Posts by 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

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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.

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

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.

maninthemiddle

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

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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.

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

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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?

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

(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?.

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

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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?

maninthemiddle

They leave them here with no knock. My FIL says that is what they were told.