Posts by NotBlind

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Covering the territory

by Ding in

how often are jws trying to cover a given territory nowadays?.

logically, they should be trying to cover the territory more and more often the closer armageddon gets, but it seems to me i see them out far less often than i used to..

NotBlind

Their goal is to cover all territories at least once a year. Congregations that can't do this can get assistance from the home office or surrounding congregations to cover their territories.

Of course, what they call 'cover' the territory is a lot different than it used to be. Lots of publishers knock so quietly that nobody would ever know they were there. Is there a No Trespassing sign anywhere on the premises? Skip the house! Nobody at home? Leave a tract and forget about it!

A lot of territory coverage (maybe 30 to 40%?) consists of Memorial/Convention invitation canvassing, where no real message is conveyed. Gone are the days when JW's prepared, rehearsed, and delivered a 4-5 minute sermon at the door which actually included Bible scriptures.

This generation of JW's seems more interested in making an appearance on Saturday morning, working a few houses, then hightailing it to McDonald's/Starbucks/Panera Bread for a lengthy break.

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Pope Francis Orders Vatican Archives to Reveal God’s Name Ending Centuries of Secrecy

by pleaseresearch in

it's from 3 weeks ago.

my mum told me about it.

but is this real or fake?

NotBlind

There really was a Pope Hilarius I; he served for 7 years in the Fifth century.

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Most Widely Circulated Magazine In The World

by Calebs Airplane in

which magazine is now the most widely circulated in the world?.

before responding, keep in mind that certain parameters (such as content and page count) ought to be met before any printed material intended for mass distribution can be categorized as a “magazine”.

for example, the absolute minimum range for any publication to be considered a magazine is typically around 32 to 48 pages while the highest page counts are usually around 128 to 160, with some popular women’s fashion magazines coming in quite a bit higher than that.. so with that said, which is now the world’s most widely circulated magazine?.

NotBlind

It's pretty pathetic when they can't even get people to take their 'magazine' for free.

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Most Widely Circulated Magazine In The World

by Calebs Airplane in

which magazine is now the most widely circulated in the world?.

before responding, keep in mind that certain parameters (such as content and page count) ought to be met before any printed material intended for mass distribution can be categorized as a “magazine”.

for example, the absolute minimum range for any publication to be considered a magazine is typically around 32 to 48 pages while the highest page counts are usually around 128 to 160, with some popular women’s fashion magazines coming in quite a bit higher than that.. so with that said, which is now the world’s most widely circulated magazine?.

NotBlind

The Crotchtower 'magazine' is about as welcome as the flyers advertising payday loans they sometimes stick under my windshield wiper in the Walmart parking lot.

The Tower Slave International organization is 'clearly struggling', too. Even with a 140-year-old network of worldwide distribution, eager slaves willing to spend their own cash to distribute their message, a slick website, and a free 24-hour TV channel, they only average 2 to 4 people to sign on for boobtism at an average circuit assembly (and most of them are pre-pubescent children or mentally challenged).

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BLONDIE'S COMMENTS YOU WILL NOT HEAR AT THE 3-5-2017 WT STUDY (YEAR'S TEXT)(JANUARY 2017)

by blondie in

jw
friends

blondie’s comments you will not hear at the march 5, 2017 wt study (january 2017) (trust jah).

excellent general website: www.jwfacts.com .

bible translations www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible .

NotBlind

Good analysis, as always.

Paragraph 17 was the most memorable for me. The elderly lady literally has no food in her refrigerator, but she sure as heII better find some dough for the Tower Slave International organization! Where are the elders and the loving pioneers and the circuit overseers then? They like to give assembly experiences of families with no money that magically found a bag of groceries on their doorstep, but when has this organization ever honestly encouraged feeding the poor/hungry? Those ~~circuit overseer~~s leeches have their hands outstretched for another green handshake when they have an old widow with no food in her fridge?

You literally cannot make this up!!

Somehow, they took a fairly harmless psalm about doing what is good and trusting in God and turned it into another money-grubbing session!

Paragraph 15 is a close second, with the other elderly lady who's living alone and on oxygen. She could be listening in on the phone tie-in, but NO! The all-knowing elders probably told her she didn't qualify. She better get her keister to the Kingdom Hell so she can drop some more of her dead husband's money into the contribution box.

And the young sister next to her had better wake up soon, or else she'll be even worse off in 50 years time!

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March 1, 2017 BOE Re: Update on Local Design/Construction Arrangement

by wifibandit in

march 1, 2017 to all bodies of elders in the united states branch territory re: update on local design/construction arrangement.

NotBlind

This is now the 2nd video in about 6 months that will be played at Kingdom Hells about the LDC 'arrangement.' And when I say arrangement, I mean shell game.

