jehovah's witnesses jump in to fix homes.
each weekend, volunteers help flood victims recover.
by richard vara.
In the PR Release from WT it stated there were 8,000 volunters.
In the video clip of a local news report offered on the WT PR site they stated 5,000 volunters.Now in theis article there are 10,000 volunters.
You can always trust the Watchtower not to be trustworthy!
Yakki Da
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hawkaw,.
i've seen the scan of paul hoeffel's fax over at kent's website.
if i understand it correctly, you created the scanned jpg and sent that file to kent and others.. i'd like to suggest something to improve the credibility of this thing - namely, to create a higher quality jpg from the original document.
JPG is a lossy image format, yes - but it's more than good enough. When I send my magazine to the printers, everything is in a PDF file, and every image, logo, what ever, is compressed as JPG.
The clue is, as I have repeatedly said on thos and other forums - to use high resolution!
If I get a 250 -300 dpi JPG file, there is no problem at all - as long as the compression is not maximum! In Photoshop a compression level of 9 is max of what should be used.
For tecnical reasons I can only use JPG images on the Watchtower Observer. If I use a GIF, and there is 8 scans on the page, the software doesn't really make a big thumbnail - it just shows a smaller version of the full image. This makes the page load extremely slow.
But, anyone can send me GIF images, since I can change the format myself.
Another thing - ALWAYS USE GRAYSCALE!
This because the document looks much better, and it's normally MUCH more easy to do an OCR scan of it.
The danger of anyone trying to say these documents are fake because of the low resolution isn't worth bothering about. Those morons would say that no matter what, and it's not more difficult to fake a high-res copy than a low-res one.
On the other hand, everyone should be aware of the fact that a Fax isn't that good as original - which is also a reason for the looks of this document.
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a society based on literature distribution .
i was recently invited to visit the australian headquarters of the jehovah's witnesses.
the atheists claim there is no hell, the witnesses agree.
Well, maybe the Krishnas wanna be rich as well :)))
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i published this info in december 1999, but due to changes on the watchtower observer, the document was lost.
here it is agan, an interesting heap of drivel, which the watchtower forbid anyone to post on the internet.
it's an interesting statement on drinking wine, though.
I published this info in December 1999, but due to changes on The Watchtower Observer, the document was lost. Here it is agan, an interesting heap of drivel, which the Watchtower forbid anyone to post on the internet. It's an interesting statement on drinking wine, though. It's obviously rather fun to laugh of "drinking too much"....
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here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/story/0,2763,574175,00.html
Does anyone happen to have the link to the first article?
Haven't you learned by now you can find all that kind of stuff on the Watchtower Observer?????
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concerning those who renounced their christian faith in his day, the apostle john wrote: they went out from among us, they were not of our sort; for if they had been of our sort, they would have remained with us.
(1 john 2:19) also, a person might renounce his place in the christian congregation by his actions, such as by becoming part of a secular organization the objective of which is contrary to the bible and, hence, is under judgment by jehovah god.
(compare re.
Concerning those who renounced their Christian faith in his day, the apostle John wrote: “They went out from among us, they were not of our sort; for if they had been of our sort, they would have remained with us.” (1 John 2:19) Also, a person might renounce his place in the Christian congregation by his actions, such as by becoming part of a secular organization the objective of which is contrary to the Bible and, hence, is under judgment by Jehovah God. (Compare Re. 19:17-21; Is. 2:4) So if a person who is a Christian chooses to join those who are disapproved by God, it would be fitting for the congregation to acknowledge by a brief announcement that he has disassociated himself and is no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Such a person would be viewed in the same way as a disfellowshipped person.
So it is with regret I ask the following announcement be read to all congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world:
“The Governing Body by their course of action in 1991 of forming a secret partnership with the “Wild Beast” (United Nations) has disassociated themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Of course we must bear in mind according to the instruction given at the last Elder School, the repentance must be commensurate with the sin. As the sin was continued over a course of ten years it would appear the Governing body must remain in their disassociated state for at least ten years.
