Posts by Diogenesister

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McFree v. Watchtower!

by Atlantis in

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mcfree v. watchtower.

a us federal judge has ruled against watch tower pennsylvania, denying their dmca subpoena to identify the creator of the jehovah's witness parody videos known as "dubtown.. .

see last page (page 20).

Diogenesister

would imagine that the Watchtower has its own internal means of discovering the identity of Kevin McFee if they so wished. He uses his voice and I think his child's voice as well.

Just to say he's not a JW anymore and I don't think he has been for some time. I believe he simply has an elderly relative he doesn't wish to "complicate" things for. That person cannot shun him - but he knows the witnesses would simply be unpleasant to them and soft shun that person merely for being related.

Aren't they such a lovely bunch?!!

Great news, our kev!!

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Tennis Controversy in Australia

by smiddy3 in

apr 20, 2020. novak djokovic sparks a backlash after publicly opposing the covid-19 vaccine.

he says: “personally, i am opposed to vaccination, and i wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine in order to be able to travel.”.

asked by sky news australia anchor danica de giorgio why djokovic was granted the visa in the first place, the home affairs minister said: “they’re entirely separate processes”.. “to gain entry to australia you need both – you actually need the visa, which is determined quite separately, and then you have to meet the entry requirements,” she said.. “i know that people are putting the two issues together, but the visa application process and the granting of a visa is very separate to the additional entry requirements that every traveller needs to meet to be able to enter australia.”.

Diogenesister

Joey jojo, not sure where your stats come from. I watch sport a lot and I have never seen a fit sportman/woman drop from cardiac arrest until recently. One of the announcers commented on one case. He had been in broadcasting for twenty years and had never seen anything like it.

It has definitely happened in the UK way before Covid, tragically to a couple of young, fit footballers.

This one eg https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58462925.amp

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Door to door again?

by Zeds Dead in

do you think the jdubs will start up the door whacking again one day?.

there has to be many inside the org that are dreading having to do that again and as for the general public seeing this, it’s hard to imagine.

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Diogenesister

well if they intend to go door to door any time soon they'll have to do it without the Awake & Watchtower magazines...last I heard they had to stop production for several months...Why?...Who in the hale knows
That means they'll have to.....Gasp!......use the Bible!!
I think eventually when they do go back the door to door work will just involve leafleting aka leaf-littering. Mainly because public opinion will not want potential virus carriers in their homes. So those low on the food chain will be doing this, higher up your'll get your cart work (they'll invent a new title for this, like pioneer assistant).
Then I can also see them handing all Bible studies over to pioneers to carry out, for clout and to ensure they get enough hours in.
By the way, how can they claim JW women cannot teach, when that's precisely what a Bible study is? After all, if you have a student you must also have a teacher, no?🤔

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What's the job of an elder?

by asp59 in

with the current discussion if someone in his twenties can be elder or not.

i'm interested in what a elder in jw land really do.

all speeches already come in video format from headquarters.

Diogenesister

Excellent piece.

An elder has become Watchtower Spyware which means anyone can do it.

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Annual service report - yet another analysis - big trouble for the WTS

by FFGhost in

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there's already been a couple of threads on the 2021 report with insightful comments, but i'm vain enough to want to start my own topic with some additional thoughts..... as others on the other thread noted, it's useful to compare the 2021 numbers not only to 2020 but also 2019 (the last non-pandemic report).. there are some really troubling (if you're a wt headquarters guy) news in the latest report.. 1) baptisms plummet.

2021 - 171,393. baptisms dropped 20% in 2020, and 30% more in 2021. the total drop from 2019 to 2021 is an amazing 44%.. one could argue that without in-person assemblies and conventions you'd expect baptisms to drop.

but....if someone really wants to get baptized, jws will find a way.

Diogenesister

Blues Brother I am not so sure that “it has never been easier to count time” . For some maybe but I know devout believing Witnesses who cannot bring themselves to write a letter . Whenever I did it in my dub days I found it incredibly boring and the notion that I was just counting time killed any motivation. Those Witnesses, older ones , admit they have slipped into inactivity. It remains to be seen if they can be reactivated in the future.

I agree BB. For the real believers, ones who are not solely social witnesses but take their commission seriously, it is hard to get any real time in. This is especially true in countries where uninvited contact by letter is illegal and you are only allowed to telephone people already known to you. It's certainly difficult to get pre pandemic or pioneer-level time in.

However I do think Watchtower is glad to be using the pandemic as a sort of Trojan horse of an excuse/cover for falling numbers.

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The Watchtowers

by BluesBrother in

edit .. i messed up the title, on this touchscreen tablet and now i can’t edit it !

the title should be “ the watchtower’s (sort of) apology for 1975 ….. sorry.

january 1st 1976, i remember that day when i heard a radio disc jockey gleefully announce that the world had not ended as jehovah’s witnesses had said it would .

Diogenesister

I'd love to have a recording of that 1976 DJ ribbing JWs about the failure of their prediction!!!

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A little something you have not yet heard.

by lastmanstanding in

i hope to make a very interesting post here, and informative.

i’m quite sure no one here has heard this content.

i would like to finally make known some heretofore undisclosed details concerning something that has affected probably everyone on this board to some degree.

Diogenesister

I think they simply don't want Witnesses seeing their hypocrisy, so they've taken to printing "Nations". If they print "United Nations" in their rags, it's so easy to look online and find evidence of their once being in bed with "the beast". In fact I believe they recognize their own indiscretion and now care to pretend the whole sordid thing didn't happen and as usual re write history.

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Article to discuss or argue over: Buddha, Abraham, Jesus and Muhammed: Larger-than-life historic figures or largely legends?

by AndersonsInfo in

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i've posted a link to an article that contains important food for thought.

as we search for information to free our minds and hearts of cult-like thinking which entails being able to critically think, we need to ponder research that is available to help us to make important decisions.

we need to allow ourselves to consider other possibilities, something that jw’s are discouraged from doing.

Diogenesister

Listening to him speak and having read nearly every one of his books I think it's pretty hard not to come to the conclusion Bart Erhman is an atheist.

He's disingenuous and knows which side his bread is buttered on.

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NASA hiring religious leaders on extraterrestrial life....

by mikeflood in

nasa hiring religious leaders just in case they found extraterrestrial life, at priceton university's center of theological inquiry.

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just of curiosity, if nasa find something, how do you think the borg is gonna spin it.

Diogenesister

Whatever's going on it seems to be darn quiet out there!! Perhaps everyone else is either in hiding (maybe for good reason) or have been eliminated already!

If you look at life on earth, it seems to be the norm that dominant life forms exploit everything/one else.

Maybe it's for the best that we don't find them...... or they don't find us 🤫👽😬

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Can Anyone Help Me Modify My Profile? (especially these UGLY icon/avatars) Uggghhh! Nothing works...won't save changes

by utopian_reformist_returns in

none of my changes save, and no messages or warnings or errors to indicate why?

is that turned off?

why isn't there any feedback from the server?

Diogenesister

Click on the menu start button (the 3 horizontal lines) at the top right corner and it will drop down. Bottom left your'll see you name next to your image. If you click on your name it will take you to your own page which will have two buttons....refresh avatar and upload image. By pressing refresh avatar you can keep clicking till you find a monster you want. Or you can upload your own image using the upload button. Have a go...