My dad just threw out all his bound volumes from the 70s to early 90s because he only uses the CD now. should've burned them. Also, when the month is over, we recycle that month's mags, we don't read them and they would just sit on the counter at the hall for months anyway. even while mentally in, i had no problem with throwing out/recycling publications. its just paper, after all.
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What Did You Do With All Your Watchtower Publications?
by minimus ini needed room when i moved so i sadly threw my entire library away.
i mentioned this to an exjw.
he and his wife took all the hundreds of books, including bound volumes from the 1800s and are now using them for research and proof of watchtower lies.. what did you do with your books?.
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Witnesses Get Shot At
by metatron inhttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/jehovahs-witnesses-shot-at-867543.
i like the comment that 'i didn't know it was jehovah's witness season.
i gotta get my license renewed".
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Richard_I
"Baldwin, seen in the above mug shot, admitted firing 19 rounds “just behind” the car carrying the three Jehovah’s Witnesses. Baldwin added that he “was just letting them know he had a gun and was trying to get them off his property.
Despite that explanation, Balwdin was arrested for felony aggravated assault and booked into the county jail (from which he was later released after posting $50,000 bond). Cops seized his Springfield XDM handgun and logged the weapon into evidence. Investigators were also able to recover 13 spent shell casings."
He's got a criminal record now over something so stupid. Also, at my pioneer meeting, we were told to immediately call the police if we were ever threatened, especially with a firearm, because its not just the safety of JWs but the safety of the community, door-to-door salesmen, other door-to-door groups, etc.
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warwick experience, sounds like propaganda?
by fadethisbitch inrecieved this email a few days ago, it reads like a typical jw chain email that gets forwarded around.
but it almost sounds like something the writing dept would start circulating as fiction propaganda...... .
subject: warwick experience.
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Do people actually read these? That's a lot of text to read that just says "omg jehovah saves"! Even my devout mom never read these JW chain e-mails.
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Annual Meeting : where is yours?
by gingerbread inif the original announcement still hold for this weekends 'open' annual meeting, it will be streamed live to (only) english speaking members.
is this still the plan?.
i'm interested in hearing from all on the forum where 'their' program will be broadcast.. our local kingdom hall will be live streaming the meeting.. .
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Richard_I
At an assembly hall in Canada. The letter to Canada said ALL congregations will be listening/watching the program, though it seems like it has to be done at an assembly hall, with some watching at 9:45am and others at 3:45pm if there's lots of people invited. Tests have already been done at the assembly halls to check sound and video quality. I guess a video file is uploaded to jw.org that is then downloaded at the local assembly hall? Otherwise, how else do they get the video feed?
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Comments you hear at the July 15th WT Study
by LostGeneration inif you still go to the meetings, i'd love to hear how tomorrow's wts goes down.. i'm sure there will be plenty of comments read straight from the paragraph, a few pauses where nobody wants to comment for fear of not getting it right, and a few completely wrong comments from publishers talking out of their a$$e$ trying to look smart.
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Richard_I
How do people remember any at all? I was so bored at this meeting i forgot all comments. We had visitors, and all I thought was what they all think about hearing "THE UN IS GONNA DESTROY ALL RELIGIONS AND THEN GOD SAVES ONLY JEHOVAHS WITNESSES!!!" over 20 times within an hour, i was uncomfortable during the meeting so they must be 10x more uncomfortable. it just sounds ridiculous.
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New Arrangement: All Can Listen In to Bethel Annual Meeting
by Red Piller ina letter read at our meeting.. .
our congregation is assigned a location (a nearby congregation) to listen (video, also?
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This was just announced in my cong. too, in Canada, we get to watch a feed (live or recorded, depending on what time you're assigned) of the meeting. Anyone outside of North America invited to watch? The letter also stressed "only baptized publishers" can attend, the letter said to read it twice apparently.
AFAIK this has never happend before. Not expecting any "new light" either, just don't see anything changing soon. Maybe they'll stress 2014 is armageddon!!
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Security cameras inside & outside the Kingdom Hall ?
by gingerbread ini recently heard from a family member who is still active about the new security system in her kh.. during the installation of the digital projector on the auditorium's ceiling, she said that the brothers who came to install it (i'm assuming some from the regional bldg group) also installed security cameras.. she specifically mentions a computer screen at the sound box that shows live feeds of - the parking lot, the carport/drop-off, interior view of the entrance, the lobby and magazine counter & the 'little room' ( the 'elders room' with conference table, computer and printers, filing cabinets, library, etc).. has anyone seen or heard of these being installed in a local hall ?.
comments?.
ginger.
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I've never heard of cameras inside a hall, which I admit is strange and a waste of money, but a lot of halls I've visited have a single camera just outside the main entrance, especially if the hall is located in a middle to high income area, and I would assume if the crime rate is high in the area too. I know of a few halls though that although they have an outside camera, it is not wired and is just for show to (hopefully) prevent vandalism.
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Our Kingdom Ministry has a Bar Code?!!
by VM44 ini just noticed that the august 2012 "our kingdom ministry" has at the bottom of the last page a two dimensional bar code!.
when did that start?.
is the watchtower putting bar codes on its other publications as well?.
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That is called a "QR code", likely for mobile phone users. They're on the back of the public WT and Awake! too. I think they just take to you jw.org though, nothing fancy. You'll need an app for your phone to scan them: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+scan+qr+code
They just started doing this with the August OKM, I noticed the Canadian KMs have them too. I don't know how long they've been putting them on the public WT and Awake though.
EDIT just tried out the August OKM, August Awake, and August public Watchtower QR code and yes, they all just take you to jw.org.
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Is The WTS Building Beth Sarim 2 ?
by metatron ini continue to puzzle over the future direction the watchtower is taking.
it seems very strange.. let's review: they are selling everything off in brooklyn, raking in huge sums from that real estate and building heavily in a fairly isolated part of upstate ny.. why?.
it may be classified as a country club (legally).
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Richard_I
Kind of on-topic: did they finish all the renovations at Wallkill? I took this pic a few years back and just noticed the sign says the renovations were to be finished by 2012.
Also these were the shacks the temp workers were to stay in i believe.
i got lots more pics too.
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Beards....Do What Your Told! The WT Owns You, You Disobedient, Spiritually Immature, Publisher!
by allyouneedislove inwas talking to an elder about beards.
he said that at bethel, only black and hispanic brothers can have mustaches (any actual facts supporting this decision?).
he mentioned that we don't want to stumble anyone so that they won't hear our message.
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@Barrold Bonds: I noticed that too (also, tucked in polos with khakis seems to be what the GB expects men to wear). Interestingly, the second page of the November 2010 Awake on atheism portrayed a protesting athiest with facial hair, and instantly I mentioned to my brother they added the facial hair to show he's evil and against God, and further proof that JWs should not have beards. The image.
@konceptual99: I've read in another thread that the northern European countries (Noway, Sweden, Denmark, etc.) allow brothers to have beards, including elders. However, in North America (and Britain?), this is still a huge no-no for an inexplicable reason.