Yakki Da
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a society based on literature distribution .
i was recently invited to visit the australian headquarters of the jehovah's witnesses.
the atheists claim there is no hell, the witnesses agree.
A Society Based On Literature Distribution
I was recently invited to visit the Australian headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses. It's a large complex in Sydney with about 270 people living on the site. The center of the complex is a huge printing press printing their magazines: Watchtower and Awake!, twice a month in more than 25 languages. The magazines are available in Australia in 82 languages and world-wide they print in over 160 languages! They distribute well Madhudvisa dasa (02-15-01)
I often distribute Srila Prabhupada's books in Sydney's Town Hall station and in recent years we share the spot with the Jehovah's Witnesses. It appears to me the general public are far more interested in purchasing and reading Srila Prabhupada's books about Krishna than their "Watchtower." However, although the public seem quite disinterested in their literature they distribute an enormous quantity of it world-wide. So when Shaun invited me to visit their Australian headquarters I was interested to see how they managed to print and distribute so much literature first-hand.
I discovered to be an "active" Jehovah's Witness one has to distribute literature. They seem to value more the hours spent in distributing the literature and preaching then the actual quantity of magazines sold. Every member is called a "publisher" and the mission of the "publishers" is very clear. To distribute the magazines and preach to the general public. Most of this is done door-to-door...
They have more than 100 administration centers world-wide [mostly called "Bethel"] which print their literature in 160 different languages and administer the "Kingdom Halls" in their area, supplying them with literature and their other needs.
These administration centers have a live-in "staff" of dedicated witnesses who work for no salary. Here in Sydney there are 270 witnesses living in the center including all types of professional and skilled people. There is a fully staffed legal office, a very large design office which designs and builds new Kingdom Halls for Australia, the Pacific Islands and even India. They have all sorts of tradesmen, builders, carpenters, electricians, etc., etc... They have an automobile repair department which repairs and maintains the cars and a large gardening department that maintains the grounds complete with very nice flower and vegetable gardens. The entire complex was built by their own men... They regularly build entire Kingdom Halls in three days... They organize all the materials to be delivered to the site, arrange the volunteers and build the whole thing in three days...
As for the printing the main press can print 19,000 32 page full-color magazines per hour and they have another smaller press which is used for printing languages they don't print in very large quantities. In Japan they have a press printing almost 100,000 magazines an hour...
The only cost is the paper and the ink... The press equipment is paid for long ago and is operated and maintained by volunteer witnesses who live on the site. So the magazines cost well under 10 cents each to produce...
Everything is clean and very well organized. They say "Jehovah is a God of order." So they keep everything very nicely maintained and in order. The whole complex is very clean and perfectly maintained.
The management is quite centralized in Brooklyn NY. In Australia they receive all the magazines printed here electronically from Brooklyn and simply make the plates and print them. There is no layout or design work done here and although they have a "writing desk" in Australia [one of 12 in the world] all articles must be submitted to the Brooklyn office.
Their management system seems to be quite authoritarian with the members surrendered to "do the needful." We were shown around the complex by Chris who started living at Bethel eighteen months ago. He was a carpenter building houses in Perth but now he works as a housekeeper cleaning passages and stairways in one of the residence buildings and as a tour guide. He would have preferred to work in the printing department, but he is happy to work in whatever position the management require him to work in... He says it is best to "go with the flow..."
Unfortunately the philosophy they preach is not very satisfying. Shaun and his wife were trying to understand why it was that good people suffer and why it is that sometimes babies suffer horrible deaths... Their only answer is it all happens by chance. They believe Jehovah does not cause it and they don't believe in Karma... They don't believe in Hell and can't imagine how a "loving God" could create such a place. The most amazing thing for me is they don't even accept the existence of an eternal soul. They think everyone "dies" and when Jesus comes back he will resurrect only the Jehovah's Witnesses...
