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  Are they now tracking our activity on jw.org app?

  by raymond frantz in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  this disclaimer appeared on my jw.org app after using their add notes function on the watchtower study section are they now tracking the app and what we add to it?

  the information i add on their note section is mainly points that i can use on my videos which is really clashed as apostate material.this information is saved on my drive and not on cloud so are they installing a tracker on your system once you press accept so they can use this information against in the future?

  have you had a similar experience?.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  In countries subject to GDPR (European) every website which uses cookies, etc will have similar disclaimers. I don't read much into it
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  March 2023 WT - Recruitment drive!

  by BoogerMan in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  dedicate your life to jehovah, by being baptized as a jw - not as a christian.

  (a follower of christ - acts 11:26).

  par.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  No doubt this was written in response to the historically low baptisms in the 2022 annual report (data through Sept, 22) which was just made public last week.
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  New GB

  by XBEHERE in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  gage fleegle.

  jeffrey winder.

  anyone know them?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Lol

  I have to laugh
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  What happened to Catholic church bashing.

  by Hellothere in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i remember back in the 80s almost every awake and watchtower magazine, think all, hade an article about how bad and evil catholic church was.

  what happened to all the bashing?

  was it because people in catholic countries got offended?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  My take:

  The religious ground from which the WT took root and initially grew was the US Protestant base, the same base from which the Adventists arose in the 1800's. There was a strong anti-Catholic rhetoric which was part of the culture. The hatred of Catholicism continued through the Rutherford years; Rutherford's bashing of Catholics and his public jabs with Father Coughlin were well known in the '30's. The anti-Catholicism diminished as they started to expand more outside the US, especially to the historically Catholic countries of the rest of the Americas. Nowadays they have to craft their message more carefully to appeal to other cultures, especially as the majority of JWs are not in the US anymore.
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  JW Data Protection Policy

  by dropoffyourkeylee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just discovered something that is worth a comment or two:.

  go to jw.org and type in the search box 'data protection'.

  i had a conversation with an elder who told me that they are directed to purge some files pertaining to people who are ex-jws and have been disfellowshipped over a prescribed number of years.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  Just discovered something that is worth a comment or two:

  go to JW.org and type in the search box 'data protection'. I had a conversation with an elder who told me that they are directed to purge some files pertaining to people who are ex-JWs and have been disfellowshipped over a prescribed number of years

  . This was news to me and he mentioned the data protection policy online.

  edited to add the following link

  https://www.jw.org/en/privacy-policy/global-policy-personal-data/

  Which contains information which seems to contradict the elder's statement.

  
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  So where oh where did Judge Rutherford come up with JW theology?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bits of unreported history that may be of casual interest… as to doctrinal origins.

  sykes was one-of-a-kind in the pentecostal movement, but he was considered quite a maverick who went his own way with heretical teachings repugnant to the pentecostal faith.. joshua sykes’ congregation was integrated, unlike pastor russell’s public speeches/sermons where blacks and whites both could attend, but only in separate sections--sykes's members were sitting side by side in the pentecostal church.

  this was considered dangerous and inflammatory at the time.. pentecostal preacher joshua sykes practiced racial and gender "integration" as early as 1908 -- having both african-american and female assistant preachers, staffers, and members.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  All good comments.

  Concerning the choice of the name Jehovah's witness, I was a bit surprised when reading the Studies in the Scriptures during my wakeup period when I saw the name there - probably the first place in WT literature which specifically used the term. I don't have any copies of the Studies anymore to check, but it was in the third of the series I think. In that volume it said that the Great Pyramid was Jehovah's witness.
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  So where oh where did Judge Rutherford come up with JW theology?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  bits of unreported history that may be of casual interest… as to doctrinal origins.

  sykes was one-of-a-kind in the pentecostal movement, but he was considered quite a maverick who went his own way with heretical teachings repugnant to the pentecostal faith.. joshua sykes’ congregation was integrated, unlike pastor russell’s public speeches/sermons where blacks and whites both could attend, but only in separate sections--sykes's members were sitting side by side in the pentecostal church.

  this was considered dangerous and inflammatory at the time.. pentecostal preacher joshua sykes practiced racial and gender "integration" as early as 1908 -- having both african-american and female assistant preachers, staffers, and members.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The referenced Wikipedia article from a previous post in this thread, the referenced Wikipedia article at:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Name_Movement

  contains quite a number of highly debatable and unverified statements.
  
  
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  2022 Service Report is Out

  by Bartolomeo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  warning: this post doesn't belong to me, i took it from reddit and posted it here.

  news.

  +0.4% growth in publishers globally.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  When was the last time there was negative growth in the US? Last time I can remember was in the late '70s.
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  Did the ransom sacrifice even work?

  by Sharpie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  shower thought entered my mind the other day... jesus christ.

  as per doctrine.

  is still alive in heaven right now correct?

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  The ransom never did make sense to me. Later in life, after JW indoctrination, I came to believe that the ransom reasoning was concocted by Paul as a way to convince the people of the time that sacrifices were not necessary to worship. The non-Jews, gentiles, who he was preaching to were accustomed to going to a temple somewhere, presenting some sacrifice, and this was their worship. He was trying to convince them to become Christians and they didn't have to sacrifice anything anymore. Maybe that is over simplifying, but that is what I get out of it
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  Church buys GEICO Woodbury property for $27M

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://libn.com/2023/01/09/church-buys-geico-woodbury-property-for-27m/.

  after a previous sale fell through, geico has sold its sprawling woodbury property for $27 million.

  the buyer for the 236,365-square-foot office building on 20 acres at 750 woodbury road is the christian congregation of jehovah’s witnesses.

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  20 acres on Long Island? I wouldn't have expected that