It's worse than a serious loss of discipline if the annual reporting schedule, in use for many decades, has to be adjusted because of tardiness. In all past reported cases of significant failure to perform according to the desires of WTBTS elite, the offenders at a branch office were immediately either demoted or booted.
But the elite can't pull this off so easily nowadays. Why? Because there are too few sufficiently capable replacements in the branches. Are you surprised? Don't be, for it is a natural result of the talent drain that started after the WTBTS 1975 prediction debacle and intensified by the 1994 generation bait and switch. This drain has since been reaching into the upper levels and is seen today with branch overseers who either can't or won't follow a calendar.
The elite fear replacing these non-performers because any candidates are either even more incompetent or, worse, even less likely to toe the WTBTS line. Either way, bad news for the elite. And it's sure to get worse.
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Service Year Report of Jehovah?s Witnesses Worldwide
by frogit infound this in the latest wt.
page 24 wt january 1st 2005.
?starting this year, the service year report of jehovah?s witnesses worldwide will not appear in the january 1 issue of the watchtower.
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Service Year Report of Jehovah?s Witnesses Worldwide
by frogit infound this in the latest wt.
page 24 wt january 1st 2005.
?starting this year, the service year report of jehovah?s witnesses worldwide will not appear in the january 1 issue of the watchtower.
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After many decades of the practice of releasing the annual report in the January 1st WT, the Brooklyn Boyz delay a month for the 2004 disService Year. Why?
It's doubful that the change is because of a computer foul up; the annual statistics were published for many years without any computer assistance at all.
LIkewise, there's been no news of any problems on getting the base statistics in to Crooklyn on time.
I'll bet that some of the numbers were so bad that the disService Department and the Gibbering Baboons were forced to add in another month to the annual total and try to pass it off as a regular twelve month year. Alternatively, the nature of the results is totally out of whack with the correspondng WT study article and that there has been a significant, high level opinion split on how to perform the annual spin doctoring. It may be that the WTBTS elite have finally recognized that the field service has totally collapsed in the developed countries and they're not yet sure on how to handle the news.
The yearbook will likely be delayed until the very last minute. Perhaps the following yearbook won't have any statistics at all if they try another month shift next year.
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Q: Why do they call it "PMS"?
A: Because the name "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken.
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Cool Technology - would you buy one?
by Scully inyes, it's finally happened.
lg has built a refrigerator with a small tv screen integrated into the door panel.
neat idea... but i wonder if it will sell?.
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I recall that some twenty years ago, a major retailer (Sears) introduced a kitchen microwave oven with a built in 20 cm color television. So the basic idea is not new.
I'm not much of a television fan and indeed did not own a television for most of my life (so far). But then there are those that do contribute to the US national average of about six hours of viewing per day and maybe a refrigerator/TV is the item for them.
From an engineering standpoint, it's a thumbs down as the system complexity is increased beyond the utility offered by a separation approach. That is, there's more stuff to break and the repair costs will be higher. If someone really needs a TV in their kitchen, they would be better off getting a small and cheap unit that can be mounted under a cupboard. -
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I Got My First Virgin
by Skimmer intoday i got my first virgin mobile cell phone.
(what, were you thinking of something else?
) and i must say that it's an improvement over the general experience i've had during the last ten years of various plans from a traditional, big-name provider and the three crappy big-name cell phones that they sold to me.
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I had the chance to do a bit of travelling with my Virgin Mobile phone and I was able to verify digital coverage in all of my usual away from home locations. This was pretty much as expected as VM uses the Sprint network for coverage. There was no roaming anywhere. The signal strength meter was consistently at four or five bars out of five.
From examination of VM's marketing, I can see why they are able to sell the basic service component so cheaply. It looks like they're making a lot, if not most, of their revenue from sales of secondary services: downloads of ringtones, music, and other material aimed at the 13 to 25 year old MTV demographic. As long as the teenyboppers can be persuaded to pony up US$2-3 or more for downloads, I can enjoy my US$0.10 per minute peak time long distance. Heh, heh. -
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I threw out all MY JW literature today
by Tim Horton inhow many of you have come to that point and remember that day.
do you know the exact date.
today!
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It was over thirty years ago that I left the WTBTS publishing cult, so I can't remeber the exact date.
But I do remember that it was a cold day, and the house I was living in at the time had this nice, big fireplace.
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Eighty eight years ago today
by Skimmer ineighty eight years ago today, c. t. russell kicked the bucket and went to his, er, "reward".
yes, it was on halloween.
was jellyfish russell done in by poison, perhaps delivered by an agent operating under the direction of booze rutherford?
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A crowbar might help with opening the hollow Watchtower pyramid monument that's about ten meters away from Jellyfish Russell's headstone.
Yes, the pyramid is hollow. It consists of a base with four triangular slabs and a capstone. The story is that it was originally filled with copies of Russell's books; these were later (illicitly?) removed. It appears that the capstone and faces are held together with some kind of polyvinyl sealant that certainly wasn't available eighty eight years ago.
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I Got My First Virgin
by Skimmer intoday i got my first virgin mobile cell phone.
(what, were you thinking of something else?
) and i must say that it's an improvement over the general experience i've had during the last ten years of various plans from a traditional, big-name provider and the three crappy big-name cell phones that they sold to me.
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Yes, that wonderful feeling one gets upon opening a cellphone bill and seeing a balance five or ten times larger than anticipated. Happened to me more than once, I admit.
Casinos rarely have wall clocks as they don't want the patrons to easily know how much time has passed; keeping the players at the tables means more cash for the proprietors. It's the same way with traditional cellular service plans. If a cellphone users could easily (e. g., one button press) find out their balance, they would be much less likely to overspend. -
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Eighty eight years ago today
by Skimmer ineighty eight years ago today, c. t. russell kicked the bucket and went to his, er, "reward".
yes, it was on halloween.
was jellyfish russell done in by poison, perhaps delivered by an agent operating under the direction of booze rutherford?
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Eighty eight years ago today, C. T. Russell kicked the bucket and went to his, er, "reward". Yes, it was on Halloween.
Was Jellyfish Russell done in by poison, perhaps delivered by an agent operating under the direction of Booze Rutherford? Certainly Rutherford was growing tired of being denied the dictatorship of the publishing company and, judging by the events in the months following Russell's demise, he had his ursurpation plan already in place. However, depending on the (putative) poison, an exhumation could confirm foul play. If the WTBTS still owns the cemetery plot then there will be no investigation, of course. -
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I Got My First Virgin
by Skimmer intoday i got my first virgin mobile cell phone.
(what, were you thinking of something else?
) and i must say that it's an improvement over the general experience i've had during the last ten years of various plans from a traditional, big-name provider and the three crappy big-name cell phones that they sold to me.
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Virgin Mobile uses the Sprint USA network in those places where they don't have service of their own. My housemate has a Sprint cell phone and she hasn't had a coverage problem in the past year or so.
Undoubtably there are plenty of places in the upper half of New England that are still free from cell towers, but I suspect that most towns with at least a couple of thousand people (or have a decent through highway) will have coverage. We shall see.
Virgin Mobile does require at least US$20 every three months and at least one call every sixty days. As long as these are met, the prepaid time is never lost. That US$20 buys airtime minutes; from eighty up to two hundred depending on calling distribution.
My new phone has a nice bright color screen that can display pictures. It doesn't have a camera, though; so I can't send anyone a picture of my handsome smiling face. Hey, maybe some of the phones at Bethel can get incoming pictures! I could always exchange my cell phone for one with a camera and try it out. I could send a picture to the governing body letting them know, close up, how I put WTBTS literature to good use in the smallest room in my house.