In the US, one of the <relatively few> Supreme Court cases that the JWs lost in the 1940's was the one involving sound cars and their claims of free speech. The Court ruled against the JWs, saying that local governments could regulate the use of sound equipment. After this loss the JWs quit using sound cars.
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Jehovah's Witness Elder, Ron Felt suing Jehovah's Witness he disfellowshiped, for "Harassment"- Broadcasting a recording of JW Ron Felt......
by Balaamsass2 inhttp://www.dover-express.co.uk/8203-ironic-isn-t-says-jehovah-s-witness-court/story-23631047-detail/story.html.
' says jehovah's witness in court for harassing another jehovah's witness.
by dover express | posted: october 27, 2014. by jamie rose exclusive [email protected].
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Rosemont Cemetery II
by RolRod inokay, so here's a follow-up to my post a while back regarding the society tearing down the pyramid monument.
they cleared the area and this is what they did.
notice ... nothing about the watchtower connected to it, just slabs of cheap concrete..
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I think the original had ‘CHAS’, so at least they copied it directly
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Is WT Influencing Dubs To Check On Other Dubs' Activities Via ZOOM And Otherwise?
by HiddlesWife inthe reason for my question is because one pimo has noticed that there are some pimis--particularly spimis--who have remarked that they "are not going to contact nor associate with the friends who are delinquent on zoom and/or at in-person kh meetings, conventions, and assemblies".
i've noticed this as well: a few ppimis and pimqs who were very close to me and my exdub family members are hearing from them less and less lately than before last year's rc and this year's rc.
so, is the above a thing nowadays?
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WTF IDK! JW SPK CRZY
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dropoffyourkeylee
Maybe not much better, but here are a few different sizes. The pixelation of the OP is pretty bad.
Edited to add, My attempts to resize don't seem to work, sorry
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I never believed the WT explanation of the Lord's Day. I still think it simply referred to the day of the week that he had the vision.
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The Morning Star was given me last year - 'hidden manna' now available for your review
by JohnRossStar inhi - quite the introduction, huh?
so the 'morning star' is christ himself and he has guided my thinking and studies to uncover where exactly the wtb&ts went off track, offending jehovah greatly and causing him to 'abandon his sanctuary'.
i've posted the information on reddit jwexwatchtower - please study the articles carefully and put them to the test versus scripture.
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I wish I could get a key to the abyss. Sounds like fun
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Watchtower has fallen from 700k words/year to now to just 170k words/year
by ComingOutaMyCage inthis is one of the many charts on my jw lib analytics.. i have also attached the top 500 scriptures from 1950-2022. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/viewwordsperyear.html?publication=watchtower&normal=1.
https://i.postimg.cc/503yg1f7/word-count-watchtower.png.
https://i.postimg.cc/gdmskjv-lib-analytics-view-top-scriptures-html.png.
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I was particularly interested in the flat area from '50 to '70. I think I see now. The data source he is using apparently has Watchtower magazine from 1950 to 2020, but all the other publication types, Awake, books, etc, are only from 1970 to 2020. So the area I circled below in the graph really doesn't mean anything except a limitation in the data used.
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Watchtower has fallen from 700k words/year to now to just 170k words/year
by ComingOutaMyCage inthis is one of the many charts on my jw lib analytics.. i have also attached the top 500 scriptures from 1950-2022. https://comingoutamycage.github.io/jw_lib_analytics/viewwordsperyear.html?publication=watchtower&normal=1.
https://i.postimg.cc/503yg1f7/word-count-watchtower.png.
https://i.postimg.cc/gdmskjv-lib-analytics-view-top-scriptures-html.png.
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I've been puzzling over these graphs for a couple of days now, and I just noticed that the graph in the OP here is for the Watchtower magazine only. Here is the graph for 'All' publications, honestly I don't know what to make of it.
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Researching published JW content is now hindered
by neat blue dog inthe recent topic by comingoutamycage about the amount of words published by jws decreasing reminded me:.
jws are now publishing more video content than printed content.
all the printed content up until now has either officially or unofficially been made available in digital format with the ability to search for keywords, which removed a layer of control and allows us to instantly find any references to, say, 1975 or "this generation".
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I think it would be technologically possible to have a transcription of videos which could be included in search results, but I doubt anyone would take the trouble to do that.
The video production vs printed production is a big reason the graph (which I have copied below) from COMC's previous post at https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5722021653118976/watchtower-has-fallen-from-700k-words-year-now-just-170k-words-year shows such a decline in the last 8-10 years. Honestly, you would probably see a similar pattern in news items, as newspapers and news magazines have slimmed down or discontinued entirely and everything has gone to video or online.
I'm a little more curious as to why the graph shows such a great decline in the years '76 to '84, and then levelled off until about 2010. I was around at that time, and all I can think of is that they quit producing the 384 page books about then.
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Randall Watters our old friend
by new boy indoes anyone here know his where about or have any updates on him?
he hasn't been active his face book in over a year.
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Randy's story linked elsewhere on this post bring back a lot of memories to me. I was never in Bethel, but had a family member who was there about that time. He probably knew Randy, though I don't remember him ever mentioning his name. Curious that Randy mentions 34 Orange. I actually stayed all night one night there. It was a no-no to allow non-Bethelites to stay in the rooms, but 34 Orange was well out of the way and nobody noticed. I think I slept on the floor, but it was only one night and I don't recall exactly.
34 Orange was a separate house with an apartment on each of its floors (I think 4 floors, maybe 5). The Society had a few of the floors, but not all. The worldly residents would complain when the Bethel boys made a lot of noise, or grilled food on an outside balcony.
