Posts by oscartheduck

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May I have your attention please?

by WildHorses in

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i have a suggestion.

ok, we do not want to lose people like farkel, alan, mind..........hmmmmmmmmmm, this fluff mind is drawing a blank on names here.

hmmmm, oh yeah focus is one.

oscartheduck

I think tyydyy is partway there.

In order for a serious intellectual conversation to be effective in providing sufficient points of view for a conclusion to be reached, it has to have exposure. And it's easy for this exposure to be found in "main".

However, if those who want that kind of conversation all flocked to the other forums, as I do myself, and lived there, then that would solve the "problem".

I mean, the point of having a forum called "main" IS for general talk.

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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Question on Installing WTS CD-ROM

by Had Enough in

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can anyone with more computer techie knowledge than i have help me?.

i have a question on installing the newest version of the wts cd-rom because, in the recent topic on "yearbook experiences" an experiences was related from the 1971 yearbook, and thirdson requested a copy of it as his cd-rom only had yearbooks back to 1980.. this prompted me to check my 1995 version, and the yearbooks go back to 1971, so if i install my newer version, i understand it overrides the installed older version and therefore some older info will be lost.

i don't want to lose this older stuff as it is good to be able to reference it to compare all the flipflops and incriminating statements they've made to date.. soooooo.... my question: is there a way i can retain the older version on my harddrive and still install the newest version?.

oscartheduck

If worst came to the worst, you'd just have to save the relevant data to a new directory, then override the old version.

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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CO&PO came to see me

by GermanXJW in

i have been inactive for a year now.

before that i was quite active, had only an average time slip but did a lot of things you cannot count.

but i had read r.franz and the internet.

oscartheduck

Ah, the CO. I remember one time when I was working on the ministry with him. And turned to him and said, "Y'know, when you think about it objectively, what we believe is absurd."

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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There are No Annointed Ones

by JosephAlward in

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i've been reading posts to this forum for about four months, and i've been continually struck by the extraordinary number of forum members who consistently spell "anointed" incorrectly as "annointed.

" i estimate that only one time in four is this word spelled correctly in this forum, when it should be ten times in ten.. now, i would be the last to suggest that any of us should ever try to police the spelling of other posters, since what really matters is the message, not the spelling, but this is an extremely important word in jehovah land--or am i wrong about that?

probably no one will care very much if a current or former jw misspells most other words, but not spelling "anointed" correctly, given its extraordinary importance within the jehovah's witnesses' culture, would seem to be no more excusable than not spelling "jehovah" correctly.

oscartheduck

So, it's the words that are important, not the concepts embodied in the words? Right, I'll be sure to be more surface from now on, then.

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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EXCLUSIVE Official GB Publishing Committee Report

by stevieb1 in

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publishing committee report .

a report from the publishing committee on making the best use of contributed funds.. five years ago because of construction in the united states and throughout the world on k. h. and a. h. and branches the needs were greater than the available funds putting quite a strain on the resources.. the design build committee limited any building projects to only those absolutely necessary.

this resulted in saving millions of dollars just the first year.. the operations committee with the help of a new integrated computer system was able to make some significant changes.

oscartheduck

Any links so we can check the origins of this report?

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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PET OWNERS! New BAN from the Watchtower?!

by Focus in

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[for the full articles that were posted here, please now see:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=18803.

thank you, brothers (sisters even)].

oscartheduck

"Clearly, the Bible - by using this kind of terminology - shows beyond any reasonable doubt that the basic nature of cats, while created perfect by God, has become evil or 'beastlike' since the fall of Adam six thousand years ago."

This struck me as the best sentence in it, as it shows you a little of what goes on in the propoganda department.

"evil or "beastlike"

Like popping the two near each other in a sentence makes them related. And is he saying that all God's creations (because we must remember that we are informed that the theory of evolution has been "discredited", hence it is not taught anywhere anymore and we all laugh at our collective intellectual past believing in it) by nature of their being beasts are evil.

Scary thought.

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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recent article about "CESNUR"

by oscartheduck in

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http://www.jesus-witnesses.com/jwnews.htm.

"jehovah's witnesses join 'babylon the great' interfaith effort.

jehovah's witnesses have always claimed to be against interfaith 'contamination' considering all religions other than jehovah's witnesses "false" and collectively making up "babylon the great" (rev.

oscartheduck

Thanks very much, matey bob.

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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Classic WT "Governing Body" article

by refiners fire in

i may start a series, "classic articles".. this article is from the watchtower of december 15, 1971. title: "a governing body as different from a legal corporation".

.."on friday morning,october 1,1971,the legal corporation known as watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania held its annual corporation meeting"..... fine, but here we go.. ..."at this meeting a question came up and was discussed from the platform.

it was as to what the relationship is between the board of directors of the society...and the governing body...are they the same, identical, or are they different?".....

oscartheduck

Easy on the voting one: They put all the votes into a single big box, and then took them away to a magical counting room full of pixies and elves who lost the slips.

One of the governing body members slapped himself comically on the head and said "Well, if we just say that we knew the result of the vote because it was directed by God, then that's good enough for me!"

And lo! The vote was rigged!

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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Watchtower and Awake Subscriptions

by RealElder in

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we just had a letter read in our cong.

informing us that the society will no longer be sending out the magazines by subscription.

the letter said that this brings the usa in line with the rest of the world.

oscartheduck

regarding the SWAT teams idea, an elder came to our house (when I lived in England with my parents, who were/are JWs) just to see how they were, because they'd missed the meeting (and, so we hear, because the CO had been on his arse about the lack of people being visited if they're not at meetings).

I was making myself some lunch, and wandered into the room whilst munching away happily. The elder smiled and asked how I was, becuase I'd stopped attending a few weeks back so I'd not been seen, and I said I was fine, and they were all chatting, so I kept myself to myself, to be polite, rather than screaming about the bullshit they were spewing.

SO he turns to me at one point and says "Jay, I thought you might like to come to the book study, rather than give up the meetings wholesale, we'll be studying the creation book, you might find it interesting."

I smiled and looked at him and said "Thanks, but no."

He laughed too and seemed to appreciate that I was at least straight with him.

One of my nicest experiences with an elder, that was.

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "

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recent article about "CESNUR"

by oscartheduck in

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http://www.jesus-witnesses.com/jwnews.htm.

"jehovah's witnesses join 'babylon the great' interfaith effort.

jehovah's witnesses have always claimed to be against interfaith 'contamination' considering all religions other than jehovah's witnesses "false" and collectively making up "babylon the great" (rev.

oscartheduck

Anyone know what this is all about?

http://www.jesus-witnesses.com/jwnews.htm

"Jehovah's Witnesses Join 'Babylon the Great' Interfaith Effort
Jehovah's Witnesses have always claimed to be against interfaith 'contamination' considering all religions other than Jehovah's Witnesses "false" and collectively making up "Babylon The Great" (Rev. 17). However, seeking to join a forum gathering of sociologists and other religious organizations in a united effort for silencing secular and government critics through "CESNUR", the JWs have officially broken with their past history of shunning other religions and have opted to participate with the Church of Scientology, the Unification Church, the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, and other groups. Public awareness by anti-cult forces caused their cancellation from this CESNUR forum claiming "previous engagements.""

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The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126 "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible "