was to not cut his hair unless in morning or toward the end of his term .
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"Kingdom Songs" can be used for torture of Prisoners???
by Witness 007 inforget waterboard torture, have recordings of witnesses singing at the meeting.
last week the song during the service meeting was absolutely horrid!
singing classics like "from house to house" "we're jehovahs witnesses" it's torture!
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no kidding !! These people can't sing along with the music for sh!t . Unbelievable how they write this music for piano yet they are tone deaf . That stuff is absurdly difficult for people that don't have any music training and are expected to sing along regardless .