Yesterday my sister prepared some samosas (deep fried indian snack which are triangle shaped and almost resembles the pyramids). I'm now thinking whether she has some connections with freemasons.
Drearyweather
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Inside Story Logo
by MrHappy inthis may have been covered before but have you noticed the logo design of the "inside story" on this months video the 143rd gilead graduation.
it appears as a pyramid containing the masonic symbol of the compass and square, with this reflected below the text.
the art pieces on the shelf are also interesting and maybe someone has some thoughts on these.
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Position on blood idolatrous?
by Jehovah lol ini just had this thought in my other thread.. jehovah witnesses refuse blood transfusions because they believe blood to be the sacred symbol of life.
that's the primary reason, the medical justifications are simply ad hoc excuses.
couldn't it be said that their willingness to give their lives for the sanctity of the symbol of life is idolatrous?
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Drearyweather
So how can a Jehovah`s Witness use blood fractions in good conscience as a medical procedure since fractions are obtained by a laboratory procedure from donated blood that is given by worldly people who are going to be destroyed at Armageddon and stored in a laboratory and processed into fractions.
Its more like - a Hindu guy will not eat beef (cow meat) but is fine with wearing leather jackets made from cow skin
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The watchtower does not have the resources
by pepperheart inif you have a look at the december broadcast on jw tv they tell you that they wont be showing you a normal format for december but the 143rd event of gilead because the watchtower does not have the resources other wise to translate it many different lanuages.. with all the cuts the watchtower have made and are going to make you would have thought that they would have lots of resources.
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Drearyweather
So the watchtower is cuting down on the number of magazines to concentratre mostly on the web and now they cant find 600 jws from all the world and $1.5 million to translate the web programes in about 200 lanuages
That is if you say 3 people to translate a lanuage and if they live at bethel at $50 per person per week
Pepperheart, Let me help you more in this:
You don't just need 600 JW's, but 600 trained translators who have expertise in translating videos. Currently, 90% of the existing trained translators are busy translating the Song book, revised nwt, Nwt study edition, revised OD book, revised SKE curriculum and the revised public talk outlines. So practically, you cannot overnight have another batch of translators ready to do this job.
Lets take the 3 hour Gilead graduation program. You are right, It will take 3 people to just translate it. But, it doesn't stop there. You need following more resources for each language:
You need a coach and an assistant who will read through the script and prepare a team of people for auditioning for the narration. Each different voice for a different speaker/person on the video. You can't have an 18 year old give his voice for an 80 year old Sam Herd.
After auditioning, the coach and his assistant will take the approved candidates and practice each and every line of the script to match the voice, emotions and gestures of the English speaker.
After the practice session, the entire team will go the the local recording Studio at the RTO or travel to the Branch office studio to start the recording session.
At the studio, you will need a sound engineer and a reading coach who will listen to all the recording and may ask the candidate for multiple takes.
Finally, the sound engineer will do the task of editing and re-editing till the final copy is done. and then it goes to the branch office.
So now, pepperheart, factor all of the above in your calculations and let us know your final assessment.
I have worked as a Translator and believe it, Translation requires massive efforts and humongous amount of energy and time, and it seems naive to just pass it off as a $50 per person per week job, as you say.
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From enemies to friends: Did it really happen?
by StephaneLaliberte inyesterday, they showed the story “from enemies to friends” at the kingdom hall.
my mother in law told me about it as she was touched by the story.
so then, later in the evening, i searched for the video and found it in the january 1st 2017 broadcast.
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Drearyweather
What do you think about the Sabina Hernandez video?
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The end of an era ......
by snare&racket ini have written some time ago, about how the religion i grew up in no longer exists.
i was an 80’s jw kid who became a pioneer then a bethelite.
they have new meetings, new elder roles, new acronyms, new core teachings, new songs and even a new bible.
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Drearyweather
Do we have info of what happened to the sign "Brooklyn Tabernacle" which was atop the Hicks Street Property which was sold in 1918?
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Drearyweather
If the debate on his smile is over, i think most people would start estimating the cost of the suit that he is wearing and will then compare it with a photo of run-down shack or a bamboo roofed kingdom hall in Malawi.
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New Light
by Lost in the fog inam i the only one who can't reconcile new light with the light gets brighter?
if it matters at all.
i bring a candle into my house and light it.
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Drearyweather
Lost in the fog, Can you point out or source some references from the WT publications where they have used the term "New Light" while changing or adjusting their doctrines?
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the watchtower is starting to crumble
by pepperheart infor the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.
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Drearyweather
WHAT PROOF DO YOU HAVE THAT THEY HAVE GOT LOTS OF ASSETS
8 million members.
The greatest asset any religion has is its members.Cults and religions survive because they always have a group of members that believe what they say.
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the watchtower is starting to crumble
by pepperheart infor the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.
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Drearyweather
but why do they say they have not got the resources to a normal formatt december broadcast and to translate the 143 gilead into lots of lanuages ?
Because at the moment all languages do not have the number of translators to translate a broadcasting program and a Gilead program simultaneously and release it in December.
It is simpler to translate written material, however it is very complicated to translate videos and especially talks with spontaneous speech and then put the translated voice-over on it.
Money can buy you buildings, but can't give you translators overnight.
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the watchtower is starting to crumble
by pepperheart infor the december monthly broadcast instead of jws from around the world waving to you and items of how to shun people we will have to make do with repeats of of old gilead videos that have been on the jw website for a good while.
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Drearyweather
An EX-JW predicting the end of Watchtower Corp is like a JW predicting the end of the world. Both's not going to happen..