I'm part of the non-English speaking "big crowd". Your examples are common mistakes us aliens do, and thanks, but I won't litter my browser with a spell-checker addon (ok, mostly because I'm confident with my english skill). The "u", "r", "thx", etc. is what annoys me instead, especially in a forum, where one has time to properly spell out full words. It makes me feel like I'm talking to a lazy teenager - not that I have anything against teenagers, it just often doesn't mesh with the ideas he's trying to convey to me.
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by KingAgag inthe wts, being american, prints its english material in american english.
i know some people might trash me here but for a european i found it frustrating.
color is supposed to be colour, highway is motorway and a faucet is a bloody tap!
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advice needed on speech recognition software
by quietlyleaving ini'm looking into voice recognition software.
has anyone here tried any.
the only one i've heard of is dragon software.
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teel
Have you tried the built-in voice recognition in Windows? Not saying it's the best, but it's the cheapest On my Win 7 desktop I got acceptable results with commands - not dictating though, but that's mostly because my english is very accented, not being native english speaker.
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Is the YMCA now a concience matter?.....
by Aussie Oz inthe following is a little exchange on facebook i had, me playing devils advocate.
now, i am well aware after a search of the wt library 08 that the wbts saw no problem using ymca pools to do baptisms in the 1950s, and then in the 1979 had the big article saying a jw cannot join the y. so is this guy wrong, or has it changed?.
you wroteon january 9, 2010 at 8:25pm.
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teel
I really doubt there's any new light on that. They must think of you as a complete outsider. It's an often used tactic on outsiders to say to the more wacky laws that they are up to someone's conscience. See as a reference QFR w99 11/1, where it says voting is a conscience matter. Guess what will happen if you do vote? At best a public reproval. Same goes here.
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"By this ALL will know that you are my disciples..."
by Mad Sweeney in"...if you have love among yourselves.
" john 13:35. question: is there any religion out there of which all people in the world looks at and says, "wow, that religion clearly follows jesus because of the love they have among themselves?".
the jws claim this distinction for themselves, but what part of "all will know" is unambiguous?
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teel
Exactly, that is what a literal interpretation would suggest. A "disciple" is an individual, not a whole organization.
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Song Book changes - the 'real' reason behind them - EYE OPENING
by EndofMysteries init's very interesting comparing things that are removed.
for one, new world order and new world, new order, all being eliminated from everything.
just research nwo, "new world order", etc, to see.
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teel
there is a law that we must love, and it must be genuine and no other place on earth has this love
There sure is no other place on Earth where there is a law to show genuine love They're seemingly against forceful donations, yet they want to force love? Huh... genuine just got stripped of its meaning.
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Let the "Tithing" begin!
by The Berean inlast night during the service meeting a letter was read indicating that more money was needed by jehovah's witnesses in order to expand the world-wide work .
it was suggested that each publisher take a piece of paper and write down the amount of money they would be willing to give and hand it to the elders.
it seems to be a cleverway to gather "seed money" by the organization while not calling it a "tithe.
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teel
We had flyers saying "No collection plates" too. I remember in my junior JW career I was wondering what's up with that, JWs have the same boxes that any other churches had - until I saw in a movie what is actually a "collection plate" it's not a practice here, all churches have donation boxes like JWs. That "no collection plates" is like a desperate ad, they say anything that could be considered positive.
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Site To Refute Franz And Cameron
by Bangalore ini found this site set up by a loyal jw who wants to refute books like "crisis of conscience" and "captives of a concept".
i thought loyal jw's were not even supposed to read such books.. .
http://settingtherecordstraight.wordpress.com/2010/01/.
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teel
How convenient, moderated comments... let me guess... no criticism will be allowed.
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Site To Refute Franz And Cameron
by Bangalore ini found this site set up by a loyal jw who wants to refute books like "crisis of conscience" and "captives of a concept".
i thought loyal jw's were not even supposed to read such books.. .
http://settingtherecordstraight.wordpress.com/2010/01/.
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teel
It's an excellent case study of delusion. I only read the first entry yet, where he continually quotes from the May 1 st 1957 Watchtower, proving that he can "take whatever theocratic steps are open for us", while not realizing that the only theocratic step open for a JW is "wait on Jehovah". What a joke
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TONS of changes in the organization
by EndofMysteries innew songbook - removing all the old teachings and anything saying new world or new order.
no more bookstudies - (so no small indepedent comments, only brief congregationwide so not much discussion).
bible reading talk can 'read' only, no introduction or conclusion - again not allowing any input or thought.
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teel
The lowering of required hours was not so long ago (not sure when exactly). The sunday talk was also shortened a couple of years ago, used to be longer. There are two trends here: making a JWs life generally easier, and tightening the control. Probably they're related to each other.
Also, what's up with removal of "new world" or "new order" terms? JWs here are still using those in informal talks... and I don't remember a specific "new light" on that.
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Why am I Renouncing My JW Faith...( in the spirit of CANTLEAVE posts)
by tjlibre inin the spirit of cantleaves threads titled why would someone like me leave the "truth"?
i felt motivated to write a mini account on why would someone like me leave the truth.
my father was one of the leaders of the socialist movement party in my country of origin, as such, he was influenced by the marxisms view on religion, karl marx once said religion the opiate of the masses.
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teel
+1 thanks.
It's nice to read life stories that don't start with: "I was approached by two guards, and told an ultimatum: renounce my faith or die. But how did I end up in this situation? Let me tell you from the beginning."