The Governing Body is certainly being elevated more and more over the Faithful & Discreet Slave. My predicition is that the FDS will be redefined to be the Governing Body, the house is the anointed, and the belongings as the other sheep.
donuthole
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Latest convention brochure on,,, the Governing Body
by cedars ini've finally get my hands on a pdf of one of the two newly released brochures, this one entitled "who are doing jehovah's will today?".
here's a link so you can download your own copy.... http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/98881625/file.html.
predictably, the brochure is extremely vague on key topics.
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2012 Convention "Their Spiritual Mother" on YouTube (48 min. w/commentor) - ugh
by Gayle inmotivating right hearted ones to love their spiritual mother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zxvfheesk.
mr. brock makes good comments along the way pointing out watchtower methodology to twist & control.. .
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donuthole
Seems like "mother" is getting reintroduced into the JW lingo. It went out a fashion for some decades.
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quick build fun
by outsmartthesystem inhow many of you have ever worked on a quick build?
here's a good one.
i am a professional pencil pusher by nature.....but many years ago i decided i would volunteer at quick builds so i could help "build a house for jehovah".
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donuthole
- Smoking oregano in the kitchen.
- Destroying a basketball hoop at a hotel.
- Sliced open my hand while deboning chicken breasts -- kept going.
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The "Secrecy Policy
by Celestial ini've given this recent lawsuit quite a bit of thought and come to sound conclusions.
after examining other organization's child-protection policies (namely churches), what i've come to realize is there's a one-size fits all solution that's socially acceptable; all information obtained through witnesses and confessions by organizational personnel is be used to aid and abet law-enforcement.
there's no in-between or anything short of this objective that's socially acceptable.
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donuthole
The minister/communicant privilege does not apply to Jehovah's Witnesses, because investigation/judicial committes always involve at least two elders, if not more, and correspondence regarding the communicant is sent to JW HQ.
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Hospitality after Public Talk - ???
by RubaDub ini see a lot of mentions about hospitality after the public talk and honestly, i guess it is a practice that was not in the ny/ct area i grew up in or here in south florida today.. i grew up with an elder father and grandfather who gave public talks and were generally well-liked.
as a child, i never recall being invited to someone's house after the meeting.
granted, it was rare to travel more than an hour but regardless, it was typical to get in the car and head home after the "amens.
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donuthole
In my midwest hall we had a sign up sheet on the information board that listed the speakers, both local and incoming. The more popular elders would get signed up for quickly, while the b-listers would be blank for a while, sometimes even up to the day of their talk. When I could, I'd sign up to take out the unpopular ones, other times it would fall to one of the elders or a bookstudy group. Normally, the speaker would be taken out to a local sit-down restaraunt. On occasion someone would fix something at their home, but that was difficult since you didn't really have time to prepare a lunch and so had to fall back to some kind of crock pot dish you could put while you went to the meeting. The most frustrating things were when a speaker would come in with an entire entourage: their wife, their brood, their moms, the single brotha looking for sistas, grandma, etc.
As a child I hated having to go over to someone's house. 1.) You often had to stay a LONG time and if they didn't have kids it was sooooo boring. 2.) You were at the mercy of whatever they fixed. The little old ladies with their salmon patties were the worst.
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Is the Borg "really" guilty in the Candace Conti case ???
by RubaDub infull disclosure:.
i am an active (2-4 hrs/month) 3rd generation jw hovering under the radar.
been posting here for 10 years.
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donuthole
It doesn't have to be an annoucement from the platform. The current policy is that elders are gagged from informing families, even privately, if a known molestor among them. Why put such a restriction on the elders? This is a no-brainer and should have been lifted years ago.
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Watchtower found guilty ruled to pay 7 million to 1 victim? wow
by yourmomma inis this recent?
http://www.silentlambs.org/oaklandlawsuit.htm.
i havent seen anyone post about it, the link has a pdf on it of the court documents, and it looks like the stamp is from 5/12 but its blurry.. .
