Posts by FadeToBlack

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Jw.Org - Create An Account. Anyone?

by FadeToBlack in

anyone give this a try?

i was looking at the site for the new light (about gb=fds) when i noticed the 'login' option.

also didn't see any 'search' option available.

FadeToBlack

Splash, what does a lowly publisher get to see? Go back to Start?

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Jw.Org - Create An Account. Anyone?

by FadeToBlack in

anyone give this a try?

i was looking at the site for the new light (about gb=fds) when i noticed the 'login' option.

also didn't see any 'search' option available.

FadeToBlack

Thanks BlindersOff. I was really just curious to see how much info they provided about early histoy of the org. I did find search eventually, but it takes you to their own online library.

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Jw.Org - Create An Account. Anyone?

by FadeToBlack in

anyone give this a try?

i was looking at the site for the new light (about gb=fds) when i noticed the 'login' option.

also didn't see any 'search' option available.

Splash, you are kidding me right? What does he do? Give you a secret code to access the info? Does it progress in levels? The more 'credentialed' you are the more you get to see? Could be a new marketing strategy! Large contributors get access to the 'inside' stuff.

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Jw.Org - Create An Account. Anyone?

by FadeToBlack in

anyone give this a try?

i was looking at the site for the new light (about gb=fds) when i noticed the 'login' option.

also didn't see any 'search' option available.

FadeToBlack

I'll give it a try and report back... Clicking on Log In now - leads to create new account

Laz - what is the "credential's tab about?

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does the watchtower or awake ever use ugly people on their covers?

by soiledumpling in

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please post pics..

FadeToBlack

Apparently no fat (sorry, overweight) folks either. Not limited to mags only - I dare you to find someone with non-marketable demographics on their official web site...

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Jw.Org - Create An Account. Anyone?

by FadeToBlack in

anyone give this a try?

i was looking at the site for the new light (about gb=fds) when i noticed the 'login' option.

also didn't see any 'search' option available.

FadeToBlack

Anyone give this a try? I was looking at the site for the new light (about GB=FDS) when I noticed the 'Login' option. Also didn't see any 'search' option available. Are they afraid what people might search for? I wanted to do a search on CTR.

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This generation will by now means pass away..."

by Jewel in

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i haven't been to a meeting (other than some cousins' weddings) for well over twenty years.

i've always wondered what the fds was going to do with the "generations" thing once pretty much everybody who had been alive in 1914 is gone.

i get that they've come up with some "new light" about this topic, but when i ask my mom (who's still in) i only get "well, the new understanding is complicated...".

FadeToBlack

I remember when my wife got assigned a part on the school to cover this topic. She was in tears. She even asked me for help. I told her all I could do was show her what the current idea was and warned her not to use the Reasoning book, since it was old light. She ended up calling the school overseer and told him she couldn't do the part! It would have been kind of funny to let her do the part using the material from the reasoning book, but I did not want to see her humiliated when the overseer had to stop the part and finish it himself. It doesn't seem to bother her too much that she belongs to a religion that she can't explain what it believes/teaches.

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WTS closes/dissolves 435 congregations in 29 countries

by Gayle in

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as listed in 2013 yearbook.. yes, most countries have increases in congregations.

most of the countries that have less congregations than last year, show 1 or 2 less.

however, poland shows a dramatic 327 congregations less, from 1,814 (2011) to 1,487. netherlands, 25 less congregations.

FadeToBlack

From what I have seen here in Poland, they are not closing any halls or selling off any property. They are simply combining congregations with low attendance. In my case we had 2 congregations sharing the same hall with supposedly about 80 pubs each , but usual meeting attendance was about 50%. They said it looked bad for new ones coming to see only 40 people in the hall (not that any new ones ever came when I was there) and now it is more impressive to have a packed hall. It also helps with expenses (don't have to heat up the hall so many times per week for example). It is just reverse spin. Before , it was smaller cong's allow for more individualized help. Now, it is 'feel the love' of so many of JHVH's people in one place.

For me it was a good excuse to stop going - I can't handle being in a small room with so many people. So far, nobody has called me about it.

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Now I need to buy her an iPad for service?

by FadeToBlack in

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the wife just got back from the service meeting tonight and she is pumped!

apparently, i need to buy her an ipad for field service.

they had the demos outlined in the km and she is really excited about it.

FadeToBlack

I don't think it will go far. She has never even asked to see the 'official' jw site before. When I tried to drop some hints that it might be a good idea to keep up with the 'nu-lite' (as in GB=FDS) she didn't even bat an eye. She really is a good person. If she wasn't, I would simply walk.

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Now I need to buy her an iPad for service?

by FadeToBlack in

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friends

the wife just got back from the service meeting tonight and she is pumped!

apparently, i need to buy her an ipad for field service.

they had the demos outlined in the km and she is really excited about it.

FadeToBlack

@ Robert(ABibleStudent) - excellent suggestions. Thanks...