Posts by Splash

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Olympus camera program

by zeb in

i have just lost hours collating, editing hundreds of images on this useless s*** program.

its called olympus viewer 3 and it decided to shut down and wiped out my work.

this was part of a business i was creating.. back ups i never stood a chance no more olympus cameras for me.

Splash

Image editing takes loads of memory.

If your PC struggles, you're more likely to have these sort of program crashes.

It sounds cruel to say it, but there's no substitute for saving often and having backups.

Sorry to hear your frustrations.

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Single Sisters

by BashfulAshG in

am i the only one who has single, desperate sisters in the congregation?

they tend to be holier-than-thou, frumpty, but in private talk about getting married.

but they don't understand why no brother will look at them.

Splash

To be fair, there are few 'ugly' men and women. 80% are just normal with a few who are extra good looking and a few who are less than good looking.

Plus, looks fade. I'd rather be married to a plain but interesting and attentive mate, than a beautiful airhead.

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Looking Back In Retrospect To 1975...

by titch in

greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.

and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.

but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.

Splash

Why does the last creative day have to be such a rounded number?

Why can't it be 7092 years long? 7601 years long? 19283 years long?

WT look for number patterns that land in the current timeframe and try to make them fit a baseless interpretation. WT decide on a date and then try to justify it.

None of this has any credence beyond a weak "but it would make sense if...".

Bottom line is, no matter how convinced you are, there's simply no evidence for a creative day being one duration rather than any other duration.

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Looking Back In Retrospect To 1975...

by titch in

greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.

and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.

but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.

Splash

I think they're sure now.

Kinda.

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Looking Back In Retrospect To 1975...

by titch in

greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.

and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.

but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.

Splash

Yeah, I meant directly after that meeting.

Regarding the 7,000 years to each creative day, to start with there was no question...

- w54 8/1 p. 478 The Purpose of Your Witnessing
Each creative day was 7,000 years in length. See "New Heavens and a New Earth", pages 40-43.

changed to

- w93 1/1 p. 4 Our Grand Creator and His Works
In an orderly sequence of six 'creative days,' each thousands of years in length

and then

- g03 9/22 p. 21 Science Was My Religion
the creative days lasted aeons

followed by

- w04 4/1 p. 6 Identifying the Wild Beast and Its Mark
God's creative week comprises seven 'days,' or extended time periods

also know as

- w11 2/15 p. 8 par. 10 Holy Spirit—At Work in Creation!
These are not 24-hour days but are epochs.

or less precisely

- g11/11 p. 9 Which Approach Is More Reasonable?
Each day evidently involved a considerable length of time.

Going almost full circle to a speculative

- g14/3 p. 5 How Long Did God Take To Create The Universe?
each of the six creative days could have lasted for thousands of years.

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Request for Info on Current Annual # jws Df'd and are the WT CDs being generated for jws any more or only info on www.jw.org

by blondie in

please post info here for a researcher.

thanks.

blondie would do but is under the gun at work.

Splash

I can extrapolate.

*** w94 4/1 p. 16 par. 8 Are You Resisting the Spirit of the World? ***
"each year about 40,000 individuals are disfellowshipped from Jehovah’s organization"

So in 1994 40,000 out of 4.5 million average publishers. This is 0.9%
Applying that percentage to today's 7.9 million publishers = 71,000 per year.

Add to this the death rate which in 2014 was about 0.8% globally.
Applying that percentage to today's 7.9 million publishers = 63,000 per year.

On top of this there are those who just leave.

Very broad estimates!

Regarding the CD-ROM, one was released last year and I've not heard that it is discontinued just yet.
I think it is inevitable that it will be stopped in favour of the JW website, however.

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Pre assembly video clip

by InquiryMan in

the music is somewhat different than in traditional jw-video clips.. https://sammankomst.org/#/video/tirsdag.mp4/forberedelser%20-%20tisdag.

Splash

There's proof right there that this is Jehovah's organisation.

And that the end is coming soon.

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Looking Back In Retrospect To 1975...

by titch in

greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.

and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.

but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.

Splash

An often overlooked comment from the WT comes from a Kingdom Ministry:

Kingdom Ministry, 3/68, p. 4 "there are only about ninety months left before 6000 years of man's existence on earth is completed.... The majority of people living today will probably be alive when Armageddon breaks out, and there are no resurrection hopes for those who are destroyed then."

This would have been a very exciting meeting to be at, what with all the discussion about 1975 afterwards.

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Looking Back In Retrospect To 1975...

by titch in

greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.

and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.

but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.

Splash

The WT have taught that Adam was created in 4028, 4026 and 4025 BCE.

They are clueless. When they change their minds again there will be a whole tribe of empty heads mindlessly nodding along to every word.

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Looking Back In Retrospect To 1975...

by titch in

greetings, folks: so, it's been 40 years since 1975. and, if you were actively involved with the witnesses back then, the mindset of many was, that by early autumn of 1975, it would mark the anniversary of 6000 years of human existence.

and, the hope was then, that it would mark the start of the 1000-year of christ, from the heavenly realm.

but, looking back now, 40 years ago, in june of 1975, only 3 more months remained until early autumn.

Splash

The WT no longer teach that each creative day is 7000 years long.

Oops, there goes another bunch of calculations down the pan.