Posts by oppostate

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Laptop (?) being used in field service - July 15 WT

by Gayle in

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wt out on jw.org now,,shows front page laptop being used on field service call along with sign language.. will jws soon be bringing a laptop for all door to door presentations in the future?

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oppostate

The ASL groups use DVD players in sought out door to door service. Not Notebook PCs.

Rather than a Notebook PC the device in question in that photo is more like one of their DVD players.

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Menlo Park KH discussion in the WTS' eyes

by Magi in

after reading much on this scandal, we know that many if not all jws will not go out of there way to read up on this info.

does anyone know what the rumor in the congregations are about this topic?

i'm sure alot of them are just taken back by fellow witnesses taking the society to court, bringing reproach on god's name.

One of the CO suggested incorporation bylaws changed in our KH where I served included wording that those officers of the corporation are such persons as are actively serving as elders in the congregation.

Thus if you resign or get booted as an elder you'd no longer be considered an officer in the corporation that owns the KH.

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The annointed remnant figure rising - a question

by jambon1 in

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having been out of the loop for a while on here, it dawned on me that the figure of memorial partakers has risen substantially from when i was a jw.. i think i bowed out at around 8500 in 2006.. can anyone briefly explain what the main reasons for this increase are and if it is ever discussed among jw's because if i remember correctly, the figure should be going down, not up.. thanks.. j.

oppostate

They need new anointed ones and the 1935 ceiling lifted in order to make room for the overlapping generations theory.

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So wonderful little [...] and other punctuation

by Lady Lee in

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a couple of days ago i read a thread on here where some people were questioning the authenticity of something posted.

hey for a group of people who have been conned and lied to i get that we are a suspicious bunch.

then yesterday i tried reading something that started by posting a quote from a wt.

oppostate

Hey LL, I'll give the square brackets a try in my WTS quote:

"Evidently..." [I wish the WTS would stay away from using that word without giving real evidence in support of what they publish] "Reasonably..." [I also wish that they hadn't taken the square brackets out in their latest revision of the NWT, you know the nice grey leather and silver edged versions with expanded appendices that only traveling overseers and their wifes and GB members and their wives are able to get right now] "no doubt" [these new Bibles may be mass produced if the GB feels they'll get enough donations if they get the R&F to covet the hierarchy's new and snazzy blinged out editions of the NWT].

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Is this going to be the undoing of the WTS?

by tootired2care in

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oppostate

It's hard to say... I think it may put more stress on those with a Christian conscience to help needy ones.

But I can also see the uber-pioneers and better-than-thou's pulling a Korban phrase and excusing themselves from helping those in need because they are too busy in service to be able to lend their time and effort.

The folks who won't help are those who'd probably end up as elders and their wives. Those who are just too meek and too submissive are those who'll most likely end up taking care of the elderly's needs out of Christian love and kindness, with the added hounding reminders of the "elder" class.

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Are you attending the Memorial this year?

by XPeterX in

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dunno about you but i'm going..

oppostate

Yup, I'll be attending, God willing.

And I will partake of the emblems.

And I will have my Kingdom Interlinear

to follow along with some of the Scriptures.

Oh, and I think I'll have to do something to

protect my injured pinky, the one I use to lift

while sipping.

And will talk to anyone about the freakish

weather we've been having in New England...

Is global warming one of the Signs of the

Last Days?

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"Do you still feel Jehovah is directing the Organization?"

by outsmartthesystem in

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for those of you with experience being asked this question.....or those of you that are/were elders........ what would happen if you responded to that question by saying "i don't know"?.

what would happen if you responded with "i choose not to answer that question."?

and then when they ask why, you say "because i wish to invoke my 5th amendment rights".

oppostate

Say? What the hey is mP's problem?

But anyway, I'd have them define the terms "directing" and "organization" for me and go around at nauseam as to how these can be identified in Scripture... Then all of a sudden quote them the one that deals with arguing about words, and how that's a mental disease, and I don't want to be arguing about words that way, so next question please... and it better not have any hard to define terms not literally found in Scripture otherwise I would have to think they were sadly mentally diseased about words.

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Has anyone heard of JJ Luna?

by biometrics in

when i was younger (20s) i remember hearing an experience at a district assembly about a best-selling author who, in his book, wholeheartedly recommended employing jehovah's witnesses because they were honest, good workers ... etc.

it seems like he couldn't recommend jw's enough.

the speaker went on to read a page or two from the book, and stated it was a glowing recommendation from a 'worldly' author who regarded jw's very highly.

oppostate

I would have never, ever guessed he was one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

I've got his book on my Kindle, and it sure didn't sound like a bro to me.

More like a savvy, anti-gov't-snooping-on-you, kind of person than a JW.

But, hey, there's also Prince, and Serena & Venus, and the Jacksons, and

I would have never thought any of them to be JWs either.

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The Great Watchtower Internet Retreat

by DT in

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there has been a lot of talk about the new watchtower internet strategy.

it appears that the watchtower is trying to improve their internet presence.

this could be true, but i think there are good reasons to think that the opposite might be the case.. i suspect that this new internet announcement was primarily designed to draw attention away from the announcement that they are cutting down on the printing of the magazines again.. they are basically dropping two of their websites and redesigning a website on a url that has the lowest rating of the three.

oppostate

For a possible hint at how the new JW portal

might look take a gander at the German site.

http://www.jehovaszeugen.de/

It's reminiscent of the jw-media.org web site.

But it uses the word "portal".

Quite a long time ago on the Spanish exjw forum

at ExTJ.com one of our "opposed" brothers from

Ajalvir let it be known that the Euro-Witnesses

were contracted with a German public relations

firm that was giving advice on developing and

re-branding the public image of the WTS.

Some things that came out of that experiment

were the Public vs. Study versions, and the look

of the Witness only publications, KM's and Study

versions of the WT.

Time will tell, but there has to be some trial

web address that is now being tested. If it is

internal only we'll have to wait a few months.

But if "Johnny the Closeted Bethelite" does

work in the IT Dept. maybe he can spill the

address of the trial/beta web portal.

Heck, even a screen cap would be nice!

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The Great Watchtower Internet Retreat

by DT in

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friends

there has been a lot of talk about the new watchtower internet strategy.

it appears that the watchtower is trying to improve their internet presence.

this could be true, but i think there are good reasons to think that the opposite might be the case.. i suspect that this new internet announcement was primarily designed to draw attention away from the announcement that they are cutting down on the printing of the magazines again.. they are basically dropping two of their websites and redesigning a website on a url that has the lowest rating of the three.