It is quite bewildering to me. In many ways they are preaching the same thing as the atheists. The atheists claim there is no life after death. They claim one simply dies. The witnesses agree. The atheists claim there is no eternal soul. The witnesses agree. The atheists claim there is no Hell, the witnesses agree. The atheists say everything happens by chance and there is no karma involved in any suffering we may experience. The witnesses agree...
So with such a faulty philosophy which is really not very interesting to the general public they are still able to distribute more than 40,000,000 magazines a month... I wonder what is the potential of Krishna consciousness, such a perfectly logical philosophy which I find the general public are truly very interested in... Surely we could distribute more than 40,000,000 of Srila Prabhupada's books and magazines a month if we actually made that our main business? I am convinced we can do it... And it will change the world...
http://preaching.krishna.org/Articles/2001/01/00251.html
Yakki Da
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i am short tempered, warned mmd presidential candidate levy mwanawasa yesterday.. the story is on the watchtower observer.. http://watchtower.observer.org/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?nocache=1&dato=20011014&kategori=news2&lopenr=110140002&ref=ar.
yakki da.
kent.
I am short tempered, warned MMD presidential candidate Levy Mwanawasa yesterday.
The story is on the Watchtower Observer.
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Kent
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hi, hawkaw.
i have a question for you.
in all your discussions with the uns ngo chief, was there any talk about membership fees or dues required from ngos?
IF the Watchtower has payed anything at all, including the help they have given to Africa - it's stricktly against their own charter!
No money what so ever should go to anything but the main purpose - spreading the teachings and views of the JWs!
Yakki Da
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1,000 honor star's short life.
newport athlete shot on the street.
by john c. k. fisher, post staff reporter.
1,000 honor star's short life
Newport athlete shot on the street
By John C. K. Fisher, Post staff reporter
In life, Anthony ''Pete'' Greene could bring people together because of his skills as a basketball player at Newport High School.
In death, Greene, who graduated from Newport High School in May, brought people together again.
But it wasn't Greene's basketball prowess that drew all the praise. Instead, Greene was eulogized for the way he respected everyone and the kindness he showed.
On Tuesday night, more than one thousand of Greene's family and friends celebrated his life in song and in scripture during an hour-long service in the high school gym where the 18-year-old gained a reputation as a clutch player.
''The Newport community will truly miss a rising young star,'' said Anthony Griffin, a member of the Taylor Mill congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses who gave the key remarks.
''He was well-respected by the young and the old. Pete Greene cared about people. And we need to think of our fellow man and not live our lives in a selfish way.''
Greene was shot to death on Isabella Street in Newport July 21 after stepping in to break up an argument between a friend and another teen-ager.
A 17-year-old Newport youth has been charged with murder and is awaiting a court hearing to determine whether he will be tried as an adult.
Greene was a member of The Kentucky Post All-Star team, an all-region player and earned honorable mention on the all-state team. During the 1998-99 season, he led Newport High School to its first 20-victory season in six years.
Greene's casket was placed in the center of the basketball court, where he had thrived in life. The stands in the gym were filled with a diverse crowd of blacks and whites, young and old, well-to-do and low-income people.
The floor of the gym was filled with Greene's friends and family. Members of his basketball team were there, as were a color guard and a dozen floral arrangements.
Several Campbell County and Newport city officials were there.
In the gym lobby, Campbell County Commissioner and former Newport Mayor Roland Vories took a deep breath.
''When will it end?'' he asked of the violence that claimed Greene's life.
Griffin said sometimes there are no good explanations why someone like Greene could be cut down before he has had a chance to live his life to the fullest.
However, Griffin cautioned the mourners not to seek vengeance.
''Return evil for evil to no one,'' Griffin said. ''Conquer the evil with the good.''
http://www.kypost.com/news/1999/greene072899.html
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