These people are producing more videos about LDC than the LDC is producing building projects. It's now been over 2 years since the big 3-hour online elders' assembly, and the number of KH's this great arrangement has produced in the USA is barely out of the single digits.

Meanwhile, congregation savings accounts were confiscated, circuit savings accounts were confiscated, local congregations with paid-for buildings are being told to pay an eternal rent/payment toward future construction, GB members are begging for money on TV, donated tools and machinery were sold for cold hard cash, printing of magazines has been all but shut down, hundreds of millions of dollars were gained from the sale of Brooklyn, and the few thinking JW's that are left are wondering where all the money went.

This organization is in full lockdown mode, and once Warwick is fully operational (within a few weeks), they will hunker down even more.

The LDC has existed for about 2 years, but it is already a failure. The lack of building projects (whether new construction or remodels) has not gone unnoticed by the R&F. This failed LDC idea will soon go the way of the Green Bible, the Pioneer Assist Others program, and the Trinity Brochure. Soon, the GB will declare the LDC arrangement a smashing victory, say it is no longer needed, and replace it with something else.

If anyone with half a brain questioned whether God was directing the Tower Slave International organization, observing the folly of the do-nothing LDC should remove all doubt.

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A question for those who still go to the meetings

by no-zombie in

and it is ... why do most at the hall prefer to sit at the back and leave front rows empty?.

NotBlind

If you go to any meeting and the first several rows are empty, it's a good sign that most of the attendees don't really want to be there. I've seen this at business conferences, sales meetings, and JW meetings. Deep down in their hearts, they don't want to be there. They'd rather be at home watching TV, sleeping in, anything but sitting in an ill-fitting suit or dress being lectured to for 2 hours.

If the Tower Slave International corporation actually cared enough about their slaves to make the meetings interesting, relevant, and engaging, people would want to sit 'closer to the action.' But as it is, the meetings are mandatory, and the corporate bosses have no incentive to improve the quality of these twice-a-week sales conferences.

HeII, even most of the elders don't want to be at the meetings. Most of them find an excuse to get up several times in the span of 2 hours, to go to the bathroom, fiddle with the sound department, piddle around behind the counter, talk to someone in the library, poke around at the dis-information board. I even know of one elder who made a comment during paragraph 1 of the WT, went out to lunch, and was back in time for the review box.

It's all about making a show, ya' know.

Almost none of these people really want to be there.

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December 28, 2016 BOE Re: One Study Edition of The Watchtower in Languages Other Than English

by wifibandit in

december 28, 2016 to all congregations re: one study edition of the watchtower in languages other than english.

dear brothers:.

for several years, the simplified edition of the watchtower has been produced in french,.

NotBlind

And then there's the sentence: "In the future, simpler language will be used in the study edition of The Watchtower."

Really, can they dumb these 'magazines' down any more?

How will the 1/1/2018 Watchtower read?

"You must obey us. Disobey mean death. Give us all your money. Watch JW TV every day. No tight pants."

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RC 2017

by wifibandit in

due to last years success, i will post everything related to the 2017 regional convention in this thread.. to start us off.... thanks to exjw reddit user ich3b we have advance notice of the theme (this is not a joke!).

the theme for the 2017 regional convention is: "don’t give up!” .

as always, if you have access to confidential materials you would like to leak but need to protect your identity, pm me or email me: wifibandit1 (at) gmail.

NotBlind

Confirmed. This is not a joke. The theme really is "Don't Give Up", which implies that even the GB is concerned with the hemorrhaging of membership & donations.

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New Bible, In Spanish.... Why taking so long?!

by Doubtfully Yours in

is it possible it's not like they initially said, that it was just having god's name added in places where it had been deleted, and that perhaps they're making more adjustments to it in order to fit our doctrine?.

come out with the freakin' new bible in spanish already!!!.

dy .

NotBlind

It's getting to be almost a joke in the Spanish field about the lack of the new Bible. At last year's RC, the big "Jesus" book (replacement for Greatest Man) did not come out in Spanish. The speaker specifically stated that it would come out in Spanish when the RNWT was made available in Spanish. And that was a year ago.

If anything, this shows the glaring incompetence of the WT. Supposedly, they have spent millions of dollars on these "Regional Translation Offices" all over the world. They moved the Spanish translation team from Puerto Rico to Spain with the declared intention of making the work more efficient. The end result? The translation is getting slower, not faster.

It has become an embarrassment to the org when even simple two-page letters to congregations come out in English one week, but aren't available in Spanish until 2 or 3 weeks later. This is common knowledge in the Spanish circuits.

What are these 'translation teams' doing all day???? Or is their nonstop bashing of education coming back to bite them in the a$$?