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donuthole
Awesome news! I hope this puts the nail in the coffin of judicial committees and also kills that stupid policy of not telling families about known molestors in the congregation.
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donuthole
No. You can't copyright a name. You can only trademark one. Even at that, there is no confusing a magical warrior wizard with a brick company.
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The Watchtower vs. the Internet. (This is Spaaarlock!)
by donuthole inwithin days of the release of the watchtower's new children's dvd, some video clips from the animated movie were uploaded to youtube.
the watchtower quickly rallied to remove some videos from youtube under copyright claims.
that is their legal right, no matter how counter to their stated goals of spreading their unique version of the good news world wide.
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donuthole
Within days of the release of the Watchtower's new children's DVD, some video clips from the animated movie were uploaded to YouTube. The Watchtower quickly rallied to remove some videos from YouTube under copyright claims. That is their legal right, no matter how counter to their stated goals of spreading their unique version of the good news world wide. The Watchtower is about information control and they are determined that on the Internet there should be only one channel of information about Jehovah's Witnesses, there official website www.jw.org. The Governing Body expressely prohibits individiual Jehovah's Witnesses from actively promoting their faith online on social media, Intenet forums, and personal blogs.
Unfortnately for the Watchtower that is just not how the Internet works. Go on Google or YouTube and search "Sparlock" and you'll be greeted with an expanding flood of content from ex-JW's championing the Watchtower's warrior wizard and speaking against the crippling cult-like control the Watchtower has over JW families. Within a week of the release of the new DVD the character has gone viral promoting a message that is opposite the Watchtower's intentions. Unlike JW's so-called "opposers" have no restrictions on their freedom of speech. Like the mythical hydra, for every video Watchtower legal removes, two more can be uploaded to takes its place.
Imagine a convention center where one Governing Body member is giving the Watchtower's message while the other five thousand in attendence are speaking the opposite. That is the Internet. The "large apostate army" can overshadow the Watcthower's singular shrill voice by sheer unfettered numbers. The Watchtower cannot compete with this unless they want to empower individual JW's to spread their faith online.
What is the Watchtower's response to this? In their new brochure "Who Are Doing Jehovah's Will Today?", the Watchtower warns potential converts: "Some Internet sites have been set up by opposers to spread false information about our organization. Their intent is to draw people away from serving Jehovah. We should avoid those site." The delusion of the Governing Body is believing that the public will be obedient to their calls to tune out the thousands of contrary messages on the Internet and just focus on the Watchtower's version.
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Has the WTB&TS broken copyright/Trade-mark laws with their use of sparlock ?
by smiddy inwhen i googled sparlock,i was directed to some companies that traded under that name , so i`m just curious if they have infringed on some laws here.. any legal eagles here that can to shed some light on this ?.
i`m just curious.. smiddy.
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donuthole
You can't copyright a name. You can trademark it.
Example: The movie Troll contained a character named Harry Potter. The name was later used by a British author for a book series which lead to some movie adaptations. That version of Harry Potter was trademarked. The troll remake comes out and uses the name Harry Potter (now made famous by the book/movie series). Is it trademark infringement? Not necessarily unless the audience would confuse Troll's Harry Potter with the trademarked Harry Potter.
The Watchtower's Sparlock is nothing like the minor Pokemon character that barely registers as a blip on the Internet compared to the Watchtower's Warrior Wizard. We don't even know how the Watchtower spells the name. Maybe it is Sparlokkk? It really doesn't matter, because neither the Watchtower's Sparlock nor the Pokemon Sparlock are trademarked. I could make a movie tomorrow about a Hungarian short order cook named Sparlock and neither Nintendo or the Watchtower can do anything about it.
Will the Watchtower trademark Sparlock in view of his growing success? It would be funny if they did.
What would be even funnier is if someone here registered the trademark for use for action figures, animated films, dolls, t-shirts, lunchboxes, Bible covers, etc.