Posts by wisdomfrombelow

i just noticed that in recent study editons of the watchtower they mention on the inside cover that the magazines are free of charge but if you want to make a donation you can at their website.

i noticed it from the march 2016 edition.

i wonder if will be in the clam meeting workbooks as well...

I just noticed that in recent study editons of the Watchtower they mention on the inside cover that the magazines are free of charge but if you want to make a donation you can at their website. I noticed it from the March 2016 edition. I wonder if will be in the CLAM meeting workbooks as well...

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2015 WT CD ROM Trying to Hide the Past

by The Searcher in

when installing, it asks if you'd like to receive automatic updates via the internet.. in other words, "we will re-write our history without you knowing what was written previously.".

the corporation knows that many will never exchange their cd rom for the puerile online library, so doctoring their previous "truths" is the best solution.. a bit like the creed painted on the barn door in "animal farm.

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wisdomfrombelow

The Q-R codes are date stamped and I believe they change when a revision is made but I don't have before/after examples to verify that.

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"If I wasn't born a JW, I would never have become one."

by OneEyedJoe in

i've seen it mentioned by a few on the forum that at some point there was a realization that had they not been born a jw, they never would've converted no matter how many times the jws tried to study with them.

this was my experience too, and i'm wondering how universal it is for those that were born-in but eventually left.

i think i started having this thought (more specifically that if i were not born a jw, i would surely have become an atheist by now) in my late teens.

wisdomfrombelow

I guess I considered my religion as something like a heritage, like jews can relate to the jewish experience even if they are not religious. Or how people of ethnic or racial backgrounds have that in common. I knew before I was a teenager that if I wasn't born into this religion I would not have become one. But that didn't get me thinking that maybe I shouldn't be one...because you were taught to behave like one even before baptism so it didn't matter as much.

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CO's never say thank you for the green handshakes

by suavojr in

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friends

ever noticed how co's and ex-do's never say thank you for the hard earned money they get from the friends?

they truly believe they are entitled to live an easy life at the expense of others.

this makes my blood boil!

wisdomfrombelow

We can proudly say, we have NEVER given a CO or his wife a green handshake.

I agree.with that. I would have thought that it would be tantamount to simony and the thought never crossed my mind until I heard about it on this board.

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Update on everything going on in JW Land - Insider Information

by thedepressedsoul in

i'd like to start off by saying that i will be very vague in everything i say.

i am fairly "high up" in jw land and have to be somewhat careful how i word and say stuff.

sorry in advance if any specific details are left out.

wisdomfrombelow

What I would like to know is why they have keep the same business model of using free labor to hand out magazines in hopes of receiving donation witch almost never happens are they that stuck in a rut that they can't pull out of this dead end model?

Of course they have no idea how to change their business model. It is over 100 years old. It was a clever way to keep people busy so they wouldn't have time to think critically as well as generating income for them. They tied it all to a religious component that they sold as their distinguishing mark. Once they could no longer charge for literature then everything was turned on it's ear.

There is no activity that they can get everyone to do which will generate income for them. Tithing would be the only way but that doesn't keep people busy and the rank and file need to be kept busy as well.

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Can somebody explain the songs and songbook obsession?

by careful in

i've been out a while and have only put in a rare appearance at a memorial or brief visit at a convention/assembly to keep people off my back, so i haven't kept up on the songbook.

but one thing i've noticed that the org.

has been doing that they never did when i was in is all these "supplemental songs" that keep appearing.

wisdomfrombelow

I thought the reason for so many new songs is that they were thereby forcing people to the website jw.org. The epub versions of the KM and Watchtower have the new songs included so it must be a way to nudge people to using the electronic version and not the paper version

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2015 November 19, BOE! Circuit Account Balances!

by Atlantis in

delete if already posted.. .

2015-november 19, boe.

.. re: review of circuit account balances.

wisdomfrombelow

This grab is so new that they didn't even put in the revised OD book which has the Our Christian Life and Ministry meeting in it which hasn't even started yet. Either the need for cash is so urgent or they didn't want to reveal how circuit funds are spent to the sheeple or both. Simply amazing what the flock doesn't know and shame on the elders for keeping it hush-hush.

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2015-11/3/BOE! New Literature Delivery Schedule!

by Atlantis in

.. re: new schedule for delivery of magazines and literature .

.click the green download button.. http://wwwb.fileflyer.com/view/tz1mdat.

.. .. wtunderground!.

wisdomfrombelow

As I read the letter, it says "each Cong will receive ONE issue of the Public WT; ONE issue of the Awake; TWO issues of the Study WT; TWO issues of the KM"; along with their literature order.

Let me explain how i read it, each delivery contains literature for 2 months. They are detailing what types of literature appear in the shipment now how many are shipped. So they will get supplies to last for 2 months instead of one moth.