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  Question: HQ sold for $700 million, will this be announce on the JW site?

  by goingthruthemotions in

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  2. experiences

  so i can't stomach going to the jw site, much less spell the site completely.

  but, here is my question....do you think they will announce on the site that they sold the brooklyn building for $700 million?

  my bet is no!.

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  maninthemiddle

  Have they ever announced any selling on their website, I've only seen it on public news sites.
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  Disturbance during Memorial 2016.

  by Ben131895 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  two documented disturbances during memorial 2016. type 'memorial 2016' on youtube.

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  maninthemiddle

  I agree with this being counter-productive. I believe just a few private conversations with those in attendance would be much more fruitful. If you are going to attend and pretend to be joe public, why not ask questions, use the Socratic method to make them think while not being disruptive.
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  June 2016 WT (study edition) Bashing Higher Education....AGAIN!

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  paragraph 14: .

  "this means that we need to examine our heart constantly to see if it is being enticed by worldly entertainment, associations, and styles of dress and grooming.

  or the love of the world might involve efforts to attain “great things,” such as through the pursuit of higher education.

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  maninthemiddle

  reading the comment made by sir82, reminds me when I questioned the stance on education while still in it hurt my head, because so many things you can do with a education open up opportunities that could be used for the org. Teaching or engineering for example, you could get a job in just about any country you wanted. when I was younger the org was growing in Japan by leaps and bounds, if you taught english you could get a job very easy.

  yet they choose to talk us out of school, then ask for people with degrees to come to bethel and work on the new computer system.
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  JWs tamping on Japanese edition of Wikipedea

  by nakanozzi in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to jwstudy.com,some jw changed the date of jerusalem's fallfrom 597 to 607.and erased all the original writings and re-written the page of the wikipedia so that wikipedia matches the watchtower’s doctrine.chech this out.. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%e3%83%90%e3%83%93%e3%83%ad%e3%83%b3%e6%8d%95%e5%9b%9a.

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  You can report it and get a mod to reset the old page.
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  A New Watchtower trade name: Hudson Valley

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watchtower and trading business is a never ending combination, now under the new name of hudson valley, selling their building machines online: .

  http://used-tools-equipment.com.

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  maninthemiddle

  so they won't need any of this in the future? what about all the Assembly halls they are claiming to be building. and wouldn't you crate and ship all those small items to Temple Farm?
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  Little Free Library

  by pbrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey all,.

  almost finished with a "little free library" to set up in front of the house and was wondering if anyone else has put one of these up?

  got to thinking that it may get filled up with my tots fav periodicals, watchtower and awake.. anyone else had any experience with this?

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  maninthemiddle

  if you keep an eye on it you could stem the flow of literature AKA "trash".

  Have you heard the phrase HoneyPot? i'm sure there are other uses, but in the IT world, it is a server purposely setup to allow hackers in, then they are traced or monitored.
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  "Ones"

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  (i never was a dub).. this is something which has intrigued me for a while.

  i don't know whether it's dub-speak, or us-speak.. it's the use of the word 'ones' as in 'interested ones', 'worldly ones', 'disfellowshipped ones' and so on and so on.. in the 'normal world' we would probably use the word 'people'.. thoughts?.

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  maninthemiddle

  it's a particularly American English pronoun, and considered formal. It's overused, but nothing really wrong with it in American Culture. However I believe, it would be considered outdated but most Americans today.
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  Where's my invitation to the Memorial? What the hell!

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a carload of jw's worked our street today.

  obviously they are doing the invites to the memorial.

  of course, we didn't answer.. 1 ring, 2 seconds at the door (that's all we get?

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  maninthemiddle

  They leave them here with no knock. My FIL says that is what they were told.
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  GoFundMe - JW Pioneer & LDC Couple

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  jerry jones on youtube exposed a jw couple who were begging for money on gofundme.

  this is his youtube .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feohxtbml2c.

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  maninthemiddle

  There are lots of people of all walks of faith on goFundme asking for money for mission trips. It even has a category just for that.

  I remember shaking my head about it, how much money was being raised just to spread lies to unknowing people.
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  2016-2-17-Destroy Previous S-77 Forms!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  these numbers and letters:--gbr659967--are the only identifying markson this boe..the "informant" who sent it said:.

  "this letter came through the congregation inbox and so hasn't got theusual identifying information.

  the name of the file is probably thebest way to identify it.

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  maninthemiddle

  OH, so they are not talking about blank forms, but one with personal info on them? So that means no data stored in the UK, but on servers somewhere else, presumably in the US.