The thought occurred to me not because I have anything in the works for a spinoff group, although the Big Love treatment of the problem sounds interesting. I was generally thinking about how, with groups like Mormons & Watchtower, we assume they have exclusive use of words like "Church of Jesus Christ" or "Jehovah's witness" or even "Bible student." If I'm having a conversation with a Jehovah's Witness (TM) and tell them I don't want to be a Jehovah's Witness, those very words out of my mouth literally say I don't want to be a witness of Jehovah. I could very well want to be a witness of Jehovah but not subscribe to the ideas of a Jehovah's witness (TM). Plug in "Bible student" if I'm talking to a Bible Student (TM), and now it sounds like I'm saying I don't want to be a Bible student. The Bible Student (TM) can say, "that's ok, it's your choice if you don't want to be a Bible student." How aweful! I was just wondering if the WT has actually taken possession of the name "Jehovah's witness" legally, or if it's another one of those situations where we give the WT more power than they actually have by assuming they're the only ones who can call themselves "Jehovah's witnesses."
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Exclusive use of the name "Jehovah's witness"
by InterestedOne indoes the organization headquartered at 25 columbia heights in brooklyn have some kind of exclusive rights to the name "jehovah's witness?
" i noticed some of the recent letters from them posted here are signed "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
" what if i wanted to start my own "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses" that had no affiliation whatsoever with 25 columbia heights in brooklyn?
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Exclusive use of the name "Jehovah's witness"
by InterestedOne indoes the organization headquartered at 25 columbia heights in brooklyn have some kind of exclusive rights to the name "jehovah's witness?
" i noticed some of the recent letters from them posted here are signed "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses.
" what if i wanted to start my own "christian congregation of jehovah's witnesses" that had no affiliation whatsoever with 25 columbia heights in brooklyn?
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Does the organization headquartered at 25 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn have some kind of exclusive rights to the name "Jehovah's witness?" I noticed some of the recent letters from them posted here are signed "Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses." What if I wanted to start my own "Christian congregation of Jehovah's witnesses" that had no affiliation whatsoever with 25 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn? Would I get in some kind of trouble for using the name? What if I went around calling myself a "Jehovah's witness" because I believed myself to be a witness of Jehovah but openly stated that I did not believe the things in the WT? I've seen people put a little (TM) after the name sometimes as a joke, but I was wondering if the org actually does have some kind of hold on the use of the name. The recent thread below, sheds some light on it, but is there more info available on the question? See
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Going Door to Door with Scrolls
by VM44 indoes anyone know where this anachronistic and propagandistic picture came from?.
did a watchtower artist draw it?.
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belbab - the picture is cropped on this thread. the dvd moves across the picture, and there is a guy in the door with the woman.
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Going Door to Door with Scrolls
by VM44 indoes anyone know where this anachronistic and propagandistic picture came from?.
did a watchtower artist draw it?.
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I'd like to play devil's advocate with this although I too think the image looks comical. I was thinking a JW could say the men are not actually giving the people at the door the scroll. They are reading it to them. I don't know what happened with the writing & transportation of Paul's letters, but could one suggest that the men with the bags are some of the first Christians entrusted with carrying some of the letters to their destinations? Maybe the people at the door are Christians too & are thinking about having a house church. Does anyone have some specific historical info to show that this picture is inaccurate? I have heard about Paul's letters being "circulated." How did that process take place?
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Answer Up
by Franklin Massey inwe don't have this expression in the us.
"i always 'answer up' at every meeting.
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"Stuck on a door" is when you're talking to a householder on their doorstep for an extended period of time.
Why would talking to a HH for an extended period of time be considered "stuck?" Do JW's consider talking to a HH for a long time to be negative? Why?
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Answer Up
by Franklin Massey inwe don't have this expression in the us.
"i always 'answer up' at every meeting.
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Here in the UK we had the classic: 'I was stuck on a door and she brought up blood!'
What does "stuck on a door" mean?
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WTBS Inc and George OrwellÂ…again!
by MacHislopp inyears, and a member of the congregational church and.
were held, to see if the handful who met there had anything.
page 209. july 1st.
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MacHislopp: So it looks like the singing and the "make-money-to-help-humanity" both can be traced to Macmillan's book in 1957. I wonder if they can be traced back any further.
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"Who else are we to go away to?"
by simon17 into the intellectually honest witness, it seems like it often comes down to this principle.
"fine, if the witnesses aren't the truth, then show me the better answer and i'll consider it.
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LOL RIF yes where else will we go? To a psychologist!
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Jehovah's Witnesses and Google
by DT ini was recently doing some keyword research with google's keyword tool.
it gives you information about how many people search for certain things on google, the world's largest search provider.
it's very useful for people who build websites.
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My JW friend also refuses to have the internet in her house. Is this internet phobia more of a word-of-mouth JW thing, or is it in print? I've seen a couple of mentions of the internet in the literature, but it was usually fairly general like: you can't believe everything on the internet, or there's some immoral stuff, etc. Ok that's true, but I wonder how they go from those generic statements to refusing to have it in their houses.
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"Who else are we to go away to?"
by simon17 into the intellectually honest witness, it seems like it often comes down to this principle.
"fine, if the witnesses aren't the truth, then show me the better answer and i'll consider it.
" and how do you deal with that?
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My JW friend has said, "even if they're wrong, I would still want to be part of this organization."