Were there 2 people in the car (2 witness rule)?
If not, you should be OK
FFGhost
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Google Street view: Will I get disfellowshipped?
by StephaneLaliberte inyesterday, while having a smoke outside my house, i saw the google street view car drive by.
so here i am, wondering when this picture will make it to the web and when a jw sees it.
even if they blur the face, i bet it will be really easy to make out who's smokin' outside.
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Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?
by JWTom insomeone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
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FFGhost
Agreed that the magazine has long outlived its usefulness (if it ever had any).
What's weird is that they simply stopped publishing it and didn't bother to tell anyone about it.
Quite possibly even weirder is that, to the best of my knowledge, no JW is talking about it. In fact, I'd wager that probably less than 10% have even noticed.
It almost makes me wonder if it is some sort of test by the WT bigwigs - "how much do people really pay attention? If we suddenly just stop publishing a magazine that has been in continuous circulation for 100+ years, will anyone notice?"
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Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?
by JWTom insomeone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
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FFGhost
it is obvious that some of you did not pay 100 % attention at the mid-week meeting last November
Maybe not but.....
my guess is that all the presses are busy with the new study brochure
It is obvious that one of you has not been paying 100% attention. There are no "presses" involved with creating digital copies of a magazine.
It's a matter of creating content and formatting it on a computer, and then clicking the "upload" button. Literally no "press" involvement at all.
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Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?
by JWTom insomeone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
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FFGhost
Dear brothers, we are pleased to inform you that because of unprecedented growth we will no longer be printing the "awake" magazine!
LOL.
Jut like the announcement regarding the old "Pioneers Assist Others" program back in the 90s (not making this up - not an exact quote but the spirit was something like this):
"The Pioneers Assist Others program has helped thousands of our brothers to accomplish more in the ministry and has been a phenomenal unqualified success! Thus, we are hereby discontinuing the program. Praise Jehovah!"
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U.S. Announcement at CLAM w/o March 3 - Donation of Trailers Needed
by JWTom inat our clam meeting this past week there was a rather lengthy announcement asking for the donation of travel trailers.
needed to be at least 22 feet long and not older than a 2005 model year.
lots of other details were in the announcement about what was desired related condition of the trailer, etc.
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FFGhost
Probably to house temporary workers for their 4-5 year project to build a video production studio in Ramapo NY.
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Awake Magazine - No Longer Being Printed?
by JWTom insomeone made reference in another post that the awake magazine had ceased publication.
maybe i missed it since i have not been on here as much in the last 6 months.
is this true?
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FFGhost
TBH, I never really noticed there were no 2021 issues - but indeed, nothing is on the website.
And no official announcement has been made.
It is indeed quite bizarre - to end a magazine printed for over 100 years (a significant achievement in any event, regardless of whether a JW publication or not) by just simply not printing it anymore.
I guess the practice of quietly dismissing things that have outlived their usefulness (such as middle-aged Bethelites) continues even into the publishing field.
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The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping
by FFGhost inso, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.
a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.
13 a peg should be part of your equipment.
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FFGhost
ancient sources always overestimated the size of armies back in those days, the bible writers were no exception.
That's the point of my thread!
Bible writers used huge numbers all the time, and never really cared about accuracy or being taken literally.
But the WTS (and other Biblical fundy groups, to be fair) ties itself into knots by accepting those weird numbers as absolutely factually true, which leads, paradoxically, to a lack of faith in the Bible because anyone with at least 3 functioning brain cells (I modestly include myself in that group) can see that it's a load of codswallop to think it literally happened exactly as written.
If the WTS were to come out and say "obviously, there weren't 3 million Israelites wandering around over a few hundred miles of desert for 40 years - but the writer is trying to convey XYZ message by saying so" then they'd be approaching reasonableness.
But of course if they were to do that, they couldn't claim that all the world's problems were caused because a talking snake persuaded a naked lady to eat a piece of fruit, and their whole house of cards would collapse.
So they prefer to reinforce the absurd notion that the Bible's stories are literal, factual, accurate reports and thus remain in power. Big fish, little pond, etc.
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1969 "fact": You will never grow old in this present system of things
by Ding inawake!
"if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things.
because all the evidence in fulfillment of bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.
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FFGhost
I've always wondered if this article was the reason why the WT arbitrarily picked 1970 as the oldest Awake available on WT-CD and now WOL (online library). There's no reason to pick "1970" vs. "1960" or "1950" or "1922" other than they want to obscure their weirdest or most damaging old teachings.
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An American Religion?
by no-zombie ini have a question.. have every member of the governing body (past and present) been american citizens?.
while i understand that some may have been born outside of the us, ultimately to serve in the world hq long term, i imagine that they all had to become 'americans'?.
no zombie.
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FFGhost
Yeah Losch is an Austrian.
Jackson is Australian.
I think Splane is Canadian, I think maybe Sanderson too?
In the past, Gangas was Greek, and Barr as has been mentioned already as Scottish.
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The camp of Israel and the problem of pooping
by FFGhost inso, in a couple weeks, the jws move on in their bible-reading slog to the book of deuteronomy.. take a gander at deuteronomy 23:12,13:.
a private place should be designated for use outside the camp, and there is where you should go.
13 a peg should be part of your equipment.
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FFGhost
could be, that the "camp" mentioned just refers to the camp of their immediate family, ?
The "Insight" book disagrees:
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000872
The size of this camp of Israel was very great. The above register figures total 603,550 fighting men, in addition to women and children, old folks and handicapped, 22,000 Levites, and “a vast mixed company” of aliens—perhaps all together 3,000,000 or more. (Ex 12:38, 44; Nu 3:21-34, 39) How much area such an encampment would cover is not certain; estimates vary greatly.
Gotta love how they sidestep the size issue - "estimates vary greatly". Yeah, not sure whether it would thousands or merely hundreds of square miles. In any event, the official WT position is that "the camp" is the whole thing, so "outside the camp" would be outside the big conglomeration of millions of people.