One factor that has developed in recent years, at least in the US, is that of copyright and royalties to songwriters. There are organizations which specialize in collecting royalties on behalf of the songwriters or copyright holders, which threaten lawsuits unless paid. I know of some churches which have to pay a sum every year so they can use their hymnbooks, even though they had been using the same hymns for years before without paying. The WT has changed their songs so that none of the tunes or words are the same or even resemble any existing hymn.
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So, When Did They Stop Singing?
by Atlantis inrutherford said:.
a few words like the above pronounced at the beginning of the study would be far more beneficial than to occupy the same time in singing songs, which often express much that is out of harmony with the truth of and concerning god's kingdom.watchtower/1938/may/1st/pg.139 .
back then, they had what was called: order of study, and this is what every overseer was instructed to say to the audience.. .
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Request----Federal Post Office Inspector!
by Atlantis inatlantis:.
do you have a copy of a letter that was sent out by a congregation overseer, with a complaint from the federal post office inspector, concerning letters being sent out by jw's?.
yes, i have it, but very few people show any interest in the letters anymore.
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Thanks, I was able to view the document in the first of the two links.
I don't doubt the veracity of the letter, but I do question whether it was truly the Postal Inspection Service which made a complaint. I worked for the USPS for almost twenty years, and they don't use the name Federal PO Inspector, nor do they use the acronym FPOI. The Inspection Service doesn't get involved much in routine complaints, they have bigger fish to fry; mail fraud, theft of the mails, etc. I think it more likely that a local supervisor had received complaints and made a call to the elder.
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"We're In The Last Days Of The Last Days!"... So Say's Old Rubberface
by pale.emperor inhave you seen this on jworg?.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/coronavirus-report/.
2 minutes in everyone's favourite clow, stephen lett, tells us all that this coronavirus means we're in the last days of the last days.. cool.
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LOL I just found out where Lett gets his face gestures. He must have been a fan of the Davy Crockett show.
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Request----Federal Post Office Inspector!
by Atlantis inatlantis:.
do you have a copy of a letter that was sent out by a congregation overseer, with a complaint from the federal post office inspector, concerning letters being sent out by jw's?.
yes, i have it, but very few people show any interest in the letters anymore.
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I would like to see it, if you can post it with any personal names omitted.
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JWN poster/forum member Jada known as 'serenitynow' passed away...
by Joliette infound out on fb friday .
not sure if anyone else found out, but i take long breaks from the exjws movement.
had to do a serious search for her name, because she wasnt as active on jwn anymore...not sure how she passed but her sister said (according to another ex jws) that she had been sick for a while.. i met her once here in milwaukee, had a great time hanging out with her.
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False members numbers
by asp59 inis watchtower faking there member numbers?
i live in europe.
for the last 15 year's probably 25 person i knew or more were df, pimo, left by own will, inactive.
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Ditto Dreary,
The count of JWs is defined as the ones who are active publishers, which is in turn defined as those who have reported at least once in the previous 6 months. They have lowered the bar a bit in recent years to allow less than an hour to be reported (as little as 15 minutes, I think), but other than that the way they count has essentially stayed the same for years.
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King Richard
by Rattigan350 inthere is this new movie out called "king richard" staring will smith playing serena and venus williams father.
i don't know much about this, but i heard that they were raised by jw parents.
how does that factor into the movie and their growing up aspiring tennis stars?.
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I had read that the mother was a JW but the father was not.
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How many states have you ever lived in? (USA)
by Iamallcool ini only have lived in 4 states!
michigan.
georgia.
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Denial
Oblivion
Crisis
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What kind of job would you like to have?
by Iamallcool init doesn’t have to be about big money.
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dropoffyourkeylee
If I had my life to live over again I would try to become an attorney. On the other hand, I've found that after about 10-15 years in a job it starts to get old and a career change can be a very healthy move, though it may not be the path toward greatest income. I've had four major career changes in my life and now I have retired and only do some side work to keep busy doing something.
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Dune (1984) - er, yeah, lol
by LoveUniHateExams inso, i saw dune (1984) yesterday.
i knew it wasn't gonna be great, but deary me.
i'm not gonna lie - this film is not good, in fact it's laughably bad in places.. first, i'd like to know the thought process that went behind choosing david lynch to write/direct.
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I just watched the new 2021 Dune. It covers roughly half of the first book ( also called Dune) of the Dune series.
I liked it , watchable, interesting to both fans of the book and non-readers. I look forward to the next one.
After the first book is covered, I’ll be curious to see if any more are made based on the remaining novels. The material gets progressively more obtuse the farther you go.