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  Anyone have a circuit assembly today????

  by DS211 in

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  hey does anyone have a circuit assembly today and tomorrow?

  if so please post whatever you can about it!!

  i didnt go today but will be there tomorrow to hear whats next in the crazy jw world!!!.

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  Richard_I

  Big WTF when they did the stupid "drama" or whatever they call it about paint ball. They feel the need to have complete control over all JW lives, few years back it was "social media is the devil!! Facebook is the devil!!" now it's out in the open "if you play paintball Satan's training you for warfare and you're the devil!!!" i'm fucking fed up with this bs

  couldnt stop shaking my head during it.

  for those wondering, its two young brothers talking about paintball, i can't remember if one is inviting the other or if they both were invited by another brother. basically, they came to the conclusion that because you're using guns, its bad. they made a stupid joke about nail guns too (something like "we can use nail guns but not paintball guns") which made the audience roar in laughter
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  Our Kingdom ministry March 2013 Question

  by RobertT18 in

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  is it true that the march ministry is hinting that this year will be the last memorial, someone just said that today in the service, just wanted to confirm.. .

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  edit: forgot to add the month..

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  Richard_I

  For those confused by this thread (like I was), this is from the March KM, its paragraph 4 in the Q&A for the memorial:

  Will this Memorial be our last? (1 Cor. 11:26) We do not know. But we do know that once it passes, gone will be a unique opportunity to show gratitude. Will you seize it? May the appreciative words of our mouth and the meditation of our heart bring pleasure to Jehovah, the generous Provider of the ransom. —Ps. 19:14.
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  Internet at Bethel Monitored?

  by jw07 in

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  i was speaking to a group of uber-dubs over the weekend, and one of them was mentioning no-nonse policies at bethel, one of them being the monitoring of website visits.. he was saying that you had to 'freedom' to do certain things, like use the internet, but if you visited "the wrong websites" you would face consequences.

  he mentioned the case of a brother who visited the "wrong website" a few days in and was immediately sent home.. can anyone shed ****new light**** on this?

  :-).

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  Richard_I

  Yep, there's a filter on all Bethel internet. Porn sites are on the blacklist and all apostate sites, I actually tried visiting this site once and got a warning (and was never questioned about it, all I had to say though was "oops i clicked the wrong link, the URL was too similar to our official website, etc."). Basically you just get a blank page that says "Site forbidden: [reason, e.g. porn, apostate site, etc.]" and have to go back. However, your history is saved on the WT's servers and the Computer Department reviews your history every few months (or weeks). Also, I used torrents and other file sharing sites and never got in trouble.

  If you're found to be looking at porn, the Computer Department tells your overseer. You are then summoned to meet with your overseer, who will question you over why you're looking at porn. The branch committee will then decide if you get to stay or not, in 95% of all cases IMO you're kicked out. Old man Max Larson (former printery overseer in the U.S.) supposedly said during a morning worship session that in the U.S., there's at least 2 cases per week of someone at Bethel getting caught trying to or successfuly viewing internet porn (by somehow bypassing the filter), and one time there were 7 cases in a week to deal with or something like that.

  So there's lots of horny guys in bethel. Also, the WT's IPs actually say they're registered to the WT, and there was an internal letter about how you should keep that in mind when using the Internet at bethel.
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  shock horror! WITNESSING ATTIRE NOW CONDONES OPEN-NECK SHIRTS FOR MALES!

  by steve2 in

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  go to jw.org right now friends and you will see a young male jw witnessing in a rural setting with publication in hand and - take careful note - wearing a crisply-white open-neck shirt.

  bring out the carnival, light the lights: the organ ization is kicking itself into an ongoing casualization of its rank and file.. in the 1960s through 1980s i know brothers who dared to attire themselves sans ties who were reprimanded or worse.

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  He's informally witnessing, notice his family out for a walk. Remember, informal clothes for JWs is khakis with a polo/button down shirt tucked in pants, anything else is considered "sloppy". "Evil" people in the mags always had jeans and untucked t-shirts.
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  Advice on field service needed.

  by DATA-DOG in

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  Richard_I

  im not an elder/former elder, but i do know service hours are the biggest contributor to appointing brothers/giving brothers priveleges. if you do not get 6-8 hours every month, you will be removed from a MS. some more strict congs. may remove you from operating sound system/setting stage up/mics/etc. i was removed from mics due to getting only 1-2 hours a month, and was told this by two elders. so i lost all my "priveleges" due to a number that has no biblical basis, but is used to measure one's spirituality.
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  As the old NWT was known as Fred Franz's translation ...

  by slimboyfat in

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  ... will the revised version become associated with the name geoffrey jackson?

  no doubt it will be kept a "secret" who did the work on the new version, just as it was a "secret" who translated the original nwt.

  nevertheless since fred franz was the only likely candidate who could have attempted a bible translation at bethel in 1950 his name will forever be associated with the translation.

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  Richard_I

  This is what I wonder too, who was on the new committee? The old committee consisted of Nathan H. Knorr, Fredrick W. Franz, Albert D. Schroeder, George Gangas, and Milton Henschel. So the new commitee was Geoffrey Jackson and proboably a dozen other people, and of course its likely none of them have degrees in Greek/Hebrew.
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  What Did You Do With All Your Watchtower Publications?

  by minimus in

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  i 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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  Richard_I

  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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  Witnesses Get Shot At

  by metatron in

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  http://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 in

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  recieved 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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  Richard_I

  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 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if 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?